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Highly Accurate CPU-Controlled Signal Generator

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00

Toronto, Canada- GAO Instruments has released its Radio Frequency (RF) signal generator,a CPU-controlled, highly accurate instrument with a wide frequency range of 300kHz to 300MHz.The RF signal generator is widely used in research,development and production testing of AM/FM receivers, civil-band transceivers and radio remote-controlled devices such as toys and wireless telephones.The innovative RF signal generator,model A0400001,offers excellent AM and FM modulation functions.It provides a fre...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 January 2010 15:28

What is Virtual Private Server Web Hosting?

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00

Virtual private server web hosting, or VPS hosting, is an emerging type of package offered by quite a few web hosting providers. As its name suggest, it is a not a real machine dedicated to you, but is instead a virtual machine. Even though it is not a real machine, it looks and feels as if it were a real machine to you - it is private instance of the entire OS and web server to you, but you share a physical box with other VPS accounts. This is the beauty of a VPS hosting account - sin...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 January 2010 15:27

Netbooks : Taking the market share away from laptops

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00

ASUS generated a lot of buzz with its Eee-branded line of products, starting with the Eee PC netbook and is responsible for introducing the netbook to the PC market as an affordable and simple laptop solution for students.A netbook (a portmanteau of the words Internet and notebook) is a small portable laptop computer designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet.By late 008, netbooks had begun to take market share aw...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 January 2010 15:22

Heat Sink Fans

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00

Heat Sink Fans Heat sink fans are an important part of your CPU or the Central Processing Unit. The help in keeping the temperature of the processor to a defined level and do not allow it to heat when in use. A heat sink fan allows the CPU to work in optimum levels without getting heated. The latest heat sink fans or the CPU coolers as they are known as, are designed with the use of highly heat conductive copper and a larger, efficiently designed, heat-sink surface area to ra...

A Beginners Guide to Laptop Shopping

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00

So, you have decided you wish to purchase a laptop computer. The convenience and the technology are certainly tempting but when you visited the Dell site and the HP site, the various laptop options seem expensive and confusing. What is the difference between memory and hard drive space? What size screen or what screen resolution do you actually need? How long should a battery last and do you actually need the latest and greatest Window's release? Shopping for a laptop without knowi...