Archive for July 2010

Take Your Laptop

Question: I may have to use my computer offsite in a client’s facility. Could you please tell me what to take and what to make sure of. I bought the carrying case when we first bought the computer. What about my backup hard drive, my modem and my router? How does internet access work while [...]

Computer Science 101

The answers to many of the most common questions I’m asked about computers can become much clearer with a quick description of how a computer actually works. I don’t want to turn this into an encyclopedic breakdown of every part in a computer, but I want to provide an approximated, simplified explanation of what each [...]