Computer Spot

Many broadband services today, both mobile and home services will advertise that their services are unlimited. However the truth is often rather different, and upon reading the small print you will often see that you are strictly limited.

This may be listed as a bandwidth cap, or as a ‘fair usage’ policy. What are these terms and how do they apply to you?

The term ‘fair usage’ is a little ambiguous and differs from company to company. Fair usage is in principle a good thing. Some people abuse unlimited services and end up using so much that it is to the detriment of other users.

By them using so much, there is not enough for left for there to be a reasonable service for other users.

This presents the greedy user with an overly good service-they are getting a whole lot and yet not paying very much. The regular users suffer, experiencing slow downloads and load browsing, and sometimes even service downtime when they can’t connect at all. Read the rest of this entry →

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You may be wondering whether cable internet access is considered either a high speed connection or a broadband connection.

Well, the answer is simple. It is both actually. Many companies will use these terms to describe their internet connection services.

And both terms are correct. Cable internet connectivity supplies the end user, you, with higher speeds than those of a DSL, or Dial Up connection, while also being classified as a “broadband” type of connection. Read the rest of this entry →

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As technology matures, it always yields better results. Proceeding on similar lines, since the featured web browser from Google, Chrome is still currently in beta form.

You’ll find precious little news on just why Google believes the technology incorporated in Chrome is advancement on the existing web browsers, notably Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla’s Firefox!

There are lot many reasons that may be listed out but here are my Top 10 Reasons to try Google Chrome includes:

1. Open source

I know it sounds strange, and Firefox is open source too, but as a matter of fact, Internet Explorer isn’t! If you don’t know why open source can be a good thing, then you’d better read this…

2. Crash control

Every tab the user opens, runs independently in the browser, consequently if any application crashes it doesn’t take anything else down with it.

So it can be considered to be highly stable, on the other hand I have personally experienced Firefox crashing totally many a times, which is quite annoying! Read the rest of this entry →

When someone refers to a laptop or a notebook, they are talking about a portable computer. The term laptop came about because the computer itself is small enough to fit on ‘top’ of your ‘lap’.

Pretty simple really. It is amazing how technology has evolved from needing a whole entire room to house a computer machine — to being able to have high speed internet and 200 GIGABYTES of information right in your lap!

Laptop computers really became popular around 1983 with the first ever portable computer, the Compaq Portable. They were not called laptop computers quite yet at that time, they were called “luggables.” Read the rest of this entry →