A lot of people these days have some sort of MP3 player but there are still many people who have not yet experienced the capabilities that MP3 players possess nor the accessibility to music and other functions that they have brought to our society. Many people are still wondering why everyone is so fascinated by the functionality that MP3 players have. In this article, we will be looking at what exactly an MP3 is and all of the many functions that the majority of MP3 players can perform. What is Read More

Installer or Windows Installer is a Windows Operating System software component that is responsible for the installation, maintenance, and removal of all programs and processes on a Windows computer. Windows Installer is mostly used as a replacement for other stand-alone installation programs, but is also used as the framework for most of those programs. In fact, Microsoft encourages the use of Windows Installer as the framework for other installation packages in order to ensure that Windows users are provided with rollback and “versioning” features when installing a new software. How Read More

The iPod was first introduced by Apple in 2001 as a portable music playing device. It has evolved to being a fully integrated, portable multimedia player. The iPod Classic model uses a hard-drive to store media files while the other models on the market such as the iPod Touch, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Nano use flash memory to save music and videos, which allows the devices to be a smaller size. Video Capture Software The first step to putting YouTube videos on an iPod is to use a video capture Read More

The JRE is the Java Runtime Environment. The JRE consists of the Java Virtual Machine, the Java libraries, and all other components necessary to run Java applications and applets. Sun distributes the JRE seperately, or as part of J2EE, J2SE, and J2ME.          

Error 678 is an error that is reported when a remote system does not respond correctly when an attempt is made to connect to the Internet. The Error 678 message appears as “The remote computer did not respond.” Broadband connections If this error occurs with a broadband connection, it could be because of the following reasons: The network cable to the machine may have been unplugged. The modem connecting to the Internet may be disabled or its drivers may be corrupt. Spyware. The TCP/IP stack on the computer is corrupt Read More

Spyware detection programs are used to monitor, scan, and remove spyware from your computer. The main action of spyware is to gain as much information about you as possible. Usually this information is used for advertising purposes, but there are certain types of spyware that exists to record personal information about you, such as credit card numbers, or find vulnerabilities in your system that can be used to hack into your computer. Spyware detections programs use two different methods to detect spyware, one for known spyware and the other for Read More

ATA is the acronym for Analog Telephony Adapter (Analog Telephone Adapter). It acts as a hardware interface between aPSTN analog phone system and a VoIP service or digital network. ATAs are commonly used to connect or merge a PSTN phone system and VoIP services to a phone network in a business or other organization. An ATA will normally be contained in a small switchbox that has an Ethernet port, power adapter, and one or many telephone ports with an FXO link. This lets users plug one or many analog telephones Read More

MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service) is a broadband wireless point-to-multipoint specification utilizing UHF (Ultra High Frequency) communications. MMDS operates on FCC licensed frequencies. The FCC divided the United States into BTA's (Basic Trading Areas) and auctioned the rights to transmit on the MMDS bands in each of those areas to MMDS service providers. The MMDS bandplan is available from the FCC at http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/data/bandplans/mdsband.pdf. MMDS Specifications Fixed/Mobile Fixed Circuit/Packet n/a Max Bandwidth 10Mb Range 70 miles Frequency 2.5GHz-2.686Ghz Host Network None Definer IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) URL http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/ Read More

DivX video files are the movie codec established by the DivX Company that was formerly known as the DivXNetworks, Inc. The CODEC is popular due to its ability to achieve high file compression rates without noticeable loss of visual quality of the video. The format makes use of MPEG-4 Part 2 compression and is generally associated with the ripping process. A common task that arises for users of the DivX format is to convert MP-4 formatted videos to DivX format. Since the MP-4 format is closely related in definition to Read More

A NetBIOS name is an identifier that NetBIOS services running on a computer use. It is a combination of a 15 character (byte) name and a 16th character denoting the service. These names identify resources on the NetBIOS network. NetBIOS cannot do name resolution on the Internet because NetBIOS names are single part names and do not have any hierarchical structure. The NetBIOS namespace is flat, which means that there are no suffixes added to the NetBIOS name and that two computers cannot have the same NetBIOS name. This means Read More