How to get a Better LCD Image Quality
When I first started using LCDs, the technology had obvious limitations. As with most new technologies, part of the issue was the newness of the technology, and part of it was the lack of infrastructure. For example, back then few video cards had DVI output ports and most LCDs were VGA only. This created the potential for image quality problems, as the video card would convert from digital to analog, feed the analog VGA signal to the LCD, which would then reconvert back to digital. Read more
Cleaning up Your PC, PC Maintenance
Every so often it’s important to perform thorough PC cleaning and maintenance. Fortunately there are a few simple steps you can take and utilities you can use to make your computer run faster. Read more
10 Tips on Upgrading a Motherboard, Upgrade Motherboard
It happens to all of us eventually, the ExtremeTech staff probably more than most. Whether due to failure or obsolescence—or after you’ve run out of alternative upgrade paths—it comes time to pull a motherboard out of a working system and replace it with something different. Read more
Social Media Overtakes email
Email is just so last year – this year, we’re all too busy checking the social networks. At least that’s what the latest Nielsen survey of users’ habits has found. And the gap between the two is growing rapidly. According to the latest figures, one in every six minutes of the average web user’s online time is spent at a ’social’ site, notably Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and the major blogging networks. And in terms of overall use, 65.1 per cent of people email, while 66.8 per cent of us use the networks, headed up (inevitably) by Facebook.
