Posts Tagged ‘portable mp3 players’

Laptop Maintenance Tips - How Make Your Laptop Works Longer and Better?

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Designed to bring your more convenience,laptop notebook computers are tools of the trade.
Owning a laptop is just a piece of cake, about 3 thousand RMB you could buy one. But don’t forget, they always suffer from wear and tear, especially their keyboards, wrist rests and other often-used parts. Wanna make work with a laptop always a breeze? Apply the following aspects and maintain your laptops now.

1. Ask the rules of warranty when you buy the laptop and keep the necessary papers. This will make sure that the seller would replace or repair your laptop without no excuse. Most laptops wholesalers or retailers are willing to give their guarantees; if not, the notebooks offered might be shoddy goods or smuggled products.

2. Choose a laptop bag that could snugly fit your laptop. Don’t choose too big or over small cases. Those bags couldn’t effectively protect your laptop from scratches, shock, accidental falls and sunlight. One more point, choose the bag with cushioned laptop compartment, for reducing the impact maximally when your precious gadget is transported.

3. Before your cleaning, remember to turn it off and unplug it from the mains supply. Battery connection doesn’t matter. It has no affection on the after-cleaning use. Leave the battery connected or not is totally up to you.

The screen cleaning must do in an extra-careful way. The laptop’s screen is costly, and fragile. If you have a piece of Chamois leather at home, use it to dry-wipe the screen; if not, you could clean it with dry lint-free cloth. For cleaning dirt marks on the screen, a lint-free cloth is OK; but for the oily spot, remembers to drop a drop of low-foam liquid detergent on the lint-free cloth.

The cleaning of keyboard, touchpad and other areas is the same as the screen cleaning.

4. Maintain the hard drive regularly.

Leaving plenty of available space is good for unpacking and could increase your notebook’s resistance to wear and tear; for those who really have a lot to store, please store your files in another medium, like CD or USB.

Delete any unnecessary files. Unused files, such as cookies, have a detrimental effect on computer speed and they easily cause various errors. You could remove them by removing it in the recycle bin. For completely elimination, you’d better use some specific software, for example, CCleaner.

Defragment your hard drive per month if you always have to save big files. Click on Start > Programs Accessories Disk Defragmenter.

5. Keep liquid and food away from your laptop notebook computers. Short circuits easily happen when liquid is spilled on laptops, those will destroy your computers in the worst situation. The food crumbs like the space in the keyboard and they love to invite small bugs to live with them - increase the risk of the circuitry abnormality.

6. Never use dirty hands whilst using your laptop. Clean hands decrease the accumulation of dust and stains. Furthermore, it could increase the abrasion-resistance of the laptop coating, as sweat and small particles on your body is stopped to be delivered to your laptop’s exterior.

Apply those six tips to your Sony, IBM, Apple PowerBooks, etc. now. They will serve you better and for a longer time.

MP3 Players Buyers Guide - Tips That You Shouldn’t Neglect

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Portable MP3 players, the latest and the greatest toys in the music market, make you be out of boredom and immerse in your favorite music or video, no matter wherever you are and whatever you do. Their manufacturers never stop to improve them. Compactness, ruggedness and portability, which are not available in conventional music devices, are their fantastic features. Nowadays, many of these players come with color displays, digital photos showing function, movie displays, WiFi-sharing compatibility or more.

Many of us might think that buying an MP3 is just as easy as a pie. In fact, finding the one that meets your requirements is not so easy. Shopping a MP3 player is a confusing process. There are so many things to consider. Furthermore, each device has their own features, capabilities and limitations, like their formats, storage space, and their display. The following are some simple points that you should pay attention to, while you buy this kind of digital audio players.

First, know what you will use your mp3 players for. If you want to listen to the radio and the songs, you should go for the MP3 player with FM tuner; if you are tired of wearing earphone all the time, choose a MP3 player with louder speaker. All in all, opt for the one that you want, don’t fooled by the big words of sellers.

Second, seek the one that is with wide file format support. Of course, all kinds of portable MP3 should support the MP3 format. But a player with other formats always could offer better sound quality and other improved functions. The common formats include WMA, MP3Pro, OGG, and WAV. AAC is Dolby’s Advanced Audio Coding format and it only could be found in Apple iPods.

Third, Opt for the largest-capacity device that is in your budget.

Flash memory players, which could stop your tunes from accidentally jumping, could offer 4GB or 6GB storage space - enough for storing about 1,000 and 1,500 songs in MP3 format.

Hard disk MP3 players could provide at least 20GB of space - adequate for 10,000 songs in WMA and 5,000 in MP3. The common storage space is 40GB, 30GB and 60GB.

Fourth, don’t ignore the user interface. The use complexity of the interface and the completeness of the player’s menu system directly influence the ease of use of your portable digital audio player. I guess you don’t want a player that has very complex songs, albums, or artists.

Fifth, pay attention to the computer compatibility. Make sure that the player you choose is compatible with your computer. Once I bought a player from China MP3 wholesaler, it worked great on my home’s computer. But when I use it on the computer in my office, it couldn’t work, as the computer system is Linux. One more point, if you are Mac Computer users, you’d better buy Apple iPod.

Sixth, check the battery of your MP3 players carefully. The often-seen batteries are rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, internal rechargeable cell, or AA/AAA batteries. Whatever your MP3 is equipped with, you should be 100% sure that the battery life is no less than 4 hours for video and 12 hours for music.