November 30, 2011

Chapter 13: Starting Point, 1.14

Mrs Happy started the day talking about USB cards and Wifi cards. She showed us how to take out the hardware safely.Notebook Processors have AMD, Intel, and Motorola. These all are famous with tth e Notebook comptuer. The keyboards are much smallre but have the same features including the Fn key. When you hold that down you'll see alot of other function keys. The num lock key can also lock the function keys. If you hit this for example.. your letter L could be 6. Monitors have LCD technology. You can lose less power, heat, space, and glare. Notebook Pointing Devices have left button, glide surface, and a right button. Communication Connections- LAN technology, Wireless Protocols, and Linking devices all tie into this. Infrared light is being used, and speed is 9600. 10-20 ft is the range. Radio uses ones radio signal. 802.11 is traveling at 54 megabits. Bluetooth is a shortrange radio, up to 10 meters. Notebooks have a Microphonee port and a HEadphone port. 2 more review slides were showed next and she showed how to put in your PC cards. If one has a prominant card then you have to get into the laptop. Remove the power and battery. Remove the "bay", it looks like batteries. Take off the wires and then take out the two clips. This is a wireless card. Then put in your battery and plug in the power. Ones Ethernet cable can perminantely be plugged in. The Docking Station has ports, Slots for desktop cards, and Bays for drives. Maintenance: Clean the exterior case, clean the touchpad, keep the fan openings and ventialtion holes clear, Blot out dust and other materials from sensitive components. Clean the monitor. Remoove dust, crumbs, and dirt from between the keyboard keys. Also Clean the CD or DVD-ROM drive. If one takes the laptop out of the office, make sure to get a laptop case. It has a special padding in it. PDA has Calendars, Contacts, MINI applications, Games and Vertical Market Software. One can find "health and Fitness"  to Bianary Calulators. When one uses this, you have to use Grafitti. The Stylus is a small pen that acts as a touch screen. Inputs: Menues, the handwriting techniquie and a keyboard. One can tap the icons. This is stored in the body of the PDA. There's always a battery indicator on the screen. Connecting the PDA one has connection options. Cradle with USB or serial connection. Like USB, Inrared, Bluetooth, and WiFi. Synchronizing info, Palm Desktop or WIndows CE or Pocket Pc. ACT is a sales deal. Temporary Files: keeps track of current statuses on an activity. It begins with the "eyebrow key" or ends with.  .tmp.  We're going to look for certain files. Delete files that are not in use. One sometimes doesn't know where the file is and then you can search for it. When you want to undelete by using "Undelete". Recycling bin belongs to Windows. Window Diagnostics falls into many different categories. In order to access system info go to system tools from the start menu. It takes a minute to refresh info. The plus and minus signs allow you to hide/see information. Some favorite parts is getting information from other users. One can look for various files and folders.
Stopping Point Chapter 14. 1.5