22.10.11

Tablet PC

Tech fanatics and bloggers were quick to herald the introduction of tablet PC's as the next big thing since sliced bread. The media hype that followed was enough to send jitters down the spine of newspaper and magazine publishers. Sadly, the skyrocketing popularity of Slate PC's coincided with an ad recession that saw small time newspapers and magazines close shop. The new buzz word became apps and if you didn't own one, you were doomed in the future.

As it turns out, all these fears were unfounded. In general, there has been a decline in sale of subscription newspapers and magazines; but not due to Tablet Computers. According to analysts, reduction in newspaper sale was more as a result of the economic recession than technological revolution. In fact, the economic recovery has brought back advertisers and print sales have begun to stabilize.

The reason for the turnaround is simple to explain. The popularity of Tablet Computers and Smartphone's is not driven by news. Hard news falls behind games, music, movies, books and other entertainment applications found on these devices. Hence, most of the news content that is sampled on slates and Smartphone's is also read on print. As a matter of fact, many people use tablet computer news applications to supplement rather than replace their main news sources.

Initial reactions to Tablet Computers among publishers were varied. Some were quick to commission for news applications and immediately set up digital divisions. Others took a watch and wait approach, while the rest brushed off the threat. The first batch is probably the most frustrated currently since they are seeing no immediate returns. Most slate users do not find it necessary to pay for online news content. The figures for development and subscription of news applications are also quite prohibitive.

All in all, no forward-looking company can ignore the ever-growing tablet computer apps market. Currently, there are more than half a million apps in the market with three percent representing news companies. Albeit there is no particular rush for newspapers and magazines to join the apps market, the option should still be kept open. It is important for newspaper and magazine publishers to study the tablet consumer market before investing in apps. As such, they will be able to reinvent themselves online and not simply replicate what others are doing.

Tablet computers have become all the rage since they were introduced in the market a couple of years back. Many people thought that newspapers and magazines had been relegated to the deathbed. Contrary to this, publishers are witnessing substantial returns from sales and advertisement. However, many publishers have also taken note of the potential in the tablet computers apps market and joined the fray.

16.10.11

My Computer Keeps Crashing - How to Fix It

How many times have you recently been sitting in front of your computer saying to yourself "What is taking this thing so long. When I first got my computer everything moved so quickly. Now things just drag on and sometimes it even crashes on me unexpectedly." If you have been experiencing these problems you're not alone.

Almost everyone who owns a computer will over time experience an increasing amount of instability and reduction in responsiveness and speed. When the problem gets bad enough, unless you know how to fix the problem most times people either resort to costly technicians or even just replacing their computer for another one. There are things you can do with a limited about of computer knowledge that restore most of if not all of your computers performance and stability without costing you an arm and a leg.

Here is what you need to do.

#1 First, you are going to have to do a little spring cleaning on your computer hard drive. While you may think that your just installing, uninstalling, deleting, creating or moving files around on your computer the reality is that after you do all that for a while your hard drive becomes a total mess. Moving files you don't use every day to a more permanent external source such as an external hard drive will free up a lot of space.

Next make sure that you clean your computers cache of temporary files and cookies. Lastly, you need to organize the remaining files. This means running a defragmentation on your computer so all of your files are organized.

#2 Secondly, you need to make sure your computer isn't a host to unwanted malware, viruses and spyware. Proper protection includes security software that runs in the background all the time on your computer while keeping itself up to date with the latest virus fighting information.

#3 Next, you need to clean your computer from dust buildup. Over time dust quickly can build up in your system. Most times all it takes is to open up the computer case and blow it out with compressed air. If you don't feel comfortable doing this on your own it can be done by either a local computer shop or even someone you know who is familiar with computers. It usually only takes maybe 10 minutes to perform.

If dust builds up like this the result will be less cool air circulating in your computer and your computer will struggle to maintain performance and will freeze and even crash.

#4 Making sure that your computers registry is working properly is very important. The registry is an extremely important part of your computer that makes its fast response time possible. When the data within the registry becomes corrupted it can significantly slow down and compromise your computer. The good news is that with a system and registry scanner you can perform a registry scan and repair as well as other different types of important maintenance on your computer with just a few clicks of your mouse. Following these steps here will give you a solution as to why your computer keeps crashing and fix it quickly.