Last week (January 11, 2009 ), HP released the  HP ap5000 touch enabled point of sale solution (POS). This is the first branded POS and HP is leading the market on Point of Sale (POS) computers. For details on the product’s specifications you can refer to HP’s specs page. Now, this post is intended to collect user reviews on the product so that other consumers who are about to buy the product can benefit from all your reviews. Everyone can participate, even if you don’t Read More

Issue: When scanning pdfs, pictures or any document from solution center, the files are missing or they simply disappear. Affected Operating Systems: XP, Vista and Windows 7 The Solution: This is a software issue when you are using HP solution center version 13 (The Black Solution Center). To fix this issue you need to install a patch from Hewlett-Packard which can be found here. Read More

Desi Cryer, a youtube user, has posted a video that clearly shows a problem on the facial recognition system present on the newest HP laptops. Apparently the video shows the webcam failing to do what it’s suppose to on black people. Facial recognition: As per wikipedia, Facial A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. One of the ways to do this is by comparing Read More

Photographs may be one of the most valuable things a man can have. Before, people kept hard copies of their photographs but nowadays, photographs are stored digitally in computers or in a memory card inside a camera which is very vulnerable to data loss. There are free softwares that one can use in such event. These application are specifically designed to look for deleted media files from your camera or computer. Here’s a list of the top most used Photo Recovery Softwares. Read More

I just stumbled upon a nice list of Free Security Softwares that will improve your privacy. The list includes: Realtime protection (on-access) Privacy Protection Softwares Scanners (on-demand) System monitoring Tools for virus removal Network traffic monitoring Online-scanners System cleaning Firewalls Data rescue Backup System rescue Vulnerability scanning Tests and malware analysis tools Browser security Vista security IP-blocking Windows 7-security The softwares features for each Read More

I just built a new computer system and I must say that it has some very ambitious specs which easily made me overlook a minor yet very important detail, HEAT. My new system is screwed up. It freezes randomly and has some occasional short beeps inside the CPU and Shutdowns unexpectedly. Troubleshooting the issue took me hours and a couple of OS reformatting to figure out that it was heat that was causing it and not a faulty Operating system. Tools: 1. SpeedFan – A GUI tool that shows you Read More

Today, computers are being sold with Genuine Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems and supposedly included with it is a 90-day trial version of  Microsoft Office 2007 which you will activate online at first use. This was an easy task but apparently the trial versions of Office 2007 could no longer be activated instead users are being directed to download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. Personally, I like Office 2010. You should try it for yourself. I have also provided some articles that Read More