Tag Results For: Hardware

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View Detailed System Information In Ubuntu With i-Nex

When trying to determine the hardware specifications for your computer, it is not desirable to open the hardware casing, which, in some cases, can lead to loosing your warranty claim (e.g., in the case of laptops). In such a scenario, one can use some handy tools for determining the installed hardware specifications. i-Nex is one [...] (more…)

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Tweak & Manage Laptop Hardware Settings With Notebook Hardware Control

Notebook Hardware Control is a portable application for controlling the hardware components of your Notebook. Using this application, you can prolong the battery life, reduce system heat up issues, mange full processor speed, monitor the battery charge level and system temperature, manage your hard drive using S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) management, reduce Notebook [...] (more…)

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HardwareGrowler: Hardware & Network Change Notifications On Mac [Paid]

If you’ve been a Mac user, even for a while, chances are good that you know what Growl notifications are. Growl is a third party unified notification system for all apps that support it. It’s sole purpose is to give you notifications, but instead of receiving them from each app individually, this notification app routes [...] (more…)

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HardInfo – Benchmark CPU & Get System Hardware Information In Ubuntu

HardInfo is a system information and benchmarking application for Ubuntu which displays information about your hardware and operating system. It displays indepth information about anything from your operating system and kernel type to PCI, ISA PnP, USB, IDE, SCSI, Serial and parallel port devices of the computer. The information is displayed in numerous categories including [...] (more…)

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How To Get Ubuntu Hardware Information

Hardware information can be quite difficult to obtain for certain components of the system. Nonetheless, having the knowledge about what hardware your computer has can be essential in avoiding system crashes by verifying minimum system requirements for games, heavy applications and the like. dmidecode is a tool that provides a description of the system’s hardware, along [...] (more…)

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10 Things To Consider When Buying A Computer

Buying a new laptop or desktop PC can be quite confusing. Many people find it difficult to compare prices, features, processor types,etc to find the right choice in accordance with their requirements. In this post we will tell you the top 10 things to consider before buying a PC. (more…)

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How To Power-On Mobile Phone With A Damaged Power Button

When recently attempting to repair my HTC Touch HD’s malfunctioning power button, I accidentally ended up breaking it. I was outdoors and couldn’t afford the phone’s screen to turn off since that would leave me unable to turn it back on, so I changed its settings to keep the screen from turning off automatically. This [...] (more…)

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Remap And Reassign Your Android Device’s Keys With ButtonRemapper

One signature feature of almost all Android devices are the four main keys (back, home, menu and search) which are mostly hardware, but come as capacitive touch keys in some cases as well (like in the Samsung Galaxy S). These keys have almost acquired the status of identifiers of a device’s Android identity. However, the [...] (more…)