Category Archives: Peripherals & Accessories

Peripherals & Accessories are devices which you attach to your computer with some sort of cable like USB, Firewire or Serial cable or wirelessly with Wifi, Infrared, Bluetooth, RF. printers, scanners monitors, USB extenal drives, Keyboards, Mice, Joy sticks, speakers, microphones, usb hubs, external modems, routors, CDs, DVDs and drawing tablets can all be considered Peripherals & Accessories.

Copy Files from Unbootable VirtualBox system drive in Ubuntu 10.04 ISO Video

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Johnson Yip

My video on recovering files from a VirtualBox virtual machine with the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ISO will teach you how to start your virtual machine from the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS live CD ISO, so you can recover your files from … Continue reading →

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Picking a High Speed Flash Drives For Faster File Copying + Reading Guide

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Johnson Yip

Fast Flash drives can save you a lot of time since once your drives finish copying all your files, you can go home. The key to picking a fast flash drive is picking the right connection type like USB 2.0, … Continue reading →

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Watching + Recording TV shows on Windows 7 Computer

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Johnson Yip

Watching TV on your Windows 7 Computer is very easy. All you have to do is open Windows Media Center and plug in your USB TV tuner or install an internal PCI TV tuner card. Windows Media Center is very … Continue reading →

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Start HP a1720n Computer from a USB Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Live Flash drive Video

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Johnson Yip

I’ll show you how to start your HP a1720n HP computer from a USB flash drive preloaded with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on the drive. The advantage of starting a computer from a flash drive is it is faster compared to … Continue reading →

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Tips for troubleshooting problematic USB devices on a PC

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Johnson Yip

Recently, I got a USB TV tuner which prevented my computer from recognizing my USB memory card reader. In device manager there was also an “Unknown device” with a yellow triangle icon with an exclamation mark in the middle, and every … Continue reading →

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