Archive for Computer & Technology

  • 20
  • Mar

Four things to consider when choosing to repair your laptop





by Justin Anderson






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A broken laptop can be a very stressful situation especially if the laptop in question is used every day and is an important part of your job, school or business. The purpose of this article is to offer you some things to consider when it comes time to get your laptop repaired.


1. Repair vs. Replacement: One of the first questions that usually come to mind is “Is now a good time to just buy a new laptop?” The answer to that question is… “It Depends.” Depending on the severity of your laptop repair, the falling prices of most laptops and the age of your broken laptop, it may be a wise choice to throw in the towel and spring for a new laptop. Some of the types of repairs that would warrant this action are:




a) A broken LCD screen


b) A broken motherboard (beyond component level repair)


c) A severely damaged case


These types of repairs are the most costly (usually ranging from $300 to $700) and factoring in how long you have had your laptop this may be a good time to get a new one.


2. Your data: Whether you are replacing your laptop or repairing it, you still have to figure out what to do with your data. If you can’t turn on your laptop it makes it very difficult to backup your data. That is why it is very important to do regular backups of your laptop data to guard your self against this situation. This will also give you a way to access your data while your laptop is getting repaired. Some laptop repair services offer data backup and recovery with their repairs. Make sure you ask about data recovery and backup options when speaking with a laptop repair service.In addition to recovering your data, you also want to ensure that your data is safe and secure with who ever you choose to repair your laptop. With that being said, you want to make sure you choose a reputable repair service for your laptop repair.


3. Repair cost: I don’t know about you but I want to know how much my laptop repair is going to cost before I send it in. This is a tricky situation because most laptop repair services need to diagnose your laptop to find out what’s wrong with it before they give you a price. Even some of the laptop repair services offering flat rate repair, do not cover the parts that it takes to repair your laptop. If you are worried about repair costs, do not ship your laptop to a company that says they need to diagnose your laptop before giving you a repair cost. You are opening yourself up to getting a big shock once you find out what the bill is going to be.




4. Not all laptop repairs are handled equally: There are a lot of laptop repair services that will simply replace a major component rather than repair the affected area which can cost you 3 to 4 times the cost. For instance, let’s say you have a problem with your motherboard. One service center may simply replace your motherboard and charge you anywhere from $300 to $700 for simply changing out a part, when another laptop repair service center actually takes the time to diagnose the problem and discover you have a bad capacitor on your motherboard and repairs the damaged component, saving you the cost of a new motherboard.


I hope that this article has given you some insight into the world of laptop repair. So before you choose a laptop repair service center to handle your laptop repair, do some research, speak with them over the phone and ask questions. The more informed you are about what to expect and what to look for in a laptop repair service the more you can save.

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A broken laptop can be a very stressful situation especially if the laptop in question is used every day and is an important part of your job, school or business. The purpose of this article is to offer you some things to consider when it comes time to get your laptop repaired.


1. Repair vs. Replacement: One of the first questions that usually come to mind is “Is now a good time to just buy a new laptop?” The answer to that question is… “It Depends.” Depending on the severity of your laptop repair, the falling prices of most laptops and the age of your broken laptop, it may be a wise choice to throw in the towel and spring for a new laptop. Some of the types of repairs that would warrant this action are:




a) A broken LCD screen


b) A broken motherboard (beyond component level repair)


c) A severely damaged case


These types of repairs are the most costly (usually ranging from $300 to $700) and factoring in how long you have had your laptop this may be a good time to get a new one.


2. Your data: Whether you are replacing your laptop or repairing it, you still have to figure out what to do with your data. If you can’t turn on your laptop it makes it very difficult to backup your data. That is why it is very important to do regular backups of your laptop data to guard your self against this situation. This will also give you a way to access your data while your laptop is getting repaired. Some laptop repair services offer data backup and recovery with their repairs. Make sure you ask about data recovery and backup options when speaking with a laptop repair service.In addition to recovering your data, you also want to ensure that your data is safe and secure with who ever you choose to repair your laptop. With that being said, you want to make sure you choose a reputable repair service for your laptop repair.


3. Repair cost: I don’t know about you but I want to know how much my laptop repair is going to cost before I send it in. This is a tricky situation because most laptop repair services need to diagnose your laptop to find out what’s wrong with it before they give you a price. Even some of the laptop repair services offering flat rate repair, do not cover the parts that it takes to repair your laptop. If you are worried about repair costs, do not ship your laptop to a company that says they need to diagnose your laptop before giving you a repair cost. You are opening yourself up to getting a big shock once you find out what the bill is going to be.




4. Not all laptop repairs are handled equally: There are a lot of laptop repair services that will simply replace a major component rather than repair the affected area which can cost you 3 to 4 times the cost. For instance, let’s say you have a problem with your motherboard. One service center may simply replace your motherboard and charge you anywhere from $300 to $700 for simply changing out a part, when another laptop repair service center actually takes the time to diagnose the problem and discover you have a bad capacitor on your motherboard and repairs the damaged component, saving you the cost of a new motherboard.


I hope that this article has given you some insight into the world of laptop repair. So before you choose a laptop repair service center to handle your laptop repair, do some research, speak with them over the phone and ask questions. The more informed you are about what to expect and what to look for in a laptop repair service the more you can save.
Justin Anderson is the webmaster for http://NotebookMechanix.com, offering flat rate laptop repair services nationwide. If you are in the need for quality laptop repair services, let one of our trained technicians help you out.

Article Source:
http://www.bigarticles.com


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  • 20
  • Mar


The Truth About Robots - Robot Travel





by Randi






//

There is one thing you have learned about robots, it is that there is


absolutely no pattern to them. Most robots are stupid and wander randomly.


For example, 50% of robot hits to my sites ask for the robots.txt page and


then go away never asking for anything else. Then they come back a week


later, ask for the same thing and then go away, again. This happens over


and over again for months. You will never never figure it out. What are


they doing? If they wanted to see if the Web site was really a Web site,


they could just Ping it. This would be much faster and much more efficient.


They seldom visit another page and if they do, they ask for one other page


every visit or so. Some come in and issue rapid-fire requests for every


page in the Web site. How rude! You have to quit worrying so much about


robots. It takes 6 months before they request enough pages to do you any


good. We really quit thinking about them a long time ago. Build a lot of


pages correctly, and, if you have reciprocal links to them, the robots will


find them someday.




Try this: Go to AltaVista and type into the search box “link:YourSite.com”


(Leave off the www). This will list the reciprocal links to your Web site.


Try link:crownjewels.com and you get 136 links to it. Think about this now:


The robots say to themselves, “Here is a site that must be popular or why


would so many Web sites SIMILAR to it have it’s link on their pages?” Remember


that only SIMILAR sites with SIMILAR THEMES would probably have a link to


your site. They give more importance to this than you submitting your link


to them. Wouldn’t you?




Go to heavily trafficked sites matching your Web site’s Themes and use AltaVista


to find out how many reciprocal links they have. This will prove to you


we are right.




Search engines are nothing more than a measure of reciprocal links to your


site. The problem is, you are constantly having to fight for your positioning


in the search query listings. Forget about that. Leave the fighting to people


who are able to spend 24 hours a day trying to trick everybody. Quit trying


to compete with the large organizations pouring millions into their marketing.


Completely forget about Search Engines after submitting to them and go after


the reciprocal links. The Search Engines will then believe you are a heavily


visited site because you will be. You will now be getting the traffic you


so richly deserve.




Search engine visitors to your site, are oftentimes not qualified visitors.


Too many visitors pop into your home page for 2 seconds and then leave.


You know how it is. We all do it when we are using the search engines. Either


it wasn’t the information we were looking for, or they had this huge graphic


on this stupid portal page, which just took forever to load. These visitors


shouldn’t even count, but they get counted as 12-18 hits in your server


logs. Hits are requests to the server. One page request can incur a lot


of hits: requests to the page itself plus the graphics, each count as a


hit.




Reciprocal links bring in qualified visitors. These are visitors who were


already on a Web site which had matching Themes to yours. They already have


a good idea of what type of site you are. They will come into your site


and actually stay awhile. These visitors should count as double credit,


they are so good.




We know which type of visitor we would rather have.




How do you get people to WANT to put your link on their Web sites? Why would


a similar site put a link to your site on theirs? Simple, you have similar


Themes. You are similar, but not competition.




There is one very important lesson to be learned from this crazy robot behavior.


You need to make the navigation in your Web site so easy that a visitor


can find any page within 2 clicks of your home page. One way of doing this


is installing hidden DotLinks. Dotlinks are little periods that are linked


to other pages which are not really noticeable on your page if you put it


as a period. Although they are not easily seen by the human eye, they are


a link that a robot can follow in your Web site. When you do this, robots


can find your pages faster and more easily.




To read other interesting articles go to: http://www.harvestmoney.ws

//

There is one thing you have learned about robots, it is that there is


absolutely no pattern to them. Most robots are stupid and wander randomly.


For example, 50% of robot hits to my sites ask for the robots.txt page and


then go away never asking for anything else. Then they come back a week


later, ask for the same thing and then go away, again. This happens over


and over again for months. You will never never figure it out. What are


they doing? If they wanted to see if the Web site was really a Web site,


they could just Ping it. This would be much faster and much more efficient.


They seldom visit another page and if they do, they ask for one other page


every visit or so. Some come in and issue rapid-fire requests for every


page in the Web site. How rude! You have to quit worrying so much about


robots. It takes 6 months before they request enough pages to do you any


good. We really quit thinking about them a long time ago. Build a lot of


pages correctly, and, if you have reciprocal links to them, the robots will


find them someday.




Try this: Go to AltaVista and type into the search box “link:YourSite.com”


(Leave off the www). This will list the reciprocal links to your Web site.


Try link:crownjewels.com and you get 136 links to it. Think about this now:


The robots say to themselves, “Here is a site that must be popular or why


would so many Web sites SIMILAR to it have it’s link on their pages?” Remember


that only SIMILAR sites with SIMILAR THEMES would probably have a link to


your site. They give more importance to this than you submitting your link


to them. Wouldn’t you?




Go to heavily trafficked sites matching your Web site’s Themes and use AltaVista


to find out how many reciprocal links they have. This will prove to you


we are right.




Search engines are nothing more than a measure of reciprocal links to your


site. The problem is, you are constantly having to fight for your positioning


in the search query listings. Forget about that. Leave the fighting to people


who are able to spend 24 hours a day trying to trick everybody. Quit trying


to compete with the large organizations pouring millions into their marketing.


Completely forget about Search Engines after submitting to them and go after


the reciprocal links. The Search Engines will then believe you are a heavily


visited site because you will be. You will now be getting the traffic you


so richly deserve.




Search engine visitors to your site, are oftentimes not qualified visitors.


Too many visitors pop into your home page for 2 seconds and then leave.


You know how it is. We all do it when we are using the search engines. Either


it wasn’t the information we were looking for, or they had this huge graphic


on this stupid portal page, which just took forever to load. These visitors


shouldn’t even count, but they get counted as 12-18 hits in your server


logs. Hits are requests to the server. One page request can incur a lot


of hits: requests to the page itself plus the graphics, each count as a


hit.




Reciprocal links bring in qualified visitors. These are visitors who were


already on a Web site which had matching Themes to yours. They already have


a good idea of what type of site you are. They will come into your site


and actually stay awhile. These visitors should count as double credit,


they are so good.




We know which type of visitor we would rather have.




How do you get people to WANT to put your link on their Web sites? Why would


a similar site put a link to your site on theirs? Simple, you have similar


Themes. You are similar, but not competition.




There is one very important lesson to be learned from this crazy robot behavior.


You need to make the navigation in your Web site so easy that a visitor


can find any page within 2 clicks of your home page. One way of doing this


is installing hidden DotLinks. Dotlinks are little periods that are linked


to other pages which are not really noticeable on your page if you put it


as a period. Although they are not easily seen by the human eye, they are


a link that a robot can follow in your Web site. When you do this, robots


can find your pages faster and more easily.




To read other interesting articles go to: http://www.harvestmoney.ws

Article Source:
http://www.bigarticles.com


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  • 20
  • Mar

The Truth About Robots - Robot Travel





by Randi -






//

There is one thing you have learned about robots, it is that there is


absolutely no pattern to them. Most robots are stupid and wander randomly.


For example, 50% of robot hits to my sites ask for the robots.txt page and


then go away never asking for anything else. Then they come back a week


later, ask for the same thing and then go away, again. This happens over


and over again for months. You will never never figure it out. What are


they doing? If they wanted to see if the Web site was really a Web site,


they could just Ping it. This would be much faster and much more efficient.


They seldom visit another page and if they do, they ask for one other page


every visit or so. Some come in and issue rapid-fire requests for every


page in the Web site. How rude! You have to quit worrying so much about


robots. It takes 6 months before they request enough pages to do you any


good. We really quit thinking about them a long time ago. Build a lot of


pages correctly, and, if you have reciprocal links to them, the robots will


find them someday.




Try this: Go to AltaVista and type into the search box “link:YourSite.com”


(Leave off the www). This will list the reciprocal links to your Web site.


Try link:crownjewels.com and you get 136 links to it. Think about this now:


The robots say to themselves, “Here is a site that must be popular or why


would so many Web sites SIMILAR to it have it’s link on their pages?” Remember


that only SIMILAR sites with SIMILAR THEMES would probably have a link to


your site. They give more importance to this than you submitting your link


to them. Wouldn’t you?




Go to heavily trafficked sites matching your Web site’s Themes and use AltaVista


to find out how many reciprocal links they have. This will prove to you


we are right.




Search engines are nothing more than a measure of reciprocal links to your


site. The problem is, you are constantly having to fight for your positioning


in the search query listings. Forget about that. Leave the fighting to people


who are able to spend 24 hours a day trying to trick everybody. Quit trying


to compete with the large organizations pouring millions into their marketing.


Completely forget about Search Engines after submitting to them and go after


the reciprocal links. The Search Engines will then believe you are a heavily


visited site because you will be. You will now be getting the traffic you


so richly deserve.




Search engine visitors to your site, are oftentimes not qualified visitors.


Too many visitors pop into your home page for 2 seconds and then leave.


You know how it is. We all do it when we are using the search engines. Either


it wasn’t the information we were looking for, or they had this huge graphic


on this stupid portal page, which just took forever to load. These visitors


shouldn’t even count, but they get counted as 12-18 hits in your server


logs. Hits are requests to the server. One page request can incur a lot


of hits: requests to the page itself plus the graphics, each count as a


hit.




Reciprocal links bring in qualified visitors. These are visitors who were


already on a Web site which had matching Themes to yours. They already have


a good idea of what type of site you are. They will come into your site


and actually stay awhile. These visitors should count as double credit,


they are so good.




We know which type of visitor we would rather have.




How do you get people to WANT to put your link on their Web sites? Why would


a similar site put a link to your site on theirs? Simple, you have similar


Themes. You are similar, but not competition.




There is one very important lesson to be learned from this crazy robot behavior.


You need to make the navigation in your Web site so easy that a visitor


can find any page within 2 clicks of your home page. One way of doing this


is installing hidden DotLinks. Dotlinks are little periods that are linked


to other pages which are not really noticeable on your page if you put it


as a period. Although they are not easily seen by the human eye, they are


a link that a robot can follow in your Web site. When you do this, robots


can find your pages faster and more easily.




To read other interesting articles go to: http://www.harvestmoney.ws

//

There is one thing you have learned about robots, it is that there is


absolutely no pattern to them. Most robots are stupid and wander randomly.


For example, 50% of robot hits to my sites ask for the robots.txt page and


then go away never asking for anything else. Then they come back a week


later, ask for the same thing and then go away, again. This happens over


and over again for months. You will never never figure it out. What are


they doing? If they wanted to see if the Web site was really a Web site,


they could just Ping it. This would be much faster and much more efficient.


They seldom visit another page and if they do, they ask for one other page


every visit or so. Some come in and issue rapid-fire requests for every


page in the Web site. How rude! You have to quit worrying so much about


robots. It takes 6 months before they request enough pages to do you any


good. We really quit thinking about them a long time ago. Build a lot of


pages correctly, and, if you have reciprocal links to them, the robots will


find them someday.




Try this: Go to AltaVista and type into the search box “link:YourSite.com”


(Leave off the www). This will list the reciprocal links to your Web site.


Try link:crownjewels.com and you get 136 links to it. Think about this now:


The robots say to themselves, “Here is a site that must be popular or why


would so many Web sites SIMILAR to it have it’s link on their pages?” Remember


that only SIMILAR sites with SIMILAR THEMES would probably have a link to


your site. They give more importance to this than you submitting your link


to them. Wouldn’t you?




Go to heavily trafficked sites matching your Web site’s Themes and use AltaVista


to find out how many reciprocal links they have. This will prove to you


we are right.




Search engines are nothing more than a measure of reciprocal links to your


site. The problem is, you are constantly having to fight for your positioning


in the search query listings. Forget about that. Leave the fighting to people


who are able to spend 24 hours a day trying to trick everybody. Quit trying


to compete with the large organizations pouring millions into their marketing.


Completely forget about Search Engines after submitting to them and go after


the reciprocal links. The Search Engines will then believe you are a heavily


visited site because you will be. You will now be getting the traffic you


so richly deserve.




Search engine visitors to your site, are oftentimes not qualified visitors.


Too many visitors pop into your home page for 2 seconds and then leave.


You know how it is. We all do it when we are using the search engines. Either


it wasn’t the information we were looking for, or they had this huge graphic


on this stupid portal page, which just took forever to load. These visitors


shouldn’t even count, but they get counted as 12-18 hits in your server


logs. Hits are requests to the server. One page request can incur a lot


of hits: requests to the page itself plus the graphics, each count as a


hit.




Reciprocal links bring in qualified visitors. These are visitors who were


already on a Web site which had matching Themes to yours. They already have


a good idea of what type of site you are. They will come into your site


and actually stay awhile. These visitors should count as double credit,


they are so good.




We know which type of visitor we would rather have.




How do you get people to WANT to put your link on their Web sites? Why would


a similar site put a link to your site on theirs? Simple, you have similar


Themes. You are similar, but not competition.




There is one very important lesson to be learned from this crazy robot behavior.


You need to make the navigation in your Web site so easy that a visitor


can find any page within 2 clicks of your home page. One way of doing this


is installing hidden DotLinks. Dotlinks are little periods that are linked


to other pages which are not really noticeable on your page if you put it


as a period. Although they are not easily seen by the human eye, they are


a link that a robot can follow in your Web site. When you do this, robots


can find your pages faster and more easily.




To read other interesting articles go to: http://www.harvestmoney.ws
http://www.harvestmoney.ws

Article Source:
http://www.bigarticles.com


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