Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

We had a severe windstorm here recently, causing our power to fluctuate on and off for about 28 hours. It was maniacal! It would have been better, I think, if the power had just gone OFF for a time, rather than this flickering in and out every few minutes for over a day and a [...]

The average computer user is now more knowledgeable and more savvy with computers and related software, since we’ve been owning and using them for about 15 years now. I have been purposely learning terms, techniques, studying processes and etc because 1) I am a naturally curious person, and 2) learning about how computers/software works makes [...]

Computers are in everything now, aren’t they? I was amazed when they started putting microchips in appliances like coffee makers and digital frames, where all you have to do is connect your appliance to the Internet. I am not particularly fond of the idea of networking my coffee maker to the web, mind you. I [...]

Most computers now have partitions on the hard drives. A partition is like a room. You might have two partitions on your hard drive, say C Drive and D Drive. C Drive is the portion of your hard drive that has all your stuff– the operating system, your files and folders, etc. D Drive is [...]

Vista is the first Windows operating system to be 64-bit. A “bit” is bascially a data unit. Most Windows machines have 32-bit (32-bit processors, and 32-bit operating systems to make full use of the processors). But as we use computers to manage more and more data and manage it all simultaneously, the 64-bit processor was [...]