How To Install A Network Printer
Installing a network printer allows multiple users and computer to share a single printer, rather than having numerous personal printers throughout the home or office. When installing a network printer, make sure it is located in a centralized place so that all users can access it conveniently, then install the software on each machine. You may find that newer versions of Windows may already have the necessary drivers installed.
Finding the Printer on the Network
To install the printer using an IP address, go to Start>Control Panel>Printers and Faxes and then click the Add Printer icon. Next, click Create a new port, then select Standard TCP/IP Port from the drop-down menu. You will then be asked to enter an IP address. Enter the IP address of the print server and click Next. You will be asked to select the printer manufacturer and the model from the list. If you do not see your printer listed, insert the disk that came with the printer and click Have Disk.
If you do not know the IP address of the printer, you can sometime select Browse for printer in the beginning of the process. If the networked printer is attached to another computer is being shared, you will need to enter the name of the computer followed by the share name of the printer. For example: \\computername\printername.
Spending extra on a network printer can save you money in the long run. Network printers can be higher grade and print cartridges can last longer than personal ink jet printers.
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Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA. HP is one of the world's largest information technology companies and operates in nearly every country. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors.
HP's posted net revenue in 2009 was $115 billion, with approximately $40 billion coming from services. In 2006, the intense competition between HP and IBM tipped in HP's favor, with HP posting revenue of US$91.7 billion,[3] compared to $91.4 billion for IBM; the gap between the companies widened to $21 billion in 2009. In 2007, HP's revenue was $104 billion,[4] making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion.[5] In 2008 HP retained its global leadership position in inkjet, laser, large format and multi-function printers market, and its leadership position in the hardware industry.[6] Also HP became #2 globally in IT services as reported by IDC & Gartner.[7]
Major company changes include a spin-off of part of its business as Agilent Technologies in 1999, its merger with Compaq in 2002, and the acquisition of EDS in 2008, which led to combined revenues of $118.4 billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009.[7] In November 2009, HP announced the acquisition of 3Com.[8] On April 28, 2010, HP announced the buyout of Palm for $1.2 billion. On May 16, 2010, the acquisition of Palm was final.
Share Files Using The Public Folder
The Public Folder located in C:\Users\Public in Windows 7 is a great way to share files between users that have different accounts on the PC. While it is easy to setup other share folders, this default method of giving access to pictures, music, movies and documents is convenient and doesn’t require any additional configuration through different user accounts. All you need to do is drag and drop files into the Public share and it will be visible to other accounts on the PC.
How To Access The Public Folder in Windows 7
You can easily navigate to the Public share folder by going to Start, then Documents. In the Navigation pane, under Favorite Links, click Public. Keep in mind you can share any folder over the computer or on the network by right-clicking it and selecting “sharing.” The Public folder can be used for anything, but you may want to consider using other methods to share files over the network, as you may not want to give everyone on the network access to files in that folder.
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was announced on March 18, 2010 and is currently in development, planned for release in July 2010.[107][108] Microsoft confirmed that the service pack is to be on a much smaller scale than those released for previous versions of Windows, particularly Windows Vista.[109] Service Pack 1 is expected to contain minor updates, including all patches and hotfixes already delivered through Windows Update, and add USB 3.0 support, improvements to Bluetooth performance, and an updated Remote Desktop client implementing upcoming RemoteFX technology.
On April 7, 2010, a build of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 dated from March 27, 2010 was leaked onto torrent sites.[110][111] The leaked service pack has a build number of 6.1.7601.16537.amd64fre.win7.100327-0053 and installation has been reported to be much quicker than service packs for previous versions of Windows.[112]
Google’s action angers China, divides Web users
Google Inc.'s partial withdrawal from the China market brought swift condemnation from the government Tuesday while leaving Chinese Web surfers to wonder whether they would be able to access a new offshore search engine site or be blocked by censors.
Google's decision to move most of its China-based search functions to Hong Kong opened a new phase in a two-month-long fracas pitting the world's most powerful Internet company against a government that tightly restricts the Web in the planet's most populous market.
A few Chinese passers-by laid flowers or chocolates on the large metal "Google" sign outside the company's office building in northern Beijing. Many Chinese felt caught in the middle, admiring Google for taking a stand against censorship but wondering whether the government might further punish the company.
"I don't know what the Chinese government will do to Google next," said Zhou Shuguang, a well-known blogger who uses the online name "Zuola." "But I welcome the move and support Google because an uncensored search engine is something that I need."
After threatening to quit China over cyberattacks and legally required self-censorship, Google announced early Tuesday Beijing time that its Chinese search engine, google.cn, would automatically redirect queries to its service in Hong Kong, where Google is not legally required to censor searches.
The shift did not mean, however, that Chinese were suddenly allowed unfettered access to everything on the Internet. Chinese government Web filters — collectively known as the Great Firewall — automatically weed out anything considered pornographic or politically sensitive. The move, in effect, shifts the responsibility for censoring from Google to the communist government.
Beijing responded swiftly, testily declaring that Google violated commitments it made to abide by China's censorship rules when it entered the China market in 2006.
"This is totally wrong. We're uncompromisingly opposed to the politicization of commercial issues, and express our discontent and indignation to Google for its unreasonable accusations and conducts," an official with the Internet bureau of the State Council Information Office, China's Cabinet, was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.
The withdrawal of its search engine makes Google the latest foreign Internet company to founder in a China market that is heavily regulated and prone to particular consumer tastes. Companies such as Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft's MSN instant messaging service have never gained the traction in the China market that their homegrown rivals have.
Google's move, however, marks only a partial retreat. It's leaving behind a research and sales division. Its map services and a free, advertiser-supported music portal still have their servers in the mainland, and its Gmail e-mail service remains available too.
"It's a balancing act. They are trying to leave but not leave, stay but not stay," said Duncan Clark, managing director of BDA China Ltd., a technology market research firm.
Google's discord with the Chinese government added to souring ties between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan, Tibet and trade and others economic issues.
Playing down the friction with the Internet company and with Washington, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China had a right to filter content deemed harmful to society and national security and Google's response should not harm wider relations with the United States.
"The Google incident is just an individual action taken by a business company, and I can't see its impact on China-U.S. relations unless someone wants to politicize that," Qin said at a routine media briefing.
Google's strategy leaves the google.com.hk search engine vulnerable to a total blockade. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which is owned by Google, are completely shut out of the mainland. The Mountain View, California, company also could see its existing operations foiled by a government unhappy about being challenged by a marquee foreign investor.
Despite reports saying a move was imminent, Google's decision caught many Chinese users by surprise. He Xinliang, an employee at an Internet security company in China's western city of Xi'an, first realized something had changed when clicked on google.cn but found himself on the Hong Kong site.
"I was more or less mentally prepared for this because it's been a hot topic for a while, but I was still just a little surprised," said He, who regularly uses Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar. "At least the page is still in simplified Chinese."
The Hong Kong page offers search results in the simplified Chinese characters used in mainland China in addition to the traditional characters used in the self-governed territory.
Initial post-move plans were broken to some of Google's 600 Chinese staff at a meeting held in the first-floor cafeteria of Google's Beijing office, said company spokeswoman Jessica Powell.
"We haven't worked out all the details so we can't ever rule out letting people go, but we very much want to avoid that," said Powell. "The sales presence to a certain degree could depend on the success of google.com.hk."
A client who stopped by to find out the status of his Google advertising account told reporters gathered outside that Google staff he had spoken with seemed nervous and confused.
"Nobody in there could give me a clear answer," said Pan Yun, manager of a Beijing real estate Web site. "I just want to know if our business can continue but they couldn't give me an answer."
On taobao.com, a popular Chinese online retailer, at least one vendor was already selling a "GoogleBye" t-shirt for 38 yuan ($5.50). The words were tucked under an image of the Great Wall and above that in Chinese characters, it said "Long Live the People's Republic of China."
The State Council official said the government talked to Google twice to try to resolve the standoff and suggested that China's laws requiring Web sites to censor themselves was nonnegotiable.
"We made patient and meticulous explanations on the questions Google raised ... telling it we would still welcome its operation and development in China if it was willing to abide by Chinese laws, while it would be its own affair if it was determined to withdraw its service," the official said.
Still the decision is likely to further dismay many Internet-literate Chinese, who admired Google's fight against censorship even though they don't like to be reminded of the government's heavy hand.
"I feel that people will greatly respect Google's action," said Beijing law professor and human-rights lawyer Teng Biao. "China's censorship of the Internet search engine results is a violation of the most basic of human rights. By doing this, Google will bring more global attention to China's human rights situation."
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In March 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal[6] that referenced ENQUIRE, a database and software project he had built in 1980, and described a more elaborate information management system.
With help from Robert Cailliau, he published a more formal proposal (on November 12, 1990) to build a "Hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" (one word, also "W3") as a "web" of "hypertext documents" to be viewed by "browsers", using a client-server architecture.[2] This proposal estimated that a read-only web would be developed within three months and that it would take six months to achieve, "the creation of new links and new material by readers, [so that] authorship becomes universal" as well as "the automatic notification of a reader when new material of interest to him/her has become available". See Web 2.0 and RSS/Atom, which have taken a little longer to mature.
The proposal had been modeled after the Dynatext SGML reader, by Electronic Book Technology, a spin-off from the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship at Brown University. The Dynatext system, licensed by CERN, was technically advanced and was a key player in the extension of SGML ISO 8879:1986 to Hypermedia within HyTime, but it was considered too expensive and had an inappropriate licensing policy for use in the general high energy physics community, namely a fee for each document and each document alteration.
A NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, in 1990. By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web:[7] the first web browser (which was a web editor as well), the first web server, and the first web pages[8] which described the project itself. On August 6, 1991, he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.[9] This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. The first server outside Europe was set up at SLAC in December 1992.[10] The crucial underlying concept of hypertext originated with older projects from the 1960s, such as the Hypertext Editing System (HES) at Brown University--- among others Ted Nelson and Andries van Dam--- Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu and Douglas Engelbart's oN-Line System (NLS). Both Nelson and Engelbart were in turn inspired by Vannevar Bush's microfilm-based "memex," which was described in the 1945 essay "As We May Think".
Game on for PS3 users after Sony fixes bug
Japanese electronics giant Sony assured millions of users that a system bug halting play on older versions of the PlayStation 3 had been fixed.
The company "verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally," Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold said on the PlayStation blog.
Sony earlier indicated that the problem, which has left many PS3 owners unable to connect to the Internet for more than a day and some unable to even play games, was only affecting models released before last year's PS3 "Slim."
"We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model recognized the year 2010 as a leap year," said Seybold.
"If the time displayed on the XMB is still incorrect, users are able to adjust time settings manually or via the Internet."
Earlier, the company urged users of the older versions to stop using the videogame console until it fixed the bug.
Using consoles could have resulted in errors with functions like recording obtained trophies or restoring data, according to Seybold, Sony's senior director for corporate communications and social media.
Some PS3 users had complained on the PlayStation blog that "trophies" they earned for progressing through game levels had disappeared.
The players suspected the problem was related to the transition from February 28 to March 1 and deluged the PlayStation blog with hundreds of comments and complaints.
"Please fix it as soon as possible. I can't even play my games offline," said "MohammedMK."
Users were also unable to play back certain rental videos downloaded from the PlayStation Store.
Sony has been pushing the PS3 as more than just a videogaming console, partnering with movie rental website Netflix, for example, to allow users to download movies to television sets or computers.
According to market tracking firm NPD Group, Sony has sold 11.4 million PS3s in the United States, including 276,900 latest-generation consoles in January.
Since its launch with much fanfare in 2006, the PS3 has boasted power and rich graphics, but at premium prices compared to Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's innovative Wii consoles.
The PS3's high price tag and a lack of hot new videogame titles translated to sluggish sales that left the consoles in third place behind Xbox 360 and Wii.
Before the latest bug, the consoles were finally gaining momentum thanks to trimmed prices and blockbuster game software.
Sony head Sir Howard Stringer said in January that the PlayStation Network would spread beyond PS3 consoles to a cornucopia of the consumer electronics titan's devices.
"I don't think one glitch in the system is going to topple the entire Network but I think a lot of us are wondering what exactly is going on," said videogame analyst Scott Steinberg, author of "Get Rich Playing Games."
"This helps undermine its credibility at a fairly crucial point in time."
Microsoft survived an Xbox 360 "red ring of death" flaw by fixing the problem and quickly replacing problem consoles. The Xbox Live online play network is now the "gold standard," according to Steinberg.
"Gamers, while fickle creatures, know a thing or two about software glitches," he said.
"At the same time, it remains to be seen whether this is a temporary hiccup or we are really going to be bugging out."
Sony cut prices on existing models to 299 dollars when the slim PS3 went on sale in September.
Soon after Sony slashed the price of its PS3, Microsoft cut the pricetag of its Xbox 360 console, followed by Nintendo, which reduced the price of its Wii for the first time since its 2006 launch.
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The PlayStation 3 (officially abbreviated as PS3[4]) is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.
A major feature that distinguishes the PlayStation 3 from its predecessors is its unified online gaming service, the PlayStation Network,[5] which contrasts with Sony's former policy of relying on video game developers for online play.[6] Other major features of the console include its robust multimedia capabilities,[7][8][9] connectivity with the PlayStation Portable,[10] and its use of a high-definition optical disc format, Blu-ray Disc, as its primary storage medium.[11] The PS3 was also the first Blu-ray 2.0-compliant Blu-ray player on the market.[12]
The PlayStation 3 was first released on November 11, 2006 in Japan,[13] November 17, 2006 in North America and South America,[14] and March 23, 2007 in Europe and Oceania.[15][16] Two SKUs were available at launch: a basic model with a 20 GB hard drive (HDD), and a premium model with a 60 GB hard drive and several additional features[17] (the 20 GB model was not released in Europe or Oceania).[18] Since then, several revisions have been made to the console's available models, most notably with the release of a new slim model in September 2009 to coincide with rebranding of the console and its logo
iPhone Users Buy More Apps Than Android Users
Users of both the iPhone and Android platforms are avid application users, but iPhone owners buy more apps. That's one of several conclusions about mobile users in the January 2010 Mobile Metrics Report from AdMob.
The mobile advertising network found that Android and iPhone consumers download approximately the same number of apps, and spend about the same amount of time using them. But about 50 percent of iPhone users buy at least one app per month, while only 21 percent of Android users do.
'Sheer Quantity and Variety'
The app-activity profile in the report could impact third-party developers and marketers, since platforms with the most-active and most-spending users could influence app-making decisions.
Avi Greengart, an analyst with industry research firm Current Analysis, said one of the reasons behind the higher purchases by the average iPhone user could simply be "the sheer quantity and variety of applications" offered in Apple's App Store.
"Developers have had more than a year to develop for the iPhone," he said. In particular, he said, entertainment-based apps have gravitated first to the iPhone.
But Greengart noted that the "tremendous variety and quality" of the apps extend beyond entertainment.
He said that, while in Barcelona recently for the Mobile World Congress, he was able to find and download an app to help him with the Barcelona Metro. "In fact," he added, "I had several to choose from."
iPod Users Younger
The survey also looked at users of Palm's webOS devices. It found that they are also app-active, although they downloaded fewer free and paid apps.
Owners of Apple's iPod touch were the heaviest app users, downloading an average of a dozen apps monthly. This is 37 percent more than either iPhone or Android users, who download only about nine per month. Users of webOS had an average of about six.
iPod touch users also spent the most time each day using applications, about 100 minutes on average. webOS users were in second place at 87 minutes, followed by Android at 80 and iPhone at 79.
The activity levels of the iPod touch compared to iPhone users could be age-derived. On average, iPod touch owners are 14 years younger than the iPhone user. Abut 78 percent of iPod touch owners are under 24.
Although older, owners of the iPhone are highly active. AdMob said about 47 percent of all smartphone usage in the U.S. in January was on the iPhone. Android devices were second at 39 percent, followed by Research In Motion and webOS devices, at seven and three percent.
As others have noted, Android owners tend to be overwhelmingly male, about 73 percent. iPhone OS users are more evenly divided, with 56 percent guys.
The survey collected the responses of about 960 users over a two-week period. RIM users were not included, since the advertising network currently does not serve ads into BlackBerrys. AdMob based its conclusions on usage of the more than 15,000 applications and mobile web sites in its network.
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The iPhone is a line of Internet- and multimedia-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPhone functions as a camera phone (also including text messaging and visual voicemail), a portable media player (equivalent to a video iPod), and an Internet client (with e-mail, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity)—using the phone's multi-touch screen to provide a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard.
The first-generation phone was quad-band GSM with EDGE; the second generation phone added UMTS with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA;[16] the third generation adds support for 7.2 Mbps HSDPA downloading but remains limited to 384 Kbps uploading as Apple has not implemented the HSPA protocol
