My Asus Eee PC

Journal of an Asus Eee PC user

Effective Ways to Clean Your LCD Computer Monitor

By

Most computer users today have moved to using the LCD or flat screen monitor. This type is lighter and features better resolution compared to the old and bulkier one. It lets people view documents, videos and movies in a clearer manner thereby providing them with a less stressful experience whether doing tasks online or offline. […]

Online Storage for Data Backup Solutions

By

I am a big proponent of data backups at regular intervals in order to avoid problems or bad accidents. The nature of technology is parity and duplication. But hard drives are known to fail, and not everything always goes according to plan. It is often best to keep yourself organized by making local backups easy […]

How to upgrade the Eee PC 1201N hard drive

By

Netbooks, particularly the Eee PC (duh), are great. You can take them everywhere, they’re relatively fast, and they’re good enough to allow you to finish your tasks without crashes. However, I’m not a big fan of their storage options. Either you get a really fast SSD that contains only around 32 GB of storage, or […]

Can Solid State Drives Really Help Extend Battery Life?

By

Extending battery life has been the holy grail of mobile computing. But can solid state hard drives really help? Recently, the trend is going towards solid-state storage. This means drives that have no moving parts. Most popular of these is flash memory. They’re cheap, durable, and can hold data even without power (unlike volatile RAM, […]

An Introduction To Cloud Hosting

By

Cloud hosting, currently only undertaken by a handful of servers, is rapidly becoming the main way in which many companies’ access data on the internet. The cloud, as it is generally referred to, consists of every internet account where data is stored, such as e-mails, accounts held with internet radio sites and online documents, to […]

Do You Have A Portable Printer?

By

Bringing an Asus Eee PC around is really a huge convenience. Our favorite miniscule mini-laptop started this whole netbook thing. With the dawn of these affordable and slightly underpowered and undersized notebooks, everyone suddenly decided to take this whole portable computing thing seriously. I don’t think I’ve seen that many laptop or netbook toting people […]

More Detailed Maintenance of Your Netbook

By

Using any kind of laptop means you’ll have to take care of it to keep it in a good condition, and this often extends beyond wiping it with a rag every now and then – in order to maintain your netbook in an optimal condition, there are various procedures you could apply, say, every month, […]