How culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Computer Machine Made examines...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Father of the personal computer
Henry Edward Roberts
Henry Edward Roberts coined the term "personal computer" and is considered to be the father of the modern personal computers after he released...
Who is the father of the computer?
Father of computing
Charles Babbage
There are hundreds of people who have major contributions to the field of computing. The following sections detail the primary founding fathers...
A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. The word "browser" seems to have originated prior to the Web as a generic term for user...
Computer software
Computer software
Jobs & Wages Overview: Computer Applications Programming
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Sunday, February 7, 2016
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure web mail, as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols. Gmail initially started as an invitation-only beta release on...
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running Mac OS (1985), AT&T Unix PC...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
How to play card game in computer?
A card game on your computer you can always just play the prepared downloaded games that typically come with all computers just go to start and click games or go to start open all your folders and find the folder labeled "games" and click on 1 of the card games like solitair and stuff.. otherwise...
What types of UPS are available?
There are three major types of UPS available in the market, each with their own advantages and cost.
Off-Line Units: Off-line units switch from the regular power source to an internal battery when there is a power drop. There is a brief delay between the time the power drops and the time the...
How do UPS devices work?
UPS systems work by detecting decreases in the amount of electricity coming from the wall circuit and then boosting power to maintain a constant flow of electricity to the connected equipment. This power boost is achieved either from an internal transformer than enhances the electricity supply or from...
What is the point in a UPS?
It is important to protect sensitive electronic equipment such as computers from fluctuations and cuts in the power as unexpected loss of power can cause permanent damage to components and data loss. A UPS will act as a surge protector, battery backup and generally “smooth” out the power your computer...
Printer Computing
The world's first computer printer was a 19th-century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his difference engine.This system used a series of metal rods with characters printed on them and stuck...
Monday, February 1, 2016
Computer Network
What is a Computer Network?
A computer network is a set of computers connected together for the purpose of sharing resources. The most common resource shared today is connection to the Internet. Other shared resources can include a printer or a file server. The Internet itself can be considered...
About mouse
Mouse is a national youth development nonprofit that believes in technology as a force for good. We empower all students to create with technology to solve real problems and make meaningful change in our world.Mouse opens...
Computer keyboard
A computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as a mechanical lever or electronic switch. Following the decline of punch cards and paper tape, interaction via teleprinter...
Sunday, January 31, 2016
What is Computer Graphics?
The term computer graphics includes almost everything on computers that is not text or sound. Today almost every computer can do some graphics, and people have even come to expect to control their computer through...
Statements in QBASIC
Statements in QBASIC
A statement (for the QBASIC) is a set of instructions written by using keywords or commands of QBASIC. Every programming language uses keywords as a statement with certain syntax. The keywords have specific meaning in the QBASIC programming. The statements are the first stored...
Saturday, January 30, 2016
THE FIVE TYPES OF COMPUTERS
TYPES OF COMPUTERS
* Mainframe
- first type of computer used by government and businesses
- multiple tasks for many users simultaneously
- Large corporations
- Climate controlled rooms
- ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Features of External Hardware Computer Components
External computer components connect to a computer system from OUTSIDE. They are not necessary for the system to function but make our experiences easier or better. We will discuss the following:
* Input Devices (used to get data into a computer)
*Output Devices (used to get information out of a computer)
*...
Where is the CPU located on the motherboard?
CPU/processor. The central processing unit (CPU), also called a processor, is located inside the computer case on the motherboard. It is sometimes called the brain of the computer, and its job is to carry out comman...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
High level languages
A programming language such as C, FORTRAN, or Pascal that enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer. Such languages are considered high-level because they are closer to human languages and further from machine languages. In contrast,...
How to Burn a DVD From a computer?
Burn a DVD From a computer
Burning a video to a DVD is one of the primary reasons for owning a laptop with a DVD burner. The task can be intimidating for first-time users, but various DVD burning software can make the task a lot less daunting. Most laptops...
Define function of the monitor of the computer?
Define function of the monitor of the computer
A computer monitor is a display adapter that displays information processed by the computer's video card. When a video...
Useful programs
Useful programs
Here are some computer programs useful in understanding and implementing dissonance-based tuning and timbres. Since I usually program in the language MATLAB, most of these are MATLAB programs, although the dissonance calculating program is also available...
Different between hardware and software?
The beauty of a computer is that it can run a word-processing program one minute and then a photo-editing program five seconds later. In other words, although we don't really think of it this way, the computer can be reprogrammed as many times as you like. This is why programs are also called software....
What do you mean by operating system?
Suppose you're back in the late 1970, before off-the-shelf computer programs have really been invented. You want to program your computer to work as a word processor so you can bash out your first novel—which is relatively...
what is computer program?
As you can read in our long article on computer history, the first computers were gigantic calculating machines and all they ever really did was "crunch numbers": solve lengthy, difficult, or tedious mathematical problems. Today, computers work on a much wider variety of problems but they are all still,...
The Importance of the main() Function in C Programming
By Dan Gookin from C All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
All C language programs must have a main() function. It's the core of every program. It's required. The main() function doesn't really have to do anything other than be present inside your C source code. Eventually, it contains instructions...
Programming the ENIAC
Built in 1943-45 at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania for the War effort by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert (no relation to Columbia University's Wallace Eckert) but not delivered to the Army until just after the end of the war, the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC)...
Multi function device (MFD)
A product or device that has multiple functions. An example of this might be a printer that also makes copies, faxes, and scans. Another example is a CD or DVD that might contain multiple applications on the same disk; this may be a Mac and PC version of the same software or media meant to be played...
Monday, January 4, 2016
Function of computer hardware components
A processor is the brains of any computer system. Also known as a CPU or central processing unit it is used to execute instructions that enable the operating system and application software to run on a system. A processor performs arithmetic and logical calculations in the ALU (arithmetic logical unit)...
