How to build your own personal robot at home

Robots are no longer characters in sci-fi books & films. They have jumped out of pages & monitors to be actual moving entities which can do some amazing tasks at both work & home scenarios. 

The interest in robots has increased to such an extent that manufacturers of toys have expanded their products to include robot building kits. Before you actually start building a robot, though, there are a couple of things it would be advisable to learn.

Evolution of computing devices

The Scientific American India issue of December 2009 had an interesting article titled Decoding an Ancient Computer (preview it here). 

It spoke about an underwater discovery of a ship wreck which included, besides glassware, pottery & jewelry, a fragile device which later turned out to have within its innards gear wheels with teeth.

Virtual Private Network providers

A Virtual Private Network, known in short as VPN, enables you to use another network in e-space. It allows you to access content from a site which is banned in the region where you stay. This access can be done in a secure manner & will hide your location when you access the content of that site. Of course, your VPN provider could still block access to a site which is considered as dangerous.

How to record audio and video on a Skype call

To record the audio-video aspects of your conversation via Skype, you need to install EVAER. This is ‘Excellent Video and Audio Recorder’. It is a free software which is available only for Windows. You can record for free the first 5 minutes of audio as well as video calls. For calls longer than 5 minutes, you will need to register & pay $19.95.

Compare top 5 best selling PC Tablets

The PC tablet market is really heated up right now, what with some of the best innovative products competing for the buyer’s attention. The Google Nexus 7 especially has made a stunning entry with an extremely competitive price, creating excitement for those who were up to now just merely dreaming of owning a top-notch Android computing device.

Installing anti-virus software on your smartphone

Many of us computing device owners are fully aware of the dangers of viruses attacking our PC tablets, ultrabooks, etc. Very few of us, though, realize that this danger is omnipresent in the case of smartphones too.Sure we put anti-Scratch, anti-Fingerprint screen protectors as well as rubber coated casesfor outer protection. What about the embedded data inside? Is it not important to protect that too?

How to set up a Google Drive Account

The King of search engines launched an ambitious Internet storage product. Known simply as Google Drive, the product is similar to your cupboard where you store your files physically. The difference is that Google Drive is a digital online one. It not only stores general data which you put in the form of documents, but also your videos and photos.

All about Ultrabooks

Just when everybody thought that laptops, netbooks and notebooks were the "in" thing in computing devices, along came tablets. Now while tablets are very much ruling the roost, ultrabooks have appeared to give PC tablets some competition.