Over time, display on your laptop is going to get dusty, or even smudgy. You're playing Russian roulette with your laptop if you attempt to clean your display with paper towels and spray cleaners.

Instead, use disposable cleansing cloths. These essential laptop accessories are designed specifically to clean laptop displays. Always have a stash on hand.

7: USB Drive

A USB drive is a storage device about size of your thumb that plugs directly into a USB port.

Capacity-wise, they're relatively small - usually well under 100 MB. However, they're very useful for moving files quickly and easily from one computer to another, e.g., moving a PowerPoint presentation from your laptop to your business associate's laptop.

A USB drive also makes a great temporary backup medium for really important files you create on road.

8: Blank CD-R Discs

You've just finished your big sales presentation. Someone from audience approaches you afterward and asks for a copy of presentation.

You'll make a better impression if you:

a) ask person for their email address and tell them you'll email presentation later

b) ask for their physical address and tell them you'll mail a CD later

c) burn them a CD of presentation on spot.

In case you didn't figure it out, answer is c. Always be prepared with these inexpensive laptop accessories.

9: Stereo Headset

It's great to be able to watch DVD movies no matter where you are. Imagine watching your favorite flick at 30,000 feet.

There's just one problem.

The family in row behind you has absolutely no interest in hearing dialog from Pulp Fiction.

Do yourself and everyone around you a favor. When you're watching movies or listening to music in public, use your headphones.

10: Security Device

Laptop security devices come in many shapes and sizes.

For example, most laptops include a security dock that allows you to attach your laptop to some immovable object via cable, much like you'd lock up your bicycle outside grocery store.

The bio-virus, by design or nature (which may or may not be same thing), needs a host to reproduce. The cyber-virus, by design and nature needs a host to reproduce.

One is alive and other is given life.

The code of behaviour is similar and parallels are perhaps, too many. Change and challenge. Create and consume.

Both versions being ethically allied, it seems that weak will perish and strong might sustain. The nature of man designed nature of software though, and in terms of time and evolution, it is pre-dated by bio-virus so cycle is therefore, old! So what’s new?

Minor actions within that cycle?

The creators (to date) become victims to their respective design and eventually as before, antibiotics and incarceration become “cure”!

Seamus Dolly is a webmaster and author. His background is in engineering and analogue electronics. His studies include A+, Server+ and iNet+. http://www.CountControl.com