Computers: What exactly are screensavers?

What exactly are screensavers? - part I

Written by David Schomberg

After reading this good article you will know some important information about screensavers and their history. You will find out how screensavers are different from other applications and what advantages you'll have if you use them. If you have a laptop or a notebook you can also find useful things.

I wonder if you have ever asked about what screensavers are in fact. Because i did i made a little research and i am willing to share with you what i learned. If you split repparttar word "screensavers" in to separate words it will result repparttar 149093 words "screen" and "savers". So screensavers are some kind of applications that "saves your computer". So a screensaver can only mean something good for your computer. But repparttar 149094 real question is what does exactly means? You must ask yourself if it will harm your screen or it will help it. You can find all this just by knowing repparttar 149095 definition of repparttar 149096 screensavers.

If you are curious and you search repparttar 149097 net you will find a many definitions. But i will try to list repparttar 149098 best of them in this article.

1. So a screensaver is some kind of a moving picture that appears on your screen if you haven't moved your mouse or didn't press any key for a period of time that you can set. Screensavers prevent screen damage that is caused when repparttar 149099 same areas of light and dark are displayed for long periods of time.

Data Backup Solution: Why you need a backup plan in place – Part 2

Written by Joe Duchesne

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first part of this article series, I talked about repparttar 149092

three main threats to repparttar 149093

data on your computer. I talked about repparttar 149094

need for a data backup solution that protects your data properly. In this article, I'll outline repparttar 149095

most common data backup solution options available to you.

A simple data backup solution

A simple way to backup your data is to save everything to CD. By burning your vital information to a CD-ROM, you can have another copy of your data if something goes wrong with your computer. Burning your data to a CD-ROM will provide rudimentary data backup protection. There are some problems with this approach however.

Burning your files regularly to CD requires human intervention and effort. It isn't automatic. You have to take time out of your schedule to do it. People get busy, things happen and before you know it, you haven't done a data backup in over a month then BAM! Your data is lost.

The second major threat to using CD's as your data backup solution is that there are limitations to CD media. The first is that they won't survive a fire. If your place or office burns down and you've stored your CD's on site, your data is gone too. The second problem with CD media is that repparttar 149096 media itself degrades over time. A recent study found that even CD's that were advertised to last for 100 years were loosing data after just two or three years.

Burning your data to CD is certainly much better than doing nothing but it has limitations.

Saving Data to a Web Server

With repparttar 149097 advent of inexpensive online data storage options, it is now possible to archive your most crucial data online. This option potentially protects you from theft and it is an off site option so it protects you from fire. The only way theft could risk your data is if your computers are not password protected by default and you choose to save all your passwords automatically in your applications. If this is repparttar 149098 case, someone who gains physical access to your computers could certainly gain access to your data. This issue aside, saving your files to a web server is certainly an option.

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