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Unless your profession is being a system administrator, it isn't very often that one would add new hard drives to one's PC. Even for a computer professional ike myself, I may upgrade to a new drive once a year at the most. And quite often I can't remember how to add or upgrade to a new hard drive. That was exactly what happened to me recently when I tried to add a new hard drive. This Christmas I received a new WD 1TB (WD10EACS-32ZJB0) drive. And I was pretty excited about getting this drive, that is almost 7 times larger than the one that I currently have (150GB). As I got down to installing the new drive, I came to the conclusion that I need to document the steps involved, so that in future when it is time again to upgrade or add a new drive, I have something to refer back to. I hope you too may find this useful.

YouTube is a phenomena that is hard to ignore when you spent time on the Internet. If you are unfamiliar with what it is, simply put, it is a website which allows you to upload and share videos. Right now there are literally thousands (if not millions) of video clips on YouTube. Although I must say that many of them just aren't worth watching. And having said that I must now add that there are some really good ones out there, which you might even like to save it on your computer to view later.

Installing Apache2 and PHP5 on different platforms can be frustrating at times because of the differences involved in each platform. Especially true when you are new to a particular Operating System. Just today I had to install both these two software on my fairly newly installed Ubuntu laptop. And it took me some effort to accomplish that, which for an experienced user would have taken minutes. For those of you who might travel on this road too, here is the quick way to get Apache and PHP5 running on your Ubuntu computer.

Want to have your own personal website? Have no idea where or how to begin? In this series of tutorial, I'm going to walk you through designing your own website using the free Google Page Creator tool, and have it hosted on Google provided hosting service, for free. No experience required. At the end of this tutorial, you will not be an expert web designer. But hopefully you will have fun learning how to build your own website, and be in a position to be able to go further, if you so choose.

When you switch on the computer, it goes through a bootup process where it loads up Windows XP and then the startup programs, before you can begin to use it. Quite often when you install a new program on your computer, it will be configured to automatically load itself and runs in the background, during your computer boot up. Some of these programs are necessary to be loaded as such (example anti-virus programs) while others are not required. If you have installed a number of software over a period of time, there will be an accumulated number of startup programs set to be loaded at startup. This causes two problems. Firstly it makes the bootup process slow and painful. Just imagine yourself staring at the screen waiting for the control to return to you. (during this time, typically you may not be able to do anything until everything has been loaded). The second problem is when too many programs are loaded to run in the background, they eat up your computer memory. Computer memory are limited. and hence if you have too many programs running in nthe background, that means less memory for your CPU to work with. And the result is your Windows operating system becomes painfully slow in operation.