Just The Touch Of A Screen

If you have ever used a smartphone, then you know about using your fingers to navigate the screens. Whether watching the news anchors use them on TV news or noticing that teachers are using touch displays in their classrooms, it seems that replacing the computer mouse in this way is not only stylish, but it is simple and convenient. With touch screen technology, you can do anything from ordering postage at the local post office, to making choices on a computer screen at the local museum, to searching the internet.

Now, there are computer monitors that allow for touch screen display that make computing easy just by tapping the screen with either an object or your fingers. Windows 8 enables the screen to be used more like a tablet or smartphone. The multi touch monitor lets you use more than just one finger at a time.

For instance, if you want to zoom in, you might use two fingers to make the screen picture spread out or shrink. The multi touch screen monitor makes it easy to do presentations for large crowds as well as simplifying individual computing. What is different about these kinds of screens now, as opposed to when they were first introduced, is that they have the capability to understand and respond to multiple fingers and motions. Unlike a mouse that requires several clicks or function procedures to enlarge a screen or move around a webpage, the new technology is many times just a one tap procedure.

Touch screens have changed the way computing is done. No longer is casual computing done on a large bulky computer. With the advent of smartphones, people have become more mobile. Smartphones have become miniature computers without all of the gadgets that plug into them. Even typing on a keyboard is done by typing right onto the screen. Some people wanted a slightly larger option than the smartphone, so the demand caused the tablet to be invented. Tablets allowed for more serious computing and with a larger screen than the smartphones, but still kept the touch capability that was available.

Now, all kinds of computers can be adapted to the touch screen technology just by having a special monitor and the right kind of software. More and more this new technology will be incorporated into businesses and it will help to improve productivity. Anywhere that the public can be assisted easily with it, there will be a need for it.

Henry is a tech geek -- in the best meaning of the name -- and enjoys checking out all of newest tech gadgets as soon as they're available. For more information on personal touch screen technology used in for computer monitors, tablets and digital kiosks, visit ViewSonic.com.

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The Dreaded Blue Screen Of Death!

If you have ever experienced one of these you know how scary it can be. Immediately you think you have lost everything. After crying uncontrollably for about 10 minutes, you finally calm down and decide you have to do something about this. Ok, what is the first thing the I.T. guy at work always tells you to do when you have a problem with your computer? Reboot. And in this case, cross your fingers. Please load, please load, please load... BSOD! Again... @%$#

Now it's time to get serious and do some real troubleshooting. Before doing any research on the issue, you should consider if anything has changed recently on your computer. Did you add new hardware or software? Usually the BSOD is caused by an incompatible driver or a hardware failure. If you have recently installed new hardware, try removing the new hardware from your computer and boot back up. If it's software that you recently installed or a driver, that's a little more tricky since you need your computer running to uninstall the software. The good news is Windows allows you to do this by starting your computer in Safe Mode. To do this, restart your computer and tap the F8 key repeatedly every second or so until you are presented with the Boot Menu. Choose Safe Mode. In Safe Mode your computer will only load the bare minimum drivers that it needs to run. Once it's running, go to the Control Panel, uninstall the new software, and restart.

If you are running Windows 7, you can try to restore to a previous state. Again you will need to boot in Safe Mode. Go to the Control Panel, choose System, Advanced System Settings, System Protection, System Restore. Make sure to choose a restore point from a date and time when the computer was working. This process has worked very well for me in the past.

If you are still reading this you must still be staring at that ugly blue screen. Now it's time to get dirty. If you are lucky the error message on the screen will give you some idea as to why this is happening. Sometimes it will even list a driver that may be the cause of the problem.

Look towards the top of the screen for a message similar to IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM, INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, etc. Type the error into Google exactly as listed for more information. You should be able to find someone else who had the same error and what they did to resolve the problem.

Luckily Microsoft Windows has gotten better over the years. Windows XP was a pretty solid platform and when they came out with Windows 7 they added the driver compatibility feature that warns you when installing drivers that haven't been tested with that version of Windows.

For more information or if you still need help, visit http://www.auroraitpros.com/ or send us an email at info@AuroraITpros.com. We are professionals when it comes to computer support and repair.

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