What is the difference between a laptop and a notebook?

The Notebook Computer

A standard notebook has the following features:

1. Ultralight. Less weight is better.
2. 4 - 5 hour battery life.
3. No internal floppy drive.
4. Minimal graphics subsystem.
5. No internal DVD or CD system.
6. 12" - 14" TFT screen.
7. Low profile (thin).
8. Integrated modem and network connection.
9. Smallest possible keyboard that retains functionality.
10. Low power consumption Celeron/Centrino or Sempron style processor.

In essence a notebook computer is designed to provide mobile computing that won't break your back yet still offer all the power the mobile users requires for work and some leisure pursuits. This portability normally comes at a price. The level of miniaturization involved comes at a cost and high end notebooks can prove to be quite expensive.


The Laptop Computer

Now for the laptop computer. Again look at the name. A laptop is designed to sit on your lap and you can therefore expect it to be quite large and loaded down with features and power.

The standard laptop computer would have some ,if not all, of the following features:

1. 14" - 17" (widescreen) TFT screen.
2. Nvidia GeForce or ATI Radeon graphics subsystem.
3. Internal DVD-ROM or DVD-RW drive
4. Large full featured keyboard.
5. 3 hour (+/-) battery life.
6. Upgradeable.
7. Integrated modem, network, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities.
8. High quality integrate audio and speaker system.
9. Low power consumption, high performance Intel Centrino style processor.

From reading the above information you'll see that the notebook is the exact opposite of the laptop. Notebooks offer reasonable power and extreme portability. Laptops are designed to be capable of replacing an entire desktop PC if necessary whilst still offering desktop performance in a mobile platform. Hopefully this article has helped clear up the differences between both classes of portable computers. As time and technology moves on the line between laptop and notebook will continue to blur but for right now it's still clearly defined and driven by the demands of the portable computer market

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Google Talk Tips and Tricks (Many People are unware of them)

Shortcuts

• CTRL + Mousewheel up/down over input textbox: Change the font size of the textbox.
• F9: Open Gmail to send an email to your friend
• F11: Start a call with your friend
• F12: Stop the current call
• ESC: Close the current window
• ALT + ESC: Minimize the current window
• TAB: Switch between multiple chat windows
• CTRL + I: Same as TAB
• SHIFT + TAB: Same as TAB but in reverse order
• CTRL + TAB: Same as SHIFT + TAB
• Windows + ESC: Open Google Talk (if it's minimized, or in the tray)

Conversation Text

• A message can be 32767 characters long.
• Certain smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will be shown in blue.
  :-| :-O :-x :-P :-D ;-) :-( :| :O :x :P :D :) :( ;-| ;-O ;-x ;-P ;-D ;-) ;-( ;| ;O ;x ;P ;D ;) ;( B-| B-O B-x B-P B-D B-) B-( B'( BO Bx BD B) B( B) And you can put a ' between the characters to get another one shown in blue.
• You can insert special characters like ♥♫☺ with 'Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Maps'.

Conversation Window

• Drag a conversation window on top of another and they will dock together.
• Drag a file onto the chat history and you'll send the file to the selected contact.
• When you see a message notification, you can right click it to close it without focusing the conversation window.

Conference Calls

• What you need to do to have conference calls: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of it add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex. Open 2 instances of the software on every user's computer. After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

Nickname & Status Message

• You can change your name in the Google Account page.
  or To change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there. Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name.
  As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two.
• You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

Contacts

• You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).
• The Gmail account 'user@gmail.com' can't be invited as your friend.

Sound & Video

• It's possible to broadcast music, MP3, etc.. through Google Talk.
  Unplug your microphone. Double click on the speaker icon in the lower right corner. This will open
  up "Volume Control". Select "Options" and then "Properties". Then check the button
  next to "Recording" then click OK. You may also have to change your setting under
  Mixer Device. Now the Recording Control screen should be up. On my computer I selected "Wave Out Mix". Click on the green phone in Google Talk and call your friend.

Secret Startup Parameters

• /nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk
• /autostart: when Google Talk is run with this parameter, it will check the registry settings to see if it needs to be started or not. If the "Start automatically with Windows" option is unchecked, it won't start.
• /forcestart: same as /autostart, but forces it to start no matter what option was set.
• /S upgrade: Used when upgrading Google Talk
• /register: registers Google Talk in the registry, includig the GMail Compose method.
• /checkupdate: check for newer versions
• /plaintextauth: uses plain authentication mechanism instead then Google's GAIA mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google's servers.
• /nogaiaauth: disables GAIA authentication method. The same as above.
• /factoryreset: set settings back to default.
• /gaiaserver servername.com: uses a different GAIA server to connect to Google Talk. Used for debug purposes only, there are no other known GAIA servers.
• /mailto email@host.com: send an email with Gmail
• /diag: start Google Talk in diagnostic mode
• /log: probably has something to do with the diagnostic logging
• /unregister: ?
• /embedding: ?

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Some basic full forms of file formats you should know...

Document File Formats:-
DOC – Microsoft Word document
DOCX – Office Open XML Text document or Microsoft Office Word 2007 for Windows/2008 for Mac
PDF – Portable Document Format
HTML – HyperText Markup Language (.html, .htm)

Graphic File Formats:-
GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
JPEG(.jpg or .jpeg) – Joint Photographic Experts Group
PNG – Portable Network Graphic

Sound File Format:-
Words from the author: "I always thought full form of MP3 is "Music Player 3" but is isnt :)"
MP3 - MPEG Audio Layer 3

Video File Formats:-
3GP - Third Generation Partnership Project(3GPP)
MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group
AVI - Audio Video Interleave
WMV – Windows Media Video