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		<title>Solving the Black Screen Computer Error</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing a black screen on your computer can be very scary if you are a novice computer user. People often simply expect their computer to start up every time they press the power on button. But this does not always happen. This computer error can because by many different errors and sometimes it can be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seeing a black screen on your computer can be very scary if you are a novice computer user. People often simply expect their computer to start up every time they press the power on button. But this does not always happen.</p>
<p>This computer error can because by many different errors and sometimes it can be an extremely easy problem to fix, when other times it is not.</p>
<p>Hopefully your computer black screen error is easy to fix by following a feud tips that I&#8217;m going to mentioned below.</p>
<p>Multiple monitors plug-in</p>
<p>Sometimes people connect a TV or even another monitor to their computer. Hopefully you can remember doing this and realize that this is the problem. If you are getting a blank screen on your computer after starting Windows and after having more than one monitor plugged in, the best option is to restart in safe mode.</p>
<p>Before you do this you should disconnect all that extra monitors or TVs. This way your computer will start up seeing only one monitor and it will know which one to display on.</p>
<p>If this does not work, you will need to try and kill that DWM (Desktop Window Manager Session Manager) process. You could usually just go into Windows and disable the service, that if you cannot do this then you can disable the DWM by:</p>
<p>1. Create.bat file to kill dwm process by opening a notepad file<br />
2. Then type taskkill /F / IM dwm.exe<br />
3. Save the file as filename.bat<br />
4. Copy the saved file to C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup<br />
5. Then restart your computer</p>
<p>Hopefully that will solve your problem. If you have any further problems, make sure you remember what you have done and undo it.</p>
<p>Corrupted user profile</p>
<p>Sometimes you can see this error on your computer when your user profile has been corrupted. Another sign that your user profile is corrupted is that when you sign in to your account you can see a black screen. Either way here are a few steps to fix it.</p>
<p>1. The easiest way to fix this is to login to another user account on the computer. Maybe you have an admin account that you can log in to.</p>
<p>2. When you are logged in, create a new user with admin privileges.</p>
<p>3. Now login to your new account and go to the Start menu | Documents | Press ALT | View Tab | Show hidden files and folders.</p>
<p>4. Now locate C:UsersOld_Username folder and select all file except following:</p>
<p>· Ntuser.dat<br />
· Ntuser.dat.log<br />
· Ntuser.ini</p>
<p>5. Copy all of the other files and paste them into your new user folder.</p>
<p>Need some more HELP with your black screen?</p>
<p>These are just two examples of how to fix a computer with a black screen. There are so many different solutions for so many causes. For example you might have a blinking cursor black screen, or you might just have a plain black screen with no cursor.</p>
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		<title>VPN Services for Home Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve heard of VPN services before, there&#8217;s a good chance that you heard of them being used by businesses. They also have a great deal of potential for home users. The service that home users generally appreciate that they get with a VPN is the anonymizing service. There are plenty of uses for a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve heard of VPN services before, there&#8217;s a good chance that you heard of them being used by businesses. They also have a great deal of potential for home users. The service that home users generally appreciate that they get with a VPN is the anonymizing service. There are plenty of uses for a VPN service and, when you take a look at them, you&#8217;ll find that you may very well want one of these services to help protect your anonymity online.</p>
<p>Safe browsing</p>
<p>Some Internet sites exist only to harvest the IP addresses of visitors. Others are loaded with drive-by download technology that attempts to install unwanted software on your computer. One of the best ways to avoid becoming a victim of such sites is to use a VPN. A VPN camouflages your network address. This means that, if the site owner is going through the server logs trying to find IP addresses to launch attacks against, they won&#8217;t find your real one anywhere in those logs. This increases your degree of safety online substantially.</p>
<p>A VPN connection also encrypts everything you send online. This isn&#8217;t limited to your Internet surfing. For an example of how useful this can be, imagine that you do some of your work at home. When you are sending e-mails to your workplace that have sensitive information attached to them &#8211; such as financial data, human resources records and so forth &#8211; it&#8217;s a good idea to make certain that they are as secure as possible. Remember, e-mails can be intercepted in transit and anybody who has a fair degree of hacking skill can take a look at what&#8217;s in them. A VPN makes this virtually impossible.</p>
<p>If you send an e-mail to your workplace using a VPN connection, none of the information that you send will be readable by human beings. This is a tremendous safety feature. If you happen to use a wireless network in your home, it adds a significant degree of safety. There are programs that make it very easy for people to hack into wireless networks and, unless you have a list of the computers attached to your network on your screen at all times, it&#8217;s easy for people to hook up to your network without your knowing it. Having a VPN connection essentially makes it completely useless for them to hook up to your network and to attempt to intercept your traffic.</p>
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		<title>VPN Networks and Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the aspects of the Internet that has been consistently improving since it became a popular consumer product is speed. Over the years, home connections have reached speeds that rival the connections found in offices 10 years ago. Home users can now browse the Internet and download files in minutes when downloading those files [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the aspects of the Internet that has been consistently improving since it became a popular consumer product is speed. Over the years, home connections have reached speeds that rival the connections found in offices 10 years ago. Home users can now browse the Internet and download files in minutes when downloading those files may have taken hours not too long ago. Combining a VPN service with your Internet browsing doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to reduce your speed.</p>
<p>Perception vs. Reality</p>
<p>There are free services out there that will anonymize your Internet browsing for you. This is one of the reasons that people oftentimes sign up for VPN service. If you use one of the free services, you will sometimes come away from the experience with a very bad impression. The reason for this is the fact that these free services oftentimes require that you go through very busy servers to be anonymized.</p>
<p>A VPN service that you pay for is a much different animal than a free service. On a paid service, you&#8217;re generally guaranteed to be able to access Internet pages and other resources within a certain range of speeds. In some cases, the speed you get increases with more expensive packages. Some of these VPN services have very fast network speeds. In fact, adding a VPN connection to your Internet browsing will sometimes leave you with a connection that is fast enough that the slowdown isn&#8217;t even noticeable.</p>
<p>Downloads</p>
<p>The vast majority of home Internet services today come with unlimited browsing. This has made people forget, to some degree, how bandwidth works. To put it in the most basic terms, anything you download on the Internet &#8211; including webpages themselves &#8211; consumes bandwidth. Even if you don&#8217;t download a file or a page to your hard drive and save it, you are still downloading that content. Some VPN services have limited bandwidth. Others have unlimited bandwidth. Before you immediately go for the unlimited package, consider the following.</p>
<p>The average Internet surfer who doesn&#8217;t download any files and who is only on for a few hours a day generally uses very little bandwidth. Downloading webpages does not consume a great deal of bandwidth. In fact, webpages are optimized in a way that makes them as compact as possible. If you are considering getting a VPN service, consider getting one of the limited packages first and, if you&#8217;re going over your limit, expand the service. Speed should not be an issue with most of the third-party services out there.</p>
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		<title>Inspiring Nature Wallpapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of nature and the glory of all the elements that make up nature like plants, animals, water, land, air and many more are in inspiring nature wallpapers. If you love to admire natural surroundings or you love to be surrounded by nature then nature backgrounds, images and breathtaking pictures are all for you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The beauty of nature and the glory of all the elements that make up nature like plants, animals, water, land, air and many more are in inspiring nature wallpapers. If you love to admire natural surroundings or you love to be surrounded by nature then nature backgrounds, images and breathtaking pictures are all for you to download and enjoy online.</p>
<p>No matter how young or old you are, there are so many benefits of having nature wallpapers as your desktop image rather than other background images. Here are some of the advantages:</p>
<p>1. Nature wallpapers can take you to wondrous memories like your past vacation, a romantic getaway or maybe a memorable place where you had so much fun. Remembering can improve a person&#8217;s memory and enhance his mental and cognitive skills as well.</p>
<p>2. Nature backgrounds can signify a specific place that you have never been to but planning to go to in the future. This nature image can serve as your inspiration as you work all day long.</p>
<p>3. Nature pictures can also mean a place where you find deep inspiration and personal relaxation. Images of a beach, an oasis, a garden or maybe a forest can invoke these feelings most of the time.</p>
<p>4. Nature images maybe pictures that you may have taken yourself when you had a relaxing vacation. You can use these personal photos as your inspiration or as a remembrance of your wonderful time outdoors as memorable desktop décor.</p>
<p>5. Nature wallpapers may also serve as reminders to keep the environment safe and healthy. These photos can remind us of our share in helping Mother Nature in our own personal abilities.</p>
<p>Each nature lover may have special reasons why they love and worship nature and all its beauty in radiance. With these reasons, nature theme for wallpapers and desktop backgrounds are one of the most favorite choices among sites. Here are several ways to enhance nature wallpapers:</p>
<p>1. Try high definition nature wallpapers that have richer and bolder colors. With HD wallpaper, you may need a better monitor resolution which can project high definition images. Viewing images in true HD can totally change your computing habits; after getting used to viewing pictures in HD, you will never look at any image the same way again.</p>
<p>2. Try 3D nature images that can totally revamp the way you watch and view images. 3D images and pictures seem to pop out of the monitor making you feel like you are actually within the picture.</p>
<p>3. There are various nature wallpapers complete with creative nature sounds like water gushing, waves reaching the shore and even the sounds of birds chirping to make you feel the display even more.</p>
<p>4. A monitor with a better resolution and bigger screen can make all the difference when you want to view landscape nature pictures.</p>
<p>5. Arrange icons so that they can never block nature wallpaper views. You can reduce the number or reduce the font size and icon size of your desktop through making tweaks on the display.</p>
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		<title>Artificial Neural Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are biologically inspired. Specifically, they borrow ideas from the manner in which the human brain works. The human brain is composed of special cells called neurons. Estimates of the number of neurons in a human brain cover a wide range (up to 150 billion), and there are more than a hundred [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are biologically inspired. Specifically, they borrow ideas from the manner in which the human brain works. The human brain is composed of special cells called neurons. Estimates of the number of neurons in a human brain cover a wide range (up to 150 billion), and there are more than a hundred different kinds of neurons, separated into groups called networks. Each network contains several thousand neurons that are highly interconnected. Thus, the brain can be viewed as a collection of neural networks.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s ANNs, whose application is referred to as neural computing, use a very limited set of concepts from biological neural systems. The goal is to simulate massive parallel processes that involve processing elements interconnected in a network architecture. The artificial neuron receives inputs analogous to the electrochemical impulses biological neurons receive from other neurons. The output of the artificial neuron corresponds to signals sent out from a biological neuron. These artificial signal can be changed, like the signals from the human brain. Neurons in an ANN receive information from other neurons or from external source, transform or process the information, and pass it on to other neurons or as external outputs.</p>
<p>The manner in which an ANN processes information depends on its structure and on the algorithm used to process the information.</p>
<p>Benefits And Applications Of Neural Networks</p>
<p>The value of neural network technology includes its usefulness for pattern recognition, learning, and the interpretation of incomplete and &#8220;noisy&#8221; inputs.</p>
<p>Neural networks have the potential to provide some of the human characteristics of problem solving that are difficult to simulate using the logical, analytical techniques of DSS or even expert systems. One of these characteristics is pattern recognition. Neural networks can analyze large quantities of data to establish patterns and characteristics in situations where the logic and rules are not known. An example would be loan applications. By reviewing many historical cases of applicants questionnaires and the &#8220;yes or no&#8221; decisions made, the ANN can create &#8220;patterns&#8221; or &#8220;profiles&#8221; of applications that should be approved or denied. A new application can then matched by the computer against the pattern. If it comes close enough, the computer classifies it as a &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221;; otherwise it goes to a human for a decision. Neural networks are especially useful for financial applications such as determining when to buy or sell stock, predicting bankruptcy, and predicting exchange rates.</p>
<p>Beyond its role as an alternative computing mechanism, and in data mining, neural computing can be combined with other computer-based information systems to produce powerful hybrid systems.</p>
<p>Neural computing is emerging as an effective technology in pattern recognition. This capability is being translated to many applications and is sometimes integrated with fuzzy logic.</p>
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		<title>The Impact of Gamification</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology experts held a summit last week at CES regarding the state of tech and children in the home. The Kids at Play and Mommy Tech conference (and exhibits) looked at current issues and products that are affecting the future of digital game embracing children. Among the topics at the conference was the subject of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Technology experts held a summit last week at CES regarding the state of tech and children in the home. The Kids at Play and Mommy Tech conference (and exhibits) looked at current issues and products that are affecting the future of digital game embracing children. Among the topics at the conference was the subject of digital games and their role in bringing up intelligent generations. &#8220;Gamification&#8221; was the subject of Games for Change co-president Asi Burak&#8217;s keynote speech. An introduction for the keynote stated: &#8220;Gamification is this year&#8217;s buzzword when it comes to raising smart kids.&#8221;</p>
<p>Games for Change is a New York based non-profit organization created to help further the development of social games that impact society in healthy ways. The company engages in projects that generate awareness of economic, environmental and social issues through games and other media. One of their larger projects is an annual &#8216;festival&#8217; (convention) that brings together non-government (NGO,) government, and corporate groups along with game developers and designers for the purpose of creating and promoting games that generate social awareness. A major goal for the company is to &#8220;bridge the gap&#8221; between these types of games and the more commercial driven games. The next festival will be held in June.</p>
<p>Gamification.org defines gamification as &#8220;the concept of applying game-design thinking to non-game applications to make them more fun and engaging.&#8221; In gamification study, regularly used game design techniques and mechanics are defined and introduced into atypical game scenarios. An example is the game Trash Tycoon where the player has been left behind in a city abandoned because of its extreme garbage problem. The player takes time to build a trash collecting empire that incorporates recycling and organic trash collection solutions often seen in real-life situations. The game employs the popular game mechanic of community collaboration as it is played on Facebook.</p>
<p>Tycoon games ( business simulating games ) are not new in the gaming world. Almost every recreation-based industry has been gamified; amusement park building games are at the top of the list. The challenge is to gamify and make entertaining the industries and global-situations that are impacting the world and the future, a daunting task, but one that has made great strides over the past decades. There are many of us that now have a greater understanding and appreciation of city planning and its challenges thanks to the popular Sim-City series of games. Another success story: Food Force is a game published by the United Nations World Food Program where the player goes on missions to help a famine-affected country. Since its creation, it has been educating players about how civil war and drought affect populations in other parts of the world.</p>
<p>The power of the digital game has been recognized. Games have always been implemented in effective education curriculums for children. Summits like the one held at CES last week and conventions held by groups like Games for Change are helping groups with non-commercial interests in game development keep their game players interested and educated.<br />
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