Anodizing solutions are well-known for producing pores in the coating of the anodizing aluminum. These pores absorb dyes and also retain lubricants, if any are applied. In addition, they also provide areas through which the metal can corrode easily. To increase the corrosion resistance and dye retention, sealing is usually applied. Several sealing methods that are used include the use of boiling water, potassium dichromate and nickel acetate. Writer Bio

With just a computer or mobile device and an Internet connection, Snapfish, Shutterfly and Flickr will let you share your photos with others. All three are desktop photo management applications. Just because they belong to the same category doesn’t make them all the same, though. They have similar offerings as well as areas where they differ. Writer Bio

“Thin film transistor” and “light emitting diode” are two terms used to describe different parts of a liquid crystal display screen. It is possible for a LCD to use both TFT and LED technology at the same time. TFT technology handles how the pixels are displayed on the screen whereas LED refers to how the screen lights up. Most consumer LCD displays use TFT technology; however, some higher-end screens use Organic Light-Emitting Diode technology instead....

For businesses, investing in technology can bring a host of advantages. As computers have increased in power and decreased in price, the benefits of a ] electronics in the workplace have even become available to small businesses. No matter the industry, a company can take advantage of these advances in technology to increase profits, streamline processes and open up new markets. Writer Bio

If you’re scanning your photos to share them by e-mail or make an online album, the quality of your scan might not be as important to you as it is when scanning to make prints. Scanners are particularly handy when making copies of old, damaged, faded or one-of-a-kind photos. Using photo-editing software, you can restore these photos and save them in high-resolution versions capable of a high-quality print. They can be copied and framed for gifts or become part of crafty, handmade family trees and calendars....

Pen Tool Select the “Pen” tool. Click in the artboard where your want your shape to begin. Click where you want your second point. Release the mouse to create a straight line between the points; drag the mouse to create a curved line. Continue placing straight and curved points to design your shape. Hover over the first point until a small circle appears next to the Pen icon. Click the first point to close the shape....

When broadcast television began, the technology relied on vacuum tubes to generate images. The biggest questions when it came to making a purchase were how big a screen you could afford, and whether to buy a radio and TV in one console. Today’s TV technology comes in multiple flavors, all designed to offer superior images – but each style comes with its own pros and cons. Writer Bio

Neodymium is an element with specific characteristics that make it particularly well suited for use in speaker construction. Speakers operate by using a magnetic field to generate motion in a coil and speaker cone to project an amplified sound signal. In neodymium speakers, the rare-earth element is used as the primary material in the magnets that create the field needed to drive the speaker movement. Writer Bio

The Consumer Electronics Association has designated seven zones for HDTV Antennas. A zone describes the television reception conditions in a particular geographical location with respect to a particular source. For example, the reception conditions will be much better from a neighboring transmitting system than a station that is broadcasting farther away. Each zone requires a different type of outdoor antenna to pick up broadcasts. Writer Bio

LG smartphones have the ability to play a variety of audio file formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA and WAV. Each file format has a slightly different standard, and can be composed of lossy data compression or an audio bitstream. Music is added to the LG smartphone through the carrier – AT&T or Verizon – or uploaded via Windows Media Player. Writer Bio

Updated February 10, 2017 Digital Recording The audio on a CD is represented by a long stream of numbers. The CD player retrieves these numbers from the disc and reconstructs the original sound waves from the data. The numbers are recorded digitally. As long as the disc has no damage, the numbers are always the same, and the music that comes from them is a close replica of the original....

Underlying the decision to purchase products or services from an online retailer or to sign up as a member on a website is the issue of trust. According to the United States Department of Commerce, the continued growth of Internet commerce and the sustainability of an Internet economy depends on the degree to which users trust that their personal information will be protected. SSL certificates are an important tool that companies use to establish trust with users....

Your privacy on your personal computer might not be as private as you think, and most likely the temporary Internet files that you’ve viewed aren’t as temporary as you believe. What happens to these files depends on your browser settings and how your computer’s connected to the Internet. You can control what happens to temporary Internet files in your browser. Writer Bio

Blocking certain phone numbers is sometimes necessary for privacy, security or other reasons. You might want to block a number from calling you, block your number from appearing on others’ caller ID, or block calls from being made to a number. Writer Bio

In old westerns, you could always tell who were good guys or bad guys by the hat color. Your firewall whitelist contains people, sites or networks you allow access to your computer or you want your computer to access. The opposite of whitelists are blacklists. You blacklist or deny access to services you don’t want such as sites that might try to add spyware to your computer. Writer Bio

In order to view a specific TV channel, your television or computer needs to tune into the channel, separating its signal from the data of all the other channels. This requires a TV tuner, which can either come built into a TV or computer – an internal tuner – or as a separate device, called an external tuner. Cable and satellite companies generally provide or rent external tuners for TVs, while computer tuners are often sold separately....

Atheros Communications Incorporated is a company that delivers Internet connection capabilities. Atheros also provides a wide variety of services, such as wireless LAN Internet connections, Bluetooth connectivity and more. Writer Bio

Bluetooth is a wireless technology that is most often associated with mono audio headsets used for phone calls. However, Bluetooth is fully capable of carrying a lot more than just phone audio and is a popular wireless solution for stereo headphones as well as portable external speakers.

The USB drive is one of the least complicated pieces of hardware out there. It’s small, easy to carry, and works on any computer with the correct port. It’s durable and can sometimes hold a hard drive’s worth of data, yet can also fit nicely into a pocket or purse. About the only thing that can be a bit confusing is what name it goes by – though the actual product is the same, it can be called a thumb drive, a flash drive, a jump drive, a USB key, a memory key, even a pen drive....

Garmin and TomTom devices are pretty comparable, but they also have some significant differences that may sway your purchase decision one way or the other, mostly in terms of style and extra features. Overall, though, despite the handful of differences, both of them do what a GPS should do – direct you where you need to go. Writer Bio