Computer Maintenance Steps…
Thanks to Pleated Jeans for this graphic!
Who wants to go to Hacker School? Introducing Etsy Women Hacker Grants
Few opportunities come around where you can do the following: 1.) Go to NYC for the summer… 2.) Go to NYC for FREE for the summer… 3.) Go to NYC for free for the summer and get to go to Hacker School! Well, lady, we have got all that for you. Geek Girl has been asked by the powers that be from Hacker School in NYC to get the word out about this incredible opportunity for some talented ladies who are looking for a life of being a hacker…er, well programmer… We are helping Hacker School get the word out….
The Correct Way to Clean Your Flat Screen (LCD) Monitor
Computer equipment will last a heck of a lot longer if you take care of your components the correct way, not just using whatever is handy and/or available. Follow these quick tips and you and your monitor will be together a lot longer. Clean the monitor when it is shut off and cooled. A black screen is much easier to find oily spots, fingerprints, debris and dust. Use a dry microfiber cloth to clean. It’s safe, gentle and will collect everything with very little effort. If the cloth alone is not cleaning your monitor, do not for any reason, press….
How Well Do You Know Your Bytes? Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte and Yottabyte, YO!
We all know the “byte”, were just introduced to a “nibble” on a previous post by Sue Malomo, talk about “terabytes”, and refer to the Geek Girl logo sometimes as “Giga” for “Giga Byte”. But how well do you know your other bytes? According to Wikipedia, a yottabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one septillion bytes (one quadrillion gigabytes). As of 2010, no system has yet achieved one yottabyte of storage. In fact, the combined space of all the computer hard drives in the entire world does not amount to even one yottabyte. As of 2009 the entire internet was estimated to contain close to 500….