But, besides the common features of a watch and computer, watches make great gifts. There are many people starting to think about graduation gifts for their up coming high school or college graduates. There are so many styles and features. If you are thinking about getting a watch for graduation, now is the time to start scouring the market. Take a look at this Bulova marine star watch:

This is just one example. Watches come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Some are gold. Some are covered in jewels. Some have GPS included. It is truly amazing how diverse watches have become. The important issue for choosing the right watch is to know the end user well! Know their style! But, most importantly, send a message that you want to highlight an accomplishment and show that it is truly timeless. At the end of the day, intangible things stand the test of time. Love, loyalty, courage, determination and hard work are passed from generation to generation. Ironically, so are time pieces!

I will also need a mirror, a light fixture, a sink and some other bathroom furniture. Of course, before I do all of that, I’m going to take down the wall paper, add texture to the walls and paint. I may also add tile to the walls or wood paneling. What can I say? I’m still in the planning phase and visiting websites is helping me get my ideas! Anyway, it’s back to computers this evening for this blog writer!

I was cruising through the free cell phones section. I found an article on the Android by T-Mobile which is Motorola’s answer to the I-Phone. The article discusses how to get a free Android Phone by signing up for T-Mobile service. That’s a pretty good deal that people might want to know about! The I-Phone certainly is not free when you sign up for AT&T service! Now, is it truly free? No, you still have to engage in a contract with T-Mobile but this is just an example that makes you a better consumer and aware of the offers out there. There are all kinds of posts on free games and apps for your phone.

However, as a computer blog, we are very interested in software. There are all kinds of posts that make you aware of free software on the internet. Ubuntu, Norton Security. Math Games and Science Apps are all posted for your one stop free stuff shop. There is not much in the way of free hardware but there are certainly a lot of software options from applications to operating systems. It’s certainly worth a look as combing through the website is free as well!  

That being sad, despite the middle man’s horrible reputation, there is value to having a company screen your products and back the quality of those products. This brings us to another item that is becoming more and more popular as a direct sale. The mark ups on eyeglasses are too high! People justify it because they are basically essentials. Well, just because they are essentials does not mean you should overpay. Check out: prescription eyeglasses online.

The first step in setting up a wireless home or business network is deciding on what type of network devices to purchase. A home computer network is a peer to peer network and can accomodate no more than 10 computers. Hence, you can buy the simple wi-fi routers available in the market and use the windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, mac or the linux ubuntu 9.10 operating systems to build your wireless networks. As for the printers you can choose whichever printer you like, but a wireless enabled printer will enable you to connect to the router or the computer without the need of connecting any wires.

The second step is to decided on how to connect the networking devices and computers to form a network. A simple diagram explaining the way in which the devices will be connected to one another can make the matters easier.If you want to connect the printer to a computer rather than the router you better decide this in the very beginning. Similarly, if you want to connect the internet to the dedicated computer it is advisable to decide this point n the beginning itself.

The third step is to find out the kind of house and neighborhood your wireless network will be setup in. If the apartment area is too large the wireless signal may not reach the outer areas of the house. In such cases you might have to invest in additional equipment like the wireless repeaters, in order to boost the signal strength. Again, deciding upon where to place the computers, routers, printers etc, for example, in which rooms and at what heights will also have to be taken into consideration while setting up a home or business wireless network.

The last but not the least thing to consider while setting up a wireless network is the network security. Apart from the internal security there are some external threats which have to be guarded against. These threats can be tackled by installing software or hardware firewalls and configuring the wireless routers in a proper manner.

Once you have deliberated upon these points you can start connecting your network components together. You can start by installing the wireless adapters into your computers or the laptops as the case may be. The next step would be to connect the internet to the router or the gateway computer. You can configure the router to create a Dhcp server, Dns server and allow the computers to get the Ip addresses automatically. You can now connect the printer and make it accessible from all the computers on the network.

Once, you have setup the wireless network in your home or the office you can check whether your network is actually working or not. You can test your network with the help of the utilities such as the ping and the lpconfig. You can now create a workgroup or homegroup (windows 7) and join all the computers to this group. You can then setup the user accounts and allocate the rights to share the files, peripherals and the internet either as guests or as local users.

Here is a video that explains how to plan the wireless network.

First, you can connect the modem to the first computer via the router. The other computers will have to be connected to the main computer using a network switch.Choose the computer with the internet connection as your main computer and setup the internet connection for this computer. You must then enable internet sharing on this computer so that the other computers in your home network are able to share the internet connection.

You can now turn on the internet connection sharing option (on windows xp, vista) on the rest of the network computers and all the computers will be able to access the internet. This method relies on the fact that your main computer is made the internet gateway. This allows all the network traffic to flow via this main internet gateway computer and then through the router.

The second method is to connect the internet to the router and connect all your the computers to the router. This approach does not require the internet connection to be made to a main computer or gateway computer. In this case it is the router itself that behaves as the internet gateway. You can now setup the internet connections individually on each of your computers just as you do normally. By setting up  the internet connection using the userid and password  each of your computers are connected independently through the router to the internet.

The first method reqires the use of a main computer to connect to the internet and this computer has to be kept “ON” permanently. The second method needs only the router and the modem to remain “ON” and the computers on the network can easily connect to the internet. Many a times the router and modem are combined together into a single unit and in this case you only need the router to be “ON” at all times.

Find out more on  how to build your Computer at Easyasmypc. Connect them together to form a home network  to  enable you to share your files, printers, hard disks, internet etc and make your life more pleasant.

Some of the printers are actually a combination or multifunction printers, with scanner, FAX  etc., combined within a single unit. Such printers too can also be connected directly to the router and the printer can be shared across the home network.

The modern inkjet printers or the laser printers also have the USB port and wireless port to connect directly to the router’s usb or wireless ports, instead of to the computer in the form of print server.  This direct connection may not be possible with the serial printers since the routers may not have a serial port and you will have to connect the printer to the computer, since no other solution might be possible. In case your printer has the usb port, but your router does not, it would be essential to procure a usb to ethernet converter cable and connect the p?rinter to one of the ethernet ports of your router.

Once the printer is connected to the router, you will have to configure your router as the print server. This will involve following the printer installation instructions of the manual that accompanies your printer.

You will also have to install the specific printer device drivers in each of the computers connected to the network. The printer server within the router is configured to obtain the Ip address from the DHCP server inside the router itself. Hence, it is possible for the computers in the network to know where the printer is connected and allow printing to the printer.

Even though the method of connecting the printer to the router eliminates the possibility of keeping the main computer on throughout the day, it may not be the most recommended method. Connecting the printer to the computer can give you more options by allowing the printer to be shared with some users, while not allowing certain other users any access to it.

A home network is a peer to peer network and it is easy to set up and there is no doubt that its benefits are immense. Refer: How to build a computer .

The videos outlined below explain the whole method of setting up the peer to peer networking.

However, certain clarifications on crucial points are in order. First, after creation of the workgroup you will see that you can now sit at any of the computers and connect to the workgroup. For example, you can start your work from any computer you wish by accessing that particular computer from the tabs, and logon as a user by entering your password. You must note that this is possible because now you are logging on to the workgroup and not the local computer. You are now connected to the network. Hence, this kind of seamless working on the network is possible. It is also possible to logon to your local computer, but in this case you will have not be able to access the network computers and not be able to share the network files or the peripherals.

Another point that may be little non comprehensible is that of network sharing. One question over which your mind may be hovering is that of sharing the printers, internet, hard drives etc, when the local computer to which these peripherals are attached, is turned off. For example, if the computer to which the printer is attached is not on, and you are working on the network and want to print to that printer, you might be wondering as to how this is going to take place?

The best answer that can be provided is to maintain one computer as the main computer and attach all the peripherals, internet etc to this main computer. You’ll have to make this particular computer a little more robust than the rest! It could act somewhat like the server in the client server network configuration. But, you must always remember that your network is a peer to peer network and none of the computers is a server or client, but act as both. This is, therefore, just an arrangement to tide over the difficulties.

Hence, the administrator can turn on the main computer in the morning alongwith the internet connection, printers and so on and switch them off in the night. This would then enable anyone to login from any machine and share the peripherals at any time.

Here are the 7 videos which expain peer to peer networking in a lucid manner. These step by step videos from youtube that take you straight to the point. Go through these videos patiently and you will surely find it easy to setup your own home computer network. Cut and paste these addresses into the address bar of your browser.
Step 1.

www.youtube.com/v/0LesEz4G6Fs?fs=1&hl=en_US

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www.youtube.com/v/JtaqI-_qps8?fs=1&hl=en_US

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www.youtube.com/v/5WKUgzw9yMo?fs=1&hl=en_US

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www.youtube.com/v/AwROtefnixg?fs=1&hl=en_US

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www.youtube.com/v/A3w7CCNRU1Y?fs=1&hl=en_US

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www.youtube.com/v/KM7Lav54gl4?fs=1&hl=en_US

Step 7.

www.youtube.com/v/1PWbcOiIXTE?fs=1&hl=en_US

These videos are courtesy www.impartlabs.blogspot.com