SF Cable Inc

The HDMI cable solved a lot of problems. It removed the need for a number of cables, making cable management a cakewalk. There are now versions of this cable, each iteration better than the last. This is where the confusion comes in. Last week, at CES, you saw a lot of display manufacturers talk about innovations in display technology and how this year’s modular TVs are going to be everywhere. But it is not yet as simple as bringing home a TV and playing high-resolution content on it. Even if you have the right cable for it, not all content is ready for the kind of promises that these TVs are making. What are the things that you are most likely to hear this year about TVs? And how you should take it with a grain of salt. Screen resolution QLED panels trump OLED panels. Quantum displays are here. And more companies will start making those. 4K resolution is tame now so the move towards 8K and 10K has increased. Along with that, so has the emphasis on higher...

The technology hardware and equipment industry market the slimness of their product every year. They show off how the computer still manages to be thin without heating up, and how it is much more portable because of its size. But slim laptops have to make compromises. Sometimes they compromise on processor power, sometimes on the cooling mechanism, and for the last three years, they have been compromising on ports. The slimmer the side after all, the more difficult it is to place ports. The reason for the compromise is obvious but not always justified. Manufacturers have been able to take this step because of the USB C port, which is the port to kill all ports; as we like to call it. But in the rush to switch laptops to just USB C, a new necessary gadget has come out. The USB hub . Charging capacities of laptops have increased, so, on a light day, you can choose to leave your charging cable at home. But in place of that, you have to carry around a small hub to...

One of the major problems that we face nowadays is not having enough power sockets for the numerous gadgets we keep buying, the ones that apparently, we absolutely must-have. Now that smart home technology has come into the spotlight, it has not only changed our power socket needs but also our overall wiring needs. Someday, when Wi-Fi is better and everything works on long-lasting batteries, we will not have to worry about wiring. Until then however, you can read this article about why you should update the wiring of your house and how to set up a functional smart home for better connectivity. Ethernet cables evolve. With each iteration, the goal is to make it better in terms of reliability and speed. It is not simply enough to use a Cat8 cable to connect to your computer, if the wires that live in your walls are ancient. You need to update those to match the ones you connect to your devices. You can do this process yourself or hire an electrician to do it. ...

The idea of what a computer is is in flux right now. But we are not entirely doing away with screens on them or attached to them yet. The future of computing may be ambient but right now, we are not there yet. Our computers still need monitors and those still have to be attached via cables. The older connectors are DVI, S video and VGA. These are barely in use now unless the computer and monitor you are using are significantly old. The newer monitor cables are DisplayPort, HDMI, and USB C. The switch from analog to digital happened with the DVI cable. Now that most of the industry is doing away most of the ports on their laptops, and sticking with just the USB C port, this also changes the computer cable we tend to need. USB C is gaining popularity for being the cable to rule them all. You can use it to transfer data, as a charging cable and both at the same time at extremely fast speeds. Older cables also happen to be clunkier, and limited to single purposes, whereas the newer ...

One of the major problems that we face nowadays is not having enough power sockets for the numerous gadgets we keep buying, the ones that apparently, we absolutely must-have. Now that smart home technology has come into the spotlight, it has not only changed our power socket needs but also our overall wiring needs. Someday, when Wi-Fi is better and everything works on long-lasting batteries, we will not have to worry about wiring. Until then however, you can read this article about why you should update the wiring of your house and how to set up a functional smart home for better connectivity. Ethernet cables evolve. With each iteration, the goal is to make it better in terms of reliability and speed. It is not simply enough to use a Cat8 cable to connect to your computer, if the wires that live in your walls are ancient. You need to update those to match the ones you connect to your devices. You can do this process yourself or hire an electrician to do it. ...

Networking is the backbone of any IT infrastructure. It's one of the most interesting concepts of technology, at least for network engineers. For many people working with networking devices is interesting as millions of people rely on them. Some of them even find working inside a data center with servers and networking components interesting. Just think about the Google data centers where thousands of queries come every day and how strong their servers have to be to process those queries and revert the results to the users in a matter of minutes. There are so many components, from small to large, included in those data centers and each one is important and interdependent. So, in this article, we've discussed two basic devices of networking which are necessary for a fiber-based solution but people forget them easily. Let's discuss why they are important and what's their use: Fiber Optic Adapter: It's a small device that connects the fiber optic patch cab...

As the form factor of a computer evolves, it changes the way a user interacts with it. From large hardware components that housed minimal and basic things, we now have hardware that houses components for rocket science between a couple of sheets of glass and metal. With this evolution in the form factor, the space for I/O ports has also changed, effectively changing the connection standards. What earlier used to be separate ports for video and audio, now only needs one. However, minimizing form factors is not without compromise. Portability means being able to handle your work and get entertainment irrespective of where you are. You can create presentations on a train and watch movies while camping. However, there are some places where you will need a large screen. When you have to move around and get things done, a small computer is more than enough, but when you are at the office and have to present a report or pitch an idea, a large screen can get your message across much bet...

Battery science is still developing. We do not have devices that can last long on a single charge or ones that require no charge at all. We need to charge everything, and all consumer gadgets are fighting each other in the market by showing off battery specs. But the true power still lies in the power cable. The better it is, the faster your device will charge without heating up. This brings to light the power cables that gadgets use and the reason behind it. While there are various types of power cords, North America generally relies on the company: National Electrical Manufacturers Association or NEMA. When it comes to power cables, there is no other name more popular. This power cable is standard across the continent. The thing to know mainly about the NEMA power cord is that it comes in two variants: ungrounded and grounded. The grounded one has a grounding pin in addition to two flat pins and the ungrounded one just has two flat pins. Appliances that require mo...