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Just bought a new home!? And, thinking about wiring and cabling, the most cumbersome task? Don't worry, here in this article, I will be covering various types of cables which are useful in our homes and brief about them. Wiring modern homes require a standard quality of work in comparison to the homes from the mid-1960s. Today, any new electrical installations require new wiring that complies with local building codes. Before we begin, let's discuss some of the wiring terminologies. An electrical wire is a conductor that conducts electricity. In the household wiring, the conductor is usually copper or aluminum; it is either a solid metal conductor or a stranded wire. In our homes we use insulated wires, meaning wrapping these wires with a non-conductive plastic coating. Home wiring has a boon in the form of the ground wiring, they are solid copper with insulation of green sheathing. The most common type of wiring in modern homes is in the form of a non-metalli...

" Once a year go someplace you've never been before " You might have read this quote multiple times. Most of us wait for summers, so we can go to different destinations and have life-changing experiences. This summer too you might have been traveling if we were not facing this pandemic. But, let's not lose our hope. Maybe we will be planning our next trip soon. If you are planning an international trip of course after this pandemic comes under control, you will need to make sure that you are packing all necessary things. But, in the middle of all these, there are chances of you forgetting one necessary thing i.e. power adapters. While purchasing international power cords, you need to make sure that it matches the destination's plug standard. You need to have the right adapter so you don't end up frying your hairdryer. There are various types of plugs and adapters like  iec c7 power cable , USA 3 pin NEMA, and many others. Before purchasing any ca...

Electricity is one of the most important parts of our lives. In today's constant and rapidly changing world we cannot imagine our life without it. Electrical appliances are an integral part of our lives today. And various types of appliances surround us. All these appliances make it easy for us to live our daily lives. Just imagine how difficult would it be to get rid of this heat, get in touch with our loved ones or collaboratively work in a huge enterprise if we didn't have electric appliances like fans, charges, phones, laptops, etc. Each of these appliances has a purpose to serve. Today, in this article I am going to talk about one such appliance which holds a lot of importance i.e. power strips; different ways it is useful to us and its hazards. What is a power strip? It is a collection of electrical sockets which are put together to give us some flexibility. Using this, we can attach multiple appliances in a single strip without restricting us to wa...

Casting your favorite movie to your TV is simple. You can even do it just by speaking to your phone or digital assistant. But for that, you’d need a whole bunch of smarts in your TV, and a digital assistant device and whatnot. Before all of this came along, there was, and in many homes and offices, still is, a simple cable to connect something to a display. It was the  HDMI cable . But it was also the HDMI to DVI cable. While casting may seem like the simpler option, these cables didn’t require an internet connection, nor a power plug. It is just the connection cable that works with the connected devices themselves. These cables were the only way to display anything to the big screen. Not only can you connect your computer to your TV, but also a projector very easily. Let’s explore where you’d use the different cables: The Main Television Setup: TVs generally have one or maybe 2 HDMI ports. This is not always sufficient. You need one to connect to a cable box, if yo...

Gigabit internet is great. If your business is internet heavy, now is time to make the shift. It will require preparation from your end before your internet service provider can install it for you. It begins with your server room. Remove your server racks and clean them. And since these are delicate parts, you need to clean it with air. A pressure air cleaner will do the trick. Then since you are doing such elaborate exercise, audit everything. In case something is broken, you can replace it right there. Next, you need to take care of the cables. Removing each component is a hassle in itself, so be careful with it. Make sure to label all the cables and components so when you put everything back, there is less chance of mistake. After you have prepared your server room, the internet service providers can come in and do their part: They have to first start with the utility room in your building where the internet enters from the street. They will check and change your wiring ...

Apple has given us incredible machines. From the first ever ‘Hello world’ to their latest beast of a machine, the Mac Pro, the technology has been magnificent. With the evolution in computers, there has been a tremendous change in the connectors that come with it. The  cables for Mac  have often been ones that only Apple uses because of their need to control the ecosystem. Back in 1984, the first ever Macintosh computer came with DB-9 ports for modem and mouse with a coiled phone cord for the keyboard. Two years later, when the then latest Mac Plus arrived, it brought with it the mini Din-8 serial port for connecting the modem and printer. The caveat here, as with most Apple products, was that it didn’t work with printers not made by Apple. (Yes, Apple made printers too, at the time, it was the ImageWriter.) This connector was on the beige PowerMac G3. These are just a couple of examples of how Apple has always seen it fit to use the connectors it deems fit and loc...

Everyone who goes to an office to work has, up until now, taken reliable internet for granted. In a lot of offices, computers connect via Ethernet cables, while in a number of them; there is high-speed wireless internet. Either way, the connectivity is seamless and high quality. Similarly, you are used to experiencing decent connectivity at home as well because you use it much less. However, currently, we are living through a pandemic. That means we have more or less stopped going to the office. We are working from home or we are studying from home. And this has changed a lot of things. We are suddenly realizing the huge amount of internet we use every day both for office stuff and home. Not only that, there is an additional use of video conferencing, which has also increased drastically due to remote work. It has led to some difficulty in reliability. Sometimes the VPN takes time to connect, or the smart speaker takes time to respond. Netflix and YouTube both lowered streami...