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Your Guide to USB Adapters and Data Cables

One of the greatest innovations of the current time is Universal Serial Bus or USB. It allows for data to transfer, store, and access anytime and anywhere. Additionally,  USB data cable  are highly recommended while transferring or storing data among friends, families, or any other gatherings. Let's understand how to use these data cables: Most of the USB cables connect computer units directly to peripheral devices like mobile phones, cameras, camcorders, and printers/scanners. The main objective of these devices is to transfer data hassle-free, quickly, and effectively from one device to another. For example, if you want to transfer images from your camera to a computer, all you need to do is connect the one end of the USB data to the camera and another to the computer or laptop. Just with some simple clicks on the computer and camera, you will easily be able to transfer it. Your computer and camera both will notify you that the data cable is connected. All you need...

Types of Ethernet Cables

Ethernet cables have been part of our lives for years now. Today they have taken space in our homes, offices, studios, and many such places. They are our medium of connecting with the world. But, we know only a little about them. Often, these cables come free with the equipment which uses Ethernet connectivity in some or other way. So, we don't have to learn more about them but there are various types of Ethernet cables that are available in the market. To name a few: crossover cable, cat 5 cable, cat 5e cable, Cat 6a cable, Cat 7 cable, and many more. These network cables are useful to connect various network devices such as Ethernet switches, routers, computers, servers, etc. to the gadgets we use. Any device which has an Ethernet interface can connect to Ethernet cables. Let's understand the basics of these cables: The  long Ethernet cable  for connectivity in offices or homes rely on the twisted wire pair cables; Cat 5, Cat 6, and Cat 7 use this format. Twi...

How to Chose The Correct Power Cord!

Different cables have different applications. Some are useful for data transmission like fiber optic cables, copper cable whereas some are useful for transmission of electrical power. power cords  are widely used as the bridge between the main electricity supply and device through the wall socket or extension cord. Most of the time, they are the go-to solution when using alternating current. However, the real question is how will you come to know if you have chosen the right power cord or not? Let's start with the overview of power cords: A power cord usually has a connector and molds to the cord at each end and can detach from the power supply and device. Power cord assembly consists of three major parts. Firstly, the cable plug, its other name is the male connector which inserts into the AC outlet to provide power. Further comes the receptacle, it is also known as a female connector which attaches to the equipment. The cord is in the main section which contains insu...

The Right Equipment: Making Offices Dynamic

There are two parts to starting a business. One part is the business itself and the second one is finding the perfect office to run that business out of. Your business needs a functional idea, various teams that execute that idea, suppliers, distributors, an online presence, and a number of other things. Your office, on the other hand, also needs a number of things. When you are a small business or just starting out, it is easy to work out of a garage, coworking spaces, or cafes. But as you scale up, your infrastructural needs also grow. Three people can work out of a garage, but three hundred people will need an office. A business can be considered a somewhat dynamic entity. But the office has to support that dynamism. So How Do You Build The Perfect Office? With the right equipment, of course! The building: Depending on your budget, space requirements, and if you need a manufacturing unit nearby, you can pick between an office space in downtown, and on the outskirt...

HDMI Adapters: Breathe New Life Into Old Tech

The word adapt has been taken quite literally by the computer hardware industry. As connection standards evolved, we made adapters to connect the old and the new. Certain OEMs usually tend to adopt new standards immediately and leave behind old, popular ports. This means you need to use adapters if you want to connect devices that came out more than 2 years apart. Why Does This Need Arise? Well, that is a very basic question. OEMs of different devices are, well, different. And they make different choices. If a camera manufacturer chooses the mini HDMI port, but a projector manufacturer only uses DVI, how do you connect them? This is, of course, keeping in mind that the cable that comes in the box with your camera is a mini HDMI male to HDMI male. In order to plug in this cable into your projector, you can use HDMI to DVI adapter where the port is HDMI and the connector is DVI. The whole industry simply does not adopt the same connection standards at the same time, so we have to...

Computer Cable Adapters: Old adapting to the New

The technology industry is known for disruption. Many in Silicon Valley live by the motto “live fast and break things”. This means that the minute tech launches something new, they are already inventing three new things in the background. These are not always new inventions, they can also be iterative inventions to what they launched the previous day. But the point is that nothing in tech remains new and latest for too long a time. At the same time, new tech is often, if not always, expensive. So if you buy a $1000 computer today, then you are not likely to buy the new one that comes out tomorrow, or even for that matter, one that comes out next year. With each iterative update of gadgets, come new connection standards. Therefore with each iteration, we take both, a step forward and a step backward. The backward step is when tech tries to make their new ways of doing things backward compatible. It’s a cha-cha! In an average person’s life, they have a computer/laptop, TV, phon...

Audio Video Cables: The Stay At Home Edition

About a decade and a half ago, I was in the market for a computer. This was a time when I didn’t really understand computer specifications, but a number of people I talked to and the internet told me it should have S Video cable output, so I went for it. In reality, I never used it. Then again, that is not the port’s fault. Merely my lack of ever wanting to or needing to stream video out of my computer. The  S video cable  is also used for security cameras, something that I didn’t know back then. Audio Video Cables Come In A Number Of Different Types, For A Variety Of Purposes: Each of them has its unique characteristics that determine the speed with which they transfer data, whether the audio is balanced or unbalanced, what equipment they can connect to directly, etc. Another gadget that I bought once was a pair of headphones. With it, they gave me a  3.5mm plug , in case I ever wanted to convert the 2.5mm connector to a 3.5mm one. That one did come into use...