Frames per second (FPS) is a count of how many frames, or images, your screen displays in one second. The refresh rate, measured in hertz (Hz), refers to how often your screen redraws the image. This applies to various sources like movies, video games, or other content on your screen. A higher refresh rate typically…
What is a Mechanical keyboard switch? A keyboard switch, as the name suggests, is what makes up the keyboard switches. It’s the buttons that actuate when you press them. A keyboard usually has several different keyboard switches to create all its keys. Mechanical switches are an evolution from the buckling spring mechanism used in the IBM…
A keyboard’s form factor defines its physical shape – for example, the size of the board. Some examples are full-sized, ten keyless (TKL), 60%, or 40%. Keyboard layouts define how the keys fit together on a board to allow different characters to be generated when combinations of keys are pressed. The most common layouts in…
I bought a fake DualShock 4 Controller months ago; I was expecting it to be a legitimate product only to find out that it is counterfeit. The amount of detail these counterfeits have is almost identical to the original controller. Even though the differences are small, you can easily pick out minute details like weight,…
Installing SSD on your machine can undoubtedly increase the machine’s speed. The reading and writing speeds of SSDs are much higher than the ordinary hard disk. However, once you look for solid-state drives, you will realize that there are quite a few options available. The problem is that if you want one, you might end…
Computers are appliances that are of important use in the century we are currently living in. They have brought any required information existing in this global world to the reach of any user at any given time. Computer viruses cause disruption to productivity and are sometimes used to steal data from a user. Research has…
Internet browsers are essential software that serves as our vessels across the World Wide Web. And while they have made navigating different websites and platforms easier, they also store many data. They do this through “cookies,” text files that keep usernames, passwords, and other information that we use to access websites. For people who are…
Imagine that you are working on your computer and suddenly, your computer becomes unresponsive. You restart your computer but that doesn’t fix the problem. You press the power button to turn it off, wait a moment then turn the computer back on and that doesn’t fix the problem either. If this happens then your computer…
NFT, or Non-fungible tokens, have become a hot topic in the blockchain industry ever since CryptoKitties released them to the world. But what are they, and what are they for? What is NFT? Non-fungible tokens (NFT) can be defined as any digital asset that has a unique identifier. Each token is different from the others…