What's worse than rain on a perfect day? It's the lack of a good thing or a productive thing to do. Nowadays, children, instead of having to play kids indoor games would rather spend their time playing with their top of the line gaming console or their latest handheld portable game devices. Though there is nothing wrong with these advancements in technology we have to pay a certain price that some people are not even aware of.
One of the perils of technology taking over the play time of children is the separation of children from their friends. In the past children would gather together in a vacant lot to play baseball or tag or horse or whatever it was that kids play at the time. These physically challenging games helped children develop muscle tone and promoted exercise that in a way helped them in taking care of their bodies. Aside for the physical rewards that games children play bring it also promotes social interaction, attitude adjustment and cooperation among peers. These games helped them see that there are things that can be done individually and as a group.
Because of the isolating nature of these high tech devices children are more inclined to sliding back into their own worlds safe from anything that the outside world can dish out. Though there is a certain safety and comfort that these devices bring it isolates children from their peers and social skills that they should have are not developed. This results in kids having little tolerance to failure, low self-esteem, the need to find an easier way out and fault finding. To remedy this situation some parents are reintroducing children to classic indoor games that can be played by the family, with the family such as:
- board games. Since then, board games have always dominated the indoor games for kids scene since the beginning of gaming history started. Some of the classic games that captured the hearts and imagination of kids and adults alike are board games like Monopoly, Snakes and Ladders, Scrabble and other turn based board games. These games develop strategy and critical thinking in kids because of the high level of decision making involved in them. Recently board games have been given a facelift and have enjoyed new edition to their line. Games like Warhammer 3000, Tactics the game, Vampires: Bloodlines and other games introduced recently.
- card games. Unlike before when card games were considered plain and boring, many card games come with a twist these days, making it a popular choice for kids' indoor games. The secret to a good card game is the ability of the player to more cards to complement the core of their games. In Japan, card games like Yu-gi-oh: Duel Monsters, Pokemon card game, Duel Masters and other recent developed card games give the old Trump cards a new twist and a new flavor. The Japanese have conquered the world with these card games and they have brought dying kids indoor games new life.
They have created and developed a new interest in these games; card games from the Japanese include a high level of strategy and skill in predicting an opponent's move. And because its turn based the level of excitement is higher than ordinary car games.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Intregrating Computer Laptop Parts Into Your Desktop
Integrating Computer Laptop Parts Into Your Desktop
You might have an unusable laptop lying around and gathering dust in a secluded corner of your room, and thinking about it every time might have made you wonder if it's still good for anything else. Now is the time to shed that thought. Believe it or not, your laptop's separate parts can be used to integrate into your desktop! Now your practical mind might be sending off warning signals as you read this, but remember that practicality has nothing to do with it. If you love hardware and take a Zen approach to it, this might be something that could benefit you as a computer hardware enthusiast.
HARD DRIVE
Laptops and desktops use the same interface, so there won't be any difficulties in integrating your laptop hard drive into your desktop components. If your hard drive is using SERIAL ATA, you just have to pop it into your motherboard's SATA data and power cables. If it's IDE, using an adaptor should allow you to use your IDE laptop hard drive with the PC IDE cable.
LCD
This one will need some thinking over since the desktop uses analog display technology (VGA), while the laptop LCD's are 100% digital. There is no way you can have communication between LCD and VGA since they are two different animals. In contrast, LCD's can only accept the accurate digital input. There's one way to make it work, but you will need to live with the fact that you have to purchase another adaptor, which is a bit expensive. Once you've made the decision to push through, you have to identify your laptop LCD's model and manufacturer, then find the required adaptor for it. Like I said, it's a bit expensive, so you might want to look for a cheap one on the internet.
Also take into consideration that the viewing angles of LCD monitors are a bit limited, which makes the integration into the desktop a bit awkward. So just make do with the most convenient viewing angle when you connect your LCD monitor into the desktop.
OPTICAL DRIVE
You can use your laptop's optical drive with your PC, as long as your laptop is using an IDE based DVD drive. Just purchase a PC IDE converter to allow communication between the motherboard and the laptop's IDE. If your PC has standard SATA cabling, a SATA optical drive should do the job. Building a home theater PC is no difficult task either if you have a slot loading laptop optical drive.
THINGS TO PONDER
You are also in luck if your laptop utilizes a wireless mouse or external optical drive, because you can automatically use this for your PC without any problem. Just remember that your laptop's SO-DIMM RAM won't work on the PC so it would be better if you just sell your laptop RAM and purchase a PC kit instead.
FINAL ANALYSIS
One major advantage is that power consumption can be reduced after you've integrated your laptop computer parts into your desktop. Further modifications can always be made, but that is a topic for another day. For now, enjoy your modified desktop, or laptop. Oh well, it's up to you now!
You might have an unusable laptop lying around and gathering dust in a secluded corner of your room, and thinking about it every time might have made you wonder if it's still good for anything else. Now is the time to shed that thought. Believe it or not, your laptop's separate parts can be used to integrate into your desktop! Now your practical mind might be sending off warning signals as you read this, but remember that practicality has nothing to do with it. If you love hardware and take a Zen approach to it, this might be something that could benefit you as a computer hardware enthusiast.
HARD DRIVE
Laptops and desktops use the same interface, so there won't be any difficulties in integrating your laptop hard drive into your desktop components. If your hard drive is using SERIAL ATA, you just have to pop it into your motherboard's SATA data and power cables. If it's IDE, using an adaptor should allow you to use your IDE laptop hard drive with the PC IDE cable.
LCD
This one will need some thinking over since the desktop uses analog display technology (VGA), while the laptop LCD's are 100% digital. There is no way you can have communication between LCD and VGA since they are two different animals. In contrast, LCD's can only accept the accurate digital input. There's one way to make it work, but you will need to live with the fact that you have to purchase another adaptor, which is a bit expensive. Once you've made the decision to push through, you have to identify your laptop LCD's model and manufacturer, then find the required adaptor for it. Like I said, it's a bit expensive, so you might want to look for a cheap one on the internet.
Also take into consideration that the viewing angles of LCD monitors are a bit limited, which makes the integration into the desktop a bit awkward. So just make do with the most convenient viewing angle when you connect your LCD monitor into the desktop.
OPTICAL DRIVE
You can use your laptop's optical drive with your PC, as long as your laptop is using an IDE based DVD drive. Just purchase a PC IDE converter to allow communication between the motherboard and the laptop's IDE. If your PC has standard SATA cabling, a SATA optical drive should do the job. Building a home theater PC is no difficult task either if you have a slot loading laptop optical drive.
THINGS TO PONDER
You are also in luck if your laptop utilizes a wireless mouse or external optical drive, because you can automatically use this for your PC without any problem. Just remember that your laptop's SO-DIMM RAM won't work on the PC so it would be better if you just sell your laptop RAM and purchase a PC kit instead.
FINAL ANALYSIS
One major advantage is that power consumption can be reduced after you've integrated your laptop computer parts into your desktop. Further modifications can always be made, but that is a topic for another day. For now, enjoy your modified desktop, or laptop. Oh well, it's up to you now!
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