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Take one look at the new iPod shuffle and you can see Apple’s has gone in a very different direction from previous versions.

The old shuffles were colourful boxes with a modified ‘click wheel’ that let you navigate your music library. They were about the size of a large flash drive.

The new shuffle is a small -smaller than a normal flash drive - grey or silver box. Gone is the click wheel. The only thing on the device is an earphone jack, a slider button to turn it off and on (this also doubles as a way make the device play random songs), and a small light to let you know it’s charged.

Like the old version, the new shuffle also comes with a small clip attached.

In fact, the new shuffle may be the most unstylish model Apple’s ever released, but it’s also the version with the most functions.

The control buttons have been moved to a small bar the earphones. Click the bar once and the music starts. Click it again and the song pauses. I won’t go into all the combinations, but you can navigate your music with a simple combination of one, two, or three clicks. Read the rest of this entry »

Drivers, as the name implies, is the driving force of the apparatus we are using. Basically, it is a piece of software, or a small program that controls a device. Every piece of device we use or connect to our computer must have its own driver for it to work. Examples of these devices are printers, cameras, disk drives, and even keyboards. However most of the time, for the keyboard and mouse, the driver is automatically loaded and installed on the computer’s operating system.

For the video card and sound card though, we may have to pull out that disk installer that came with our computer (the motherboard disk) when we first purchased it (that is if your video and sound card is a part of your motherboard). If in case we purchased the cards separately from your motherboard, we may have to use the disk provided along with those cards as they have the drivers saved in those disks.

Now, if it was that easy then why do we need to update our drivers? Well, there are times that unfortunate accidents happen to our computers that may cause them to work silly or be dysfunctional. When that happens, a usual quick fix for this is to disable and then re-enable the driver. If that doesn’t work, uninstall and then reinstall the device. Not working yet? Check the version that you have and then check the latest version on the internet. Do they match? If yes, call a resident technician to have them verify it. If the answer is no, then update the driver. Usually that fixes the issue. File Extension MDI