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Samsung is a very interesting company and there are many interesting things about it. Three years ago, I compiled a list of 7 interesting things about that company , so now I will compile a list of 10 more interesting things that you may not have heard of.

If you're planning to upgrade your computer and don't know exactly what to do, consider an SSD. Why? Because HDD is a bottleneck in most cases ( check it out for yourself ) when it comes to performance. By investing in an SSD, you will get the biggest increase in performance in the least amount of money , and you only need to change one component, and that is very easy and fast.

Yesterday, I wrote a detailed article about Android TV Box devices up to 30 euros and it is intended for those who do not understand much about technology. This article is intended for those who do not want to buy this Box because they already have a Raspberry Pi (which normally costs around 30 euros) and would like to use it to watch IPTV channels, movie series, listen to music, watch pictures, and the like. Note : I will use the LibreElec system for RPi and it contains only Kodi, while Android Box has many other applications, including Kodi. This is an advantage of the Android TV Box, and the advantage, if you have an RPi, is that you can use it for anything else, just insert another system.

What is Android TV Box? This is a great solution if you want to add a " Smart " function to an existing TV . With this device, you can watch live TV online for free (later on), play games, upload all kinds of files, watch movies (from USB, over the internet, phone…), listen to songs, surf the internet, use social networks… or everything you can on your Android phone. It is usually a cube-shaped device (but it doesn't have to be) and has various inputs and outputs. It connects to the TV via an HDMI cable , but some also have an AV output over 3.5mm that goes to the familiar 3 cinches, so you can also connect to an older TV (even to SCART if you have an adapter). It is also standard for these devices to have WiFi , LAN port (RJ45), IR Remote , at least 2 USB ports , support for high definition video formats (these cheap ones often have 4K support), and usually come with a remote .

If you are buying SSDs you have probably heard/read that they last shorter than HDDs, but should this be the deciding factor whether to buy or not? And how long can an SSD really last for one average user, and how long in general? To get answers to these questions one has to perform tests on several units and under different conditions. Several good studies give us interesting results, and these are some of them.

According to measurements from the second quarter of 2017, Netflix has 103.95 million subscribed users worldwide - is it small? Of that, 51.92 million users are from the USA. During peak traffic, Netflix generates a third of all incoming traffic in the United States . How does Netflix provide all of these users with high-definition video content at all times without traffic congestion and image "braking"?

The content: Introduction Division of LCD screen according to backlight technology TFT Principle of operation of TFT TN IPS VA LED Edge LED and Full LED The basic principle of operation of LED LCD monitors Comparison of TN, IPS, and VA LCD monitors TFT LCD monitor components Advantages and disadvantages of LCD monitors Comparison of CRT and LCD monitors Conclusion 1. Introduction The main output peripheral for personal computers is a monitor that has the task of displaying graphic elements and allows us to use computers more easily. The first computers had monitors with a cathode ray tube in them, better known as CRT monitors. They were large, looked like TVs, and worked on the principle of television.

Smart TVs are slowly becoming the standard in our country as well. More and more customers are deciding to buy a TV like this because, simply, a smart TV complements the enjoyment while using it with various useful functions and applications. In this article, I briefly write the basics of smart TVs in addition to the previous article - Tips for buying a TV (2017).

As I am always careful when buying appliances, I believe that a few tips will mean something to you if you decide to buy a new TV. Buying a TV is no more complicated than buying a phone, it is even easier because you have less choice and the TVs have fewer details that you have to pay attention to. Since I am aware that the purchasing power in Serbia is not great, I will immediately suggest the domestic brand Tesla .

If you were wondering if you could install more RAM, SSD, another HDD, or maybe a graphics one on your laptop, and you don't know how to check it, you can look for help on one site. You will first need the correct label for your laptop, such as the Toshiba Satellite C55-A-1H1. You can find this tag mostly under the laptop.

Today, Samsung is one of the leading companies in the world when it comes to electronics and electronic devices: chips, TVs, monitors, smart devices, white goods, cameras, memory devices… We know what Samsung is, what it offers, and what they do, but there are many a fact you may have known nothing about that company. 1. Samsung is destined for great things from day one According to the company's founder,  Lee Byung-Chul , Samsung was created to be something big, as evidenced by the name of the company. The name Samsung consists of "Sam" meaning "three" and "Sung" meaning "Stars" - three stars (三星), a cultural representation of something "big, numerous and powerful".

Colder days are approaching and it's time to equip ourselves with Gadgets that will make those days warmer. I have compiled a list of 6 items that are useful and interesting and not expensive. Note :  all the products I listed below can be purchased on various sites, but I posted links to Aliexpress because I have bought a lot there and have the most experience.

Due to the great interest in the article in which I presented several interesting gadgets that cost less than $ 5 , I decided to compile another list. Note :  all the products I listed below can be purchased on various sites, but I posted links to Aliexpress because I have bought a lot there and have the most experience.

You can buy anything and everything online, but most don't even know what you can buy for $ 5 . There are a lot of interesting and useful gadgets for phones as well as for computers, laptops, tablets… I personally bought a lot of these little things, so I decided to recommend some in this article.

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) or better known in our country as "Internet Television" differs from traditional television because the signal to the TV is transmitted via the existing Internet infrastructure instead of the classic radio frequencies, satellite signals, and cable television formats.

The Raspberry Pi has largely become known as OSH ( Open-source hardware ) which costs little and gives a lot. For $ 35 we have a computer with a quad-core processor and an almost unlimited number of possibilities that the computer offers. However, RPi is not the only OSH that costs a little, also one of the most famous is the Arduino, and now another one is coming on the scene, with a price of only $9 ! CHIP is a functional computer that has a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of memory. It already has built-in Bluetooth and WIFi on the board and comes with easy Linux distribution. Should I mention that it has I / O pins ?

Volumio is a Linux-based operating system and has only one purpose - to play music. It can be installed on any Raspberry Pi model and no additional adjustment is required. You can add internet radio stations or listen to music from a local drive: USB flash, or external HDD, or you can insert it directly into the microSD card where the system itself is located.

Xiaomi has launched the Mi TV 2 with a diagonal of 49 inches and 4k resolution , which runs on the Android-based MIUI operating system. This Smart TV also has great features, and some of them are a quad-core 1.45GHz processor,  2GB DDR3 RAM, Mali-450 MP4 4 + 2-core graphics processor.

How to burn Raspbian operating system to SD card in a few steps. Prepare your Raspberry Pi and microSD card.

As you probably already know, the Raspberry Pi model B + is an improved version of the Model B. And what are the more important differences, you can see in this picture Model B + has 40 GPIO, while model B has 26. There is an input for Micro SD, HDMI, audio and video, 4 USB ports, Ethernet, camera, display…