Archive for October, 2011

Telephone Systems for Small Business

Telephone Systems for Small Business Multiple Lines

Essential to growing revenue are telephone systems for small business.  Communication can not be over rated and in a business with several hundred employees it can be challenge to meet the demand for adding phone numbers or changing numbers to new office spaces.  Having the right telephone systems for small business can make all the difference in the world for day to day operation and major restructuring projects.   Currently the systems no longer take a special switching room and many pieces of unique equipment. Instead telephone systems for small business are operated by a computer system and some simple wiring and basic switchboard.  This means that is someone is given a promotion but is going to keep the same extension, they can change their office and the communications director can make the changes to the telephone systems for small business without ever leaving his desk.

Telephone Systems for Small Business Single Line

Many very small businesses can manage with a single phone line alongside of their cell phones.  There are still some demands that call for telephone systems for small business because a single line into the building does not work. As a small business owner with a single telephone line I tried a phone from a retailer with a answering machine, but then I found that even with a single line there were telephone systems for small business that were able to direct calls to specific voicemail boxes and distribute them via email to the perspective recipients.

 

Telephone Systems for Small Business Demonstration

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Google Announces Plus One

 

Google announced the new addition of the “Plus 1″ (+1) button for websites. This is naturally a response to the information that facebook is able to collect by having websites add a “Like” button. Google offers a very simple and clean button for webmasters that will allow Google to give webmasters higher search engine ranking for many “plus ones” and gives them vast amounts of consumer preferences.

Coding of the +1 buttom is very simple with 2 lines of code to add to your website. There is a very simple line that goes in the header portion of your website and then a corresponding section of code that goes in the location where you wish the button to appear.

http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/

So for every webmaster there is now the project of adding some simple code to each site and possibly even each page that warrants the attention Google is willing to give.

 

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Find Linux

Tutorial video find linux
Find linux definition
I’ve always been a mainstream computer user. I’ve never really bothered to find linux definitions or explanations, because I’ve never really been a linux user. Since I started dating a math and computer geek (in the best and hottest sense of the words), I’ve indirectly and unintentionally started to find linux definitions. Sometimes from my fiance, sometimes from his friends, and sometimes just from association (you get close to people and you just start to pick up on stuff, yanno).
Find linux exploration
I’m naturally a curious person, so the more I started to find linux information the more curious I got about how exactly it worked and how exactly it differed from the computer technology and software that I had been dealing with my whole life. I started exploring this whole new find linux world that I had kind of accidentally stumbled into. I played around with my fiance’s computer, trying to find linux differences for myself (that didn’t do a whole lot for me, since I’m kind of lost on computers without my fiance sitting next to me, but hey I tried).
Find linux distraction
I did get distracted a little in my find linux mission, by videos like the one above. Yes, a nice find linux information tutorial is nice and helpful and all, and yes I’m glad that videos about how to find linux stuff is not always just done by and for men, but that shirt/dress thing…really? I tend to easily get distracted from missions like my find linux mission by the little things. Like girls showing off a bit too much for my taste. I’ve been called a prude, old-fashioned, even annoying. But hey, a girl is entitled to her opinion, right? I mean, if they’re entitled to wear whatever they want, I’m entitled to feel however I want about their clothes. But back to our mission: find linux.
Find linux conclusion
Did I find linux? Good question. Umm…let me get back to you on that. All joking aside, I think I am still trying to find linux. I’m one of those lifelong learning types, and I still feel that my mission of find linux is not yet done. I don’t know nearly everything there is to know. I feel like I know hardly any of what there is to know. I would like to know more, learn more, find linux more. And perhaps I will. After all, I am going to be married to a computer guy.
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Steve Jobs dies

Steve Jobs Dead at 56

APPLE Anounces that Steve Jobs is dead

Steve Jobs the founder and former CEO of APPLE died on October 5 2011. He was born on February 24 1955.  He and his partners sold their first computer in the late 1970s while Steve Jobs was still in his early 20s.

Steve Jobs and health and his resignation

Steve Jobs dies at 56

Steve Jobs

He had just resigned from his post as CEO of Apple in September of 2011.  At the time he stepped down from his CEO position, he said that the company had out grown his capacity to lead and need someone else.  This seemed a shock in light of his ability to shape the world of computing for 3 decades.  Even his most fierce competitor Bill Gates acknowledged that without Steve Jobs the current look of computing would not in any way resemble what we have.  The health issues surely played a role in the decision of APPLE to proceed with a new CEO knowing that Steve Jobs would not be physically able to lead the company.

The world of technology and the APPLE family will all miss the leadership and creativity of Steve Jobs.

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Multimap and Geocoding

Multimap users are a unique group of programmers who speak their own language and are behind the scenes using multimap to create many of the entertaining and informing programs that we all love and appreciate. Above is a clip of a simulated farming video using multimap. Multimap uses one key to return multiple values. That seems abstract for someone with no experience programming mp. One way to illustrate multimap is to think about an online questionaire that has a question where you are allowed to select more than a single answer. The programming behind that is multimap. However that is an oversimplified explanatioin for multimap. It is far more complex in its process and it has a vast number of application for programmers in a variety of different environments. All of these aspects allow you to route data through a virtual or actual map to move the user or the information to the appropriate step or location as established in the multimap programming. Another example of a multimap would be an e-book or online book that has an index. In the index you will find a list of topics or keywords that are contained within the book. If a topic or word is contained in multiple pages, chapters or sections, the pages will be listed and that is a multimap in that you can click to go to any of the various locations to find the use of that topic or word. Thereby being multimap(ped) multimapped throughout the book. At first blush the name seems to point us to a single application of multimap and that is geocoding (geo-coding)> Geocoding allows you to find a specific address using the exact lattitude and exact longitude. Currently geocoding in multimap allows you to point up to twenty addresses in a single map application in Great Britian. You can set the criteria using city or town, zip code, state, or a variety of other address parameters. Unfortunately Multimap Open API is discontinued as of November of 2011 and the multimap api key registration has also been discontinued. For continuing information you could check the multimap site.

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Verizonwireless Motorola Droid

VERIZONWIRELESS VTEXT offered on Motorola Droid Verizonwireless has got a good hold on mobile phone and cellular phone service throughout the country. Although there are still pockets of the country where verizonwireless is unable to offer service because of a lack of competition, there are very few people who don’t have the option of going with best cell provider in the country. I know that there are people who have had a bad experience with a person in verizonwireless customer service department, most people have had an overwhelmingly positive experience with the coverage and the customer service offered by verizonwireless. The two year cycle we are currently in has offered two of the biggest product advancements in the history of verizonwireless. Last year verizonwireless offered the release of two of the greatest smartphones on the market. First came the droid or android by motorola and later came the droid x also by motorola. This verizonwireless partnership also involved google mobile OS. It was a huge move on the part of google to try and take a bite out of microsoft and blackberry business. It left alot of customers unhappy with the solutions, if they weren’t willing to convert to google products. Many people were impatient to wait for google to fix problems with the address book only displaying by first name sort and other similar problems that took several months to fix after the first release. In early 2011 verizonwireless announced their first partnership with Apple and the release of the i-phone iphone 4. Many of their customers who are devoted to apple computing have struggled with poor service in places like New York city have had to use an alternate service provider for their iphone and carry a verizon phone for making phone calls or tolerate the frequent lost calls from the other providers on their iphone. These devoted mac heads are ecstatic about the coming opportunity that verizonwireless is offering them to solve their many frustrations of multiple technology devises when they should only need a single device. I am sure that the long term plan for verizonwireless development involves many new products and services. It is very likely that current verizonwireless customers can not even imagine what the future mobile devices and smartphones will look like when verizonwireless unveils their new products in 2015.

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Browser Toolbars

Now a toolbar to watch your YouTube videos on Wii. How crazy is this? Work your way through this step-by-step video for the beginner. I don’t know how you can go wrong. Just follow these instructions and pause this video as often as you want until you have your own toolbar installed just the way you want it. Then have fun!
I just wish I could get a toolbar for life. Wouldn’t that be nice? Not quite the Easy Button or the Genie blink or wave of the hand, but a toolbar where I could click the button to go where I need to or see what I want to see.
You never realize how awesome your toolbar is until you have lost it. I remember when my internet browser just happened to lose all of my toolbar and I could not find it anywhere. How annoying is that! I finally gave up and rebooted, when that didn’t work I think I decided to switch internet browsers. Take that you scoundrel!
So a toolbar for YouTube videos, what else is available? Do we have a toolbar for my Gmail? How about Hulu? Craigslist? You never know what’s out there until you start to look for it. What would you like to see a toolbar for?
There are so many amazing toolbars out there, many of them so intricate that you have to be highly skilled in order to use them. I remember when I bought my first music notation software in the 90′s. That had a fairly straight forward toolbar that seemed easy enough to use but then each new version of that program (I think they have done about a dozen now) the toolbar seems to get more and more complicated. Maybe I am just getting tired of learning new stuff with each new version.
You know, it’s funny how many times I have clicked a toolbar just to get this blog done. Here’s a quick challenge for you: in the next half an hour that you are working on your computer, see if you can count how many times you use a toolbar. Of course, that leads to the question, “What is the actual definition of a toolbar?” Is it that row across the bottom of my screen? How about the one across the top of my window? What about within each website? Are all those hyperlinks you can click considered a toolbar?
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Electric and Gas Alternative Experiments
 
Incredible the possibility of being freed from electric and gas with the hope of generating hydrogen from solar panels. Although a small experiment is a long way from giving us hydrogen powered cars, it still holds out the possibility of energy sources and transformations that seemed to be nothing more than pipe dreams a few years ago. It seems to me that with sources for electric and gas both running out that perhaps now is the time for inspiration for true innovation and exploration into power sources that would really propel us into the next millennium.
Imagine if the president inspired us now like happened almost fifty years ago. Can you envision the president giving a speech similar to John F Kennedy, when President Kennedy gave the speech about exploring new frontiers and being the first nation to send men into space. It became the impetus for years of exploration and technological advances. Such a speech if given today could not rehash the old standbys of wind and solar power or electric cars. Instead we need a leader to inspire us to finding freedom from electric and gas power. Perhaps it won’t be a president, but an entrepreneurial business man who has vast resources to provide some incentives and promotion of the advancement of exploring new sources of power. If a business man steps to the plate it can’t be to invest in a current plan with hopes of expansion, but someone who is willing to motivate scientist and other great thinkers to explore ideas that have never been touched.
Electric and gas are the current ball and chain that have kept us invested in relationships with dictators and other men who have evil intents. In some way our selfish investment in their resources gives us ownership of some the guilt for their bad acts. What would it take to free us from the prison bars of electric and gas? Some of us may choose to live in a very simple way that reduces our usage of the resources, but it is unlikely that we will ever achieve cultural freedom from large amounts of energy consumed on a daily basis.
Perhaps all of this will only happen if the crisis of a shortage of energy sources reaches a critical juncture that pushes those with the research facilities and the training to truly focus on solving the problem and bring us into a hopeful view of the next 1000 years.

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Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire

What are the Benefits of Kindle Fire:

The Kindle Fire is an affordable way to purchase a tablet. Compared to the I-pad the Kindle  has a 7″ full color multi-touch display with Wi-Fi. This will enable users to access all of Amazon’s services. The Kindle Fire will allow you to stream instant Tv shows and films. You will also be able to get the Kindle ebook store.

the all new kindle fire

Kindle Fire Revealed

 

Kindle Fire Features

The kindle comes with a 8 GB of internal storage. It also has a split browser. The kindle will run on Google Inc.’s Android software. Apple Inc.’s bestselling iPad will have a competition with the Kindle Fire on the market. With a big difference in price, up to $200.00 cheaper it will give iPad a run for its money. With the economy like it is many people are wanting to watch thier spending and wanting more for their money. The Kindle Fire  is a great product for the money.

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Jon Stewart Verizonwireless I-Phone

 

Viacom pulled the commercial off of youtube.com so we don’t have the video anymore. We’ll see if we can find it somewhere else and post it soon!

VERIZONWIRELESS and the New I-Phone 4 Verizonwireless is bringing the new i-phone 4 to you soon. It is so exciting to finally have the greatest mobile device the iphone 4 partnered with the greatest mobile phone company verizonwireless. This is especially exciting to verizonwireless new york city customers. They have loved the great phone coverage provided by verizonwireless, but struggled with the fact that there was no apple mac product in the mobile smartphone line. Now they can have consistent data use between their computers and the mobile devices that verizonwireless provides. About verizonwireless Jon Stewart says that this new direction is going to simplify his life to a great extent.

He does a sketch of what it is like to use the iphone with a different provider, but never being able to take an actual phone call because there is no service in most of manhattan. He shows how he was juggling the iphone and then gets a phone call and has to try and find his verizonwireless phone so that he can talk on the phone. I am sure there are some naysayers about verizonwireless, but for every complaint received, verizonwireless has hundreds of satisfied customers. I have had some moments of mistakes in billing or problems with hardware that verizonwireless provides, but I have found that a call to verizonwireless customer service always gets me to the person who can resolve my problems. I have been a satisfied customer with Verizonwireless for more than a decade now and don’t anticipate a change anytime soon.

I am glad that verizonwireless faces some stiff competition in the mobile phone market. Other cellular phone providers have forced verizonwireless to keep competitive rates for monthly services and for the cost of the actual hardware that verizon wireless offers. I am sure that like any big business with a large market that if there were no competitors, verizon wireless would probably drive rates up to the maximum that the market could handle and drastically change the way that most consumers view their cell phone bill. Even the release of previous iphones has forced Verizonwireless to take big steps to acquire a piece of the iphone market. I trust that cellphone manufacturers will continue to develop new technology and cheaper methods of improving signal strength and speed. Even the success of the competitors is good for all of us who love verizonwireless. So I hope some of you are so angry with verizonwireless that you never come back that is good for all of us.

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