04 Nov 07 Western Digital Hard Drive Review

The Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB USB 2.0 External hard drive is a good buy on many counts. For one, WD has always produced good hard disks from the old days. But, let’s look at some of the good things from this particular beauty. I am listing the good and the bad in no particular order and all these are of course subjective opinions:

Good

• Very pretty to look at.
• Good Price.
• Plug and Play Installation.
• Very quiet.
• Rubberized Base to avoid vibration and movement during operation.
• A very small physical space footprint

Bad

• A little ticking sound under heavy loads.
• Lack of Sync software (which bundles with the premium edition).
• Annoying Auto running of packaged software Installation Menu.

All in all, it is still a good buy for your data backup and storage needs.

10 Oct 07 360Desktop - more desktop space than ever before

We reviewed the excellent product called DeskSpace some time ago. However, what we are about to preview today makes DeskSpace look a little less nice.

It’s called 360Desktop. This is a yet to release software which is why we are previewing it. It allows you to add infinite space to your desktop and it was previewed recently by us.  A couple of things came to our mind. Cool is the first one, and Useful the second. However, the best thing about it is that it is FREE. Or will be when it is released in the fall.

360 Desktop allows you to create panoramic 360s, as they are called. So think of your wallpaper as a continuous panorama of pictures one after the other. What they do with these 360s is that they add the ability to insert active content on them. They have Widgets which can pretty much run any of your web widgets on your desktop; they have APIs through which you can insert videos in the desktop, or show ads, etc.

Actually, we can not do justice to it by just previewing it. We need to let you do the same. Head over to the website at http://www.360desktop.com to see the preview; or just view it here:

20 Ago 07 The Specialized Social Networking Site

When social networking sites started becoming popular, many joined looking to meet and find new friends. Those who keep up with the trend are starting to join specialized social networking sites.

When social networking sites started becoming popular, many joined looking to meet and find new friends. Those who keep up with the trend are starting to join specialized social networking sites, in order to avoid the negatives of the generalized social networking site.

Why is the Specialized Member Site making waves?
People like other people who share some common interest. So why join a site where you have to deal with hundreds of profiles just to meet others who have common interests? Social networking sites today have become niche sites, catering to specific interests. One of the main industries taking advantage of this tool is the Association industry.

Why this Industry?
The reason associations are taking advantage of social networking site is that association members already share a common interest. Many of these organizations hold events and conference once or twice a year where members can meet and network, so why not extend the networking aspect to the internet? Instead of once or twice a year, members can connect year round.

Benefits
1. Customizable for Members
Associations and members benefit by offering their members a way to connect outside of the typical conferences and events.

2. No Spam attacks
Niche sites can offer limited membership to prevent spammers from ever signing up. We saw this work with Facebook. Before Facebook was open to the public, only someone with an .edu email was able to sign up which created a niche social networking site for college students. The typical spammer is not going to have an .edu account.

3. Take advantage of the big boys
Being niche allows you to take what is great about the major social sites and use them to your advantage. Members can enjoy the benefits that a social networking site offers without the other major hassles. Users can create personal profiles, share documents, video, pictures, and stay in touch with other members year round.

The internet continues to be a valuable tool to businesses. The idea of networking has been taken and extended though to the internet. Instead of having to rely mainly on events and conferences for networking opportunities, they can now network 24 hours a day, which is proving to be a powerful tool for any association.

Interested in Social Networking Software for Your Organization or Association? Learn more about NFi Studios Social Networking Software Solution of NFi Communities. NFi Studios is the creative, interactive, marketing solution for the constantly evolving business.

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18 Ago 07 Digital Printing

Convenience, quality and professional looking products are just some of the innovations made possible today by digital printing. Whether you are a small business, entrepreneur or individual, you now have access to a wide range of products and services that utilize digital printing. Digital printing makes a wide range of products and services easier and extremely affordable to create. Using the internet and your digital images & files high quality digital printing can be accomplished in a variety of products and services. Following are just some of the possibilities a small business or individual can create with digital printing.

Black & White and Color Printing Both black & white and color printing are possibly the most important services a digital printing company offers its customers. Most business customers request both of these types of digital printing either for catalogues, office forms, business mailings, binder and instruction manual creations, etc. Digital printing is an excellent method to reproduce your documents raising the bar on quality, vividness and convenience. Whether your business is located down the street or across the country with today’s digital printing services you can easily upload your copy and any images you would like included in your materials and easily create products online.

Business Cards For entrepreneurs or businesses that want to make connections that last, there is no better tool than the classic business card. Business cards have been used with great results over the decades and with digital printing services, you can now reproduce some of the highest quality business cards available. Digital printing your business cards allow you to customize your cards to include graphics and images that show extremely fine detail and that make an instant impression. Digital printing your business cards can offer extremely fine detail and very high resolution printing. Whether you would like to create a standard set of business cards or show off your brand with a unique set of business cards including graphics, images, etc digital printing can be the difference between bland and exceptional.

Business Postcards Looking to attract new customers? Digital printing your business postcards can be a productive strategy to introduce others to your business. Business postcards is an excellent strategy to get the word out on your new products and services, alert your current customers to sale items and win back past customers with special offerings. No matter what your business strategy, digitally printed business postcards are extremely high quality, professional and very affordable. It’s no wonder that digital printing your business postcards offer a great return on investment for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs.

Brainstream Digital Printing Services offers the above products and services, as well as many other services to fit most small business and individual needs. To learn more about our high quality digital printing products and services, please visit us at http://www.Brainstream.com.

http://www.brainstream.com Brainstream digital services provides individuals and businesses an assortment of services including digital printing, book binding, postcard printing, business card designing, online printing, holiday cards, etc.

17 Ago 07 What Is The Hype About Online flash Games?

The days of video games at arcades are not only fading but also almost facing extinction and the reason behind this is due to the dominating world of established free online flash and shockwave games! These online games excel the video games in several ways. Technology has replaced the glamorous flashy image of the game arcades with more easily accessible and much cheaper free online games based on flash and shockwave. Unlike the doomed future of video games at arcades, the online games have bright future in the interactive entertainment industry. Even though game arcades are bright and colorful outshining each other in their visual entreaty people living a hectic life opt for entertainment at home especially if it provides wider options of games, flexibility of schedule and reduced expenses.

The excitement and the enjoyment offered by both game parlors or online flash games are different. You cannot compare the excitement you enjoyed playing at game parlors with online games. Ask them those who have played in game arcades and you will come to know that they cannot deny entertainment they have experienced. On the other hand flash games vividly bringing alive the superficial impression of any situation are enchanting and with its unfailing hypnotizing capacity holds you into trying the games out or at least watch other players play them.

Another important factor that boost the popularity of online games is the fact that you can play those games without any limitations at any hours of the day, interrupting in between attending to household chores. Games at parlors have their own limitations that will prevent you to accomplish your goal to the fill. You cannot enjoy one or more games continuously nor can you switch between games, play game after game for hours together. You cannot even imagine playing in your night suits, which you could have done at your home. Unlike the flash games at game parlors, you can enjoy the flash games at home on your own computer with Internet connection getting connected to a free online games website besides doing other household job, at any time, in any of your outfit. Playing flash games at home helps you to escape the tension of your budget, waiting for your turn to come and draining of pocket money.

The fact is that online games enable you to try out as many games as you like than a regular game arcade can offer you without any charge or waiting. Besides this it also enables you to download your favorite games or play them online, as per your own free will and comfort.

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16 Ago 07 DRM and PDF Security: Protecting Copyright Assets as a Publisher

Publishers, especially in an on-line environment, are increasingly finding that they are attempting to limit copyright violation rather than prevent it entirely. While smaller businesses, acting as both retailer and publishers, are now finding themselves entering the publishing sector on-line; it is becoming much harder to implement copyright controls through legal remedies, because of the widespread nature of copyright violation in many ways and forms and the difficulty of litigating in countries other than their own. Digital Rights Management software or DRM software is helping in terms of ebook copy prevention - publishers can also limit the functionality of documents in terms of printing, saving, and other features which could in turn encourage or facilitate copyright theft. Such controls undoubtedly help, and those that wish to host and digitally distribute versions of their published work can always do so when they are willing to invest the time and energy into doing so.

Copyright theft can be carried out in many ways, and is estimated to cost the publishing business over $5 bn per year. While there are no breakdowns of overall losses in terms of violation attribution to specific types, the rise in popularity of PDF format for a ’standardised’ publishing medium, and thence the development of PDF security mechanisms, can certainly be praised in terms of its contribution towards limiting small scale illegal distribution of or alterations to publishers copyright assets - and for those reasons, most publishers find that they can make a good return from investing in associated DRM software and digital rights management solution providers.

Document security is constantly evolving, and according to some analysts, the increased margins achievable through on-line distribution, makes the battle one that publishers are happy to participate in because of the increased market reach and speed of delivery. The almost monopolistic market-share of Adobe had, perhaps, also left some publishers concerned; fearing that DRM security software would not evolve at the rate it should, perhaps through compatibility issues when 3rd party innovators make progress in the market, when dominant players seek to create their own monopolies. Despite that, it would be unfair to say that Adobe has not continued to progress - thanks to the evolution of elearning on-line - with its features which include commenting within documents that have been added more recently.

While the digital rights management space continues to gain traction under pressure from larger publishers, the internet has also opened up a can of worms in terms of how easy it is to commit copyright violation. Now, thanks to user generated on-line content, or citizen journalism, websites are now allowed to have their users publish content they do not own copyright to, as long as the remove it upon request from the copyright owner. This is making it even harder for publishers who already feel unprotected by the law,
and who are looking towards the private sector - and the digital rights management software industry - to help. Such are the concerns regarding copyright violation that ebook publishers are even refraining from allowing some of their customers to print out versions of the books, stopping people from being able to listen to their e-books in audio, and other drastic measures which are being taken to tackle the growing problem. As innovators, such as LockLizard www.locklizard.com, continue to make progress, publishing industry companies - large and small - can be confident that the problem of copyright violation will inevitably decline over time as their methods and technologies become widely implemented and accepted.

Alice Pierce is a president of lock lizard. He writes about ebook protection and drm security software.

15 Ago 07 Printer Utility: Save Precious Time

Computers have become an indispensable part of the lives of a majority of the people on this planet. There are very few tasks left in this world that a computer cannot perform, and looking at the rate at which technology is advancing, the feats performed by this technological wonder are only going to increase. The printer, though not an indispensable computer accessory like the mouse, keyboard and the CPU, is certainly not less important, and the printer utility software has only made the printer a more user-friendly computer accessory.

Printer utility is a kind of software that helps the user in managing various printers and different printing profiles much easily and faster. In the current corporate workplace, a printer has become indispensable. Despite using Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications for creating, saving and copying various documents, presentations and tables in the soft format, there often arises a need to obtain the hard copy of the documents. Though a computer is a very reliable modern day instrument, it too suffers from various maladies like a virus or a hard disk crash. In some cases, it becomes increasingly difficult to retrieve data. Keeping a hard copy becomes a life saver in such situations.

Apart from this, printers are used to take glossy printouts of photographs and glossy campaigns. A company may have more than one printer as well, and while taking a printout the user will have particular specifications and criteria for every print. The printer utility software saves the user the trouble of selecting printers and printing profiles manually every time he has to take a printout.

The printer utility software can be easily downloaded from the Internet and is extremely easy to manage and use. It appears on the Word application in the form of a toolbar, hence making it easier for the user to select printing specifications without having to go to the menu every time.

The printer utility software not only increases the efficiency of computers, but also saves tremendous amount of valuable time of the employees. And in the corporate world, ’time is money’.

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