Review the Market

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.

Today we review a corporate performance management software. Of course, we have not used this software personally, but we will try and list all the features that this software has and how it can help you manage your corporate better.

Prophix is a software solution for budgeting, financial analysis, forecasting, financial reporting, personnel planning, consolidation, and other financial functions. It lets you rapidly gain control over your enterprise through quick implementation road maps.

The software has the following capabilities:

• Reporting - the tool provides complete reporting, including financial reporting, management reporting, transactional reporting, and ad hoc reporting. It has support for industry standards and built-in security features.
• Budgeting - supports top-down and bottom-up budgeting, audit tracking, scenario management, and zero-based budgeting. This combines with tools such as multiple budgeting, templates, charting, multiple currency, etc. makes it a compelling tool.
• Personnel Planning - you can manage benefits, overtime calculations, commission-based calculations, personnel data, and scenario planning.
• Forecasting - you can do break-even analysis, inventory forecasting, production forecasting, rolling forecasts, and sales forecasting. Once again, you can leverage advanced features such as automatic allocations and multi-user data entry.
• Advanced Functions - A number of features such as job costing, allocations, currency management, and consolidation add to the offering.
• Analysis - there are capabilities for scorecards and dashboards, variance reporting, analytics, ad hoc analysis, and converting analytics to action.
• Business Modeling - centralized control, business rules, alternate scenarios and mass data manipulation are some of the features that the Business Model manager offers.
• Business Process Management - has a GUI based designer to manage workflow and processes.
• Financial Consolidation - it allows multiple roll-up requirements, real-time consolidation analysis, secure approval process, and consolidated management and financial reporting.
• Data Integration - allows you to integrate with your sales data, CRM system, and historical data. It can connect to your ERP system as well. It allows you to connect to any ODBC compliant database, which pretty much means, you can connect to anything.

The above features are not even scratching the surface of this ull blown corporate application.

I get a lot of migraines from time to time. Sometimes they are so severe that my conscious brain stops functioning. So, it was nice to stumble upon this resource for the New York Headache Center for headache treatment. There are two things which are very useful on this site: they have a section called Educational Materials, and they have a blog.

Both list useful information about headaches and can come in very handy for people like me who suffer from them. Of course, if you are in New York, you may even want to visit the place, but I am not and so I have to make do with the online resources. And this is a nice resource.

I stumbled upon a website today and was struck by its crisp design. It’s a website that deals with Scottsdale real estate. Here’s what I find nice about this website:

• It has a very blog like look. Its content area is separate from the various announcements, features, etc. (which are on the right sidebar).
• A simple, un-intrusive top-menu lets you navigate the site.
• A small, not too loud, flash animation plays pictures of their offerings. I found that I wasn’t distracted by the animation while I was looking at the site.
• And they have the most common real estate actions right up there in the content section: Buying and Selling.
• The color scheme is very nice and soothing to the eyes. The blues go well with the browns. Since both are sober colors, it causes the flash animation and other small pictures on the page to stand out nicely.

Overall, a nice crisp design for a website.

One of the largest enterprises on the Internet is online dating. There are literally thousands of sites oriented catering to people looking to meet other people online. And why not, more and more aspects of our lives are moving online and dating is one of the most common activities that we carry out.

These sites are now becoming very niche oriented however, the site that we review today is as clean as it gets. Online Dating is best done on date.com. Their slogan: "Don’t let love pass you by.". Date.com offers a free registration to let you begin. You can log in and start searching for guys or gals (depending on your interest) and initiate chatting with them on the website.

The best thing about online dating is that your privacy is secured till you decide to trust someone else with it. If you don’t like someone, you can just move on and try to find someone else without any fear. Date.com has a very strong privacy policy which allows the users to use their service without any fear. They allow you to even delete your data whenever you want to. Basically, the industry standard practices for data protection are in place. Of course, if you choose to reveal your data in chat room, then you are responsible for it.

Searching for the right person is very easy as well. Personals are divided by State and then City. You can quickly glance at the initially important stats before you engage: Pictures, Age, Body Type, Faith, Ethnicity, Job, and a description by the person describing himself/herself.

Once you like someone, you can view a fuller profile, send them an email, show interest, engage the in a chat. There is an Advanced Search available which lets you search with a large number of parameters. You have the ability to configure preferences and then the matches are emailed to you. In this way, you don’t have to be always searching on their site. Whenever their system detects a possible match it lets you know and then you can go and check it out.

Another nice feature is a toolbar that you can install which lets you know through instant alerts whenever there is a possible match and also lets you communicate via IM. In addition to that, you can navigate the important areas of the website through the toolbar and you also get the goodies from Date.Info.

Date.com also runs a very informational zine at date.info. Here, you find articles, advice, success stories, horoscopes, interviews, etc. related to dating. For example, you can read about what are the "Online Dating Red Flags" or " Are you Spiritually Ready for Your Soul Mate?" This additional resource makes date.com very useful.

So, for all you singles out there, it’s time that you checked out date.com

I am sure everyone knows what Meebo is. However, due to recent enhancements in their offering, we though that it makes a lot of sense to review this excellent service just in case there are people who are not hooked in yet.

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Today we will review some of the good things about an online service to book vacations to Hawaii and surrounding areas. This website is called Hawaiian Beach Rentals. This website is an excellent resource to search for hotels, condos, care rentals, packages, user reviews, and planning for extended stays.

The website has a blog on Hawaii Travel Information, which lists a lot of posts about the various experiences that you can have while you are there. Most of the posts seem to have been put on one day though, nevertheless the information is useful.

It covers not only Hawaii, but has information about Oahu vacation rentals, Maui, Kauai, Lanai, and others. So, you can get very specific information about the exact place that you are trying to visit. So whether you are thinking of going on an eco-tourism drive or you just want to relax on the beach, Hawaiian beach rentals is a good place to start looking.