Archive for the 'Technology' Category
January 14, 2009 - 10:54 pm - Posted by Sherri R
You can have the best services or products, but if no one knows who you are it can be quite difficult to achieve business results. Most businesses online will do a fair job at getting the word and promoting their online site. The best advice we have found is to keep it simple, keeping your customer base in mind. Use news releases and blogs to talk about events related to your services, and provide appropriate links to your pages. Using directories that are specific to your business is also important, and getting listed is another key step in getting noticed. All these can be done strategically to help in driving customers to your site. Find out how to shop online online.Plus, the more your site is referenced in various places, the better your search engine placement will be.
A brand new site that has launched offers businesses within the San Diego area, or those looking to attract customers in this region a place to meet. San Diego yellow pages can be used to locate resources that can help your business. Use their services to get in front of other businesses and build your network of potential clients as well as referral sources. They offer free listings as well enhanced services that will help your business.
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December 23, 2008 - 10:08 am - Posted by Sherri R
This holiday season we are thinking about getting one of our kids a laptop for Christmas. We have seen the new micro laptops that seem to be catching that have a 8-9 inch screen and are made primarily to surf the web. One major drawback with these little laptops is that upgrading the laptop memory is not an option. So if your young teenager wants to be able to use for other applications you are mostly out of luck. So while they are trendy and my daughter thinks that they are so cute, I believe we will be spending our money on a more traditional laptop that will grow with her as she grows older and advances her education.
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November 21, 2008 - 1:28 am - Posted by Sherri R
As the holiday season grows closer we are now starting to see LCD tv prices fall below $500 for a 32 inch LCD model. This is great news for us since we are looking at replacing the set we have in our bedroom and the newer LCD TV’s offer such a great picture and now that all the broadcasts will be in digital output starting in February this is the time to invest.
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November 19, 2008 - 9:01 am - Posted by Sherri R
It appears that Microsoft, makers of the xbox 360, is playing to win the battle of gaming consoles this holiday season and take back some of the market share lost to its competitors. It has just recently lowered the costs on its main gaming system and created a new holiday bundle that is sure to attract some new fans. This new bundle consists of Lego Indiana Jones, and Kung Fu Panda at no added cost to the overall system. These games are at the top of everyone’s list so bundling them together could help the xbox 360 more attractive for those looking to upgrade their current system.
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November 14, 2008 - 11:07 pm - Posted by Sherri R
Adopt your very own Alien at stores like Walmart and Target where you can receive a test tube with a white powdery substance, that whe you add water they come to life with a spongy like alien computer chip for a brain. You will see it’s heart start to beat and you can even interact with it through the online research lab where you and the use of infrared signals help you communicate with your newly hatched Alien. This looks much better than the the Tamagatchi’ s we just got for our kids.
Your alien will actually grow as you feed it the sloog that comes with each kit that contains nutrients to help your alien mature. As your alien matures to adulthood you can continue to interact with through the online portal. They are selling the kits for approx. $40 online. Go to alienadoptionworldand secure your alien for Christmas and be the talk of the neighborhood.
This is a sample of the kit that is available online for approx. $40. This will be the next new cyber pet to have.
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October 31, 2008 - 7:50 am - Posted by Sherri R
With the mad rush for PS3 , Wii, and Xbox we have already seen some retailers take precautions to limit the madness that is sure to breakout. In this weeks ads, most stores are doing a lottery type system, where they are handing out tickets starting at 6 AM the morning of. While the hype around PS3 has been somewhat lacking, it is sure to be the thing to have this upcoming Christmas. This has led more people to upgrade their current TV’s to realize the high definition games that they are buying. We have even seen new pop up tv cabinets that allow the TV to recess into the cabinet so that it can be out of the way when not in use and your living room is not over taken by this new mammoth TV.
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October 16, 2008 - 8:18 am - Posted by Sherri R
Blazing a Trail with a nice new tool
This new tool called http://trailfire.com Allows you to share your travel path on the internet. SO WHAT!
Well, let’s take the ever popular MySpace. Imagine if you could visit others pages, leave a quick note, and then send all those link to your friends. They click on one link, see your comments, and then they just scroll the profiles that you visited. No more, having to call out 15 different MySPace names. Watch for more on this subject.
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September 26, 2008 - 10:51 am - Posted by Sherri R
I was watching one of the latest previews for this falls realtiy TV shows and it will feature workers that have to work on the worlds toughest building projects. If you have ever watched the Discoveries channel features on some of the modern marvels today you understand the danger and planning that goes into these large projects. They are using industrial clamps that would amaze most of us. These are not the clamps that would you find in your garage and can hold several tons of steel and concrete. There has to be a limit on these types of reality shows because they are running out of ideas.
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September 19, 2008 - 10:21 am - Posted by Sherri R
Today in the world everything is digital if you have not noticed and Direct Satellite TV is making a big push to help those that have the HDTv sets to improve their picture.. This has lead to greater productivity, better service, and has actually increased competition in certain fields. Most notably is the telecommunication field where many of the big providers are bidding for your business. It is not just your cell phone business that they are after, but also what you watch and how you communicate. Verizon is one of the largest cell phone and internet providers and now they want to be your cable provider as well. Through their FIOS fiber optics television or their Direct TV offering they can now offer you great pictures and high speed internet.
The content and clarity that you get to your HDTV is simply amazing and as they gain more customer the offering will only increase. Direct TV have been adding more and more services to compete against the other major cable company and now are able to offer Americans a choice in how they view their TV, and watch high definition movies. Some of the latest Direct TV specials are including a DVR that will record in high definition and claims to have similar picture quality as a BLu-Rays disc player. Plus they are offering a free HD DVR upgrade and free NFL Sunday ticket and NASCAR for al you sports enthusisasts out there.
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August 21, 2008 - 8:32 pm - Posted by Sherri R
A ping is a way of notifying the major search engines to make them know that the blog that you have created has had a recent update. You are basically calling up the major search engines and letting them know that you have new fresh content. And people love to find sites through search engines and search engines love new content so you have a win win. You can ping your blog by making a bookmark or placing an entry into one of the sites for blogging: examples include Technorati, del.icio.us, Furl, Flickr, and Blinklist or the newest entry pingler.com
Many of the sites that allow you to submit your site may limit you to just a few sites. With pingler.com they currently have 91 sites as of this writing that once you type in your title and URL and click submit your site will sent into ping heaven. We just had the chance to try it out and it works great and very easy even for the novice blogger to get their site noticed. The other cool feature that they have is that once you submit your blog you show up on their front page which is another link that could be quite helpful. Once this site gets noticed it will skyrocket in popularity and having your blog on the front page could mean even more traffic. Now keep in mind that only a certain amout of blogs are kept on the front page so if there are a lot of submissions you site may get bumped off. You can certainly go back and resubmit but be careful not to do this very often as some sites may blacklist your blog if you they feel you are trying to spam their site.
So to the owners of scriptillusion you have created a great tool that will help the most seasoned of bloggers to get noticed. Script Illusions creates and sells PHP scripts that can help you start your own site that will have content created automatically. They have once script that we use on two of our sites that pulls Youtube videos based on your keywords and automatically updates your site with current videos. The script is amazing and has a admin section that allows you to make changes on the fly without having to know HTML.
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August 20, 2008 - 12:10 pm - Posted by Sherri R
February is National Heart month to awareness to heart disease the number one killer among Americans. It seems that lately there has been more noise about cardiovascular disease since the passing of Tim Russert. Hypertension one of the causes is sometimes known as the “Silent Killer” since you cannot feel the symptoms. Reducing your salt and fat intake and excersing more can be a good start. There are many factors that lead to heart disease and getting your blood pressure and cholesterol checked regularly can be a key step in maintaining your health. Coronary artery disease which is what killed Tim Russert is often asympotmatic which means that you do not feel any symptoms. This is why it is so important to talk to your Dr. about risk factors and possible treatments if you have a family history of heart disease.
One of several treatment options that is out is EDTA oral chelation which is meant to help keep your arteries clean. EDTA which stands for ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid is a treatment. It helps in aid the body in ridding itself of various minerals and oxidative properties that cause havoc in the arteries. EDTA binds the molecules often called EDTA chelation to help move the unwanted particles from the bloodstream.
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August 5, 2008 - 8:30 pm - Posted by Sherri R
We have been online blogging and running various websites for the past 4 years and one thing holds true “content is king” and lack of it can banish your website or blog to the vast wasteland of the internet. The content also needs to be relevant and updated on a constant basis in order to provide value to your customers and potential readers. I read somewhere that there are over 5K blogs started everyday. You can only imagine what they are about, but if you do a search you will see a few of the big guys that started out small and then became experts in their field all by just writing about what they loved. So the key for anyone starting out on the internet is what type of site or blog to start and where and how can you learn all the webmaster tools that will help you get up to speed quickly. I may have stumbled on a great tool that we just installed on one of our sites that will help anyone with limited experience to grab content weekly automatically and help you grow your business.
We have had the great fortune to find a new script and company that creates them at scriptillusion.com that offer up php scripts to help those that are looking to carve out a niche on the web. Here are some of the features of their script AutoMegascript. The investment is minimal and the ease of use to be able to set up the site is very easy. We had ours up and running in about 20 minutes.
Includes multiple automated feeds from authority sites such as, YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo, Ebay, and Amazon
* Make money via multiple streams – AdSense as well as Ebay and Amazon commissions!
* Add your own banners for any other programs or affiliates you like promote in the easy to edit template system
* Easy to edit admin area
* Ability to add unique content
* Dominate your niche with targeted pages
* Thousands of pages created in seconds
* Multiple templates available for those who don’t understand html or css
* Video tutorials to assist you in creating your sites
* Add links to any sites you want without having to edit the template, just plug in the urls and go….
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July 5, 2008 - 4:46 pm - Posted by Sherri R
We recently upgraded our last CRT monitor to a new 19″ LCD monitor. You don’t realize the space and energy that those things use up. We actually upgraded to a viewsonic lcd monitor which replaced our old 15″ CRT. We have had that monitor for 5 years and felt the quality and reliability was key in our purchase. You can find monitors like this 20″ widescreen, which I highly recommend. Since PC’s are being used more for central entertainment centers having a widescreen will increase your viewing space and give a whole new experience for the web.You can find cheaper monitors, but you usually end getting what you paid for.
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June 25, 2008 - 4:22 am - Posted by Sherri R
If you are looking for a different way to keep time then you may want to think about purchasing a pocket watch. The way that many people keep time has trasnformed into the digital age with their use of their cell phones and PDAs. The classic look of a pocket watch can now help you keep time, but provide that classy look that we seemed to have gone away from and looks much nicer than a cell phone.
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June 18, 2008 - 11:13 pm - Posted by Sherri R
If you are ready for cable the try Comcast cable tv
They are even ramping up their comcast offers called Triple Play were current and new customers can get digital cable, digital phone, and high speed internet for only $33 each for a 6 months. This represents a significant savings if you were to purchase those services separately. With these comcast promotional offers you get the best internet connection and the highest speeds for consumers and the best and most expansive digital offerings. We have been a Comcast customer for several years and the level of service and features that they offer are ahead of the competitors. With their high speed internet you can enjoy download speeds up to 6 Mb per second and free anti-virus software standard. Their digital phone offering allows to call anyone in the US for one low fee and the ability have some nice features like checking your voicemail online.
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June 8, 2008 - 8:57 am - Posted by Sherri R
Through their verizon offers. Verizon is one of the premiere leaders in cell phone service and their internet offerings rival that of cable with their new fiber optics roll out. The internet phone service will save you a ton of money and it is unlimited calling to anywhere in the US. Plus you will not have all those taxes that you typically see on your land line phone bill.
What is great about the verizon bundles is that by combining your cell phone, land line, and TV through one vendor you are able to realize substantial savings. You will get a consolidated bill with all three services that will help you see how much you are saving each month and can even pay online. If you are like many Americans you have your cell phone, digital cable, and home phone. So if you were able to add all three of those together you would probably be amazed at how much you actually spend for all three together. In this day and age when everything else is going up isn’t nice to know that through these verizon deals you will actually be saving money on technology and communication you use every day. So stop limiting your calls to after 7PM to save on long distance bills from your home and grab this bundle deal and experience a new level of quality and service.
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June 6, 2008 - 7:47 am - Posted by Sherri R
Have you noticed that all the cell phone commercials these days are touting video, MP3, and other internet options. Now many of the companies are offering unlimited talk, text, and internet for one low price. Whatever happened to the day of making a good phone with great reception? While the technology is impressive, I think the makers of cell phones have forgotten their core product and that is a phone that you can actually talk on. Too many phones today like the popular Razr have been reported to get bad reception, and unclear communications. Maybe we will come full circle and end up with just a phone with buttons and no MyTube videos.
Since talking on a cell phone has become a part of everyday life the devise itself has become a standard accessory for many people for work and play. I can’t even imagine what I would do without a cell Phone. We use them for business, talking to family, text messaging, and surfing the internet. There are so many styles and types to choose from it really comes down to what you plan on using the phone for. One of the must have in todays cell phone accessories is a Bluetooth Headset or a phone capable of using Bluetooth technology. This provides you with the wireless access to your earpiece to aid you in hands free cell phone use. This has become more important as more and more states are implementing laws that ban the use of cell phones while driving unless you are using a hands free device. Motorola is one of the innovators of a lot of technology and have been creating new and exciting technologies for the cell phone user since it’s early inception.
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May 13, 2008 - 11:20 pm - Posted by Sherri R
In our state staring in July talking on a cell phone will be against the law and will cost you a ticket. They put in a law against texting while driving which seems like a no brainer and the cell phone law makes sense, but they will allow you to use a wireless/wired headset. As I drive around it really is amazing how many people are on their cell phone and studies have shown that talking on the phone can be a major distraction. Just think about the last time you drove home while talking on the cell phone and once you arrived in your driveway you don’t recall some of the common landmarks that you pass on your way home. Driving distracted is one of the key reasons that accidents happen because your response time is much slower and you cannot anticipate what is happening around you. There are already many states in the East that have made it illegal to talk on your cell phone while driving and it is strictly enforced.
At Buy.com you can find the Jabra BT3010 Bluetooth Headset w/ 33 Interchangeable Designs on sale this week with free budget shipping. For all those high school and college kids this is a great option since it you can customize the ear piece to match your interests and make it your own. Many kids today that have a cell phone find ways to decorate their cell phone so that it stands out and sends that social message that they are unique and do not conform to the standard. At buy.com you can find this bluetooth headset and many others like it for less than what you pay at the big box stores and you will have a much greater selection. You will also find reviews from those that have purchased the items so that you can get others opinions before you make your purchase. Plus they have a cool feature called ” Shaking” to let you know the popularity of a particular item in their weekly specials. So surf on over ( please not while you are driving) and check out the latest devices that will help you make driving a little safer.
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April 16, 2008 - 8:36 pm - Posted by Sherri R
Any business that you walk into will typically have registers that are able to process transactions, record customer info, and update inventory. Many of these systems have a robust POS software program behind them that are able to coordinate all of this information. The only problem is that most small to medium sized businesses overlook the importance of tying in their customers purchases with their operating plan. By this I mean they do not capture or link purchasing behaviors to help them create a unique shopping experience for that customer. It is very difficult to attract new customers and businesses will spend millions to attract new customers but less than that to retain them.
As you look to improve your customer retention having POS software that can link purchases to inventory to suppliers can help you create a just in time inventory. This can help reduce your carrying cost and predict buying patterns of customers. Once you are able to link this data you can create special invites for special purchases based on buying habits of your customers and this will help create a sense of being a valued customer. Once your customers see how much you care they will go to great lengths to tell their friends and this type of viral advertising can be priceless. So as you look around your business to understand where to invest take a look at your POS software and research the options that are available to build your network of systems and improve your inventory and customer relations.
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April 12, 2008 - 11:24 pm - Posted by Sherri R
You can preserve your families memories through CD DVD replication pThere are new ways to perform DVD replication and with new PCs on the way this will be better than ever.
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