Universal Remotes: Some Things to Consider by Bear Cahill We probably all have about 8 universal remotes these days. Every new component you buy comes w/ one, but none of them are really universal because there's always some feature on one device that the other remotes don't have a button for. But wdn't it be nice to really be able to use one remote for all your devices? I do! There are so many different universals on the market these days that it's impossible to go over them all here. So I'll hit the high points and let you decide. I'll pick a few pop ... Information Aggregators for Online Researchers by Ron Tower One way of looking at online research is as a project that starts with searches and ends with summaries. The online researcher searches for information to meet the needs of their client and produces a summary report for the client. Information aggregators help in the production and display of summary views and are therefore a natural tool for the online researcher. What kinds of information aggregator features would be most helpful for online researchers? First, it would be useful to have help i ... The Canvas for the Perfect Printing Masterpiece by Paul Hood Making the right choice of media for printing is a must if you want to have a great output. Having a good working knowledge of the best materials to use for your printing needs will spell the success of your project. On the other side of the coin, lack of know-how is likely to cause disaster. Fortunately for printing dummies, there are guides out there aimed at making the printing process and all the things in between a walk in the park. Amateurs and professionals may benefit for this as well. ... Valerie Kirschenbaum's "Goodbye Gutenberg" by Nash Ville Truly, color is what makes our lives exciting. This might be the reason why Valerie Kirschenbaum has written and designed a masterpiece known as “Goodbye Guttenberg” containing pages that are undeniably delightful to behold. It presents 860 gorgeous, full color images from the great art and manuscript traditions of the world. The book was printed on an outstandingly fine Japanese matt art using a paper high quality offset lithographic press and uses. In Goodbye Guttenberg, Kirschenbaum makes a l ... Microsoft Great Plains implementation: intercompany processing – overvew for consultant by Andrew Karasev Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is feasible option for large corporation, if it is looking for budget solution. Microsoft Great Plains has MS SQL server as it’s database platform, which makes it scalable from the data side. When you are dealing with corporation, you may find the situation, when it has multiple subsidiaries. In this small article we will give you a hint on how intercompany processing module works in Great Plains Select System->Intercompany, then choose originating compa ... A Book Review: “The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements" by Nash Ville You can never find a graphic art professional who doesn’t know about Adobe Photoshop. This well-known professional digital imaging tool has been widely used in the world of web and graphic design. Adobe Photoshop Elements, on the other hand, is the student-friendly version of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Elements allow even novice users who work with digital or traditional photographs to eliminate red-eye, change tone and color, crop and smooth pictures, repair over-exposed areas, and finally, pre ... Intranet - The Benefits Realisation Plan by David Viney The Millennium Experience A successful project is one that delivers on-spec (‘quality’), time and cost. Right? Well consider these two projects… The Millennium Dome was delivered on time for the 31 December 1999 and safely within a budget (fixed in 1998) of £289 million. The Project was also delivered to quality, albeit against a Specification that had been adjusted several times during the project to simplify the scope of work required (and ensure that time and cost deadlines could still be met ... How to Create Well Represented Logos by Paul Hood Creating a well-designed logo is a must for all businesses who want to enhance its image. A good logo adds a professional look to letterhead, business cards and marketing materials. It's important for your logo to be unique and appropriate to your business. With this in mind, you can consider seeking the services of a graphic designer well-versed in designing logos. Making a good logo for your company is a task that you can opt to delegate to skilled experts. Have a brainstorming with your desi ... 5 Ways to Make Your Resume Shine On-Line by Sibylla Nash The internet makes it possible to point and click your way into your dream position or a gig just to pay the bills. On-line job boards such as Hotjobs.com receives over 7.5 million visitors each month making it easy to get lost in the mayhem of the point and click stampede toward employment. Have no fear, there a few things you can do to get in the groove of this fast-paced job shuffle. 1.) Craft an eye-catching header. That single line in the header of your e-mail is valuable advertising space, ... Tech Buzz Today! by Greg Richburg Today’s pop-culture spouts hip-hop, camera phones, 50” Plasma HDTVs, high speed Internet access, web cams and integrated global espionage right there in your living room, office PC or PDA. I have access to more information today than I could have ever dreamed!! Someone call security! Am I being oppressed?! I want my instantaneous access to information about bombs, adult media and Viagara without a prescription. I want to download music and not pay a dime, not to mention movies and software. I ha ... Algebra Help Software by Dr. Neven Jurkovic Need help making sense of algebra? Have algebra lectures in your classroom left you scratching your head and wondering: “How on earth did they get that answer”? Do not despair, because help is at hand. AlgebraSolver from Softmath can make all the pieces of the algebra puzzle fall into place, improving your grasp of the subject with step-by-step problem solving that demonstrates exactly how a solution has been reached. One of the most powerful algebra software programs ever developed, AlgebraSol ... Understanding Web Logs and Why it Matters by S. Housley General web statistics give pertinent information about website visitors. Webmasters analyzing these statistics have a better understanding of who their website visitors are and how they perceive the website. A lot can be learned by evaluating navigation patterns, most-viewed pages and exit pages. Deciphering web logs could easily become a full-time job. The information that can be gleaned from close log scrutiny is extremely valuable. When a visitor comes to a website, the site has just a few ... What's Your Right Photo Shade by MAricon Williams Sometimes photos would appear a little frustrating especially when there is no transparency to match color. The reason to this is that printing companies have been slow in going with the flow to accommodate new images. They often stumbles through their conversions to CMYK which causes irreparable damage to the images. In the article When Good Color Goes Bad by Mike Davis, it enumerated some tips on how to seize the full potential of your digital images. Davis advised to work with digital photogr ... Can It Get Any More Digital? by Nash Ville Everyone seems to be talking about digital photography because it’s fun, fast and less costly than we might think. It’s almost everywhere – in printed materials, in the news, and on the net. What makes digital photography a hit? One, digital takes the fear out of photography because it lets us take as many pictures as we want. Two, we can see right away if we got our desired image and delete the pictures we don’t like. Three, we can upload and share those pictures with our loved ones using a com ... Hetman Will Help You Conquer Your Files Quickly and Effectively by Vladimir Vlasyuk SoftAge announces the availability of Hetman version 1.0 Early Access Program, a powerful dual-panel file manager for the Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP platforms. Despite the predominant use of Windows Explorer, the demand for an advanced file manager has not declined. On the contrary, many would agree that there is a substantial need for a better file manager. Hetman was developed to offer new user interface standards and new functionality implementation with focus on detail. A goal was to encourage ... Graphic Designers 101 by Nash Ville Being a graphic designer entails hardwork, dedication and the passion for what you are doing. Some people might think that it’s just easy to do all those web and graphic designs. Well, it’s not! As a graphic designer, you have to cope with the constant technological advancements so that you you’ll have a chance in the tough competition. One of the latest technologies today is full color printing. To know the worth and benefits of full color printing is critical in the graphics industry as it inc ... The Concept of the Paperless Office by Maricon Williams The concept of a paperless office may seem a futuristic phenomenon. It’s about a workplace originating bulk of information electronically. Everything is packaged in a pc! But is the concept now a reality? In the article A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Paperless Office - Industry Trend or Event OfficeSolutions by Carrie Rivera posted on October 2000, the author said that combining small desktop scanners with high speed network scanners, your office has the potential to become paperless, ... Google Adwords For Your Target Market by Bobby Walker First off, let me tell you where most Internet Marketers make their mistake. You log on to the Internet, do a little surfing, when all of a sudden it hits you right in the face! The very product that you have been looking for! The perfect “product” as a matter of fact! You cannot use your paypal account fast enough, so you can start selling your “product” on the Internet like crazy! Do you realize what you just did? You just combined two of the hardest industries there are to make money in, Inte ... How To Make The Presentation They’ll Remember by Blur Lorena Getting board with presentations? Does your audience yawn or snore or check their watches every time you present? If you’re planning to conduct a presentation, here are some useful tips. Presentation needs an exhausting preparation. Decide first on the topic that you want to present. Choose a topic that concerns your audience. Make a detailed outline or script. Then research on the topic, note all important points. If possible use simple, familiar terms. Prepare the devices you are going to use. ... Dexterity Trigger – Microsoft Great Plains customization example by Andrew Karasev Microsoft Great Plains has multiple customization options, you can use SQL programming from the back end, or VBA/Modifier to slightly improve end-user interface. The most flexible mechanism is Great Plains Dexterity customization. Dexterity is programming language and environment, the whole Great Plains is written on. Dexterity, however requires some training or self preparation, before you do the coding itself. In this small article we would like to give you Dexterity trigger example. You can i ... Photorealism With Bert Monroy by Blur Lorena Do you find it hard to distinguish between a real photo and a digital image? Bert Monroy, one of the pioneers of digital art who created many software products such as Photoshop, ImageStudio and PixelPaint, introduces another break through in computer graphics, Adobe Photoshop’s “Photorealism”. From the word itself you can define photorealism as something that is realized in photos. Imagine yourself in Atlantis, draw the scene and make it look like a picture. Think it’s impossible? It can be ma ... What is Broadband Phone? by Aki Majima A broadband phone is one that makes phone calls over the Internet using the IP protocol. Several large broadband phone companies have come to the forefront in recent months offering the ability to make phone calls with a regular phone, that are routed over Internet Protocol using broadband Internet access. The most popular method of using voice over IP among the household users of this technology is connection to IP telephony via a digital adapter. This is the device that is connected between a ... VOIP: A Basic, Basic Intro by Bear Cahill What is it? Most people are familiar w/ NetMeeting and other software that let you talk to others over the internet. VOIP is similar. However, it also uses your phone - the interface we're all familiar with. Instead of connecting your phone to the wall, you connect it to a box either the VOIP company provides or you buy on your own. This is the modem. You need highspeed/broadband internet for this. Your modem plugs into your cable/dsl modem and now it can 'talk' btwn your phone and the internet. ... Review: Mirror Image Design by Will Barrow Designing creative artworks can be disastrous if proper tools and techniques are not properly employed. Advanced planning and allocating proper devices as well as materials to use is tantamount to producing a desirable output. A step-by-step outline will help you maximize your results. Project. Plan ahead what type of artwork you will be doing. Making a layout of your intended work will minimize a need for extra effort and cost. You will also be able to set time for contingency plans if the ste ... Traffic Tips To Get People To Your Website by Jean Sutherland Let's talk traffic and how to get it. Your website has at most, 10 seconds to grab the attention of your visitor, so you need to have something interest grabbing above the fold. That's a newspaper term for what people see when looking at the top part of a paper. With more than 50 million websites out there, your viewers will demand topic specific information that will make them bookmark you, recommend you to their friends, and make them return over and over. An easy subscribe method on your site ... |
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