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Buying Cheap Refurbished Laptops
By Max Bellamy - 1/4/2008

When comparing refurbished laptop models, ask about these specifications: Central Processing Unit: The CPU or processor is the heart of the computer. The more software you want in your refurbished laptop, the more powerful the processor has to be. A 32-bit processor is less powerful and less expensi...

Tools for Customizing Great Plains
By Divine Rigor - 1/4/2008

Microsoft Business Solutions ? Great Plains has captured the US market with its integrated business applications for small and mid-size organizations. Its comprehensive accounting and business management capabilities provide businesses with tools to customize various modules of the Great Plains soft...

Traditional Antivirus Programs Useless Against New Unidentified Viruses!
By Jason Frovich - 1/4/2008

Every now and then you can read about a new virus and the damage it causes. The millions viruses costs companies each time they strike. It is however not only companies that are suffering from the damages caused by viruses. A virus can be just as damaging if not more for a private Internet user by d...

Japanese Developing Sex Robots
By Lance Winslow - 1/4/2008

What propels human innovation? Well, we know where the funding comes from. We know that funding comes when a Return on Investment is available. What do people spend money on? Well, think of Maslow?s hierarchy of needs. People want to maintain self preservation, so you will find the greatest technolo...

Microsoft C# vs. VB.Net
By Andrew Karasev - 1/4/2008

Hi, Guys, I believe a lot of programmers are trying to speculate which Microsoft language is the language of the future .Net applications. We did some research here and we think that at this moment Microsoft doesn`t have an answer or a direction - they just try to place both VB.net and C#.net into ...

SAP Business One: Simplified Mid-Size ERP - Highlights for Consultant
By Andrew Karasev - 1/4/2008

The World of Corporate MRP systems is full of surprises. If in the late 1990th major ERP market players: Oracle, SAP were trying to realize the strategy of releasing so-called ?light?, ?select?, ?express? versions of their high-end ERP ? the idea is very simple and attractive ? if your corporate ER...

C++ Tutorial 2, Input and Variables
By Chris Silop - 1/4/2008

This is the tutorial where we really get into programming. Input and variables are the essence of programming. In this tutorial you will learn how to get data from the user and use variables. You will learn the types of variables there are and how to do basic math with them. At first, this may seem ...

Setting Up Accounting Software - Not As Scary As It Seems
By John Cantrell - 1/4/2008

To many people the idea of physically building a house themselves from scratch would also be a daunting task and many would say they couldn`t do it. If, however, I drew two parallel lines on the ground, gave you a ruler and shovel and said dig a trench between those lines 300mm deep you could concei...

Cell Phone Etiquette
By Kathy Condon - 1/4/2008

CELL PHON...


Image Formats: GIF, JPEG, BMP
By Stephen Hames - 1/4/2008

When browsing the internet you are likely to come across many different image formats. However, the most common formats are: CompuServe GIF, JPEG, and Bitmaps. CompuServe GIF GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format and was standardized by CompuServe in 1987. The very first GIF format was GIF87a an...

The Best Web Design and Graphic Software is Available in Academic Software Versions
By Ispas Marin - 1/4/2008

Macromedia?s Studio 8 Suite Academic Software Package Macromedia Dreamweaver My first choice for HTML editors is Macromedia`s Dreamweaver. It has an easy to use, intuitive user interface and state of the art design tools. With a customizable user interface, you can work the way you need to. Although...

How to Deal With Wireless Encryption Security Threats
By Kevin Erickson - 1/4/2008

Because nobody wants to compromise the integrity of their network by having some hacker "borrow" your bandwidth or gain access and start snooping around you need to lock down your network. Fortunately, encryption is built into wireless technology; it`s simply a matter knowing how to turn it on. Wire...

Air Charter Glossary for First Time Aircraft Charter Customers
By John Holmes - 1/4/2008

Airway Distance: The actual (as opposed to straight line) distance flown by the aircraft between two points, after deviations required by air traffic control and navigation along republished routes. The difference between this and straight line distance will vary throughout the country. Average figu...

Identity Theft Scams
By James H. Dimmitt - 1/4/2008

Identity Theft scams continue to flourish on the web. One that you need to be aware of and beware of is any site that seems to be selling high-demand items (digital cameras for instance) at a much lower (almost unbelievable) price than you can find on other sites or the manufacturer?s site. Often t...

15 Questions to Ask Your Software Vendor
By Jay McCormack - 1/4/2008

When making a decision to buy any piece of software there are a number of criteria typically evaluated. One of the most important elements in the decision process is the strength of the company that builds the software. In fact a survey of 19,000 customers has identified that company strength is t...

ERP Consulting ? New Horizons
By Andrew Karasev - 1/4/2008

Every new economy recovery and boom brings new type of business paradigm. It is true about economy in general as well as every market niche. General economic development should be left over to the economists and philosophers to review. Here we will try to draw the trends as we see them through th...

Fight Spam and Fortify Your Web Site with RSS
By Gunnar Berglund - 1/4/2008

RSS is the answer to the Spam epidemic of the past. Spam, any mass distribution of material across the Internet, can cause systems to back up and crash with unwanted and unsolicited material. Some of this material may be offensive to the people who visit your website and drive away potential viewers...

A Quick Start Guide to Auto Darkening Welding Helmets
By Steve Bishop - 1/4/2008

If you are a welder you are most likely concerned with your safety. You take precautions by wearing a helmet while welding, but what type of helmet do you have? The type of helmet you wear can greatly affect your eye safety. Welders are all too familiar with the possibility of an arc flash. Expo...

Microsoft Great Plains Beverage Production & Distribution ? Implementation & Customization Highlight
By Andrew Karasev - 1/4/2008

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has many years of successful implementation in multiple horizontal markets. In today?s small article we?ll share our experience of implementing and customizing Microsoft Great Plains, formerly Great Plains eEnterprise/Dynamics in beverage production and dis...

Computer Backups
By Jack Back - 1/4/2008

COMPUTERS AND HALLOWEEN, DO THEY MIX? Computer backup is so important to your computer that to ignore it is to risk its damnation. Computers require care and feeding. They require that you attend to their needs. If you don?t, then they will most surely be sent to Hell. Halloween means ...

Are You a Multitrician?
By Lance Winslow - 1/4/2008

Although there is currently much need for people in the field of multi-related and transferable energy, as of yet there are no true multitrician technicians certified for now certification currently exits, in fact no school, college or University offers degrees in it and no Industry associations hav...

Formatting, And/or Re-installing Windows on a Dell PC
By Mark Berger - 1/4/2008

Formatting or re-installing windows on a Dell system is much simpler then doing so on other machines. If for any reason you need to format your Dell system or re-install windows on it, read on. Dell packages a CD with each of their systems. This CD will read "Dell windows XP home," "Dell windows XP ...

Smartphones are Smart
By Nicolas Fogelholm - 1/4/2008

Cell phones feature many applications by default, and the majority of them are useful. Currently, the most used applications are probably cameras, email and calendars. If not exactly useful, ringtones, wallpapers, themes and games are also popular features on a cell phone. A smartphone has an opera...

25 Things Mapping Software Can Do For You
By Joe Miller - 1/4/2008

1. With mapping software you can create a report that tracks your retirement plan for you. 2. Use mapping software to create an Executive Dashboard, which tracks the bottom line. 3. Use mapping software to find the snowfall reports for your favorite ski resorts in Idaho. 4. You can even use mapping ...

The Benefits of Web-Based Help Desk Software
By Kent Pinkerton - 1/4/2008

Web-based help desk software has become the most popular way to manage technical inquiries and issues. The ability to access your help desk from any PC in the world is a very convenient tool. These programs offer flexibility and accessibility that was unavailable in former product versions. Like oth...

The Single Most Important Thing to Know About Computer Phones (VoIP)
By Dee Scrip - 1/4/2008

Over 90% of computer phones (VoIP) are not secure because they use a public known codex (publicly known encryption of sound packets) and a publicly known protocol to transport voice conversations. Therefore, users of these type of services are unknowingly exposing themselves to anyone who wants to ...

The General Ledger and Accounting Software
By John Cantrell - 1/4/2008

Before we start on the specific elements of general ledger software, and where all the pieces fit, you need to understand the basics of financial statement and how you can read them. There are two main parts to your business`s financial statement - The accounting software will produce a Profit and ...

Choosing a Computer Case
By Matthew Thompson - 1/4/2008

ATXPowerSupplies.Com writes this article on "choosing the right computer case for your computer" to help you in your decision making process. There are literally thousands of computer cases on the market which sometimes makes choosing the right computer case quite a task. First and foremost select a...

The Pro`s and Con`s of Camera Cell Phones
By Declan Tobin - 1/4/2008

All the major phone manufacturers are cashing in on the ever increasing market in camera phones. Companies such as Nokia, Siemens, Motorola and many more have seen their profits sore since the introduction of the camera cell phone. Many of the cell phone carriers are offering a free camera phone for...

Which Way Are Mobile Phone Games Heading?
By Peter Lenkefi - 1/4/2008

Aside online games and static game devices like Playstation, mobile games are the next most popular games around now. The popularity has grown so big that mobile operators are competing against each other by offering their subscribers loads of both free and paid games for their pleasure. Not only mo...

Don`t Become A Victim of Online Fraud
By Chris Theberge - 1/4/2008

When it comes to online fraud, I take it personal because I was almost a victim. Looking back, I was very susceptible because I did not have the knowledge that I do now. It is not necessarily "knowledge", but more along the lines of "cautionary measures"; however, if I never took these, I would have...

Information/Human Age: Bringing Family and Friends Closer Together
By Jesse S. Somer - 1/4/2008

Have you ever felt like the distances from your loved ones and cherished connections are just too big? You then stop communicating as much, and soon your relationships are no longer what they used to be. In this day and age it needn?t turn out this way. The Internet is a medium that can be used for ...

Get More for Less with Cell Phones
By Jeff Lakie - 1/4/2008

There are many great features on cell phones and as technology increases or seems to be more and more features while telephones become cheaper and cheaper! The end result is that you, the consumer, get more for less. A rare feat in this world. One great feature of the cell phone is the organizer tha...

Mini-centronics: Hewlett Packer Users Beware
By Nathan Kartchner - 1/4/2008

As computer manufacturers begin to phase out old standards (e.g. IEEE 1284, RS-232), there is an increasingly large base of computer users who want to use their old Hewlett-Packer parallel printer with newer USB-only laptop and desktop systems. They purchase a USB to Parallel adapter, only to find t...

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Cell Phone Batteries
By Peter Lenkefi - 1/4/2008

Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries: Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. Lithium Polymer is the most recent type and applies the latest...

Introduction To Gas Detection
By Christopher Miller - 1/4/2008

Gas detectors can be found in all walks of life, from food processing plants to parking garages, from airplanes to casinos. Any place that can have a potential lack of oxygen or presence of a toxic gas needs a gas detector present to monitor the safety of people. Some common uses during field projec...

Introducing VoIP
By Michael Bell - 1/4/2008

As VoIP gets more popular, more companies are beginning to offer this service to its customers. Some think that VoIP will replace the traditional telephone system. To help you make the switch, here is a list of VoIP service providers and some general information about what they have to offer.
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LCD vs Plasma TVs
By Bradley James - 1/4/2008

The two newest technologies in the world of TV are plasma and LCD. Plasma, the most recent technology, has been quickly coming down in price in the last couple of years, and is now relatively affordable. Currently, a 42-inch plasma display sells for approximately $2500, with cheaper ? and smaller ? ...

The New iPod Nano
By Allyson Brandy - 1/4/2008

Let?s talk music! Let?s talk podcasts! 1,000 songs, non-skip, digital quality, portability - the pencil thin iPod Nano is just the ticket. Jogging, walking or toughing it out on a treadmill life just got a whole lot easier with the addition of the rugged, little iPod that holds either 500 (2GB) or 1...

Making Wholesale Electronics a Family Affair
By Chris Robertson - 1/4/2008

These days, it seems that each person is helping himself or herself to a different slice of the digital pie. There`s no doubt that the consumer electronics market is booming, and there`s no end in sight. Yet, although it might seem that our lives revolve around various electronic gadgets, in my fami...

Keyboard Cleaning
By Jay Stikeleather - 1/4/2008

There are several ways to clean a keyboard. If it is simply clogged with dust, hair and other various particles, you can use a screwdriver to remove a few keys from each side of the keyboard and then use the can of compressed air to blow all of the stray particles out of the keyboard. Just be forewa...

Jet Lag ? Coping on Arrival at Your Destination
By Donald Saunders - 1/4/2008

With the best preparation in the world before leaving home, and having taken a few simple precautions during your flight, you will inevitably suffer the effects of jet lag, unless you also continue your "no jet lag" plan once you arrive at your destination. Here, however, we need to sound a word of ...

RecycleYour Inkjet Cartridge and help the environment.
By Neil Craig - 1/4/2008

Out of the 60 million inkjet cartridges and 44 million toner cartridges used each year in the UK alone, less than 8% are recylced leaving over 95 million of them being thrown away and ending up in landfill sites. Landfill sites contain over £100 million worth in raw ma...

Dont Give the Spammers Your Address From Your Page
By David Maddern - 1/4/2008

Spammers get email addresses from web pages using programs called spiders which tour the internet capturing letter strings with the "@" character in it. Signing up for extra information at some sites and giving your email address can also get you a flood of unwanted mail, but although it feels like ...

Cell Phone Voice Collection Data and Civilizations
By Lance Winslow - 1/4/2008

Currently the cell phone voice collection data from intelligence agencies around the world do not work as good as they need too. In Britain for instance British Intelligence logs all cell phone calls. These intercepted conversations are run thru data mining artificial intelligence programs to look f...

How Does Satellite Radio Work?
By Ian Henman - 1/4/2008

There?s been a big push in the consumer electronics industry lately. It?s been the movement towards satellite radio, but one of the biggest questions being asked is how does this technology work? How do you get all of these fantastic stations tuned into one satellite radio receiver? There?s a lot mo...

Basic Troubleshooting - and I mean BASIC!
By Tony Stockill - 1/4/2008

No doubt you have seen and had a laugh at stories by Help Desk operators. The user who thought the CD drive was to hold his coffee cup, and other amusing tales. I don`t know if this is an urban myth or not, but in my experience of tech support and helpdesk operations, users are mostly intelligent, ...

Would You Like To Recieve Hundreds Of New Channels For Free?
By Alex Porter - 2/4/2007

Your probably thinking, free? nothing is free right? Wrong! This brings us to the idea of Satellite TV which i`m sure you know about through the dishes you see at your neighbour`s house or while your driving to the mall. Dishes have just about come up everywhere. Yesterday i was in a remote town w...

All You Wanted To Know About Ringtones
By Peter Lenkefi - 2/1/2007

Ringtones are the sounds that mobile phone make to signal incoming calls or text messages. The essential characteristics of ringtones is that it can be customized to suit the individual?s taste and that feature could be said to influence consumers so much in the choice of phones. Ringtones are po...

Xbox 360: Which Core Bundle is Right for You?
By Barry Games - 1/20/2007

If you`ve lived under a rock since May then you`d be surprised to learn that Microsoft has released their second Xbox titled XBOX 360. Upon your emergence it wouldn`t take long for you to figure out that this is no regular system; the XBOX 360 will lead the next generation consoles by including some...



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