As someone who has seen quite a few hard drive crashes over the years, I believe that performing a full backup of your computer’s hard drive should be an important part of your weekly (if not daily) routine. There’s nothing more frustrating & costly than trying to restore a computer with only a handful of Floppy disk drives, a couple of scratched CD-ROMs or poorly stored backup tapes.
All too often have I been called upon to try and get a home or office computer working again, only to find that the backup (if any) consists of a few word files and maybe a copy of some accounts data?

Now you might be thinking what’s wrong with that? Aren’t those the important files? Well, yes! But what about your Emails, Address book, all your Desktop/Internet Shortcuts, FTP settings, Anti-Spam & Anti-Popup filters etc.? You’ve spend months if not years getting your PC looking and running just the way you like it and in one split second it’s all gone.  Read more...

Autoresponders are a perfect way to increase traffic to your site. They can save many valuable hours by automatically answering emails concerning frequently asked questions about a service or product or by sending a welcome letter to new members of your program. There are many ways that autoresponders can help your business. One of the most important is their ability to track the effectiveness of your promotions. Since autoresponders are one of the most popular marketing tools available today, they are being used by a lot of different kinds of business and websites. Some of these take advantage of the system to use the autoresponders in a negative manner. You should be aware of some of the “Golden Rules” when using autoresponders.

Thou Shalt Not Use an Autoresponder Address When Submitting to Search Engines.
Since you will most likely submit your site to search engines such as Google or Yahoo!, directories, classifieds, and free for all sites, you should be made aware of the fact that these sites commonly use an autoresponder as well. If you were to use your autoresponder to contact these companies, their autoresponder will reply to yours and so on and so on. Thus creating a cycle of autoresponses that will flood your email box and theirs as well.  Read more...

Today almost anything can be learned on internet, internet is the backbone of any e-commerce activity, and internet has become a vital aspect of the everyday life in the modern times. This communication tool is also crucial to communicate to the outer world and share important data or messages for fulfilling our domestic needs. People have grown to be dependent on the World Wide Web for even their minimal requirements.

The flexibility, user friendliness feature and cost factor are the three basic elements that compliment this service to be the most acclaimed one in US. Find  the best features that DSL Internet services offer.  When choosing an ISP, it is recommended that you do some research before signing up with your chosen ISP. Make a list of the services you require from your chosen ISP. Search the internet for suitable ISP companies. Email your list of services to your list of ISP’s and gauge the time of response and type of problem-solving offered. Where possible, consult other businesses which are using a particular ISP and use their experience to ensure you get the best ISP Company.  Read more...

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 increases the appeal of any designer’s artworks because it has the amazing capacity to capture an audience and maintain viewers and readers.

To maximize the value of color in your printing jobs, it is necessary to understand the way color is transformed from your monitor to the paper it is printed on. When designing your graphics on the computer, the colors appear in RGB (red, green and blue) format. This is how your television set and the monitor generate images. When viewing the printed output on paper, it appears in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) format. It is essential to recognize the effects that the abovementioned change in the color format has on your design if your project is color critical and colors must be as close as possible to your initial expected color. In order for your target color to match the printed color, be sure to set up your file in CMYK format as printing companies will print directly from the file without comparing it to the onscreen image.  Read more...

Conference Calls as the name suggests, is a kind of call where more than two people can be connected while making a single call. In such calls, one can call more than two or more people and include them in a single phone conversation. Usually the provision of three -way calling is found in landlines, and one is usually charges for this kind of service. It’s the conference bridge, which makes the people stay connected during conference calls.

Conference calls are of two types namely audio and video. The former call allows only the voice of the callers to be heard and the latter allows the video to be seen along with the voice. Nowadays, one can make such audio and video conference calls by simply logging into specific websites and that too free of cost. These websites ensure the safety and privacy of the conference calls made.

Audio conference calls are ideal for business purposes as the parties can stay in contact on regular intervals even outside their companies. Video conference calls are ideal for the ones who give business presentations or share reports etc .Also , by allowing more people to be connected in a single call, it’s a better way to socialize with many people and thus remove the boredom in life.  Read more...

Keek is a new way for people to do social networking. Back then, there was only Facebook that started this whole social networking trend. Facebook allows its user a freedom to share stories to friends and colleagues through its platform. Facebook is currently the largest social network on the planet.

Then there was the competitor, Twitter. It focused on its ability as a microblogging service. It means that Twitter users are able to share their stories using such a short tweet of 140 characters. The characters are limited in order to keep the tweet in focus. Twitter and Facebook is a must for celebrities, because that is the way they keep their fans close to them.

But now, there is another strong competitor for the two established social networking sites. Instead of doing old-fashioned text sharing, the new competitor is emphasizing on short video sharing as a way to share stories. This new service is called as Keek. A Canada based company who will revolutionize the way we do social networking.  Read more...

Being a novice of the Internet and realms of technology in general, the idea of hanging out in an Internet café scared me about as much as it used to when I first sat in front a computer trying to figure out how to turn the thing on. Pictures of super-obese, nerdy, snotty-nosed tech-heads filled my head as well as visions of stagnant, sterile rooms crammed with blue screens flashing the latest comic heroes and teen idols. Well, I just went on a trip to several countries around the world and I ventured into this unknown sector, as I wanted to keep in touch with people back home. Although I admittedly didn’t visit many of these cafes (I needed a break from the computer worlds of school and work), the few I did see were quite different from what I expected.  Read more...

The rapid rise in the telecom industry over the last few years has been an event cheered by many. Today, Indian market is the second largest growing market in the world. And considering the vastly increasing population coupled with increasing economic prosperity, the telecom companies have nothing to fret about. Yet, there are certain chains that are shackling the growth in the telecom. While many companies have paid due emphasis to coverage technology, installing expensive equipment all across for better coverage, they are yet to pay proper attention to their back-end, mostly importantly the billing systems.

Quite many telecom companies still have in place archaic billing systems, these software applications were bought off-the-shelf and are complex beyond imagination. Not are they slow on processing or what is better known as ‘turn around’ time, but are also not scalable to the ever-changing needs of the company. Hence, there are still a lot of services (related to billing) that many operators are unable to provide.

In such a scenario, Swastik Infotech Pte Ltd. has launched one of the most revolutionary telecom billing system in the marketplace. Christened as e-Biller, this system promises to put an end to all the discrepancies that arise out of the traditional billing systems. The biggest breakthrough of e-Biller over other such systems is the ease that it offers to the companies to plug in new services without any hassles.  Read more...

Although we don’t know whether Microsoft ever envisioned such a big market about PowerPoint on its first release. Today this software is impacting profoundly on education and corporation’s activities in the way that nobody could ignore. With a wealth of visual and audio effects people rely on it to express their ideas, plans more intuitively with more effective communication outcomes.

One of most wildly PowerPoint application exists in education. With the booming of Internet, traditional education approaches have been eclipsing by various new emerging ways. And in spite of heavy promotion of supposedly new television educational approaches in recent years, from my point of view, the real innovation and revolution is taking place somewhere else: on the Web, where I truly believe the advantages of PowerPoint will be fully exerted again.

Another great application undoubtly is for entertainment. PowerPoint2003 provides great transition effects and flash movie enable, narration record functions, people are now in favor to use it to make all kinds of brilliant slideshows as a way to store and highlight their precious memory. For businessperson, it’s been an exclusive way to make their conception live for many years.
However like any other softwares PowerPoint has its share of weakness. The final project’s totally dependence on PowerPoint Software requires the Microsoft PowerPoint installed in any computer on which a presentation is running; And its bulky size make it awkward to distribute. In recent years, people come up with an idea to fix this inconvenience – to convert PowerPoint to smaller, multi-platform supported flash files. We can include the merits of this conversion as following:  Read more...

Inkjet… laser… LED… multifunction… single function. With so many makes and models to choose from, selecting the right printer for your work environment can become a headache if you don’t know what to look for. In fact, identifying the right printer can be like finding a needle in a haystack, so it’s important to ask yourself a few basic questions that will guide your printer search in the right direction.

Cost:
How much can you afford to spend? Consider what you print, how much you print, and whether or not you require additional features or room for your printing needs to grow. No one wants to spend more than they can afford, but it’s important to look beyond the initial investment price of each printing device, and make sure you look into the long term running costs. What may appear as a cheap printing investment can often turn into a very expensive operation, with specialised ink cartridges for instance? By the same token, what may be deemed on the more expensive side may effectively reduce your overall running costs in the long run. The cunning approach taken by manufacturers’ works more or less like this: the lower the initial price tag of the printer, the higher the cost of replacement ink or toner. So, the only one who stands to benefit is the manufacturer, or someone who barely uses their printer at all.  Read more...