Two in one in microwave oven

One of mom's greatest assets in her kitchen is the oven. It takes in different features and usage. The conventional oven was primarily used in baking, heating and drying. Today, the microwave became a vogue to chefs and in the households, makes cooking and heating a lot faster and easier, with highest degree of convenience.

If you look few years back, you can't imagine yourself roaming around the house, especially in the kitchen without the modern-day appliances. It is unthinkable; we went thru the discomforts without those before.

Present conveniences in the homes are favorable to housewives and domestic assistants, be they working moms, or non-working. Kitchen appliances reduce work pressure and tension. Operations either in touch, push button, and mere switching denote big leap in the development and growth in the industrial environment.

Reviewing from a series of most advanced novelty techniques from among different manufacturers in home appliances, you'll never find one owner of a certain brand who had not gone thru great expense, energy, time and effort just to achieve top quality products that would enhance overall acceptance.

The microwave oven with a lot of trials from the beginning came up with one that outstands beyond expectations. The creation of the microwave propped up without intent. Incidental in its start, it had soared its way to global popularity because of a series of iterative regressions, discarding previous trials in production stages; bridging towards the latest usage-input, durability, and design.

Ensuing of Combination Microwave Oven into the Market

Combination microwave post-opted the convection oven. By dauntless efforts to regress the older models that were inferior in design, materials' durability, functions, easy operational know-how, and advanced capabilities, efforts were never futile.

Improved cooking features as heating, broiling, roasting, microwave grills exceed points of considerations. Inventories to search on how several models to devaluate or render obsolete reached no point of drawbacks. The result is a revolutionary front of a new model with the combination of microwave and the convection ovens complimented with everything that draw acceptance on general patronage.

Basic features include (1) cavity, (2) cooking, and (3) Programming features.

One brand name NEFF (United Kingdom), note exhibit sample of combination microwave oven:

1. Cooking Functions - Microware, Hot air, Hot air grill, Full surface/center surface grill, 41 automatic cooking programs.

2. Features - 24-hour lead clock, Clear text display, Drop down door, Push button and Rotary Controls, Stainless Steel interior, Interior light, microwave stirrer, 5-Power level microwave (90-180-360-600-1000), InnoWave Technology for more even cooking, Rapid heat facility, Child safety lock, self-cleaning back liner, and cooling system.

3. Standard Accessories - 1 flat wire shelf, 1 full width enamel tray

4. Available in Black, White & Stainless Steel

There are countless combination microwave but specifications of the above-named type present a general view of all. Somehow, differences will vary according to adaptability in usage of certain place and culture.

What you need to know on web hosting services

Most web hosting companies will provide customers with web hosting plans that include many services. Some of the services that will be offered at the beginning will be totally separate from those included in the plans these companies previously presented because the small business owner might need fewer services than an established retailer will. The web hosting services selected from the first day will typically change over the years as the new business owner develops a larger client base.

The cost for establishing web hosting services will be low at first because the business owner will only be concerned with establishing an online existence. The business presence that is established through these types of services will be minimal at best because the business owner will be more concerned on the use of business monies to creating a business inventory and obtaining an online web address. The online address can be used to market the site to search engines throughout the internet.

Customers will find the business website through other web hosting services that are chosen and some business owners prefer to use their own creative methods to market the new company to the public. A small business owner might take advantages of these services that provide marketing campaigns once or twice a month, or more if the small business owner can afford additional charges. The small business owner should consider every web hosting service that is available to site owners free of charge every time they employ self-marketing methods.

Creating an attractive and impressive online presence is possible with the web hosting services that are offered free of charge. Many companies will offer site builder programs that customers can use to personalize the website and give them the opportunity to build the business structure from scratch. The web hosting site builder programs will allow business owners to select colors and the type of template to use to provide a structured appearance that is also professional.

A small business owner will gain great business experience by building a website from scratch. Some of the web hosting services that are free will make business owners think of services that were never considered before. The little touches that are added to the home page will make the business seem like it is a well establish business organization. Customers can view counters and sign guest books to give an opinion on how the business website looks and what changes the customer would like to see in the very near future.

Some of the web hosting services will help small business owners organize the contents of the website. The database storage services will allow the business owner to create a customer database that will eventually provide him with an effective information that can be included in an email marketing program. These little services might cost a bit more per month but considering the cost of mailing postcards to everyone in the database, the email marketing charges will seem very reasonable to business owners that are just getting started.

When to choose a certain satellite radio system

Many people rely on the information provided by newspaper articles, mail marketing and comments made by friends and relatives to know when to choose a certain satellite radio system over another. Most people are unaware of how a particular satellite radio system is organized so they are unable to make a decision that is based on how technologically advanced one system is over another.

The satellite radio system choices to date are Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio, WorldSpace and the Amateur Radio Satellite network. Many people know when to choose a satellite radio system because they did research on the Internet and found out which company has the most satellites in space at any given time. Some people think more satellites does not always mean better service though.

Other people know when to choose a satellite radio system by realizing what they need to buy to get the satellite radio transmission into their homes. Further equipment might be required by some satellite radio systems to get the satellite radio transmission to work at the beach, a field, or from a construction site that is surrounded by high-rise apartment complexes.

Many people are able to choose a satellite radio system because one might not require any technical knowledge to set the system up. So it pays to look into just what is needed for any area of your life that you might choose to use satellite radio systems. Many people have to consider the financial cost to subscribe to a satellite radio system because after all, they can get radio transmissions free from their local radio station if the satellite radio transmission option is deemed too pricey.

Some of the satellite radio systems offer simple transmitters that are easy to use. Some of the transmitters have larger buttons that could prove useful when driving at night. Some people find that they must rearrange shrubbery in their yards to accommodate some very elaborate satellite radio transmitters because the satellite radio systems will not operate properly without a clear line of sight to get the satellite radio transmission into your home.

One of the largest factors that people take into consideration when they try to determine when to choose a satellite radio system for their world, are the number of radio channels that are offered on each of the satellite radio systems today. Some of the satellite radio stations only offer 50 channels of audio sound that is crystal clear, and the other satellite radio systems have 100 or more channels that people can choose from to receive music and news transmission from.

Measuring iptv qos quality of service

IPTV QOS is a topic that has become a confusing issue for many businesses, so let's clear it up.

Quality Of Service, being something new oftens makes people automatically think of using pre-existing measurement techniques. This basic starting point for QOS measurement is where most of the confusion is generated.

In the same way that when companies began moving from Analogue to digital broadcast signals, the natural tendancy of the existing engineers was to want to measure the new digital signal by converting it back to analogue and then using their existing equipment. IPTV QOS has caused a lot of the same methodology, whereby engineers with a network background want to measure network statistics, and engineers with a video background want to measure video statistics. The former (network engineers) can happily take their measurements from the existing network infrastructure, but get no feeling for what packets on the network relate to what video signals. The video people want to convert the IPTV signal back into its digital video format (converting it from IP to Video), which really misses the point that all you're really finding out is how well the converting device works (a piece of test equipment won't be comparable to the way a STB (set top box) would decode the signal. Thus, you have two separate approaches to the same problem - neither of which is really ideal.

Now, there IS a place for existing test equipment (network test equipment is great for data traffic as it always was, and Transport Stream (digital video) analysers are great at your Head-End (where the video content originates)and other video aggregation points in order to confirm that the video into your IP network was good), so it's not time to throw it away, it's just not the right tool for IPTV QOS.

With those comments out of the way we can move forward (it's difficult to move when you still have one foot in your old mindset).

Depending on who you are, you could very well be concerned with just one part of an IPTV system or the entire system, so we'll break it into the core problem and what that means at each place in the network (we'll assign the network 4 test points: 1) Head End 2) Core Network 3) Network Edge 4) Customer Home).

1) Head End.

This might concern you if you are responsible for creating, providing, or receiving video from a Head End.

A Head End can consist of anything from professional video encoders to VOD Servers (Video On Demand), and could be in one of many video formats, compression types, bitrates etc. They could be Unicast or Multicast, UDP, RTP or a proprietary mechanism (As in the case of MSTV).

Whatever the situation, it's a good idea to take steps to ensure that the Head End is robust and that the video encoding devices are reliable. A problem at the Head End affects everyone down the line, right to the customer. (we'll assume that various 'redundant' systems are in place to avoid this type of problem where possible)

Having built the Head End system with a robust architecture, the last thing (and the important one for us) is to monitor the Head End IP video flow output to ensure that this first point where the video is IP encapsulated has been done adequately and that the rest of the IPTV infrastructure can rely on this input.

Note: One common mistake at this point (and elsewhere) is to have some sort of round-robin system in place where not all of the video streams are measured at the same time - this should only be done if absolutely necessary as one of the 'issues' with the nature of IP delivery over a network is that impairments caused to the signal in the IP domain have a non-deterministic affect on the video flows. This means that while you're looking at 5 of 100 flows, you could be having problems on some random number of other flows which you wouldn't see - unless you monitor ALL flows simultaneously.

2) Core Network.

Hopefully the steps above will have been done, so if you're concerned with the core network, your main work involves doing your own verification that the flows coming into your network are ok (you can't rely on the Head End provider to do this for you, and it's much easier to be able to get out of the spotlight when problems occur if you can easily confirm your input), and ensuring that the passage across the network doesn't cause any loss or excessive jitter (the only 2 components that can stop the network getting your video to the end intact.

Now that we're in the IP domain, this issue of packet loss is ultimately the number 1 thing to look out for (any IP packets lost WILL mean video content loss since all mechanisms insert video packets into IP packets for delivery, some even contain up to 7 video packets in one IP packet). However, with that said, every network device (and ultimately the STB) have buffers which means that excessive jitter can cause packet loss. Since we REALLY don't want packet loss, this means jitter is just as important to us when monitoring our system.

The real kicker here is that if you're from the old school of IP monitoring you'll be pretty happy with what I've said so far - but there's one thing which makes thing a little more 'interesting'. It is perfectly possible to lose 'media' packets but NOT IP packets. Whenever an infrastructure includes elements like multiplexers which combine the mpeg video and 'MUX' several streams into one, if you're not doing some form of 'deep packet inspection' (looking into the media headers to ensure the continuity counters are correct) you could have no IP packet loss, but still have video problems. This basically means that your solution cannot come from one approach or the other, but needs to do the monitoring in the IP domain while still confirming that the media packets are intact.

This additional complication is one of the things that many test equipment manufacturers haven't accounted for, usually due to the fact that this is still a fairly new field and many equipment vendors are focused on creating 'features' rather than addressing the customer problems to deliver benefits which actually give them the robust solutions required.

3) Network Edge.

As before, our first step is to confirm our input is good by monitoring all flows simultaneously for jitter and packet loss and then ensuring that the 'last mile' mechanism to the customer home is as robust as possible.

Since this step could easily involve conversion from IP to RF (cable companies us RF (Radio Frequency) signals instead of the copper or fibre cables that most network equipment uses, any test equipment may need an appropriate interface for this (the most common interface here is QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) of which there are 3 main type (they're actually called 'Annex's') Annex A, B, and C for US, Europe and Asia.

So depending on your infrastructure here, you may or may not have an IP network to the customer home.

4) Customer Home.

The final, and some would say the most important part of the system.

As before, we need to check our input (the IP video flows that are about to go to the customers STB). Since we're talking about IP, again this is all about the jitter and packet loss that has occured to those video flows on their journey to this home. Since we checked the video quality as it was encoded at the head end, we know that as long as the jitter isn't too much for the STB to cope with, and there's no packet loss - the video will be exactly as it was when it was encoded.

If you're wondering how to get around this - there are equipment vendors with devices that go IN the customer home and adstract the workload from the STB and even some that let the customer press a button to signal when THEY saw a problem (regardless of what your test equipment may or may not have indicated - who says you need to simulate a customer experience)

There - Pretty simple really.

That's true, but in real life most companies don't own, control or even have access to the entire system. This makes rolling out an IPTV deployment a bit of a nightmare unless you understand the issues and have the appropriate test equipment (remember, some people still have one foot in the network or video world of old).

When companies do have access to large parts of the system or are working with friendly companies that do, this headache can get a whole lot easier when the equipment being used can have its data fed into a central video monitoring system. This way, the 2 common problems of 1) Where is the problem 2) Is it an IP problem, are visible at a glance and much wasted time and effort just getting to the point where you even know where the problem is can be avoided.

When it comes to wanting to quantify the quality of the system, there are several standards for assessing IPTV, the most common are 1) V-Factor 2) MOS 3) MDI

1) V-Factor

V-Factor is a system that uses Moving Picture Quality Metrics (MPQM) research to try and simulate what a human would have decided the video quality was like.

This is an interesting method and is one way to approach the problem, but requires a lot of processing, cannot realistically be done across most of the network (since the processing work is heavy, this does not lend itself to 'core' or 'head end' monitoring), so might serve as a useful measurement to integrate into STBs.

Since we're looking at a holistic IPTV QOS approach, only a monitoring solution that gives us the big picture aswell as the detail will do.

2) MOS (Mean Opinion Score)

Again, this metric is designed to try and give an approximation of what a human would see.

As with the V-Factor, it's a cool idea and technically excellent but doesn't tell us what is wrong with the system (it's nice to have a quality 'score', but in reality we need to know what to DO about a 'poor' score).

3) MDI (Media Delivery Index)

As the name suggests, we get a metric that tell us something about the delivery. (xx:yy where xx equates to the cumulative jitter and yy equates to packet loss) This time, rather than trying to analyse the video and 'score' it, we get data about the jitter and packet loss at the point being measured. While it might not study the decoded video signal, it does tell us how well the video has been delivered - which if you remember is really the most important thing if it was encoded properly.

MDI is an apporiate metric at any point in the system and would let us know immediately if there was a delivery problem. Since the MDI values are based on the bitrates of the video streams, this also gives us some really useful information about how different streams will be affected by our network (for example, if we're already running 50 SD (Standard Definition) Streams and we want to replace them with HD (High Definition) streams, a V-Factor or MOS score at some point in our network won't tell us what to expect, whereas MDI metrics will let us know how much difference the network is likely to make. The jitter on the network will affect SD and HD stream differently (in fact, any streams with different bitrates will be differently affected by the jitter - this causes many problems), so having information about the way the jitter is affecting the IP delivery is REALLY useful information, that you just don't get with the other measuring systems.

I hope you find this article useful and take the steps to ensure a reliable system before you get 'deployment headaches'. Another article will follow shortly describing how to build a robust IPTV network.

Microsoft xbox

Microsoft Xbox is a sixth video game console of era of initially released generation on November 15, 2001 in North America, then released on February 22, 2002 in Japan, and on March 14, 2002 in Europe.

Xbox was the first company independent of Microsoft in the arena of video game console, then having developed the operating software and the development tools for the MSX, and having collaborated with Sega by putting in communication the EC of Windows at the console of Sega Dreamcast. The notable titles of launching for the console include the halation: The combat evolved/moved, Amped, completely or 3 and Oddworld alive: Chewed Oddysee. Development Xbox was at the beginning developed in Microsoft by a small team which included Seamus Blackley, a lotissor of play and physicist of high energy.

The rumours of a video game console developed by Microsoft emerged the first time at the end of 1999 following interviews of Bill Gates. Start known as that a play/device of multi-media was essential for the convergence of multi-media in new times of the numerical entertainment. On March 10, 2000 the “project of X-box” was officially confirmed by Microsoft with a press release. Some see Xbox like manner of benefitting from the market growing of video game, noting that the growth of the market of PC stagnated after the bust point-COM.

According to the Smartbomb book, by Heather Chaplin and the ruby of Aaron, the remarkable success of the upstart Sony PlayStation worried Microsoft in the Nineties late. The market growing of video game seemed to threaten the market of PC that Microsoft had dominated and counted at the time for the majority of its incomes. As well, a company in the market of game console would also diversify the product of Microsoft, which until this time had been strongly concentrated in the software. Xbox presented an alternative standardized to the variety close relation-without end of configurations of user on the PC.

Xbox even brought technology at end high of play to the principal current, fфlatrant a top of the line equivalent processor of graphs of GeForce 3, an integrated adaptor of Ethernet, and the noise dolby of DIGITAL 5.1 in the material. One of the complaints about Xbox is that people do not like the cost to employ the service on line, Xbox of phase. They allege that other companies offer the similar programs which are cheaper or for free. Xbox launched to North America on November 15, 2001.

The greatest success of the plays of the launching of Xbox was halation: The combat evolved/moved, which bien-a be as a critic received and one of the plays of good-sale of the year. The halation remains always the title except contest of the console. Other successful launching entitles the fever included 2002 of NFL, the packing project of Gotham and died or 3 alive). However, the failure of several plays of first-part (frenzy including and Azurik de Fuzion: Rise in Perathia) damaged the initial public reputation of Xbox.

Although it had the third strong support of its beginning, much from plays early of Xbox did not benefit fully from its powerful material, with few auxiliary attachments or graphic improvements to be distinguished from version PS2, and this denied one of the principal points of sale of Xbox. To finish, Sony avoided Xbox by fixing PlayStation 2 exclusivenesses for the plays strongly envisaged such as the automatic solid 2 in series in large flight and speed out of metal: Wire of freedom. In 2002 and 2003, several releases helped Xbox to accelerate and to be distinguished from the PS2. The service in line of phase of Xbox was launched beside the phantom of MotoGP titles, MechAssault and Tom Clancy of reconditioned pilot.

Several good-being sold and of the titles critical-acclaimed for Xbox were published, like the cell of glare of Tom Clancy, Ninja Gaiden, and hold the first role of the wars: Knights of the old Republic. To take-Two the interactive business of exclusiveness with Sony was modified to allow the large car III, large car of flight of flight: Vice city and its continuations to be published on Xbox. Moreover, much of other editors entered the tendency to release the version of Xbox beside version PS2, instead of delaying it during months.

In 2004, overall discs of halation 2 like highest incorporating the release in the history of entertainment as well as to be a killer successful APP for the service on line. These year, Microsoft and Web arts reached a business which would see the last popular titles allowed on Xbox of phase. In 2005, console-exclusive unhappy fate for a long time awaited 3 of Xbox, it half life 2, and the remote instincts of cry were released. Plays which are sold more than 400.000 units in their the first 9 months are indicated like platinum blows and have their prices with the released detail of detail.

Xbox of phase On November 15, 2002 Microsoft released the service in line of phase of play of Xbox, making it possible subscribers to play the games on line of Xbox with (or against) of other subscribers all around the world and to download the new contents for their plays with the hard order. Work on line of this service exclusively with to wide strip. 250.000 subscribers had connected themselves in 2 months since of phase was launched.

In July 2004, Microsoft announced that of phase of Xbox 1 million subscribers reaches, and announced in July 2005 that of phase had reached 2 million. A subscription of phase of Xbox currently costs $50 per year [which is roughly $4 months].

Essential tips for selling your blog

When you go about the process of selling your weblog, the first question in your mind should be its value. There is no yardstick to determine the exact value of your blog though. We can talk all about the site visitor count and the profits, but in the end, remember that your blog is worth what someone will pay for it.

What Is My Blog Worth?

Most buyers will only consider a blog with a high number of unique visitors to be valuable. Of course, the definition of 'high' for the buyer is different from what your definition may be. A thousand visitors per month are good for you, but do not expect a large sum for your site. You usually cannot sell a blog based on its potential. If you believe your blog has great potential, market it so that you are getting a high number of unique visits each month; then you'll be able to command a better price for the blog.

In addition to raw traffic numbers, the profitability of your blog is important. A buyer will likely want to see that your blog can be made profitable. One method of getting a price estimate for your blog is actually to take the monthly profit and multiply it times 10.

Blog buyers may also be interested in the stickiness factor of your blog. Having a visitor once is not the end aim, they want visitors to come back to the site, and they want it to be the site that fulfills the needs of the visitors.

Other factors also play a role in the value of your site, including the number and quantity of backlinks to your blog, your search engine rankings, your Google PageRank, your blog platform, etc.

Selling Your Blog

After you have a rough calculation of how much you are looking for in terms of profit from your blog sale, prepare yourself for the marketing and negotiations. Get your blog’s statistics together - seriously interested buyers will always ask for them.

The average investment you make on the site per month (cost of hosting, domain names, marketing, writers, etc.) as opposed to what your advertisers pay is a very important stat to have handy. Depending on your situation you may want to use Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA) when you are giving out classified information about your blog. Remember that there is a fine line between saying too little and too much; if you hold back information the buyer can not completely trust you, but being too open can hurt you as well, when it comes to unethical buyers.

Once you have all your stats together, then you are ready to put your blog on the market. Finding buyers is always the hard part. There are several good ways to find buyers, including posting your offer on forums, alerting your contact base to your offer, etc. If you prefer, you can try using a blog broker to sell your site.

Using A Blog Broker To Sell Your Blog

Most people start off thinking they can complete the sales on their own, what they do not take into account is the fact that they don't have the expertise and contacts that a blog broker would have.

Of course Blog Brokers will cost you some cabbage, but think of that as an investment, just as a lawyer looking at the contract or an accountant overseeing the process would be. The percentage you pay the broker from your sale is well worth the effort most will make for your sale since a good sale.

While dealing with blog brokers though, take care to be honest about your site’s positive and negatives. That ensures that they do not waste your time in return by bringing people who are not interested in what you are selling. They can also give you good assessments of your blog’s value because they have experience in the market. Remember though, not all brokers are alike, you want one who can pay attention to your project.

Once you have a potential buyer, remember that it is going to be a time consuming process to go through the negotiations and it can be helpful if you have a good broker in the middle to help. There are things you need to discuss on your own, but at times when you have bad news to share, use your broker since you are going to work with the seller in the transition period later, it helps to keep the repot.

Another thing to keep in mind while selling is to run your blog as if it is business as usual while the negotiations continue. Large website sales can take up to several months with the kind of money involved, so keep your visitors interested and never show that you are impatient to get the deal through.

Before choosing a broker, remember to get references from them for previous clients. Contact all the references and find out about their experience with the broker. Most people do not explain problems they had well enough, they can generalize when telling you about their experience so put them in the spot where they would judge their best: ask if they would work with the broker again if they were selling their site. More often than not, that is the question which will get you the most honest opinion on the broker.

Also make sure that the broker you use has experience and strikes the right tone with his words. A bad choice for a broker can ruin your chances of a profitable sale which means there can be times when a different broker will bring the same client and you will note a difference in how things are handled. Choose your broker wisely and communicate well…that’s half the job done.

What is waas

The technology behind GPS systems can be complicated. However, a little research into what the various systems are and how they work can make choosing the right GPS system an easier decision. If you have looked into purchasing a GPS or owned a GPS system before then you probably have seen the term WAAS either on packaging or in ads for GPS systems.

WAAS stands for Wide Area Augmentation System. WAAS is an intricate GPS technology, which was developed to provide locations that are more accurate. This is done through GPS signal corrections attained through a network of ground stations and satellites. The stations and the satellites work together to create plots on maps so GPS systems can easily make this information available to the consumers that use these products.

WAAS is still being developed through the joint efforts of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and the DOT (Department of Transportation). The reason the DOT and the FAA are developing WAAS is actually to make flight locations more accurate. WAAS works together with GPS because GPS does not currently meet navigational requirements of the FAA on its own.

At this time, WAAS is five times more accurate than the average GPS system technology. In fact, a GPS receiver with WAAS capabilities can maintain an accuracy of three meters or less over 90% of the time. Of course, the best feature of WAAS is that it is built in to certain GPS systems. This means there are no additional fees and you do not have to order any additional receivers or other equipment for WAAS to work correctly. Additionally, depending on the type of GPS device you own, you may be able to upgrade your GPS system to start using WAAS capabilities if it does not do so already.

GPS alone faces problems such as ionospheric disturbances, precision timing, and orbit errors for the satellites used. However, when used together with WAAS, these three main problems, as well as smaller errors in the GPS system are corrected. WAAS is also capable of providing information on the GPS satellite itself so there is never a question of whether the satellite is working to its greatest potential or not.

There are around 25 different ground stations, which WAAS uses as reference in the United States alone. The GPS satellite data is communicated to these ground stations so the information can be monitored. Then the information is compiled and sent to two master stations (one on the east coast and one of the west coast), which correct any errors in the GPS satellite information.

Corrections are made based on the orbit of the satellite, clock drift, and delays in the signal caused by the ionosphere and atmosphere of the Earth. After the corrections are made, the master station transmits this information to a geostationary satellite (one of two), which are located in a stationary position over the equator. Since the information is GPS compatible (the signal structure is the same) a GPS receiver with WAAS is able to read the signal from the satellite.

At the present time, only people in North America can use WAAS technology. GPS can be used in South America. However, WAAS will not work to correct accuracy errors. This is because WAAS enabled GPS receivers cannot receive signals due to the fact that South America has no ground stations. WAAS technology is constantly being tweaked and improved though, so in time it could become available across the world.

For now, it is best to use WAAS enabled GPS systems in open land or at sea. Since the stationary satellites are at the equator, it can be hard to receive the transmission if you are not close to the equator or if the signal is being blocked by mountains, trees, or other natural and man made objects that get in the way.

While WAAS technology is not perfect, it is much better than what is currently available. As the system improves, the accuracy will improve, making WAAS one of the leading technology systems for GPS receivers. You can find out if a GPS system is WAAS compatible by looking on its package or searching online. Some examples of WAAS enabled GPS units include:

·Garmin GPS 18 PC Deluxe

·Garmin Nuvi 660 Auto GPS Unit

·Garmin etrex Legend Handheld GPS Unit

·Garmin StreetPilot C530

How to fix windows xp errors

Windows XP has quickly become one the most popular computer operating systems on the planet! But there exist as many errors and problems that can occur in Windows XP as there are stars in the heavens it seems...

So we're going to show you how to effectively Repair Windows XP below!

One of the best features of Windows XP is the built in repair feature!

In previous versions of Windows, repairing an operating system error usually meant formatting and reinstalling the whole operating system, resulting in loss of all of your precious data. The Windows XP repair feature won't delete your data, already installed programs, personal information or Windows settings. It just repairs the operating system...

Note: The system repair function will remove any updates you have previously installed that are not included on the CD. Any windows Drivers will also be reverted to their original XP versions, as well as some settings (network & performance settings may sometimes be reset to their defaults). It may be necessary to reactivate your Windows XP as well. When finished, you will have to download all of the updates from Microsoft Windows Update, because they are all replaced during repair.

Why would you ever want to reinstall Windows XP?

1. Can't start Windows XP in safe mode.

2. You have problems caused by a recently installed system update (Windows Update, hotfix, Windows XP service pack, or Microsoft Internet Explorer update).

3. Your problems can't be solved with system restore, or you can't access system restore.

4. You've installed a new motherboard, or made other major hardware changes and need to reinstall Windows.

Of course, if you are just trying to resolve Windows XP errors and problems, and want to save yourself some MAJOR time and effort...

Repair Windows XP Installation: Step-by-step:

1: Make certain there are no known hardware issues. Windows Repair will ONLY fix software problems. Hardware issues can also cause boot problems (i. e. bad hard drive, memory, CPU, or power supply).

2: Make Sure & Backup Your Data. It's always a good idea to backup your important data before making changes to Windows XP. Don't worry, if you follow these instructions your data will be secure and there for you when the windows xp repair is completed.

3: Boot from your Windows XP CD. Insert the Windows XP CD into your computer's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer. When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message appears on the screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.

4: A blue screen will appear and begin loading Windows XP Setup from the CD.

Note: RAID/SCSI/Unsupported UDMA users:

You will be prompted to "press F6 to install any third party SCSI or RAID drivers". Most users will not have to press F6, but if you are running RAID, SCSI or unsupported UDMA controllers, then you will have to have your controller drivers on a floppy disk. If you are unsure whether you have RAID/SCSI, then simply let the CD load without pressing F6.

When completed loading files, you will be presented with the following "Windows Setup" screen, and your first option. Select "To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER". DO NOT select Recovery Console.

When presented with the End User License agreement screen. press the F8 key to continue.

Next, Windows Setup will find existing Windows XP installations. You will be asked to repair an existing XP installation, or install a fresh copy of Windows XP.

If no installations are found, then you will not be given the option to repair. This may happen if the data or partition on your drive is too corrupted.

Note: If you install a fresh copy, all data on that partition will be lost!

You are almost through! Windows XP will look like it is installing itself for the first time, but it will keep and remember all of your data and settings. Just follow the prompts, and have your CD-KEY ready if needed.

WARNING: Due to the proliferation of the Welchia, Blaster and other Worm/Viruses that are prevlanet online...be aware that a Repair Install will leave your system vulnerable. You can get infected within seconds.

Do not go on line until you have enabled XP's firewall first, and make sure and download and run the free and effective XoftSPySE Spyware remover & blocker on your PC..It is one of the best we've tested!

Don't forget to run Windows Update! (install critical updates first)

Why data deduplication is important

One of the biggest challenges to the data storage community is how to effectively store data without taking the exact same data and storing again and again in different locations on the same servers, hard drives, tape libraries etc. There have been many attempts to address these redundancie some more successful than others. There has been an attitude in the data storage cmmuninty that as we saw significant price reductins the cost of many data storage options that data storage savings was an exercise whose time had passed. With the regulatory enviorment becming more stringent, the volume of saved data again begain to explode and more and more options began to be considered to address data storage concerns.

The latest answer offered by the data storage field is the technology known as data deduplication. Also known as "single-instance storage" and "intelligent compression"this advanced data storage method takes a piece of data and stores it once. It then refers to this data as often as it is asked by a pointer (or pointers) that replaces the entire string of data. These pointers then refer back to the original string of data. This is especially effective when multiple copies of the same data are being archived. The archiving of only one instance of the data is required. This reduces storage requirements and back-up times substantially.

If a department wide e-mail attachment,(2 megaytes in size) is distributed to 50 different email accounts and each one must be archived, then intead of saving the attachment 50 times, it is saved once with a savings of 98 megabytes of storage space for this one attachment. Multiply this over numerous departments and thousands of emails over the course of a year and the savings can be quite substantial. Recovery time objectives (RTO)improve significantly with the use of Data Deduplication reducing the

need for back-up tape libraries. This also lowers most storage space requirements realizing significant savings in every area of hardware storage procurement

needs.

Operating at the block(sometimes byte)level allows for smaller pieces of data to saved, as the unique iterations of each block or bit that has been changed are recognized and saved. Instead of having a whole file saved each time there is a change in a bit of information contained in that file, only the changed information is saved. Hash algorithms such as SHA-1 or MD5 are used to generate unique numbers for blocks of information that has changed. Most effective data deplication is used in conjunction

with other methods data reduction delta differencing and conventional compression are two such methods. This combination can greatly reduce any errors non-redundant sytems might incur.

How to secure your pc software and data

The role of the personal computer has taken a whole new meaning ever since the introduction of the Internet. There are scores of Internet surfers who use the Internet from shopping to banking to investing and much more and the Internet today, is a buzzing, throbbing center of activity. But there's some bad news – the Internet is also swarming with quite a few elements from the dark side – and they are called hackers and phishers.

Hackers try to break into your computer to steal or corrupt your important data, while phishers try to obtain your personal identification using dubious methods. You have no choice but to protect your computer from these elements and here a few, easy, cost-effective steps you must take to make your computer almost as secure as Fort Knox:

1. Take a backup of important data regularly – preferably, daily. Buy another hard drive for the backup, but do not permanently plug it into your computer. The idea is to keep your backups away from your computer just in case it is hacked into.

2. Always update your operating system. All developers of operating systems (Windows, Apple OS and Linux) regularly release patches and updates when they discover holes in their programs. So, remember to keep the "automatic update" feature on always. Microsoft Tip: Windows users can go to windowsupdate. microsoft. com and download the latest updates.

3. Your web browser (Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) too must be updated for the same reasons stated above. All you have to do is visit the browser developer's homepage and download the latest version or update. If you are using the Microsoft Office Suite, then you must make it a point to visit officeupdate. microsoft. com and update it, as this software suite is a hacker's favorite.

4. Next, install a firewall on your computer. A firewall turns your computer invisible on the Internet and hackers, phishers, virus/Trojan developers, malware and adware cannot break into it. You can visit zonealarm. com and download a personal edition, which comes free. However, if your data security needs are critical, then you must consider investing in a 100% hack-proof firewall.

4. Hackers mostly employ Active-X and JavaScript for planting malicious programs into computers. Also, cookies are regularly planted on your computer to track your browsing preferences – but cookies are relatively harmless. To stay away from malicious programs, you need to tweak your web browser's security settings – Set your security setting for the “Internet zone” to High, and for your “trusted sites zone” to Medium-Low.

5. Now, you need virus protection and therefore, need to install anti-virus software. AVG anti-virus is free software that is updated regularly and you can download a personal edition by visiting its developer's website grisoft. com/.

6. Never ever open mail attachments that come from unknown sources. They are sure to contain a virus or a Trojan. Also, never run a program located at an unknown origin, on a website that does not have a security certificate – such programs will plant a Trojan on your system.

8. The Windows operating system is set to “hide file extensions for known file types”. Turning off this option will help you see files with unusual extensions – which, in all probability, will be viruses/Trojans/Keyloggers.

9. When you are working offline, disconnect your computer from the local area network. That way, a hacker will not be able to attack your computer.

10. Build a boot disk just in case a malicious program crashes your system.

11. Finally, you need to install an anti-spyware program. Ad-Aware SE Personal is an award-winning tool that can help you detect and eliminate spyware effectively.

These are the basic steps required to secure your computer. Always remember to keep your anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall programs up-to-date. So, use our guide and turn your computer into a virtual Fort Knox. Good Luck!

Microsoft to conquer localized media delivery problems

From the time that commercial paid advertisements and other media content came into being, it inadvertently led to an increase in the demand for more highly targeted and effective marketing campaigns on the Internet.

But the Internet is constantly evolving and with all the changes that went on, it is a wonder how the marketing industry is going to cope. Fortunately, most search giants are diligently working on ways to resolve that issue. Take for example Microsoft who recently expressed its hope to develop localized media directory. This is a system that advertisers can use in order to create a more localize content, which they can send to various websites.

Before, advertisers only used one approach in terms of providing advertisements on a website and this is to try to determine the subject matter of a page. After that they tried to provide advertising suitable to that content. However, most advertisers nowadays are more interested in sending advertising that will go to an audience in a certain area or region.

Advertisements that were subjected to content can be targeted to specific geographical locations by looking at the IP address of a visitor. However, this kind of approach more often than not results in serving the visitor with advertisements based upon the location of the owner of the IP address. One problem that may result from that is when a visitor uses a large ISP, which is actually located some distance away from where he or she is viewing a site from.

So a logical alternative would be to try to collect some geographical location information from the visitor themselves. Here you would have to rely upon a user of a personalized web service to provide you with that information. An example of this information is a phone number, zip code, or something else that can tell where they are located at.

But then not everyone feels comfortable providing that type of information of information online. What with all those horror stories about identity theft, which abounded the web? Chances are you will have a hard time fishing out information. Another drawback here is that the information might not be that credible? Why, well somebody might have supplied that information in order to get something like information about local weather and once they move they will not bother to change the information that they previously supplied.

So what do you do? Well, another to go about delivering ads based upon location would be to try to comprehend the location of the site. That is, if there is one associated with it and served yellow pages styled ads on that page. There is a patent application assigned to Microsoft, which was released recently. The said patent look at various ways to display ads related to what it believes is the location of a site.

The patent which was entitled, System and method for automatic presentation of locality-based content on network site was invented by Microsoft data mining analyst Li Li. It was filed on September 23, 2004 and was published March 23, 2006.

According to the patent’s abstract the invention is associated to the field of network services. To be more precise it is basically a proposal for automatically filtering and delivering locality-based advertisements or other media to Web or other networked sites that display a local nature or connection. An interesting aspect here is that it may allow the user to view ads and other content which may be similar to an online "yellow pages" experience, where advertisements and other content are automatically grouped according to region or area.

The type of information that may be looked for upon a site may include postal or zip codes, telephone numbers, town or state names, call out signs for radio or television stations, as well as other geographic indicators.

This type of information would be collected by program instead of being done manually as before. Also, this information would be accumulated in a content server. Then it would be matched with advertisements or other content, which will eventually be served to the visitor of a site.

Examples of some of the types of advertisements and content that may be served were described in the patent. Some of the examples cited may include listings of local television and radio programming, as well as advertisements or promotions for groceries, restaurants, flower shops, car dealerships, real estate services, and so on.

The location of a website can also be ascertained with the use of other techniques. This may include a look at the behavior of users, for instance the clicking of business name, telephone number or other links.

So is there really a need for this so-called Microsoft invention? Indeed there is. You see, although web pages or services that are capable of tracking user inputs in order to generate localized content still rely on detecting inputs or behavior from the user side. Due to that dependency, if a user chooses not to submit their ZIP code, telephone number or any identifying information, it will no longer be possible to generate localized ads or content to the user. Also, even if it did manage to generate localized ads or content there is no way to ensure their accuracy. And this is just one example of the various problems associated in localized media delivery.

If Microsoft will be able to successfully develop this patent then that would be another breakthrough under their belt. Just imagine a way to address all the ongoing issues and problems in localized media deliver, that one will be thoroughly appreciated by the marketing industry. If indeed there is a way then Microsoft will find it. After all, they did not gain the title of a worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for nothing.

Microsoft was founded way back in 1975. For more than three decades the company had consistently provided the public with a wide range of products and services. These products and services are especially designed to help people succeed in their respective businesses by providing innovative software and programs. Among the company’s famous trademarks are Windows Media, Windows and MSN.