Keyboards and Chicken Parm
Oh mighty keyboard.
Thou hath been with us for some decades. Ne'er really a change. Always QWERTY, sometimes slim, sometimes fat. We love you in all your forms. The keyboard may be the most basic input peripheral we use daily, but how many people see the importance?
EVERYONE seems to make their own keyboard. HP, Dell, Sony, Gateway ... all are just rebranded pieces of Chinese manufacturing. They didn't create the keyboard, nor spend much time analyzing it. It ships with your desktop computer and it's usually mediocre at best.
Enter Logitech. Now this is a brand I can get behind. Certainly not all their keyboards are fabulous, but the vast majority are. They always work, have a nice touch and are available at any store you can purchase computer accessories.
Understanding Technology Projects - Quality, Speed, and Price
Ahh technology. How everyone loves thee. Let me count the ways ... you can let me down.
Welcome to the latter half of 2009, where everyday computing is normalcy and not having a website is like having the swine flu. Everyone will have the need for some type of technology project at some point in the near future, more than likely.
The Basics
The basic rule with any project has to do with its three main components. Timeline, budget and difficulty/quality. You can only have two of the three components in your control at any time.
Want a cheap, quality product? You're going to be waiting a long time. (You know, that guy who promised to build you a website for free?
How about a really killer website, really quickly? Expect to pay up to and over 100% more for speed and quality.
Drive More Traffic to Your Website
If you lack a marketing budget, use the following three powerful approaches to instantly increase your site’s traffic.
Get exposure on social news sites
Social news publications and aggregators enable people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Web. These sites, such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Fark, Yahoo! Buzz and del.icio.us, surface the best content as submitted and voted on by the community. When you submit an article, image, or video, it will immediately be added into the mix where other members can find it, access your site to read it, and vote for it. Once something has earned a critical mass of votes, it becomes worthy of appearing on the site’s homepage, which is the ultimate traffic driver you’re aiming for. Since you’ll have to compete with some of the nation’s leading content providers, you need to be strategic about which pieces of content you select to submit (they need to be unique and memorable) and which are most appropriate for a particular site’s audience (for example, Digg and Fark cater to more males than females).
Don't Get Nickel and Dimed on Your New Website
Thinking of getting someone to create you a new website? Does your online presence not say about your company what you want it to? Do you need more functionality to your website? Well, even if you don't use Tampa Tech Solutions to create your new website, here are a few things you should know.
1. Most people advertising on Craigslist for $300 (or cheaper!) websites fall into one of two categories. Either they are just trying to nickel and dime you, or they are rank amateurs.
Google Wave is going to change how we do business
Google is poised to take the technology world by storm (again). Simply not content with ruling the search space and having one of the largest hosted online gratis software suites, Google is going to reinvent email.
The Google Wave team intro their product at Google I/O 2009 as basically the replacement for email. WAIT. Replacement for email? You heard it right.Email is old ... in fact it's one of the oldest technologies for networked computers and it hasn't changed much from its inception.
Google thinks that email can be easier, richer, more interactive and FAR more useful. Based on their demonstration, I have to say they are absolutely correct.
The video is over an hour long and if you're at all a Geek like me, then you won't find it boring at all. If you find you really need to get to some meat, make sure you hit 1:12:00 in the video and watch "Rosie" demonstrated. They take LIVE chat to a whole new level. I can't accurately describe just how cool it is, so you'll just have to check it out. Hit the "read" link below to see the video.