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March 2, 2010

New Computer Inventions

Filed under: Business — Tags: , , — kuru @ 7:03 pm
Jason Gluckman asked:




New inventions are everyday occurrences in the computer world. As a matter of fact, a month ago, Stealth Ideas Inc., introduced the StealthSurfer II ID Protect. It is a miniature flash drive that lets you surf the Internet anonymously from your computer using an encrypted mode. It comes with memory of 256 megabytes to two-gigabytes and prices start at $99. For those who dabble in the arts, the DigiMemo-692 Digital Notepad enables you to record sketches with ink and paper and then syncronize your notes into your PC using any handwriting reorganization software.

Handheld devices such as PDA or Pocket PC is best for note sketching and it can be synchronized into your PC as a digital copy. The problem of the handheld is its screen input limitations and the screen protector needs to be replaced frequently. DigiMemo 692 Digital Notepad is a breakthrough to all these limitations which is able to ‘record’ your sketches with ink and ordinary paper. You can easily synchronize your notes into your PC and it is compatible with most of the handwriting reorganization software. This handy device will record your notes, ideas and sketches without the need to scan, and it comes with ink cartridge, a digital pen and software. It also comes with a USB cable that is compatible with WIN 2000 and XP.

The Microsoft Xbox 360 is one of the latest inventions of video games. Video game lovers everywhere are rejoicing the arrival of the new system. The newest Xbox is still a gamer’s dream, but it is also being marketed as a media center. Not only can the system be used for playing video games, but it can also be used to play DVDs, CDs and MP3s. Digital cameras can be hooked up to it, as well as mp3 players and even personal computers.

Patenting computer and related inventions come under the intellectual property rights of different countries, where the ownership and copy rights are reserved to the person or organization who invented the product. But in the United States, computer hardware or software invention are deemed patentable only if the invention is vital to a particular task or process. In short, patents are not given to software or even hardware, that are extensions to existing computer technology or if it’s just a method of doing business.

One of the new computer inventions is patented by IBM and this is a tiny hard drive the size of a fifty cent piece. This small chip like thing can store up to 340 MB of data and will be very useful in mobile devices, digital cameras, music players, etc.

There are a lot of companies like the IBM and Microsoft that have full fledged research teams working full time on computer inventions.

February 22, 2010

Notepad Holders - Keep Your Notepad Securely in Place

Filed under: Shopping And Product Reviews — Tags: , , — kuru @ 6:59 pm
Ilse Hagen asked:




A lot of students and professionals are having a hard time keeping their things organized in their bags or desks. They often need to have or carry essentials like notepads and pens for more convenience in taking down notes or short messages when the need comes. To keep those necessities organized and in one place, they can use notepad holders-devices that are used for keeping notepads intact.

How do you want to hold your notepad?

Notepads tend to get crumpled, torn, crushed, or dismantled if you are careless enough to leave them on your desk or inside your bag. That is why there are notepad holders that can protect them from anything that can destroy their quality. Nowadays, a notepad holder can be made of metal, wood, and leather and you can choose one depending on your style or your needs.

For something that can be placed beside telephones and desktops, you can go for a wooden notepad holder. There are also leather holders that have cutaway slots that can help you determine if you are running out of notepad pages. You can also opt to place them inside your drawer or on top of your desk.

For something stylish with a professional appeal, you can opt for the metal notepad holder. Usually made of aluminum, this notepad holder is lightweight and available in vertical or horizontal styles.

Flipping of notes is made easier

Not all notepad holders are alike and can provide you with the benefits of owning one. To make sure that your notepad holder is indeed useful, choose something with a lid you can easily flip up and secure back in its place. That way, the pages of your notepad can be protected from moisture and dust.

Clipboard-style holders are also ideal since you can tuck in loose sheets with the clip. Aside from that, they also come with hard surfaces so you can write comfortably.

February 15, 2010

How To Create A Sitemap

Filed under: Internet And Businesses Online — Tags: , , — kuru @ 3:11 am
Jeremiah Patton asked:




A sitemap of a website is similar to the table of contents of a book. Sitemaps are important because it guides web surfers to the particular part of the website they have a point of interest in. With it they would save time following links and get right to the point instead.

Sitemaps are also where search engines look at if somebody is looking for a particular keyword or phrase. If you have a site map, you can most likely be searched.

Creating a sitemap, now with software technology surging in, is relatively easier than before. You need not be a programming guru to be one. All need is a notepad, a program editor, and some patience. Here’s how you do it:

Create the listing on a notepad.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a notepad. Any word processing program will do. First off, make sure to type in all the parts and pieces of your website. Include all pages and all links you have. Create it as if you listing the contents of your book. Make a draft first. You’re sure no to miss something out this way.

Create a new page for your sitemap.

You can insert the sitemap on your website on one of its pages or you can create an entirely different page for it. Using your notepad, incorporate all tags necessary to it to make another webpage. Open up your website creator program and tag your sitemap using it. If you have created your website on your own, this will be easy for you.

Create a link for the sitemap.

You won’t be able to view the sitemap if you won’t put a link for it, of course. Create the link on the front page of your website so that visitors can view it right away and be directed appropriately.

Check your work.

It is important to validate the functionality of the links you created on the sitemap. Test each and every one in there and if you get an error, be sure to fix it accurately. Run through every single page to make sure that all are accounted for.

Upload your work.

Place the sitemap now on your live browser and double check it. It should function as smoothly as the dry run. Error should be minimal at this stage since you already have verified it locally.

The steps provided herewith is the manual way of creating a sitemap. These days, if you search hard enough on the web, you will find online programs that will do all these work for you. All you have to do it type in the URL or the link of your website and they will create the sitemap with click of a button.

Of course that method is generic. All of you who have created their sitemap that way will have an end product that is all the same, plus there’s that possibility that something else will be inserted in there too. Then again, the process is less taxing and way, way simpler.

But if you want a more personalized output, and you are pretty good with computers and programming yourself, better make one of your own. And since you made your website anyway, creating sitemap is just like creating any other page on the website. Other than you’ll know for sure the links are accurate, you can organize the links the way you prefer it to be. Major parts of the site are emphasized compared to less significant. This is important especially if you are selling products or offering services online.

Sitemap is vital to a website. People search the web a lot for something. If your website has what that particular person is looking for, and your sitemap reports it, then you have a new customer looking at your items. Not only that, they will see some other things up for sale that they might be interested in as well.

Sitemaps, be it generated by a program automatically or you made it yourself, presents the same purpose. That is to lead your visitors to where they’re likely headed, and for you to be seen on the World Wide Web through search spiders. So with these, make sure your website has a sitemap of its own, lest make one.

February 12, 2010

Japan’s History - A Book Review

Filed under: Book Reviews — Tags: , — kuru @ 10:27 pm
Lance Winslow asked:




Are you looking for a very good book, one which will help you learn about the history of Japan? If so, there is a very good book I would like to recommend to you, one which is in my personal library, and one that I believe will give you with the overview you need to understand modern Japan. If you don’t understand the history - you probably won’t understand the culture, people, or even how Japan came to be what it is today - the name of the book is;

“A History of Japan - From Stone Age to Superpower” by Kenneth G. Henshall, professor of Japanese studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand; Published by St. Martin’s Press, New York, New York, 1999. ISBN: 0-312-21986-5.

This is a complete history book of Japan from ancient times, including all of their ancient myths to the present, or the year 2000. It takes us from the very earliest of inhabitants, which are thought to be circa 13,000 BC and all the way through this Stone Age of hunter gatherers. This book is broken into six parts in all. Part two takes us through 700 to 1600 BC where the reader will learn about the Nara, Heian, the warrior state or the Kamakura Period, and the Muromachi Period, as well as the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.

In part three we learn about a closed country, drawn inwardly between 1600 and 1868, and in part four we watch as the nation of Japan is building into a modern country. We watch the economic development as well as the war and the politics. In part five we watch the preparation for war and the lead up to the war; and finally the war itself, which changed the Japanese Empire forever.

Lastly, in this six part we see the incredible resurgence of a strong people who rebuilt their country into the second largest economic power house on the planet, something incredible for an island nation. You will understand why the Japanese are so proud, and how Japan came to be. I would recommend reading this book prior to reading any history in the last decade in Japan. This way you will have an overview, you can understand that context better. Indeed, hope you will please consider all this.

February 10, 2010

Computer Memory - Why It’s Important

Filed under: Computers And Technology — Tags: , , — kuru @ 5:23 pm
Michael Russell asked:




Many of you have probably asked yourselves this many times. For those of you who are looking to buy or have already purchased a computer may still be asking yourselves what this piece of hardware does for your computer. Buying computer memory is not as simple as going to the store and asking a sales representative for it. Each computer can only support a certain type of memory.

Walk into any computer store and either look at the cute little sticker they put on the case or just ask the sales representative and they will almost always let you know exactly how much memory, or RAM, the computer has. Ask them what it means and depending on where you’re shopping you may or may not get an answer. The purpose of this article is to help you get a better grasp on what you need to look for when it comes to computer memory.

A more common name for computer memory is RAM. RAM stands for Random Access Memory. For those of you who are not fluent in computer lingo you may still be complexly lost.

To help you understand better about the purpose of RAM we will go over how anything gets done on your computer without RAM. Each time you start an application on your computer it goes through many steps to bring up the application you are wanting. It usually starts with an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse. Let’s pick on a well known application that most of you are probably familiar with; Notepad. You would start by taking a hold of your mouse and clicking on the start menu. Doing so would in turn pop up a menu. From that menu you would find and click on notepad. Once you click on the notepad icon, information is sent electronically through the wire of the mouse down to your USB or PS/2 port on your motherboard. When it gets there the information then travels to your processor. The processor then decides where it needs to send this information. Most of the time, the information is needed to be sent to your hard drive, since your hard drive is where most of your information is kept. Once the information gets to your hard drive it then searches for Notepad. All the files needed to run Notepad are sent back to your processor. The processor then sends the files where they need to go to run Notepad.

Now that seems like a long journey to pull up an application as simple as Notepad, doesn’t it? This is what makes RAM so wonderful. All those files that are needed to run Notepad can be stored on RAM. When you click on the Notepad icon on your start menu your RAM will actually send the required files needed to run Notepad rather than the long trip explained above. This alleviates a lot of stress on your computer. Instead of worrying about where the files that are needed are and searching for them, RAM will step up and let your computer know, “Hey, I have those files right here! You can start Notepad now!”

If you have ever seen a stick of RAM you may have noticed that it looks a lot like little black squares attached to the greenish colored circuit board. These little black squares are where the information is stored.

RAM does this for starting and running all applications on your computer. The most important thing you must remember when looking at memory is that each application you need to run requires a certain amount of RAM in order for it work correctly. The more you have the better off you will be and the faster your computer will run. You have to be cautious though, having too much RAM can cause problems. The problems mainly arise because of a combination of both hardware and software restrictions. If you have a fairly recent computer you could safely get away with running 2GBs of computer memory. The operating system you probably use, Windows XP, will only support up to 4GBs. This isn’t a lot when you compare the size to hard drive space. But your computer doesn’t need a lot of RAM because the information that is stored in it is not permanent. It would be almost impossible for you to run so many applications and work on them all to ‘fill up’ your RAM with application information. But as technology grows applications will require more and more RAM to operate. So the amount of RAM that you can safely use will eventually increase. Windows XP 64-bit version already supports up to 16GBs of RAM and although it hasn’t gone retail yet, Windows Vista will also support up to 16GBs. This will allow for programmers to create a more diverse range of applications to run on your computer.

The underlying factor in the benefits of getting RAM is two-fold. It relives stress on your CPU and can make your computer a lot faster. Now if you upgrade from 512MB to 1GB you may not see much of a difference. Going from 512MB to 2GB will undoubtedly show you some massive speed improvements with your computer. Always be sure to check with your motherboard documentation before getting RAM for your computer. Each motherboard will only support a certain type of RAM. Don’t make the mistake of buying RAM that you can’t even use.

February 9, 2010

Ice Cream: The Delicious History-Book Review

Filed under: Book Reviews — Tags: , — kuru @ 5:25 pm
Joy Cagil asked:




In the White House what was often on the menu that George Washington was wild about and Presidents Madison, Andrew Jackson, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon would not do without? The answer is ice cream, without a doubt. Ice cream was also declared “morale food” by the US army during World War I. These tidbits of information I learned from Marilyn Powell’s book, “Ice Cream: The Delicious History.”

Powell must have a true passion for ice cream to have gone to such great lengths to bring her readers the history and the legends of ice cream with so much enthusiasm. The book is as tasteful as the frozen dessert of cream, sugar, and eggs most of us enjoy, and the author’s writing style is not frozen at all, but warm, animated, and engaging.

The history of ice cream is universal, and it starts with the oldest of times, Biblical maybe, when snow was a precious item and people collected it. There were ice pits in ancient Britain dating to Iron Age. Then in old Greece, Hippocrates, father of medicine, warned people against eating it, because the stuff suddenly threw “the body into a different state,” but people ate it anyway. Even Marco Polo might have seen it sold on the streets in China.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, stern Europeans had to be cajoled to let the cold stuff enter into their bodies, since most illnesses were blamed on the ice cream. Yet, convincing the Europeans proved not to be too difficult, given the flavor of the dessert.

Elaborating on the stories of ice cream and its variations like the banana split, Powell carries the history of the dessert through Europe and the United States to Andy Warhol’s ice cream cone paintings to our day.

To adorn all these embellished facts, “Ice Cream: The Delicious History” has delightful drawings of old ice-cream makers and contraptions, old and new ice cream recipes, President Jefferson’s Vanilla Ice Cream recipe, and another one for the Black Cow Soda.

According to the book’s publisher, the author, Marilyn Powell has taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. An award-winning writer, broadcaster, and producer, her work has been published in Saturday Night, The Canadian Forum, and Books in Canada. Her short stories have appeared in Toronto Short Stories and Aurora III. Powell has a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard University.

The book is in hardcover with 256 pages and ISBN: 1585677973.

It is quite fitting to end this article with Powell’s own words in the epilogue. “Ice cream is a pleasure, a triumph, a treasure of invention. As Voltaire is said to have remarked, ‘Ice Cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”

Enjoy the book. I did.

South Pacific WWII History - Book Review

Filed under: Book Reviews — Tags: , — kuru @ 2:54 pm
Lance Winslow asked:




In World War II, the United States Navy did an incredible job in the South Pacific, but at times the chaos turned to crisis and there were casualties. The Imperial Japanese were systematic planners and thinkers and they executed their strategy as best they could, luckily for us, the Western way of thinking provided us with the agility, tenacity, and will to win.

Most people today would like to put the World War II battles between the Japanese and Americans behind them. After all, the Japanese are one of our largest trading partners, and we are now friends. 50% of all Americans drive Japanese cars, and each one of us has Japanese products in our home. The Japanese also buy American products, and the United States military has a major base there.

Nevertheless, you must never forget your history or you are doomed to repeat it, or so someone once said. And therefore, I’d like to recommend a very good book to you on South Pacific World War II History, and things you probably don’t know. This is a book I have on my bookshelf along with a huge collection of World War II books, and one I’d recommend that you read, the name of the book is;

“Operation Bismarck Sea,” by Lawrence Cortest, 1977

“The incredible story of a patchwork allied air force that took on a Japanese naval armada and saved Australia from invasion.”

In this book you will learn about MacArthur’s “Operation Elkton” and Imaura “Operation 157″ and how historians tell us that weather, luck, skill, and will help does prevail in

New Guinea Guadalcanal Eel of the Pacific Rabaul

Too many Americans do not know the history, of their grandfathers, and all they did in the Pacific, and how what they did change the world forever. Indeed, I hope you will please consider this, and consider reading this book, and other books like it. We should never let this history die. Think on it.

February 7, 2010

Producing a Webpage in Notepad in Windows XP

Filed under: Computers And Technology — Tags: , , — kuru @ 2:36 pm
Josh Chandler asked:




Website creation has become very popular with many people all over the world. WYSIWYG editors are the best for the average website creator because it allows you to see your creation as you make it, which means you don’t have to write out complicated HTML code. It’s a well known fact that many people have sites don’t know the first bit of HTML code but still like to create websites.

For those of you who don’t fit this category and do know your td from your b tags, you probably find making websites far too much of a hassle on WYSIWYG editors, you just want to be able to create clean easy to manage HTML code without any fancy stuff, that where Notepad comes in, especially in the Windows XP platform, you can literally just write the HTML code into the document and view it as a webpage. Of course being a text editor Notepad doesn’t allow you to add extra things and you have to keep trawling back to the Internet Browser to see how things are looking, so if you would rather see changes you make being shown in a window use Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

So if you have just written a lod of HTML code into Notepad I bet you are wondering how the heck you get it into a Internet Browser such as Firefox or IE7. Well with the open document you must go to the file menu from here click save then type in the file name of your document make sure at the end you put .htm so your filename may read homepage.htm. The dropdown menu below this says that you are saving the file in .txt format. This format is only used when saving plain text files,if you save your page in this format it won’t be processed correctly by the web browser. So you will want to select all files from that menu and then click save. You have now just successfully created a webpage using Notepad. To access this file in the Internet Browser locate the file and double click it it should open in your default web browser.

February 6, 2010

Notepad is a Valuable Program

Filed under: Computers And Technology — Tags: , , — kuru @ 3:11 pm
Paul Escobedo asked:




Every person who has a regular PC has the program Notepad on their computer. Most people don’t know about it; those who do rarely think about using it. And yet, it’s probably the most versatile program on your computer.

Notepad’s main use is as a word processing program. There are definitely fancier programs out there, including Wordpad, which is also on your PC. Still, it’s very effective as a word processing program. You can write anything you want to, using any font, but it doesn’t have spell check. It will also save everything by default as a text file; you may or may not want to do that, but at least it can be used for that.

Another way it can be used is as a HTML writing program. The reason it’s good for that is that it doesn’t convert characters to things they’re not meant to be, unlike some word processing programs. If you know how to write HTML, you can write your entire code in the program, and link it to your browser so you can see what you’re writing as a test. You can open it in your browser as a text file, then when you’ve completed writing everything you can save your file as a HTML document. That’s one of the flexibilities of Notepad; you can save your program in any format you want to, with any extension, and it will stand as it’s supposed to.

That brings up something else it can do, which is open any extension type. Some types aren’t meant to show anything, but those that can be opened up so you can see the information inside works well with Notepad. It also allows you to save any changes in that same format, which other word processing files won’t. So, if you had to open a.ini file, you would tell Notepad to look for all files, open the one you want, make changes, then just hit Save and it’ll save the file the way you want it to be saved, without adding anything extra to the file.

One last thing it’s good for is if you need to copy any information from a web page into a different word processing program without any problems. Say you want to copy a paragraph from a website into MS Word, for instance. Two things could happen; one, it will come into your word processing program using a different font than what you’re using in your document, which means you have to highlight it and change it all over. Or two, it may lock your document up because it’s unsure how to handle the information, which might have a link embedded somewhere within it.

With Notepad, you can copy anything into it and it’ll accept it as just plain text. Then you can copy whatever you’ve put into Notepad and paste it into your Word document, and it’ll look just like the rest of your document; you won’t notice any changes, and it won’t bring over any hidden links. The same goes for spreadsheet programs such as Excel.

Notepad might just end up being a lifesaver in many circumstances; that is, if more people knew about it.

January 28, 2010

History of Counterfeit Money

Filed under: Reference And Education — Tags: , — kuru @ 2:58 pm
Amy Nutt asked:




Counterfeit money actually has a very long history, which means the concept is not really all that new. Currency has been around for a long time and with currency comes greed. They say that money is the root of all evil and counterfeiting is definitely not an exception. It involves creating artificial money for financial gain and deceives others in making them believe that it is real. It contributes to inflation that hurts the pocket books of people all over the world, it damages economies, and it hurts the reputations of the central banks of countries that are innocent because they are not the ones creating the fake cash. That is why governments impose harsh penalties against those caught making fake money.

But exactly how long has counterfeiting money been around? Well, it is true to say that it has been around about as long as money has been around. But how long has legitimate money been around? Well, it has been around approximately 2,700 years. Before that, our ancestors were trading sheep and cattle to get what they needed. They worked to acquire the things they had, but money was not their compensation. Their compensation was things needed in everyday living. The introduction of money changed everything, including how honestly some people made their living. Money became the way in which people acquired things, therefore things such as poverty worsened.

History

It was approximately 700 B.C. that real currency made its debut in the form of coins. It was within a hundred years of coins being introduced as currency that counterfeiting began. With it, the punishments began as well. Many cultures imposed death upon those caught counterfeiting coins. The practice wasn’t very difficult since the fake coins could very easily be made of metals that held no value, but looked like the real thing.

But it was in 1650 A.D. that paper money was developed and counterfeiting flourished, especially within America where counterfeit money was more common than genuine money. Counterfeiters had become so skilled that when the first federal coins were issued by the U.S. government in the 1780’s, they had the dies cut by an ex-counterfeiter in order to deter the practice, but it was during the Civil War that counterfeiting flourished once more because the United States government issued paper money for the first time.

As a result of this counterfeiting, the Secret Service was developed just to enforce the counterfeiting laws. Their job was to find the counterfeiters before the money ever made it into the money supply. Eventually, the Secret Service’s operations expanded to include the protection of the president, which is on a completely different spectrum from deterring counterfeiting, which was an operation conducted by the Treasury.

However, it was the late twentieth century that brought about machinery such as color copiers and other electronic devices that made counterfeiting easier. It is estimated that nearly $10 billion in counterfeit bills were circulated between 1990 and 1995. That is why the United States began making changes to their bills in 1996, beginning with the $100 bill. The United States Treasury believes that the new designs on the bills make counterfeiting almost impossible, but with each change it is just a matter of time before counterfeiters find new ways to duplicate the bills.

That is why the governments all over the world are imposing harsher penalties such as 15 years in prison on top of fines and restitution for the damage caused. They have also developed advanced methods to track down those creating counterfeit bills. In the end, the counterfeiters must know that they will get caught.

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