Monday, December 26, 2011

Indentity

Who are you? Seriously, how would you even start answering that question? We all have defining traits and it would take most of us an extremely long time to go through all of them. Throughout life, we take on many roles and to some extent even personalities. You would not go around taking to your boss the way you do with your siblings or you would not even send a coworkers an internet fax with the tone that you use with your close friend. So if during the day we act differently around different people, how do we really know that we are the same person at the end of the day as when we woke up in the morning? There has to be some consistency in our personality or there would be a lot of troubled relationships. On a side note, that might be a problem in most relationships: people are never consistent with how they act so we never know what to expect. There is a thread that links all the experiences a person goes through and the certain way that they interpret them. What do you think that thread is?
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Wi-Fi in Your Pocket

If you are in need of a good WiFi signal because that internet fax has to be sent out immediately but are nowhere near a good router, the mini pocket router is the perfect solution. The Mini Pocket Router is geared to extending a home wireless network or enabling more devices. It links to a local Ethernet cable. It also plugs right into the electrical outlet, so a power cord isn’t necessary. The Portable Wireless N Router connects via the 3G cell networks, which is handy if you happen to be out of range of any good Wi-Fi. It works with most USB modems and can also be powered via the USB socket. That’s pretty useful for those times when you need to power up but don’t have a separate outlet handy. This is also a great tool to have if the people that you are working with do not have 3G smartphones but need the internet. What are your thoughts of this mini router?
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Selective Services

Being able to be in control of your business is very important. With the phone service companies today, there are a wide variety of services that you can get and be in complete control of the settings so that that they fit your business and even budget perfectly. One of the services that you can get is call forwarding where you can select the different settings. Automatically forward your incoming calls to a different phone number when pre-defined criteria, such as the phone number, time of day or day of week, are met. The selective call forwarding allows you to forward specific calls matching your criteria to a different phone number. You can also use this service to forward calls from your manager, a family member, or an important customer to your cell phone, alternate business phone, or home phone. The criteria for each entry can be a list of up to 12 phone numbers or digit patterns, a time of day range and specified days of the week. All criteria for an entry must be satisfied for the call to be forwarded (phone number and day of week and time of day). If the call is not forwarded, the call continues as if this service was not turned on.
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Friday, December 09, 2011

Why Do You Go Online?

When you are bored, do you just go online looking for entertainment. And no I am not talking about that. I mean you can go to the social networking site or have an internet phone conversation with some of your friends. The study -- conducted among 2,260 adults ages 18 and over on landlines and cellphones -- has a margin of error of 3.7%. But it's not just young web users that turn to the Internet during their down time -- about 58% of all adults or 74% of online adults said they use the Internet this way, up from 45% of adults who said they did so in a Pew survey conducted in 2006. Pew noted that the growth of people using the Internet as a "destination for fun" coincides with the rise of broadband connections, social networking and video. The trend also suggests that the Web is becoming a competitor to other kinds of other leisure activities. It makes me wonder what type of leisure activities will be pushed out of the way. If it is playing physical games and interacting with people one on one, we might be is some serious trouble. How do you feel about the direction the internet is going?
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