Gadgets & Tech Blog
1 Jun
An employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy centralized log viewing via one central networked PC. This is something that I think I should start using within the company instead of the old school card swipe time clock since it seems to keep on getting broken almost very frequently. I have seen how a productivity meter works and I think this will really help us with the employee monitoring, especially with people that seems to have a hobby of reporting late for work. I have checked all resources and it is possible to have the system in a short period of time. I can also monitor people from visiting malicious web sites that contain nudity and pornography that often carry chunks of malwares and viruses. With a centralized system, it would also be easier to track the people who work hard and who are the slackers in the company. I can finally create the employee incentives that we have been delivering for months because the system will be able to give us more data for our criteria.
19 May
My cousin was telling me something about optimization and how I could make it work for my own web site and make people visit my site more often. He told me an important search engine optimisation advice that I think would be very beneficial for me if I do correctly. He told me to optimize my titles if I want search engines to show links to my site whenever people search for something. He said that the title and META tags should be different on every page of my website if I wish for most search engines to store and list them in the search results. The SEO Experts have run tests with these two pieces of code to help them reach an accepted conclusion about how best to use them. Of course, with this he said I should also know which keywords to use because the last thing that I need to do is to highlight words that nobody really cares to look for or even see. My keywords should be as broad as possible and I have to be on the lookout for the words that people really do look for whenever they go to Google or Yahoo search.
13 May
We had a major network meltdown in the office yesterday as one of the servers went haywire, causing the network to stop functioning and all we can do is play solitaire in our respective computers. I was approached by the head technician and they were telling me that we are in need to get some new Cisco Equipment if we want everything to be fully functional as soon as possible. They told me that we don’t have any backup so we really have to get some new ones. They also said something about Cisco switches to make sure that the Ethernet would run smoothly. He gave me an estimation of how much they would be and it was really expensive. I asked him if we could get it something reconditioned and he said we could. There are also some hardware and equipment lease that he threw as an option so we could at least save money, until we get the funds for the new ones. I told him to look for the best ones and he immediately gave me a web site so I could check the information myself. I already made orders and said we should get the items later today. I just hope everything works out perfectly or we will have to do overtime work to finish everything.
5 May
I just finished doing my web site and I’ll be launching it real soon once my business partners give the go signal for the online marketing that we created, in support to the marketing firm that we have created a couple of months back. For now, we have decided to give free advertising to the public on our web site so we could get some possible partnership with the ones that would take advantage of our banner advertising slots. We just want to make sure that we could somehow, find some possible partners by doing so and look for other companies that also cater the products that we have. We are currently eyeing the smaller firms so we could come up with better plans for the business, and try to get their trust at the same time. We are not that big ourselves but I believe that by helping others to advertise via web, we could get better support. The banner ads will be placed on the right side of the web site and we will just require a certain pattern or style and they can pass their ads to us so we could have ourselves a pool of companies in there.
29 Apr
A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data. Initially, bar codes symbolized data in the widths and the spacing of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1D (or one dimensional) barcodes or symbologies. They also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images termed 2D (two dimensional) matrix codes or symbologies. Although 2D systems use symbols other than bars, they are generally referred to as barcodes as well. I find it really amusing that by using a bunch of lines, barcode scanners can actually identify items and other things exactly what it is for or what it stands for. This inventory control software is really remarkable as it makes things easier when checking the exact number of items inside an establishment. This is one thing that really gives comfort to a lot of people, especially in department stores, because they would immediately know how many stocks do they have, how many items of the same kind got sold, and how many items remaining do they have in a single flash of light from the scanner. And as I believe, barcodes are also used nowadays in identification cards using a special time and attendance software that can easily record attendance within a company. this should make the human resource department easier because everything is computer generated and in just a matter of minutes, they would automatically know who’s on time and who is not, unlike before when most companies were still using time cards, they have to wait for fifteen days or more to see how the attendance went.
29 Apr
Cell phone reviews, news & prices
I just lost my phone and I have no idea where and how. All I can remember is that I was riding the subway, then after a few minutes, I arrived at my stop, then when I checked my pockets, my phone is gone. Right now I am looking for cell phone reviews, news & cellphone prices to find out the best phones right now so I could have a replacement as soon as I possibly can.
So far, the best phone out in the market seems to be the Blackberry brands, but some Nokia phones are giving their dues and trying to come up with some stuff that they can produce to get in to a competitive level. In just a few more weeks, Nokia will be releasing the N97 model, where their slogan says “Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97”. While the phone with TFT Touch screen, 16,777,216 colors, 360×640 pixels, and 3.5 inches in size look enticing, I think Blackberry’s Curve 8300 is better for me with its built in speakerphone, supports 3.5 mm headset, 2.0MP Camera / Camcorder, and it’s capability of being unlocked to support other network SIM cards seems better for my style.
29 Apr
A web hosting service is a kind of Internet hosting service that permits persons and organizations to supply their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that offer space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, normally in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, which is called colocation. There are a lot of web hosting sites right now that offer seemingly the same thing, but somehow, different once in use. For some, the cheaper web hosting is, the better, but of course, would get some insufficient tools or perks. There are even some that is considered the best web host, but then again, offers the most expensive services, but with better plus side, better packages and better optimization from the hosts themselves. Still, there are some sites that would give you a list of every single web hosts that get a lot of users and they will tell you which ones would be best for you, depending on your needs and your capabilities.
27 Apr
The expansion of the *.pps is PowerPoint Show. Microsoft Powerpoint is an application program comes under Microsoft Office package developed by Microsoft mainly used for presentation purpose. This suite runs on Microsoft Windows and MAC OS X platforms. It is mostly utilized by the business professionals, training institutions, educators, students to present or to illustrate their thoughts and ideas to a gathering. Such files can be printed, displayed on the computer also via projector, handled or navigated accord to the command of the host. Actually a *.pps file is made up of number of individual slides, which can be embedded with lots of audio and video effects. In fact there is a slight difference between *.ppt file and *.pps file, although the contents and application are same; to view a *.ppt file it is required to open it through Powerpoint application and view slide show, whereas *.pps file instantly make itself ready for slideshow. We can edit *.ppt directly, but we can’t edit file extension pps directly.
Torrent
The *.torrent is nothing but the torrent file. This *.torrent file is used to transfer, distribute, access data or media through the internet. It is highly a tedious process to transfer or distribute a bulk amount of data or resources over the internet. Since it is a time consumption process and there is a high chance of file crashing while downloading. Hence the user ( the client) can download the required content easily and rapidly using this file extention torrent.
Each file related with its corresponding application, likewise this torrent file (*.torrent file ) has to be linked with some torrent download software like bittorrent, mutorrent, etc. When this file is being executed using its corresponding software, it links with the corresponding peer, so that it starts downloading the content from that system. It supports peer to peer file sharing protocol.
27 Apr
I am working for a construction company as one of the engineers and even though I don’t really work on the hard stuff, I still have to wear safety gears, just in case something happens within the construction site. Just yesterday, I bought a new pair of Caterpillar boots and work jackets because my old Timberland boots have already been worn out due to excessive usage, and the work jackets, because I just wanted to have something new.
I work as an electrical engineer for the company and I always take care of everything that has to do with the electrical wirings of the whole building. I am the one who gives and designs the plans for the whole thing, which lines should be connected with each other and where switches should be located in each floors. Sometimes, when really needed, I am the one who places the wires, especially when electrical wirings in some offices are included in the job order. So basically, I’m not just working intellectually, but physically as well. Everything should be done with proper calculations because any mistake, big or small, can cause big tragedy t everyone, and I am really thankful that nothing like that has ever happened to me in the whole seven years of my career. As of the moment, there are two projects that we are working on and they are almost finished with the construction of the outer layers. Once done, I will simultaneously have people work on the wirings so it would be easier to handle.
27 Apr
Contour lines are lines drawn on a map that are connecting points of equal height. A contour line, which is also known as level set, isopleth, isoline, isobar, isogram or isarithm, of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value. In cartography, a contour line, more commonly just called a “contour”, joins points of equal elevation, which is the height, above a given level, such as mean sea level. A contour map is a map illustrated with contour lines, for example a topographic map, which thus shows valleys and hills, and the steepness of slopes. The contour interval of a contour map is the difference in elevation between successive contour lines. Something I learned while we were studying about maps and elevation data when we went to a museum the other day. It was a really great experience because I was able to learn a lot about how lands are formed and a lot more things that I never thought I’ll be able to understand, not even in my dreams. At this point, it should be easier for me to read maps now since I already have better understanding about it and should help me a lot, especially when having a road trip.