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Green Bay and Milwaukee Wisconsin are pretty lucky as people there will now be able to avail of HBO on Broadband. HBO subscribers and Time Warner high-speed Internet and roadrunner.com Internet service users will be able to avail of this particular service. About 600 titles and 400 hours of content such as documentaries, movies, and special HBO original series can now be downloaded. There will also be entire sets of HBO series available every month, not to mention trailers upcoming shows.

Hopefully this service courtesy will soon be brought out to other markets and talks with other local cable operators for some expansion.

Source: Market Watch

For almost any form of education, some sort of material or resource is used to transfer knowledge from the teacher to the student. The most common piece of materials would be a textbook. From the pages and words written on the book, the teacher guides the student through the process of learning and imparts wisdom in hopes that it will grow into something great in the future.

Herein lies the problem because not everybody has access to brand new and up to date text books. But, financially challenged people should not worry because there are many cheap used textbooks available. At first, they may seem obsolete because revisions are made to textbooks almost yearly. But in fact, most of these revisions do not change the gist of the lessons. There is still much to be learned from earlier revisions and it comes at a much cheaper cost.

Another upside is that there are plenty of cheap used textbooks circulating. Most big universities and colleges have programs that ask their graduating students to donate their textbooks so that less fortunate people may make the most out of it. At the end of the day, they will eventually learn the same thing anyway so you are doing everyone social justice by also allowing the less fortunate an opportunity to learn.

Cheap used textbooks may sound like a very degrading term but its value is simply not skin deep. It has much to offer to those who are less fortunate and you should all do your part and helping them rise from their hardships

Everyone loves a good argument. It clears the air, it makes things exciting – and it gets the blood pumping. Even when reading, people love to have a well constructed argument presented to them – whether they agree with the opinion or not.

This may be why controversial content often works so well on the internet. Many influential bloggers swear by the technique of featuring an occasional argumentative post. It usually stirs up the conversation, if not a huge amount of controversy, and at its best can get whole sections of the web buzzing. When that buzz is about you, it can do wonders for your site’s traffic and a great SEO blog post can really make a difference. Continue Reading »

Another SharePoint Server 2010 feature which cannot go unnoticed is the Access Services. Access Services is a service in SharePoint Server 2010 that allows administrators to view, edit, and configure a Microsoft access application within a Web Browser. Access Services settings support backup and recovery, regardless of whether there is a UI setting in Central Administration. However, backup and recovery only apply to service-level and administrative-level settings; end-user content from the Access application is not backed up as part of this process. Access Services has Windows PowerShell functionality that can be used to provide the service that uses settings from a previous backup; configure and manage macro and query setting; manage and configure session management; and configure all the global settings of the service.
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What is a SharePoint Server 2010 Quota Template?
A SharePoint Server 2010 quota template consists of storage limit values that specify the maximum amount of data that can be stored in a site collection. When the storage limit is reached, a quota template can also trigger an e-mail alert to the site collection administrator. You can create a quota template that can be applied to any site collection in the farm. A quota template can also be applied to a site collection that contains sandboxed solutions. You can limit the maximum usage per day and send a warning e-mail message when the usage limit is approaching. If the maximum usage limit is reached, the sandboxed solution is disabled for the rest of the day, and an e-mail message is sent to the site collection administrator. You can also modify existing quota templates. This allows you to modify storage limits for all of the site collections that use the same quota template. When you modify a quota template, you must then reapply it to existing site collections before the new storage limits are enforced. You can delete a quota template if necessary. However, deleting a quota template will not delete quota values from sites that were created by using the quota template. If you want to remove quotas from all sites by using a specific quota template, you must use the object model or perform a SQL query.
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Aside from Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Netscape Navigator and other World Wide Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox ranks second as the web browser with most market shares (next to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer).

Compared to Internet Explorer, some people prefer Mozilla Firefox since it has a better capability to block pop-up windows and the user has the freedom to install a wide variety of plug-ins and skins to customize the “feel” of their browsers.

The down-side of this is that the version 2 (and its series) of Firefox uses a lot of memory (100,000k for 5 tabs opened). Now Firefox has a solution to this problem: the all new Mozilla Firefox 3. The creator of the said browser claims that it uses lesser memory, provides more security and is more stable than the rest of the browsers available online.

Photo taken from http://www.friednerds.com

The rise of Youtube’s popularity, not only to teenagers but to all ages indefinitely, has been proven by the millions of viewers they receive everyday. Almost everyone can post in the said website, from personal videos to videos ripped from the television, as long as the person has a username. It is a fact that Youtube receive so many hits every month as some of their videos already have as much as 8,000,000 views.

The problem with this “access for all” website is that some use it to gain fame. In Florida, there was this girl who was beaten by a gang of teenaged cheerleaders. The teenaged cheerleaders professed afterwards that their main aim on why they hit the girl and videotaped it was so that they could post the video on Youtube.

Photo taken from Youtube video snapshot.

Sometimes when we make our sites, we often focus way too much attention on the design and we often forget to focus on search engine optimisation. One place where this often happens would be in the sites� navigation.

Maybe you�re wondering why navigation is important to search engine optimisation anyway. Remember, we have to make sure search engines get to crawl our pages. It�s a benchmark of good SEO. If our navigation gets in the way of these bots, well, we�re screwed. If search engine bots can�t gather any data, that important page you need search engines to crawl may get missed.

You�d know if your site�s navigation doesn�t help your search engine optimisation if:
When JavaScript is disabled, your drop downs stop working
Header links are image based instead of text-based, without any alt tags
Internal links disappear when javaScript and CSS is disable.
Checking your site via Google Cache reveals that your internal links disappear

To prevent those those indicators of bad navigation from even showing up in the first place, let’s avoid using website navigation based on JavaScript or Flash. Remember, search engine bots don�t see websites the way we do. They don�t understand CSS or JavaScript or Flash.

Disable CSS, JavaScript and Flash on your browser. Go to your website. You should be seeing a plain white page filled with text and links, right? That�s how bots see your website. This is why we need to keep our HTML codes as simple as possible, and also this is the reason why we keep navigation as an unordered list of links:

Home
Services
Pricing
Contact Us

Of course Google is developing ways for their bots to be able to crawl JavaScript and Flash, but we really can�t rely on that. The technology there is at best experimental, and if Google fails on that one time we need to get one page crawled, it�s not going to be a good thing.

No email or PM yet from your family member or business partner in India or the Middle East? Don’t worry, they’re not evading you or anything like that. They’re having a small problem: they have been disconnected from the World Wide Web; and it’s not because of some strict government crackdown or terrorist activity, but rather because of two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean.

There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.
UK firms such as British Airways have told the BBC that call centres have been affected by the outage.
Industry experts said it could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service.
International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.

Reports are saying that the internet connection will be up within a week or so.

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Sometimes, it will be a hard job for marketers to evaluate what signal is from voice for the huge volume of information on the internet on the topic social media. Visiting sites such as MySpace, YouTube, FaceBook, and Flicker to mention can irresistible. When your going to speak with most social experts you might encountered words such as conversation, transparency, and the social graph.