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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Helping Your Company do better Business! (VOIP)

VoIP is replacing conventional telephone services; there are 30 million or more users by now. To penetrate the market there are few hindrances which are to be overdone, since VoIP is a hot industry in current days, the market is saturated and hindrances do come across. The question here is how you can help your Company do better business? And what setup should be there in order to capture the market chunk? Breezecom is among all the big exiting players and fulfills all the benchmarks and is heading to success.

The world has witnessed many revolutionary changes in the current century with information technology sector leading from the front. Many ground breaking methods of communication evolved due to this advancement. People started to use these new found ways of keeping in touch with their friends and family enabling more users for a specific product or service. VoIP is one such technology commonly used nowadays. 

The primary two things which anyone in the VOIP industry seeks are the Price and Quality. The lowest price is not always the best service but it shouldn’t be too high with respect to market at the same time. And when you buy keep in mind to choose a provider that has a price that is reasonable with the competition, but not a low cost provider. Price change should be there in accordance with the market. When you buy VOIP, Price is only one of many factors that should be evaluated. 

When buying or selling, get the idea of the second party as it’s very important in terms that it’s a long term relationship and not few days. Get the idea of business counterpart with the outlay they have in the Website, the domains they have, the legal system, the payment mode diversity. Like a car, a test drive gives clear idea what the car is like! Likewise these factors help evaluate the counterpart well. 

Setting up a place for customers to call and allow important clients access both to your business and your employees is also important and holds vital position. Meeting customers enhances the trust and confidence level in the long run. 

Your VOIP network should be strong, and make sure that it does not have problem. Even simple networks can have problems that will affect the quality of VoIP calls.  Make sure that your switches are in good shape and that your computers are running efficiently. 

Provision of user friendly CRM is another factor which holds quite a big importance. It should give access to the customer if he wants to see CDRs and many other options for the customers. Breezecom provides provision of real time CDRs in the Customer Relationship Panel. Also 24/7 efficient customer support and technical service should be available. 

VOIP is spreading day by day and the competition is getting tougher day by day. It has been proven that consumers will save a bundle of money by transitioning away from the traditional telephone companies and switching to a VoIP provider.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

What High Speed Digital Cameras Can Mean For You

In this hi-tech world of high-speed life everyone wants that their work be done fast and fine. With the help of digitalization, all consumer electronics are being developed to give you quick performance with optimum results. One such category is high speed digital cameras. These high speed digital cameras are specially designed for advanced professional and industrial usage. Let us try to understand the concept of high speed digital cameras in detail. 

High speed digital cameras were designed to capture very fast images. These cameras are mainly used in industrial and scientific applications where a process of their function is moving or changing rapidly. These high speed digital cameras can take photos in both color and monochrome mode. 

Monochrome photos are in either total black and white or a combination of both which will give you a grayscale photo. When taking color photos these cameras operate on the RGB method which generates a range of colors. RGB, or red, green, blue senses the red, green and blue components and then conjoins these components to form an extensive spectrum of colors. 

There are some major features which decide on the performance of a high speed digital cameras. These features are horizontal resolution, maximum frame rate and shutter speed. Horizontal resolution refers to the highest amount of individual photo elements which can be differentiated in one scanning line. This feature is very essential for characterizing correct horizontal video resolution for image aspect ratio. Moreover, it is also used to specify the resolution in the biggest circle which can fit in a rectangular image. Now for example an 800x600 image would be specified as 600 horizontal lines. 

Maximum frame rate refers to the maximum number of photos that can be taken in the specific time period. The time period is usually counted in seconds. Shutter speed refers to how much light will be let in during exposure. This can be set across a wide range, depending upon the subject and light conditions. 

High speed digital cameras are available in two basic technologies. These are CCD and CMOS. CCD refers to charge coupled devices. The CCD is composed of a light sensitive silicon chip. As the light falls on the CCD, it starts converting light into electrons. A CCD carries these electrons across the chip where they are read at one corner of the array. Now with the help of an analog-to-digital converter, the amount of electrons at each photo site is measured and then they are converted into the binary form. 

CMOS refers to the complimentary metal oxide semiconductor. CMOS technology is also used to convert light into electrons. A CMOS uses a variety of transistors in every pixel to move and amplify the charge using traditional wires. The signals of CMOS don't require conversion into digital form as they are already digital. The CMOS image sensors consume low power as they operate at lower voltages than the CCDs. 

The prominent choices for digital output interface for high speed digital cameras include Ethernet, RS232, DeviceNet, CANbus, USB, SCSI, modem and wireless. The choice for a number of pixels can vary from 8 bits to 16 bits. Even the color output can vary from composite, RGB or S-Video. 

The NP7280 Provides High Speed Frame Rates

The NP7280 offers the NVDIA GeForce GTX 480M, SLI technology, three channel DDR3 memory, the newest Corei7 Extreme Edition CPU made by Intel, and the x58 chipset made by Intel. This machine also features the capability of Dolby Home Theater, multiple hard drives that have hardware RAID, a 3.0 mega pixel high resolution video camera, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, IEEE- 1394b Firewire, and an eSATA port. These technologies are combined in the NP7280 to make it the ultimate machine for extreme gamers.

The Core i7 Extreme Edition CPU made by Intel is one of the fastest performing CPUs in the world. It has intelligent, faster multi core technology which will accelerate the machine's incredible gaming performance. It provides all the performance required for even the most advanced applications and games.

This computer has some amazing graphics power. It has two of the world's fastest GPUs into one system that will deliver twice the gaming performance with tremendous scalability. The NP7280 provides high speed frame rates that will provide the best possible visual experience. The technology of the NVIDIA SLI not only enhances the physical gaming interaction for more realistic and dynamic gaming experience with the NVIDA PhysX technology it also boosts the graphics performance. In addition, the NVIDIA CUDA technology provides the power to the GPU's processor cores which accelerates the performance for such demanding system tasks such as video transcoding.

The system's performance is further enhanced with the newest three channel DDR3 system memory. The interleaving will reduce the overall memory latency to provide high throughput of the memory bandwidth for real world applications.

With this machine you can chat face-to-face with your friend or participate in video conferencing with the video camera that is built in. Your video will look real as a result of the new 3.0 mega pixel high resolution camera.

The storage capacity for this computer is as much as 1.9 or 1.2 Terabytes. This provides the ultimate mobile data storage solution for security, utility, and performance without having to compromise the internal optical drive.

Your data will be transferred at 10 times the speed of USB 2.0 ports with the USB 3.0 ports. However, you will still be compatible with the current USB 2.0 ports and have the ability to connect to the newest USB 3.0 storage devices that will provide incredibly fast data backup.

As a result of the expanded storage space that the e-SATA you won't have to worry about taking up too much storage space with the media that you want to save. This advanced technology provides ample space without having to sacrifice performance as compared to FireWire or USB because when you are using e-SATA it is connected directly to the HDD controller.

This system also uses a fingerprint reader for easy log in with just a swipe if the finger for additional security.

The NP7280 looks great even when it's off because of its futuristic design.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

How to Make Money Growing Rooted Cuttings and Selling them Wholesale


Once you know how to effectively propagate landscape plants, you will soon have more rooted cuttings than you can use. At that time you can decide whether or not you should quit growing cuttings, since you have all you need, or maybe you like to sell some of your cuttings to a wholesale grower. 
Let's discuss how easy it is to start a business selling lining out stock. That’s what nurserymen call the little plants that they buy to plant out in the field or in containers. Lining out stock, or liners for short. 
“Nurserymen buy plants?” You might be asking. 
Yes they do. Nurserymen probably buy more plants than any other group of people in the country. Why would they buy them if they know how to grow them? 
Because sometimes they can’t grow them fast enough to keep up with the demand. Or maybe they would like to grow a certain variety of plant, but can’t grow it themselves because they don’t have any place to get several thousand cuttings. So what they do is buy in rooted cuttings, plant them in the field or in containers, and then they either grow them on to sell, or they grow them on and just keep them around a year or two longer so they can take cuttings from them. 
Then once they have a supply of their own plants they can sell the ones they bought in, that are now landscape size. Does this make sense? 
Let’s say that Mary the nursery owner buys 1,000 Variegated Weigela rooted cuttings @ 50¢ each. She plants them in the field in the early spring and they take off growing like crazy. That summer she goes out and takes 3 cuttings from each plant (They need pruning away, right?). 
She sticks those 3,000 cuttings under intermittent mist and in about 5 weeks she has 3,000 rooted cuttings that she can plant out that fall, and she does just that. The following summer she can get about6,000 cuttings from the original 1000 plants that she bought, plus another 9,000 cuttings from the 3,000 she planted out last fall.
That’s a total of 12,000 cuttings. 
She continues to plant her rooted cuttings out in the field and keeps taking cuttings from them until she has all she wants to grow. From then on she can take as many cuttings as she needs from the plants that she has in the field.

By now the original 1,000 plants that she bought @ 50¢ each are large enough to dig and sell, and they are worth $10.00 to $15.00 each wholesale. That’s $8,000 from a $500 investment, plus she can produce as many variegated weigela as she wants without buying any more cuttings. 
Does it really happen this way? Yes it does. I was recently talking to a friend who grows and sells all kinds of plants and he told me that he has been buying Dwarf Alberta Spruce cuttings and growing them on and selling them. He doesn’t even root any himself, he just buys 5,000 every year, pots them up and sells them wholesale. How many other nurseryman across the country do you suppose do that? 
To get started you can either buy a stock plant or two, or buy several hundred cuttings of the variety that you would like to sell. Instead of planting them out in the field, I would plant them in beds. Make each bed 4’ wide so you can reach the center to weed and take cuttings, and place the plants in the bed 10” apart. 
As long as you keep taking cuttings the plants will remain fairly small, and compact. Then after a two or three years dig them up, put them in pots and sell them. By then you will have thousands more coming on that you can take cuttings from. Start out slow until you know what there is a market for. 

Friday, February 10, 2012

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Neuropathy is an abnormality anywhere in a nerve pathway that disrupts nerve signals, causing the brain to misinterpret feelings or sensations. Different types of neuropathy go by different names, depending on the number of nerves affected, their function, and where in the body they are located.
Peripheral neuropathy is the name for nerve damagethat causes malfunction of the peripheral nerves — the nerves that go to the arms, hands, legs, and feet. Damage to a single peripheral nerve is calledmononeuropathy. If the damage is in two or more nerves, it is called multiple mononeuropathy. If damage occurs to many nerves simultaneously in the peripheral nervous system, it is called polyneuropathy.
Diabetes is associated with several types of neuropathy, including chronic polyneuropathy. Chronic polyneuropathy occurs slowly, often over months or years, and usually begins in the feet and hands.
Peripheral neuropathy                                   
There are over a hundred types of peripheral neuropathy, each of which has a characteristic set of symptoms and pattern of development. The type of nerve damaged determines what symptoms are experienced and what effect the damage has on physical functioning. Peripheral neuropathy can be inherited, or it can be acquired. Acquired peripheral neuropathy is usually caused by physical injury to the nerve, tumors, and deficiencies in nutrition, alcoholism, or vascular (blood vessel) disease. Neuropathy can also be acquired from toxins produced, for example, by certain bacteria or by some types of cancer. In addition, metabolic disorders such as diabetes can contribute to the development of peripheral neuropathy.
Painful symptoms occur in about 33% of people who have diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The good news is that the pain is usually treatable. The bad news is that not everyone receives treatment, sometimes because they never tell their health-care provider about the pain they are experiencing. If you feel pain, be sure to tell your health-care provider so you can get a proper diagnosis and talk about possible treatments. When you talk to your health-care provider, be sure to describe the location of the pain, the frequency with which you feel it, and its intensity or severity.
Risk factors
There are a number of things that place a person at increased risk for diabetic peripheralNeuropathy. The older you are and the more years you have had diabetes, the higher your risk. Some other risk factors include frequent or chronic high blood glucose, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and smoking. Some studies suggest that people with painful neuropathy tend to have higher glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, which means their average blood glucose level is high; greater fluctuations in blood glucose levels; and more episodes of hypoglycemia (low blood glucose).

Treatment options
Treating diabetic neuropathy almost always involves some trial and error. Not all therapies relieve pain for everyone, so often, several therapies must be tried before one — or a combination — is found that adequately reduces pain.
Topical drug therapy. Your health-care provider may recommend that you try an ointment, cream, or patch containing capsaicin to ease your pain. Capsaicin is the chemical in hot peppers that makes them hot, and it relieves the pain of peripheral neuropathy by stimulating the release of substance P, a chemical transmitter of pain, from nerve terminals. Initially, the release of substance P causes pain, but eventually the nerve terminals become depleted of substance P, leading to loss of the pain sensation. Ointments, creams, and patches containing capsaicin are sold over the counter at drugstores. It may take two to four weeks of using topical capsaicin before you feel significant pain relief.
When applying Noxicare™ Natural Pain Reliever cream, it’s a good idea to wear disposable gloves to prevent getting it on your hands, and it’s important to avoid getting it on any part of the body except the affected part. Be especially careful not to touch your eyes or mucous membranes (such as those in your nose and mouth); if you do get it on these areas, it will cause a burning sensation. When using a capsaicin patch, apply it to the skin over the affected area, but do not put it on just before you bathe or exercise.
Lidocaine patches, sold by prescription under the brand names Lidoderm and LidopainScience Articles, are another topical therapy that may be used for peripheral neuropathy. They help decrease pain and can also lower the amount of analgesics (such as aspirin or acetaminophen) a person needs to take to control pain. Up to three patches may be applied at once for 12 hours at a time in any 24-hour period.