Web conferencing software

Web conferencing is hard for anyone who don’t know where to start. What kind of hardware or software to use? How mush does it cost? There should be a solution to the question. Web conferencing software is the answer to conduct web conference. MegaMeeting has the solution for professional, enterprise, enterprise private branding and also personal for web conferencing. It is a browser-based video conferencing software that don’t need any downloading, installing or configuration. The only thing that you need is an internet browser such as Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and IE, a broadband internet connection, and a web camera unless if you want to be seen.

Plus it is a cross platform kind of solution, meaning that anyone can access and participate your web conference either using Windows, Mac or Linux platform. MegaMeeting equipped with multipoint online conferencing that allows up to 16 individuals can be seen at the same time and unlimited numbers attendees can see those 16 individuals through additional secure Video Conferencing. Also with VoIP participants can talk with each other using a standard microphones and headsets.

Digital picture frames

Nowadays digital cameras and camera phones have become a must have gadgets or device in our life. Since all of it have become digital, we never think about cost of processing film. But still we do need to view our digital picture like we view a normal picture on a frames. This where digital picture frames comes in. A gadget where you can view your digital picture on a digital photo frame without even to print it out.

DigitalFramez is an online store specializing in LCD digital photo frames. Their digital photo frame size range from 7 inch to 10 inch. Not only that this digital photo frame can view pictures but also can view a short movies and compatible with JPEG, MP4, DivX, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, WAV formats. How it works? Well it’s simple.

1. Take your photos.
2. Transfer your memory card into your Digital Photo Frame
3. View your slideshow using the remote control.

Isn’t that cool.  The standard memory card reader supports CF/XD/MS/SD/MMC cards and Digital Photo Frame also have a USB 2.0 connection for better compatibility. The remote control given allows you to access the settings much quicker so you can sit back and enjoy.

WordPress Link Directory

This is the plugin that I have been looking for. A plugin directory for WordPress and this is important for me to increase my PR and gain a lot of traffic. This plugin is called WordPress Link Directory by eBrand Marketing. How to use it?

1. Well first download the plugin and extract the zip files on your computer.
2. After that upload everything to the server. I know this
   sounds might be crazy but just trust me.
3. As you can see there’s wp-admin folder contains a lot of
   Link Directory files, just upload the files to your server and also the
   plugin files. All of it will overwrite but not delete the original
   files.
4. Then activate your plugin by going to plugin sections in
   your WordPress admin and click Activate. You’re done.
5. You can go to http://www.YourSite.com/directory/ to watch the plugin in action.

There’s one tip that is if you want to create a page on your blog linking to your directory section just use permalink and create a page called Directory. That’s all. All that you have to do is create a category and add any site into it.

Are you ready for Vista?

After the hype of Vista launch all around the world, there’s not much that can talk about. Despite some bloggers said it is a revolution and some bloggers said that M$ is a copycat, personally I think that it feels like a DejaVu again. Why? Remember when XP comes out and in the early stages it seems like compatibility and reliability came as a big issue. Well it is same goes to Vista, not to mention that you need some parts upgrade or upgrade the whole PC in the case of the old PC can’t even install Vista. Plus, one of my friends who is an engineer can even use his CAD software due to compatibility problem.

How can Mac and Linux have a stunning graphics without in need of upgrading the whole PC? PCI graphic cards, 1GB of memory, a couple of gigabytes of hard drive spaces, faster processors, this is just a cream of the crop in order to run Vista as smooth as you could.

For me, I’ll give Vista at least a year to get settled or else. But by that time, there will be tons of virus for Vista hehe. Yup, like a DejaVu.

Top Selling Smartphones

While we are still waiting for the iPhone to hit the market, let us see which smart phones are the favorites with the users. As per Wirefly Top 5 Smartphones are
1. Cingular BlackJack
2. BlackBerry Pearl (for Cingular and T-Mobile)
3. BlackBerry 8700 series (for Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon)
4. Cingular BlackBerry 8800
5. Motorola Q for Verizon Wireless

It looks like BlackJack smartphone by Samsung Electronic has taken over the most popular Research In Motion- BlackBerrys for the top spot in just three months. I wonder what is happening with their trademark lawsuit?
BlackJack has every right to take the top spot,it is a quad band and operate on GSM 850/900/1800/1900; EDGE; UMTS; HSDPA, it has full QWERTY keyboard, and it has screen with a 65,000-color output and 320×320 pixel resolution; images and video look great, colors are bright, and text is extra sharp. Only disappointment is that it is not Wi-Fi ready.

UpStage–Ahead of iPhone?

With the launching of SPH-m620 “UpStage” dual-faced music phone Samsung, has come up with a smart package ahead of Apple’s iPhone. Keeping the look and feel of the phone alive on one side, gives them a big advantage over iPhone, were there is no keypad. Using a key-pad less phone is going to a huge mind-set change for the subscribers and we will have to wait and see how subscribers adapt to this change. This phone offers a microSD slot for up to 2GB of external storage, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and stereo Bluetooth. Also included is a Music Manager Application for sideloading tunes to the phone via USB.

And looking at the price tag of $149 on a two-year agreement with a $50 rebate through Sprint, it cost just 25% of what an iPhone is going to cost. Sprint will be offering 99 cent over the air (nice!) music downloads well on its entire Music Store catalog.

Except for a small screen I think “UpStage” have all the features to seriously challenge unreleased iPhone.

WIreless Modem

Wireless data technology company Sierra Wireless, is offering their new product AirCard 875U USB modem. It is Compatible with both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems; the AirCard USB modems offer customers an alternative to both PCMCIA and ExpressCard solutions. With a new antenna design, built-in battery for advanced power management, and Watcher connection manager, it should be a good experience.

Near Field Communication (NFC)

A new technology has joined already established device-to-device wireless communication technologies Bluetooth, RFID and ZigBee and it is called Near Field Communication or NFC for short. Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless connectivity technology that enables convenient short-range communication between electronic devices.
NFC is an open platform technology standardized in ECMA-340 and ISO/IEC 18092. These standards specify the modulation schemes; coding, transfer speeds and frame format of the RF interface of NFC devices.It will operate within the globally available and unlicensed ISM RF band of 13.56 MHz with a range of 0-20 centimeters and data rates of 106 Kbit/s, 212 Kbit/s or 424 Kbit/s.
When r NFC-enabled devices are close together, they automatically initiate network communications without requiring the user to configure the setup. NFC-enhanced consumer devices can easily exchange and store your personal data – messages, pictures, MP3 files, etc.
The new AT&T mobility has teamed up with cell phone maker Nokia and financial institutions Citigroup and MasterCard Worldwide to trial new phones that have MasterCard PayPass contactless payment capability to test this technology. The participants in the trial will receive a Nokia handset with “near-field communication” (NFC) technology and the MasterCard PayPass payment function built in.
Some of you will be wondering that Bluetooth is already doing all this, why have NFC? Because there is no setting and setup involved in NFC is relatively easy to use and also NFC may be part of standard chipset in many devices.

Limewire headache?

I’ve come across rare problems with Limewire and Frostwire (based on Limewire). This is due to Java error with the application that makes Limewire and Frostwire just can’t be executed. After the Limewire or Frostwire icon is double clicked, just the splash screen appeared and dissapeared. Nothing happen. Why? If you checked Limewire or Frostwire in windows’ Program Files there’s a Java error on a notepad files. I’ve tried uninstall Limewire or Frostwire but to no avail. I’ve installed all Java software that is needed by both of them but it just won’t open.

I’m kind of give up with this annoying problems so I searched on Wikipedia what is other alternative for Limewire or Frostwire that also use the same Gnutella network. Then I found out one suitable P2P client for me that is Ares. It is a free and open source file sharing program that enables user to share stuffs through P2P. It is also supports torrent files that means user can download all kind of stuff including torrent files such as movies, softwares, and mp3s’.

Cool!

Google TiSP

Google TiSP is Google’s new broadband service that is actually an April Fool joke. At first I’m quite amazed on how it really works by using the sewage line to connect to TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable. But then when I look at it carefully, does anyone really want to put that in the toilet? Hahah this is a very good one Google. Really good one. They can be so funny and serious at the same time.