Using a Computer to Record Telephone Conversations

By Afonin Oleg

Recording telephone conversations used to require expensive hardware and dedicated recording equipment. On the low end, one could use a simple wire to connect a phone handset with a tape recorder. An office with multiple phone lines would need expensive solutions that integrate a PBX with call recording. PBXpress http://www.callcorder.com/ is a great example of this approach, providing effective simultaneous recording of analog and digital (VoIP) telephone conversations over multiple lines.

But what if you only need to tap certain conversations once in a while? Purchasing expensive hardware is not nearly cost-effective in this case. Using a tape recorder is always an option, but it does not give you the convenience of digital, its user-friendly instant navigation and transparent search.

Using a computer to handle the recording is perfect for the purpose. Surprisingly, you might already have the necessary equipment to start recording phone conversations immediately. A simple voice modem is the only hardware you need. It is fully capable and sufficient to record your phone conversations. Have a close look at your modem. If it is marked "Voice" or "Data/Fax/Voice", you can use this modem for tapping. If, however, it is labeled as "Data/Fax" or "Fax Modem", then most probably your modem does not support the necessary voice features, and therefore it won't be able to record.

Having a voice modem alone is not enough to record calls. You need call recording software to complement your modem. The software would control your modem, record and store conversations on your hard disk. In the past, modem manufacturers used to bundle such software with their modems, but this is not the case today. Currently, you are on your own if you need software that can record your calls.

Call Corder http://www.voicecallcentral.com/callcorder.htm by Pingram Software is one of such products. Its purpose is recording telephone conversations, compressing them, and storing in Windows compatible sound files that can be played back with Windows Media Player, Winamp, or any other music player.

Call Corder supports most brands of modemd. If it can't find an exact match for your hardware, it defaults to the closest generic device. If you are recording an incoming call, Call Corder will log Caller ID information provided by your modem. This usually includes caller's name and number. In order to receive this call information, you have to subscribe to the Caller ID service offered by your phone company. If you do not have Caller ID, you can always fill in the caller data by hand.

Make marks and memos about the conversation while you're recording or when you're finished. You can conveniently search for a particular call by typing any word or phrase that's in the call's memo, and Call Corder will automatically show you all conversations containing this information. Of course, you can also search by the telephone number or the name of the caller.

Try Call Corder free for 30 days to ensure that your modem is compatible! Download your free evaluation copy from http://www.callcorder.com/download.htm

About the author:
Oleg Afonin specializes in software development and marketing of communication tools for small businesses.

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The best way to transfer the pictures from camera to a PC

By Martin Brinn

All digital photographers need to import their photos from their camera or memory card to their computers at some stage. Here we will discuss the best way to perform this process.

The safest and easiest way to download your photos is by removing your cameras memory card from your camera and taking advantage of a memory card reader. I refer to this option as the safest way meaning that this is the safest option for your camera. Ideally we would have a clean tidy computer desk with no note papers, disks, or books lying about. I only wish that my computer desk looked like that, no matter how hard I try my computer work space is the photo of disorganized chaos. Placing my camera anywhere near my computer desk is putting it in the direct line of danger of being accidently dropped, even If I was to take care of where in the mess I put my camera it will eventually become unstable as I search among the papers for that "thing" I am looking for, without fail it will eventually find its way dangerously resting on the edge of the desk, if it could speak it would be calling out "help mummy I scared, save me".

Let’s just imagine for a moment that by some miracle my work desk was picture perfect clean and tidy, so there I sit with my coffee in one hand and my trusty camera on the other. I could bet my bottom dollar that at some stage as I am distracted or tired that my coffee and my camera will meet in some unfortunate accident.

Even if I was some wicked person who did not cherish my beautiful camera I might consider that it could be replaceable. Sadly my photos are never replaceable. For goodness sake please save yourself heartache and put your camera away. Download your pictures to your PC by removing your memory card your camera and using a card reader.

Digital photo card readers are very inexpensive to buy if your computer does not have one already installed. Card readers are available as USB external hardware or internal hardware. You may decide on a multi card reader or choose a card reader specifically made for your memory card. I recommend a multi card reader for versatility. If choosing to install an internal card reader you may very easily do this yourself by simply removing your unused "A" drive and replacing your photo card reader in this position. If you are uncomfortable with opening your computer your local computer technician will do this for you, usually at a minimum fee and with no fuss.

Once you have your digital camera connected to your PC, or preferably your camera safely put away and your memory card in the card reader the next step in best picture import practice is to transfer your digital photos with the aid of respected and trusted professional picture downloader software such as RoboImport .

Without professional importing software you are faced with a tedious and time consuming task. RoboImport will automate the import process but also offers many other advantages and features necessary for professional digital photographers. Without professional software downloading your photos to your PC is nothing short of 14 steps including opening your camera or card reader, creating and naming the destination folder, renaming individual images, (this is no quick task with hundreds or thousands of images to process), rotating images, correcting resolution problems, adding necessary IPTPC information, tagging GPS coordinates when desired, double checking, backing up, clearing the cards images and starting your preferred photo organizer. Using professional image downloader and photo renaming software like Roboimport that will even open your image manager turns these 14 steps into 1.

Using a professional digital picture import software also ensures that your photographs metadata and EXIF information is transferred completely and safely with your images.

RoboImport Home Page: http://www.roboimport.com

About the author:
Martin Brinn,
A 31 years old photographer and writer with in-depth coverage of a wide range of subjects: digital photo software review, travel, scenics, people, geography, luxury foods and handcrafted products. Based in Phoenix, Arizona state of US, I am available for assignments anywhere, but consider this area and USA, where I have lived for nearly 20 years, a specialty.
http://www.picajet.com?writer=martinbrinn

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Is Overclocking your computer Dangerous?

By James Scholes

These days all you hear about overclocking is how dangerous it is and all the scare stories that surround the subject. I often ask people if they have overclock their computer and I always get two answers. The first one is “What's that?” So obviously those type of people don't even know what it is, let alone if they've done it. The second answer is “Overclocking could blow my computer up, there's no way I going to do that” now this is the response I normally get but the problem is, these people have never attempted to overclock. But what do they know if they've never overclocked before.

Now that's up to them but do they know how much free performance their missing out on? obviously these people have read the all the scare stories and this is why they choose not to overclock their PC. But truth be known and what these people don't know is that this very rarely happens these days for a few reasons. Here's why.

1.The first one is that today's CPU's have improve heatspreaders to help to spread the heat evenly therefore preventing concentrated hotspots on the CPU.

2.Today CPU's ship at a very reserved speed setting. So there's normally plenty of headroom for overclocking. In a way, Intel and AMD kinda expect their chips to be overclocked and so they give them plenty of headroom for overclockers to play around with. Plus it's one of the many deciding factors for hardware reviewer's when reviewing a CPU and of course Intel and AMD want to be seen as the best.

3.Today's PC's have more built in safely features to prevent you from ever damaging your CPU. So as a result making your overclocking crusade safer. 99% of the time if you do push your CPU too far your PC will simply shut down to prevent you from doing any damage to your PC.

End of the day if you do things safely and monitor what your doing you won't damage your CPU. Like I said, today's CPU's are designed to be overclocked so give it go, you might be surprised how much free performance is under the bonnet.


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Today's Browser Choices

By Surendran Nambiath

Browsers have been around since the 1990s. Long enough to have caused a bitter war, a famous litigation & an epochal decision by the Honorable Courts! Despite all this action, one Browser has held onto a staggering market share (and mindshare) for the majority of the time so far. So is it time to change your Browser? Read on to check out the best-of-breed Browsers today, in the Windows world!

1. Apple Safari for Windows(http://www.apple.com/safari/download)
Safari is the de-facto Web Browser for the Apple Macintosh, where it ruled for decades and continues to rule. It is a beautiful Silver and White Browser that loads up fast, displays real beautiful pages even on the relatively poor displays of IBM-compatibles (poor in comparison with Apple's own dazzling-sharp and colorful display, that is). Besides, you just cannot miss the blue, 'alive' scroll bars, a unique feature of the Safari. Open the same site side-by-side on the Safari and any of the other Browsers, and you will notice just how much more beautiful the Safari is!
Beauty is one thing - nice, but not essential. But then, Safari for Windows is also wonderfully fast to load - whether it be the first time of the day, or to load a site, anytime during the day. Now that is indeed a useful feature!
The download version of Safari comes along with i-Tunes, which is a piece of software that none of us at welloiledpc fancy - we would stick with Windows Media Player or WinAmp, any day! The download size of Safari (leaving out i-Tunes) is the second biggest, after Internet Explorer. Guess all those beautiful appendages require megabytes of programming effort and it shows!
Quick loading is wonderful indeed. But we are talking about Browsers... your interface to the Net, along with all its spyware, viruses and other avoidable evils! On this point too, the Safari scores highly. It has the same kind of invulnerability that the Mac version always had! However, this is not to say or imply that Safari for Windows cannot be 'cracked'. Any piece of software can be cracked open, if enough people try enough number of times! One reason for the 'invulnerability' of Safari is the fact that it is not too common. The Macintosh is itself used by about 7 of Windows-based Computer users!
Safari for Windows did go through frequent upgradation initially. With bug-fixing complete or near-complete now, the frequency of upgrades has come down - a sure sign that it is ready for the next stage of development. Knowing Apple, it is possible that we will see a spate of developments in Safari, pushing all Browsers to a new peak
Overall, despite its beauty and quick-loading nature and general 'invulnerability', we would not really recommend Safari. This is because it is unlike other standard Windows Browsers. We however would advise you to take a close look at Safari for Windows if;
1. You are an absolute beginner at using Computers and have never used a Browser before
2. You are changing over to the IBM-compatible PC after working with an Apple Macintosh

If you are an old hand at using Browsers, we strongly recommend that you give Safari for Windows a miss and try out some of the other Browsers listed above, if the itch to change your Browser is strong!

2. Microsoft Internet Explorer
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx)
Today, this is the Browser of choice, the de-facto Browser the world over. It is a much used, abused, misused, over-used and whatnot Browser. The plus of using Internet Explorer is that any site will display exactly the way its creators meant it to display, on your screen. Only a suicidal idiot would design web pages that aren't tested thoroughly for Microsoft's Browser!
Internet Explorer was the last to introduce Tabbed Browsing (where you can open multiple websites on different Tabs, much like the Tabbed Worksheets in Excel). In terms of looks too, Internet Explorer easily looks the worst - largely due to its popularity.
Security suffers the most, due to Internet Explorer's popularity. Despite hundreds of bug-fixes, Internet Explorer continues to be cracked into at regular intervals. Therefore if you are using Internet Explorer, you MUST install a program like Norton 360, that protects you against Browser Hijacking (where your Home Page is ruthlessly changed, without your knowledge) and Phishing (sites claiming to be what they aren't - for example, a Yahoo-like site that tries to make you think it IS the Yahoo site)
Internet Explorer is also the biggest download, at over 15 MB. You need to download a link that is less than 512 KB, then run it to download the real package. However, Yahoo has a version of Internet Explorer 7 (customized for Yahoo, as claimed) that can be downloaded directly onto your Computer. That version is over 17 MB...
The only recommendation we have for users of Internet Explorer is, to use the latest version at all times. Check frequently for updates and get them immediately - because, you never know when the next Internet Explorer security hole is prised open! We'd HATE being in the Microsoft team that develops Internet Explorer!!!
All said and done, Internet Explorer is a standard product that will allow you to browse the Net safely and satisfactorily, despite the repeated (and successful) attempts of Microsoft-haters who work round-the-clock to pick holes in the product.
3. Mozilla Firefox
(http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox)
Firefox is an extremely capable Browser that is tops on innovation. Yet, its download size is a fraction of Internet Explorer, at 5.7 MB versus over 15 MB for Internet Explorer). Firefox was the first to let you save the user login and passwords to sites that required you to log in to them. Firefox was also the first Windows Browser to introduce the Tabbed Browser. Firefox is also piggy-backing on Google's enormous popularity - if you use Google (and who doesn't!), you cannot avoid seeing ads recommending you switch to Firefox!
While Firefox is indeed fast to load up and does have all the useful features (and a few more!), we are not as happy with it as the large numbers of Firefox supporters would have us think. We experience niggling little problems while exiting Firefox (this is after the Browsing is over and you close Firefox). Both the Windows Report as well as Mozilla's own Feedback Agent pop up, reporting that Firefox crashed, would you like to send feedback to Microsoft/ Mozilla on what you were doing when the crash occurred? This has happened with the last 3 versions of Firefox - 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5 and the latest 2.0.0.6 version as well. We really do not know the causes - is it something that Windows does to Firefox? Is it a bug in Firefox? Is it something else that we are running, that causes Firefox to shut down abnormally? We do not know!
This is our only crib against Firefox and the guys at Mozilla would do well to study this issue in earnest (we have sent feedback a number of times to Mozilla, it is time they work on it and iron out the issue!). Firefox is a neat Browser that is easy to fall in love with! Firefox is a neat Browser that is easy to fall in love with! Firefox is beautiful to view and work with and could be a very welcome change, if you are fed up of Internet Explorer

4. Netscape Navigator
(http://browser.netscape.com)
There was a time when Browsers were a new piece of software. There was a time when you paid for a Browser, much like you pay for Antivirus and AntiSpyware solutions today. There was a time when Windows did not include Internet Explorer. This was the time when the Internet was itself new, people were just beginning to explore and understand the power of the Internet. Search Engines were not as organized as they are today, nor was Internet Commerce what it is today - it was merely a promise of great things to come in the days ahead!
This was the time when a company called Netscape introduced Navigator, a Browser that you had to pay for. Yes, Netscape Navigator was the first big daddy amongst Browsers, with its e-Mail client, Netscape Communicator forming yet another popular product. This was the 1990s and Netscape Navigator then held over 85 of the Browser market worldwide!
Indeed, Microsoft - never one to do things half-heartedly - built Windows in such a way that you could not uninstall Internet Explorer and install Netscape! The importance of winning the Browser Battle had finally dawned on Microsoft! Many readers would remember the famous court case against Microsoft, and the ruling that Microsoft must allow third-party software to be installed onto Windows. Internet-savvy people call it the First Browser War! If Microsoft had not lost that case, there would have been just Internet Explorer today. And there would have been just Microsoft Office. And there would have been just Windows Media Player. And one does not know where else Microsoft would have built monopolistic products! Luckily for us all, the court termed this practice monopolistic and Microsoft had to re-build Windows such that other Browsers, Media Players, e-Mail clients and everything else could run along with Windows. Even today, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are free with Windows, but you are at perfect liberty to uninstall them and use your favorite brand of software instead!
Netscape Communications Corporation the parent company of Netscape was purchased by AOL in 1998, but the brand name Netscape continued to be used by AOL, with a discounted Internet Service Provider and a Social News Website being other business streams under the Netscape brand name. Today, Netscape is free – developed by Mozilla, the Open Source Community that has its own Browser, Mozilla Firefox and is today designed to support all Firefox add-ins. Indeed, if it weren’t free today, they would have to discontinue it altogether! As a result of the court’s wise ruling, we Computer users have multiple Browsers to choose from, multiple e-Mail clients and multiple other software products as well!
So how does Netscape Navigator fare today? Well, it is extremely fast - perhaps the fastest. It continues to be extremely stable and free from freeze-ups or crashes. It is has a beautiful interface as well, with standard buttons and controls as well as now-standard features like the ability to store website login details, Tabbed Web Interface, etc. it is easy to fall in love - all over again - with Netscape Navigator, specially since AOL/ Mozilla have retained the old look, feel and colors!

5. Opera
(http://www.opera.com/download)
Unless you follow the world of Computers very closely, it is quite likely that you did not know about Opera the Browser. Opera is, in our opinion, the dark horse in the race! It is the smallest download (a mere 4.7 MB!) yet has all the features - including the facility to save login details and an elegant Tabbed Browser! it is no slouch in the looks department too - we would not argue with anyone who puts it a shade higher than Firefox in the looks department!
Opera is extremely fast - perhaps the fastest to work with, and is completely trouble-free: no crashes or unexpected freeze-ups for Opera! Best of all, it has a Speed Dial feature that lets you store up to 9 URLs (websites) as thumbnails. Click on the saved thumbnail, and you reach the concerned website in mere seconds! This is an elegant way to store, support and display offline Browsing - all the other Browsers have this feature too, but none have implemented it in such a nifty, visually-appealing fashion!
Opera does have an unusual method for displaying the progress of sites loading up - it separately shows the progress of images and text that is loaded. One gets used to it after a while, though the exact purpose and utility of this non-standard feature is likely to play on your mind for a longer period...
Opera has no issues working alongside the other Browsers. It has one other feature - one that we do not use at all, though it could be useful for those who like such stuff. Widgets, or tiny applications whose sole purpose in life is to one little thing and do it extremely well, have been around for a while now. Apple's Widgets were the first off the block, followed by Yahoo Widgets and then Google's version, called Desktop Gadgets. Today, Microsoft has a collection of Widgets too... Opera too has Widgets of its own - freely downloadable from the Opera site. They cover a range of applications from checking out the presence of Wi-Fi Hot Spots to Dictionaries to e-Mail Notifiers, etc. If you like Widgets, here is yet another collection that will fill up your Hard Disk that much more!

Phew - so are we any wiser now with respect to which is the best Browser? We don't think so... each of the Browsers have their good points, each has negatives about it too, which is quite natural when one tries to compare five extremely competent software in a closely-fought software niche, with each one determined to grab eyeballs & market share from the other! However we trust you have a fair understanding of which ones you need to check out for your special requirements, thus finally selecting the one for you!

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Vista Registry Tweaks - Tips to play with Windows Registry

By Arvind Singh

The most important tool available for Vista registry tweaking is the Registry Editor (regedit.exe), which allows you to view and manually edit the contents of Windows Registry. The window of the Registry Editor is divided into two pans of which the left side contains a tree with keys that are represented as folders. The right side shows the values contained in currently selected specific key. There are several tweaks that you can perform using the Registry Editor. Among them, some of the important Vista registry tweaks are:

Appearance tweaks

To remove the annoying ToolTips that appears whenever you mouse over something:

Open the Registry Editor by typing regedit in the Run option of the Start Menu.

Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced.

Set ShowInfoTip = dword:00000000

Exit from regedit and reboot your system

To get rid of arrows present in shortcuts:



Open regedit and select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > lnkfile

Rename isShortcut available in the right pan to AriochlsShortcut

Exit regedit and reboot your system


To change the delay on menus:

Open regedit and select HKEY_ CURRENT_USER > Control Panel > Desktop

Set the value of MenuShowDelay to specify the time you need the menus to be popped up

Exit regedit and reboot your system


Security tweaks

To tweak the User Account Control (UAC):

Open regedit and select HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies

Set the value of PromptOnSecureDesktop to 0, which disables the desktop security to provide easy UAC

Exit regedit and reboot your system

User Tweaks

To change the registered owner:

Open regedit and select HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion

Right click RegisteredOwner and select Modify

Enter the correct owner

Exit regedit and reboot your system.


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10 Reasons For Installing An Anti-Spyware System

By Arthur Raise

While the World Wide Web is a blessing in many ways it presents dangers in the form of spyware, adware, Trojans and so on. While adware most often is not dangerous spyware can monitor your movements and your privacy is at stake. Thieves can use the internet to steal bank and credit card information or important files form your computer system. Once spyware has entered your system it is time consuming to remove it. So, it is important to adopt systems that protect your computer at all times like anti-virus software or anti-spyware systems. The reasons you need to install anti-spyware systems are many but the most important are:

1. A serious security breach can mean loss of business or even bankruptcy. Information on the computer system that contains financial customer information can endanger not just you but your customers too.

2. Cyber theft using spyware systems can destroy your personal or business credibility, customer base, and sales.

3. When a business is dependant on online traffic downtime due to infection by viruses or the effort to remove spyware can be a huge set back.

4. Important business plans and valuable research and marketing data destroyed by spyware can be devastating. Stealing files of a computer is like stealing a person’s or business’ intellectual property.

5. The existence of wireless connectivity can compromise your otherwise secure networks. Identity theft can give a criminal free access to your network of clients, as well as sales and financial data.

6. Spyware attacks can destroy your future goals and plans and put your family under threat. Personal information stolen off a computer can be used for criminal or illegal activities apart from indiscriminate use of bank accounts and credit cards.

7. Spyware can track your online activities and this can be sold to your competitors causing loss of sales and customer base.

8. Spyware systems can help competitors learn of your discount schemes or special offers well before you are ready to launch any marketing promotion. This means that you are exposing your business strategy online and giving others ideas that would have lead to increased profitability.

9. If you are in path breaking research of some kind your work could be stolen or data corrupted through spyware systems. This means years of research could be vulnerable and your standing in the scientific community could be compromised.

10. Spyware can expose your personal finance and investments to thieves and you could loose your nest egg because you failed to protect your system from cyber thieves.

The list of dangers due to spyware is endless and experts advice that the computers personal or business should be like an impenetrable fortress. You should be able to enjoy the joys and convenience of the World Wide Web without loosing your sanity and exposing yourself to cyber thieves.

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Arthur Raise is a writer for Free Anti Spyware , the premier website antispyware software, free antispyware software, super antispyware, microsoft antispyware software, antispyware reviews, antispyware giant software, antispyware software free download and many more.

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How to make websites manageable

By John Adam


A problem many webmasters are now facing is how to analyze the great amount of website traffic their websites get and how to analyze it in order to better manage the performance of websites and web pages among the great competition on the World Wide Web. As a result, many companies now offer statistics tool to help developers solve this problem.

Generally, statistics tools are versions of statistics counters for a given website. As demand grows however, the range of these tools is constantly expanding so that webmasters are offered a wider choice for managing the websites. While many companies see this as a unique market opportunity to generate revenue by offering paid packages of statistics tools, interest is mostly focused on providers of statistics counters that provide these services free of charge.

A pioneer in this area is WebsiteStatsCounter.com, which is a free invisible stats tracking website that allows customers to track multiple web sites for free. The aim of the website’s creators is to offer webmasters a free way to accurately track multiple websites from a single location. WebsiteStatsCounter.com generates revenue primarily through advertising on its website, and tries to constantly upgrade the tools it offers with new features that make the job of web developers much easier. All customers need to do is sign in for a free account, develop a project, and enter a code provided by WebsiteStatsCounter.com. Apart from benefiting from a wide range of free services, they can also receive a weekly report on the performance of their websites.

The range of free statistics tools which are available on WebsiteStatsCounter.com free membership accounts is indeed wide. It includes highly detailed recent statistics, all time totals and counts, visitors online now, country and language pairs, screen resolutions, clicked links, keyword activity, time-based graphs, detailed visits reports and summaries, multiple site management, and many others.

WebsiteStatsCounter.com is aiming to expand the free statistics tools it offers even more. It is currently developing over 50 new webmaster tools for customers, which they will be able to embed into their websites and web pages. These are generally grouped into three wide categories, search engines, domain checkups, and HTML, depending on what aspect of statistics counter options they target, as well as a number of other tools, such as Anonymous E-Mailer, Online Calculator, Unix Time Converterer, Google Adsense Preview, Link Shortener, List Cleaner, and many others.

If customers of WebsiteStatsCounter.com would like the company to offer other free statistics tools which would benefit all webmasters, they can file their suggestions and the WebsiteStatsCounter.com team will develop them.

Now available in 5 common languages including English, WebsiteStatsCounter.com is a remarkable example of how an industry which was virtually inexistent just a few years ago is now what makes websites grow, develop, and thrive.

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Web 3.0 - The Abatement of Web 2.0

By Synapse India


Web 3.0 or Semantic Web is known as web evolution in which web content can be expressed in natural language and in an easy form that can be understood, interpreted and used by software agents in finding, sharing and integrating information more easily and conveniently as never before. John Markoff, a journalist from the New York Times first coined this term in 2006 which later came in practice. As an effective web development and a sequel to web 2.0, web 3.0 is a third generation Internet based service that gives you an added advantage of the internet technology.

The advanced features of Semantic Web or Web 3.0 can be easily used in improving and speeding up automated database searches, helping people to bring greater efficiency and flexibility to choose various kinds of data including vacation destinations or pick relevant information through the complicated financial data better than ever.

Web 3.0 – The Future Web Evolution
As stated earlier, Web 3.0 is an advanced version of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, considered as the milestones of internet technologies. Web 1.0 refers to the first generation of the commercial Internet, understated by content that was only marginally interactive. Web 2.0, an updated version of Web 1.0 came into effect after that. Characterized by features including tagging, social networks, and user-¬created taxonomies of content gave better interactivity and opened a new door of internet development for users. Bring the latest and really powerful, Web 3.0 is the abatement of web 2.0 and gives access to greater interactivity to users.

Web 3.0 might be defined as a third-generation of the Web enabled by the convergence of several key emerging technology trends including better broadband adoption, mobile internet access, web services interoperability, distributed computing, open technologies like open data formats, open APTs and protocols, open-source software platforms, Semantic web technologies like RDF, OWL, Semantic application platforms etc.

About the author:
This article has been contributed by the webmaster of Synapse India - A renowned offshore outsourcing company offering a wide range of services including custom web application development , software development, Website Designing, Search Engine Marketing and Ecommerce Solutions.

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Understanding our Hard Drive

By Andrew Watson

One single hard drive store can store millions & millions of megabytes of data. In fact today’s computer hard drive is capable of storing Terabytes of data. Nature of hard drive has changed astronomically what we used in beginning. Changes have occurred in the size of the hard, nature, capacity and weight. Have we ever though how these hard drive works. We have never given the importance of its working just we know to store our valuable data and retrieving it when needed. So let’s understand the basic component of the hard drive.

The hard drive which we use consists of seven basic elements, the enclosure, spindle, platter, motor, actuator arm, and interface and logic board. Enclosure is nothing but a simple case of the hard drive which holds the other five components inside it. Logic board is attached on the back side of the hard drive.

Logic Board

As we have said logic board is attached to the underside of the hard drive is an important piece which handles important elements. Logic board can be termed as a brain of the hard dive as it gives the instruction manual for computer attempting to access the hard drive. It give the computer an idea how big size of the hard dive, what cables are connected to the hard drive & how to access the drive in different operating system. If the logic board goes dead then our computer will never be able to detect our hard drive.

Spindle Motor

Now if we look into enclosure of the hard drive then the most basic thing is spindle motor. Spindle motor is one which rotates the platters or the disk where our data is stored. The spindle motor is connected to the spindle. The spindle moves at a speed of about 150 rotations in one second. And the distance between the spindle and platter is about 1 micro millimeter. Even if any dust particles comes in between them then spindle gets damaged.

Hard drive Platters

Platter is thin disk of glass or aluminum coated with an ultra-thin layer of a cobalt alloy, which is naturally magnetic. Data is written on the sector which outward from spindle called track. Sectors are organized into concentric ring. Collection of sector form clusters which are grouped together by the file system. Without clustering disk performance would be very slow due to the file system's inability to access data quickly.

These entire components are vital and any damaged to these parts can result in loss of our valuable data. So it is advisable to always monitor the hard drive such as Temperature, Head Flying Height, and Spin-Up Time etc. If there any clicking or unwinding sound is heard then immediately stop using the drive and to consult data recovery experts before we loose any data.


About the author:
Andrew Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

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