Virtual Flowers and E-Cards by J. E. Williams
Free Technology that Brings People Together Virtual flowers and e-cards are like electronic greeting cards sent over the Internet. They first became popular in the mid-nineties, when a handful of innovative sites began offering them as a convenient way to keep in touch with friends and loved... Stick with those that are free, at least when starting out. ... There are literally hundreds of Web sites that offer them -- in many cases for free. ... Some include music, allow you to record your voice, or have other customizable features.

Dirt and Copper Wires by Carlo Caparras
The innovation of most industries to use telecommunication technology is sending traditional marketing into new heights. Marketing methods that were only accessible to Fortune 500 companies ten years ago. Internet certainly played a part in crushing the boundaries set by traditional marketing... An enhanced toll free number service gives the buyer additional incentive to call sellers even at long distances and saving hundreds on man hours by viewing the houses and talking to the seller before proceeding to physically checking the house itself.

I Did Not Know Software Could Do That, Part II by John Deprice
It never ceases to amaze me how sophisticated and incredibly original some software developers are. Here is a fresh batch of handy software with cool, sometimes weird, applications. WaveToText (United Research Labs) WaveToText is an English speech recognition-based dictation pad with a WAV to... The dictation pad lets you convert your voice to text in real-time, while the program's wizard enables you to convert your Windows Audio WAV files (speech recorded) offline. ... NET Observe (Explore Anywhere Software) NET Observe 2.9 is a powerful, discrete remote web based surveillance and...

How to Fully Customize your Desktop by Michael Cottier
Customizing your desktop is easy and fun to do. You can change everything from the sounds that your computer makes, to the screensaver that shows up during inactivity. But that’s not all that you can customize. Everything from the colors of your windows to the font that displays a program name... If you search on the web for “free desktop themes” then you can find more for free. ... There are tons of free wallpaper’s available on the Internet, or you make your own using digital camera photos of your friends and family members.

The Xbox 360 - a Gamer's Dream Machine by Paul W Wilson
The Xbox360 is a video game console that is visionary. It competes with the Sony Play Station 3 and Nintendo Revolution. A gamers’ dream machine, the Xbox 360 is sold in two versions a premium edition that has a hard drive, a wireless controller, headset, Ethernet cable, a HD AV cable, and an... All games support a six channel Dolby Digital Sound with no voice echo. ... Game demos and trailers are offered free but full versions of games have to be purchased using Xbox Live Marketplace using Microsoft points which can be bought through Live or via game cards sold retail.

Make Your Documents Portable With A PIM Agendus Professional V9.0 Manager by Rene Tse
Many new Symbian OS and Palm OS users may be unaware that an application called PIM or personal information manager comes built in with ROM on every Palm OS device or Symbian OS. I promise that my article presents agendus professional v9.0 in a clear, concise and friendly manner. ... Try the 3-Day free trial to see for yourself if this PIM enhancer will make your life more organized and stress free. ... Since my days are filled with appointments for voice recognition training sessions, one handy feature with the agendas Pro is that if I have an opening between 1:30 PM to 4 PM, it will show...

Create An Impressive Photo Show With A Special Feature by Chris Watts
Over the last few years their have been many software developers introduce software that can produce entertaining keep sakes for us all to treasure, I consider myself a true family man who love my children and desire to video and photograph all the fun and exciting moments in their life. ... Record your own voice-over track or add a soundtrack from a CD. ... It also features the Ken Burns Effect, better known as Pan And Zoom effect to your images and video, thus giving the impression that a still graphic becomes a motion video, you can even rotate a photo or video while the slide show is...

Hard Disk Failure and Data Recovery by Bharat Bista
Hard Disk: An Introduction Hard disk is a non-volatile data storage device that stores electronic data on a magnetic surface layered onto hard disk platters. Word Hard is use to differentiate it from a soft, or floppy disk. Hard disks hold more data and can store from 10 to more than 100... Contemporary hard drives use a voice coil actuator, which controls the movement of a coil toward or away from a permanent magnet based on the amount of current flowing through it. ... Within time frame of 50 years and rapid progress in technical enhancement, we have now reached to latest 2006 - First...

New Device "Stretches" Time? by Alex MacCaskill
Do you always feel short of time? Is 24x7 beginning to feel like 25x8? Who would not want an extra hour a day to deal with all those emails, voice mails and text messages from colleagues? The answer may be at hand. It may seem far-fetched, if not incredible, but after studying the effects of... EMAILS, TEXTS, VOICE MAILS By asking people to deal with email and other messages from colleagues in a controlled environment called "FunZone", we could actually stop time completely by precisely one hour per day.

How To Improve Your Chess Game by Ari Darmapala
It is a mistaken belief that playing chess is a god-gifted art and barring reaching an ordinary 'cognizable standard' you cannot improve. The 'cognizable standard' means you are reaching to the standard which makes you only recognize the good and bad points of the game but without any ability to... If you are eager to improve your play rapidly, write down the moves of all your games, not only the competitive one (in which recording is compulsory). ... These have been steadily improving and the latest models feature up to sixty-four levels of play, programmed openings and games, a voice...