Choosing a Portable MP3 Player: Part 1 by Jason Kohrs
MP3 players are everywhere! It seems that the number of makes and models in this market is growing daily, with features and capabilities intended to appeal to just about anyone shopping for one of these devices. MP3 players have been around much longer than the Apple iPod , but there is no... Smaller devices obviously have smaller displays, but they still need to convey some basic information. ... The iPod is a larger device, however, and it can afford to have a larger display to convey information on menus, song artists/titles, volume, date/time, equalizer, battery status, and so on.

DVD Projector Rentals by Marcus Peterson
DVD is a type of optical storage technology. Digital form of storage has completely replaced magnetic storage media like floppy disks. DVD is the acronym of Digital Versatile Disk and is better than CD in terms of audio and video quality. It is versatile and can be played in DVD players and... The rental companies require credit card information and an ID. ... DVD players also support jpeg formats. ... For instance, some DVD projectors don’t support inputs from computers. ... They are available in different models with different features.

Challenges of SOA Testing by Jason English
Why is SOA testing such a different beast than previous forms of browser, client/server and mainframe testing? Many of the benefits of SOA become challenges to testing an SOA application. 1. SOA is distributed by definition Services are based on heterogeneous technologies. ... No SOA is a "flip the switch" single technology change In Selecting an SOA approach there are components that are simply not worth the money and effort to bring into the SOA world - for instance a data feed that supplies a relatively unchanging piece of information to the business workflow.

Microsoft Great Plains customization – Freight Forwarding/Transportation industry example by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains version 8.5, 8.0, 7.5, Great Plains eEnterprise/Dynamics 7.0, 6.0, Dynamics C/S+ 5.5 and 5.0 serve USA, UK, South Africa, Australia, Middle East horizontal market. As being relatively inexpensive solution, it is reasonably open to be customizable to fit... Use the same Great Plains Dexterity custom window technology. ... • Reports – you are free to use either Dexterity report or Crystal Reports designer Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support.

Business Intelligence Data Mining by Ross Bainbridge
Data mining can be technically defined as the automated extraction of hidden information from large databases for predictive analysis. In other words, it is the retrieval of useful information from large masses of data, which is also presented in an analyzed form for specific decision-making. ... BI uses various technologies like data mining, scorecarding, data warehouses, text mining, decision support systems, executive information systems, management information systems and geographic information systems for analyzing useful information for business decision making.

Expansion Cards Part 2: AGP by Jason Kohrs
Expansion Cards Part 2: AGP The first in this series of Tech Tips on expansion cards took a look at the PCI slot, and the variety of devices that may find their home in one. Graphics cards are one of the many items that may be used in a PCI slot, but the demands of fast-paced video games... PCI data transfers require each piece of necessary information to be received separately before acting on any of it. ... Despite being based on PCI technology, the AGP and PCI slots on a motherboard are not interchangeable, so an AGP card can not be installed into a PCI slot, and vice versa.

How to Create a PAD File by Adriana Iordan
If you're a software author, you're probably familiar with those never ending requests and the need of updating the info on your programs, over and over again. The Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) also thought of this and decided to do something about it. ... Many download sites demand and support it; PAD uses the XML web technology, which means data can be easily extracted by any XML toolkit; As a webmaster, you get all the needed information, just by using an XML extractor, without having to contact the author Now, if you want to add some extra information in the PAD, you...

15 Questions to Ask Your Software Vendor by Jay McCormack
When making a decision to buy any piece of software there are a number of criteria typically evaluated. One of the most important elements in the decision process is the strength of the company that builds the software. In fact a survey of 19,000 customers has identified that company strength is... If the vendor can not provide this information, or is not willing to do so then you can anticipate a support issue or poor customer satisfaction with the product. ... What percentage of customers are current with their annual support contract?

Sales Contact Management Software by Kent Pinkerton
Executives and managers have to keep up with growing competition and pressing business needs. They are ready to invest in software to get the convenience of getting their contact information organized and up to date. Sales contact management software is that essential tool with which salespeople... The solutions offered by many technology vendors include ready-made and customized solutions for specific business needs. ... Vendors offering sales contact management software provide extensive support for their products.

What's the Fuss over FOSS? by Chin Wong
What’s the fuss over FOSS? IN an industry where acronyms are de rigueur, it seemed inevitable that an old computing concept would get a new name. Last November at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (which goes by its own unwieldy acronym WSIS), FOSS was on everyone’s lips... Out of this environment came Richard Stallman, a programmer at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... One of the most high-profile efforts, however, is Brazil’s program to support the use and development of free and open source software in its...