Hi ! all my friends. Here are some news funny sms that i just read and want to share you and after you read it please tell all your friends or you can send it to your friends.
MY BEST WISHES 4 YOU ARE:
GREAT START FOR JANUARY.
HAPPINESS FOR FEBRUARY.
LUCKY FOR MARCH.
JOY FOR APRIL.
HEALTHY FOR MAY.
FUNNY FOR JUNE.
PEACE FOR JULY.
SUCCESS FOR AUGUST.
HOPEFULLY FOR SEPTEMBER.
HAPPY FOR OCTOBER.
WONDERFULL FOR NOVEMBER.
NO WORRY FOR DECEMBER AND NO STRESS FOR YEAR 2008.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Happy With Joke
Mother teaches a daughter :
If men touch you, say DONT and if men kiss you, say STOP.
Oneday a man touch her and kiss her at a same time, so you know what she says???????
She says DONT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If men touch you, say DONT and if men kiss you, say STOP.
Oneday a man touch her and kiss her at a same time, so you know what she says???????
She says DONT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Funny SMS
LOVE is like testing which we are stupid people fallen and re-take the test again.
LOVE is a pain because there is no doctor that can cure or explain. It tackles the heart and effects the brain.
LOVE is a pain because there is no doctor that can cure or explain. It tackles the heart and effects the brain.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
The Top 8 Things the Music, Television, Movie and Consumer Electronics Industries Should Do
by Scott Consolatti
The music, television, movie and consumer electronics industries (hereafter collectively referred to as the industry) have been struggling with the rapid advance of technology and the new virtuality of content. Here are the top eight things the industry should do to harness the technology and recapture the simple tenet of giving the customer what they want.
1. Offer three consumption models.
a. Offer all content free with ads.
All content should be available on demand all the time free with ads. The best examples of this so far are music videos at mtv.com and music.yahoo.com and TV shows at in2tv.aol.com. The worst examples of this are the television networks who still insist on having their content time expire after only a short period of availability. Networks should use the ad model to make their entire catalog of shows, current and past, available for free all the time. All media stores, such as iTunes, should also introduce the option of listening to or watching a brief ad per 10 minutes of content or so in order to enjoy the entire content rather than just short preview clips.
b. Rent all content without ads for a fee.
This is the same as 1a only without the ads for a fee. The best examples of this so far are Netflix and Yahoo! Music Unlimited. With the former, for as low as $8.99 per month, you can rent any movie in the store, and that now includes some that can be watched directly online. With the latter, for as low as $5.99 per month, you can listen to every song in the store as many times as you want with no ads. All media stores and sites should offer this option.
c. Sell all content Digital Rights Management(DRM, or copy protection)-free.
There will still always be a market for owning content outright, such as for those times where you just don't have an Internet connection or don't want to be tethered to a server. In these cases, for both online virtual formats and offline physical formats, DRM simply should go. It has proven to hamper sales significantly due to treating everyday paying customers as if they are pirates, restricting them to play back the content on too few devices, giving them the chore of backing up and managing licenses on their computer and violating their fair use rights. DRM will always be defeatable and the industry simply needs to stop investing an inordinate amount of time and money into something that has a negative impact on their bottom line. The industry should abandon it and get back to the basic premise of allowing the customer the joy of experiencing the content they paid for without any strings attached. The best example of this so far is EMI which is now allowing media stores to sell DRM-free songs.
2. Wireless Internet-enable all devices.
The computer cannot be the only access point. TVs, cable boxes, disc players, DVRs, game consoles, portables, boom boxes, phones, car head units - in short all playback devices - should come with built-in wireless connection to the Internet for access to content servers. The best examples of this so far are the Playstation 3 and the iPhone/iPod touch Wi-Fi Music Store.
3. End format wars.
When a new format is needed to advance the industry to the next level, there should be one and only one format that goes to market and becomes the standard. Like 1c, this applies to both online virtual formats and offline physical formats.
The current example in physical formats is Blu-ray vs. HD DVD. Two formats were necessary at first to spur competition, but the differences between them at this point are so negligible that ultimately one has to win for either to succeed. A standards body needs to exist to allow competition at first and to oversee a limited beta period to ensure customer opinions are factored in, but then to ultimately pick a winner before full-scale market launch. Companies should be required to register candidate formats in the early stages. The standards body should track investment and invention level of each candidate along the way. Then a winner should be chosen with a percentage of the licensing revenue going to all of the candidates commensurate with their investment and invention level. The candidates either agree to these terms from the get-go or they do not participate in determining and profiting from the next generation format.
The current example in virtual formats is mp3 vs. AAC vs. WMA vs. yet others for audio, and mpeg-4 (H.264) vs. WMV (VC-1) vs. yet others for video. Coupled with 1c, the industry should have standardized on mp3 and mpeg-4 a long time ago to ensure that all content will be universally playable on every device.
Correcting this immediately is essential. The industry should get a standards body in place as soon as possible and declare much overdue industry standards, such as Blu-ray, mp3 and mpeg-
4. The marketplace will rejoice, sales will skyrocket and the floodgates will open on the dam the industry itself has been one of the largest contributors to building.
4. Allow playlists to be defined and stored on the servers.
What 1a and 1b do is move us away from the need to store and manage our own copies of the content on our client devices (or on our shelves). Moving playlists off of the clients is a natural extension of that. When we can dial up all content including our favorite playlists on demand all the time anywhere we have an Internet connection, the convenience of not having to permanently store and backup our own copies of the data will start to prevail. The best example of this so far is Yahoo! Music Jukebox.
5. Offer movies by the chapter in addition to whole.
Just as the norm is now to be able to buy individual songs rather than just whole albums, the same option should be available for buying the individual chapters of movies. Doing so would offer the same advantages as individual song sales - the ability to collect favorite chapters at lower cost and storage use, the ability to direct-access chapters on playback and the ability to arrange favorite chapters from various movies into playlists. Note that this would require players to pre-cache the next chapter to ensure gapless chapter-to-chapter playback, but that is certainly doable.
6. Offer a choice of bitrates.
Highly compressed bitrates were fine at first, but there is no doubt that even with today's bandwidth and storage (which will only grow with time), those who want to enjoy higher bitrates should have the option. With 1a and 1b, bandwidth is the primary factor, and clearly higher bitrates are possible even today. With 1c online formats, storage is also a factor, but even with today's capacities some may choose quality over quantity for must-have content.
7. Piggyback audio on video for physical formats.
The industry moving to a new physical format is a big undertaking. Assuming a new HD format succeeds for video, then audio should just piggyback on that success. The video format will obviously have enough capacity for audio, and consumers will not have to buy additional players. Previous HD audio attempts of DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD failed for several reasons - separate audio-only players, no single digital connection such as HDMI, format war, etc. - all of which can be avoided once either Blu-ray or HD DVD is declared the standard. Albums in uncompressed PCM, both 2-channel stereo and multi-channel surround, with HD extras such as music videos, live concert footage and still photos all played through an existing player with single HDMI connection would be very compelling. With lossless compression such as Dolby TrueHD, perhaps entire album box sets could fit on one disc. These are exciting new possibilities.
8. Leverage viral marketing.
This is an extension of 1a. Provide url-addressability to free ad-coupled content that sites anywhere can provide links to - it essentially equates to free marketing for you. It doesn't matter from where the eyeballs found the content, just that they found it. More eyeballs means more ad revenue in your pocket and more exposure that will lead to the eventual purchase of the content and related merchandise such as concert tickets, t-shirts, posters, action figures, toys, etc. A free ad-supported lure has always been necessary (radio and TV) for widespread exposure. The best examples of this so far are music videos at mtv.com and music.yahoo.com and TV shows at in2tv.aol.com. Music, movies and all TV programs should get on board and realize the massive new source of constant ad revenue never before possible without the new technology.
These eight things would take the industry out of its current slump and carry it into unprecedented growth territory.
About the Author
Scott Consolatti is founder and president of Megacollage, a pioneer in online media compilations including music and video playlists, custom photo collages and text compilations. See for yourself how Megacollage combines the best of what today's online content world has to offer by visiting http://www.megacollage.com/index.html .
The music, television, movie and consumer electronics industries (hereafter collectively referred to as the industry) have been struggling with the rapid advance of technology and the new virtuality of content. Here are the top eight things the industry should do to harness the technology and recapture the simple tenet of giving the customer what they want.
1. Offer three consumption models.
a. Offer all content free with ads.
All content should be available on demand all the time free with ads. The best examples of this so far are music videos at mtv.com and music.yahoo.com and TV shows at in2tv.aol.com. The worst examples of this are the television networks who still insist on having their content time expire after only a short period of availability. Networks should use the ad model to make their entire catalog of shows, current and past, available for free all the time. All media stores, such as iTunes, should also introduce the option of listening to or watching a brief ad per 10 minutes of content or so in order to enjoy the entire content rather than just short preview clips.
b. Rent all content without ads for a fee.
This is the same as 1a only without the ads for a fee. The best examples of this so far are Netflix and Yahoo! Music Unlimited. With the former, for as low as $8.99 per month, you can rent any movie in the store, and that now includes some that can be watched directly online. With the latter, for as low as $5.99 per month, you can listen to every song in the store as many times as you want with no ads. All media stores and sites should offer this option.
c. Sell all content Digital Rights Management(DRM, or copy protection)-free.
There will still always be a market for owning content outright, such as for those times where you just don't have an Internet connection or don't want to be tethered to a server. In these cases, for both online virtual formats and offline physical formats, DRM simply should go. It has proven to hamper sales significantly due to treating everyday paying customers as if they are pirates, restricting them to play back the content on too few devices, giving them the chore of backing up and managing licenses on their computer and violating their fair use rights. DRM will always be defeatable and the industry simply needs to stop investing an inordinate amount of time and money into something that has a negative impact on their bottom line. The industry should abandon it and get back to the basic premise of allowing the customer the joy of experiencing the content they paid for without any strings attached. The best example of this so far is EMI which is now allowing media stores to sell DRM-free songs.
2. Wireless Internet-enable all devices.
The computer cannot be the only access point. TVs, cable boxes, disc players, DVRs, game consoles, portables, boom boxes, phones, car head units - in short all playback devices - should come with built-in wireless connection to the Internet for access to content servers. The best examples of this so far are the Playstation 3 and the iPhone/iPod touch Wi-Fi Music Store.
3. End format wars.
When a new format is needed to advance the industry to the next level, there should be one and only one format that goes to market and becomes the standard. Like 1c, this applies to both online virtual formats and offline physical formats.
The current example in physical formats is Blu-ray vs. HD DVD. Two formats were necessary at first to spur competition, but the differences between them at this point are so negligible that ultimately one has to win for either to succeed. A standards body needs to exist to allow competition at first and to oversee a limited beta period to ensure customer opinions are factored in, but then to ultimately pick a winner before full-scale market launch. Companies should be required to register candidate formats in the early stages. The standards body should track investment and invention level of each candidate along the way. Then a winner should be chosen with a percentage of the licensing revenue going to all of the candidates commensurate with their investment and invention level. The candidates either agree to these terms from the get-go or they do not participate in determining and profiting from the next generation format.
The current example in virtual formats is mp3 vs. AAC vs. WMA vs. yet others for audio, and mpeg-4 (H.264) vs. WMV (VC-1) vs. yet others for video. Coupled with 1c, the industry should have standardized on mp3 and mpeg-4 a long time ago to ensure that all content will be universally playable on every device.
Correcting this immediately is essential. The industry should get a standards body in place as soon as possible and declare much overdue industry standards, such as Blu-ray, mp3 and mpeg-
4. The marketplace will rejoice, sales will skyrocket and the floodgates will open on the dam the industry itself has been one of the largest contributors to building.
4. Allow playlists to be defined and stored on the servers.
What 1a and 1b do is move us away from the need to store and manage our own copies of the content on our client devices (or on our shelves). Moving playlists off of the clients is a natural extension of that. When we can dial up all content including our favorite playlists on demand all the time anywhere we have an Internet connection, the convenience of not having to permanently store and backup our own copies of the data will start to prevail. The best example of this so far is Yahoo! Music Jukebox.
5. Offer movies by the chapter in addition to whole.
Just as the norm is now to be able to buy individual songs rather than just whole albums, the same option should be available for buying the individual chapters of movies. Doing so would offer the same advantages as individual song sales - the ability to collect favorite chapters at lower cost and storage use, the ability to direct-access chapters on playback and the ability to arrange favorite chapters from various movies into playlists. Note that this would require players to pre-cache the next chapter to ensure gapless chapter-to-chapter playback, but that is certainly doable.
6. Offer a choice of bitrates.
Highly compressed bitrates were fine at first, but there is no doubt that even with today's bandwidth and storage (which will only grow with time), those who want to enjoy higher bitrates should have the option. With 1a and 1b, bandwidth is the primary factor, and clearly higher bitrates are possible even today. With 1c online formats, storage is also a factor, but even with today's capacities some may choose quality over quantity for must-have content.
7. Piggyback audio on video for physical formats.
The industry moving to a new physical format is a big undertaking. Assuming a new HD format succeeds for video, then audio should just piggyback on that success. The video format will obviously have enough capacity for audio, and consumers will not have to buy additional players. Previous HD audio attempts of DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD failed for several reasons - separate audio-only players, no single digital connection such as HDMI, format war, etc. - all of which can be avoided once either Blu-ray or HD DVD is declared the standard. Albums in uncompressed PCM, both 2-channel stereo and multi-channel surround, with HD extras such as music videos, live concert footage and still photos all played through an existing player with single HDMI connection would be very compelling. With lossless compression such as Dolby TrueHD, perhaps entire album box sets could fit on one disc. These are exciting new possibilities.
8. Leverage viral marketing.
This is an extension of 1a. Provide url-addressability to free ad-coupled content that sites anywhere can provide links to - it essentially equates to free marketing for you. It doesn't matter from where the eyeballs found the content, just that they found it. More eyeballs means more ad revenue in your pocket and more exposure that will lead to the eventual purchase of the content and related merchandise such as concert tickets, t-shirts, posters, action figures, toys, etc. A free ad-supported lure has always been necessary (radio and TV) for widespread exposure. The best examples of this so far are music videos at mtv.com and music.yahoo.com and TV shows at in2tv.aol.com. Music, movies and all TV programs should get on board and realize the massive new source of constant ad revenue never before possible without the new technology.
These eight things would take the industry out of its current slump and carry it into unprecedented growth territory.
About the Author
Scott Consolatti is founder and president of Megacollage, a pioneer in online media compilations including music and video playlists, custom photo collages and text compilations. See for yourself how Megacollage combines the best of what today's online content world has to offer by visiting http://www.megacollage.com/index.html .
The Ultimate Gambling System Makes Money for You
by Groshan Fabiola
There are many ways of earning a second income, and gambling is certainly one of them. However, you don't hear of too many people who are well off with just the money they make via Betfair. In fact, the percentage of gamblers who make money on Betfair using the conventional methods is tiny. But who says we have to stick to traditional methods forever? You are now presented with all sorts of laying techniques in a variety of formats. The only problem is that you might be conned by these so-called laying experts, and some of you may not want to take that chance, and you shouldn't. What you can do is give the Ultimate Gambling System a try.
What is the Ultimate Gambling System? It is a Betfair gambling bot that takes care of all the gambling for you. An Internet connection and a Windows based PC are something quite common in people's homes or at the workplace nowadays. In addition to these, you will also need the Ultimate Gambling System software and a Betfair account, which takes no more than five minutes to open. Of course, it will take you about five to ten minutes every day to get the bot running. I think it's fair to say this is an insignificant investment, considering that you will be making serious money every day. Or better yet, this Betfair gambling bot will be making money for you, while you can do whatever you please.
If you are a little skeptical because this is the first time you have heard of such a Betfair gambling bot, let me tell you a little more about it. Bot is short for 'robot', a robot that places bets on our behalf using the API interface designed by Betfair for this purpose. This software program can perform various tasks and decide whether or not to place a wager through Betfair. The program is also equipped with pre-programmed paths that can be used to place the next bet, depending on the result of the initial bet.
If you still have some doubts regarding the Ultimate Gambling System, let us put them aside. You don't have to take anyone's word for it. You can see for yourself that this Betfair gambling bot actually works. You can try it for free for twenty-four hours, with no obligation to buy, and the decision to buy the software is yours alone.
Once you have convinced yourself that the Ultimate Gambling System can make some serious money with little effort on your part, here is what you have to do next. The steps you need to take in order to have the Ultimate Gambling System installed on your computer are just as simple as using the program itself. All you have to do is leave your e-mail address on a web site and check your inbox for the Ultimate Gambling System unlock code that you will receive after you have placed your order. You can start making money sooner than you had expected and forget all about the traditional methods for gambling. The Ultimate Gambling System will be making money for you while you go to work, sleep, or involve in any other activity.
About the Author
For more info about Betfair gambling bot or even about Ultimate Gambling System please review this page http://www.ultimategamblingsystem.co.uk
There are many ways of earning a second income, and gambling is certainly one of them. However, you don't hear of too many people who are well off with just the money they make via Betfair. In fact, the percentage of gamblers who make money on Betfair using the conventional methods is tiny. But who says we have to stick to traditional methods forever? You are now presented with all sorts of laying techniques in a variety of formats. The only problem is that you might be conned by these so-called laying experts, and some of you may not want to take that chance, and you shouldn't. What you can do is give the Ultimate Gambling System a try.
What is the Ultimate Gambling System? It is a Betfair gambling bot that takes care of all the gambling for you. An Internet connection and a Windows based PC are something quite common in people's homes or at the workplace nowadays. In addition to these, you will also need the Ultimate Gambling System software and a Betfair account, which takes no more than five minutes to open. Of course, it will take you about five to ten minutes every day to get the bot running. I think it's fair to say this is an insignificant investment, considering that you will be making serious money every day. Or better yet, this Betfair gambling bot will be making money for you, while you can do whatever you please.
If you are a little skeptical because this is the first time you have heard of such a Betfair gambling bot, let me tell you a little more about it. Bot is short for 'robot', a robot that places bets on our behalf using the API interface designed by Betfair for this purpose. This software program can perform various tasks and decide whether or not to place a wager through Betfair. The program is also equipped with pre-programmed paths that can be used to place the next bet, depending on the result of the initial bet.
If you still have some doubts regarding the Ultimate Gambling System, let us put them aside. You don't have to take anyone's word for it. You can see for yourself that this Betfair gambling bot actually works. You can try it for free for twenty-four hours, with no obligation to buy, and the decision to buy the software is yours alone.
Once you have convinced yourself that the Ultimate Gambling System can make some serious money with little effort on your part, here is what you have to do next. The steps you need to take in order to have the Ultimate Gambling System installed on your computer are just as simple as using the program itself. All you have to do is leave your e-mail address on a web site and check your inbox for the Ultimate Gambling System unlock code that you will receive after you have placed your order. You can start making money sooner than you had expected and forget all about the traditional methods for gambling. The Ultimate Gambling System will be making money for you while you go to work, sleep, or involve in any other activity.
About the Author
For more info about Betfair gambling bot or even about Ultimate Gambling System please review this page http://www.ultimategamblingsystem.co.uk
Tips on Choosing a TV Show
by Jasmin Galicia
In a Sunday morning, you're feeling bored and you don't want to go out. You want to relax and at the same time to enjoy. You turn on the television, then you found a huge range of tv shows waiting to be watch but haven't got the idea what's worth to watch and wondering what's best for you or what will fit your taste. The same question on everybody's mind while finding what they want. In this statement, we will give you the idea on choosing your television shows for your own delights. Choosing a tv show is depends upon the character and behaviour of oneself. The first thing to do is knowing what is the correct Category for you...If you are Grumpy, you want peace and quite shows but on the same time it fills you up and make you enjoy what you are watching.The best category for you is Drama; a type of show that give peace to the mind, love and romance through the entire show. If you're a happy person, who almost enjoy everything in his/her life the best category for you is Comedy; a type of show that gives excitement and fun at the same time. If you're an Intelligent type of person and has a wild imagination, where you want to be surprise or you want a show that cannot be predicted whatsoever, the best category for you is Mystery; a type of show that brings mystery or somehow misery to everyone who watches it. If you're a War Lover, who hate peace and really love war the best category for you is an Action type of show that where lots of people died in battle or somehow injured and the fight scene is all-over the show. If you're a strong minded person, where you want to be scared by anything the best category for you is Horror a type of show that will keep your heart thumping.Lastly, if you're a kind of person that dreaming to be a cowboy or loves Western settings from long time ago..Western tv shows are the one for you. But one more thing, everything that I said here is just an idea and it's still depends on the mood of any individual, for even though your a happy person in reality and your having a baddest day of your life, you wouldn't watch anything that you love most. Then again where giving you just the idea on how to choose your own tv show. By reading the tips that I have given; you can already decide what tv show or tv series you're going to watch. But incase that you are a type of person that haven't got the time to follow the series on television for your own reasons, there are also DVD's available whether in classic or latest television shows. It's perfect for those people who loves to collect and watch tv shows on dvd.
About the Author
Jasmin Galicia recommends the DVDCraze the online store for tv series on DVD's. From classic to latest tv shows on DVD.
In a Sunday morning, you're feeling bored and you don't want to go out. You want to relax and at the same time to enjoy. You turn on the television, then you found a huge range of tv shows waiting to be watch but haven't got the idea what's worth to watch and wondering what's best for you or what will fit your taste. The same question on everybody's mind while finding what they want. In this statement, we will give you the idea on choosing your television shows for your own delights. Choosing a tv show is depends upon the character and behaviour of oneself. The first thing to do is knowing what is the correct Category for you...If you are Grumpy, you want peace and quite shows but on the same time it fills you up and make you enjoy what you are watching.The best category for you is Drama; a type of show that give peace to the mind, love and romance through the entire show. If you're a happy person, who almost enjoy everything in his/her life the best category for you is Comedy; a type of show that gives excitement and fun at the same time. If you're an Intelligent type of person and has a wild imagination, where you want to be surprise or you want a show that cannot be predicted whatsoever, the best category for you is Mystery; a type of show that brings mystery or somehow misery to everyone who watches it. If you're a War Lover, who hate peace and really love war the best category for you is an Action type of show that where lots of people died in battle or somehow injured and the fight scene is all-over the show. If you're a strong minded person, where you want to be scared by anything the best category for you is Horror a type of show that will keep your heart thumping.Lastly, if you're a kind of person that dreaming to be a cowboy or loves Western settings from long time ago..Western tv shows are the one for you. But one more thing, everything that I said here is just an idea and it's still depends on the mood of any individual, for even though your a happy person in reality and your having a baddest day of your life, you wouldn't watch anything that you love most. Then again where giving you just the idea on how to choose your own tv show. By reading the tips that I have given; you can already decide what tv show or tv series you're going to watch. But incase that you are a type of person that haven't got the time to follow the series on television for your own reasons, there are also DVD's available whether in classic or latest television shows. It's perfect for those people who loves to collect and watch tv shows on dvd.
About the Author
Jasmin Galicia recommends the DVDCraze the online store for tv series on DVD's. From classic to latest tv shows on DVD.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
What is an LCD TV?
by Parimala Devi
LCD TV s are modern digital equipment using liquid crystal displays to indicate pictures. An LCD display is actually composite microscopic window panes that flicker from opaque to clear when they are powered with electrons. The crystals react to the light source - most of the times a fluorescent lamp - and display a given shape or image sequence. The pixels that form the LCD screen have the ability to get turned on and off very quickly, thus allowing moving pictures to be shown on screen.
LCD TV s are some of the most desireable items in electronic boutiques across the world. There are many factors that contribute to the success of LCD tvs, such as image quality and the elegant flat design of the TV. Although their prices were discouraging not long ago, in todays world we see a large selection of LCD TV models and an ever- increasing quality of the products. LCD TVs have a large range of functionality, as they can also be used as computer monitors. Some classic TV fans will dispute that there are also a couple of important cons against LCD technology, such as the limited viewing angle, but the majority of consumers sees the rewards.
Competition for the LCD TV is intense. The main two competitors are plasma TVs and the classic CRTs. Plasma TVs work in differently than LCD TVs - they have a layer of special gas cornered between two translucent walls. A multitude of very thin wires covers the outside part of the screen. Whenever an electrical impulse courses across a wire, it induces the gas to react and glow, thus producing color. Similar to LCD TVs, by quickly turning on and off the screen pixels the TV emulates movement.
The Cathode ray tube - CRT - TVs are still dominant on the market. Although they lack the elegant design of the LCD and plasma TVs, CRTs are cheaper and offer excellent image quality. However, as time goes by, we see more and more progress with LCD TVs. The sleek, space saving design and long lasting promise that the manufacturers offer are some of the arguments in favor of LCD TVs. As the competition between LCD TVs and plasma TVs continues, the consumers are the main beneficiaries, as numbers drop lower and the sharpness of the products improves.
New tv's are constantly being introduced to the market, the only way I've found to know which are the good deals is to read the discussions and href="http://www.lcd-tv-reviews.com/reviews/">LCD tv reviews that exist in different places on the internet. It's only by sharing that we can learn the truths about the different television models.
About the Author
This author Interested in writing and posting articles which are useful for individuals and business as well
LCD TV s are modern digital equipment using liquid crystal displays to indicate pictures. An LCD display is actually composite microscopic window panes that flicker from opaque to clear when they are powered with electrons. The crystals react to the light source - most of the times a fluorescent lamp - and display a given shape or image sequence. The pixels that form the LCD screen have the ability to get turned on and off very quickly, thus allowing moving pictures to be shown on screen.
LCD TV s are some of the most desireable items in electronic boutiques across the world. There are many factors that contribute to the success of LCD tvs, such as image quality and the elegant flat design of the TV. Although their prices were discouraging not long ago, in todays world we see a large selection of LCD TV models and an ever- increasing quality of the products. LCD TVs have a large range of functionality, as they can also be used as computer monitors. Some classic TV fans will dispute that there are also a couple of important cons against LCD technology, such as the limited viewing angle, but the majority of consumers sees the rewards.
Competition for the LCD TV is intense. The main two competitors are plasma TVs and the classic CRTs. Plasma TVs work in differently than LCD TVs - they have a layer of special gas cornered between two translucent walls. A multitude of very thin wires covers the outside part of the screen. Whenever an electrical impulse courses across a wire, it induces the gas to react and glow, thus producing color. Similar to LCD TVs, by quickly turning on and off the screen pixels the TV emulates movement.
The Cathode ray tube - CRT - TVs are still dominant on the market. Although they lack the elegant design of the LCD and plasma TVs, CRTs are cheaper and offer excellent image quality. However, as time goes by, we see more and more progress with LCD TVs. The sleek, space saving design and long lasting promise that the manufacturers offer are some of the arguments in favor of LCD TVs. As the competition between LCD TVs and plasma TVs continues, the consumers are the main beneficiaries, as numbers drop lower and the sharpness of the products improves.
New tv's are constantly being introduced to the market, the only way I've found to know which are the good deals is to read the discussions and href="http://www.lcd-tv-reviews.com/reviews/">LCD tv reviews that exist in different places on the internet. It's only by sharing that we can learn the truths about the different television models.
About the Author
This author Interested in writing and posting articles which are useful for individuals and business as well
23 Top Tips for Planning a Great Wedding On a Small Budget
by Anthony Coogan
Apart from buying a property, a wedding is the most difficult event that most people have to plan and prepare for. It becomes even more challenging when working to a tight budget. Here are some pointers to help you get the best value for money.
How to Budget:
When working within strict financial guidelines your wedding expenses have to be decided and planned carefully. Whoever is paying, whether it is you or your parents, or a combination of both, it is wise to set a limit of the funding available. Keep an eye on the big picture and be careful not to over commit. Given that the average cost of a traditional wedding is somewhere in the region of $35,000, running over by as little as 15 per cent will cost you another $5,000. After all, you really do not want to start married life with huge debts incurred by your wedding day.
Create an Expenditure List:
Start by preparing a comprehensive list of projected expenditure for each part of the wedding and this will help you monitor and control the costs. If you change your mind about certain aspects of the wedding, remember to include any extra expenses incurred in your overall budget.
20 Top Budgeting Tips:
1. Invite only the most important people in your life. - No 'hangers on'.
2: You can use personally made invitations to add that special touch.
3. Be practical when researching and choosing the venue.
4: Try to have the ceremony and the reception in the same place so as to minimize your costs
and don't forget to haggle as most venues are negotiable on price.
5: Use candles and ribbons to decorate the venue instead of spending lots of money on expensive flowers.
6. Keep the food selection simple - to provide a finger buffet is more than adequate
7. Consider a less extravagant cake - are 4 tiers really necessary or will 2 tiers be sufficient?
8. Champagne is only for making the toasts - serve less expensive drinks the rest of the time. Also consider substituting Cava for Champagne, the taste difference is minimal but the price difference is great.
9. Is it really necessary to video the wedding proceedings? Photographs in the album are equally as memorable and if several people are taking photos you will have a good selection to choose from.
10. Recorded music presented by a DJ or Karaoke entertainment is just as good to dance to as a live band.
11. Ask a family member or friend to be Master of Ceremonies for the day
12. Borrow a friend's classy car to get you to the venue instead of hiring an expensive limo for
the event. Adorn it with ribbons and special touches to make it look the part.
13: Always get 3 quotes for every wedding day purchase over $100. This tip alone can save you many thousands of dollars and involves just a couple of extra phone calls each time you book a service.
14: Examine how much of the wedding services can be done 'in-house' by you and your family. Eg: Invitations, order of service, favors, balloons, cars and photography.
15: Hire your wedding dress and your bridesmaid dresses. 99% of wedding dresses that are bought end up in the loft or the garage. Hiring dresses will save you a small fortune - yet the quality will remain the same.
16: Use wedding planning software to help you organize your expenditure and help your planning. There's loads of good, cheap wedding planning software on the market.
17: Don't offer a free bar at your reception. Just give the guests wine with the meal and a drink for the toasts.
18: On your wedding list why not state that you would like some of your wedding services as gifts? Eg: what about wedding favors as a gift?
19: Instead of a honeymoon, why not consider a 'honeybreak' - a 3/4 day break way together to re-charge and have lots of 'love ins'. You could even add this to your wedding list as an option - you'll get plenty of takers as it's a memorable gift!
20: Consider getting married on a day other than a Saturday. We used this tip to save 20% off the cost of our wedding - we got married on Easter Monday and had a ball!
21: Get extras thrown in when you make a booking or purchase. For example, when you book your hotel make sure the bridal suite and some guest bedrooms are thrown in free of charge.
22: Give people the option of giving you checks/ money instead of wedding gifts. You'll be amazed that the money frequently outstrips the value of any gifts you might have got!
23: Downscale on your services without sacrificing quality. Downsize your numbers, downsize the transport, downsize your honeymoon. You'll be surprised how much excess can be trimmed from a top drawer budget by using this method.
Final Words:
Remember, careful monitoring and control of your expenses whilst at the planning stage will undoubtedly go a long way to keeping within your budget and making your special day a great success. Always allow 10% on your overall budget after cost saving - as there's always going to be hidden costs and services that you've forgotten to budget for initially.
About the Author
Anthony Coogan has been involved in providing classical and contemporary music in the UK and
Europe for the last 20 years. String Quartets Live developed as a result of his classical music training coupled with his experience of playing at hundreds of weddings over the years.
Click for more information on wedding string quartets
Apart from buying a property, a wedding is the most difficult event that most people have to plan and prepare for. It becomes even more challenging when working to a tight budget. Here are some pointers to help you get the best value for money.
How to Budget:
When working within strict financial guidelines your wedding expenses have to be decided and planned carefully. Whoever is paying, whether it is you or your parents, or a combination of both, it is wise to set a limit of the funding available. Keep an eye on the big picture and be careful not to over commit. Given that the average cost of a traditional wedding is somewhere in the region of $35,000, running over by as little as 15 per cent will cost you another $5,000. After all, you really do not want to start married life with huge debts incurred by your wedding day.
Create an Expenditure List:
Start by preparing a comprehensive list of projected expenditure for each part of the wedding and this will help you monitor and control the costs. If you change your mind about certain aspects of the wedding, remember to include any extra expenses incurred in your overall budget.
20 Top Budgeting Tips:
1. Invite only the most important people in your life. - No 'hangers on'.
2: You can use personally made invitations to add that special touch.
3. Be practical when researching and choosing the venue.
4: Try to have the ceremony and the reception in the same place so as to minimize your costs
and don't forget to haggle as most venues are negotiable on price.
5: Use candles and ribbons to decorate the venue instead of spending lots of money on expensive flowers.
6. Keep the food selection simple - to provide a finger buffet is more than adequate
7. Consider a less extravagant cake - are 4 tiers really necessary or will 2 tiers be sufficient?
8. Champagne is only for making the toasts - serve less expensive drinks the rest of the time. Also consider substituting Cava for Champagne, the taste difference is minimal but the price difference is great.
9. Is it really necessary to video the wedding proceedings? Photographs in the album are equally as memorable and if several people are taking photos you will have a good selection to choose from.
10. Recorded music presented by a DJ or Karaoke entertainment is just as good to dance to as a live band.
11. Ask a family member or friend to be Master of Ceremonies for the day
12. Borrow a friend's classy car to get you to the venue instead of hiring an expensive limo for
the event. Adorn it with ribbons and special touches to make it look the part.
13: Always get 3 quotes for every wedding day purchase over $100. This tip alone can save you many thousands of dollars and involves just a couple of extra phone calls each time you book a service.
14: Examine how much of the wedding services can be done 'in-house' by you and your family. Eg: Invitations, order of service, favors, balloons, cars and photography.
15: Hire your wedding dress and your bridesmaid dresses. 99% of wedding dresses that are bought end up in the loft or the garage. Hiring dresses will save you a small fortune - yet the quality will remain the same.
16: Use wedding planning software to help you organize your expenditure and help your planning. There's loads of good, cheap wedding planning software on the market.
17: Don't offer a free bar at your reception. Just give the guests wine with the meal and a drink for the toasts.
18: On your wedding list why not state that you would like some of your wedding services as gifts? Eg: what about wedding favors as a gift?
19: Instead of a honeymoon, why not consider a 'honeybreak' - a 3/4 day break way together to re-charge and have lots of 'love ins'. You could even add this to your wedding list as an option - you'll get plenty of takers as it's a memorable gift!
20: Consider getting married on a day other than a Saturday. We used this tip to save 20% off the cost of our wedding - we got married on Easter Monday and had a ball!
21: Get extras thrown in when you make a booking or purchase. For example, when you book your hotel make sure the bridal suite and some guest bedrooms are thrown in free of charge.
22: Give people the option of giving you checks/ money instead of wedding gifts. You'll be amazed that the money frequently outstrips the value of any gifts you might have got!
23: Downscale on your services without sacrificing quality. Downsize your numbers, downsize the transport, downsize your honeymoon. You'll be surprised how much excess can be trimmed from a top drawer budget by using this method.
Final Words:
Remember, careful monitoring and control of your expenses whilst at the planning stage will undoubtedly go a long way to keeping within your budget and making your special day a great success. Always allow 10% on your overall budget after cost saving - as there's always going to be hidden costs and services that you've forgotten to budget for initially.
About the Author
Anthony Coogan has been involved in providing classical and contemporary music in the UK and
Europe for the last 20 years. String Quartets Live developed as a result of his classical music training coupled with his experience of playing at hundreds of weddings over the years.
Click for more information on wedding string quartets
The History Of The Digital Music Revolution
by Richard Adams
Most of us, when we were kids, listened to the radio to hear the latest, greatest songs in the music world. We listened eagerly for something new, something original, something our buddies hadn't heard before, and when a song made its way into our collective conscience, we would wait for hours for our favorite DJ to play the song for us, sometimes even for days, just so we could hit the 'record' button and get the thing on tape.
At the time, the record companies knew we were taping our favorite music, but they didn't really care, because the quality of the recording was low and the DJ would more often than not talk over the first and last five seconds of the thing, making it worthless as something to swap or sell. 'Mix tapes' were a personal thing, but they couldn't really compare to the real thing - an LP, or, in later years, a compact disc.
But just as happens with every great hole in supply, eventually technological advances catch up with demand. And so it was that the public's desire for quality (free) music created the double cassette recorder, which made it possible for us to copy our mix tapes for our friends. The record companies tried to ban these devices, claiming they would lead to the end of the music industry. But they didn't...
Then video cassette recorders came along, allowing us to record our favorite music videos from MTV and play them endlessly. The music companies didn't like this either, and tried to get VCRs banned, claiming they would ruin the music industry. But they didn't...
Then along came Compact Discs, which allowed a cleaner recording to audio cassette, and late down the line, CD burners, which allowed people to copy CDs directly. Later still came DVD, and satellite radio. Everywhere you looked, someone was using new technology to make access to music easier, and everywhere that happened, the music industry tried (timidly) to put a stop to it. And then came Napster.
The online music world has led a fraught and tumultuous existence over the past decade. As early as 1996, pioneer internet users were passing around copies of their favorite music using chat servers and email, with equipment and formats that sometimes took as long as a full day just to download one song. But it was Shawn Fanning's Napster program that, in 1999, brought the ability to download music freely to every net user.
Napster provided the means for anyone to log in anonymously, search for their favored songs across millions of users' hard drives, and download those songs quickly and simply. The fact that any internet newbie could master Napster in minutes added greatly to its early success, but it was mass collectors, largely operating from university and college computers, who turned the system into one of the biggest buzz-makers in computing history.
What Napster did was create a huge central directory of every song owned by users on their system. If you wanted to get a copy of "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow, you would just type the band and song name into Napster, hit 'search', and you would be presented with a long list of matches. You then just selected the one you wanted to download, and it would suck down on to your drive.
Of course, when people find a loophole that allows them to get something for nothing, they do often tend to go overboard, and that's exactly what the community of Napster users did en masse. Instead of just finding the music they needed, users were soon downloading everything they could find, hoarding songs and albums that they had little interest in, just so they could say they had them. It was not uncommon for college students to use multiple computers at their school to download thousands of songs on to CD in a few hours, most of which would never actually be listened to. This, obviously, annoyed the hell out of the record companies in ways that double cassette recorders never could.
While Napster made it clear to users that its service was designed to help users find 'legal' music downloads, it also made little effort to stop people from trafficking in pirated material through its system, which led the body that represents the record companies politically, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to take legal action against the company, effectively charging it with mass piracy and the loss of tens of millions of dollars in sales.
Interestingly, rather than kill music downloading completely, the court action had the opposite effect, spreading word of Napster across the globe like wildfire, which saw millions of new users sign up even as the creators of the program were fighting to keep the system from closure. So many people had become addicted to music file-sharing that the prospect of life without Napster seemed a punishment few could take, and so those with the skills began coding Napster alternative programs.
Gnutella was an early variant, created by Nullsoft (the company behind the hugely successful WinAmp music software), and though they quickly took the program off the market, hackers and crackers were soon ripping Gnutella to pieces and reconstructing it to suit their needs. Morpheus was soon on the scene, and as Napster began to cooperate with the record companies by filtering out popular song titles from the system, the new program rapidly grew.
But Napster's shift towards cooperation was not enough for the giant music conglomerates, who threw up hurdle after hurdle designed to take Napster out of business. Even heavy metal group Metallica joined the fray, launching their own lawsuit and earning the rage of many of their fans in the process. Lawyers for the file-sharing software company made the all-too valid point that, if Napster was in any way responsible for the actions of copyright violators, so too were the phone companies that provided the phone lines upon which the music was being shared. They claimed that the ISPs were just as liable as they were, because they didn't actually house any illegal files on their servers, rather they simply facilitated the searching of said files on other peoples' computers.
We may never know if the judge hearing that particular legal case understood the difference, or merely figured that while Napster wasn't breaking the law per se, they were acting against the spirit of the law, but either way, the judge told the company in July 2001 that if it couldn't stop illegal files from being passed through its service, it would have to shut its doors. And that's what it did, after a judge stopped record company Bertelsman, who had invested heavily in Napster in an effort to legitimize the company, from taking it over.
Since Napster shut its doors, the company has since reemerged as a legitimate music download source, albeit with far less success than it enjoyed in the early days, and literally dozens of 'illegal' file sharing programs have taken its place to fill the free music download void. These, such as WinMX, BitLord, Kazaa, Morpheus, BearShare, Aimster, Napigator, AudioGalaxy, and Limewire, run the gamut from useful to useless, but they all share a common element - they take the stance that, if they're not hosting pirated music, they have nothing to do with those using their systems that do. Translated: Use at your own risk.
About the Author
Richard Adams is a strong supporter of legal mp3s and provides plenty more articles just like this one at his site at http://www.legal-music-downloads-center.com/
Most of us, when we were kids, listened to the radio to hear the latest, greatest songs in the music world. We listened eagerly for something new, something original, something our buddies hadn't heard before, and when a song made its way into our collective conscience, we would wait for hours for our favorite DJ to play the song for us, sometimes even for days, just so we could hit the 'record' button and get the thing on tape.
At the time, the record companies knew we were taping our favorite music, but they didn't really care, because the quality of the recording was low and the DJ would more often than not talk over the first and last five seconds of the thing, making it worthless as something to swap or sell. 'Mix tapes' were a personal thing, but they couldn't really compare to the real thing - an LP, or, in later years, a compact disc.
But just as happens with every great hole in supply, eventually technological advances catch up with demand. And so it was that the public's desire for quality (free) music created the double cassette recorder, which made it possible for us to copy our mix tapes for our friends. The record companies tried to ban these devices, claiming they would lead to the end of the music industry. But they didn't...
Then video cassette recorders came along, allowing us to record our favorite music videos from MTV and play them endlessly. The music companies didn't like this either, and tried to get VCRs banned, claiming they would ruin the music industry. But they didn't...
Then along came Compact Discs, which allowed a cleaner recording to audio cassette, and late down the line, CD burners, which allowed people to copy CDs directly. Later still came DVD, and satellite radio. Everywhere you looked, someone was using new technology to make access to music easier, and everywhere that happened, the music industry tried (timidly) to put a stop to it. And then came Napster.
The online music world has led a fraught and tumultuous existence over the past decade. As early as 1996, pioneer internet users were passing around copies of their favorite music using chat servers and email, with equipment and formats that sometimes took as long as a full day just to download one song. But it was Shawn Fanning's Napster program that, in 1999, brought the ability to download music freely to every net user.
Napster provided the means for anyone to log in anonymously, search for their favored songs across millions of users' hard drives, and download those songs quickly and simply. The fact that any internet newbie could master Napster in minutes added greatly to its early success, but it was mass collectors, largely operating from university and college computers, who turned the system into one of the biggest buzz-makers in computing history.
What Napster did was create a huge central directory of every song owned by users on their system. If you wanted to get a copy of "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow, you would just type the band and song name into Napster, hit 'search', and you would be presented with a long list of matches. You then just selected the one you wanted to download, and it would suck down on to your drive.
Of course, when people find a loophole that allows them to get something for nothing, they do often tend to go overboard, and that's exactly what the community of Napster users did en masse. Instead of just finding the music they needed, users were soon downloading everything they could find, hoarding songs and albums that they had little interest in, just so they could say they had them. It was not uncommon for college students to use multiple computers at their school to download thousands of songs on to CD in a few hours, most of which would never actually be listened to. This, obviously, annoyed the hell out of the record companies in ways that double cassette recorders never could.
While Napster made it clear to users that its service was designed to help users find 'legal' music downloads, it also made little effort to stop people from trafficking in pirated material through its system, which led the body that represents the record companies politically, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to take legal action against the company, effectively charging it with mass piracy and the loss of tens of millions of dollars in sales.
Interestingly, rather than kill music downloading completely, the court action had the opposite effect, spreading word of Napster across the globe like wildfire, which saw millions of new users sign up even as the creators of the program were fighting to keep the system from closure. So many people had become addicted to music file-sharing that the prospect of life without Napster seemed a punishment few could take, and so those with the skills began coding Napster alternative programs.
Gnutella was an early variant, created by Nullsoft (the company behind the hugely successful WinAmp music software), and though they quickly took the program off the market, hackers and crackers were soon ripping Gnutella to pieces and reconstructing it to suit their needs. Morpheus was soon on the scene, and as Napster began to cooperate with the record companies by filtering out popular song titles from the system, the new program rapidly grew.
But Napster's shift towards cooperation was not enough for the giant music conglomerates, who threw up hurdle after hurdle designed to take Napster out of business. Even heavy metal group Metallica joined the fray, launching their own lawsuit and earning the rage of many of their fans in the process. Lawyers for the file-sharing software company made the all-too valid point that, if Napster was in any way responsible for the actions of copyright violators, so too were the phone companies that provided the phone lines upon which the music was being shared. They claimed that the ISPs were just as liable as they were, because they didn't actually house any illegal files on their servers, rather they simply facilitated the searching of said files on other peoples' computers.
We may never know if the judge hearing that particular legal case understood the difference, or merely figured that while Napster wasn't breaking the law per se, they were acting against the spirit of the law, but either way, the judge told the company in July 2001 that if it couldn't stop illegal files from being passed through its service, it would have to shut its doors. And that's what it did, after a judge stopped record company Bertelsman, who had invested heavily in Napster in an effort to legitimize the company, from taking it over.
Since Napster shut its doors, the company has since reemerged as a legitimate music download source, albeit with far less success than it enjoyed in the early days, and literally dozens of 'illegal' file sharing programs have taken its place to fill the free music download void. These, such as WinMX, BitLord, Kazaa, Morpheus, BearShare, Aimster, Napigator, AudioGalaxy, and Limewire, run the gamut from useful to useless, but they all share a common element - they take the stance that, if they're not hosting pirated music, they have nothing to do with those using their systems that do. Translated: Use at your own risk.
About the Author
Richard Adams is a strong supporter of legal mp3s and provides plenty more articles just like this one at his site at http://www.legal-music-downloads-center.com/
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