Monday, April 30, 2007 Why Shop Online? You must be wondering what people are always talking about if you have never shopped online before. You guess that except for those people who live hundreds of kilometers from the nearest store that shopping online is a convenience, not a necessity. So how convenient could it be? What could be easier than hopping into your car and driving to the nearest mall ... and fighting for a parking space, then walking from store to store and aisle to aisle looking for the items that you want, and waiting in the check-out line, and lugging those bags out to the car through a heavy rain storm, and driving home through the traffic as the rain keeps pouring? You have choices and will continue to have them. At least in your lifetime, Senate is not likely to outlaw physical stores. In many instances, shopping online through the internet is a quick and easy alternative to the horrible experience listed above. Sometimes it allows you to do things that otherwise would be impossible for you, or can save you trouble and money -- lots of it. When that isn't the case, just shop the way you always have. You should shop online through the Internet when: • You know exactly what you want, and with a minimum of hassle and time. You don't want to spend too much time driving to a physical store and going through the usual routine there; and, if the item is out of stock and unavailable at the first store, you don't want to have to tramp to another and another, or wait week after week for delivery. • You know what kind of thing you want to buy, but not particularly which one -- which book or CD or video. Also, you don't want to waste your money buying something you won't like and waste your time figuring out that you made a mistake. • You know what you want to buy, but it's unusual that very few stores would ever carry such a thing.. • You're curious but you don't have the luxury of time to indulge your curiosity in the physical world where it takes so long and costs so much to go from one place to another. On the Internet, you can go from one side of the world to another with just a click of your mouse at the comfort of your home. • You want to buy something, but don't want to be seen or caught buying it. Maybe it's a gift that you want to keep secret before you give it, and being seen going into the store by family or friends would blow the surprise. Or perhaps it's something you'd be embarrassed to buy in person. May be it’s a sex-related product that you don’t want people to know. • You are a bargain hunter by nature. You get a charge out of buying things at lower prices than your friends and neighbors. Saving money is nice, but not nearly as good as flexing your smart-buyer muscles. • You can't get to the store because ofan illness or taking care of a sick kid or age or bad weather or lack of transportation or lack of time. We know that we have always been doing things the way we always have been. This article is to make you realize the ease of doing shopping the “new and lazy” way. There aren’t any tech-ie stuff about doing everything online. You need to know what you want and buy it with the greatest ease. You are learning the true way of living my friend. With just a click, you could have the items that you want right at your door step! Biography: Eman Lien is founder and owner of www.CrazySalesJunction.com, a leading online shopping portal with an impressive range of products and provides quality shipping at the CRAZIEST Price everday!! DISCOUNT COUPONS are are often made available during popular festivals and special occasions, giving you more excuses to buy a gift for your loved ones. The company seeks out the highest commitment to its customers to ensure a pleasant shopping experience for all.
Category: Hobbies
By: Eman Lien

Friday, May 11, 2007 How to Build A Career in Information Technology Information Technology is a field that encompasses a wide range of employment possibilities. From software development and hardware integration to webmasters and beyond, the possibilities are almost limitless. What isn’t limitless, unfortunately, are the educational opportunities related to IT training. For an industry that undergoes drastic changes on an almost yearly basis, it’s difficult for our current educational system to keep up. Relevancy is almost always compromised by lengthy computer science degree programs that teach fundamentals which the newest developments no longer adhere to. This begs the question; how exactly does one go about establishing a career in the IT field. Between communications and computer science majors, self taught gurus and others already working in the field, there doesn’t seem to be a particular academic path to follow which can guarantee success. There are, however, more than a few ways to hedge your bets and come out on top. The first step is to choose an area of IT that interests you and for which there is a growing need. As an example, it may pay to be relatively familiar with UNIX if you’re planning on making a career in coding, but there’s rarely a need for someone with more than a working knowledge. Choose an area, be it network security, coding, administration, integration, OS management or any of the other possibilities, that hasn’t outlived its shelf life. Once you’ve settled on an area you wish to develop expertise in, get certified. Certification classes may not be the most impressive thing on your resume, but they’ll impart a large amount of knowledge in the shortest possible timeframe. Better yet, they’ll give you the entry level criteria you need to take the next step. The next step, as it were, is to gain some experience. Whether through internships or short term contracts with less than desirable compensation, experience in combination with certifications can help you go from a job to a career. Not only will you learn more, the nature of working on projects forces you to become acclimated to putting your knowledge to use in real time. Once you have a little experience under your belt and a few certifications behind you, you have two choices. You can either parlay what you have into a career in your chosen field or continue to work part time while you go for a degree at either the associate’s or bachelor level. The advantage of the latter is that it may save you from toiling at entry level wages and has the possibility to open the door to opportunities with companies that will make your education worthwhile. For more information about online and campus based degree programs and educational resources,. For more on IT career training and information technology degree programs, visit our site. For more information on educational topics in the news, visit our blog.
Category: Education
By: Shay Rosen

Monday, June 18, 2007 How to Search Engine Optimize your Website Search engine optimization or SEO is the process of increasing your websites position in the organic search engine results pages for keywords and phrases that relate to the content of your website. SEO is a powerful marketing tool because it provides highly targeted traffic to your website that the consumer understands to be algorithmically considered the most relevant content – thus providing an authoritative status for your business and new visitors to your website that are interested in your offerings. Search engine optimization is a complicated area which has much hearsay and uncertainty attached to it. Despite that, enough is known about how search engine algorithms operate to effectively manipulate results through making changes to your website, and making changes in terms of how other websites link to yours. As your business grows it is best to consult a search engine optimization specialist who will have had experience in dealing with a large range of sites, however until that time you may wish to consider giving it a try yourself if you are on a limited budget. Keyword Strategy – Selecting keywords is the process of choosing words and phrases that you feel would lead to the most targeted traffic visiting your website. If, for example, you own a cleaning business, you may wish to rank in search engines for search queries such as New York Cleaners. Not only should you consider which words are the most relevant to your business, you also need to consider search volume. If you use a keyword tool you will be able to find out how many people are searching for queries that you feel could deliver targeted traffic. Use that information, along with how targeted the traffic is likely to be, to develop a list of keywords that you would like to rank for. On-site SEO – When you have developed a list of keywords that you would like to rank for, it is now time to incorporate those keywords into your website. You should make changes to the content of your website to ensure the keywords and phrases you would like to rank for can be found within. Some people choose to create specific pages that they aim to rank for specific keywords. Once you have added the content into your website you can also increase a pages relevance for a specific keyword by making changes to the code of your website. For example, you may wish to change your title tag so that it contains keywords, add keywords to your Meta tags and add keywords to your description tags.Linking – Linking is the most important aspect in deciding which pages should be ranked when both are relevant to a search query. This includes links within your website, as well as links from other sites to your own. The anchor text of links also helps search engines to define your websites relevance to a search query. Therefore when you link to an another page in your website with the anchor text “cars” you are making the search engines comprehend that it what the page is about.Biography: Bruce Abbott, a proficient writer, writes for www.a1-web-design.co.uk. The author writes articles about Web design London and new internet business start up. Supplementary editorials that were written by Bruce Abbott about Web design consultancy services are accessible on the internet.
Category: Computers and Internet
By: Bruce Abbo

Sunday, July 29, 2007 Recycling Dell Electronics Products Much too many peoples surprise, recycling of electronic products has been around since these, now, indispensable products have been in existence. For much of that time the recycling process was more oriented toward greed with the recovery of precious metals like gold and silver being the main goal. Oddly, electronics manufacturers have been right on top of the issue, if not wanting on getting the message out that they are on top of the issue.Owing to its heavy concentration in laptop batteries, Dell computer has become a leader in recycling and promotion of the three “R’s”; Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Most manufacturers are following the same process for reuse and recycling. This is an idea of what they are up to with credit for Dell being a leader.There are several steps in the recycling of Dell laptop batteries, monitors, printer cartridges and alike. They include:Getting the components to a recycling center for sorting Marketing v. altruism Determining what needs to be recycled v. reused Extracting raw materials Return programs Mail back -The big deal in hardware recycling is a return label inside the new unit’s box. This one is nice because the return label is right on top where you cannot miss it, and in its own bag. For my home printer, I simply put the old unit in the new box, slapped on the return label where indicated (their sorta fussy on this) taped it up (again as indicated) and called for a no charge FedEx pick up.Return credits - For the most part, all concerned are taking their products back if a new item is purchased. Dell will actually pay you for your recycling effort even if you recycle at your local center. Just show proof of it. Dell in particular has a good reason for reuse programs as lithium cells are easily reused and they offer a model for every laptop or electronic device (or so it would appear.).Marketing v. altruism Non-profits, education, less fortunate – Deciding what can be reused and what needs to be recycled is the leading “in-process” step for recycling. Ideally, these companies would like to reuse product to lower costs and increase margins. We’re not talking sainthood here for the manufacturers. However, there is a window of use opportunity where the manufacturer can take credit for giving a not-so-old unit to a non-profit. After all they will get it for recycling eventually.Extracting raw materials – This is where Dell and the others make the cash from recycling. It’s not big money and it even costs to recycle on occasion. This step takes the entire unit and strips it right down to its most basic components. Lead for laptop batteries to silver and gold for connections. Copper is a so-so these days even though copper prices are very high because the connections are getting so small wires are becoming almost impossible to use.Biography: This Article is written by James Kara Murat from Print Country.com, the contributor of Recycling Dell Laptop Batteries. A longer version of this article is located at Recycling Dell Electronics Products, and some related resources can be found at Recycling Computers Batteries Phones.
Category: Computers and Internet
By: James Kara Murat