March 7, 2010

News: round Two for Verizon Fios

Verizon fios’s component the Verizon fios Tv may be the most under appreciated Verizon merchandise this decade. Intended for the residing room and its big-screen Television, the Verizon fios Television lacked the simplicity that consumers expected from an Verizon FiOS-branded living-room technologies. Additionally, it still did not take advantage of that big-screen Tv and its associated audio program by producing it tough to enjoy HD content material and impossible to hear surround sound. Using the 2nd version of FiOS Tv, FiOS attempts to address these problems via a revamped program for new consumers or software package update for current users. It does so by first severing the occasionally confusing cord among the FiOS Tv and your laptop or computer, allowing the device to work largely on its personal. Even with out the mixed relationship, those with a broadband connection can watch streaming videos and movie trailers as well. Customers can also rent standard and high definition films from your comfort in the couch. This, along with all the FiOS TV’s decreased selling price, streamlined interface, ability to output surround sound audio, make the deal worth a long second appear should you passed on the initial providing. NYC Fios buyers, the intended market had to accept these compromises. They also needed to understand the romantic relationship involving the Verizon fios Television plus a bunch spread about the home. Beyond that, there remained the puzzle of receiving content material you owned onto the box.

Sure, you could buy films from the rental Store, but the Fios catalog of films was incredibly limited, and its movie price tag didn’t usually compare favorably for the DVD version. Should you wanted to encode the DVDs you currently owned, there was no support.You had to unearth the tools for ripping your DVDs and possess a measure of know-how to make use of them.

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December 22, 2009

Finding a Job Using the Net to Your Advantage

The Internet offers huge opportunities for a job seeker, but also presents several potential challenges. It also adds many complexities, and a lot more matters to consider…and be mindful of.

Job hunting needs to be thought of as a personalized, extremely directed marketing process where you are the product. Your resume is an advertisement. Your extended network of contacts is your source for information.

So where does the net fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently posted a job on Craigslist and got over 650 applications in a calendar week. For one position. That’s increased competition for job openings.

Had a strong candidate gotten ahold of us ahead of our posting that ad, they could have secured the job prior to getting all that competition. How? By finding someone who knows someone at our company who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 9 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be sure to check your cover letter and resume carefully! When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily removed with a fast triage process. How? The same way any manager would. By rejecting resumes where the objective didn’t match our job posting. By rejecting prospects whose cover letters gave us causes not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating candidates whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by rejecting prospects who didn’t trouble to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the great news is that job sites give you a feel of what companies are hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those positions are posted, the competition is intense. You can still try, if you have a well written resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another potential problem to be aware of is how easily you can be checked on on the web. As we Googled several candidates, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing illegal, but enough to swing our thoughts about who to choose.

AA-Careers provides a broad set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

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November 10, 2009

What Is The Orange “XML” or “RSS” Icon I See More and More On Web Sites?

This question does not have a one sentence answer! If I just said that one uses this icon to get a site’s RSS feed, you still won’t understand. So let’s try and answer you in such a way that it all makes sense to you and, more importantly, that you learn how to benefit from it.

Let’s say that you like my web site very much and you would like to read new content as I add it. At this stage there is no way of informing you when I’ve added a new page except for notifying you by email. This assumes that you’ve provided me with your e-mail address - which most people are hesitant to do any way. The other way is for you to bookmark my site - but how many times do people really go back to a site?

What if I told you that you could have a little “window” (called a reader or an aggregator) on your monitor and that, each time I updated my site, you are automatically informed about it. How, you may ask? A headline (called a news feed) and a short summary to inform/tease you is squirted to your reader. If the teaser interests you, all you need to do is follow the hyperlink that will take you to that page on my web site where you can read it all. If you’re not interested, you simply delete the headline. The process is repeated each time I add new content.

You can of course subscribe to as many feeds as you want to - from current affairs to people’s personal blogs (a blog is short for web log which is a diary or a journal on the internet).

So, what must you do to set it up and how much is it going to cost?

Let’s answer the second question first: Setting it up is FREE - it will cost you nothing.

This is how to setup a reader or an aggregator on a Windows system:

Download Microsoft’s .NET framework here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

Install this on you system.

Download RSSReader from here:

http://www.rssreader.com/

Install this on you system.

You are now ready to add your first feed.

As an example I’ll walk you through the process of adding my site http://www.perfect-party-ideas.com ’s XML feed. Navigate to the site. On the home page you will see the orange XML icon. Right-click the XML icon and then click the “Copy Shortcut” option.

Open the RSSReader and click on the green “+ Add” icon in the top left hand corner. A form opens up that prompts you to enter the URL of the feed. Just paste the URL here (ctrl-v). Well done - you’ve just added your very first RSS feed.

Let’s test if it is working. Click the “Get” icon which is to the left of the “+Add” icon. You should see a number of feeds arriving in your reader. Simply double-click the ones you are interested in to read the summary. Click the “Read more” or “Open in a Browser” links if you want to read the whole article.

Was it that difficult? No, I agree, it’s fairly straight forward.

Now you are ready to sign up for more feeds. Why not sign up for my blog’s feed as well? I use my blog to document the process of setting up my web site. There I share my ideas, failures, frustrations, doubts, successes, and articles that have I found useful. And, B.t.w. I also tell you how to make money from your web site.

If you’re interested in following the exciting journey, just copy and paste this URL exactly as you did with the previous one.

http://perfect-party-ideas.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Congratulations - you have entered the exciting world of RSS!

Anne-Marie Killer is a mother of two teenagers and a toddler. She is the webmaster and owner of Perfect Party Ideas
Read her blog where she documents the process of setting up Perfect Party Ideas

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September 28, 2009

Want Freebies You Can’t Resist, Uverse Has Something for YOU

Cable television isn’t as popular now as it was 30 years ago. Lately, AT&T has captivated millions of people away from cable television by having the same, or better programming choices at an undeniably low price. They also offer Uverse high speed internet and voice. Did you ask yourself whether it’s about time you switched over as well? Let us check the benefits of a switch ATT Uverse.

The most obvious reason is that Uverse has more channels to offer. Your choices for entertainment are almost endless. With your enrolment, you can select a program package that go well with what you need. The family bundle contains the most popular family friendly channels at a low cost. Alternatively, if you desire to have more, there is a large selection of choices that has about 150 to 250 stations. If you are fond of sports you can have a sports package to assure you that you have all the channels of your favorite games. In addition to that there are also bundles available for movie fanatics which allows viewers to supplement as many as thirty channels dedicated to film tot their regular line-up of programs.

HD channels are also available. With more than 100 high definition channels, U-verse is way ahead of cable in the number of high definition channels they can offer to consumers. Thus, if you’re family has invested in an HDTV, you won’t be receiving your money’s worth if you only have cable, it only has about half as many HD channels.

Finally, if you have a person in your household that loves sports, AT&T Uverse is almost a necessity. AT&T presents so many outstanding sports packages that you won’t have to miss a game because it’s been blocked out where you live, or because there’s another game local executives have opted to get better ratings. You will be able to watch every type of sports with the AT&T Uverse. You can watch soccer matches taking place on the other side of the earth, or each pro football match played on Sundays. It just does not get any better for a sport enthusiast.

It is obvious to see that there are many stuffs to get excited over when you thinks of changing from cable TV to AT&T Uverse, also keeping in the mind the extremely affordable price. AT&T Uverse package is about the same cost as cable television and because they want to keep your business, they have great package that include free TV, when you combine extra feature to your regular package. It’s really something you can’t resist a TV service with a Free TV.

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March 29, 2009

Looking for a Bed for the Kids Room - Get a Pine Bed?

The bed is the main piece of furniture in your bedroom. Choosing the right bed for you maybe an easy task but it is important you find the correct one for you. Always make sure you get a bed that is proportionate to the size of your bedroom otherwise it will look silly.

If you are looking for a low-budget way to solve your bed troubles then the first type of bed frame you should look at is a pine bed. There are tons of different styles of pine beds from guest beds, bunk beds, king size beds and even cabin beds. You can find a pine bed frame for any purpose

A bed made from pine is the ideal kind of bed frame for children, this is because kids can tend to break things and with that in mind it in all likelihood doesnt seem wise to spend a ton of cash on a youngsters bed frame. So if you want a bed for our children then go get a sturdy pine bed frame (I like the pine bunk beds, or even a cabin bed would be great for kids).

So what are you waiting for? If you want a affordable reliable bed then there reall is no other option than a pine bed

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