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Open Sharing on Your Home Network

If you have a home network for the internet, you might want to give open sharing some thought. Open sharing is pretty much like it sounds; simply mark folders to share within the network, and other computers on your network can access the folder using FTP programs like FileZilla or p2p software. Open sharing on your home network can do some very convenient things.

Families are certainly taking advantage of open sharing capabilities.  For instance, if a family has multiple computers, pictures or videos would be able to be viewed wherever the closest computer is. Synchronizing calendars and backing up files on multiple computers are just some of the advantages that open sharing also brings. You can even share your favorite direct.tv shows and movies with your home network.

Once you get your computers linked you can also expand beyond “mere” open sharing. Printers, televisions, and speakers that can handle internet or network connections can become linked. No longer are you sharing files within a specific folder or two, but now you can stream music from your primary computer to your linked home theater system. Of course, this all depends on what kind of components you have, but it can certainly happen.

Generally, connecting devices or using open sharing makes things quicker and more convenient. After all, it is easier for members of the same household to have access to a folder to share files created from openoffice.org or transferred from a server using File Zilla than it is to have to send an e-mail or download a bunch of pictures. This type of technology simplifies many things.

Take the chance to look into these types of technology. You can easily take advantage of open sharing and synchronizing internet and network-enabled devices. If you have a home network and at least a couple of these devices, it may be time to get even more connected. Take a look into your options, based on which devices are able to connect, and you will be ready to see the difference of open sharing and synchronizing between devices.

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Using Technology to Gain Customer Respect

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If you’re a website designer then you are most likely privy to the latest advancements in technology. However, your customers may not be aware of new changes or innovations. This is where you can gain their respect and future business but sharing what you know.

Let’s say that you have found a new marketing strategy that is taking the world by storm. Whether it’s a certain type of social marketing or a QR code that your customer has no idea about; you can use this knowledge to your advantage.

What you can do is contact your customers and tell them all about what you have found out and offer them a chance to utilize this service. Now you can charge them for it or gain even more respect by doing something for free. You’ll make your customer feel special and you’ll have an advantage when it comes time to renew their contract. What will happen on average is that your customer will remember all of the times that you helped them out by sharing new intel or taking care of them when you have discovered marketing advantages.

Since technology changes daily, this allows you to share something new with your customer base quite often. It will show them that you are on top of things and that you know what you’re doing. Not only will you get repeat business but they’ll want to tell their friends and colleagues as well and you may gain a larger customer base just by sharing what you know or have learned.

 

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How to Create and Online Flipbook

Before getting started, put your files in a folder to make them easier to find, and make sure each document is named with the proper page number. This way all your pages should stay in the correct order.

In Acrobat Pro, go to File, then Create DPF, then From Multiple Files. Once the window opens up, click Choose, highlight the files you want to use, then click Add Files. Be sure to mark the box that reduces the total file size.

Now’s a great time to save. If your system freezes or crashes you won’t have to redo binding your files together.

If you need to crop your pages, use the Crop tool. You can find it under Advanced Editing in the Tools menu. After you’ve selected the size you want the pages cropped to, check All so that every page is cropped, and not just the first one.

Now to make your file functional. Pull down the Advanced menu, then go to Links. Select Create from URLs in Document. This is a long process. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and go make a sandwich.

Back at your computer it’s time to save your file again.

Only websites that begin with www will have been flagged and converted to links, but most email addresses should have been converted without any problems. Acrobat only recognizes text in programs like Word or InDesign, but not text found in jpgs. Anything that was missed you’ll need to link by hand.

From Tools, go to Advanced Editing and select the Link Tool. Draw a box around the text you want linked up, then click Custom Link. Under the Appearance tab set the box to look the way you want. Then go to the Actions tab. Change the selection to Open a web link, then Add to Enter a URL for this link.

Once all the manual links have been entered, save your book. Now it’s ready to upload.

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4 Money Saving Plugins from Firefox

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A lot of people are looking for ways to save money these days. But not too many of them know that you can save money simply by using plugins on Firefox. Here are some of the plugins from Firefox that help you to save money.

  • Listia – This is a site that helps you in getting free stuff. Even though it’s really an auction site, you pay for it with credits not money.  You are given 100 points at registration and then you accumulate more points by participating or auctioning things.
  • InvisibleHand – Imagine being able to get the lowest price of whatever you want to buy online. This allows you to do that. When you browse for things online, this is going to suggest to you the best possible price from the different online sites such as Walmart, Sears, and Amazon. It’s very efficient and it helps to save money.
  • Advanced Travel – We all know that travelling can be expensive, and a lot of us spend a lot of money when we travel. It’s hard to find that great deal when you are looking for it. This churns the popular travel websites and gives you a result that is very comprehensive. It also works well by reading your IP and altering the results according to where you live.
  • Remainder Fox – Are you someone who pays late fees on bills you haven’t paid, then this is a plugin that you need. When you install this plugin, you will find that it’s helping you about important tasks that aren’t finished.

These four plugins are very useful and they can help you to save money. With the economy in the mess that it is in right now, we can all use any help that we can get for saving money. These four plugins are a good place to start.

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Web Management: Close to Building the Tower of Babel

Who here loves Scripture? (looks to see how many hands are raised) You know, the Bible? Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Psalms? That’s Old Testament stuff, though. But the reason for all those questions is to see if you’re familiar with the famous story of Babel, probably the tallest tower ever conceived and built by man. You’ll learn about it in the book of Genesis.

Unfortunately for many of the ambitious workers and masterminds behind it, God confused them all by creating somewhere around seventy languages, so no one understood each other! Hence construction of the Tower of Babel halted, ending the goal to reach the heavens.

Web management is something close to that. Lucky for you, God won’t give you some weird alien language that no one will understand! But for Christ’s sake, it’s like building a tower all on your own and making it sure it doesn’t topple. Managing web sites all on your own is a tough biz—but a rewarding one.

Enter: the AIIM Essentials unique web management course called the Fundamentals of WCM Technologies Elearning Bundle.

This course is your bread and butter of learning the first steps of web management right from the introduction to the core points leading up to application and experience. Any project manager, architect, developer, production selection team member, IT manager, business analyst, consultant, or—quite frankly—anyone wanting to implement WCM (Web Content Management) technological techniques to your business, whatever it may be, can learn something from this course.

The only thing the course does NOT provide is an evaluation of specific products or even the means to produce your own platform. But you won’t need a course for that, to be honest. That’s all on your end. If you have enough ambition to learn to build that Tower of Babel (sort of like Babel, actually), then building it should be a snap! A long snap, maybe…

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