Telecommute is fast becoming a buzzword nowadays. The routine 8-5 office jobs are fast becoming a thing of the past as the work environment, job descriptions, and methods of doing work are evolving. People who work these days are no longer confined to physical offices because technological innovations have enabled the phenomenon that we now call telecommuting -- which means, in the simplest terms, working remotely.

Of course, there are certain things we have now that make telecommuting possible, and if it weren't for these innovations, we would all still be stuck in the caveman days of work. Here are some of the technological innovations of recent history that makes collaboration possible.

5 Technology Innovations That Make Working Together Possible

- The Internet: Of course the Internet. This particular invention was recently named the top innovation in the last 30 years, and for good reason. The Internet has made possible so many things that we now find ourselves in a position of being almost debilitated when we find ourselves disconnected. Being connected via the Internet has given us access to a vast storehouse of knowledge, and it has enabled us to share our own knowledge, too. It has certainly made a giant leap forward for the proponents of globalization, because through it, the world certainly became a much smaller place now that everyone, everywhere is connected.

- Laptops, tablets, and mobile devices: More and more people are choosing to take their work with them, and not just be stuck with a heavy desktop computer. While there are those who still prefer working on a good old trusty desktop, mobility is now becoming an important issue for many as they want to be free to pursue their own activities in their own time without having to compromise their work in the process. And because laptops are now getting lighter, carrying your work with you wherever you go is not as hard as it used to be. Along with the release of the tablet and other similar mobile devices, more and more working people are choosing to go mobile as it gives them more flexibility.

- Email: Where would we all be without email? Just by clicking the Send button, you get your message delivered right away to anyone anywhere (well, as long as they have Internet access, that is). Before email came into the picture, we had to rely on snail mail (those born and raised in the digital age are probably scratching their heads now and asking, "What?"), express mail, LBC/ FedEx/ and other similar courier services to have our messages delivered. Then we had to wait for days (sometimes weeks) for the much-awaited response. Can you really imagine doing business like that now?

- Webinars/ Video Conferencing: Attending seminars, workshops, and other similar activities in the past used to cost a fortune, so companies would most likely select a few delegates only and then spend for transportation, seminar fees, etc. Now, however, thanks to webinars, anyone interested can join, at much less cost. Employers no longer have to send their workers out because they can attend webinars right at work, or even in their own homes, and the cost is much less than going to actual location seminars. The learning and take-home experience is still pretty much the same, but it is not as much of hassle as it used to be.

The same concept applies with video conferencing. It used to be difficult to gather team members or stakeholders (especially in multi-nationals where some members are in other countries) located in various provinces/countries, and it was even harder to coordinate communication. But now, thanks to video conferencing, virtual meetings can be set up without having to worry about the logistics of having to get everyone to the office.

- Cloud Computing Technology: File cabinets? Boxes and boxes of documents? Directories full of business contacts? Sounds like any other typical office. The trouble with files like this, however, is that they run the risk of getting ruined -- whether by natural disasters, accidents, or some other mishap, physical documents are at risk of getting lost, stolen, or destroyed. Now imagine if you can put all that pertinent data in one place where you know it can't be harmed in any way. That is what cloud computing does for you -- it allows you to store everything you need all up there in the cloud, and as long as you have access to the Internet, then you can access your files, too. Any changes made to files found in the cloud will be automatically synced, saving you the trouble of having to go through so many files and doing a manual update. So if anyone from the team makes some edits on that presentation, you don't have to worry anymore about updating your copy, because it's already there.

These are just some of the innovations that have revolutionized the way we view work. These technologies have certainly brought people together and made collaboration not just possible, but now a normal way of life. Because of these technological innovations, working together has become so much easier, and work has certainly taken on a brand new perspective.
Global Positioning System unit is taking a high toll in the latest addition of gadgets and electronic devices. GPS - Global Positioning System is a satellite based electronic device that provides information on time, positioning and weather conditions. Sometimes the satellite navigation system may not be re-installed but you can connect it separately to your device. GPS devices can be loaded in cars, mobiles, home computers, laptops, digital cameras or smart phones.

Hackers Are Eyeing Your GPS Too

How the GPS device works?

Each device has an inbuilt GPS receiver connected to the GPS satellite that coordinates the location and shows the position. The security forces and security system of countries have become largely dependent on GPS navigation system. The military defense, civil, navy and aviation forces are using GPS systems to track, coordinate and regulate the locational activities. The excessive use of GPS to track positions has made it more vulnerable to hacking. Attack on Global Positioning System for hacking and hijacking is on the rise. Installed GPS devices have enabled easy hacking of smart phones, iPhones, laptops and cars and last but not the least is aircraft hijacking. Through GPS, jamming a hacker can get a complete remote access of the electronic device.

How Can A GPS Device Be Jammed?

The purpose of GPS jamming is to block the signaling and prevent it from working. To disable a GPS tracking device a variety of methods is used. Hackers using mobile phones and other radio signal related electronics devices can disable the GPS too and not only that they can replace the real GPS signal with a fake one. This will show fake locational position. These GPS spoofing gadgets actually send fake radio signals replacing the real signal transmitted. Many people tend to relate GPS signals with navigation. The use of GPS as a time signal has potentially made it more susceptible to GPS spoofing which poised as a bigger threat today rather than simple GPS blocking.

How do you protect your GPS device is a big question?

Ethical Hacking Institutes are building technically sound experts who can actually prevent you from hackers. These ethical hacking training centers run certified ethical hacking courses. You can hire certified ethical hacking individuals who can technically and exclusively device programs for you to protect your GPS system.

Interloping, manipulating or nullifying of a GPS device is a punishable offense. So be on your guard and stay well informed and aware if you are technically and professionally dependent on the Global Positioning System. Remember whatever GPS device you have it is always prone to hacking.
A laptop is essential to daily life. You use it at work, home and during leisure activities. Caring for your laptop is important so that you have access to it at all times. Laptop repair is expensive so waiting until the damage is done is too late. Use these tips along with the products and accessories as a part of your laptop care routine so that you can extend its life. Always turn off and unplug the power adapter and battery before cleaning it. Your safety is important when cleaning your laptop.

Laptop Care: Follow These 4 Tips to Care for Your Laptop

1. Use a Laptop Cleaning Kit
This contains a Keyboard Cleaning Brush, Microfiber Cloth and Laptop Cleaning Liquid. The brush can be a regular dusting brush or a Mini USB Vacuum Keyboard Cleaner Brush. The keyboard cleaning brush is used to remove dust, food particles and other messy substances that fall between the keys on your keyboard. Use the brush regularly to keep your keyboard clean. The microfiber cloth does not scratch surfaces so it is a great choice for cleaning the surface including the screen. A dry microfiber cloth can be used. However, for a more sparkling clean and to remove sticky substances then use the microfiber cloth and cleaning liquid. The cloth should be damp and not soaked with liquid.

2. Use a Laptop Air Duster Spray
An Air Duster Spray is a can of compressed air. It cleans in between your keyboard keys just like the keyboard brush. However, it works better for removing particles that are hard to reach or stuck. Use it in a sweeping motion to remove those unwanted particles.

3. Have a Laptop Cooling Pad or Laptop Cooler
A Laptop Cooling Pad is used to keep your laptop cool because the battery gets very hot when in use. The desk surface or legs can get very warm after using it for a long time. Therefore, the cooling pad ensures that it is cool enough to be used safely.

4. Utilize a Laptop Carrying Case
A Laptop Carrying Case is used to protect your laptop while travelling or for storing it after daily use. The case protects it from food, liquids, dents and other kinds of damage. The carrying case can be a laptop sleeve, tote bag, backpack, messenger bag or briefcase. Always use the proper size case to ensure that it fits snugly and does not suffer shock from moving around in the case.

These are the most common products and accessories that should be used to clean and maintain a properly working laptop. Follow the tips above to extend the life of your laptop and have access 24/7.

Tamara M. Williams reads and uses tips from DIY Technology articles. She shares tips so that you can learn multiple ways to care for your electronic devices. To learn more about caring for your laptop visit your local electronics store or visit the manufacturer's website.
Unity is an authoring tool for creating 3D video games and other interactive content such as architectural visualization's or real-time 3D animations. Currently, Unity's developers work on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and produce games that play on Windows, Mac, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Wii, iPad and iPhone. Games also work on the Android platform. Unity can produce browser games that will actually use the Unity web player plug-in. Linux does not support Unity, but Mac and Windows do. Mac widgets can be used on the web player.

iPhone App Developers Harness The Potential Of Unity Game Engine

iPhone Developers both Apple and outside developers

iPhone developers can use Unity to become a casual game developer, and the possibilities are endless. Casual games are a niche in the gaming category and are a growing entity. Casual games have simple design and invite the gamer to step in the game, play, and get out without outlaying complicated skills or time commitments. iPhone game app developers need to remember: small, fun, easy. Competitive Opportunity Casual games are smaller in scope and limited in terms of game play with lower end-use expectations. Resources to develop these games are on small scale. An iPhone development team of one to three people can do well immensely using Unity to develop their small tier "casual games." The casual games market is an excellent vehicle for iPhone development app teams to break into the iPhone or Smartphones game app download market.

Characteristics of Unity app developer

Unity is simple. World building tools enable iPhone application developers and others to assemble and tweak levels of the application at the speed of thought. Edit, test, and play developing apps using Unity. Your ideas are only a click away. Unity lets you drill down to find the fun, then control and polish until everything is perfect. Platforms can be switched at just a click. Develop from a single source for iPhone, iPad, mobiles, webs, Mac/PC and consoles. Application developers need Unity to design aural ambiance and audio. These are included. Unity brings Beast light mapping and Umbra occlusion to make games look good and run fast. Unity's rendering pipeline helps games look great for the casual game market.

Tips for outsourcing and developing iPhone casual games

Entire courses cover the topic of game design and what elements help make a "good game." Outside iPhone application developers recommend that when developing these casual gaming apps several items need to be recognized. Think about the target audience. Free browser-based web games appeal to males in their teens and twenties who lean toward action, adventure or driving style games. Puzzle, work or story type games appeal to female audiences that tend to just play for very short time bursts.

Keep it simple. Easy to learn and understand yet challenging are the watch words. Definitely use familiar interfaces and controls. Find rewards that are relatable. Action games might offer weapons, power up options or enemy kills. A story based game my need to offer new character modifications or time scales. Games must always be replay able. Keep them coming back! Test early during the development, throughout all stages, and test often. Make sure your game is tested by strangers. Work on the game app until it is deemed "loveable".
Sony Xperia L Review and Specification
The handset doesn't have a spectacular specification, but it all works well as a package. You get a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM and Android 4.1 - not much on paper, compared to the near-2GHz monsters we're now seeing on premium smartphones, but we've no complaints about the handset's performance. Apps open and shut with a snap and animations are silky-smooth.

As we expected, the phone's performance in our Sunspider 1.0 JavaScript benchmark wasn't spectacular. It completed the test in 2,646ms using the default Chrome browser, which is twice as long as we saw from the Xperia SP with its 1.7GHz dual-core chip. Chrome is slow in Sunspider, but even with the faster Dolphin browser we only saw 1,564ms, which is very much a middling result.

Subjectively, this average benchmark score didn't make much difference to the phone's web browsing performance. The Maps app glides smoothly under your finger, and there's barely a hesitation while panning smoothly around web pages - only a barely perceptible slowdown when scrolling past a large image. When compared side by side with a Samsung Galaxy S3, the more powerful S3 had slightly smoother browsing, but there's not much in it.

You shouldn't have a problem with gaming, as the Xperia L's processor produced a competent performance in the 3DMark benchmark. 4074 is a much better score than we expect to see from a phone at this price, and is up with much more expensive phones such as the HTC One X+. It's also quicker in 3D games than the Samsung Galaxy S3, showing you're getting better 3D performance than last year's premium handsets.

We were also impressed with the Xperia L's screen. Again, its 854x480 resolution is pretty standard for a phone at this price, and you have to zoom in to read text on web pages, but we saw bright whites and punchy colours. The Xperia L's LCD display doesn't have the true blacks of an AMOLED screen, but blacks are still very deep. It's a high-quality display for a relatively inexpensive handset.

The phone's design certainly divided opinion in the office. In an era of slimmer smartphones, it's unashamedly chunky, with a large chin and a concave back with a pleasing rubberised finish. The phone's protruding edges make it feel like it would survive most tumbles, as the screen would be protected unless you dropped the phone straight on its face.
However, some weren't sure about the hard edges at the bottom of the handset, which can dig into your hand - we think it's something you'll quickly get used to, and is only really a problem if you're used to a phone with rounded edges such as the Galaxy S3.

As with the Xperia SP and Xperia Z, Sony has made extensive customisations to the Xperia L's version of Android. This may offend Android purists, but we find the changes to be tasteful and useful. We particularly like the drop-down box that lets you sort your apps by Most Used or Recently Installed.

Sony bills the Xperia L as the "camera experts' camera phone", and we were impressed by the performance of its backside-illuminated camera sensor. A backside-illuminated sensor has the sensor's circuitry on the rear rather than at the front, so there's no wiring in the way of light reaching the sensor.

This should lead to better image quality under low light, and the Xperia L takes some of the best low-light photos we've seen, with far more detail and less than noise than the Samsung Galaxy S4's shots. Daylight photos were acceptable if not spectacular. Contrast was impressive, with no sign of overexposure in lighter areas even on a sunlit day, but details became muddy when we zoomed in, showing the limits of the Xperia L's eight megapixels.

Video quality was acceptable under reasonable lighting, but under low light the frame rate dropped right down, making footage seriously jerky - this isn't a phone to film gigs or nights out.

We were impressed with the Xperia L. It has a good screen and a fast operating system, as well as excellent low-light photo (if not video) performance. It's not especially cheap on contract, but provided you're willing to pay for the phone up-front, there's nothing that can touch it for less than £300. It's a Budget Buy.
Windows 7 Gains Over Windows 8 and Vista Competition
Windows 8 is making a headway against Vista. However, both of them have no match with Windows 7. The most recent figures have shown that, in May, Windows 8 has a 4.27 percentage share of the PCs being installed worldwide versus the 4.51% for Vista. As you know, Vista is one of the least popular OSes introduced in November 2006. But then again, maybe they will be breaking out the sparkling wine soon. Still, Windows 7 leads a long shot at 44.85% and it truly made gains in May. It had 44.72% in April.

Newer Isn't Always Better

We need to understand the situation. According to Bill Gates, higher is better. Let's take a look at the reality. The Windows Me, the blue one has problems. The Windows 98 has issues. The Windows Vista could not transfer files over a network at rational speeds. Users were happy with Windows XP but it became out-dated. Now, this most recent version, which is Windows 8, has even more issues. This points out that newer is not always better. As what Bill Gates says, it's not practical to point out the best one, when the most recent has more issues. Without a doubt, people prefer Windows 7 because it has operated far better and has had lesser and more tolerable issues.

Still, Windows 7 Is Pretty Good

Many people tried to purchase and install Windows 8 on their desktop or laptop, but when they discovered some drawbacks, they came back to Windows 7. Users know that Windows 7 does not have a touch screen, but that does not matter. People with laptops and desktops are used to having a mouse as a way to navigate and do not mind that it is not similar to Smartphone, touch screens or tablets. Windows 7 does not push services to people. It is more comfortable in desktop experience and users are not forced to hunt the disabling settings, as well as learning to live with the things that cannot be disabled.

When people see Windows 8, they will get excited at first. But, when they get to know it better, most of them would love to go back to Windows 7, due to its convenience. Windows 7 is indeed great, and this is the reason why most businesses are sticking with it. As you know, Windows 7 is derived from XP. Though, Windows 8 got its throne from Vista. There is nothing better than Window 7.
The Upside to Website Design Services
As a business with a presence online, you naturally have several things that you have to pay attention to. Of course your website is one of them, but with the number of expert website design services available in the market today, you will find several benefits to outsourcing your work. Whether you are building a website from scratch or are revamping one that you already have, there are several advantages to hiring website design services.

One of the first things is that it helps you grab attention online. This is by far the most difficult thing to do for any website. Being able to stand out in a crowd of sites and actually bring people to it will ensure that your page ranking on search engines also goes up. This can happen only when you have the right kind of web development processes in place.

With professionals handling your site you will be able to portray your business objectives in the manner you want. These professionals will take the time out to understand what exactly you are looking for and will be able to formulate how best to present it. Based on your requirements, they will be able to optimize the website to large extent with the use of designing and meta tags.

One advantage you have with professional services is that they view your website from the end user's perspective. This helps them make the website easier to navigate through. The simpler the navigation path, the better chances you have of visitors looking through what you have to offer. Research has shown the customers often take a few seconds to decide on whether they want to continue with the site or not. Professional website design services can help it get done.

The Internet can be a slightly complicated place and there are always technical glitches with a site that need to be looked into. For example, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of smart phones these days. Therefore websites need to be optimized so that they can be viewed on smaller devices in the right manner. Heavy designs and animation will load incorrectly thus making your site lose traction among smart device users.

Hiring the right kind of website design services is what will help you get the best for your website and give it the visibility it needs online. All this without cutting into your time in promoting your business.
My Tips on Laptop Repairs

You see, to be honest, the majority of the time I recommend throwing the thing away and purchasing a new one. Really, it is just the best thing to do much of the time. You see, PCs, more than vehicles, are made with a built in obsolescence. Unless of course you have your equipment designed to run some fixed software - like large companies do - or you are still using the original Word and an old Epson Dot Matrix printer, the chances are that the Internet & hand-helds and all that have made upgrading even more crucial.

The other aspect is - do they manufacture your hard drive or processor anymore?

The other thing is - is it a "sealed unit" where nobody can open it and have a examination.

So right away we are into a few barriers - which is why 80% of notebooks in active use are under three years old.

So - what do I do? Mostly, I'm fixing notebooks less than three years old. It isn't so much they are badly made - there are many mishaps they can have - being dropped, water damage, malware attack and obviously - owner attack too.

The most typical is the hard drive. Yes they are robust and taking into consideration what they do I would say they are amazingly trustworthy. But when the heads are skimming thousandths of an inch above the platten - it is a bad time to have thump or bump on the equipment. Too many of these and you get a hard drive break down. Even today there are still many people who don't do regular back ups. This is easily the most common repair.

What we do is take the hard drive out and using a hardware/software device (you can buy them too of course) is copy off all the info on the drive. Even after failure most of it is still there - even 99.9% The problem is when the 0.1% is slap bang in the middle of the boot up sequence or other essential windows system file.

When we go truly online - and this is taking place - that will be the end of a major source of the problem - big businesses & Google do of course have thorough back up procedures in place - when a hard drive goes they just throw it away and put in a new one (hot swop) without missing a beat or breaking sweat.

Till then - honestly - best guidance is back up and buy a new one - new drive or new PC. An old PC just can't keep up - even if it were in great working order, it was never designed to cope with the demands put upon it today. So why try.

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