Technology Terms
Web Filter
August 1, 2011
I think that I need a good web filter for our office. We have a decent sized office with about 40 people in it. While I don't think we have any real problems I have been hearing talk about people spending a lot of time on sites that aren't really work related.
I don't mind folks checking email, the news or facebook but when I hear about how someone has spent the morning on their fantasy baseball team or shopping for a new outfit for the weekend, a web filter sounds better and better.
I don't want the hassle of monitoring the sites people visit and then having to confront them with what I found. So I am thinking that a program that just quietly blocks some sites with out coming right out and embarrassing someone is a better choice. So Yeah I think a good web filter will do the job, anyone got a recommendation?
digitalSTROM TV energy
December 17, 2010
a introduction of digitalSTROM technology in terms of energy saving in swiss TV 10vor10 05july2007
Duration : 0:5:3
Technology Winners of 2010
December 10, 2010
http://michaelsherlock.com
2010 has been a very unique year with many start-ups taking off and long standing businesses closing. In terms of technology, I’ve pinpointed five extremely successful products from 2010 that are not only flourishing now, but have a bright future ahead.
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Duration : 0:9:59
The new Alfa Romeo Giulietta, a compact created to appeal to customers who seek top dynamic performance and those who are looking for a distinctive style and a high level of comfort. The Giulietta has brand-new architecture, designed to meet the expectations of the most demanding customers in terms of road holding, agility and safety. Its excellent dynamic performance and great comfort are the result of refined technical solutions implemented in the suspensions, a next-generation steering system, a rigid yet light structure made of aluminium and high-strength steel, and state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies. Alfa DNA, a device which customises behaviour of the car according to different driving styles and road conditions, can adapt the new Alfa Romeo to the needs of each individual driver to enhance driving pleasure and comfort. The new architecture of the Alfa Giulietta was designed to integrate and enhance all onboard systems. Three set-ups (Dynamic, Normal and All Weather) are available and can be selected using the Alfa DNA. This device – standard across the entire range of the new model – modifies the operating parameters of the engine, of the steering system, and of the Q2 electronic differential, in addition to fine-tuning the stability control system (VDC) behavioural logics. Combining sportiness and elegance, the Alfa Giulietta is the result of Alfa Romeo’s new direction in style and technology – an approach that started with the 8C Competizione supercar and which recalls the brand’s glorious past while projecting its traditional values of technology and emotion into the future. The front end is developed around a trilobe shape and features a brand-new interpretation of the classic Alfa grille, set into the front bumper and suspended between the two air intakes. The entire car develops from here to combine a lively personality with an elegant form. The front headlamps implement LED technology and a Daytime Running Lights (DRL) function for maximum active safety. The profile of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta is rich in personality and confers the appearance of an agile, solid model. This is above all the result of the coupé shaped side windows, which highlight dynamic and streamlined shape, and of the concealed rear handles. The side ribbing adds to the car’s slender look, while the taut lines closing in on the rear end accentuate the “wedge” shape of the body. The style of the rear end, like that of the front and the side, is strong and consolidates the impression of a muscular car, firmly gripped to the road. Like the headlamps, the rear light clusters implement LED technology, to the advantage of preventive safety, in addition to good looks. The interior design is taut and light: a horizontally developed dashboard with aluminium element accents and rocker controls which explicitly recall the 8C Competizione. Painstaking attention to detail and the high quality of the materials used are the most advanced expression of Italian style. Finally, the dimensions of the new car give a compact, dynamic shape combined with excellent roominess and a capacious boot (350 litres): the car is 4.35 metres long, 1.46 metre high and 1.80 metres wide with a wheelbase of 2.63 metres. The Alfa Romeo Giulietta guarantees top level performance and next-generation technology in terms of technical solutions, performance and environmental friendliness. Four Turbo engines will be available at launch, all Euro 5 compliant and fitted with a standard Start&Stop system for reducing consumption and emissions: two petrol engines (1.4TB – 120 HP and 1.4TB MultiAir – 170 HP) and two diesel engines (1.6 JTDM – 105 HP and 2.0 JTDM – 170 HP, both belonging to the second generation of JTDM engines). Finally, the range is completed with the lively 1750 TBi – 235 HP with an exclusive Quadrifoglio Verde configuration. Alfa Romeo Giulietta was designed to obtain the maximum Euro NCAP rating in order to offer total protection to driver and passengers. Furthermore, suspension, steering and braking system are designed to be perfectly balanced even during extreme manoeuvres. Finally, the Alfa Romeo Giulietta is fitted with the most sophisticated electronic devices for dynamic control as standard: VDC (Vehicle Dynamic Control), DST (Dynamic Steering Torque), Q2 electronic differential and Alfa DNA selector. All these systems guarantee driving safety, dynamism and performance in the best Alfa Romeo tradition.Business English Technology Vocabulary for IT – Web 2.0
November 26, 2010
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Duration : 0:10:16
Copy Hi8 Camcorder Movies to your PC
November 20, 2010
Step-by-step instructions on how to connect a Hi8 camcorder to your computer using a USB capture device and capturing the video with Pinnacle Studio.
I’m demonstrating this with the Dazzle USB capture device because it is the most widely available solution and I’m finding the latest version to also be the most reliable solution. You can typically find Dazzle USB capture devices at places like Best Buy, Circuit City, Frys, etc. or at
http://pinnaclesys.com
Duration : 0:1:22
Modeling and Metadata Management for Enterprise Information Architecture
November 15, 2010
http://www.sybase.com
Hi, I’m David Dichmann, Senior Product Manager for Design Tools at Sybase. And today I would like to talk to you about modeling and metadata management for enterprise architecture. To begin, I’d like to first take a look at, what is enterprise architecture? Fundamentally, enterprise architecture is about these three things. First it’s about getting business and IT alignment, so we can have agility for effectiveness in responding to change. Second, it’s about regulatory compliance, now not just being able to ensure that we’ve met the regulations but also defending against an audit, and having the choice ability to do so. Enterprise architecture is also about preparing for whole business transformation; here we are talking about big block change moving from today’s infrastructure to the infrastructure to be tomorrow. Now let’s take a look at how PowerDesigner breaks down all the things we need to know to be able to achieve this vision. So here we have a view of all the different types of models that PowerDesigner manages for us and where they belong in the enterprise architecture. Now first, let’s take a look at these different layers, for example, here we have the business layer, where we are understanding the business in pure business terms. Then we have the conceptual, logical and physical layers, where we start reflecting the business back to itself in Technology Terms and drive down to the detailed implementation. We also have these different perspectives; we have our information perspective for our information architecture, our process perspective for our business architecture, and our technology perspective for our application architecture. So these different layers in perspective start to make up a grid pattern. This is something a lot of you may have seen if you’ve studied enterprise architecture frameworks. Things like the Zachman Enterprise Architecture, or the architectural framework under TOGAF, give us an idea of what types of things we need to put and when and where we are going to do that. Now this is really a generalized, simplified view of those frameworks for our purposes in easy understanding. So let’s take a look at what Power Designer does for each of these places. We’ve got things like the conceptual data model. This is where we will reflect the information concepts back to the business and business terms. But we’ll use those structures to drive into the logical understanding of how we’ll start to organize data for storage, and the physical implementation where it’ll go to the database. These different transformation layers will give us the idea of how to relate business down to information technology. We offer a similar set of models for the process perspective. We have the business process modeling at the analysis level, which understands the business processes and business terms, but again those structures go into a platform specific model; a business process model that starts to understand how process automation will be managed by technology. And then we have models that understand things like WSBPEL, the Web service language for business processes, to actually automate and orchestrate the business processes themselves. We also have, for the technology, the use of Object Oriented Model. An analysis level object oriented model defines the key technology pieces and how they relate to each other. And that again can also be used to drive the more technical views, what the OMG would call the platform independent model and the technical generating from the code, platform specific model. So all these different models here represent different parts and different reasons, for describing different aspects of the enterprise. Now tying that all together at the top here, we have the business requirements model. Power Designers business requirements model allows us to import and export from Microsoft Word, and defines purely what are the business requirements and the motivations for developing the architecture. And then we have the enterprise architecture model itself, which is an abstraction; a series of composite models that understand how all these things roll up together to make the whole cohesive enterprise. Now, just having the right place, to store the right kind of information, at the right time is a good start but we really need to do,
Duration : 0:6:41
People, Process and Technology in Knowledge Management (Nick Milton of Knoco)
November 12, 2010
Nick Milton, of http://www.knoco.com, explains what the standard “people, process, technology” really means in knowledge management terms.
Blog at http://www.nickmilton.com
Duration : 0:4:6
Please explain the difference between these four computer technology terms?
November 10, 2010
Pasted straight from File Den. They ask you, I suppose, in what code you want the link to your file to appear in.
[img] – <img> – Direct URLs – Linked URLs
[img] – Internet shorthand referring to an actual image file
<img> – HTML tag used to code for an image in a web page
Direct URLs – A link that points at a particular file (such as the location of the Mozilla Firefox installation file on Mozilla’s website). URL is a universal resource locator.
Linked URL – A link on a website (can point either internally or to another website).
News With a View – Technology Videos
November 10, 2010
A picture equals thousand words and a moving picture equals thousand pictures – such is the power of video.
Small wonder that technology videos, a more recent manner of disseminating technology news, are a popular marketing tool of most companies selling gadgetry and/or technologies. Then there is the deteriorating attention span of readers/viewers – another factor that makes videos a more attractive marketing option. Who wants to plod through the yellow pages or through small print technology news? Who wants a fact file in a droning monotone, accompanied by still shots of the product in a powerpoint presentation? Avail, instead, the instant information provided by a technology video.
Take, for example, Digital TV. Demonstration of how that particular technology works, through a technology video, leaves no room for doubt. People are assured that what they see is what they get and will line up to choose Digital TV over every other sort. The video can further offer comparisons and help the consumer choose to his advantage. Also, remember the old adage – you hear, you forget; you see, you remember? Technology videos probably act on this principle.
Technology news can be pretty dry and incomprehensible if served in the conventional manner. Packing in all the features of a product in the limited space often does not do justice to the product. It can be a daunting task for the page creator and equally so for the reader. It puts him off before he reaches the bottom of the page, whereas a lively video will have you wanting to see more. Moreover, it is difficult for the prospective buyer to translate, say, Intel XXXX into what he will actually get in terms of everyday operations. A video offers a clear picture, literally.
A short video film, strategically embedded in various related web sites is just the thing to boost sales and to differentiate your product from the others. A single click takes the prospect through 2 minutes of intensive watching, hearing and reading and he most likely comes away mesmerized and converted. Technology videos are definitely on!
Jacob Brown
http://www.articlesbase.com/video-conferencing-articles/news-with-a-view-technology-videos-713460.html