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Archive for February, 2011

Fuel Economy and Mobile Resource Management

The increasing economic importance of implementing real-time vehicle tracking as part of a commercial company’s mobile resource management policy can now be viewed as essential for comprehensive operational control, remote driver security and fuel savings. Dearer oil is increasing costs for many businesses – particularly those with large fleets of vehicles – and is adding a powerful financial impetus to the search for fuel efficiencies.

Technology has a significant role to play in reducing fuel consumption, which also has clear environmental benefits.

An example of a measurable fuel saving combined with a corresponding reduction in carbon emissions is Interserve, a building management company, who have both saved 15 per cent of its fuel costs and seen a drop in CO² by tracking its vehicles with satellites.

With rising fuel costs, retailers are smart-routing to avoid traffic jams, either by combining deliveries, improving fleets or reconfiguring routes. This is to maximise the number of deliveries while minimising time and distance. It has been found that even restricting the number of left hand turns can improve on time, efficiency and energy savings.

Using GPS vehicle tracking technology and viewing interactive maps online enabled the company to see where it was losing money, time and wasting fuel – such as on duplicated journeys.

Yet in some countries, there are legal concerns over using tracking technology. In the UK, for example, the law stipulates that companies must tell drivers if they use telematics to monitor vehicles for anything other than asset tracking.

When it comes to looking for a present for your boyfriend’s birthday, we are spoilt for choice. There are literally thousands of products to choose from, and choice comes hand in hand with difficulty in finding and deciding what to buy. From my own personal experience, I always try and narrow down my search by looking for interesting gifts which matches his interests, his hobbies and the occasion. For example, my boyfriend is a bit of a gadget and music lover- many of my gifts to him have been based around this theme. Although he loves to dress well and is quite particular in what he wears, very rarely do I buy him clothes, as 9 times out of 10 I know I will chose the wrong thing. In this article, I will be recommending some of my top gadgets for boyfriends, based on interests and personality.

Stylish Gadget Lover

LED Mirror- with Scrolling Message Board- this is a contemporary and stylish mirror with and LED message function, which can display the time and with the ability to program up to 99 messages. A perfect combination of style and hi-tech gadgetry.

Oregon DP100 Projection Radio Alarm Clock- With its modern design and innovative features, the DP100 alarm clock from Oregon makes a great gift for your style conscious gadget lover boyfriend! It includes, in addition to its vertical LCD display, a bright projection system that displays the exact time and temperature on the wall, even during the day.  Read more...

Hello My Name is Eddie Z, I’ve been a full time stock trader and financial market player for over 2 decades. In addition, I have been taking computers apart and putting them back together since the early days of Commodore and the TRS-80. During the past 20 plus years, I have come to truly understand computer technology from a traders point of view. As a full time day trader myself, and with my technology background, I can offer a unique perspective into what traders really need in terms of trading computer technology.

I get asked all the time: What do technology do I need to consider, as a trader, when thinking about trading computer? There are several key things to think about. What most traders need are: 1. A lightning fast processor : To handle multiple charts, news feeds, process data, run quantitative automated trading strategies and communicate with the internet. 2. Top quality components in terms of reliability, dependability and useful life. This means that traders need to know what brands of components are inside of their trading computers. 3. Multiple Monitor Support: Most traders need multiple monitors so that they can follow many indicators, news feeds and other information simultaneously. Desktop Real Estate is what traders call it. Lastly, traders need the highest possible level of tech support available because most traders are not computer nerds. US based traders need support that is US based and speaks American English (not India based with voice delay as most of us are accustomed too). These are definitely the most important items to consider.  Read more...

Book type cash registers have been the traditional symbol of retail business establishments. Most small or medium business owners are replacing these with computer and printer. Even after using the latest operating system, owners find it typical to feed the data every day. Full POS inventory software system is the best solution to keep the inventory up to the date without being involved too much. Advanced POS inventory software for business instantly updates the inventory database on the basis of automatically captured information about each sale. Therefore, with the help of quick POS inventory software system, a retailer can view up-to-the-minute stock information on a screen. It facilitates the business owners to take buying decisions timely.

Using best POS inventory software for restaurant or other business accounting and to make the whole operation more convenient is not a new practice. The convincing number of restaurants, bar and other business owners are using these software since decades. The new thing is that the prices have come down at such a low level that it has become possible for everyone to use these irrespective of business size.

Many small establishments’ owners think using electronic POS inventory software service a complicated affair especially if they do not have adequate accounting software qualification. It is not so. Procedure of registering a sale on business POS inventory software system is same as is in case of conventional inventory register. Bar-code label provides the complete information about the product itself, price and batch no. As soon you clear the sales, scanned information get stored in the system and updates the stock inventory automatically. Thus, you do not need any highly qualified account professionals for maintaining the inventory.  Read more...

Open source gadgets mean any software whose source code is made available for use or modification for users or developers.

The advantages of the open source gadgets are evident: since everyone can modify the source they are improved continually by software communities and the vast majority of open source programs are free.

Being free is a huge advantage sometimes you, the computer owner want to do simple, one job, like editing a document or a picture, and you don’t want to spend a small fortune doing it, so the free open source programs are your best friends.

The most of the open source gadgets were initially created for Linux owners, but in the last period of time more and more open source gadgets were developed for Windows. And in this article I’m going to tell you about the best gadgets for Windows users.

The free and open-source software that you should use are: web browsing – Mozilla Firefox, video player and video podcasting: Miro, instant messaging: Pidgin, e-mail – Mozilla Thunderbird, RSS: RSSOwl, peer-to-peer filesharing: Cabos, video player – Media Player Classic, DVD ripping and video conversion – Media Coder, word processing suites – OpenOffice.org, podcasting: Juice, sound recording: Audacity, photo editing Paint.NET, FTP – Filezilla.

I’m currently using: OpenOffice.org to write and manage documents, Filezilla for FTP connections, Paint.NET to work with graphics and Thunderbird to read and write emails.

Don’t aspect the open source gadgets to have as many features as the paid ones, after all you get them for free.  Read more...