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Apple Tablet Computer: Designed more for Media, than PC?

Posted by bmetzger On January - 25 - 2010
Apple Tablet Computer

Will the New Apple Table look like this image?

Apple is widely expected to launch the tablet computer on January 27th (when is apple tablet released?). The Apple Tablet Computer will probably run the applications designed for the iPhone touch. Given the success of the iPhone, developers are going to start putting resources to app development for the bigger format.  The large  10 inch screen devices have historically not been good selling products. However,  given the emergence of electronic readers, sometimes referred to as e-readers, 2010 may be the year that tablet computing becomes standardized.


It is estimated that the application store generates as much as $1 billion a year in revenue for Apple and its developers. A larger device such as the Apple tablet will likely expand the market share in third party applications. Networkworld followed up on the FoxNews story that the Apple’s tablet device will be available through Verizon and AT&T. No formal news from the carriers, although Apple is known for embargoing the press, developers, and staff. If these rumors are true, then it would imply that the tablet would come with 3G cellular connectivity built-in. This would indicate that the applet table may be more geared to media applications versus PC applications.  Other stories have surfaced that Apple is negotiating with the newspaper publishing industry as well as video content owners, such as broadcast networks, and movie studios. Amazon Kindle is the current leader for distributing digital newspapers and books. Amazon has demonstrated the current best method for pushing delivery through wireless 3G cellular technology.

For consumers who are thinking that the Apple tablet will be a phone alternative may be missing the point.  Cell phone coverage is much bigger than wi-fi coverage. If Apple is trying to push newspaper subscriptions through an electronic-reader format, then they would need to have cellular technology to push the content. The other amusing  topic is to see the media and loyal consumers obsess with the details of what the product will be called. Will it be known as a tablet or will it be called the “iSlate”. Finally, the question is will Apple be successful pitching consumers about the value of a device that sits somewhere between a full-size laptop and a pocket cell phone. Is this John Scully’s Newton revenge?

HDTV Makers will Highlight 3-D TV technology in 2010

Posted by bmetzger On January - 25 - 2010
Will you watch TV with 3-D Glasses?

Will you watch TV with 3-D Glasses?

New information about the Samsung C9000 LED HDTV has been published recently since CES2010. The C9000, known as the sleekest of the sleek 3DTV, has gained the attention of many reviewers who expressed their amazement at the emerging breed of 3-D televisions.

3-D TV could catch on in a big way when the televisions roll out later this year to consumer electronic superstores. Most of the major television makers including Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, LG, Sharp, and Toshiba unveiled 3-D offerings at CES2010. Theses HDTVs offered excellent 3D sharp picture quality, and strong color.


Almost every major TV maker including Sony, LG, Panasonic and Mitsubishi showed big screen 3-D TVs at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Even content providers such as ESPN, DirecTV and Discovery have promised 3-D channels that will begin broadcasting in 2011

Samsung was mentioned to be further along than others with plans to offer 3-D TVs across their line of displays;  LCD display, plasma, and LED technologies.

The current drawback to 3D Tv sets, is that you have to wear special glasses, currently designed as battery operating specs that use alternating shutters or polarized lenses to trick the brain. And unlike regular TVs, 3-D TVs are best experienced with dim lights at all times. Gathering a group of friends for a superbowl party eating snacks and getting up a few times to get something to drink will not work with a 3-D setting.  Instead, it will be like, ‘let’s sit down and watch this movie,’ with the eyes focused on the screen all the time.

Setting Goals in Different Areas of your Life

Posted by bmetzger On January - 24 - 2010

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With the advent of the New Year, many people take the time to set goals for areas in their life. Initially goal setting can seem overwhelming. However, progress can be made by breaking down goals into small, bite-size chunks in different areas. So how does one get started? First, let’s identify the 10 critical goal areas in a person’s life:

 

1. Personal goals: these help you focus on goals that are related to yourself. They involve improving your self-image, enhancing your creativity, and intellectual abilities. Ask yourself these questions: what self-limiting thoughts or fears will I overcome? What actions or future beliefs about myself while I change or improve? What dreams, hopes and visions in my life have I been saying no to for years due to fear or insecurity?

 

2. Health goals: this specific area will help you develop targets related to your diet, fitness, addictions, and physical appearance. What would you like to weigh? What would you like your body to look like and feel like at age 70? Other physical activities such as walking that can be done every day? What will I learn about cooking and the type of food consumption I need in my daily live?

3. Recreational goals: these help you focus on and develop goals related to adding new dimension and diversity to your lifestyle. Ask yourself these questions will lead you on your next vacation? Where will you go?

4. Family goals: in this area are related to beginning strengthening, clarifying, and enhancing your relationship with your partner, children siblings, and parents. In what ways can you be less selfish with your relationships with your partner? Will I do give up compromised in order to improve my relationships with my family and relationship would like to have my children? When will I begin?

5. Friendship goals These will help you develop goals related to deepening and balancing relationships with old and new friendships. Ask yourself these questions: what can I do to keep in better contact with old friends? Are there other people that I should spend less time with in the future? When will I begin?

6. Community goals: these are related to your social responsibilities to local and global communities. Ask yourself these questions: what terrible public service organization will I become involved with a volunteer? What lasting contribution I make mankind before I die? And when will I begin?

7. Career goals: these are related to your rotation paid or unpaid. While the term career too often implies pay professional activity per goals can also specifically be related to a parent who stays home to care for and possibly educate their children. Ask yourself these questions: what specifically can I do to be considered the best of my profession question mark what specific things can I do, change, or eliminate become better organized customer who will I have is a career mentor? What additional educational I attain in order to advance my career? When will I begin?

8. Financial goals: these are related to your material wealth and satisfaction in the present time in future. Much money will you earn this year, in five years, in 10 years? How much money will I save and invest us your question how much life insurance do I have to protect my family in the event of my death when will I begin?

9. Household goals: these are related to the maintenance and enhancement of what may well be your largest material investment. Ask yourself these questions what will my deal house look home look and feel like? What new furniture or appliance would I like to have.

10. Spiritual goals: Finally an important area is spiritual goals is the foundation upon which you build peace of mind and heart. Ask yourself these questions: what can I do each day to ensure spiritual growth and development faith? How I conduct myself everyday in order to be at peace with myself? How can I improve my families involved in a place of worship? What spiritual materials will I study and gain a deeper understanding of my faith? When will I begin?

You may have noticed that there was always a question about when will I begin the goal is to create time outbound targeting this exercise can be noticed smart goals. S.M.A.R.T Goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time bound. Setting goals and needs in these ten areas will provide you clarity of how you want to live your life, regardless of how many years you have left to live. There is no reason to waste another day. Developing your life goals will give you a vision of yourself achieving. This vision can create the encouragement necessary to achieve. Make sure you realistically analyze your current reality, identify any obstacles you are facing, estimate the investment and sacrifice you must make, gather the needed information, create an action plan, set reasonable deadlines, and celebrate small milestones in your pursuit. Most importantly, don’t forget to reward yourself when the goals are met.

Make an Effort in Goal Setting to Achieve Personal Growth

Posted by bmetzger On January - 23 - 2010

goalsetting2Would you like to feel more accomplishment in your life? Does time move swiftly without any personal satisfaction that your life has a sense of purpose? While accomplishment is defined differently for each person, the point is to evaluate yourself and become proactive with how you spend your time.

Many Americans do not set personal goals themselves. Most people spend more time planning their two-week vacations than planning their lives. You are cheating yourself if you simply move forward without a plan with the hope that it will all work out. Everyone needs goals, direction, and purpose for life. Because everybody needs goals, they have the opportunity and personal obligation to learn how to set and achieve them.


Goal setting is the foundation for success in life. The builder would not start construction of a home without a set of blueprints. The airline pilot would never fly across the country without a flight plan. The church paster commits time to the sermon message prior to delivery. You simply cannot design a successful life without a solid foundation of goals. If goal setting in life is so important why do most people fail to do so? Experts have identified five basic reasons why people don’t set goals.

Reason #1 is they are simply not serious about their life.  If you would discuss with anyone who has achieved something remarkable, you would learn that the achievement occurred after the person decided to get serious. Imagine an athlete becoming successful who is not serious about training for success. Success is not just going to happen. Until you become completely serious and totally determined about your goals, nothing sustaining will occur.

Reason #2 is that they will understand the importance of setting goals. If your parents are other people outside your family circle did not have goals, did not talk about goals and didn’t encourage you to set goals, a person likely grew up without skills or knowledge of the importance of goal setting.

Reason #3 is because we do not know how to do it. One of the greatest tragedies of our educational system is that our children can receive a high school or college education and never once received a single hour of instruction about how to set goals.

Reason #4 for avoiding goal setting is fear of criticism. If fear of criticism is caused by destructive criticism you receive in your early childhood and manifested in adulthood in the fear of criticism by others. Many people hold back from setting personal goals because they have found that when they set a goal, somebody steps up and tells him or her that they can’t achieve it, that they will lose their money or it is a waste of time. This criticism crushes their dreams so they learn to avoid the process for fear of belittlement.

Reason #5 and perhaps the most important reason of all, is the fear of personal failure.  The fear of failure is considered the greatest single obstacle to success in our adult life. It holds you back more than any other psychological problem.

If you feel like any of the reasons mentioned above are applicable to your current situation, take the time to address each area and overcome those barriers. The next area of focus is identifying the ten goal areas in life.

The Latest Trends in Car Desks: Tools for the Road Warrior

Posted by bmetzger On January - 15 - 2010

NetbookCar2Current trends in the computer products category is the continued adoption of netbooks. 2010 may be the year of the tablet with the expected announcement from Apple and their tablet pc, as well as the numerous pc tablets introduced at CES2010. Given that a large proportion of the workforce has to travel on business, it did not take long for manufacturers to modify the classic car desk for netbook and tablet pc users.

Comfortchannel.com recently announced the availability of the new Net Book and Tablet PC Auto Desk. The manufacturer designed it to be the most ergonomic auto desk yet from their product line.  Go Office is a market leader of the best selling auto desks in the world.

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Given the bandwidth issues telecom carriers are experiencing as their customer base use their mobile devices to access the internet and access apps for work and social activities, it is a trend that consumers are demanding more mobility than ever. Tablet PCs and Net books sales growth confirm the trend, and now there is a desk designed to incorporate their flexibility with the safety and ergonomics you have come to expect from an AutoExec desk. This specially designed desk has a spring-loaded Net Book holder on an adjustable arm. The arm swings from side to side, and the Net Book holder can be tilted to the most ergonomically comfortable position for you. Simply adjust it to your preferred position, then lock it into place with the comfort-grip knob located under the top of the desk. This new desk will give you complete range of motion with your compact laptops while retaining the storage space the AutoExec desks have always offered. As with all AutoExec desks, this desk will secure in your vehicle with the seat-belt. The car desk fits most cars, smaller SUV’s, and Mini-Vans.


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Samsung readies a Super Thin C9000 LED LCDTV

Posted by bmetzger On January - 11 - 2010

As part of the CES 2010 Tradeshow coverage, we have to highlight Samsung’s slimmest LEDTV, the C9000, that will be coming to the market sometime in 2010. Generally the HDTV feature trends for 2010 seem to include more LED backlighting capability, internet capability, and 3d capability. If you are looking for the latest and innovative HDTVs on the consumer

Samsung LED LCD Televisions are taking marketshare in 2010

Samsung LED LCD Televisions are taking marketshare in 2010

market, the features listed above are the leading edge technologies. The C9000 comes with 240hz technology. Most of these features are covered in our LCD TV buying guide which will be updated throughout 2010. The C9000 is 0.5 inches thick with key components located in the pedestal. The pedestal can also become the wall mount adapter.

Samsung markets their LED TVs ability to deliver breakthrough picture quality, ultra slim 1.2” designs and use 40% less power. With mega contrast ratios and advanced internet connectivity features, these are Samsung’s best TVs ever.

During CES2010, Samsung mentioned during their press conference that since launching the LED technology, 2.6 million Samsung LED TVs were sold, grabbing an 80% market share in the U.S.