Articles for category: TECHNOLOGY

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10 Tips to Build an Effective Staffing Website

As you probably know, there is a great divide among staffing firms, the haves who have great job recruitment websites and the have-nots who maintain a simple online presence. As the job placement market becomes more crowded and job seekers’ expectations grow online, how can you make your staffing website more effective? Here are the ...

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Breaking a Plain Concrete Beam

DRAFT Outline 1. Introduction 2. Shear Strength 3. Loads that Shear the Beam 4. Bending Strength 5. Loads that Break the Beam in Bending 6. Summary Loads 7. Safe Loads 8. Conclusion 9. References 1. Introduction In our earlier lesson (here) we developed diagrams and expressions for the load on our plain concrete `Make and ...

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Android App Review: Google Latitude

Google Latitude, a free application for Android and iPhone phones, is an ideal travel application suitable for anyone who likes to track locations. One of the best features I like about this application is a user can add anyone in their contact list to be friends on Latitude. This enables the Android or iPhone user ...

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Buying Guide to the Polaroid I532 Digital Camera

Polaroid’s i532 digital camera has features that cameras that are more expensive try to offer: Multiple Flash Modes, larger LCD Display, Video Capabilities and Auto Exposure/Auto Focus, along with a whole slew of great and unexpected features! The Polaroid i532 is a great size for tucking into a purse or backpack. It is compact enough, ...

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All You Ever Wanted or Needed to Know About Tracfone

As someone interested in acquiring a cell phone, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about Tracfone, yet you may still be wondering what it’s all about, how it works, and why you should use it. In this article I hope to tell you all you need to know about Tracfone– what it is, what you ...

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LottaNZB – a Fanastic Usenet Binary Downloader for Linux

If you do any heavy downloading on the Internet these days, no doubt you’ve run into a protocol called bittorrent. There are many bittorrent clients, from Azureus to Transmission to Tomato Torrent to uTorrent. There are dozens of them out there. It’s estimated that bittorrent takes up 80 percent of Internet traffic. Before bittorrent, however, ...

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The History of Going Green

Following the “gas shortages” of the 1970’s, most of the science fair projects at my high school were aimed at new ways to power the planet using passive and active solar, hydroelectric and geothermal energy. People would have stared at you if you asked them to reduce their “carbon footprint” and any variation of words ...

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Olympus 7.1MP Digital Camera Review: Reasonably Priced

So you’ve found yourself in a predicament. You need a new digital camera, but you don’t want to spend more than $300.00, what should you do? Well, there are several different methods that you could choose. The first, you can forget about getting a digital camera, and take-up drawing, and try to draw all of ...

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Safe Video Websites for Children

Children enjoy watching and creating online videos just as much as adults do, although we must protect our children from online predators, bullies and inappropriate content. There are websites that are moderated so that children can communicate with others around the world and watch or create videos. Some children may create their own pretend newscasts, ...

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How to Create a Perfect CD Cover

I download a ton of concerts off the Internet. If you head to places such as etree’s bittorrent website, the Live Music Archive at Archive.org, or Dimeadozen.org, you’ll find literally thousands of live concerts, all freely available for download. And at etree.org and the Live Music Archive, care is taken to ensure that every single ...