Sonos-Sub Wireless Multi-room Audio Systems

Sonos is still the leader when it comes to wireless, multi-room audio systems. With a dead-easy setup routine, well-designed controller apps, and the ability to play music from both your local stash of MP3s and all the big streaming services, the palindromic home audio supplier is playing with a winning hand.


Now Sonos has released a subwoofer to complement its array of wireless Play speakers and Connect amps. It’s simply called Sub. The $700 powered speaker component isn’t cheap but it does add excellent definition and low-end heft to any existing Sonos system.


The Sub’s glossy, piano-black case is shaped like a big, square doughnut with a rectangular hole in the center. That central cavity is where all the sound is directed. Two 4.5-inch by 7-inch rectangular divers, each with its own class-D amp, face each other from opposing sides of the cavity. The speaker enclosures are ported into the cavity, too, with one port at the top and one at the bottom.


Setup is ridiculously easy. If you already have a Sonos system, just plug the Sub into an outlet wherever you want it to live, fire up your Sonos controller app and add it to your system’s existing mesh network. You can tune the output level and the tonal coloring of the speaker using a simple test suite within the controller app. Setting up an entirely new multi-speaker system is equally as easy, and only involves an extra step or two.


The Sub sounds fantastic. Sonos speakers have always sounded excellent to my ears, and if you’re a fan of the audio your Play or Connect system already puts out, the Sub will only make it sound better. It adds just the right amount of subtle depth, driving everything below about 90Hz, and enhances all different kinds of music. The amount of detail in the default settings to be a bit too understated, so its better to use iPhone app to crank up the output levels. All the necessary adjustments can be made using your phone or tablet, which is refreshing.


The price is very high. And  you can buy a subwoofer as good as this one for far less than $700. But you’re not paying the premium to get superior audio quality, you’re shelling out for the Sonos experience — the easy setup, the plethora of music choices, and the joy of having multiple powered speaker components all working in concert without wires and without a controller amp.


And since it only works with Sonos systems, it only makes sense if you’re a “Sonos person.” But provided you’re already comfortable with paying the company’s high prices, the Sub is a worthy addition to your wireless rig.


Positeve - Sound is excellent, on par with the rest of Sonos’ speakers. Well-designed dual-driver subwoofer with dual class-D amps offer efficient and distortion-free boom. Sleek looks make the 16-inch-tall box disappear into your ultra-modern decor. Just over 6 inches tall when laid flat, so it can slip under a couch or table.


Negative - That’s a lot of Simoleons. The tall, square-shaped doughnut design can be too bulky for some rooms, even laid flat.

Microsoft Research Team Developed FAR Technology

Microsoft wants to help you sword fight without the physical risks of getting stabbed. The company’s solution? A team at Microsoft Research has created a hardware localization technology that enables you to play a multi-player sword fighting game using only smartphones.

No, you won’t need to attach any crazy lasers or peripheral accessories to make it work. The team’s aptly named SwordFight game requires only the existing hardware in most shipping smartphones. But it’s also not quite as simple as an app like Star Wars: Lightsaber Duel.

“There’s a lot of technology now that allows phones to connect. But if you want to enable games that have a more active flavor, then you need more,” Thomas Moscibroda, a Lead Researcher in the Mobile & Sensing Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research Asia, told Wired. “What you need is a technology that allows mobile devices to localize each other. If I move, I need to know how close your phone is next to me.”

Moscibroda and his colleagues on the Microsoft Research team have developed a technology called FAR. It’s a new sound-ranging scheme that makes it possible for a smartphone to locate another smartphone by measuring sound. One phone sends out a chirp, and a second phone determines the distance and the position of the first phone by measuring the time it takes for the chirp to travel to its speaker.

In SwordFight, two players aim their phones toward each other, and try to jab at the other person’s handset. When one player’s phone strikes within 15 centimeters of the other player’s phone, the second player loses a point. It’s as if there are imaginary swords, albeit very tiny ones, jutting out from each device. With the help of a phone’s accelerometer and digital compass, the game can tell which opponent did the striking. But what’s unique is the fact that the phones can know how close they are to one another.

The process of measuring distance with sound is nothing new. But the Microsoft team created faster, more accurate algorithms built on top of the core processing principles. Traditional techniques can take about one second to turn around a measurement, David Chu, one of the Microsoft researchers on the SwordFight project told us. But in that one second, a person can move his arms up to 4 meters.

“If you think about the fact that you could only take one measurement per second, you could have an error of 4 meters. We’ve been able to improve that, so that we can go 12 samples per second and theoretically up to 22 samples per second,” Chu said. “On average, based on our testing, we can actually achieve within 2-centimeter accuracy.”

In essence, the technology is incredibly fast, allowing users to play an interactive, phone-to-phone game in real time. But it isn’t limited to just a silly sword fighting game. The researchers were first inspired to create this localization technology to make games more interactive, but they see other potential applications.

“Overall, there’s really a broad applicability to it. We’re not simply talking about phones. A fundamental part of the research that we’ve done is not tied to any particular operating system or anything like that,” Chu said.

All a device needs to use the FAR technology is a speaker and a microphone — components that the vast majority of modern-day tablets, PCs and phones come with.

Unfortunately, you won’t get these capabilities on your phone anytime soon. In theory, SwordFight could be released as an app on Windows Phone or other platforms, but the Microsoft Research team has no current plans to release FAR or its SwordFight game to the general public.

The technology still faces challenges. For example, the chirping noises the phone sends are very noticeable, because smartphone mics and speakers only support audible frequency range. (One solution is to make the chirps part of a game’s music.) Another challenge: Users can easily block their mics or speakers, causing inaccurate measurements.

Moscibroda, Chu and the rest of the Microsoft Research team plan on further developing the technology to address these issues and create more prototype games and applications. They’ve already created another game called ChaseCat, which uses the same technology to let you play a two-player running game where one person attempts to get within a certain distance of another user to score points.

“We’ve seen some other developers taking the underlying technology in a completely different direction than what we had thought of,” Chu said. “We think there is a healthy amount of uses in gaming and outside.”

Google Started to Ship Pre-orders Nexus 7 Tablet

Nexus 7 Tablet

To all of you who ordered a Nexus 7 in the last few weeks, you can expect a 7-inch package delivery on your doorstep soon. Google announced on Friday that it has started shipping the pre-orders of its first self-branded tablet. Google made the announcement in a cute and rhyming Google+ post: “Locked and loaded, ready to play: we’ve started shipping +Nexus 7 pre-orders today!” The company first unveiled the Nexus 7 tablet at Google I/O at the end of June, along with the Nexus Q and Android Jelly Bean. Pre-orders opened up at that time to anyone who wanted to shell out the very reasonable $200 for Google’s first tablet. But those who attended Google I/O got to take home the Nexus 7 earlier than the rest. And the device, designed by Google and manufactured by Asus, has already received praise for hitting a sweet spot in terms of price, build quality and media capabilities. Though the Nexus 7 directly competes with the Kindle Fire, which shares the same 7-inch form factor, Wired reporter Nathan Olivarez-Giles found that the Nexus 7 outperforms the Fire on several levels. Amazon, however, already has plans to release a refreshed Kindle Fire soon, according to several reports. And if rumors prove true, Apple also has a 7-inch iPad in the works. It will be interesting to watch how this new, smaller-form tablet arena plays out. For now, Google’s Nexus 7 is a top contender and it will arrive in even more hands very soon.

Microsoft Will Sell Millions of Surface Tablets

This week, an audacious Steve Ballmer predicted Microsoft will sell millions of its new keyboard-equipped tablets, the Surface, in the coming year. He also talked a good deal of trash about Apple, promising to compete with it everywhere. But that’s short-sighted, as Apple isn’t the real competition. Microsoft needs to beat, or at least beat up on, its longtime allies: PC manufacturers.


If Surface is to be a hit, Microsoft can’t just position it as yet another iPad or Android competitor. It needs people to think of the Surface as a real mobile computer. It needs people to buy Surfaces instead of laptops. That means competing with its traditional partners like HP, Dell and Acer. Not only is this Microsoft’s best play, there’s not even a downside to it.


The Surface Pro (and to a lesser extent the Surface RT) is clearly a laptop competitor that’s going to cannibalize sales from Microsoft’s traditional hardware partners. But so what? Who cares if Dell or HP or Acer gets pissed off? What are they going to do, sell only Chromebooks? Go all in on Linux boxes? Exit the PC business altogether? HP’s promise to do just that turned out to be tellingly empty.Sure, Microsoft needs its manufacturing partners. But those partners need Microsoft far more.


And then there are tablets. Microsoft isn’t even close to being a player in the tablet business, which is dominated by Apple and Android. (And, in all reality, Android is but a twee little sideshow relative to the iPad.) Many of Microsoft’s desktop partners have gone full-tilt toward Android tablets, so they’re already competing with Microsoft. So Microsoft’s best bet is to prove there’s a market in Windows tablets — which shouldn’t be hard given how abysmal Android tablets are.


Which brings us to phones. Ballmer left the door open to Microsoft rolling out its own phones. Windows Phone 7 has been a commercial failure, despite its UI being a critical darling. These phones just aren’t selling. Microsoft’s big mobile partner is Nokia, and Nokia is a wreck. Its flagship Lumia line has gone nowhere. HTC and Samsung, meanwhile, seem far more focused on Android. So if handset manufacturers and carriers can’t gin up any excitement over Windows Phone, Microsoft has to do that itself. And one clear path to this would be for Microsoft to release its own device.


In the weeks before it announced Surface, Microsoft’s hardware manager Ben Reed was on the pitch circuit talking to reporters. The meetings were odd — puzzling even — as he didn’t have any news to share. Instead, Reed spent an hour talking about Microsoft’s 30-year history in the hardware business, complete with hoary old mice. In retrospect, Reed was priming the pump, doing the groundwork for the Surface launch to plant an idea: Microsoft is a hardware company.


And if Microsoft is going to be a hardware company, it needs to be a hardware company. Microsoft’s biggest consumer success over the past decade has been Xbox. It needs to replicate that success, and the only way it can be assured of doing that, at least in the short term, is to screw its hardware partners. There’s no shame in that. It’s just business.

Telstar 1 The Tiny Aluminum Satellite

When the Telstar 1 satellite successfully launched 50 years ago, the world got a little smaller. Telstar, a collaboration between U.S., French, and British broadcasting agencies, was the world’s first active communication satellite, enabling TV programs to be broadcast across the Atlantic. The 3-foot-long satellite was also the first to send the television signals, telephone calls, and fax images through space.

Before Telstar was launched, microwave towers could flash TV shows and other communication information from point to point through the air, supplementing the landlines that already crisscrossed the globe. But once these signals reached the ocean, they reached their limit.

Satellite transmission allowed instantaneous communication – such as long-distance phone calls and real-time international TV – to become an everyday reality. The phrase “live, via satellite” is only possible with Telstar and the machines that followed it into space.

So, in tribute to Telstar 1, here we look back on the little satellite that helped make the modern world.

Tiny Satellite

Telstar 1 was built as an international collaboration between AT&T, Bell Labs, NASA, the British General Post Office, and the French National Post, Telegraph, and Telecom Office. The satellite launched on a Delta rocket on July 10, 1962.

The aluminum satellite was wimpy by modern standards. It used 14 watts of power – roughly one-seventh that of a modern laptop – generated by the 3,600 solar panels on its outer hull. As well, it could only carry 600 phone calls and one black-and-white TV channel, though not much more was really needed at the time.

Telstar 1 was placed in low Earth orbit and circled the planet every two and a half hours, only in the right position to beam transmissions between Europe and the U.S. for 20 minutes each orbit. This is in contrast to contemporary communications satellites, which fly in geosynchronous orbit, staying above one spot on the Earth.

New Mobile Application Released by Twitter for Android and iOS

Twitter released new mobile apps for Android and iOS Tuesday. Main features include “expanded tweets,” better search, more fine-grained push notifications, and enhanced event support. In short, the update adds a lot more multimedia support, and more quickly delivers the information that’s truly important to you. The most interesting feature is probably beefed-up support for push notifications tied to particular accounts. So, for example, you could set up a push notification for your local news channel, a feed like @Emergency_In_SF, or any other source that you want to monitor with vigilance. The other notable upgrade is the ability to expand tweets within the app. Expanded tweets let users play videos, read article summaries and experience other rich media directly in tweets themselves. So, rather than just seeing a link to a story or a video when you tap a tweet, you’ll be able to directly see the pertinent information without leaving the app. This function is already available on the web (and mobile web) but now Twitter is adding app support too. It’s a clever way to keep people in-app, and now MLB, Etsy and Kickstarter join a growing list of partners who provide this rich content. Tuesday’s update also adds event support and better search autocomplete. The former is Twitter’s attempt to be the backchannel go-to-discussion forum during events like NASCAR, while the latter just lets you accomplish what you’d like faster than you previously could.

SPi Global Won the 2012 European Outsourcing Association Award

SPi-Global Officers

“The judges selected SPi Global as the winner due to its excellent objective, implementation and the fact that it has clearly helped so many. They also have an innovative way of contribution by gain share to the benefit of their clients, their staff and the charities they support.”

SPi Global’s CSR Program “Power to Inspire” was bestowed the highest honors among the many CSR programs of some of the best outsourcing companies in the world. SPi Global won the 2012 European Outsourcing Association (EOA) Award for Corporate Social Responsibility. The event was held June 27 at the prestigious Law Society in Central London.

The competition was tough. Other had resources that SPI Global could not match. And yet, with their simple, unique and effective approach to help the youth wherever they are in the world, Spi Global impressed the judges. Maulik, their president and CEO and their CSR champion was so proud of their achievement. “SPI Global known as a global outsourcing service provider that operates across four continents, they believe that their host communities around the world should benefit and grow along with them. They've created so much impact with the programs that they had for the children and their humble effort to make a difference was recognized. Their CSR program clearly represents the values that define them as an organization – excellence, innovation and malasakit.”

Malasakit in action

In September 2011, setting up an ambitious goal of generating 15,000 employee volunteer hours by holding simultaneous CSR programmes within 24 hours across the company’s global locations. The goal was simple –to make a difference. In March 2012, they exceeded their targets and reached 20,230 employee volunteer hours in 16 global sites across the United States, India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. More than 8,100 children benefited from 23 outreach projects which included school rehabilitation, literacy classes, computer training, leadership training, arts and sports activities, setting up of computer laboratories and mini-libraries, feeding programs, and other youth-centric activities.

Learn How to Repair Laptop Computer

How to Repair Laptop Computer

To repair laptop computer is not too easy, you have to consider several factors, and these are software and hardware. You must analyze the issue before taking any action, you must consider if the issue involves whether software of hardware. How to repair laptop computer software problem? Most laptop computer has its own recovery disk which you can use in repairing any software issue like operating system and restoring software drivers. In most cases using the recovery disk will clean install your hard drive and this simply means that it will wipe out all data that you have in the hard drive, before you decide to use the recovery disk you must backup your data before doing it.

How to repair laptop computer hardware issues? This is the most challenging part since this will involve technical knowledge, generally, to repair laptop computer hardware; you need to consult technical persons and as much as possible certified technical person. To repair laptop computer hardware will need special tools such as multi tester which you can use to measure voltage, resistance, and current. Aside from multi tester you need also to have various types of screw drivers and you must consider also the length and size of these tools, since there are several types, models, and brands of laptop computer and they have their own style and design when it comes to laptop computer body casing. 

Now, that we have provided some basic information on how to repair laptop computer, now let’s discussed also what are the advantages and disadvantages of laptop computer. Today’s generation most people desire’s to make their work easier and comfortable, that is why most people longing to acquire mobile devices like laptop computer, especially those people that are always on the move, some of these people are researchers, businessmen, students, scientist and doctors.

Computer Laptop Advantages:

Computer Laptop advantages are… power consumption is much lesser compare to a desktop computers, space saver since it require only a small space to work on. You can carry it anytime anywhere, the interface ports are accessible. You can easily share data, can easily conduct a presentation anywhere at any time, no need to have a UPS unit since it has a built in battery that supplies power in the event of power interruption or fluctuation. No need to carry additional accessories like keyboard, monitor, and mouse since the design is integrated in one unit.

Computer Laptop Disadvantages:

Computer laptop disadvantages are… because of its integrated design, computer laptop is difficult to repair, since you can’t re-place interfaces cards when it becomes defective. Upgrading a computer laptop is limited only to hard disk and memory only, since these are the only parts that are accessible and re-place able. Repairing computer laptop requires a certified technicians and this means that you have to pay much for their technical services. Price difference compare to a desktop computer is much greater and computer parts are too expensive as well.

How to prolong the life of computer laptop:

Avoid working on uneven surface like table mat, placing the laptop on top of a pillow or the likes, this can cause overheating, since usually the exhaust ventilation of a laptop is located at the bottom, and this can blocked the air from coming out. Avoid eating while working on your laptop because some of the food residue might fall in between of the keyboard and it may attract ants from coming in, and ants are greatest factor to short circuit the laptop electronics components. Avoid drinking as well while working because it may accidentally spill out the liquid on the unit and may cause short circuit. Do not bang the laptop computer cause it may damaged the hard disk and the casing as well. Maintained the exhaust ventilation clean, free from dust and any other foreign objects this way you can keep up the required temperature inside. Do not apply pressure on top of the LCD screen because this will damage you screen and it will cost you a lot in replacing this laptop computer parts.

Recommendation to computer laptop users:

As a computer laptop user, you must learned the basic technique on how to maintain and prolong the life of your computer laptop unit, you need also to learn how to gain access on the basic parts that are available for upgrading like memory and hard disk. You need also to know how to repair laptop computer even just basic only, this way you don’t need to hire certified technicians and waste some money just for basic troubleshooting.

Learn Printer Repair and Printer Preventive Maintenance

Broken Printer

Printer repair is not quite easy, this is usually done by certified technician; however, printer repair may also be done by end-user side. There are several considerations on how to conduct printer repair, the software driver problem and hardware problem.

Here are some tips on how to determined printer repair that involves software driver problem, if you are having issues like the expected characters are not printed well, blank output, characters are not aligned, data is not coming out you might think that these mentioned issues cause by hardware issues. Please do not jump in to this conclusion since it might be also cause by software driver issues. All you have to do is, before looking at the hardware issue check first the software driver or the printer application. There are times that the printer application is not configured to meet the printer hardware requirements, check also if the printer driver installed is corresponding to the actual printer make model. Check the properties of the printer since sometimes you might accidentally click the pause printing and this may cause issues like no output. These issues can be done in users end, however, if you don’t know how to resolve these issues you can ask assistance for any certified technicians.

Printer repair that involves hardware problem, you might encounter the following issues, no print data output, smudge output, line can be seen in the characters, blank or black output this is usually encounter on a laser printer. For no output issue this issue can be cause by connection between system unit and print device, check the cable that connects the system unit and print device it might be cause by a loose data cable. Smudge output issue, this is usually encounter on the DeskJet, bubble jet and laser jet printer, this is usually cause by an old cartridge and this need replacement, line issue can be cause by defective printer cartridge and this need replacement as well. Color missing issue, we all know that color printer have separate cartridges for color inks, these are black, cyan, magenta, and yellow if ever one of these color is empty it may cause missing the expected color on the printer output and you need to replace this color ink.

Printer preventive maintenance is really necessary; this may prevent any untoward issues for a printer. Normally printer preventive maintenance is usually done by certified technicians. What are being done on the printer preventive maintenance? These are usually hardware cleaning, there are several types of printer model and each model has its own procedure on how to conduct the maintenance, printer type’s models are dot matrix, LaserJet, DeskJet and bubble jet. For the dot matrix printer you need to clean the internal parts of this unit and you must put a lubricant on the moving parts of this machine, normally the shaft where on the printer head assembly is attached. LaserJet, usually printer preventive maintenance for this model are done by cleaning the internal parts of the laser printer by taking out excess particles of laser toner, and also by replacing the expired parts like maintenance kit. Maintenance kit package contains the fusing assembly, and re-placement rollers. 

For DeskJet and Bubble Jet, normally printer preventive maintenance are done with the same procedure, however, it takes time to clean these units since there are lots of parts to be clean these are the carriage assembly, printer head assembly, and ink waste bin assembly. To clean the carriage assembly you need to clean this parts using distilled water. And for the ink waste bin assembly, you need to take out the ink residue and wash this with soap and water. As I’ve said if you’re not capable of doing these you should ask assistance with the certified technicians.

How to Prevent Malicious attack or Viruses

Virus Alert

Computer viruses can be prevented at the very first level which is the user side. Today and for the near future computer internet users are growing rapidly, there are billions of users everyday browsing the internet, chatting, and using some social networking sites, with that being said, people now a days are relying all information from the internet, with out knowing that some users also are fan of making some foolishness on the internet which is spreading some viruses or sometimes gathering personal information.

Viruses can be prevented, here are some tips.

• Be sure that your operating system and other applications are licensed. In this way you can update your application at anytime with out any concern.
• Install trusted and license anti virus application, and frequently update the virus definition.
• Frequently update your operating system especially if you are using Microsoft products.
• Hide or do not share your personal information on the internet or you can limit only to those persons that you personally trusted.
• Do not open nor downloads information coming from popup messages this might contain malicious software or virus.
• Downloads information only from well known and trusted sites.
• Be sure to scan any devices such as usb storage devices or the likes before copying or transferring the content in your PC.
• Scan your PC regularly, in this way you can be sure that your PC is efficiently running.

Information above can be done on the user level, meaning you are responsible of maintaining you own personal PC. I would recommend that you should use Microsoft Security Essential I already tested this Anti Virus software for a long time and its good.

Resolving Desktop PC Video Card Issue

Video Card

There are various types of video card issues, please see below reference.

• During power on of your PC, you may hear series of beeping sounds like one long beep followed by 2 succeeding short beeps, and your screen has no display.
• Garbage display or unknown characters, and lines can be seen during power on or on the application level.
• Sometimes it freezes the application and might cause an unexpected PC restart.
• Sometimes it can cause also blue screen.
• Sometimes it can cause too much brightness or darkness as well.

How to resolve this issue:

• Unplug and open your PC and find the video card module, once found pull out the video card module and try to clean the copper edge contacts by electronic contact cleaner, if you doesn’t have this type of cleaner rubber eraser will do. Just rub the rubber eraser on the copper contact edges, once done replace the video card module in the video card slot but before doing this be sure that the slot is cleaned free from dust and any particles. Power on your PC again and test.
• There are cases that the video card has a cooling fan attached on the heat sink try to verify if the cooling fan is rotating as normal, if not try to re-placed it.

If the above procedure will not work, you need to re-place the defective video card module.

Resolving Desktop PC Memory Issues

Memory Module

Memory Issue During PC Power on:

• Once you’ve powered up your PC and you can hear a three (3) succeeding long beep sound, and it doesn’t have any display on your screen. This indicates that you have memory issues.
• There are times especially right now for the new model of PC’s sometimes it doesn’t give out any beep error message, however, you can simply identify it on the power LED indicator, commonly it flashes and instead of green color it turns into red, and it doesn’t have screen display. You can refer on your user’s manual to identify the LED flashing error codes.
• Sometimes it doesn’t give out any error code but simply, it doesn’t have any display on your screen and you will notice that there is no activity on hard disk LED indicator, but power LED remains green.

How to Resolve the Issue:

• Unplug your PC from the power outlet, open the cover of your desktop PC and locate the memory module, pull out memory module, if you have more than one memory module pull out it all, clean the copper pins of the memory module using electronic contact cleaner or if you don’t have this type of cleaner, rubber eraser will do. Clean the memory copper by rubbing the eraser on the memory copper contacts, once done, replace the memory module on the memory banks, but before that, be sure that the memory banks are free from any dust or any foreign objects. Be sure that the memory modules are well fitted on the memory bank. Turn on PC, if does resolved the issue meaning dirt causes the issue.
• If you have more than one memory module and after replacing the module on the memory bank, and if doesn’t still resolved the issue try replacing the module one by one, this is to identify which memory module is defective.
• There are times that the board doesn’t support single memory module, meaning it will work only by pair, please refer on your user manual for the memory module configuration.
• If the issue doesn’t resolve on the above procedure it may require re-placement.

Memory Issue on the Application Level:

• There are various types of indication that your memory module is in critical stage, for some reasons you might encounter blue screen while running some applications or during the OS start up. It states that “unexpected error” or “memory error xxxxxx” or sometimes your applications will not run smoothly.

How to resolve the Issue:

This is quite difficult since you have to do some trial and error testing to identify the defective module, you should have an extra memory with the same type specification. You need to pull out the memory one by one and temporarily re-place it and do some test again on the application level, until issue is resolve.

Carry All Electronics and Compusales Services Inc.

Carry All Electronics and Compusales Services Inc. A newly established computer repair center that were organized by a group of professionals, were in their expertise is in the field of electronics, electrical, and information technology. They have combined their skills to provide technical consultancy and technical support to client from small to large enterprise.

Their electronics personnel are highly trained to provide technical support for hardware. Their line of duty is to analyze, troubleshoot and repair electronics equipment such as home and industrial appliances. They also provide electrical setup from home to medium type of business.

Their information technology experts are divided into several groups they have the network, systems, and hardware technician. The hardware technicians are the one providing hardware repair for Desktop PC, Printers, UPS, POS machine and other computer accessories. Their network team are the one handling network architecture design for clients, they can setup network from small to large type of business, these includes network physical cabling, network switches and router equipment configurations such as Cisco products and others. Their systems Engineers are the one setting up servers, these includes physical setup and server configuration. They also provide building security system, such as installing of security cameras or CCTV.

They also sell various types of computers, printers, and computer accessories. They carry all brands of computers such as IBM, Acer, HP Compaq and generic brand of computers. For printers, they have Epson, Canon and HP products.

Services That They Offer:

• Electronic appliance repair services.
• Building Electrical facilities.
• Computer Repair and Maintenance.
• Networking and Server Services.
• Building security system CCTV.

 

They are committed to provide a highest standard of services to their client. For inquiries, you can visit them at 190 E-Lopez St., Jaro Iloilo City or you may contact them at this telephone number (033) 5093885. Their business hour starts at 9:00 am – 6:00 pm from Monday to Saturday.

Epson Printers Have Built-in Maintenance Processes

Epson Printer

Epson printers have built-in maintenance processes that count the number of pages for ink usage. These processes alert the user to change ink cartridges, clean the print heads, and change the waste ink pads (technical service). These automatic alerts may present a challenge to some users with a specific setup, such as a continuous ink system, refilled cartridges, or photo printing. An Epson printer can be reset in varying degrees, from activating a reset menu on the physical printer to installing utilities and resetting software on a computer. Explore a method for your model of Epson inkjet color printer.

·         Turn off your printer and unplug the USB cable and power cord.

·         Wait for two minutes and press and hold the "Paper Source," "Paper feed," and "Eject" buttons while plugging the cord into the outlet.

·         Continue to hold the buttons down and turn on the printer.

·         Count to five and release all three buttons.

·         Confirm that the display reads, "Settings" and press the down arrow button until the display reads, "Clear Counters."

·         Press the right arrow button to select the "Clear Counters" option.

·         Press the down arrow button to select "Maint Tank" and press the right arrow button to select this item.

·         Press the "Eject" or "Enter" button to save these settings.

·         Press the "Load/Eject" button to release the ink cartridges from their locked tray.

·         Open the lid for the ink compartment and lift each cartridge lock. Snap each cartridge lock closed.

·         Turn off the printer, plug the USB cable connection to the computer and turn on your printer to begin normal use.

SSC Service Utility

·         Type the following address into the address bar of your browser to download and install the SSC Service Utility: sscig.com/epsone.shtml

·         Install the utility on your computer and it will create an icon on your Windows tray (bottom task bar) for quick access.

·         Locate the SSC Service Utility icon in your tray and right-click to select "Reset Counters."

·         Select "All" from the submenu or select each cartridge color as desired.

Ink Pad Reset Utility

·         Type the following address into your browser's address bar to access the Epson ink Pad Reset Utility: epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/InkPadsForm.jsp

·         Select your model of printer from the drop-down menu, length of ownership from the drop-down menu, and complete the product information in the corresponding fields, including the serial number for your printer (information is located on the back of the printer or on the original Epson box).

·         Click the box next to the acknowledgment statement to agree to the terms and click the "Submit" button to begin downloading the utility.

·         Run the installer for the utility and click the "Next" button to proceed through the confirmation screens in the wizard.

·         Launch the Epson Ink Pad Reset Utility and select the function for "Ink monitor."

·         Set the levels to "0" by typing "0" in those fields or press the "Reset" button next to each color cartridge.

·         Click the "Update" or "Save" button and exit the utility.

Computer Repair Shop or Junk Shop

Junk Parts of Computers

Electronic gadgets are very abundant for this generation and it is anticipated to be more progressive in the next future. There are a lot of gadgets that you could choose from various categories we have cellphones, Ipad, Ipod, computers and many more. A company who produces these kind of gadgets are aiming to produce more advance technology. That is why competitions between these companies are very inflexible.

And prices for these gadgets are very affordable for now, you can buy a gadget from a very low price but the features are almost the same for the top leading brand carrier. But, have you notice that more often gadgets for now are easily to break and irreparable, there are a lot of electronic repair shops out there that could repair these kinds of gadgets but mostly they cannot point out which electronic component is specifically worn-out more often they will suggest to purchase the whole modular circuit.

Let us compare the desktop computer before and the desktop computer for now. Before, if we are going to a computer repair shop and ask assistance for a computer technician they would say that they will diagnose your computer first and will find the worn-out electronic component. And once they’ve found the defective electronic component they will just replace the specific electronic component and your computer unit could be fixed.But for now, if you are going to a computer repair shop the computer technician would easily say… lets analyze the problem first, they will just simply turn on your unit and can easily come-up for a conclusion mostly they would say… oohh these electronic circuit module is defective you need to replace the whole circuit board.

Wow! Can you believe that? Now if we are going to compare the resolution provided by before and after, the before is like you are given an option to have a lesser expense. However, for the present, it will still give you an option but it will cost you so much. And sometimes it will go to a direction that you have to junk your unit and purchase a new one. Wow!  What if you have just purchase your unit for just about more than a year?

The point here is that… yes we are aiming to become more advance in technology but buying a gadget that could easily break is not practical since you can’t enjoy it for a longer period of time since they could easily breakdown and in most cases it could not be repair anymore, so you’ll have to spend again. And if you are the owner of the computer repair shop, your shop will become a computer junk shop since you will be keeping a lot of junks computer parts.

The Magical Healing Power of Garlic

Garlic Bulb

I’ve had read an article before about the power of garlic, and I was amazed with the information that have been provided to readers. For me the information was so unbelievable, the article tells me that garlic can cure diseases especially for lung illnesses. It describes also that it can cure tuberculosis, pneumonia, hypertension, cancer and other bacterial diseases.

Actually I’d laugh with the article, since for me garlic can be use only to enhance the taste of food, as spices, seasoning but not to cure illnesses. Article also tells that garlic can improve immune system and can lower cholesterol level and can prevent cancer. Article also indicated that garlic can be use as herbal medicine and an alternative for the present drug that we have right now that can be bought from pharmaceutical companies.

However, one day I’ve suffered from colds and flu and I’ve visited my doctor to consult about my illness, and it was diagnosed that I have pneumonia. The doctor gave me prescription and a lot of medicine that need to take-in, in order to cure my illness. I tried to look for the prescribe medicine and I was so amazed since it will cost me a lot if I’m going to buy all those medicines.

I’ve said to myself “God if there are only medicines that are for free”. Then I remember the article that I’ve read before about the magical power of garlic. Then I’ve said to myself “why not! I will experiment” I reviewed the procedures that were indicated on the article and I saw a simple procedure that I know it is very simple to prepare.

I’ve taken 4 cloves from the garlic bulb and smash it using a knife then after smashing it, I cut it into smaller pieces then after that I put it in a cup and fill the cup with boiling water. I’ve waited for a couple of minutes then after that I tried to taste it, at first the smell was very stinky but I ignore it, then I tried to sip and the taste is not bad. So I continue to drink until I consumed everything inside the cup but of course the garlic was not included it just only the juice.

After a couple of hours I fell great it seems that my lung air passage were unblocked and every time I cough the phlegm goes out and my fever was gone as well. So what I did… I’ve taken this herbal treatment for two weeks I prepared this kind of stuff twice a day one in the morning and one in the evening before going to bed. And after two weeks my illness was gone I don’t know what to say but I think it was magical and I proved that the article was true.

To my readers I’m not saying that you should take this as well but base on my experience I can justify that the magical power of garlic is true. Now it’s up to you if you conduct an experiment also to yourself, just have faith.

Have You Known The Disadvantages in Working in a Call Center?

Call Center Agents

Finding a job now a day is very stiff especially if you are aiming to work on what you have achieved in profession. There are graduates in nursing, engineering, teaching profession and other courses that they think they can use it once they are graduated. However, there are only few companies and establishment, and can’t accommodate these huge number of graduate students. The only alternative for this problem is that, these graduate students will intend to apply in a Mall as customer service in a grocery department. Some may be going to apply in a Call Center Company as a call center agent.

The very popular option right now is to work in a call center company as a Customer Service Representative or CSR. There are lots of Call Center Companies right now and this is the best alternative for those graduate students that are currently longing for a job. Working in a call center is very fun and salary rate is much higher compared to other establishment. You are getting paid even if you are under training and English language training is at high standard especially for those handling international accounts.

But… have you known the disadvantages in working in a call center? Especially for those operating in 24x7 operations? Well… to give you some tips working in this environment is not very good in health you can acquire various illnesses such as stress, pneumonia, anemia, tuberculosis and worst is Aids or HIV. The most call center agents that could possibly acquires these diseases are those working at night since there immune system becomes low because of stress. And once their resistance becomes low they could easily catch viruses and bacteria, and even one person is suffering from one of the mentioned sickness he or she could easily spread this out to others since they are working only in a close environment.

According to health department, cases of HIV infected persons are getting worst and according to their findings that most of it came from a call center company. According to them that it is most likely that person from this institution are not practicing safe sex since they think that persons work in these companies are safe since most of the employee here have undergone pre-medical test and they were not be employed once they have illnesses. 

Now, to avoid such illnesses I would suggest that if you intend to work in this institution you should be health conscious do not abuse yourself especially if you are working at night. Ensure that after your shift you should get rest, sleep at least 6 hours it should be a deep sleep this is to rebuild your resistance and most of all take multivitamins, a healthy diet and a yearly medical check-up.

Dengue Mosquitoes are Considered as One of the Most Dangerous Insects in the Philippines

Dengue Mosquito

Its rainy season again in the Philippines and people are now worried about the possible diseases that may incur during this period. This is the breeding time of mosquitoes and for a short period of time their number grows rapidly. However, the main concern of the Filipino people is the brisk growth of dengue mosquito’s carriers.

Dengue mosquitoes are considered as one of the most dangerous insects in the Philippines, since for several years ago thousands of Filipino people died unguarded with this disease and worst of all, majorities of the counts are children. Until now there is no medication discovered for this illness the only thing that they can do to fight against this disease is to prevent it.

To prevent from being victimized by this dengue mosquito is to clean our surroundings, ensure that there are no things or areas that can be use as a breeding place by these killer mosquitoes. Always take vitamin C to strengthen your body resistance, take a healthy diet, exercise and as much as possible avoid going to humid areas. There are mosquito’s repellent that can be use to avoid mosquitoes from biting your skin, drink plenty of water every day to keep yourself hydrated. If you have fever that last for about 2 to 3 days and temperature of nearly 38 to 40 degrees on and off I suggest that you should seek Doctor’s attention.

My child was also a victim, and he battled for this disease for more than two weeks in the hospital. I was really upset during that time since I have seen a lot of young and adult people inside the hospital struggling for their lives. There are no rooms available since patients with dengue disease are so many and hospitals can no longer accommodate all these patients, what they did is to provide additional beds along the alley just to accommodate these excess patients.

My son situation was very critical during that time since he was suffering already a stage two to three dengue, he was undergone blood transfusion for several times, and the worst thing was he cried for many times since every day blood samples are taken from him for laboratory testing and he was traumatize with it since needle hurts him very often. With prayers and God’s help he was able to survive this disease.

One of the Philippine agencies Department of Health (DOH) is now making moves to help people from defending their selves and how to fight against dengue; advisories were now disseminated to public. We should be conscious of this and we should cooperate proactively and religiously, this is for the good of our children. Hoping that those disastrous years will not be experience again for this year and to the near future. Aside from that, I wish that they can discover a cure for this disease so that people have no much worry about this.

Pacquiao-Bradley Fight will be reviewed by NSAC

Keith Kizer Executive Director of Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) will be reviewing the recorded video of the fight between Manny Paquiao and Timothy Bradley, after judges awarded Bradley a split decision victory. Most viewers are unhappy with the result.

Keith said that he will be reviewing the video together with the ring judges Duane Ford, Jerry Roth and C.J. Ross. Kizer Said… "I've talked with all three judges after the bout, as well as today. We're going to review the tape of the bout because there was so much controversy and because there was so much disagreement with the decision”. He wanted also that judges must explain how they came up with their scoring. Roth scored the bout 115-113 in favor to Pacquiao while Ford and Ross scored the bout 115-113 in favor to Bradley.

"I want them to review it with me for my own instruction. So I'm going to have them come in person and we will watch it. I expect these judges will show that they used correct scoring criteria and can verbalize their decision-making, as they have able to do in the past," said Kizer. More details on this link Pacquiao vs Bradley.