The Googolbyte is 10 to the 100 Power

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by: James A. Warholic

Wow! What a change is in store for us in the near future.

I always say that time seems to be moving faster but technology change is moving faster than the speed of light.

  1. They say that technology doubles every eighteen months – OLD FACT.
  2. Turn the search engine page. New search fact, it is impossible to keep up.

Overnight it seems like we have gone from computers that were super expensive to where now anyone can afford one. Prices on hardware components have provided a interesting situation. It seems as though every time an engineer thinks we have reached the limits of making the electronics smaller, faster, or more powerful, is blown out the door by the next new round of technology improvements.

With components such as memory and hard drives plus new super drives the information that can be stored will reach beyond what we can imagine. I remember when I thought 20 megabytes was a lot of memory. Now gigabytes and terabytes for hard drives are common place.

“Apollo, we have lift off!” The Petabyte disk drives. This size equals one million times a gigabyte or 1015 or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. Those numbers are so large in fact that they are hard to comprehend exactly how large that is. Some naysayers have said this is a long way off, well you better look again.

So how is this going to help you?

First off, take a look at Google. They have blasted off on their email service that is out of this world. I have been using it for some time now and I do not know what I would do with out it. I never ever, never ever, have to throw any emails away. I can always get to any email anywhere in the world.

Their anniversary gift to the world is to expand the storage capabilities beyond what anyone can imagine. On a previous April Fool’s day the naysayers were saying that it was an April Fool’s joke from Google to offer one gigabyte of email. Things certainly have changed since then. Well, I think we are blasting off and going to the moon. Next stop and beyond is the:

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P2P What? Peer to Peer Computer Programs

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Some of you know what P2P means but not everyone knows the tremendous online business applications for this web app.

First off take a look at the meaning. P2P stands for peer-to-peer. The most well know of these are involved in the online file sharing of music. In laymans terms it involves the ability of one computer sharing or transferring of information from one to the other. Transferring of information can be over the Internet or within, on an “Intranet” (internal server). It can involve any number of computers or login to a central server where a database of info is stored. In the true sense of peer-to-peer no one computer is the host client or server. Peer-to-peer allows all computers to operate as both.

A simple form of peer-to-peer that is used by the “Personal Data Assistant” group is when you perform a sync operation. Syncing a PDA to a computer involves the transfer of info from one to the other. In this example the computer or the PDA is updated and synced with the same info.

Other technology applications for this would involve online storage of information, backups of your computer system online, or the sharing of important files with a business partner or friend without having to email it to them. Peer-to-peer networks can be set up in a secure environment where only the person with an identification password and authorization would have access to the files.

Imagine, just being able to place a file in a folder on your desktop and have it show up on your associates computer on the other end without having to wait. Or, being able to have a backup that is updated immediately with no effort on the users part. Imagine how easy this would make it for doing work any place any time. Well, that is a reality today.

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What Is Podcasting?

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Podcast the Web Broadcast

In my book, technology is the mother of invention and it sure is inventing new words to go along with the products created.

One of those invented words is podcasting.
Podcasting and Podcasts are from Apple iPod and broadcasting words. By now, everyone knows the iPod is a small device that can fit in your shirt pocket and stores MP3 songs or audio files. These files can be played back any place any time. Podcasting continues to evolve from a form of free speech to businesses using podcasts for marketing strategies. There are even online directories with broadcasts of everything from sports information, computers, science, technology, and more.

You do not need to have an iPod device in order to use this. All that is needed is a computer and an Internet connection. There are free program readers that will allow you to subscribe to any broadcast online. When a subscribed to show is broadcasted the program can be set up to notify you and download the MP3 file to your computer. To sample any of these files simply do a search for podcasts or podcasting and listen to the files before your subscribe.

Much the same way blogs have changed the face of the Internet the podcasts could do the same. Anyone can set one up. All that is required is a computer and a microphone.

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Hooked on Internet Speed

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by: James A. Warholic

Once you get high speed hook-up there is no turning back!

If you have never tried cable or DSL (digital subscriber line) you have no idea what you are missing. Maybe that is good!

I have been using a digital cable high speed connection for years now and I do not know what I would do without it. Extensive time is spent online, researching projects, building and maintaining websites, uploading pictures and multimedia files to websites, downloading important documents from customers, FTP uploads and downloads, and downloading software updates.

With the number of software updates that occur weekly it would take forever on a dialup connection to download the patches.

Sometimes I am reminded of how long things took before when a website takes a long time to load or when a website goes down and the feeling of frustration that sets in when trying to access it.

Speed seems to be increasing. I just heard that a cable high speed ISP is up around 4 megabits per second. These speeds were unheard of just five or ten years ago for the average consumer.

With speed increases comes advanced online applications, games, news delivery, and entertainment apps.

People are spending more time on the Internet for all forms of information. Information delivery systems such as RSS and Atom feeds for blogs and websites are being used by the average person. High speed Internet applications are involved with cell phones and PDA technology for messaging, emails, and photos. Whole cities are being setup for wireless high-speed access for not only the police and fire departments but for the citizens themselves. WiFi Hot Spots are at various Starbucks and even McDonalds has wireless at some of their locations. Cameras are linked into the Internet system at intersections and highway overpasses to monitor red light violations and traffic flow.

Yes, it is truly amazing at the speed at which the Internet has affected are lives.

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I Must be Dreaming – Thoughts on my Computer

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Wow, What a Screen Saver!
by: James A. Warholic, Professional Web Services

I feel like I am in control central. Here I sit with my large screen iMac in the middle of my desk with two other monitors, one on the right and one on the left.

While working on the other PC, I was just finishing up a project when this beautiful hidden island and beach setting floated onto the iMac screen. The Apple has built in screen savers that are simply beautiful. The way they handle the graphics just captures the beauty of the pictures in such away to create the sense that a person is there.

I am sure there are other screen savers to download but what they give you is sufficient enough for me.

As I dive in more to the OS X software I am discovering new things everyday. I have been trying out different browsers with the iMac. Apple supplies a browser called Safari. Safari is very similar to the Mozilla’s Firefox browser. They have the abilities to have tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing provides a means to open multiple tabs with-in the same window. This makes it easy to go back and forth between many websites when comparing or shopping online. Just installed another browser, Camino for the Apple OS X system.

Another day tomorrow. I need to go back and dream a little more.

Share your Apple iMac thoughts.

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Internet Marketing Media Advertising vs Other Advertising

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The Remarkable Internet and Your Marketing Strategies

The New Web World
By: Jim Warholic

Internet Marketing and SEO ServicesOur world is changing at a remarkable rate. Things are moving at light speed when it comes to information and how consumers and businesses obtain information. The key to this is the Internet and it is expanding on an exponential marketing curve. The Internet is a prime target for B2b and B2c advertisers to understand and place their marketing and advertising investment dollars in the best place possible.

We have a new generation of people growing up in which the Internet has a deep penetration. Here are some amazing U.S. facts that go back a number of years: 83.4% of males, 75.2% females 18-24 have Internet access. These figures do not drop below the 50% marks until the 55-64 age group for females. This group has males at 52% and females at 46% net access. The 65+ age group has a drop precipitously.

Here is an interesting study? in which a national survey was conducted for 1,235 respondents. The age groups represented the following numbers: 410 18-24 years, 411 25-34 years, and 414 35-54 years. 50-50 ratio male to female. The Socio-economic status consisted of middle – 55%, high 14%, and low 31%. There were a number of questions doing comparisons to the different media types.

The types of media presented were Internet, TV, books, radio, newspapers, videos/DVDs, videos/computer games, and magazines. The Internet generally out ranked any other form of media as a preferred choice for the respondents. The Internet (NOT email, IM, chat) and TV were the most frequently used media. Additionally, the Internet usage is growing as a percentage of time spent for the respondents, with 47% stating they spend more time online now then they did a year before. The highest age group was the 18-24 years at 52%. The next closest media was watching videos/DVDs in which 24% stated they spend more time now. Watching TV ranked only at 17% of increased time spent compared to a year ago.

Some of the attitudes were: 74% use the Internet for entertainment, 73% stated it helps them keep up with topics they are interested in, 73% felt it was an important part of their day, 65% thought it provided useful info about products and services, 50% thought it was an important way to relax. TV ranked high for entertainment and relaxation at 86% and 65% respectively. The Internet and TV were considered the two highest sources for news at 41% each with TV edging out the Internet for trusted news, 45% to 43%.

The attitudes across all age groups were very similar except in the area of newspapers. The 35-54 years group trusted news in newspapers only at 35% while the 18-24 years group trust was at 50%. The interesting thing was that reading a newspaper was an important part of the day at 38% for the older age group (35-54) while the younger group (18-24) was only at 17%. This goes to show while the younger group trusts the news in newspapers they simply do not read it. Magazines showed the least differences by age. Only 10% thought it was an important part of their day and only 6% thought it was the most important source of news.

When comparing the Internet media to other forms of offline media in head-to-head comparison the findings are very high. 76% found online information better about products compared to finding it in magazines. 72% finding information about music online was better compared to magazines. Looking at photos was at 50% about the same as a magazine. 56% thought that reading a story online was about the same as reading a story in a newspaper. These findings were true for all age groups.

The Internet predominates the market place for information and fun. The question was asked which medium would you use first if you wanted to… find information on a product, computers or other technology products, hobbies and interests, favorite music/recording artists, PC/video games info, latest stock quotes or financial information, entertainment information (movies, concerts, TV, events), and have fun. Product information was at the top of the list at an amazing 96% would go to the Internet first. All other categories was on average around 85% would go online first to obtain the info. All other forms of media for information could not even get close to that combined. Fun ranked at 59% while TV was second at 30%. Newspapers, magazines, and radio ranked a distant third, fourth, and fifth.

As you can see the Internet is a prime source for spending your advertising dollars and obtaining the highest return on investment. Internet marketing needs to occur on a number of fronts. A key to this is for businesses to leverage their online presence with a website that provides quality information. Information is king. The number of pages being placed on the web is growing at an astounding rate. What is going to set one website apart from the thousands of others with-in a certain market place?

For more information on the overall B2B and B2C Internet marketing picture take a look at the information on our Web site. Our marketing and advertising resources page has comparisons and helpful eBusiness links. For an excellent overview of what is involved in the whole realm of Internet marketing, with an understanding of what business is facing in the online market place today, explore our site.

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Source (may be out of print): http://www.online-publishers.org/pdf/opa_generational_study_sep04.pdf

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If you want to get a little more creative, a graphic ad can be displayed as well, on content sites.

My suggestion, is before spending any money on books or information help guides; is take the time to read a little bit from the Google Adwords link. All the information you need is right there. Google has free tools to track conversions plus videos are provided to really make it simple.

Every business should consider using this advertising outlet to reach new customers. Be aware, it is important to consider a few other items when spending online advertising dollars. If you want a higher return on investment, considerations for having quality website landing pages can not be over stressed; which will result in better customer conversions. Professional Web Services can help prepare your website for to increase your customer conversions. Also, if you do need help with the online advertising campaigns, we can manage an Ad campaign or multiple campaigns for you and make sure your advertising dollars are properly invested in the right keyword terms and markets for your business.

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What a Machine!

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I took the plunge. The iMac G5.

For weeks if not months I have been visiting a couple of different Apple stores in California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, looking at all the new toys. I was in need of another computer and fell in love with the new Apples.

I started out many moons ago on the old “SE”. The “SE” machine had a whopping 20 meg. hard drive and a grayscale display monitor. Then I graduated to the Power PC6100. Wow, I had color! Then many years rolled by in “computer years” that is, and customers were getting all these new Microsoft Windows machines. I thought it would probably be a good idea for me to learn about these. So I did my investigative market research and found a PC at one of the malls. All of a sudden it seemed as though the whole world was getting on the bandwagon.

As timed rolled on, family members wanted computers. I was not about to pay what I felt was a huge markup on the computers at the various outlets, so I dove into learning about the insides of PCs and built one. Then I needed a Linux system and built another PC. A short while later it was time for another family member to have one and pulling the same rabbit out of the hat again, I went down to the local Fry’s and looked at all the motherboards and picked what I felt would be the best investment. In addition I picked up a hard drive, memory, CD, DVD player, and a monitor. This one had a little hitch though. The motherboard would not boot. No problem though, just a little time and patience. Took the board back and got another. This time it booted up like a champ.

Now I am coming round, full circle. I had really loved the Mac when I first had them, but because of time moving on, I really lost touch with the machine I loved.

A friend had recently purchased a PowerBook and had been a fan of Apple for as long as Apple has been around. He is an older gentleman that really took to the Mac. As I had been comparing the differences between the PowerBook vs the PC, I was realizing what a wonderful difference existed between the two. I discovered there was a whole other world that I was missing.

So, I took the leap. When I went into the Apple store, and I had intended to purchase the Mini; which is really a neat little machine, but I needed more horsepower, and most importantly I needed a larger display with more real estate desktop space. I could have purchased the Mac mini with a large external display, but by the time I would have added the external display, I could get a better, more powerful machine with the Apple iMac G5 with a 20 inch wide screen display that is simply gorgeous. I picked up the high end model, with Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse, 512 meg. of memory, 160 GB hard drive, and the Slot-load SuperDrive. With just a power plug and hooking up a network cable from my router, I was in fat Apple city.

When I turned it on, it went through its boot up process and Wow! Once again I found the machine I love.

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What a Techno World we Live in!

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Technology is changing faster than anyone can stay up with it.
by: James A. Warholic

I remember just like it was yesterday when the first hand held calculators came out into the market place. They were big and bulky with big red LEDs and the batteries would only last for a short time. They only had a rudimentary amount of functions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

The first one I ever saw was when my sister, a teacher, bought one for what I think was a couple of hundred dollars. I recall the family all getting excited about this technology and wondering where it would lead. We all wanted to try it out. Then with in another year or so the next wave of new and improved calculators were seen in the marketplace. These were the scientific calculators that had more functions but a lot more expensive. It was a long time before I actually saw one of these that someone had purchased.

As I recall, it was a couple of years latter that my Dad had purchased a basic one.

During those early years of the calculators, school kids were still being taught to use slide rules. In fact during that time it was forbidden to even have a calculator at school. The teachers said that students needed to do the higher math functions on paper plus use slide rules.

Now, look at us today. With the advent of high speed throughput heat staking machines (equipment used in assembly process), the manufacturing processes and costs have been reduced dramatically. How times change. Teachers are asking students to go out and purchase scientific calculators for their math assignments and for use in class. The cost of these calculators have dropped in price to just about to the point where anyone can afford it. Not only are they less expensive but their computing power is on the magnitude greater then what a computer could do twenty years ago. Likewise, computers today have more computing power than forty years ago.

Kids today do not have a clue what it is like not to have calculators. Most in the United States have access to computers either at home or at school.

Yep, technology is a changing… And it is pushing and pulling us along.

In light of the Internet, where will we be in another five or ten years?

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Gmail E-mail Thoughts

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Gmail Thoughts…

My Gmail Office Assistant

My opinion about the new Gmail without even trying it is it will be a great office assistant. For all those out there that are worried about the privacy issue, does anyone really believe that some sort of sampling of email is not going on at all of the big providers of email. Think about it… With all the security issues at stake in our country, our phones are probably monitored as well, and even the faxes that come through. If anyone wants to truly be private on their email then they would need to encrypt it.

Google is not holding a gun to anyone’s head and saying they have to use it. If you do not want to use it, don’t. I personally believe that the privacy issues will die down as people really start thinking about this. The only ones that really need to worry about this are Yahoo and Microsoft. Both of these companies do things 180 degrees different than Google. Google has shown over the years that they have provided great service at no cost what so ever to the searcher. Gmail service is going to be a great Win win win situation for all.

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