Sunday, June 15, 2014

All About The DNS Domain Name System

We all know that in the world of domain names today, the presence of the DNS domain name system is very much significant. It is interesting to know that the acronym DNS actually stands for Domain Name SystemServiceServer. However, I will be using the term DNS domain name system here to provide you with a clear knowledge about the meaning of this particular thing.The DNS domain name system is actually a powerful tool that contributes a great part in the domain name process. It is often described as an internet service that translates or transforms the domain names into an IP or Internet Protocol address.Aside from knowing such basic function of the DNS domain name system, it is also interesting to learn that a basic possession of the DNS domain name system is caching. This property takes place in situations when a server welcomes information about a mapping, it caches that information. Therefore, with such function, a later question for similar mapping can use the cached output, and will not result to additional questions to other servers. And generally, the DNS domain name system applies the caching to optimize the cost of the search. But how does the DNS domain name system caching works?In terms of caching, it is very nice to know that every server has a cache for currently applied names along with records of where the mapping data for a particular name was taken. So when a particular client is asking the server to determine a certain domain name, the DNS domain name system then does check if it has the power for a domain name, and if it does, the system doesn’t need to cache the information. However, if it has no authority for a domain name, the DNS domain name system then checks its cache whether the domain name has been resolved currently, and if yes, the DNS domain name system reports the caching data to its clients.There are some instances that the DNS domain name system cache can be examined when the system cached the data once, but didn’t adjust it.  Due to the reason that the information about a certain domain name can be changed, the server may have inaccurate data in its caching table.  There is a certain value known as the Time to Live or known as TTL which is applied when to age the information. So whenever an authority responds to a request for a domain name, it then involves a Time to Live value in the answer which indicates how long it assures the binding to linger.     For help on any Computer Repair related issues contact us immediately, we can help.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

A Better Tweeter in Twitter

Tweeters from all over the world want to learn how to become a better tweeter in Twitter. How will you do this? Firstly, you need to learn how to ‘re-tweet’. You can definitely improve your standing in Twitter if you re-tweet. When one of your followers posts an appealing article, you can re-tweet it. If you do this, most of your followers will also do the same. Just imagine all your followers re-tweeting. When they add your username to their updates, you will be exposed to many users. Be careful in re-tweeting because you might not be posting interesting or helpful topics. Make sure that you re-tweet only the good ones. How can you re-tweet? You need to copy the original tweet and write the prefix RT together with the name of the originator. Many users use Twitter to post tweets that no one is interested about. Who cares about what you ate for dinner or what you did last night. Perhaps your closest friends will appreciate that but what about the rest of the social community? It would be better if you send out informative tweets, no nonsense. By doing so, people will think of you differently. They will know and feel that you care one way or another. If you’re addressing your tweets to one person, try to indicate it so that others will know who you are referring to. Send replies often. Talking all day long is possible through Twitter. If you want to talk, you’d better sign up to this social site. Followers like a person who knows how to listen. You will probably find yourself laughing at dumb tweets but you must restrain yourself. Twitter is an application that allows people to communicate; so matter how funny some tweets sound, try to appreciate them and reply courteously. Most of Twitter users want to be heard on the web and if they find individuals who know how to listen, they are more interested in making friends. In order to tweet better, you must be proactive. Find some neat articles and helpful info online; when you find one, post it. Some might re-tweet it or you can find other users that are interested in meeting you. You don’t need to say something all the time. Try to be careful in using your automatic messages and updates because you might be pestering others with uninteresting info. You can also try using hashtags. The keywords are preceded by # and in the past months, hashtags are really hot. Use the tool Twitpic to upload pictures to your profile page. Try to upload as many pictures as you can but choose your pics well. Your pictures can tell a lot about you and other users will appreciate. Through the pics, your followers can get to know you better. According to expert tweeters, pictures can tell a lot about you as compared to the posts to send. Follow these tips and be a better tweeter. Why not? You have nothing to lose. If you’re in new in Twitter, these tips can be very helpful. Don’t waste time anymore. Share neat stuff to your followers and your friends. Find interesting information or perhaps post promotional materials.It’s up to you to use Twitter to the fullest. The site offers endless possibilities. Take advantage of them and have a great Twitter experience.     For help on any Computer Repair related issues contact us immediately, we can help.
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Paying For ISP Internet Access

Choosing ISP services can be real tricky and the rule of thumb is to pay for those services that you only need. Instead of plunking down change for all the bells and whistles. The typical small business web-site, four to seven pages, could choose a virtual hosting service with multiple email addresses, cgi-bin access and a T3 connection from the Internet for £19 to £27 per month.Most small businesses pick the managed server hosting packages which could range from £3.95 a month to £20 a month. As stated before, these hosting packages have all the administrative support that you need and all you have to worry about is the development of your web-site. You are given an FTP client to load your site to the internet.Socket Security Certificates cost extra for secure transactions of the financial type through your web page and you expect to pay at least £40 to £80 per month. The setup fees can be expensive and cost as much as £55, and sometimes more if you order special features. Large companies and high volume web sites pay more for certain types of services.Shop around and get the best deal for your business. You can get web hosting through the internet from anywhere but you have to really study the ISP’s and see what they offer. A big concern in choosing an ISP should be the response time in case a server goes down. How does the server respond during high traffic times on the server? You would have to ask the ISP representative what their percentage ranking is as far as server downtime. You can find some of these rankings on the internet by going to cnet.com or use the Google search engine to rate the top ten ISP providers that have the best percentage of what the industry calls, “up” time according to their servers.    For help on any Computer Repair related issues contact us immediately, we can help.
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Thursday, April 03, 2014

Word Of Mouth Marketing Stemming From Email Marketing

Sometimes the benefits of email marketing are quite different than anticipated. Most Internet marketers understand the basic concept of email marketing which is to email promotional materials to a large group of Internet users to promote an interest in your products or services. This concept is easy for many to understand but sometimes there are added benefits to email marketing. This article will discuss the basics of email marketing and will also explain how sometimes email marketing can be much further reaching than planned. This additional reach can be either a positive or a negative depending on the quality of the original emails and the reactions of the original recipients.Email marketing is a very simple concept which is also extremely cost effective. The general idea behind email marketing is that an email is sent to an email distribution list and these emails are intended to create an interest in the products or services offered by the originator of the email. In theory this concept could not be simpler but email marketing can get significantly more complicated. One of the biggest complicating factors is the potential for the emails used in the marketing campaign to be viewed as spam by either the recipient of the email or the spam filter provided by the Internet service provider. This potential alone creates a major complication because Internet marketers have to make a significant effort to assure their messages are not trapped by a spam filter or immediately deleted by the recipients for appearing to be spam.Once the email messages get through to the recipient, they have a small window of opportunity to make a positive impression on the recipients and influence him to make a purchase or at least visit the business owner’s website. Providing quality content, keeping advertising subtle and at a minimum and providing a clear call to action are all factors which can help to get the message across and entice the potential customer to make a purchase or at least visit the website to research the products and services a little bit more. As previously stated the goal of an email marketing campaign is to convince the email recipient to either make a purchase or visit the website to obtain more information. When an email recipient performs either one of these actions, it is considered a huge success. However, thanks to the power of the forward button email marketing can actually be much more successful than even the business owner intended. The great aspect of email marketing is that when the email recipients receive an email which they think is worthwhile they are likely to make a purchase and may also forward the information onto a friend or family member they think might be interested in this information as well. The ability to forward email messages has become comparable satisfied customers using word of mouth to tout the quality of the products or services they received. However, the ability to forward a worthwhile email message is exponentially more effective than using word of mouth to spread the word. With just a few clicks of the mouse, the original email recipient can forward the message to several of his friends at once. This can result in significantly better results than the business owner had originally intended with no additional effort on behalf of the business owners.     For help on any Computer Repair related issues contact us immediately, we can help.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Accessorizing Computers

What Comes Out of the Box is a Really Just a Starter KitYesterday, we spent about three hours trying to convince a client of ours that brand new computers just don't come equipped with the all things that most computers need in a PC. We tried to convince him that a fully functional computer is one that is personalized with specially selected hardware and software accessories - and that the computer purchased at the store doesn't come with these things. Unfortunately, all of our convincing was to our avail. Our client insisted that he should never need more than what came with his boxed product and that we were just trying "bilk" more money out of him.As computer consultants, it's our job and mission to make sure our clients are 100% satisfied when they walk out our offices. But our job is unnecessarily made harder when people don't take the time to learn about computer accessories and familiarize themselves with the limitations of store-bought computers. Hopefully by the time you finish reading this article, you'll understand the lesson that we were trying to teach our client: "What comes out of the box is really just a starter kit."The typical computer package comes with a CPU unit, keyboard, mouse, and speaker set. That may be just fine for some, but most people require more than that especially in today's "connected" society. Today's users require full multimedia capabilities, a wide range of graphics tools, and accommodations for the various portables we now enjoy. These extras aren't included with "what comes out of the box," and the only way to get them is to accessorize.To illustrate the importance of accessorizing, we like to use the "plain dough" analogy. Let's say that a brand new computer is a batch of plain dough - waiting to be flavored and baked into something useful. If we want to use this dough to make a delicious batch of chocolate chip cookies, we would need to "accessorize" this dough with chocolate chips and a little brown sugar. If we want to use this dough into in a warm loaf of sesame seed bread on the other hand, we'd need to "accessorize" the dough with yeast and sesame seeds.Like "plain dough," the brand new computer isn't very useful by itself. It needs accessorizing.Depending on what's needed, accessorizing doesn't need to be expensive.  In fact, you can get away with paying a minimal amount for extra software and hardware if these accessories are for children. It's when these accessories are work requirements or when they're needed to produce works of quality for any other reason that they can become rather expensive. And this expense applies to microphones, digital cameras, PDAs, scanners, video cams, and more.Regardless of cost, it's important to understand that accessories can become "necessities," and that the best time to get them is the moment you buy a new computer. Waiting too long to accessorize can cause more problems than necessary because while you wait, manufacturers continuously develop new technologies - technologies that your computer won't be able to accommodate in the future. Once you're ready to accessorize, the new products on the market are too advanced for your computer and they just won't work. This is a typical problem experienced by those who want to use hardware designed for Windows Vista on a Windows XP or Windows 2000 machine.    For help on any Computer Repair related issues contact us immediately, we can help.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

What Anti-Virus Software Consists Of

Anti-Virus software consists of programs on your computer that make an attempt to identify and keep computer viruses off your computer.The anti-virus software will most likely use a couple of different techniques to make sure the viruses stay off your computer. The software will start to scan all your files you have saved so that it can search for known viruses that will match definitions in a dictionary made only to detect a virus.Having anti-virus software will protect your computer from any virus an unknown person could give you. The software will identify suspicious behavior from any computer program that might show signs of infection.These analysis may also include data captures,port monitoring and other methods that you may or may not be familiar with.Almost all commercial anti-virus software use both of the following approaches,with an emphasis on the virus dictionary approach.The approaches are first the dictionary approach second suspicious behavior third other approaches.In case your wondering if we are talking about your computer or your children,we are definitely describing your computer although you may get a little laugh while reading this and thinking this computer is as bad as my children can be sometimes. At least for our computer we can get an anti-virus which will help solve a lot of the problems that can occur when you have a computer. I have talked about the dictionary approach,now let me explain what this is.If there is a piece of code in your file matches any virus identified in the dictionary,then the anti-virus software can take one of the following options.It will first attempt to repair the file by removing the virus itself from the file.Next it can quarantine the file,such that the file remains inaccessible to other programs so that it's virus can no longer spread.Anti virus software can be very expensive so please make sure that you shop around to make sure that you get the best deal that there is available to you. It is important to keep your computer functioning properly over time and by using this type of software you can easily do so, without so many threats occurring each time that you are on the internet trying to enjoy your time. Third it will delete the file that is infected.So you can achieve the success consistently for the medium to long term,the virus dictionary approach does require periodic generally online downloads of updated virus dictionary entries.You should also know that a system administrator can typically schedule the anti-virus software to examine or scan all the files on your computers hard disk drive,and it can do this all on a regular basis.Although the dictionary approach can effectively contain virus outbreaks in the circumstances,virus authors have always tried to stay a step ahead of such software by writing oligomorphic,polymorphic and most recently the metamorphic.Use your anti-virus at least two or 3 times a week so your computer can be protected now and future use.    For help on any Computer Repair related issues contact us immediately, we can help.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Video Players For Your Website

When you have a website, it is very easy to want to have a place to showcase your web videos.  Whether you have videos that further explain your products and services, or if you just want to add funny videos of you and your friends, there is one thing that you must have on your website.  This one thing is a web video player, and you might be surprised that there are many different types of video players that you can choose from.  However, even though there are many different types of video players, which one is perfect for your website?  The answer to this depends on the type of videos that you are playing, and also how you want to play them. When you are going to add video to your website, you must first know what format you want your videos to be in.  There are three main video players, all of which come with their own unique format.  These three video players are QuickTime, Real Video and Windows Media.  All three of these video players are perfect for many different types of uses, and they all come with their own specifications.  However, no matter what type of video player you install on your website, you need to make sure that you have the most current version of that player.This is incredibly important because since technology is ever-evolving, so are the various video players you can use.  Thus, in order to make sure that your video player will work properly with all types of browsers and Internet users, you must have the updated version of any video player. However, if you want to use a different type of video player, besides the three mentioned above there are several options that you can choose from.  Many people do not want to go through the trouble of having to install and run a video player by hand.  This is why the entire process is made easier by uploading your video to YouTube or Google Video and then embedding the video into your website.  While this may not give the upmost professionalism that you may require, it is extremely easy and it provides you with an added benefit.As a webmaster, you want to gain as much traffic to your website as possible.  One great way of doing this is through web videos; however, if you put a video solely on your website, it is possible that no one will see this video unless they discover your site.  This may not be a concern if you already have a loyal viewership to your website, if you do not, than you may want to explore posting your videos on YouTube, or similar sites.  All of these types of sites allow you to copy the URL to the video, and actually embed the video onto your website.By doing this, you will have the video on your site, but it is also searchable through YouTube.  Thus, if your video becomes popular on YouTube, you will increase the traffic to your website.  By doing this, it is a great way to maximize your time and productivity.    For help on any Computer Repair related issues contact us immediately, we can help.
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