วันอังคารที่ 3 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2550

How To Setup VOIP Phones Throughout Your Home

How To Setup VOIP Phones Throughout Your Home
By : Jon Arnold

We are creatures of habit, and once we get used to doing things a certain way, it really is difficult to change. For some people, this also applies to implementing home VOIP service in their home. Unlike traditional phones, where your home may already be wired with a phone jack in the wall in each and every room, your home is probably not wired in the same way for VOIP. But you can still implement VOIP throughout your home, and there are multiple ways to accomplish this.

Let's look at the component parts of your VOIP system. Once you decide which VOIP provider to use, you will get a VOIP adapter box, also known as an ATA box. This box is about the size of a deck of cards and is the "smarts" behind the VOIP. One cable from this ATA box plugs into a spare jack on your high-speed Internet router, and your standard RJ-11 jack from your regular phone plugs into the other end of the ATA box.

Ok, some of you are saying you have a problem already, since your high-speed Internet connection modem only has ONE jack on it, and that is where you plug your computer in so you can get online. Yes, this is a problem but not a huge one. You are going to need to go to Best Buy or Radio Shack or some similar place and get a HUB. The easiest way to think of this is like being an extension cord for your high-speed Internet modem. You plug the hub into an electrical outlet, and then you run a cable from the hub to the jack on your high-speed Internet modem. Now you plug your computer into one of the jacks on the hub (you will probably have about 3 or 4 of them), and also plug the cable from your VOIP ATA box into another jack on the hub. Before you leave Best Buy or Radio Shack, make sure you have the cables with RJ45 plugs on each end - one of these goes from the hub to your modem and another one goes from your VOIP ATA box to the hub.

Now with your VOIP ATA box connected to the hub or directly into your high-speed Internet modem if you had a spare jack on it, you just connect your standard traditional phone into the RJ-11 jack on the ATA box and you are good to go.

But what about using your VOIP phone throughout the house so that you are not tethered to the room that has the ATA box and the high-speed Internet modem? You have multiple options here. You can use a cordless phone where you would plug the base unit into the VOIP ATA box, and then you are good to go. I would recommend a cordless phone that is in the 5.8 Ghz range to provide your best coverage.

If you want to have multiple phone handsets around the house, I would recommend getting one of those multi-unit cordless phone setups. Some of those can accommodate up to 8 cordless phones with the same base unit.

There are places online that will explain how to wire your VOIP ATA box into the outside wiring of your home phone system so that the RJ-11 jacks you already have in every room can still be used. While this is possible, it is not recommended. There are multiple stories of people who have blown out their ATA box and/or the entire phone wiring of their home because they were not familiar enough with the electrical load requirements of implementing a system like that. Unless you are an electrician or telephone company repair person, this approach is likely to cause more problems than it solves.
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Tips For Choosing Your Best Option For A Cell Phone and Cellular Service

Tips For Choosing Your Best Option For A Cell Phone and Cellular Service
By : Jon Arnold

Nobody likes to be out of touch, and with the prices of cell phones and cellular service these days, being out of touch is really only done by choice, and rarely out of necessity. We like to communicate; we like to know what is going on, whether it is something to do with our jobs or something at home, we like to be on top of things every minute. The fact that cellular service allows this to happen is both a blessing and a curse.

One of the biggest decisions you need to make, even before you decide which cellular service provide you want to go with, is what cell phone to get. Your choices in this area have never been more diverse. There is not really a right or wrong choice, it is much more of what you want to do with the cell phone. All people are different, so be realistic about what you will use the device for.

For example, many cell phones now double as an MP3 player and can store hours of music, especially if you get the mini-SD cards that many of these cell phones can accommodate. But you need to ask yourself if you will really use that option? After the novelty wears off, the answer might be no, in which case there is no sense in paying extra for it. For me, if I want to listen to music, I want it to be high fidelity and clear, not with the much lower fidelity of a cell phone.

What kind of battery life does the phone have? If you are on the go all the time and spend a lot of time on the phone, there is nothing more irritating than noting that you are almost out of battery power by 2pm in the afternoon. If this is a concern and likelihood for how you use your phone, you may want to opt for the optional higher powered extended life battery, but be prepared to shell out about $70 or more for that optional battery.

What about the "smart phones" that are also a PDA? Again, it depends on the person. If you have never been able to discipline yourself to keep a DayTimer updated with each and every contact and appointment, or you currently have a separate PDA device that is gathering dust in the back of your office closet, then do not get a smart phone. You will have exactly the same problems of not keeping it updated if you have not already gotten in the habit of doing so, even despite the best intentions to get better at using it.

When you have narrowed down your list of possible choices, check one more thing, and that is the fine print or the caveat that comes with it. That super low price may only be available if you sign a two year agreement with the cellular provider. If you find out that the cellular coverage in your area blows, you are stuck.

Finally, decide which cellular provider you want to use. Again, you have many plans and options at various price levels. Your criteria should be based first on the good coverage they can provide in the area where you will be using your phone the most. For example, T-Mobile provides great coverage in the areas they service, but if you are not in one of those areas, you are going to hate the service. Verizon provides great coverage, but their reputation for extremely poor customer service continues to haunt them. Sprint and Cingular are strong contenders for your business, and you may want to review the plans they have available.

Be TOTALLY aware of the service you are going to go with and all the ramifications. Do you get unlimited "night" minutes and unlimited "weekend" minutes? If so, at what time does that carrier define "night" as starting? When does the weekend start and end? As an example, Sprint has options that allow "night" to start at 7pm instead of the more typical 9pm, which can be great if you live in eastern time zone and need to make calls to mountain or pacific time during their business hours.
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How To Improve Business Communication For Greater Success

How To Improve Business Communication For Greater Success
By : John Khu

In the age to steaming gadgets that govern your business it gets necessary to use the right way to communicate in business, that is, proper business communication. Today we send fewer letters than we used to do earlier but the speed and low cost of email has pushed the letter to extinction.

A primary role of emails, memos, letters, reports and proposals is to maintain good, relevant and timely follow of information within an organization and with its external publics. It plays a key role in business communication.

Any business writer can write emails, memos, letters and letters that communicate clearly and have impact. But that is not the actual business communication that prevails in the business world. Business people do not pay heed to the ethics of business communication. They write emails as thoughts occur to them and send emails without revising the words into coherent messages. As a result, business writing has come to excuse writing that is fragmented, incomplete, and full of careless language errors.

Here are certain tips to improve business communication:

1.Plan and organize: One should have clear objectives while writing an email or a business letter. It should include everything that you are intended to write to give information to the reader in order to attain your objectives of proper and clear business communication.

2.Build the business communication infrastructure: In business communication through emails, letters and memos write thanks, commendation and genuine statements of good that will build teams and partnership with clients. Use the tone and level of formality that fits the objectives and the reader, and convey your thoughts straight and firmly.

3.Prepare the reader for proper business communication: Write the email or letter subject lines using words that alert the reader to contents, required action or critical information in the email. In the introduction explain everything readers need to know to understand fully why they are receiving the document. Describe all actions the reader is expected to perform, actions you will perform and any critical information that reader is expected to know. Summarize conclusions at the beginning. Write clear statements of contents at the end o introduction so that readers know what to expect and prepare them for reading, which will transform it from just communication to business communication.

Not only emails and letters but meetings also play a vital role in business communication. In any organization, meetings are a vital part of the organization of work and the flow of information. They act as a mechanism for gathering together resources from many sources and pooling then towards a common objective. They are disliked and mocked because they are usually futile, boring, time-wasting, dull, and inconvenient with nothing for most people to do except doodle while some opinionated has-been extols the virtues of his/her last great (misunderstood) idea.

Your challenge is to break this mould and to make your meetings effective. As with every other managed activity, meetings should be planned beforehand, monitored during for effectiveness, and reviewed afterwards for improving their management. A meeting is the ultimate form of business communication. One can organize the information and structure of the meeting to support the effective communication of the participants.

Thus proper business communication whether through writing or verbal ie through meetings can do wonders to the business. All that is needed is a skillfull, flawless and effective way of business communication.
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John Khu is an experience entrepreneur and internet marketer. He specializes in communication development and personal happiness.
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Give Satellite TV for Those Special Occasions

Give Satellite TV for Those Special Occasions
By : David Johnson

Shopping for someones birthday or special occasion has just gotten so much easier and far more sensible thanks to the good folks at DirecTV. How many times have you gone out to look for a gift for a friend or loved one and walked up and down the isles, hopelessly looking and looking in a futile attempt to find something that you are sure that they would appreciate and make good use of? Then when you do come up with something, they just dont seem to really need what you got them, or they already had something similar.

Isnt it nice though, when you get a loved one a gift for a special occasion and it turns out to be something that they make good use of and it is truly appreciated? Now the good folks at DirecTV make it so easy to do just that and there are several reasons why.

The first reason is that the prices are very reasonable and you have your choice of several programming packages that start out with an introductory entry level economy package and progress up through their mid level packages and finish out with their top programming package.

Its their Total Choice series of packages and they are heralded as the best selection in the industry for the money. It doesnt stop with just the programming though and just wait until you see all that you get from DirecTV in the way of promotional goodies.

To start with they give you a free satellite TV system that comes complete with everything, including the dish and the receiver. Its all installed absolutely free of charge, by DirecTVs own team of in house team of installation experts.

Its all top of the line Hughes electronics components, because that is the only brand that DirecTV uses for their satellite TV systems. There are five models of Hughes receivers that you can select from and they are all loaded to the brim with sensible and easy to use one touch functions.

The Hughes executive receiver, with digital video recorder Powered by TiVo puts instant replay in slow motion in your hand, as one of its functions as well as so many more. DirecTV gives free installation in up to four rooms in a home or business and will even supply all the receivers required to connect up to four separate TVs to satellite and all at no extra charge at all.

There is still more yet, because also in this promotional package DirecTV is going to throw in a free digital camera just for good measure. After you do the math, you will see that you come out way ahead on this deal and who doesnt love to watch great TV programming.

This is a gift that a whole family can share in also. So the next time you are thinking of going out gift shopping for a friend or loved one, why not let the people at DirecTV give you a helping hand, so that you can be sure that they will love your gift when you give it to them.
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Give Your Teen Satellite Programming for Their Birthday

Give Your Teen Satellite Programming for Their Birthday
By : David Johnson

Shopping for a teenager can be difficult and sometimes impossible. It seems that no matter what you get them, there is something wrong with it. Its the wrong color, or size, or any one of a number of things that they can find fault with. Birthday shopping for a teen can be even more difficult, because they often have their mind set on something grand, that you really cant afford and no matter what you get them, they can be unhappy with it.

There is one great alternative to all of this and that is to get your teen satellite TV programming for his or her birthday and there are several reasons why. The first great reason is the price and all that you get for that low price. DirecTV and Dish Network will both give you a free satellite TV system when you join their family of viewers and it comes completely installed at no cost to you at all. Its a complete system that includes the dish, receiver and everything you need to get started watching satellite TV.

If your Teen likes to play video games, as most teens do these days, then you might consider getting them high definition programming, because video game manufacturers are now developing and marketing video games in high definition. High definition is the latest giant improvement in TV Programming and if you havent looked into it, maybe it is time that you took a good look at it.

Most teens have seen high definition programming at a friends house, so they know what it is and your teen will surly appreciate it. Its a more defined and accurate picture and sound for your TV. In fact it twice as defined and accurate because the high definition TV has twice the amount of vertical lines of resolution and pixels and these are what it uses to make the picture with.

On the big screen TV high resolution is even more dramatic, because the picture is no longer vague or fuzzy when viewed from up close. What teen doesnt love music and right now DirecTV and Dish Network are both offering free Sirius satellite radio programming with their TV programming packages.

Dish Network will even throw in free satellite radio programming for your vehicle. So with one cheap shot you have a satellite system and TV programming and also satellite radio for his or her TV and car and there is still more yet, because right now DirecTV will throw in a free digital camera at no extra charge.

DirecTV and Dish Network both have great entry level basic programming packages that are so affordable that almost anyone can join now and not have to break their budget. If you take a good look at all that you get for your dollar on this deal there is just no denying that its a fantastic offer that these two giants of the industry are offering you.

Before you run out and spend a bunch of money on something that you hope your teen will be happy with, why not go for the sure thing and give them all the electronics components along with all the great programming that satellite TV has.
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วันพุธที่ 27 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2550

Collect Your Free Hughes Satellite System

Collect Your Free Hughes Satellite System
By : David Johnson

Now you dont have to buy a satellite system for you to start receiving great satellite programming. You can get a free top of the line, name brand satellite system that includes everything, dish, receiver and all. DirecTV, the all time leader in sports programming, will give you this Hughes satellite system and bring it to your home, apartment, condo or business and install it absolutely free of charge, as part of their ongoing promotional offer when you join their family of satisfied TV viewers.

The Hughes name is synonymous with quality in satellite system components and they are the exclusive brand of electronics that DirecTV caries, because of their long standing record for durability and quality. What good is a free satellite system, if it is not going to work right and is going to drive you mad with malfunctions when you are trying to watch your TV?

DirecTV has five models of Hughes receivers in stock for you to select from, depending on your needs and the particular service package and agreement that you select. They are all loaded with great, easy to use one touch functions, that you can choose from to make your TV viewing time so much more enjoyable.

If you are a sports fanatic and are one of the minions who have come to DirecTV, the leader in sports to get their sports fix, then you should take a good look at the Hughes Executive receiver with DVR powered by TiVo. With this receiver you get the instant replay in slow motion function. This also give a sports fan the option of stopping a live game any time they want to use the bathroom or go to the refrigerator and then start the game back up right where it left off when you return to your seat.

This same function lets you zip right past commercials that interrupt any of your games. Recording games and sporting events is so easy with the digital video recorder that is built right into this unit, because it is a one touch function that can be easily programmed to record any event while you are away. Its also so easy to set the DVR to record a series of events, if that is what you need done while you are away from your home.

The DVR in this and all of the standard definition Hughes receivers that DirecTV carries, have a full one hundred hours of memory for storing all the programming that you want to record. If you do the math, that comes up to over four solid days of programming.

DirecTV is the reigning king of sports in the field of satellite service providers, with a whopping twenty-five channels, that feature a wide selection of sports programming. They also have exclusive broadcasting rights to a few sports channels that you can add on to your package and be guaranteed that every major special event will be showing at your place. So if you are into sports then you should check out DirecTV and Hughes Electronics.
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