Posted on February 11th, 2010 — in Public Relations, Universe Of Media, University of Marketing
Many jobs and areas have heroes or some soul that keeps the work performed in that domain to a higher standard. In the realm of voice over jobs, that soul was Don LaFontaine. Anyone not knowing his name would sure enough recognize his voice. Any person hearing to a movie trailer that begins with the words In a world… has heard this man doing masterful voice over acting. The passing of Don LaFontaine has left an opening in the voice over domain that has many studios clamoring for fresh talent. Though no one thus far has come close to his vocal abilities and natural endowment, there are still many hopefuls out there driven to be the next Don Lafontaine by applying to as many voice over jobs as they can.
In order to succeed as a voice over worker, you need to be being easy going and good to work with, not just to make the client feel at ease, but likewise to make the recording process go seamlessly and expeditiously. If you have an issue pronouncing something, just rewrite the entire sentence in the margin of the script. Once you have finished this, change the spelling of the word to something phonetic or familiar. If this does not help, ask the production assistant or anyone else with experience of the script. You should not feel humiliated or ashamed about asking. This indicates that you clearly have the best interest of the project in mind and that you want to be sure to deliver a quality product.
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 — in A Better Web, Universe Of Media
A cleaner for Windows Registry is a tool aimed at Microsofts’ Windows operating systems. What is does is remove unwanted and redundant items from the registry.
As security experts do not seem to be agreed on the advantage of registry cleaners, their requirement and efficacy remain a subject of debate.
The problem of Registry Cleaners usefulness is further complicated when some security experts linked them with the spreading of malware and scareware.
Registry Cleaners help in the protection of a system by successfully cleaning the Windows Registry. They clean all the unwanted and useless configuration data from the system and enhance the efficiency of a slow Windows 7.
Types of data that falls in this category comprise information that partially uninstalled software has left behind, setting needed for malware operation, or useless information.
Since unnecessary values could cause harm to the system, a Registry Cleaner scans the whole Window Registry to delete them.
Benefits:
Registry cleanup software, or registry cleaner, could enhance system performance by sanitizing the registry of unwanted data.
As manual cleaning of unwanted data and illogical entries would not be feasible, registry cleanup software is a significant tool that automatically hunts for invalid entries, broken links and missing references to files within the registry and repair them.
The rectification of a wrong registry key can lead to some advantages.
Until and unless majority of applications have shifted to .NET Framework, which is not dependent on the registry for the setting of applications, registry cleaners will always have a critical role to play.
Some of the registry cleaners present users with restore & backup utilities, which enable them to undo the undesirable changes done by the registry cleanup software.
Computer users, who usually add or remove applications, should have Registry Cleaner installed in their systems. But security experts believe that virtual machines are perfect systems for Registry Cleaner installation because they need reliable reverting means to go back to the best known testing scenario.
As security experts do not seem to be agreed on the advantage of registry cleaners, their requirement and efficacy remain a subject of debate.
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Posted on October 21st, 2009 — in Tool Portal, Universe Of Media
MS Mail Server - How to prevent Spam
By: Jane Y. Whigmore
Increasing threat from spam emails raises the need to monitor and remove illegitimate messages, thus ensuring correct functioning of the Microsoft Exchange system.
Malware e-mail has turned out to be one of the greatest threats for todays business world because they add trouble and cut down productivity. Companies receive thousands of deceptive, indecent and irking e-mails in bulk on a regular basis. Spam is a jargon used commonly to express discarded, undesirable and promotional e-mails or junk e-mails. Spam is not an abbreviation or acronym (so spam does not denote something). Normally a spam mail contains commercial content and it is send to receivers who never reqeusted to get that kind of information from the business or individual that sends it.
Being bombarded with huge volum of unwanted e-mails with commercial content can cost businesses and individuals lots of resources and time while sorting and deleting unsolicited messages from the legitimate messages. This hinders an effective organisation and generates frustrated employees.
Deleting spam is a time consuming process, email server up-time and performance suffers, and your network faces a security risk from malevolent messages. In addition, businesses also face greater risk because spam e-mails can lead to harm to the systems that are difficult to repair, causing disorder, loss of work and money.
The only guard against the threat from spam is professional asistance ensuring complete security and protection. Thus, the server should be shielded to assure that all the passing information is filtered and fire-walled against spam. Typically, a server spam filter is a software application that scrutinizes the incoming messages, spotting spam on the basis of pre-determined configurations while detaching the unwanted e-mail so that it never reaches the users inbox. And one of the widely used servers is that developed by Microsoft. Dubbed as Exchange Server, this Microsoft product makes e-mailing more speedy and resourceful.
Spam devices can be of great help to carry out filtering at an exchange server or malware e-mail blocking at exchange server. A server side spam filter enables users to automate the procedure to sort and remove spam at the server level i.e. before it reaches the internal network and each user’s personal computer. An automatic procedure that filters out spam is recommended because it protects your internal network and each single connected personal computer. In addition is prevents loss of data and user downtime.
No anti-spam technology is perfect, periodically manual checking of all filtered messages by a network administrator is still needed to ensure that Exchange mail server is not blocking any legitimate e-mails.
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Posted on March 16th, 2009 — in Universe Of Media
Everyone has their favorite Caribbean Island but if you don’t know, cruising the Cayman Islands is a highlight of a Caribbean Cruise. The three islands hold many attractions some that are unique to these islands. The world’s only commercial Green Sea Turtle farm is located here and is an interesting tour. Other attractions include the National Museum, Queen Elizabeth II Botanical Park and Garden, Bird Sanctuaries, Nature trails and Wetlands Preserves. And, of course, for those who can’t live without it, shopping is abundant without the hassle of street vendors (prohibited by law).
One of the most famous natural attractions in Grand Cayman Island is Stingray City. This is an area in the ocean not far from the northern tip of Grand Cayman where tourists can get up close to hundreds of friendly stingrays. Stingray City will be one of the organized tours from the cruise ships visiting Grand Cayman as a port of call. There will also be tours available from local operators in Georgetown where the cruise ships dock. The cruise organized tours will almost always be the more expensive option but you will save a lot of shore time.
Scuba divers can book specialized dives at Stingray City through one of the many diver operators in Grand Cayman. The scuba diving at Stingray City is at a deeper section away from the tourist crowds who are usually brought to a very shallow area. Certified scuba divers and even snorkelers are recommended to take the dive trip option with the dive shops to experience Stingray City with fewer crowds. For non-divers, the sandbars here are shallow enough to stand and feed the stingrays.
It is believed that many years ago, sailors visiting the area while cleaning their catch threw fish remains overboard and soon noticed the stingrays coming into the cove for the free food. These particular stingrays became conditioned over the years to humans and the food handouts unlike stingrays elsewhere in the Caribbean.
The stingrays here are friendly enough that people could touch them and local guides have been known to even hold them. The guides will warn everyone that even though these stingrays appear to be quite friendly, they should still be regarded as wild animals so it is never recommended to touch them by their razor sharp tails or abuse them in any manner. It is possible to feed them with the squid parts provided on site. The mouths of the stingrays are located underneath their bodies and people are instructed to hold the food in their palms flat facing up. With their keen sense of smell, the stingrays will hover towards and over the food to collect their snacks.
The guides, a devilish lot, usually target in on the squeamish of all the passengers. As soon as those passengers are in the water they throw food around the hapless folks to attract the stingrays to that area. So seem brave and you won’t get picked on.
Although Stingray City can be crowded at times due to its popularity, it does offer a very unique experience to see these wonderful sea creatures up close. Stingrays are usually very shy animals and will swim away from scuba divers and snorkelers but not at Stingray City in Grand Cayman.
This is a tour that all members of your family can enjoy, you, your children even the grandparents. It is easy to get on and off the boat and the water is only about chest deep, depending on your height. Life jackets are available for all. I highly recommend this outing but book early as word has gotten around and this is a very popular excursion.
Visit Mary Hanna’s websites at: WebMarketingReviews CruiseTravel and Cruise Reviews.
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008 — in Universe Of Media
Some Taiwan scientists have figured out a way to reduce the wake from ferries crossing the harbor, most harbors and lakes, many rivers have speed limits to reduce the wake which cases hardships accidents, inconvenience and damage to other craft. We have all heard of the gentleman who ended up between the dock and hull of a large boat and was crushed to death, so obviously it is a serious matter. Yet speed on the water saves time and means greater profits more movement in less time means more efficiency. In places like Taiwan with the insanely high populations, there are serious needs getting all the people where they need to be.
By redesigning the hulls in a wavy fashion they are able to reduce significantly the wake. Mr. Cheng-Hung Huang has come up with a wavy design, which reduces wake. Here is the design.
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Here is the premise:
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Now then let’s take this concept and apply it to a winglet on a heavy airliner, cargo aircraft or military troop transport. We know the winglets help reduce drag and wing tip vortices and wake turbulence, which is quite a violent disruption, which moves a lot of air. For instance if you google NASA’s LARC project you will see the studies done.
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/B-7…EM-0073-01.html
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/C-5…EM-0085-01.html
Now then in the Mr. Cheng-Hung Huang model the researchers designed their Ferry Catamaran hulls for both deep water and for shallow water. This would work for both dense and less dense air, which takes into consideration the changes in altitude for the aircraft. Now realize the airfoil is different than the hull in that the hull of a ship is going through fluid that is 750 more dense than air, yet the same principles do apply in limited sense. So even if the wavy design is somewhat less exaggerated on the winglets of an aircraft the savings in wing tip vortices could be significant and therefore more efficient flight.
The hull design in this case is a perfect compromise shape for efficiency between the salt water and fresh water since the two have different densities. Instead of a normal sleek hull designs they have designed a hull with bizarre contours at specific intervals. The peaks are set at 24, 68 yards from the bow with the trough 44 yards. These very same techniques in fluid dynamics occur in aerodynamics
The research would indicate that as long as the dimensions were proportional the concept could be used on any length simply by adjusting the position of the convex peaks and concave troughs in proportion to the hull length. So if the winglets on an A340 or a C-17 are 68 inches then the trough would be at 44 inches. As the air flows across the wing up onto the winglet. For the fuselage of an aircraft the same thought could be used. And you thought those old B-52’s needed to be re-skinned just because they have 500,000 TT Airframe hours and are wavy and worn out? No actually they may actually work better that way to reduce induced drag and with a little modification work exceptionally better, interesting no doubt. Should intakes of jet fighters be contoured along this concept? To reduce fan blade ware and tear and smooth airflows to help produce maximum smooth and sustained inflows and thrust? The answer is yes. Most likely the compression and Bernoulli principle will not effect this only help it flow through by allowing the air to hug the surface and lower the boundary area. If we learn that such an effect compresses the air to a greater degree, while allowing it to flow, then that information is equally as valuable in hypersonic intakes and engines.
Wing tip vortices are so violent and move so much air we had even considered the wind energy potential to power up runway lights or blue tax lights. You may want to google that for a recent study which was done.
We should look into these ideas for aircraft fuselages and tail sections, as well as UAVs, smart munitions and airships. Is this something that should be taken into consideration on the 7E7? We know that wing tip vortices and wake turbulence have sound. Sound causes a signature, if we wish to reduce the signatures of sound the tops of the stealth UAVs might wish to have the wavy surface? A UUV or Submarine would also benefit by reducing it’s acoustic signature since a submarines safety depends on not being able to be detected. There is much benefit to this concept for the insides of engine intake tubes to reduce harmonic damage, increase airflows and the friction associated with the boundary layer for temperatures. It also makes sense for the outside of a submarine hulls, Torpedoes, 18 Wheeler tanker trucks, blimps, nose cones on bullet trains, propeller blades or aircraft fuselages.
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 — in Universe Of Media
How would you like to be able to visit some of the worlds most exotic, beautiful and far away places that few people will ever get to see? Including the Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Far East, Australia, Europe, Canada, and USA?
Imagine waking up each day in a different, exciting and unique tropical island, the sun shining, the weather hot, the sea crystal clear - and the only decision you have to make is which beach you’re going to visit that day!
Imagine always having plenty of cash and doing all those exciting things you’ve always wanted to do: jet skiing, jeeping around exotic islands, learning to scuba dive, trekking through rainforests, whale watching, hiking to waterfalls, swimming with dolphins, snorkeling in crystal clear sea, shopping in unique countries or simply relaxing on the best beaches in the world.
Imagine having many great friends of all different nationalities from around the world - all living, working, socializing and enjoying amazing life experiences together.
Did you know that YOU COULD DO ALL OF THIS while being paid a great tax-free income for doing it?
Does this all sound like a pipe dream to you? It really isn’t, you know. This is exactly how thousands of other people are choosing to live their lives right now, as we speak. This is exactly the life that I have led. This is exactly the life that YOU too could be living.
If you’ve already thought about getting a job on a luxury cruise liner Chance are that probably already appreciate some of the incredible benefits of working in this unique, exciting and fascinating industry.
But let’s get one thing straight…
Why do YOU want to work onboard a cruise ship?
It’s important to be able to answer this apparently simple question, before applying for cruise ship jobs.
Why?
…Because unless you have a clear idea for the reason you want to do it and know exactly what you want to achieve, you may apply for the wrong positions, but worst of all you’ll struggle to find the motivation to follow through with it. Your efforts will be doomed to failure!
That sounds rather harsh, but think about it for a moment…
You’re attempting to embark on one of life’s great adventures, your success will largely depend on the impression you give to a potential cruise ship employer and that only comes from knowing your reasons for wanting to do it.
So grab a pen and paper and write down your main objective in no more than ONE sentence.
I don’t want to over-influence your ideas, but here are some of the many reasons why people decide to work onboard a cruise ship:
* TRAVEL THE WORLD Cruise ship jobs provide the perfect vehicle from which to visit the most exotic and beautiful destinations on earth. Often you’ll travel to places that you would never get to see in your lifetime through ‘conventional’ travel.
* TO DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE Working onboard a cruise ship makes you a VERY interesting and attractive person. You get instant respect, even recognition. It’s unusual and different and people naturally want to talk to you about it. “What was it like?”, “Where did you go?”, “I wish I’d have done that” (a VERY common reaction!). Even potential employers are INTRIGUED when they see on your resume that you once worked on a cruise ship! You’ll feel VERY satisfied that you actually did something exciting with your life.
* TO SAVE MONEY The potential to save a lot of money is fantastic! You’re being paid a great income (tax free) and you have ZERO expenses - no board to pay, no food to buy and no bills to settle each month. Every cent you earn goes into YOUR pocket and no one else’s. You are free to do whatever you like with that money, whether its save for a deposit on a house or a new car. Or blow the lot on amazing life experiences in exotic ports of call! The choice is yours.
* TO MEET OTHER PEOPLE With up to 1500 crew members onboard each ship you WILL meet and make many great friends (even partners) with new, interesting and exciting people. And with 70+ different nationalities working onboard, you’ll often find that your closest friends are from exotic faraway places too!
* TO START A NEW CAREER Never forget, a cruise ship job doesn’t have to be a ‘one-off’ opportunity. A whole new glittering career awaits you - if you want it. Opportunities to develop your career are massive and cruise lines almost always promote from ‘within’.
* HAVE SOME FUN! Isn’t that what life’s all about? And “fun” comes with a capital “F” when you work on a cruise ship!
As I’ve mentioned above… there are many other GREAT reasons to work on a cruise ship, so don’t be over-influenced by my list. But do grab a pen and get your reasons down on paper.
Copyright 2006 Neil Maxwell Keys
Neil Maxwell Keys is an ex-crew member and regarded as THE cruise ship recruitment expert. He is also best-selling author of “Get a Cruise Ship Job: How to Get Paid to Travel the World having the BEST Time of Your Life!” He will take you by the hand and show you step-by-step how to quickly and easily get a job on a luxury cruise ship. Visit http://www.GetaCruiseShipJob.com
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 — in Great Video Tips, Techies Corner, Universe Of Media
iPod don’t have anything to complain about. However, one thing people sometimes mention is the lack of ability to copy iPod songs and movies from an iPod back to an additional desktop or laptop computer. Even though the iPod has no problem moving content from your personal computer to iPod using iTunes, the reversal is disallowed. If you do not have iPod Transfer Package, you won’t be able to transmit your iPod songs to an extra PC. This matter oftentimes happens when users get a new computer or have to install the OS on their current personal computer. Apple prevents this process because it does not want unauthorised sharing of bought videos and music from the iTunes marketplace. Even So, there are multiple reasonable circumstances that iPod owners demand the ability to transmit from iPod to PC. If a personal computer goes down and you have to re-run the OS, you may need iPod to PC transfer software to get your worthful files. Differently, the fresh installation of iTunes will clean out your iPod, potentially costing you hundreds of dollars in deleted files. An additional common situation customers need these types of software packages is when they purchase a new PC and want to transfer their existing database of iPod files on the new machine. Again, if you don’t have this type of application, you could possibly lose your worthful iPod content. There are many companies on the market now that offer up computer programs to execute this chore. A fast visit to CNET or Tucows will bring out a bunch of choices. You might also just type ‘iPod to PC copy software’ into the search engine of your choice.
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