Yesterday I did a video on a cool service called Yammer (http://yammer.com). What Yammer allows you to do is make something similar to a twitter page for your business. In this sense this allows employees from a small, medium, or large business to collaborate just as people do on twitter.
Yammer takes it a step further than twitter and allows co-workers to post attachments and even assign roles or positions to users. I truly love this idea/concept and I can see modernized business taking this and running. In my mind this is a great way for employees from all over the nation or even globe to collaborate and share experiences that will not only help the employee learn but also help your business or organization accomplish tasks in a more efficient manner.
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The most difficult thing I had in regards to my wireless network was the initial setup. If you have Verizon DSL, you’ll know that they don’t tend to make connection modifications quite as easy as you want them to be. The same goes for setting up an outside router, like a Linksys brand, for a wireless network. You have the option of calling their tech support department and getting over-the-phone support or you can do it yourself. The following is a step-by-step tutorial to make your life a little easier.
NOTE: My modem is a Westell 6100. I do not know if the Modem Configurations are the same for each of the modems that Verizon provides. If someone could send me a message or leave a comment here confirming such, I would appreciate it.
Before running the Linksys EasyLink software, let’s start by bridging your modem. Make sure that your modem is connected directly to your computer and not connected the router. Once the connections are verified, turn your modem on and wait for the Power, Ethernet, DSL, and Internet lights are all solid green.
Throught trial and error as well as Verizon’s recommendations, the configurations for the bridging mode seem to work better in Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you do not have Internet Explorer installed on your PC, you can download Internet Explorer 7 by clicking here.
1. Open up Internet Explorer and clear everything in the address bar. Type the following IP address into the address bar: 192.168.1.1 and press the enter key.
2. Upon entering the above local IP address, you’ll be directed to the ProLine DSL Modem main page. If this is your first time doing this, you may be prompted for a username and password. If so, for the username, type admin and for the password, type password. You will be able to change the password later.
3. On the ProLine DSL Modem main page, you will see a variety of tabs. Main, My Network, Firewall Settings, Advanced, and System Monitoring. Click on the My Network tab.
4. On the left side of the screen will be three different options: Main, Network Status, and Network Connections. Click on Network Connections.
5. In the center of the screen where it says Network Connections, there is a small chart containing two links: Broadband Connection (DSL) and LAN. Click on the Broadband Connection link.
6. You will be taken to the Broadband Connection (DSL) area. However, the configuration page will be named slightly different: Advanced DSL Configuration. You will see three different sections on this page: Routed Bridge Connection, VCs, followed by a series of three checkmark boxes. Ignore the checkmark boxes and click on the icon under the Edit column of the VCs section.
7. There are only two sections that you need to be concerned about for this next step: Protocol and Bridge Mode. Make sure that both sections are enabled as “Bridge” and click on the “Apply” button towards the bottom of the configuration page.
8. Follow steps 3 through 5 to get back to the Network Connections page. Instead of clicking on Broadband Connection (DSL) link, click on LAN. Also, keep the modem IP address at it’s default. Click on “Apply” and allow the new configurations to take place. Note: Verizon tells you to remove the checkmark from the checkmark box next to “Private LAN DHCP Server Enable”. However, I left it alone and my wireless network still works fine.
9. This next step has worked for me before and I’m sure it will work for you: Leave the modem and computer alone for about five to ten minutes. I’m serious. Give the modem some time to configure its new parameters and then proceed to setup your Linksys Router.
Setting up the Linksys Router
The wireless router I use is a Linksys WRT54GS with Speedbooster. Linksys recommends that you run and install the Linksys EasyLink Advisor provided with the router. It will guide you through step by step the instructions of connecting your modem to your router, as well as getting the Internet Connection to work.
In this video, I tell you a little bit about the OS X application, Dock Spaces. Dock Spaces essentially allows you to have one dock per space, or multiple docks to choose between. Dock Spaces gives you more functionality and ease of use on your Mac. Check out the video below and leave comment! We would be more than happy to hear from you. To download dock spaces, click here.
To all you windows mobile fans I have found your best friend. This application not only is the worlds most advanced mobile browser but also gives you everything and I mean everything that your computers browser can bring to you.
So you may ask how this work? Well to put it as simple as possible your phone does not do anything. Really, it does not process the data that your computer normally would. What makes this browser special is the fact that it uses server side processing to provide a rich end user experience. This means that the Skyfire servers process all the data before it gets to your phone. You phone just receives raw data from skyfire and displays and plays any audio that the skyfire servers transmit.
What does this mean? This is awesome because it will allow manufactures of websites to continue to make graphic intensive website while not leaving a mobile user in the dust. This revolutionary way to process web pages on mobile phones is the future and do not be surprised if you see this technology soon in your iphone and newer HTC devices.
If you are interested in joining the private beta please go to http://skyfire.com and click Sign Up!
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So today I got a great opprotunity to interview some awesome people. Eric and Simon are two out of three executives for irc.ipocalypse.net. Ipocalypse is a growing chat community that strives on a great user experience. If you are interested in learning more just head over to http://ipocalypse.net Check out the video of the interview.
So, this is a great application that I have been using for many years. Today I have put together a few screen shots and a text tutorial on the program. If you have windows XP Media Center Edition or Vista Home Premium or Ultimate then this is a must have program in your Media Center.
The program consists of two parts. A MySQL backend server and a MCE plugin client. The client can connect to the server to receive movie data and also using the collection management system gives you the ability to add movies to your collection.
First I am going to show you the collection management system. So when you start the program you will see this.
On the left is all the movies in the collection. The middle and right shows all info about the movie you can edit all the fields in the middle and right collumns, but that will be unnessary due to the advanced title search engine built into the program. There is a button right bellow file is the add title button. There are a few awesome ways to add the movie info. You can search by title, type the barcode in to get the info or just pop the dvd in and the program will automaticly add the movie to the collection.
Moving on now, you get to see the awesome features of the Media Center Plugin. Bellow is a screen shot of the plugin.
As you can see in Vista this program is great because it shows you the front cover of the title and gives you options to search your titles by generes or categories. I really don’t know what else to say about this program except that it is awesome. Please email me with any questions at support@bluephoenix.tv Stick around because soon I will be doing a video tutorial on this great program. Check it out and you will not regret it. http://www.mymovies.dk/ is the url.
The apple O/S has tons of great software anything from video and photo editing to basic email and IM’s. This video is going to show you my most favored Mac applications and a simple tutorial on how they work! Hope you enjoy!