Últimamente no he tenido mucho tiempo para actualizar este blog. Estoy preparando un nuevo grafismo y nuevos contenidos, que están tomando mucho mas tiempo de lo que me gustaría, pero después de un final de curso intenso, las energías ya no son las mismas. Lo bueno es que de nuevo es tiempo de pensar en vacaciones , y estoy lo hago con bastante placer.
De esta vez estoy ponderando Cádiz, porque muchos de mis amigos han estado de vacaciones por esta zona, y me han convencido de que la historia de la ciudad, la frescura del clima por las noches, y las playas todavía sin masificar, son un muy buen argumento para hacer las vacaciones en esa Zona.
en http://www.cadizturismo.com/ es posible encontrar mucha información de interés sobre Cádiz, y planificar de la mejor forma como utilizar las horas ociosas que no dedicadas a la playa, para conseguir pasar realmente un rato agradable.
Tal como la ultima vez voy a utilizar los servicios del buscador de hoteles, que tan buenos resultados me ha dado, y buscar Hoteles en Cadiz, el grado de parametrización y la flexibilidad de uso es realmente impresionante, por lo que insertando las características deseadas de un hotel, así como su disponibilidad, el servicio, el sistema te devuelve los hoteles que se acercan a tus criterios.
Following some news on the internet about the iphone, it has been confirmed that Telefonica Movistar has signed the deal to release the device, and the target price will be around 100 Euros. How accurate can be this news? It is very difficult to say at this moment if this is only vaporware or if there is a real marketing plan behind it to boost sales in the first months and to retain users. The difference in price to the other countries where the gadget has already been launch is quite high and will be costly for the company. This is the kind of news that will have to be followed along the next weeks.
Durante un par de dias me voy a ir de vacaciones a Peñiscola, gracias una Análisis de web esponsorizado, que me han pedido hacer, y que durante su realización me convencio la oportunidad de ir yo mismo en persona a visitarlo. El servicio permite encontrar de forma facil y sencilla Hoteles en Peñiscola, y con un grado de parametrización realmente impressionante, por lo que insertando las caracteristicas deseadas de un hotel, asi como su disponibilidad, el servicio, te devuelverá una lista de los hoteles que cumplen la busqueda. En pocos segundos ya puedes estar incluso realizando la reserva del mismo y, cuando te das cuenta, ya tienes unas vacaciones planificadas, sin darte cuente. Incluye referencias a otros sitios en internet donde es posible encontrar mas información, y permite incluso ver la localización del hotel, en el mapa, de forma a que puedas ver encontrarlo de forma facil. Lo que he hechado de menos, es mas fotos del hotel, y de las habitaciones, ya que sempre es una sorpresa lo que uno va a encontrar. Otra cosa que hecho de menos,es también para el caso que tengas una familia grande, y que tengas problemas en customizar la oferta a tus necesidades, la existencia en la pagina web, de un agente web, que te permita entrar directamente en contacto con las personas que te puedan ayudar a hacer lo que pretendes. A parte de esto, fenomenal, tanto, que sin querer y sin darme cuenta, me he registrado en un hotel, y ahi me voy de vacaciones.
While browsing for hot news on WIFI, I have discovered this video on youtube that makes reference to a special tool called easy wifi radar from makayma, that is supposed to detect and configure instantly your laptop or pocketpc to connect to any wifi detected by the software. Apparently it should be able to connect even to private connections, but with the tests that I have done I have not been able to do so, only connections to public hotspots were possible, in a much more easy way. Has anyone tried this software and wants to comment about it?
At this pace, I will have to switch my logo, as the last homebrew antennas are not anymore being made with Pringles Cans. While searching for antennas with google, I have come to a pictorial at instructables.com about building a high performance antenna with very simple and cheap elements. The simplicity of the construction is really incredible, and it seems that even the less hand skilled people will be able to build with almost no problem. A part from this, the comments posted to the pictorial are also very interesting and gives plenty of advices to be taken in account when trying to build the antenna. Since I haven't tried myself the process, I don´t know how good are the results of the Antenna, but from the overall understanding of the article and user comments, they should be quite interesting. Antena For less than 10 $
This is almost the title of the song that was a kind of the hymn of hippie movements in the sixties, but in this case, it is not about about hippy but more about geeky .
As read on YAHOO the San Francisco Underground train is testing a new innovative service that will allow its users to actually use WIFI while travelling on their trains.
The connection is not yet in production but rather in tests, and the users will have to manually pick the connections, but I think that it will be a question of time, before everything starts to evolve in more confortable service for the user.
:-0, when I first read the news, two things jumped immediatly to my mind, I don´t know if correct or no, as I have never used the San Franscisco undergound, but that can be created by my previous experience in other ones around Europe.
When you go in the Underground, you are usually at rush time, that means that everyone goes as fast as they can, to actually jump into the train before you, in order to find the last available free spot, in the wagons. Once inside, you don´t have, barely, enough space to shake your ears, so to actually think in using a Laptop or a Wifi-enabled phone, seems to me a rather interesting challenge.
The second aspect, is that the distances are rather short/medium, so, do you really need a connection while travelling for a couple of minutes? Are you getting to the point of addiction where you can avoid being without an online connection?
At this point, more than one will already start to think that I am mixing news :) but, there is a rather interesting news as well, from the Canadian Government (Yahoo), suggesting to its employees to actually shutdown their blackberries after 18:00 until 9:00 in the next morning, and during the meetings, to actually decrease the level of stress.
Where are we heading? Do we really need all those connections? Do we really need to be able to connect to internet, from the train, the bed, the WC, ... our dreams? Is this going to far?
One thing is to be able to have a good and regular connection, from our work, our home, but do actually need to be everywhere, everytime connected?
This remembers me, that when I first started to work, I actually was very happy when my employers gave me my first cellphone, I felt so important, just to discover, how much you can be emprisonned by the technology that makes you available without limitations...
Where does the freedom ends and the prison starts?
So as the hippies where looking for freedom when going to San Francisco, are we doing the inverse path when revisiting San Francisco?
I have already talked in the past about how unsecure bluetooth can be, if not secured correctly, with bluesnarfing, a lot of your information could be in danger. When I first talk about this, the number of bluetooth devices were still very small, and it didn't represent a real danger. Meanwhile, the adoption of bluetooth has been growing quite fast amd almost all phones have now incorporated the bluetooth turn on by default, and everyone, not just the the businessmens, have discovered the joys of wireless world, with bluetooth headsets.
What is happening? Well that not only your contacts are in danger anymore, but aswell your voice conversations, as it seems that it is rather easy to actually snoop in voice communication over bluetooth, and even change it.
Take a look at the video that I am attaching to this post, and you actually be surprised, not only the voice communication can be spied and modified, it can be done from a couple of meters more than the theorical ten meters range of the bluetooth.
Does this represent a problem? Well it depends on the subject of your conversations, but from what you can see in the streets lately from people with their phones, if that privacy doesn´t seems to matter any more
With the rise of cheap and affordable printers, in the last years, the printing business of the major hardware manufacturers, has been responsible for a big portion of their results, due to the fact, that although the printer prices have been falling, the ink cartdridges and laser toners, has been rising. The margin in the pinter ink/toner can be as high as 70% and there are a lot business models based on this oversized margins.
If you are running a large company, then the costs (Printer running costs I, Printer running costs II ) for running large amounts of printing can be affordable, but if you are a small entrepreneur, then you could have a problem, as even if you try to cut on printing, you still have to send proposals, to document legal matters, to fill public templates, and a lot of other information, that even in the case you don't want to, you are forced to print.
A couple of years ago, finding compatible replacements was a difficult mission, as the retail usually is locked by the big providers and will avoid to sell other products that could create a conflict with their major provider. Now with the internet, finding those cardtridges and toners, is much more easy, and the cost of search has fallen radically, you just need to take a browser, point it to a search engine, and here you go.
CartridgeSave is one of these online services that will help you save some money when each dollar/euro/pound counts, they have a large stock of products, printer ink, toner cartridges , fully compatible with the official printers with top quality and very reasonable prices, for the main hardware manufacturer. For now, they are only serving the UK market, but who knows, if in the near future the rest of Europe, could not be served.
The range of products is quite remarkable, you can found from just about any technology and brand, from ink cartridges to laser toner cartridges, Solid Ink, Paper. All the main brands are available for all the the major models of printers, even the ones of older models, so HP, Epson, Canon and lexmark toners/inks are there available without any problems at all, and quickly delivered to your location in the UK.
Either you use them, or another online provider, take the prices as example and make some basic business case for the usual amount of printer ink that you are spending annually and will easily found that at least a 30% of printing costs can be cut down just by doing some online search.
In one of the last posts, I was refering a news about the television manufacturers were finally awaking to the rise of new technologies at home, and were already implementing some new features in their TV products, like WIFI. Now it is the turn of a external disk manufacturer like FREECOM to launch media players with WIFI enabled, which frees you from having to buy the storage and the WIFI mediaplayer. Now in one single box you can have up to 500 Gb storage capaticy, codecs and TV output together with WIFI conectivity. With this, you will be now able to have the media player near the TV set, and by WIFI, manage remotely the content of you disk, without having to plug and unplug it. At the same time, you will be able to the share the device by more than just one device, which is also very good. What next? Well probably to include TDT receivers, and to open web interface for the configuration. It is ridiculous that in todays connected world, if you leave your house and forgot to program a recording, you are lost, and you will have to go fetch the missed content in the P2P networks. Or, still more ridiculous, that you have to use a remote control, that is a very aged technology, to actually try to program the recording. Yea, they say that you have the EPG(Electronic Programming Guide), but have anyone actually been able to correctly save anything?
In the last years, the voice transmission solutions have developed tremendously, both in quality and innovation of the solutions presented by the main providers. From the monopoly of incumbent telcos to the opening of the market to private operators, to the appearance of mobile phones and IP telephony. The later one, having seen an evolution, from the highly priced solutions for CISCO networks (which were working quite badly, but have improved a lot), we have come to the point where with the web, new comers into the scene, have been provided good solutions at very affordable prices, two examples, skype and wengophone. Google and Googletalk has been there aswell, but it not working as good as any the previous solutions. Until now, the solutions from Skype, if used in business, were mainly used by specific users inside the corporations, but not in a corporate manner, with the right solutions and the right services.
This is changing, as skype and partner are now going in the business market, with a portfolio of highly customized propositions, that will create value for the businesses wanting to have a more flexible and costly effective voip solution. The range of products introduced by Vosky is really interesting as it covers the potentitial needs for both medium and large businesses, allowing the full customization of the solution to the profile of the company.
The solution is based on rack-mounted hardware that is running the skype software and that allows to route/process all incoming, outgoing and intracompany calls. You just need to plug the hardware into your PBX and make the right configurations and you are saving money. You don´t need specific phones or other specific solutions, if you don´t want it.
Is this new? Well not probably, as you have for a couple of years now, a couple of opensource solutions that have been dealing with this process, but what is new, is the integration of a worldwide infrastructure based on the skype infrastructure, and the skype know-how on VOIP. The combination of the two things is that what makes it interesting for businesses.
Medium companies were already using for a couple of years, the ASTERIK voip system to create intracompanies VOIP networks, using the IP infrastructure existing, but when you wanted to perform an outgoing call, then you would have to g trough a traditional operator in order to have the call routed.So that means that the economy of costs saved are really starting to be interesting. Is this the limit? I don´t think so aswell, I think that this is just the beginning, of a wide range of solutions toward moving definitivly the voice to the IP networks.
How can it affects the Wireless technologies of the telecom industry? Well, because Wireless IP phones can become effective outside the the companies and start to appear in the normal citizen in his daily life. You be able to using a wifi enabled phone, to perform a call to anywhere in the world and any system. Advanced users are probably able to do it actually, but with very specific know-how that is not widely available. vosky web
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