There’s really no excuse for this. Domains cost about $10-12 per year, and you can get your e-mail hosted at your custom domain name free by Google. Google has made the steps easy to set this up. Perhaps you feel you’re not tech savvy enough to do it yourself, then hire a professional to set it up for you. The email hosting can be set up in under 2 hours.

Every business and organization should have a custom domain name for their e-mail at least, if not for their Web site. NuMedia Specialist is offering to donate time to set it up for you in 2011.

We’ll pick one organization each month (maybe more if the response is great), and we’ll get together and ensure you have a domain name set up and walk through the process of getting your e-mail hosted by Google Apps and your MX (mail exchange) records properly configured in your DNS.

Even if your business isn’t ready for a website – at least purchase a domain name that is related to your business and create email accounts on that domain name.  You can also put a simple one page splash page on the domain name with your contact information.  This is the best place to start – especially if you aren’t ready to invest in a complete website solution.

Sources:

http://youngstownrenaissance.com/2010/01/match-your-email-to-your-domain/

http://www.bwyse.com/show_internet_web_site_design_blog.asp?blogid=7

I believe video makes a website more human, more accessible and more appealing. But then, as I make videos for a living, you’d probably expect me to say that. So I put together my top ten statistics from research findings, mostly from studies carried out in the US. I hope you’ll agree that the case for web video is overwhelming!

CD and DVD are fragile media. A few scratches here and there and they can easily become coasters on your table. I have had plenty of them myself.

Let’s just look at some of the ways to repair damaged CD’s and DVD’s and recover data from those spoilt CD/DVD’s.

Anatomy of scratches

Scratches that are perpendicular (going from the center outwards) are generally less harmful or damaging than the scratches that go along the spiral. So if your CD/DVD has more of the latter ones, then the chances of recovering data from that CD or DVD may be bleak. Nevertheless, Thou shall try till thou art able to Make good Use Of thy media.

Attempt to repair the damaged CDs

If the disc has profound scratches you can try to repair those scratch to make the disc playable again. The best way to do this is to use a whitening toothpaste or some polish (specially those used by opticians) although Brasso also works.

• First clean the surface of the disc with a soft lint-free cloth. You can use a gentle detergent (or rubbing alcohol) if there are some grease spots. Make sure there are no finger prints or dust particles. Don’t scrub too hard as you may do more harm than good this way.
• Now apply some toothpaste or polish on the scratched surface. It is best to start with a minimum amount of either, or else you will have your work really cut out trying to buff away the remainder.
• Now rub gently with a cloth moving from the center outwards.

If you did a good job, you will actually see the scratch diminishing, or if it was a faint one, it might just disappear.

The success with this method varies greatly. It is hit and miss. I have had an equal amount of successes and failures. Sometimes it works allowing you to even read data from that part, other times it is of no use at all.

Some Tips

• Try recovery in a CD/DVD writer as opposed to a reader. Writers are generally more precise and can see the tracks better.
• If possible try recovery on the same drive that was used to create the disc. Chances of a good read have been found to increase if you use the same drive or at least the same manufacturer.
• If nothing helps you can go to music stores and show them your disc. Such stores usually have a CD refinishing machine and may be able to do a better job.
• As soon as any of the above methods works, don’t think even twice and just create another copy of the disc.
• Buy good quality media.
• Take good care of your CDs

If nothing helps

Contact NuMedia Specialist either by phone toll free or request more information below. We would love to help you restore or recover your lost data.

Source: Varun Kashyap

Show presentations without the need for a computer.
You can present your PowerPoint presentation with a DVD player and a TV set instead of computer.

Easily distribute your slideshows to friends and colleagues.
Convert & burn PowerPoint to DVD, then you can easily make DVD duplicates. Share these DVD duplicates with others and let them enjoy your wonderful PowerPoint slides.

Give your presentations more of a TV feel and more attractive.
You can add additional elements to your PowerPoint, like record narration, customize DVD menu, etc., to make you PowerPoint presentation more attractive and better understanding.

Prevent your PowerPoint presentation from been modified by others.
Of course you can set password to your PowerPoint for security or privacy, but it is safer to convert PowerPoint to DVD, nobody can modify burned DVD movie.

Go to a lecture leisurely with a DVD disc instead of a laptop.
Going to do a lecture presentation? No need to carry the heavy laptop anymore, just bring a burned PowerPoint DVD leisure.

Preserve your PowerPoint presentation for a long time.
As we know that DVD’s lifetime is 50 years while hard disk’s lifetime is 10 years, so that if you want to keep your PowerPoint file for a certain long time, it’s better for you to save PPT on DVD.

No need to worry about PowerPoint versions.
If you play PowerPoint on different computers, you have to worry about different versions of PowerPoint. But if you convert & burn PowerPoint to DVD, you can play the DVD on almost all DVD players.



VHS Tapes Won’t Last Forever!

Its a sad fact of life that those VHS Tapes with our treasured memories on them use fragile magnetic tape that can get caught inside your VCR and destroyed. Videotapes start degrading after a few years.  Before you realize it, you want to watch those old videos, take a trip down memory lane, but to your dismay the quality has deteriorated! Suddenly your wedding video or home video has some intermittent snow, color distortion or even missing parts on the tape. Pretty soon you will have lost the memories on that tape for good. Imagine the horror of losing precious family moments to such an accident.

And perhaps worst of all, something else that ‘s shocking, YOUR TAPES CAN FALL APART JUST SITTING IN A BOX. Read on:

Tapes Degrade Whether You View Them Or Not

VHS Tapes use Magnetic Tape that breaks down over time. Imagine a piece of adhesive tape with tiny pebbles stuck to it. Those tiny pebbles are little pieces of metal that your VCR reads to display video and make sound. After time, EVEN IF YOU DON”T USE THEM, VHS Tapes lose their “stickiness” and the pebbles shift, move, or fall off.

How Long Does It Take for Tapes to Go Bad?

Experts don’t agree on exactly how long it takes for a VHS Tape to degrade completely. But most, if not all, agree on one thing, Your Tapes are Degrading RIGHT NOW, and its only going to get worse.  Depending on the quality of tape you use and how you store them, and how many times you watch them, yours could degrade sooner than that! Why take the risk? Your memories are important to you, your family, to your children. Let NuMedia Specialist help you protect those memories by transferring them to DVD.

NuMedia Specialist will transfer your video to DVD. Make certain your video lasts for generations to come – transfer your VHS to DVD today!

DVDs offer many advantages such as:

• No magnetic coating that can wear away with each use
• You can easily navigate the DVD with Scene Selection Menus
• Quick forward/backward scanning and searching
• Since a DVD is digital, any copies are exactly the same as the original with no loss of quality!
• Use your DVD on your computer to capture still scenes for photo printing.
• Zoom-in features (if supported by your DVD player)
• If handled properly (like a CD), a DVD can last over 100 years!
• DVDs take up less space than VHS tapes
• For the reasons above and many more, DVDs are becoming the mainstream, and VHS is becoming obsolete.

4 Reasons to Restore Old Photos

1. To preserve – Your old photos will continue to deteriorate even if kept in a good environment. Digitizing them gives you a version that will last forever if properly stored.

2. To repair - Tears and scratches, fading, fungi and dirt will sometimes spoil an old photo. We’ve also repaired old photos that have been written over with a pen.

3. To display – You might have photos in old albums which were printed very small and the negatives are long gone. You may want to print, frame and hang a larger version on your wall.

4. To share – The old family photo album lives in one place, and can only be seen by other family members when they visit whoever looks after the album. Once stored digitally, images can be shared via CD-ROM, DVD, email or your personal web site.

Source: The Pixel Pump

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