A public Google services
February 28, 2009
After the recent failures of Gmail and AdSense, Google has decided to provide the public a tool to check the status of their services. It's called Google Apps Status Dashboard, and displays the status of their services as follows:

For now, the services whose status is monitored are:
Google Mail
Google Calendar
Google Talk
Google Docs List
Google Documents
Google Spreadsheets
Google Presentations
Google Sites
Google Video for business
Admin control panel
The importance of cable and more
February 28, 2009
In a modular system, we obtain the highest quality, is the minimum quality of a party.
This seems to easy to understand, not many customers are clear, not many buyers. The other day a customer comes and asks us a DVI to VGA converter. We sell and come back a few days later, complaining that the picture obtained, it was not the same as the DVI-DVI cable.
It turns out that had gone to teach in a department store and bought a green TV 37 ". As I wanted to connect a PC that we had bought from us recently and quite powerful (QuadCore, nVidia 9800 ...) then asks the attached cable. The cable in department stores, will cost almost more than the TV, such as beginning to doubt your purchase, the clerk gives you a VGA cable instead of an HDMI cable. The price drops to the third party and our customers get the TV and the VGA cable. Sure, when it comes to connecting the VGA cable because nVidia did not have VGA, only DVI adapter that when he bought us, because it looked like the monitor.
You are thinking about take a DVI-HDMI cable, but do not know what to do, because there is a 7metros distance between PC and TV and has camouflaged the past and the VGA cable ... Follonica had been saved by asking before. Our prices for DVI-HDMI cable from 7 meters were better than the VGA cable in department stores.
Summary, when we go to connect digital components, do not let analog cables between them, losing quality and it shows.
16px facilitates reading
February 28, 2009
Find the balance in the design of a blog is difficult. Combining usability with an attractive design that highlights something that is not available to everyone, or at least not without much effort. Anyone who has a website or has handled (or created) the theme of your blog know that I speak.
Personally, I think I should prepend usability attractive andalusia . An attractive design that sacrifices usability much impact at first, but then the difficulty to move around the site is very possible to make "out of legs" to your visitors. If we have to sacrifice something that is by design. Clear that is the ideal balance both .
One of the most headaches can bring is the letter: its type and size is very crucial for the design for usability. Crawling between the posts that I stored in FeedDemon, I wish this for simple things that connects to one of AprendiendoWeb : Relative ease of reading, why use a font size of 16px. In turn, this one comes from Information Architects : The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard.
What is proposed in all these posts is the use of a size of 16px to the point of blogs. One of the reasons is the equivalent of 16px on the screen at one point, 11 pt. Printed in . Beyond that this equivalence is as follows (in all three blogs is a picture comparing both), it is true that a large letter made no doubt, easier to read the content of a post and more difficult ... design of the continent.
Have a look at the posts. Considerations and tips that are very worthy of handle taken into account. But more important is the content you plan to publish the majority. If you're going to focus more on the images (photos, drawings, videos), be better to use a font size small medium pulling a . However, if you're going to focus on text content, Large size (although 16px CSS equivalent to "medium") may be much easier for your readers. If you want try different sizes, do not forget that the absolute size (in pixels, for example) are another way in different resolutions.
As in many cases within the web design, this is an issue that generates views , sometimes well-argued. What's yours? What size you prefer for your blog or those who read
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February 28, 2009
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The Google of Twitter
February 27, 2009
Google has officially established a Twitter account , which seems to be commenting on all releases and news that are happening. Your account is http://twitter.com/Google:

Banking Crisis
February 27, 2009
No wonder every day of the stock market down more banks. Is not the concern of the international crisis, is what happens when you spend doing things that are not yours.
I for seven clients in two weeks when they go to the bank to ask for a forward plan to buy a PC, I get hit and hit. Perhaps I am not complaining, each with the risk of not charging what they can provide what they want. Like other banks and ask for a minimum number of loan (typical when processing with the ICO is an eye of the face in operating expenses).
But the thing that has no name, is that most of those clients to whom they were problems to borrow from the Plan Avanza, have offered them a computer catalog of the bank with a loan of similar conditions andalusia Avanza . But that if the price of the PC was that it was (very expensive) and could only choose between three models.
Of course, if bank employees are dedicated to selling PCs, televisions, music equipment, cookers, refrigerators, watches, furniture, washing machines, motorcycles, cars ... (I am not exaggerating, other merchants in other sectors are seeing the same thing) and learn about all that, they can not monitor what the investment fund market, without this bond is secure or not, if this customer is going to pay the loan or not ... What the big bosses of the banks realize that your business is to provide money and save money, not to sell other things, that certainly did not know what we offer.
And this story is that when the client comes and tells me, but I imagine that in many cases we've lost the sale of this unequal competition. And here I give an idea to our politicians that we no longer deal with loans from the Plan Avanza, all win.
Increase investment in Search Marketing
February 26, 2009
The crisis and the recession had reduced sales and users before you buy, look for the best online prices and better services.
When users find what they are looking for, forget brand loyalty and opt for new products.
On-line advertisers are four formats available for advertising on search engines:
- Pay per click (eg. Keywords Google Adwords or Yahoo).
- Contextual Advertising (eg. Adsense).
- Inclusion surcharge (fast on the results of search engines and updating the contents of the databases of search engines).
- Natural Search Engine Optimization (SEO ).
The U.S. market forecasts foresee an increase in investment in the four advertising until 2013.
While the search gets more interest payments and investment, advertisers are increasingly relying on SEO to acquire new customers. That means that by 2013 the total investment in the Search Marketing reach 23.4 billion dollars and the largest share is for the SEO.
Source: eMarketer
Great heatsink, low
February 26, 2009
We are seeing the advent of PCs HTPCs and small cases, manufacturers are adjusting the size of their products to those teams.
This is a Thermalright heatsink high performance and low altitude, the AXP-140. X-bit labs have tried it. The findings, therefore a little bit of everything. On the one hand the benefits are pretty good for its size, but not the best cooler, but clear, as compared to animals that are twice as large.
Anyway, I do not see it so small. Only measures 7cm. high, when it is normal for these devices to measure twice, but it is very wide, so we need a box if not high, is wide. The analysis also plated the need for a monster like this to cool a Core2Duo 5200 or 7400 which are the processors that are now riding in HTPCs. If I see it logical, but not mount the fan, imagine it as a heatsink, in a well ventilated box with a 5200 can operate in passive mode.
Mounting a Core i7
February 26, 2009
This week we finally sold an Intel Core i7. Had wanted to try one of the New (because this step will not sell any Discontinued) Intel micros.
We had done several budgets with this processor, but none were accepted by customers. And almost all budgets fall into a similar profile: a user who uses programs where computing power is very important and where your time is valuable: designers, photographers, architects ... but the crisis shows. Although the power offered by this processor does not have a price so large, but that would be another discussion. The end customer has been the i7 is an architecture student who is finishing the race, has in hand a couple of big projects ... and the PC you bought when he went to high school, because we could not move.
We look for an austere setting, seeking that the price was adjusted. In the end, he changed the graphic for a slightly more powerful. The configuration includes a box Antec Three Hundred, a power supply Nox 500W. a Gigabyte motherboard with the X58, 4 GB of DDR3, a 500 GB hard drive, a rewritable DVD and an nVidia 9600 GT with passive cooling. The price, as less than 900 Euros.

Here you can see the box open. As we are still trying and have not been included cables with cable ties to adecentar interior looks a little better and allow air flow, that task is left to the end, when you are tested.

Here we see a close up of the processor, its good heatsink, the process is clear below. The assembly was simple, like a normal Core2Duo without stick. The team started the first with no problems.

This is the aspect of the tower ahead. The truth is that the Nine Hundred is a box that I like a lot, I see beautiful and very good value for money.
And the final question: is it shows the power of the new processor?. The installation of Windows, was brilliant, seen and unseen. The behavior of the team is impeccable, no matter what program we start, it's instant implementation. The test of processor power and memory speed, amazing, never mounted anything to earn those numbers (and we have not touched any of the settings of the bios yet on this issue, you can view the excellent articles in their blogs Carlos Yus, no i7 a miss if you're thinking of switching or processor). At the time of play, there is considerably less. Chance, we had a Core2Quad with the same graphic and the results were almost identical speed chart.
In summary, the Core i7 is an excellent processor for users who need lots of computing power. If you play, you like a more normal micro gives you the same performance.
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February 26, 2009
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