Archive for May, 2011

Wireless Video With Audio Offers Additional Security

You walk out of your house, turn left, and amble down the sidewalk until you reach the intersection. When the pedestrian signal lights up, you start to stroll across the ladder of wide side-to-side white rectangles on the blacktop street. Then suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you spot the flashing red and white lights of an ambulance as it barrels down the street in your direction! You dart across the crosswalk, to the island, feeling the breeze of the vehicle as it whizzes past you. You failed to notice the huge truck sooner because you could not hear it. This scene perfectly illustrates the need for a wireless video security camera with audio. A wireless video security camera with audio can make a difference in securing a home, workplace, or just about any location.   

The Sound of Silence
A world without sound is a different world. The first true movies with sound appeared in the 1930s. Until then, every movie experience felt like watching a foreign film with subtitles. While this is no longer a problem for us today, having to live in a world without sound remains a reality for some. About one percent of the U.S. population today cannot hear anything. Outstanding films such as Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995), Children of a Lesser God (1986), and The Miracle Worker vividly demonstrate some of the challenges of being deaf and living with deaf people. Imagine for a while what it would be like if every day of your life felt like watching a movie without sound! Likewise, wireless video security is much improved with cameras that contain an audio feature.     

Read the rest of this entry »

Anatomy of a Search Engine

For some unfortunate souls SEO is simply the learning of tricks
and techniques that, according to their understanding, should
propel their site into the top rankings on the major search
engines. This understanding of the way SEO works can be
effective for a time however it contains one basic flaw: the
rules change. Search engines are in a constant state of
evolution in order to keep up with the SEO’s in much the same
way that Norton, McAfee, AVG or any of the other anti-virus
software companies are constantly trying to keep up with the
virus writers.

Basing your entire websites future on one simple set of rules
(read: tricks) about how the search engines will rank your site
contains an additional flaw, there are more factors being
considered than any SEO is aware of and can confirm. That’s
right, I will freely admit that there are factors at work that I
may not be aware of and even those that I am aware of I cannot
with 100 percent accuracy give you the exact weight they are
given in the overall algorithm. Even if I could, the algorithm
would change a few weeks later and what’s more, hold your hats
for this one: there is more than one search engine.

Read the rest of this entry »