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Nice Surprise From Daily Buzz Tech!

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DailyBuzz loved our post about the Handpresso and so we’re happy to announce that we were featured in A Cup of Joe, in the Top 9.

Get the Best Cable TV Bundle

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When you need to pick your cable operator that provides cable Internet connection services and telephone services in addition to cable television, your first choice probably is Comcast, as it’s known as the largest operator in the United States. Comcast has all you need for home entertainment, mobile entertainment and business and is in the top of preferences of commercial and residential customers.

The digital television service is available for reasonable prices and includes High Definition content as well as on-demand content, so you won’t miss any of your favorite shows while busy doing something outside your home. These technology advancements allow you to watch shows in real time or record episodes for later view, in digital quality image and sound.

In addition, the high-speed Internet connection gives you access to everything you need while on the go, at up to 100x faster speeds compared to dial-up, while the security is not an issue anymore these days. Read more

Keep Everything Organized and Handy in Your Web Browser with Clipix

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Like many people who spend all day on the Internet for blogging, working, shopping and facebooking, I use tabbed browsing and I currently have about 30 web pages active simultaneously. This cool feature of the latest web browser versions makes it easy to store everything you need to use now or save for later, but the drawback is that the browser will crash at some point and you need to reinstall the program. Bookmarks help you save all your opened tabs, but if you don’t save them to the hard drive too, you risk to lose everything in case session restoring stops to work. Over time, the number of tabs grows significantly and you won’t be able to keep so many open simultaneously.

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Save for the Entire Family and Pets With Walgreens Prescription Savings Club

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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

If you are not enrolled in a health care program like Medicaid, Medicare or Tricare, and were looking for a way to save on prescriptions, let me tell you some great news. Walgreens have recently launched a special offer for the Walgreens Prescription Savings Club, which covers family membership and individual membership.

What I love about this is that the program covers not only everyone in the immediate family, like the spouse, and dependents up to 22 years of age, but also pets. For $10 per year you get discount prices on prescriptions, along with savings on over 8,000 branded medications and all generic medications, as well as discounts on flu shots, nebulizers, diabetic supplies and pet prescriptions, plus bonuses when you purchase Nice! or Walgreends products, or photo-finishing services. Basically, you can save money on medications for various health issues including for allergies, arthritis, cholesterol, eye care, cold, mental health, infections, thyroid problems, birth control, asthma, vitamins, and weight management.

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The Cheaper, Faster and Easier Fax Alternative

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Whenever you need to send or receive faxes, whether you are one person or represent an organization, you can rely on a relatively new technology called Internet fax. The advantages of electronic faxing include zero maintenance costs for hardware components such as fax machines, as well as the ease and speed of use. Practically, anyone using an Internet fax service cand send and receive fax messages within minutes, without having previous experience with traditional faxing machines or telephone networks. There is no hardware or software component required, while users can send any type of document via the Internet, including short announcements, sales invoices, purchase orders, and account statements. Read more

Real-Time Business Intelligence With QuartetFS ActivePilot

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Industries functioning based on large amounts of data rely on Online Analytical Processing systems that support aggregation of data in order to provide various possible views of information for further analysis. OLAP can be used by managers, analysts and executives to quickly access essential information that answers questions like “who?”, “what?”, “what if?”, and “why?”, and is widely used for budgeting, financial modelling, performance analysis, allocations, forecasting, sales analysis, market research, promotion analysis, customer segmentation, defect analysis and production planning.

ActivePilot is a real-time OLAP aggregation engine developed by Quartet Financial Systems, a company focused on business activity monitoring and real time business intelligence, to support real-time analytics powered by a transactional engine and multi-threaded processing. Time intelligence is one of the key features required by Online Analytical Processing applications and, thanks to the real-time push technology, ActivePilot supports it based on the capability to aggregate multiple sources of information at the same time, fast navigation, as well as dice filtering. Queries can run continuously, while real-time alerts are generated on Key Performance Indicators. Read more

Cloud Database Made Simple With Xeround

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Whether you are a database administrator, an IT manager or a developer, to ensure the success of all your applications, at some point you most likely will need to deploy MySQL in the cloud. Everyone knows the benefits of cloud computing these days, which includes lower costs, dynamic scalability, easier maintenance and load testing, wide support for client platforms, significantly accelerated management approval process, and faster development. As one of the most widely used database is MySQL, and any organization has at least several applications running on it, choosing a database-as-a-service approach would be the best solution.

Unlike virtual machine instances that can be purchased for a limited time, with the possibility to upload your machine image with the database installed, the database-as-a-service system allows you to use databases without launching virtual machine instances, or installing and maintaining databases on your own. In this case, the service provider is in charge with simpliying things by becoming resposible for the installation and maintenance of your databases.

Xeround is an Amazon RDS alternative that boasts a powerful, yet extremely simple cloud database solution for MySQL applications. Read more

iTransition – Complete Software Development Solution

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When you are looking for the best software development team to make your business stronger and more reliable, you have plenty of companies to choose from. One of them is iTransition, a customer-oriented company known for the 12-year experience in the field of software development and software consulting. Their services cover both the development and implementation phases including custom software development, product development, software testing, maintenance, security consulting, protoyping, application integration at the enterprise level, and virtualization management. Read more

Why to Consider Satellite Internet

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This guest post was brought to you by Satellite911

In recent years, there have been a number of technological improvements that have changed the worlds of Internet and television in many different ways. For example, while people have been aware of satellite services for quite a while, and some have enjoyed it already for years, most people have stuck with basic cable for both Internet and television services, simply because this is the easiest service. However, particularly in recent years, some satellite providing companies have made gains on the cable industry, and many people are beginning to prefer their services, offered by companies such as Direct Tv or Dish Network. Read more

SlideDeck – Complete Plugin for Customizable Slides

Editor: Sierra Monica B. under Web Stuff

You have no idea how long I have been looking for a simple plugin to enable a beautiful image slideshow on the homepage to enhance the appearance of the blog. A long time ago I have tried several options, including different themes with built-in image slider for WordPress, but that didn’t help much as I wasn’t able to customize them according to my needs. This is why my next design enhancement will include SlideDeck, a complete solution for customizable slideshows. Read more