For any corporate organization’s success it is essential that the employees feel their worth and the clients are satisfied. For increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty, as well as employee productivity, it is practical for the company to introduce certain promotions from time to time. If you’re at the top of such a company, and are looking for someone to help you out with such promotional offers and giveaways, then Promotional Items, Inc. would be the perfect choice! Our vastly experienced experts can give you unbeatable advice on how to make your business the best! Plus we offer a vast collection of feasible promotional gifts and items. For employees, promotional products such as pens, promotional portfolios, tote bags (a big hit with the ladies!!) and note pads are suggested. For the clientele, more sophisticated promotional gifts such as digital organizers would be the perfect choice! All embedded with your company name and logo of course!
Windows Server 2008, latest in Microsoft Windows’ line of server OSs, has been introduced to handle the latest web services and applications. Despite the general faith in Microsoft, people are generally not too keen on Windows Server 2008 hosting. If you’re one of them, I’d like to point out its benefits and advantages. You may change your mind soon!
Built on the same base code as Vista, it has similar functionality. The technical, administrative and security features are very much improved from the previous editions of this OS. It supports all of the latest languages, and the easy to use control panel is a definite plus. The fact that dedicated servers are provided for different applications such as email and MS SQL makes Windows Server 2008 a lot more stable. With a number of editions of Server 2008 available, you’ll certainly find something tailor-made for you! Clearly, dedicated server hosting on Windows Server 2008 is not a bad idea at all…
We can not even imagine effective business without web technologies. We all got accustomed that every company has its own internet resource. As the result the number of potential clients of Web design and Software development Companies has a tendency to grow from year to year.
The range of services offered by custom software development companies is very wide. Today there is no problem to find a company which will suit you. For example, if you live in Florida you can find a company offering Web design in Jacksonville which is just round the corner. Or if you want to promote your business and open a new branch in Chicago. In this case Chicago Web design specialists who can be of great value as they already know all demands and desires of local community.
Another valuable service is phpfox which is the latest solution in the sphere of PHP services. This particular service offer a large potential for site customization to satisfy the demands of every client. The only thing is left for a potential client is to choose the solution which will work for his business.
Have you ever find it is annoying to find the suitable furniture for your new home? Indeed, I have experienced that before. Not long ago, I relocated to a new place in Los Angeles, and my family decided to buy a brand new set of furniture. It nearly took us a month to find the desirable furniture which is simply unacceptable. But recently, I have found a very gorgeous website called LA Furniture Store. The catalog in its website is comprehensive – from contemporary furniture to modern furniture. Finally, we bought a new cozy sofa from this store, and not just the color is great, but the quality and materials used are gorgeous as well.
Furthermore, it provides quality and satisfactory delivery service. In order to protect the whole furniture, LA Furniture Store strives the best to protect every components inside, and the assembly of them is idiot-proof too. Amazing.
By adding a ‘+description’ between your address and the @, you create a disposable Gmail address. For example, foobar@gmail can become foobar+inviteforxyz@gmail.com.
Then you can filter your email based on the information after the plus sign, and send those emails to a folder or the trash. You only get 20 of them from Gmail so use them wisely.
Today I was looking for an unobtrusive method of determining a user’s connection speed using JavaScript. A quick search on Google returned an array of tricks mostly having to do with using Ajax to make a call behind the scenes, and track the payload time for the small file. In most cases people use an image with a random variable at the end to avoid caching, like image.jpg?foo=1Rt2X21. This is all good but adds an HTTP connection which could potentially interfere with the user’s experience, especially if they are already on a slow connection to begin with.
Then I discovered something interesting in Google Analytics.
Google Analytics tracks and stores connection speeds for your visitors as part of the Network Properties category. The data provided includes Connection Speed and this corresponds with Pages per visit, Average time on Site, Percentage of new visits, and the Bounce rate. But how in the world does Google compile this data? It appears that people are guessing that Google uses the visitor’s IP address or hostname to do a lookup in an IP database or a reverse lookup, and then makes a guess based on what ISP that IP address belongs to. But Google also loads a small .gif file with each urchin request. This article explains a little trick for using time stamped image loading and log analysis which seems related.
So if your IP belongs to RoadRunner, then we can assume you are on a cable connection and file you under that category. This can sometimes get somewhat hairy and lead to ambiguity as evidenced by the Unknown category shown in Google Analytics. It is also interesting to note the Unknown category is the single largest category in my case with 36% of the total data collected. What happens if you are on AOL or EarthLink? Will the database contain the accurate information to pinpoint if you are on dial-up or broadband? How often is the database updated with new information? What about edge cases, for example if you work in an office where you have a “broadband” connection but share it with a large group of people?
The good news is that with Analytics the work happens without interfering with the user experience and no additional HTTP connections are needed. The bad news is, it is not done in real time. So if you are looking for a real-time test this will not work for you, unless you build your own seriously fast IP database web service that you can use asynchronously. The other option is to use the binary image payload test, but that also makes life hard for your users.
So, If you are looking for general statistics for a webapp over a date range then Google Analytics might be the way to go. Keep in mind you will end up with a chunk of Unknown data. As for making snap decisions, you can sniff user bandwidth while they surf with payload testing. Here is another sample page at AOL where they put up a simple fork page and determine your bandwidth speed using JavaScript image loading and setting a user cookie. I can think of a dozen reasons why this is a bad idea but I won’t go into that here.
PS. It is worth mentioning that Internet Explorer supports a built in behavior called clientCaps, which provides information about features supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as a way for installing browser components on demand. The connectionType property of clientCaps returns either lan, modem or offline. Since this only works in IE and doesn’t offer too much granularity, it might be a good test if you are only trying to test IE users specifically.
Apple released Safari 3.1 (525.13) for both Mac and Windows users today which comes with a bunch of changes and improvements over 3.0.x series. Here are the set of changes included in the new release.
Developer Menu
The first thing you will notice is the addition of the “Develop” menu (Preferences/Advanced/Show Develop menu in menu bar) item with the following tasks:
Open Page with: (Other browsers installed on your system including FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera)
User Agent: Set you user agent from the list of options, or enter your own user-agent. Finally! This was previously part of the hidden debug menu and you had no way of specifying a custom user-agent. The other exciting additions here are the ability to set your user-agent as Mobile Safari 1.1.3 for either iPhone or the iPod touch.
You can also pull up the Web Inspector, Error console, Network Timeline and a Snippet Editor. Lastly the Developer menu allows you to disable various browser features such as Caches, Images, CSS Styles, JavaScript, Runaway JavaScript Timers, and Site-Specific Hacks. You can now also edit CSS in the Web Inspector.