In our lastet video interview, Jonathan Mitchell, CIO and Business Process Improvement Director at world famous aeroplane engine manufacturer Rolls Royce, talks to ComputerWeekly.com about the changing role of the CIO in today’s business environment. As well as Mitchell’s view on the changing nature of the CIO’s role today, we asked other IT directors at the Computer Weekly 500 club monthly meeting whether they felt the role of CIO was more of an IT function or whether it was more of a business role.
§ February 20th, 2012§ Filed under Computer WeeklyComments Off
New York City, NY (PRWEB) February 20, 2012
Janis Spindel Serious Matchmaking Inc. launched 2LoveToday, an exclusive online dating service for upscale, successful marriage minded men and women. 2LoveToday.com is unique because it allows members to create a profile, search, and contact other members by email and text chat with no credit card required. For those who want more, 2LoveToday has a private registry that offers two background checks where members must be personally approved by Janis Spindel herself.
?We have seen enormous growth in our high end membership since 1993 when we first opened the business,” says Janis. ?It was time to create an online dating site where women can meet my upscale, professional, well-educated men online for a fraction of the cost of my one-on-one matchmaking service.? The 2LoveToday private registry helps members find a successful marriage minded partner who is exactly what they are looking for. ?Compared to other giant online dating sites, our smaller and personalized dating site revolutionizes the online community by making it easier and safer for our members. Women tend to be very cautious when it comes to online dating.? 2LoveToday has added features that improve safety and matching based on the fact Janis must personally approve every member.
In just a few weeks, 2LoveToday has seen nearly 85% of its offline member?s signup to use the service. These men and women are given access to a pool of members that were previously only afforded to the rich and famous.
?The growth of 2LoveToday is expected to triple in the second quarter of this year, when women typically re-evaluate their current relationships. In the current economic state of affairs, we expect a record number of men and women to look for an alternative to the big online dating sites run by computers.? America?s Top Matchmaker, Janis Spindel, which gives members a personalized online dating site, runs 2LoveToday. Janis leaves no stone unturned when helping people find the love of their life.
“White on Blackdemonstrates in no uncertain terms that this hero is alive and kicking.” – Washington Post Book World Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His lost boyhood was spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes. And yet, he shows no self-pity here, no bitterness. Gallego has made his story one of small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child’s growing fascination with literature and the worlds he finds in it. ”A harrowing and graceful memoir.”—Entertainment Weekly”Heralded as a groundbreaking expose of the Soviet Union’s abuse of the handicapped….The resulting narrative feels at once concentrated and universalized beyond specific individuals or nations.”—The New York Times”Mr. Gallego’s little book is deeply moving, his triumph a joy to read about.”—TheWashington Times Ruben Gallego was separated from his family at the age of one. He was raised in a series of Soviet state institutions, and then worked as a computer specialist until 2000, when he was reunited with his mother. Gallego now lives in Freiburg, Germany.
Nowadays, people can not live without computers and me neither! You won?t use a computer you bought 5 years ago! It is not because computers don?t last, just because they change so fast that you can not be satisfied with the performance of the computers you bought several years ago! For example, our family bought the first PC around 1988 when we thought the computer wewas so state-of-the-art and so expensive (it was expensive actually) we rarely used it before it was gone. Shortly after it went out of style, we had decided to throw it out, interestingly, that is when I turned out to be very interested in computers. Then I started to learn how to use this computer with its unbelievably slow processing speed. I learned very much from that experience since I could use it whatever way without being afraid of damaging it. Having discarded it, my mother bought a new Sony laptop; it is still on my desk now. I had used this laptop for 3 years and it has been not bad. I learned also a lot from the past 3 years of using this computer. It has only been used for downloading bit torrent files. Last week, I purchased a new laptop; it is brilliant except that its prices went down by $ 200 only one day after I got it. what are the chances!?Computers are one of those things that change so fast. No one could have imagined, in the 1970s that by the end of the 20th century, computers would be as present in people?s offices and homes as TVs? In the 1970s, computers were not really surprising, but only in huge business, government departments, and large organizations. These were what we call mainframe machines were truly large, they often took whole air-conditioned rooms, requiring professional technicians and run on exclusively-programmed software. Although we can still see these large machines somewhere, many of their functions have been replaced by small powerful personal computersIn 1975, a primitive machine called the Altair was launched in the USA. It can appropriately be described as the first ?home computer? and it gave us an idea of what the future PCs could be like. What is more, at the end of the 1970s, there was a machine called an Apple that followed the Altair. In the early 1980s, the computer giant, IBM produced the world?s first PC. This worked on an ?operating system? called DOS, produced by a then small company entitled Microsoft. The IBM Personal Computer was widely copied. From those immature beginnings, we have seen the development of the user-friendly home computers and multimedia machines which are in common use today.Now computers can be small enough to hold in the hand, they are capable of providing information about traffic jams and directing where you are supposed to go, they can be used in hospitals to help doctors to diagnose diseases, they relieve office workers and accountants of boring, repetitive clerical work. Computers have become smaller and smaller, more and more powerful and cheaper and cheaper.Who is able to tell us what to expect in the next fifty years.
Maintaining Your Computers Performance Removing Spyware
Article by Tim Montey
It’s 9:00 on a Sunday evening and the phone rings. It is my Dad telling me that his computer is running slow, giving unusual error messages, takes forever to start up or something along those lines. He needs it working tomorrow when the stock market opens.
Three years ago I gave my 80 year old Dad a rebuilt computer of mine so he could check his stock prices without calling his broker all day long. He can get on the internet, read the news, go to Yahoo finance and check stock prices and look at a few other pages that I have saved in his Favorites. That is pretty much it. If anything out of the ordinary happens, he calls me. Other than the time a cricket got into his computer, all that the computer has ever needed is to have a good electronic scrubbing.
I highly suggest that everyone stick to a regularly scheduled maintenance program for their computer. How frequently this needs to be done is dependent on how much you use the internet – the source of all of the spyware, viruses, browser hijackers, cookies, temporary internet files and other malware that can affect your computer’s performance. I maintain my work computer weekly, but this may not be necessary if you do not spend forty plus hours a week on your computer. My second computer that is not used but a few hours a week is only maintained monthly at best.
Here is a list of the things that I do to keep my computers running at peek performance:
1. Always keep your antivirus program up to date and scheduled to run daily at a time when your computer is on, but not in use. I have been using the AVG free version for many years and highly recommend it.
2. Run the free Adaware from Lavasoft weekly. It is a spyware removal program, with paid upgrades available. Adaware removes spyware, dialers, Trojans, browser hijackers and much more. It is best to remove it all regularly since even the less harmful stuff slows your computer down and wastes space. The free version of Adaware will remove most spyware and does not take very long to run, so I run it first.
3. Run Spybot. Spybot is another free spyware removal program. It will often pick up a few more nasties that Adaware missed. This program takes a bit longer to run than Adaware but is worth it.
4. Clean out junk files (temporary internet files, cookies), remove invalid registry entries, another check for spyware, defragment your hard drive and RAM and optimize your startup menu. I use a program called System Mechanic by Iolo Technologies. I bought this program for around $ 25 not long after Windows XP was released in 2001 (it now sells for under $ 40 at most computer stores). I still use this product regularly. It performs these tasks quickly and is very user friendly. This product is a must have and a bargain in my opinion. I am sure System Mechanic has made many advances in the last seven years, but my old version still works very nicely for me (until the custom computer shop I use quits selling computers loaded with XP!).
This may sound like a lot of work to do on a weekly basis, but is well worth it. I do this on Sunday evenings when I am usually lounging around the house watching TV. I set a program to run, check back in a while when it is done and then start the next one. This way, it is not that much of an inconvenience.
See ya. Gotta run over to Dad’s now to clean up his computer…….
Tim Montey is a database admin in the pharmaceutical industry and maintains niche directory websites on the side. His latest project is a niche directory of computer stores and computer shops across the US.
In our lastet video interview, Jonathan Mitchell, CIO and Business Process Improvement Director at world famous aeroplane engine manufacturer Rolls Royce, talks to ComputerWeekly.com about the changing role of the CIO in today’s business environment. As well as Mitchell’s view on the changing nature of the CIO’s role today, we asked other IT directors at the Computer Weekly 500 club monthly meeting whether they felt the role of CIO was more of an IT function or whether it was more of a business role. Video Rating: 5 / 5
§ February 15th, 2012§ Filed under Computer WeeklyComments Off
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 15, 2012
Competition to win the Best Computer Repair Shop MojoPages award has ramped up towards the conclusion of voting. Hundreds of votes have been cast in the last few days, coming from small markets to larger metropolitan areas. Voting for the Best Computer Repair Shop category will conclude on Saturday, February 18th.
Information on businesses that were nominated for Best Computer Repair Shop in U.S. can be found on MojoPages Facebook, Youtube and Twitter pages.
Each week, this Yellow Pages website concludes a contest for a specific business category, with a total of 52 categories in all. MojoPages allows users to search and vote for businesses in their city, giving each business a ranking within their category.
While users have one year to vote for their favorite business, competition tends to ramp up during the final weeks. Nominations came in from cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago.
The votes and subsequent rankings are provided by users of the site and show just how popular each Computer Repair Shop is. Those businesses ranking 2nd to 5th will be recognized as well. Within each business’ profile, site users can find the number of people that voted as well as additional information about each business.
The votes are finalized every Sunday and announced to the masses. It’s a high honor for a business to get the MojoPages Award’s #1 spot. It means getting placed at the top of the search list for their category within their particular city.
Any Computer Repair Shop is eligible to be ranked. Current ranks are already displayed so that voters can help bring their favorite into the #1 spot before winners are officially announced on February 18th.
Anyone interested in seeing the full category list for 2012 of the Yellow Pages can visit the MojoPages website at http://www.mojopages.com/.
Through all their adventures, the bond of the Sisterhood has remained steadfast and unshakeable. But for the first time, the Sisterhood verges on falling apart when the ladies have to choose between two difficult assignments. The first job guarantees a huge paycheck; the second offers a presidential pardon — and a chance to finally emerge from hiding.For the sake of their union, the gals put aside their differences and focus on a new mission. A mysterious Washington, D.C. political operative needs them to track down a computer hacker who has stolen a highly classified list of fundraisers’ names. With a presidential election looming, the girls soon realize the job is a lot more dangerous than they had anticipated. Will their client come through with his promise? And can the ladies stop fighting — and stay alive — long enough to see it happen?Praise for Fern Michaels and her Sisterhood novels:“Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces…fast-paced…puts poetic justice first.” — Publishers Weekly on Payback“An unforgettable story.” — Rendezvous on Weekend Warriors
