September 20, 2009
POS or Point of Sale refers to the system that records financial transactions in stores and restaurants. It could either be an electric cash register or an integrated computer system that records the data pertaining to the sale of goods or services. A typical POS system consists of a cash drawer, receipt printer, monitor and input device.
September 19, 2009
While an IT portfolio management exercise could take on different dimensions in different companies, it basically refers to making and managing an investment in an IT project or firm. Regardless of the size or composition of an IT portfolio, managing it well is of vital importance. Ask the bigwigs and they’ll tell you the same thing.
September 19, 2009
Whatever happened to that email you sent? How long did it sit in someone’s inbox before it was opened? Or maybe they never got it? Was it even opened at all?
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September 18, 2009
IPv6 Site Renumbering is often a misunderstood process; it involves a site (organization) removing its old existing network prefix and host address information and replacing it with new network prefix and host address information. Here are the reasons why a site (organization) would want to perform the IPv6 Site Renumbering process.
September 18, 2009
We used a smart board to teach with in the computer lab at school. Essentially, a SMART board turns your digital projector / LCD Projector image into an interactive whiteboard that you can write on.
The SMART Board itself is a touch-sensitive giant screen that is connected to your computer. You use your digital projector to display your computer screen onto the SMART board and the software allows you to touch and interact with your computer.
As more and more school boards and teachers are investing in data projectors, it begs the question whether SMART Boards are a good investment. After all, an intuitive touch interface plus the ability to write on digital documents (with digital ink) would help us to move beyond blackboards, flip chart paper, and overhead projectors.
Pros
With the SMART Board, you can control any application through the touch board. So instead of working from behind the computer keyboard, you (or your students) can be at the front of the classroom physically interacting with the display.
You can use any of the 4 colours of markers or the eraser to write in digital ink over applications, web pages, or moving video. The SMART board still works if you lose the pens. (There are 4 coloured pen holders and one eraser. When you lift the pen out of the slot, it selects the colour or the eraser. When you touch the screen, it uses the selected color or the eraser.)
Like other digital ink software applications, you can save your work into a notebook file, and you can convert handwriting into text.
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September 18, 2009
I wake up on a Monday morning, with a to-do list buzzing in my head. I’m hoping to get some really solid work done through the week – like finalizing the strategic plan for the next year, initiating meetings with financiers, and oh yes, finally preparing a vision document..
September 16, 2009
Have you decided to purchase a database solution for your business but do not know the types that are available? This piece will help you in understanding different database solutions and the benefits of using them. Desktop Databases: As the name suggests, these are oriented towards single-user applications and reside on standard personal computers.
September 16, 2009
what is life, the twenty-first century, such as Remember the 1950s, these estimates would have been a? also can be fun and even seemed a bit like a dream, it’s the car when it comes due, some estimates may not be that far away today, however.
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September 16, 2009
Not everyone can or wants be a computer expert, but there is a few things that every user should know about their computer. This article offers sensible, basic information about computers for the everyday novice user.
September 15, 2009
‘Knowledge communities are groups of people who share common challenges, opportunities or a passion about a subject, and work together to deepen their understanding of this subject by continuous learning and knowledge sharing.’(AIA Knowledge Communities)
The theoretical aspect of knowledge societies based on technology and leadership of people who share their knowledge effectively. Sharing knowledge is also due to information seekers in need of a certain type of knowledge. So they can perform certain tasks with confidence and knowledge sources can have all the information required. The theoretical part is carried out so that the effective exchange of knowledge is possible between the candidates knowledge and source of knowledge. This aspect helps candidates and sources to meet their needs and resources.
The concept of knowledge communities is largely derived from what is known as a community of practice (CoP). The term was coined in 1998 by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, who claimed that the communities of practice are everywhere and we are usually involved in a number of them at work, at school, at home or interest in our civic and leisure. In some groups we are core members, in others we are more on the margin. (Smith, 2003)
Towards the end of the last century, the idea of shared knowledge has been used in industry and a more developed outside the COP has been known as’ knowledge communities.
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