Small Biz Technology Reviews

It had been quite a while since I last wrote an article here after my terrible accident. Anyway, as I was recuperating from my motorcycle crash, I was able to spend more time watching videos using my PC and this prompted me to check out several different video files from different sources. Some video files that I happen to encounter are not playable to the built-in video players that I have on my computer. That prompted me to check out for some available free-ware and open source video player and this is the time that I found Miro.

Miro is a one of a kind video solution for one who would like to play varied types of video files whether from the internet or videos that were created from elsewhere. I have tested playing various files with Miro and all videos played well. Not only that, the resolution of the videos that I played with Miro were all enhanced thus giving the viewer a much better resolutions for viewing pleasures.

eBay is the world’s foremost online marketplace. A place for buyers and sellers to come together and trade almost anything. It has over 200 million global customers and can offer your product and business the exposure needed to this huge marketplace.

How does eBay work?
In a nutshell, eBay works by giving a platform for a seller to list his/her products. The seller then chooses if he/she wants to accept bids only (auction-type) or to offer a “Buy It Now” (direct sale) option at a fixed price. In an auction, the bidding opens at a price the seller specifies and remains on eBay for a certain number of days. Buyers then place bids on the item. When the listing ends, the buyer with the highest bid wins. In a “Buy It Now” listing, the first buyer willing to pay the seller’s price gets the item.

Just like in the movies, Social Networking is COMING SOON to the office near you.

There is much anticipation in the business world regarding IBM’s social networking software, BEEHIVE. Much like FaceBook, users can post pictures, video and one-sentence updates about themselves. Employees can describe their expertise, talk about themselves and learn about their colleagues from the other side of the world. Certainly a great tool that empowers employees to socialize with each other, especially amongst co-workers scattered across the different offices of today’s enterprises.

What is Open Source? If you don’t know then probably it has become so ubiquitous that you never pay attention to the term anymore. You’re probably using open source software and yet you don’t know it. Open source projects revolutionized the IT industry and business in general and it promise to do more in the near and the far future. At the backend of the Internet, you’ll find open source projects powering its infrastructure. From operating system like Linux, and blogging software like WordPress to online forum software like phpBB. Behind the scene, countless other small and yet important softwares are being churned out by the energetic and passionate members of the community. In many ways, the internet revolution we are seeing right now is directly caused by members of the community. Open Source, by also being free (in most cases) or low cost has made technology available to more people.

How would open source affect your business?
Businesses have to embrace technology and make use of it to further their growth and thrive in the new world. Open source has a very tantalizing proposition for those who can tame it, free and community supported good quality software. Tell me what is better than free software that is supported by thousand of software enthusiast all over the world.

In software, I look for simplicity. I look for tools that are simple, easy to use and most importantly, help me finish my work faster.

MemoKeys, I must say belongs to this category of tools. I use it to save time by encoding text that I repeatedly use in different documents across different application. For me, it has worked on all application that accepts text input (ex. word processor, email clients, web forms). The developer has even claimed that it has been tested on 40 different target applications.