Key Tips for IPTC: How to Find TV on the Internet

The acronym IPTV stands for Internet Protocol Television. It is a system in which digital television service is delivered using the networks, equipment and “protocols” (a fancy word for “certain specified procedures”) that are used for computer networking over the Internet.
IPTV requires a broadband connection, whether cable, satellite or DSL (a telephone company’s Digital Subscriber Line). A savvy computer user can get IPTV in a number of ways, but the more technologically-challenged may need it to be simplified and packaged by a third party. Companies are being founded every day, it seems, to help bring IPTV to the masses.
IN “package deals,” IPTV can be provided (or “bundled”) along with VoD (Video on Demand) as well as standard Internet services including web access and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol, as used in digital phone services like Vonage or Skype). In the marketing language that is developing in and around this growing technology, the combination of Internet access, IPTV and VoIP is referred to as a “triple play.”
The “how” and the “who”
There are any number of websites that offer a way to get IPTV. Certain sites stream the programs themselves, and/or offer you optional links to other “content aggregators” based on what you’re looking for. There is a wealth of viewing material out there, but don’t look for the latest NBC series or an NFL game, as most of IPTV material is independently produced for now. However, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and all the other major high-tech “players” are watching this technology as it develops, and it should accelerate soon.
IPTV sites, like multiple choice “stations,” offer various programs. Some could be from the “public domain,” programs whose copyrights and other protections have expired. You might find old TV series and even some Hollywood movies this way. But the strength, and the future hope, of IPTV is that it will provide strong, creative and ultimately popular new offerings across a wide range of topics and tastes.
The “where” and the “when”
There are various public service, not-for-profit and educational websites that are designed to familiarize new IPTV users with the changing landscape of digital entertainment. Of course, there are many other for-profit sites that can be visited in order to gather information on how to watch IPTV. Sometimes you pay a fee, sometimes you don’t, and there is a lot to be worked out in the competing business models.
However, there is one particular website, ConnectTV.ca, that heralds IPTV as a “Future Tecnology” [sic] and exists to provide “Information and resources for IPTV services, solutions and technologies developed for IPTV.”
The site provides definitions, explanations of services, lists of links and a user forum where visitors can ask questions and get answers from IPTV boosters around the world. IPTV seems to be carving out its place in the entertainment industry, if the discussions (and rumors) at this site are any indication.
One thing is clear: IPTV is definitely the wave of the future, and with all of the major media companies backing it up a critical mass of interest and progress will build quickly. At the end of 2007 IPTV already had over fifteen million users, and It is predicted that by 2008, 20 million homes worldwide will subscribe to IPTV services. There is little doubt that the numbers will keep on climbing.
Into the future
You may a few important choices to make in the near future when it comes time to set up your IPTV. Some companies are going to go with the “set-top-box” model vs. a direct computer connection. In the set-top-box, you will receive your signal via a broadband data feed of some kind, which is then fed to the “box” to interpret the signals and provide the proper interface for the monitor.
Once that occurs, your TV can be configured to handle multiple inputs. This means you can use a TV tuner on the monitor to get (old-style) over the air broadcasts, a cable box to get cable TV and a new “IPTV box” to bring in this latest kind of digital programming. It will be a true all-in-one solution, and even your TV guide listings will be on-screen.
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What a Company MUST Excel at to Thrive Today

“We’re All Customer Service People Now”

In September 2008, the Forbes 400 List of the richest Americans saw Warren Buffett and his bridge partner Bill Gates swap the number 1 and 2 spots again. But there are two new additions to the top 5, a couple of Sam Walton’s boys, S. Robson and Jim.
There are two other Walton sub-clans: Alice Walton, and the apparent familial holding company, “Christy Walton & family.” That is how it always appears, almost as if the ® sign were accidentally left off. At any rate, if Sam were still alive, with his fortune in one piece and his young’n’s still waiting for their inheritances, he would be as rich as Gates and Buffett combined.
The fact is, 2007 was the first year since 1989 that not a single Walton placed in the Top 10. Now they are almost 50% wealthier than a year ago while so many other gazillionaires are being downgraded to plain old zillionaires and the economy is tanking. It sends a clear message: When the going gets tough, the tough go to Wal-Mart.
Customer as king
Wal-Mart’s down home success, occurring at the same time that those New York sophisticates Stearns and Lehman are getting bailed out or going broke, is a ringing endorsement of several working class principles. The first, of course, is having “the low price, always.” But close on its heels is, “Customer is king.”
While Buffett lost $12 billion and Gates took a beating, the Walton family surged ahead on the strength of, to put it simply, being a little bit country and a little bit rock-and-roll. Hip enough to bring in teens’ all-important entertainment-related brands (from iPods to fashion), the store took early stands against certain magazines and “gangsta” rappers, earning them points from parents.
But the thing that put Wal-Mart over the top? The greeters. Believe it or not, the greeters at the door are second only to “low price,” and way ahead of “quality,” in the internal customer polls conducted by the company for four decades. A key marketing insight gleaned from the polls was that people don’t do business with companies. They do business with other people. Commerce is really quite personal.
Service at every step
We believe in the customer service model. After the great eruption of advertising sophistication (some would say manipulation) in the postwar era, and the rise of The Salesman, many companies took on a new mantra of sorts. “We’re all sales people now,” they would intone. Every clerk, every janitor, every accountant was expected to sing the company’s praises and cultivate business with their relatives, neighbors and PTA-mates.
As they say, that was then and this is now. The fact is, we’re all customer service people now. And we should be. Our customers, in fact, pay our salaries, so it only makes sense to excel on their behalf. From the first contact through a continuing relationship, we have a single overriding concern, which is making sure our customers get all the facts, understand all the features, have a few options and learn enough to set up and operate their new equipment.
It may be a simple Cube duplicator, or we may tailor a duplication/printing system to your precise needs, with any of several kinds of disc printers. Some printers employ the bright and clear inkjet technology, others the rich and smudge-resistant thermal printing that literally “heat bonds” the dyes to the disc surface.
New solutions: cleaner, greener
Then there are the new LightScribe CD/DVD recorders, internal and external, for personal use without the expense of ink of any kind – flip the special disc over after burning your media, and the lasers will “etch” a crisp, monochromatic label. A variety of graphics programs can manipulate typefaces and images for many kinds of unique, artistic “virtual labels.”
These new solutions are not just cleaner, but they’re also greener. Since there is no paper or plastic being printed and pasted, there is no shredding or sticking to foul up the drive. The drive thus lasts longer, and during its long, productive life it will neither drink ink nor eat paper. That’s quite “eco-beneficial,” and a unique selling point. Lightscribe is simple, smart and safe.
And that pretty much describes our attitude right there: We stay up on the latest and greatest so we can offer you the most possible alternatives, and we keep things simple to understand. We help you make the smart moves, and help you navigate the technological territory if it’s new to you. With our expert assistance, you will be safe, the solution will be sound and you will know exactly what is going on. We will not “geek you out” but we will explode the myth that doing your own CD/DVD duplication requires a degree in electronics or engineering.
Stop paying the duplication and replication companies’ bloated prices. Take control of your own media, your own manufacturing, your own distribution, your own QC and your own marketing. If you are spending into four figures for these services, you need to become an owner, not a renter. Ask us any question you have, even about a duplication job you’re doing or a certain piece of equipment. We won’t charge you for advice and we won’t pressure you into a purchase.
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Adding banners to your sites

Most popular web sites today have rotating advertisement on their pages. Why not your site too? With the Ad Rotator component it is easy to add advertisement rotation to your pages. However, the functionality you get is very basic only – if you are really serious about making money with banners, you must get a full - blown banner management software.
The Ad Rotator component automates the rotation of a preset group of advertisements on a page (or group of pages). The component automatically place a new image on the page every time the page is opened or reloaded. The information about which ad to present – and therefore which image and link – is taken from the Rotation Schedule file.

Adding Ad rotation to a page is very simple. Besides the line for creating an instance of the Ad Rotator object, there is only one line you must add to the script code of your page, which is the second line.
Set adrot = server . createobject (“mswc.adrotator”)
Response . write (adrot.getadvertisement (“adrotfile.txt”)
The method getadvitisment inserts the image for the ad and the hyperlink. Therefore, the definition for this stuff must be in the rotation schedule file. Although this is correct, I am showing off the three properties that can be used for the Ad Rotator component prior to presenting the syntax for the rotator Schedule file.

Here’s a Quick Way to Choose the Right Printer for You

In 1985, an entry-level black-and-white (b&w) laser printer cost upwards of US$2000. Inkjet technology was just coming to the desktop at that time, with Canon and Epson leading the way with affordable color printers, starting at a mere US$300 or so.
At today’s prices – starting as low as US$19 – color inkjets qualify as impulse buys. In fact, if they break down after the warranty expires, it doesn’t make sense to fix them, as the repairs would cost more than a new printer. And today’s laser printers can be had for under US$100, or less if you catch a sale or send in a rebate coupon.
Still, if you are a serious computer user – student, hobbyist, artist, engineer, writer and so on – you should never buy anything computer-related on impulse. Always do some research, always shop around and always get good, neutral advice if you are confused or undecided. This article will give you the basics of print technology, and a quick way to choose the right printer for you.
What’s the job?
Because of the varied strengths of laser printers and color inkjets, and some users’ need to print in large formats, some homes and offices will have several different printers. However, most people (and even most businesses) do certain kinds of work regularly and may need just one printer. Therefore the first question would be, “What will you use the printer for?” Answering this first query will determine whether you need color or b&w printing, and laser or inkjet technology.
First, let’s consider the average family computer usage. Dad needs to do some office work at times, balance the checkbook, print some photos taken with his digital camera and so forth. Mom wants to make fliers for her book club, and the kids have plenty of homework with charts, maps and such. This situation demands color, certainly, and color inkjets, as we’ve already learned, are quite inexpensive.
Of course, the printer manufacturers don’t expect to make their profits on the printers. They make their money on the ink. Even no-name cartridges, or refill-them-yourself kits, are an ongoing expense that you must consider. If you expect to do a considerable amount of color printing, you should seriously consider spending a bit more for color laser technology. Luckily, your overall per-page cost will be perhaps an eighth or tenth of what it is with inkjet color.
On the other hand, there are home users and small offices that don’t need color, but do need to print so much that the black ink cartridges alone would become a large expenditure. For under $100, you can get a b&w laser printer whose “starter” toner cartridge even yields 1500 pages. A standard one, costing between US$50-75, will output 5000+ average pages (considered to be 8-12% paper coverage). This would be the wise choice for a writer who needs to print a chapter or even a whole book, engineers doing one-color schematics and others who will be printing upwards of 40-50 pages per day.
Laser-like precision
The first laser printer – Apple’s b&w LaserWriter, long since discontinued – was a $4000 investment in 1985. Today, color lasers can be had for as little as US$200 (less on sale) and there are a spate of models in the under-US$400 range from such top manufacturers as Samsung, Hewlett-Packard and Brother. If this sounds like more than you want to pay, you need to factor in the consumables before making the decision about what is “affordable.”
As stated above, a standard toner cartridge for a consumer laser printer will yield 5000+ pages, at a cost of from one to three cents per page, per color. A b&w page, from either a b&w or color laser, therefore costs up to three cents, while a color laser’s four-color printing increases the page cost to perhaps 10-12 cents. Over time your savings on toner versus ink will more than make up for the greater initial cost. If you are deft with accounting and figures, you can make the calculation yourself based on your regular workload.
At the office
All of these considerations apply in the corporate world, as well. And other factors come into play, too, like the added efficiency of networked printers, which means added expense for the Ethernet port. In addition, many offices find that multifunction devices that also copy, scan and fax can save both time and money. Centralizing the functions helps reduce operational overhead by limiting the number of cables and lowering the power consumption of the office peripherals.
Another factor in the business environment is output size. If you need large-format printing, you will pay considerably more for the printer you choose. Past a certain point, usually the 11x17 tabloid size, lasers thin out in the product offerings and high-resolution, “proof quality,” large-format inkjets take over. With the right kind of paper and the proper settings, these devices produce stunning color images that are quite lifelike. Design agencies, newspapers, magazines and commercial “quick printers” will often have at least one high-resolution inkjet on site.
The “quick” decision
You may have invested just a few minutes in reading this article, and you might want to continue your research if you are unclear about the relative merits of the different printer types and technologies. However, if you know what you want to do with your printer, you probably know right now which one is right for you. Or you may decide, as many home computer users and small businesses have, to get an entry-level b&w laser printer for all the letters, reports, chapters and verse you want to output, and a solid, mid-range inkjet (US$100 gets you a fabulous one) for your photos, images, artwork and flyers.
Some industry prognosticators believe that inkjet technology will evolve into pro-level pre-press devices for printing precise, color-matched proofs of magazines and such. Laser technology, b&w and color, will power the printers used by most everyone else. But no one knows when this will occur, so in the meantime, you have some choices, and can get great printing technology of both kinds for a modest sum.

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Automatically Linking Content Pages

In the past, if you wanted to link together pages with previous and text page functionality. You had to in insert links manually for this work. Whenever a page was added or inserted. You had to adjust links in two more files. This is tedious work, and can introduce errors in the order the pages are linked together as well as with the table of contents. You still must write it on your own how pages are linked together sequentially. The content linking component makes life easier. It has a supporting text file in which all page links are stored together with a descriptive text in the order the pages are linked together. You simple insert the URL and description once, and you can create the table off content and the links between the pages automatically. If you change a link in the supporting text file, the changed are immediately reflected in the table of contents and link order. There is no need to update files manually. The format for the supporting text file, the Content linking List file, is very easy. First comes the URL, followed by a tab separating the URL from the description.
There is noting more to say about the format of the content linking list file. The first task is now a create a table of contents for the linked content, Before you start using any component, you should always take a look at the documentation, in which functionality is provided to ensure that you take the most direct route to achieve your goal.

Getting High Quality Links

The easiest way to get high quality links that will be well regarded by Google and the other search engines is to perform a search on the major search engines for your targeted keyword phrases. The supplied results will provide you with a list of those sites that the engine rates as the top sites for that phrase. If the engines believe this to be of value for searches looking for a particular phrase then likewise, they will view it as a valuable link to your site, which obviously deals with the same subject.

You don’t have to stick to your main targeted keyword phrase either. In this stage of link building you can run searches on all the keyword phrases that you are targeting and request that they link to your site. You will have to obey the above-noted guidelines and this will mean that there will be many sites you will have to skip, as they are competitors of yours.

SEO Conventions

You're paying for the placement of this content so you want it to be good. In the eternal quest for successful link bait, you also want the content to be ranked by search engines because it provides real value to the reader and is hosted on an authoritative site. Now comes the most important part. As you write the article, carefully place links to topically relevant pages on your own site within the body of the article's text. These are high value links that will improve your SEO. However, it's also important to place your articles on sites that are topically related to your piece (and probably already rank for related topics). The authority of the site hosting your content, the relevance of the site (topically speaking) and that back link make your site look stronger as far as search engines are concerned. Also, remember that the quality of the content to which you link also matters. Read more....

Promotion and Optimization

Once you've gone live with your site, you've only just begun. The world of ecommerce is fast-paced and cutthroat. And if you don't promote your site to search engines and to potential buyers your chances for success diminish accordingly.
Today, site success depends on promotion - search engine promotion and eyeball promotion. You can promote on a shoestring or you can launch a pedal-to-the-metal campaign with banner ads, Google Adwords, links building and opt-in cultivation. If you aren't SEO-experienced, you'll be best served by professionals who can track site activity, develop useful metrics and devise and implement a strategy for improved site performance.
The same goes for the process of optimization. Sites must be search engine optimized and conversion optimized - two very different things. Much of SEO takes place behind the scenes. That's why it's essential that you use SEO pros to actually build your site. This is not where you can cut a few corners.

Finding The Links And Getting High Quality Links

Since you’re looking for links to boost your search engine placement, the best place to start is… the search engines. A few searches should produces hundreds of potential links. There are a few tactics that work better than others. The first tactic provides the best links for their relevancy and for their Page Rank. The second provides the best results for getting many links quickly and easily.The easiest way to get high quality links that will be well regarded by Google and the other search engines is to perform a search on the major search engines for your targeted keyword phrases. The supplied results will provide you with a list of those sites that the engine rates as the top sites for that phrase. If the engines believe this to be of value for searches looking for a particular phrase then likewise, they will view it as a valuable link to your site, which obviously deals with the same subject.

Reciprocal link exchange service

Reciprocal link exchange service can provide great source for any website to increase traffic and ranking. This partnership with other relevant web sites that are closer to your site's theme or category will rapidly increase search engine positions of a web site.

Data Access Basics

Go a step ahead and use database to manage information. To do so, you will learn how to use the Active X Data Object (ADO), which provide the interface between database and Active Server Pages. (ASP). You can use every database in ASP that can be accessed through OLE DB (Object Linking and Embedding Database) or ODBC (Open Database Connectivity). If the terms OLE DB or ODBC are new to you.
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The SMTP Service

You could start immediately using the SMTP service if an administrator has set it up for you. However, even so, I think it is necessary to give you some background information for the road ahead because the SMTP service and setting it up correctly is a major source of pain for beginners. Therefore, I start out with the technical details an how email is sent across the Internet.
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Retrieve HTTP Headers

HTTP headers field allowed the client to pass additional information about the request, and about the client itself, to the server. This is how the browser tells the server its name and version, the user’s preferred language, the problem on which it is running, the file types it accepts, and the preceded the requested Web page Which headers are sent vares from browser to browser. How ever, the discussed in the section are supported by most browsers.

Find Out the Length of Posted Content

In case you want to know whether any content was submitting from the client by the post method, you must read the value from the environment variable CONTENT_LENGTH. (The post method is described in detail in the section “Using the post method”)

nContentLength = Request.Servariables (“CONTNET_LENGTH”)

Using the Virtual Path of the Script

The virtual path to the script being executed is used for self-referencing Web page. In case you want to make sure that form is submitting to the Web page itself, no matter which virtual path the Web page has, you should request the server environment variable

SCRIPT_NAME

StrselfURL = Request.serverViriables (“SCIPRT_NAME”)

Link Exchange Services

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Retrieving Environment Variables

Sometimes, you come to a point in your server script development work when you want to find out the browser type. The IP address of the user, some HTTP headers that are delivered from the client or the version of the server software, and where your script is running. For all these demands, you can use the server variables collection of the request object.

Although the most important environment variables are described in this hour’s lesson, it is a good idea to look in the product documentation on the Internet Information of the internet Server (IIS) to get an overview of all possible parameters that can be used to retrieve environment variables. You can read the documentation by calling the address

http:// location/iisHelp/iis/misc/default.asp in the Internet Explorer.

Retrieving Information from the User

Now that you have learned how to send data from the server to the client in Hour 4, “Sending Data to the User” it is time to learn about retrieving data that is sent from the client to the server by submitting a from.

Have you ever wondered how an inquiry to a search engine is handled by the browser or the server and how the data is transferred over the Internet using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)? These lessons provide some answer to these questions and enable you to handle inquiries to your sites by retrieving and evaluating user input.