Personally I am always very skeptical regarding any scientific studies. Currently, there are so much data & journals exist that one can easily prove anything that goes in any direction. I think the author is looking at this from a different perspective. Social media I believe might have caused more internet usage by young people and therefore contributed less time spent with their familes. Previously, after school, kids will have no choice but to stay at home and communicate with their parents. Now, they are still hooked with their friends easily after getting home, thanks to facebook & twitter.

Therefore, it caused some distance within the family relationship, which is not a good thing but it didn’t make them egotistically obsessive bunch of rotten kids. There are always good things and bad things about everything. Social media influenced kids positively as well. It made information sharing much easier among peers.

Maybe parents should think of creating their facebook and twitter accounts more. Here is the link to an article talking about the study.

The only problem I have noticed though that sometimes it tends to freeze my computer.

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Companies like International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and EMC Corp. (EMC) are targeting analytics as a key growth area, but they’re also running up against a problem: There aren’t enough people capable of interpreting the data in the quick, predictive manner now required in the field.

This is not surprising. Increasingly industries are getting aware of the importance of understanding user behaviour to offer better service to the customer. Without a strong analytics system it becomes hard to implement and track marketing initiatives. This branch of the industry I believe would continue to grow.

Twitter Search

A few days back, I decided to use twitter for the first time in months. I have been on and off with twitter. I have a good number of followers and I should really maintain it properly. Anyways, so, to check what people are saying about Worldcup I decided to start tweeting again.

Then I decided to do a search on what’s being said about Yogananda. I came across one of the most amazing feeds and power of community. This feed if you have checked already you would see contains people posting various quotes of Yogananda. All these quotes of him I find are very relevant to me personally. Therefore, even if you are not into twitter even then you should bookmark this link and take a look once in a while when you need some guidance.

Artificial Christmas Tree

Christmas is a fun time for the people that celebrate. Even out of religious significance, it brings all family members together. Half of the fun of Christmas actually the days leading up to the special day. This includes shopping and decorating house and surrounding.

This is time of the year where everyone goes out to look for Christmas trees. While it’s very fun to decorate the house, it’s also kind of a hassle to find the right tree to match the home atmosphere. The trees itself sometimes can be a little hassle when trying to get rid off at the end of the Christmas.

On top of that, there has been lots of discussions and also regulations regarding keeping Christmas environmentally “clean.”

One of the ways of achieving that purpose would be using recyclable Christmas trees. I have come across a site for Artificial Christmas Tree. I have seen some people using these trees before and reusing them every year. However, usually they do not look that authentic. Nevertheless, looking through the website I was surprised to see how much effort they have put in to make the artificial Christmas trees look real. If you are a fan of authenticity like me then definitely you should take a look at this site. A lot of the trees also come pre-decorated or you can purchase accessories as you need. This is very easy to setup and at the end of Christmas you don’t have to worry about disposing it.

Currently they have a sale going on until December 18. Take advantage of this. You can order from online as they provide highly secured transaction system. They also provide free shipping. However, do make sure if this is valid for the area you want it to be shipped.

I hope you take a look at this site and have a very wonderful Christmas.

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This video pretty much explains my views on global warming.

Computer World Magazine

Blogging after a long time to inform you guys about a nice promo. ITW0rld Canada is currently giving away free subscriptions to Computer W0rld, Network W0rld, CDN and CIO Magazine. They also have one french magazine. There is no catch really. They just want to increase some Canadian readership. If you sign up now then you are up for free subscription forever.

I think in terms of my visitors, computer world would be the most attractive of all. The reason is because this magazine talks about overall industry news. I have gone through these magazines and I find them to be an excellent read.

Sometimes internet has too much information and you are not sure where to begin if you are looking for some ideas on current industry. These magazines are great read for that purpose. Anyways, check them out. They are currently free only for Canadians. This promo will last until the end up April.

Click on the following links to sign up

Computer World
Network World
CDN
Direction Informatique (French Language)
CIO Magazine

Chrome
Firefox
IE
K-Meleon
Safari
Opera

I would say in terms of the “startup” speed, Chrome is the best. After that K-Meleon/Opera, then IE, Firefox and then Safari

Chrome is a cool looking browser with a high speed. I really like the incognito feature. However, I think in terms of stability Chrome definitely sucks. It freezes a lot. I found firefox, K-Meleon and Opera to be really stable. Safari, IE and Chrome crashes and freezes a lot for me.

I am coming across a bunch of articles analyzing Chrome as Google was able to create a huge buzz around Chrome. Here’s an article that tries to remind IT on certain things regarding Chrome.

MagicJack After a Week in Toronto

Using MagicJack from Toronto, Canada

I was really excited about MagicJack at the beginning. I did make a few calls. Once I talked with a customer representative in the US for like an hour using this. The experience was good and was pretty cool. However, as time goes on I am really losing interest on MagicJack. At this point, I have the magicjack unplugged because I need that USB port to connect my external HDD. 

I know people who use Magic Jack a lot. However, if you like me and have a cell phone and a landphone and a phone at work, I don’t understand when you would be using this device. Yes, when you make long distance calls, then it does become handy. However, I don’t make that much long distance calls. The reason is because you cannot have people call you.

If we had a local number for Toronto, then it would have been really good. However, we don’t have it. Therefore, people cannot call us, we have to call people. This is very stupid. They have been saying that we will have a local number soon and we haven’t got it. I don’t want to be cynical but the owner of MagicJack sounds like a shady person to me. When have you seen people promoting the owner as well as the product? 

The lack of improvements with MagicJack and constant lies about making magicjack available for Toronto make me feel like as if MagicJack was created for a short-time project. 

Please don’t get me wrong. I do understand it helps a lot of people. However, I don’t understand why isn’t there any improvement with this device. The sound quality isn’t that great for the non-MagicJack people you are talking to. There is no proper customer service. For no reason sometimes it stops working. 

I don’t want to complain because I paid only 40 dollars for a year. I have had nothing to lose to invest that amount and that’s why I did. However, I really got what I paid for nothing more. Sometimes you pay some money and feel you got a way more. However, this was definitely not that case.

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Today, however I decided to give this a try. Currently, I am typing this post my in Microsoft Word 2007. After I am done I will click on publish to publish it to my blog. This is just a test run to see how it goes. I know that many established people in blogs strongly recommend to type up our posts in Word before posting. I would rather suggest using something like Frontpage to type your posts up. Frontpage also uses the same spell check but it won’t insert the stupid characters that mess up display in older browsers and emails.

Better, why not give Google Docs a try? They have a decent spell check and you can just copy and paste your posts after you are done editing. This one automatically saves your information and therefore, while you are outside with an internet connection you can easily type it up.

There are lots of options you have. I would definitely suggest using a spell check no matter what. If you are using Firefox browser then it automatically includes one. It might actually be better to type up in MSWord if you don’t have any other options. However, look for characters that cause issues. Anything that is “curvy” like the quotation mark I used around the word “curvy” could cause issues in older browsers. There are other characters such as “ellipses” or” apostrophe.” Watch out for them and you will be fine.