Welcome to November 2009

Many advancements await, we’ve connected the dots for you.

We are eager to let loose this first in a series of monthly newsletters. Get your fix of technology news, advice, and opinion. We frequent Apple Mac, Windows PC, Linux Hybrid, and every piece of squirming glowing electronics cable and radio frequency mess, we clean it all up and make it work together. Learn more in our newsletter, read on…

AllStruck News:

Last month AllStruck opened it’s doors to customers in need of custom software for almost any purpose. Learn more at allstruck.com/customsoftware.

Do you use ChaCha, Google SMS, Google Voice, Netvibes, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, MobileMe, MySpace, WordPress? You might want to call us about our consulting and software services, we can make sure you’re utilizing the best services available for the things you do frequently. Tell us your list of concerns, jobs, chores, interests, and anything else and we can match you up to thousands of tools, often free, that will increase your productivity and effectiveness: Like Photoshop.com, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Air, Silverlight, Netvibes, FeedBurner, GreaseMonkey, and much much more!

Recent discussion:

Daylight-saving, back to standard November 1st.

Apple iMac 27″, Apple Magic Mouse, Mac Mini Server, White MacBook updated, China gets the iPhone. Apple seems to read the minds of creative designers everywhere when it comes to engineering new computer systems. Amazing hardware comes with an amazing OS now completely compatible with Windows Exchange Server, still offering full ability to run Windows via Boot Camp, not to mention through virtualization software which opens up nearly every operating system available. The speed and efficiency of the Mac OS and perfectly combined hardware means running Windows on top of it is not just possible but works with very little slow down of the Mac system for normal users. Buying a Mac computer is a smart investment if you can afford it, and unavoidable if you can’t afford to be out of the loop when it comes to advancing technologies. A Mac can save your time and money across the board, by requiring less cost in setup and repair, providing higher security of your files, and retaining a higher value for a longer period. All Mac computers come packed with several features not available anywhere else, and they are all designed to align your life.

For the typical throw-away computer market, the HP Laptop line is destined to fly; With an Intel Core 2 Duo, 250GB HD, 4GB RAM, DVD-DL R/W… everyone will love these 15″+ with a 10-key number pad on the right.

Hulu.com might start charging users to watch videos, previously all users could watch hundreds of free TV shows and feature films on the popular movie and show site that played fair and inserted only limited commercials. Now it seems not only are the commercials a lot more frequent, but reports have been made that next year will see the start of a fee based service of some form.

On Web Design:

AllStruck is a provider of high quality graphic design and website development, everything and more than what is usually involved in the industry of web design. We’ve spent every working day for the last 10+ years of our experience increasing our ability to create awe inspiring and uniquely immersive and interactive designs, and every day our job became the same as any other business: Get customers.

We get this question from nine out of ten customers; “How will my website get customers?” We understand what you normally get when checking out web design and internet marketing, it’s a wash of varied descriptions of the simple fact that search engines are important and online advertising is very effective. Even after paying an online advertising firm or website developer offering SEO you probably find that the “insider secrets” are never revealed and all you know is that paying for SEO and online advertising works and you must keep doing it. This doesn’t have to be the case, and if you’re willing to learn more about how to increase revenue using online mediums it can end up paying off immediately.

Search engines and how they operate are not a secret entirely, and by using the information gathered from numerous studies we can not only help you increase your hits but make sure they are real potential clients and not just a wash of useless traffic by increasing your ranking for the right keyword combinations. Statistics gathered from traffic should be monitored constantly and applied to future development and campaigns, and a complete package with online advertising can provide accurate ROI to help pinpoint the most effective campaign tactics.

There are various ways that different types of people prefer to get information, consider newspaper, television, magazines, technical manuals, newsletters, newsgroups, forums, blogs, etc. and be aware of each of these as much as possible. If one seems ineffective consider using it solely for research so that any future trend shifts will be spotted immediately.

Every successful website exists because of a strong team providing all of the mentioned services, and AllStruck has several complete packages and modules that have exactly what you need.

Links:

Matt Dunn: Winning Online: 10 Tips for 2010 Campaigns

by Matt Dunn - November 2nd 2009
The political world is in a state of confusion right now because technology is accelerating everything. Election Day 2010 is one year away. It’s time for campaigns to start gearing up.
Barack Obama on The Huffington Post – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/big-news/

Law Firm Websites -Tips On Picking a Web Design Firm

Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up

Google Voice has more than 1.4M users

FierceWireless – Phil Goldstein

Google Voice has more than 1.4 million users, and of those, 570000, or 40 percent, use the service every day, according to a confidential part of a letter Google sent to the FCC, which was disclosed by BusinessWeek.

Google Voice surpassed 1 million users before light version launched Mobile Burn

Google Voice Has Your Number PDAstreet

FierceVoIP – Washington Post – TeleGeography – Gizmodo.com

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ChaCha ranks in top 200 most-visited Web sites worldwide

Indiana Daily Student – Hallie Robbins – ‎Oct 30, 2009‎

Throughout the past year, 9 million people have visited ChaCha’s Web site viewing 13 million pages and asking the service 170 …

Google Launching Social Search Soon, Challenging Aardvark, ChaCha, Mahalo

eWeek – Clint Boulton – ‎Oct 21, 2009‎

If even a fraction of these millions begin using Google Social Search, it might not leave much room for challengers such as Aardvark, Mahalo and ChaCha. …

Video: Loaded: Happy Windows 7 Day

Twitter, Google, and Bing The Week Magazine

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