iPod Downloads - Free or Not Free

iPod Downloads - Free or Not Free

Just about every where you look there's an ad for freeiPoddownloads. When you get to there they all want money. Is it or Not?

Why people or online business's advertise "freeiPoddownloads" is beyond me. If some one say's free then it should be right? If you see an ad, link, classified or even an article and the title say's you can get free-downloads, then wouldn't you assume that after clicking that link you would land on a page or website that allows you to download any thing you want, right?

Well how come when you do, it always seems to be the same old story. They all want money to access to unlimited iPoddownloads. Now that's not free is it?

It just simply isn't true. As far as most people are concerned that's false advertising, but the twist is when you pay to join one of these iPod-Downloads, then you can have access to all the free-movies, games, music you want. So the right thing to do and I think and the majority of most people would agree is if someone advertises the word free and expect you to buy some thing then the word buy should be included some how or say something along the lines of "FreeAfterYouBuy" right?

The Danger of Free iPod Downloads

If you do a search on Google or Yahoo for "FreeiPodDownloads" you would get a ton of results. The one thing you have to look out for when joining or getting free access to iPod downloads is the viruses and spyware that come with them.That's right when you download media file's from unprotected resources or file sharing networks you are vulnerable to all these danger's.

So the best way to avoid this problem would be to find a review that you feel most comfortable with and the reason being is because they allow you see what works the price and there best recommendation. Another good thing to know is, just about all review sites post safe, legal iPod downloads that you can trust and not have to worry about getting some strange virus that will do all kinds of damage to your pc.

The Best Way To Get iPod Downloads

Find a site that you feel comfortable with and pay the $30.00 or what ever it is their asking for instead of trying to get away with getting something for nothing. Because there is usually some stipulations (and in this case risky ones) that come with something for nothing.

Consider this, there are some excellent iPoddownload ebsites out there that will give you way more for less other then getting free iPod downloads for nothing and sometimes less is better then nothing because nothing can be allot more trouble then what it's worth.

by Pau Archer
Kekword : iPod Downloads

The Need For Quality IT Support Staff

The Need For Quality IT Support Staff

Any company engaged in providing IT support will no doubt exercise great care in who they hire on their roster as the importance of a good; if not outstanding IT support staff cannot be emphasized enough. It means having a good IT supervisor who can coordinate computer programming as well as perform system analysis. He/she should also coordinate computer operations such as data exchange methods, and also submission as well as distribution. The IT support supervisor shall also need to be able to format specifications as well as do the coding procedures. There may be more than one supervisor with others being involved with other aspects of IT support such as overseeing systems programming for workstations as well as taking responsibility for database administration and being there to answer specific issues related to individual edits.

At a lower level, the IT support staff would consist of persons that provide administrative support to the client and maybe even assists in website maintenance. There should also be personnel available that will manage the client's local area network as well as other personal computers and also should be able to manage Internet servers and also their applications. Other responsibilities should include installing as well as upgrading personal computer hardware as well as software.

Some of the IT support staff may be hired to provide computer programming support and are responsible for writing code to process as well as edit incoming data. In reality, the responsibilities of the IT support staff would also encompass day-to-day support for an information system that could even involve handling the client's multiple sites. The support staff should have the requisite knowledge as well as experience to handle PC as well as MAC hardware repairs, Server OS, Exchange as well as are able to maintain network switches as well as infrastructure. It is also necessary for the IT support staff to have good and even excellent communication skills as well as be good with people skills.

It is also a requirement for IT support staff to have at least two years of college background in the relevant subjects, A+ Certification as well as is Microsoft Certified, with hands-on experience in relevant hardware and software platforms. An individual with MCSE or CCNA would obviously be well suited for the job of IT support staff.

IT support spans a wide array of services for which a company that provides such services would need to look for specialists to handle the various functions required. There is an administrative side that handles normal client needs such as email, internet, computing services, mailing lists, and user groups. The support staff should also be conversant with various administrative systems in order to discharge their duties satisfactorily. In addition, they may also be called upon to provide training and provide resources and also handle telecommunications as well as other computing services.

With all these different areas of functionality to be addressed, the IT support staff needs to actively be the customer's backup against all manner of breakdowns and disruptions which should be dealt with and put right at the earliest possible time.

by Lee Smith
Keyword : The Need For Quality IT Support Staff

Computer Forensics Files: The Case of the Little Dame That Wouldn't

Computer Forensics Files: The Case of the Little Dame That Wouldn't

Computer Forensics Files: The Case of the Little Dame That Wouldn't Real CSI Cases from Burgess Forensics #14

The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty.

A dame, a rich guy, and an email account: what more do you need for a story?

I was in my office one fine spring day in Marin studying the benefits of Eastern philosophy, engaged in my special snoring meditation, when the buzzing of the telephone dragged me back to the present. It was Sam & Dave - not the Soul Men, but the lawyers in the Valley. They had a situation. A computer expert was heading over to their offices to make a copy of their client's computer - the dame's laptop - to try to prove that she sent endearing emails to a scorned male - the rich guy...Mr. Silicon Valley.

See, rich guy had not been so rich until some computer hardware of his design had been snapped up by a big player in the computer world for a hefty sum. Newly rich Mr. Silicon decided to try his hand at picture books - picture books of natural looking young ladies in their native birthday attire. The hook was that they would be all natural - no silicone for Mr. Silicon.

One day, Mr. S was driving through the Rockies when he espied a liberated young lady. Liberated in the sense that she was 17, but living on her own. S offered to liberate her from a deadend waitress job if she would come live in his Valley mansion. It would all be very Platonic - they'd each have their own end of the mansion - and she would work with the picture book office staff.

But as our young lady reached adulthood, Mr. S became enamored enough to make our lovely waif a bit uncomfortable. She thought he was acting like a creep. She wanted out - out of the office and out of the mansion. The word "harassment" strikes fear into the heart of many an employer, and Sam & Dave were looking for a settlement to enrich all involved. But Mr. S was not to give up so easily. He maintained that the lovely Miss had been sending him endearing loveletters from her America OnLine account. Sure enough, her account had sent those letters - but had she been the one to send them? AOL has a setting that allows a user to sign in automatically - that is, to sign in without having to type in a password. This setting is nearly always a mistake, unless no one else is ever near your computer. I always recommend to my clients that they take the extra 5 seconds out of their busy schedules to type an actual password. You might have guessed that her AOL was set to automatically login.

But the letters had been sent after she had already left the office. That meant that if she had sent them, she must have drafted them on her laptop from home. A deal was made. Mr. S hired a computer expert to do some digital discovery. He'd make an identical copy of the hard disk from her laptop, while sitting in Sam & Dave's conference room. This is where I entered the picture. S & D wanted me to make sure that the hired thugs ... er, experts ... would not pull any funny stuff. I went to observe on the day of the copying.

Just a short half hour or so after their scheduled arrival, the other experts arrived. They were decked out in full company regalia. Their bright jackets, hats, and business cards announced their offices in New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. These guys were apparently internationally jetting big shots. As it turned out, only one was the bigshot - the other guy was the gofer. Bigshot sat in a chair and bragged about his exploits while Gofer unloaded their equipment. A large, high-powered desktop computer, with external drives hooked up through an Adaptec SCSI host adapter appeared on the tabletop. A briefcase full of secret computer forensic software was opened to reveal its treasures. The golden floppy disk was removed from the briefcase. Bigshot examined the laptop, and announced, "We can't do this copy - there's no floppy drive."

I was a little dumbfounded. Surely these guys had all of the computer forensic equipment known to mankind. "I have EnCase and ByteBack," he said, "but I need to boot from a floppy drive to make a copy." This was at least half accurate. Whenever a drive is operated in a Windows environment, Windows writes bits and pieces of data to the drive. Under such circumstances, the data is changed and is not a true identical, "bit-for-bit" copy. It's not a forensic image. But when the system is booted from a DOS diskette, nothing gets written to the hard disks. This is what the fellow was looking to do.

I suggested he remove the hard disk from the laptop, and hook it up through a write-blocker to his desktop computer. "What's a write-blocker?" he asked. "Gofer, do we have any write blockers?" Gofer's look of befuddlement answered for him. I explained to Bigshot International that a write blocker is a device that can be hooked up between the hard disk and the cable it is attached to, or between an external enclosure holding the hard disk and the USB cable leading to the computer. The MyKey NoWrite FPU is one of my favorites. The Tableau works well. The Disk Jockey Forensic wasn't around then. The DriveDock & others would have been fine. But he didn't have any by anyone.

Still, removing the hard disk, attaching it to his system and booting the system from his floppy diskette should have been fine. I suggested as much. "How do you take out the hard disk?" he asked. Apparently laptops are different in London and Hong Kong and those other places he had offices.

I asked S & D's secretary for a little Phillips screwdriver, and removed the hard disk for Our Man. "It doesn't hook up to my IDE cable," he said. You see, laptop IDE hard disks and desktop IDE hard disks are different sizes. Most in laptops are 2.5" and most in desktops are 3.5" and never the twain shall meet - at least, not on the same cable. The 40-pin connector on the laptop is, unsurprisingly, smaller in size. "How about an adapter?" I said. "Have you a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter?"

"Have we got one, Gofer?" Befuddlement answered wordlessly again. I suggested a quick run to the local computer store. I even volunteered to go, for the Mensa-level technical skill was getting to me a little at that point.

Twenty minutes later, we had an adapter from a local Mom & Pop computer shop. Some adapters for laptop drives hook up the opposite way from what is intuitive. Once I warned against hooking the laptop drive up backwards, Bigshot got everything set up right, the computer booted, and a good copy seemed like it was only minutes away. That is, until I heard, "My target disk drive isn't big enough." Well, I didn't want him to have to go all the way to Tokyo or New York for another. I suggested hooking up additional drives from his special briefcase to the SCSI bus, then changing the image size. Many computer forensic programs allow one to acquire a large drive as several or many contiguous images of a smaller size. By changing his configuration, Mr. B could make many successive CD-sized images of about 650 MB each, instead of one giant one that wouldn't fit in the available space in any one of his hard drives.

With the copy proceeding apace, I asked S&D what I should do next. We saw the estimated time of completion was about five hours away! I wondered if sitting waiting for electrons to move was the best use of my time and their money, and they seemed to think it was not. I explained what to look out for - any cables being unplugged, any keyboards being typed on, any utterances of "oops" or "oh no!" from the Dynamic Duo making the copies. The job should be mostly babysitting until the copy was completed. I headed back to the airport, and to my offices at Burgess Forensics to finish my interrupted meditation.

How did it all turn out? There were no loving emails drafted on the laptop. The computer she had used at the office was being used to send bogus emails from her auto logon AOL account. Mr. S was ready to settle... after just one more meeting.

As part of the settlement, Mr. S & our lovely Miss had one last lunch together. They met at an outdoor café. It might have been romantic, but Miss sat well out of reach, her lawyer sat just out of earshot a couple of tables to the West. The attorney for S sat just out of earshot a couple of tables to the North. Everybody ate lunch. S paid the bill - three bills, actually - one for lunches, one for the lawyers, and one settlement for the lovely lady. She then walked away and never looked back.

While I never met the lady, I was alerted to look for her on a fashion show. There she was, on the TV, looking like the waif models are apparently supposed to resemble. I couldn't tell if she looked any richer, but I hoped she would spend some of the settlement on a few more lunches - she could have filled out a little and looked a bit more...natural. But that's outside my area of expertise. A nutritionist I'm not - I do computers.

This is just one of the many "CSI (Computer Scene Investigation) - Computer Forensics Files: Real Cases from Burgess Forensics" cases in the file. Stay tuned for more stories of deceit uncovered by science.

by Steve Burgess
Keyword : Computer Forensics Files

Conference Calls Are Good For You

Conference Calls Are Good For You

You need to call a business briefing, but some of your employees are traveling to pitch the company at a trades show three states away. You'd like to present a sales pitch to a potential client across the country, but they want to hear your group's ideas now, not whenever you can send someone out to them. You want to ask a couple of co-workers a few questions about your latest project, but you're all too busy to leave your desks and set up a "formal" meeting.

Conference calls have been the means to bridge the gap between co-workers, customers, and clients for decades. Conference calls allow three or more parties to touch base or conduct business from one part of the building to another or from across the world.

Conference calls are still frequently used to speak with co-workers inside the same building or even to hold meetings when co-workers are on a business trip, but most conference calls, particularly sales pitches to clients, are now Web conference calls or a combination of traditional conference calls and Web conference calls. The video and data-sending ability of Web conference calls makes business more productive as it allows potential clients to see the charts and outlines of a sales pitch.

Conference calls are also often used for companies to offer a means of communication to their stock holders or for local politicians to offer an open-question line to his or her constituents. The stockholders or the public, people who might not usually get a chance to meet corporation representatives or politicians in person, are given a phone number to access an "open meeting" held over conference calls, allowing them to call from the comfort of their own homes.

Conference calls have also long been used for social network connection, like with "party lines." For a fee, callers can use the conference calls service to chat with three or more new people at once, looking for new friends or dates. These types of conference calls were more popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, before the advent of Internet chat rooms and text messaging party lines, but they still exist today.

You can take this social network conference calls idea to organize any number of large functions, like family reunions or weddings, and speak with two or more family members or function services at once! Be as efficient and organized as a typical corporation and take advantage of conference calls!

Most phone companies have three-way calling or conference call options included with their service, although there is an extra charge for all conference calls. If you operate a business that frequently makes conference calls, you may want to find a better deal on conference calls and you may want to work with a conference call company that can set up your business for the fastest, most reliable conference calls and Web conference calls.

There are a number of businesses that offer low prices to facilitate conference calls, whether through the phone or the Web. Visit conferencecall.com, corporateconferencecalls.com, or conferencecalls.com to start shopping around for the best facilitator of conference calls for your business or social event!

by Frank Vanderlugt
Keyword : Conference Calls