Confidentially to entire World

Communication - is one of the main directions of digital technology today. Every week many firms invent new telecommunication systems in order to give people possibility to communicate with each other at any time. The sphere of current importance today is technology called VoIP telephony.

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) - is one way people are making and receiving telephone calls using a broadband Internet connection rather than a regular phone line. VoIP converts your phone call into a digital signal that travels through the Internet to the person you is calling. Most services using VoIP allow you to call anyone with a telephone number — including local, long distance, cellular, and international numbers.

Today, this service is provided by many companies such as Vonage, MagicJack, Voip.com, Packet 8, Nextiva etc., Skype, Gizmo Project, Fring, Mobivox. Let's have a look at a company that is rapidly seizes market of VoIP telephony – Magic Jack.

MagicJack is one of the local phone companies, which has contracts about traffic exchange with 49 states. MagicJack is a very simple and user friendly way to make VoIP phone calls for practically no cost. For twenty dollars a year MagicJack customers are able to make calls from the U.S. and Canada to anywhere in the world.

Unlike all analogues, to use which you will need a microphone and headphones, MagicJack is a compact device that has the size of a matchbox. It connects to one of USB ports on your PC. On the main body of MagicJack there is a socket for connecting a landline phone or a DECT base unit. The device allows you to make voice calls, provides users with a number of additional services, including the function of call waiting and forwarding, 911 call, conference calls, voice mail, as well as integration with Microsoft Outlook. As for tariffs, MagicJack has a fixed price of $ 19.95 per year or $ 59.95 per year, that is why there is a huge demand.

Nowadays MagicJack is completely compatible with the following operation systems Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Seven, Mac OS. Also the company works out a new version of its product for so popular Linux OS and for the newest operation system called Google Chrome OS.

Installing MagicJack is very straightforward, just attach and wait for it load (takes a while, so be patient). If it is your first time, it will ask you to activate MagicJack device, choose number, blah blah blah, just follow the wizard, it's self explanatory unless you are an idiot. A simple interface will appear that will state that it is ready to accept calls. Attach your phone to the RJ11 phone jack, then dial away. To turn off, just remove the MagicJack. After that, using MagicJack is as simple as attaching the USB device and calling.

Summing up, I can say that this device and the technology of MagicJack itself look promising. The only obvious disadvantage of this method of communication is that you need to have your PC turned on, but for someone such things are not problem for them

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world

Nowadays it is difficult to imagine a person, who has no TV at home. This invention is an integral part of any home whichever way you look at it. Because your family gathers together next to it nearly every evening, many TVs do not allow housewives to get bored in the kitchen. Using TV you watch news and sporting events, movies and soap operas, listen to music and learn something new every day.

Now even the most faultfinding buyers will be able to make their choice because the existing diversity of TVs on the market can surpass all expectations. Today you can’t surprise anybody with presence of USB connector, built-in hard drive, DVD player, a great number of connections and opportunity to use the Internet directly from your TV. What to choose for yourself? As apart from subsidiary capacities, TV has the main function – broadcasting of picture. Fifteen years ago there were only CRT TVs (otherwise known as the traditional tube televisions), and making your choice, you had to determine only diagonal and image quality. Now, they are replaced by plasma, LCD and LED TVs.

Let's have a look at these technologies. I don’t doubt that you’ve heard about them, but anyway, I’d like to offer you my review, you may find something interesting for you in it.

Plasmas - the constant element of the decor of dynamic video connoisseur. High brightness and contrast indices of plasma display allow you to watch it in any lighting condition, and the angle of view exceeds 160 degrees. These features provide comfort when you watch high-quality movies, easily achieving amazing effect of presence. The basis of each plasma panel - is a gas, composed of ions and electrons. An electric current, passing through the gas, causes a phosphoric coating of cells-pixels to glow with necessary color. The main advantage of plasma displays is a possibility to buy a thin panel with a wide screen. And major disadvantages are large pixel size, compared with LCD, and a panel resource, which in our time is about 40000 hours.

 The principle of work of LCD TVs is built on the possibility to adjust the intensity of light that passes through the liquid crystals. These crystals respond to electric current and, depending on the level of tension, take their stand at a certain angle. Thus they pass through a necessary amount of light coming from a powerful lamp. Every tiny segment of the screen - pixel - consists of three elements (green, red and blue) which, when combined create the final tint and make picture colorful. As the pixels are very small, the onlooker ultimately sees a whole picture without any visible defects. The main advantages of TFT LCD technology are the fast response time of matrix, better quality of picture and long life panel (70,000 hours). The main disadvantage is a limited viewing angle compared to the plasma panel.

Latest development in this sphere is considered to be a LED technology. LED TVs are LCD TVs, but they have back panel with light-emitting diode. Grid lighting is used in this TV, LED rays have the form of grid, which switches off when your frame scrolls. For example, when a frame with dark scene on the background is played, LED grid which is placed on a dark piece turns off automatically.  It helps to save energy and make dark scenes really dark. These TVs spend in the process of their work less power, but it is not as important as the picture quality and design of these devices. LED-TVs have more streamlined shape, give more intense and live picture, they can serve you longer, they are resistant to vibration and REALLY THIN.

These are main technologies nowadays.

Remember:  Theatre is life.  Cinema is art.  Television is furniture.

Why Frigidaire refrigerator is one of the most affordable refrigerators on the market?

Today, comfort and coziness of the most exquisite interior is impossible without modern appliances, which help any person to establish his life without cares and trouble. To do it, hundreds of the world's manufacturers offer their development in any category of household appliances. 

After finishing repairs in your house, you face with the most important point - the purchase of household appliances. And most of you will furnish their kitchen first, as it’s a place where you spend a great part of time. You will have a wide range of household appliances, differing in design, characteristics and pricing policies. Making your choice and deciding what you really need you'll face with a great number of manufacturers which can offer you all necessary equipment. Let's examine one of the modern world's leading manufacturers of household appliances, Frigidaire Company, which offers consumers equipment through out the world for more than 90 years, providing customers with comfort and convenience.

1918 is a year of birth of Frigidaire trademark. Exactly this year large corporation General Motors bought a little-known company called Guardian Frigerator Company, which since 1916 has been developing and manufacturing refrigerators. In the 20th, Frigidaire refrigerators considered to be a standard of quality because of their reliability and practicality. Frames of Frigidaire refrigerators are made by unique technology they distinguished by durability, and looked very attractive. At that time the company decides to begin production of air conditioners and other household appliances. Also Frigidaire development contractors were one of the first, who paid much attention to fact that traditional refrigerators are not environmentally friendly and in 1931 the company developed non-toxic and harmless refrigerant "Freon-12". In 1948 Frigidaire releases first refrigerator with freezer. In four years one more innovation was added - a “Cycla-Matic” freezer with auto defrost function. Simple technology of this innovation greatly facilitated the process of fridge care: hoar-frost, that forms during the working process of refrigerator on the back wall of your freezer, melted, came out of refrigerator borders and evaporated. In 1965 Frigidaire created a new automatic ice maker, which was installed on one of the doors of new series of refrigerator and ensured a constant supply of ice cubes. Since 1986 Frigidaire is a part of Electrolux group. This concern includes such well-known brands as AEG, Zanussi, Zanker, White Westinghouse, Kelvinator, Gibson, Philco, Leonard and many others.

Today almost all Frigidaire refrigerators are equipped with No Frost systems, it completely saves customer from the need to defrost his refrigerator manually. In Frigidaire refrigerators technology, that allows you to create a zone where the temperature is kept at 0 ° C, is also used. This prevents the water, which one way or another is present in any product, from crystallization when the temperature is low. It substantially slows down the process of spoilage, but the structure of products is not destroyed. Special sections of refrigerator, in which this technology is used, are divided into "dry" and "wet" zones taking into account features of certain products.

Also, in addition to refrigerating equipment, the company manufactures ovens, washing machines, kettles, coffee makers, toasters, microwave ovens, fryers, air conditioners and other appliances of high quality.

Nowadays, Frigidaire products are exported to one hundred and thirty seven countries of the world. High quality of Frigidaire products, secured by careful control of manufacture and by usage of high quality and most reliable materials, components and parts during production

Smart house - myth or reality

Do you want your house wake you up in the morning, make you coffee, fill your bathtub with water? It is possible in the houses with home automatic system - "Smart House".

Everybody heard something about smart houses. Someone remembers the fantastic stories, thinking that it will be possible in the distant future. Someone remembers Bill Gates’ house on the shores of Lake Washington (smart house, where automation controls everything, cost him $113 million), suggesting that it is only available to a multimillionaire. But smart homes are actively introduced throughout the world. Anyone who makes modern repairs can add to their homes intelligence in the desired quantity. What can smart house do for you?

First of all, of course, it can give you desired comfort. Next point is your prestige, security or economy in varying proportions depending on each person. And smart house will be irreplaceable assistant for aged people and people with movement limitations. Lighting, boilers, pumps, air conditioning, swimming pool, gates, a huge number of household appliances, acoustics everything is controlled by artificial intelligence. Home watches every movement of the host itself. For example, it turns on the light, when an owner enters the room and turns it off when he/she leaves the room. Also it shows hospitality. You should just press one button and your Smart House will extinguish the light, close or open the curtains, turn on music in any room you want and at the right volume, make you coffee or prepare toast.

Smart house is an automatically managed system designed to control lighting, heating, ventilation, water supply, security, home appliances, audio / video equipment and other engineering systems at home. All devices are united with one cable, which significantly reduces the quantity of cable all over your house, makes this system flexible and allows you to increase its functions. The system can be configured and modified at owner’s request. All system functions can be controlled remotely with the help of console or even via SMS with the help of your mobile phone. You can control every light source in all you rooms, regardless of where lamp is located. For example, laying in the bedroom you can turn off the lights in the nursery along with the TV. Or using pre-programmed scripts you can create different "moods" in your premises: "meeting", "intimate", "relax", "reading" and "party". If we add to all that some other functions like motion sensor, automatic opening of curtains, the possibility to create "light lanes" on your way to the toilet at night time and harmonious connection with musical accompaniment, then your friends will remember the effect from staying in the smart house for a long time.

Imagine, instead of huge number of audio and video equipment in the house you have just a small prop installed in the room. Satellite and cable television are also connected to it. Speakers are placed in all premises. They can be built into the walls or ceiling, blending with the interior, placed near your swimming pool or in the garden. And these are only the main features of Smart Home.

Every home should be a smart house

You equipment works the way you’ve set it up

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Nowadays, millions of people buy all sorts of equipment every day. The range of goods presented by selling companies meets each customer. You select for a long time household appliances that comply with your requirements, reading a lot of literature or turning to the specialists to help you with your choice. Whether it's a laptop, the parameters of which are uncountable or home theater with lots of features and capabilities, you can choose a model in a short time. So, you made your choice. Chose the place of purchase, paid, and received you household electronics, appliances or whatever. It seems that everything is going great and you're happy. But purchase of any equipment nowadays is only a first step to use and be satisfied with your choice. Once you have received your order, brought it home, unpacked and inspected, you are near the most important point.

Equipment should not be simply a set of functions, options and settings, but should be a thing that is clear to you, and it must operate at full capacity. Here we face with such problem as setting. For example, you bought laptop it has latest technologies, the fastest processor, the biggest memory size, the best graphics card. BUT it’s just a heap of metal without correct setting. Only in that case you will understand that it worth money you’ve paid for it. Or, for example, you purchased a home theater system. At first glance it's just a DVD player and 6 speakers. But you should tune it up properly before you can enjoy high quality sound and get real home theater. And then while watching your favorite movie you will have the feeling that you not just look at it but you will “participate”. If you bought a GPS navigator for your car you should also make it work properly and you will be able to reach desired destinations in the shortest period of time.

You will probably ask me, what I am driving at. I just want to say that for such purposes there are companies throughout the world which will help you with setting up your equipment after it’s purchased and repair it operation. There are such companies in every city. But there are companies with worldwide reputation like Geek Squad.

They can repair, install or upgrade your gear no matter where you bought it. Geek Squad is a subsidiary of Best Buy and is based in Minnesota. The company was founded June 16, 1994 by Robert Stevens and first offered only various computer services to corporate clients and individuals. They did it in shops and out of them, through the Internet via remote access and had 24-hour telephone support in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, China and the UK. Since 2007, the company began maintain home theaters. From year to year Geek Squad expands its capabilities. Geek Squad today offers a wide range of set up services for various equipment.

This company can set your car radio and acoustics, GPS navigation, connect and tune up your home theater or digital TV, full iPod and iPhone support and service, setting up of WI-FI networks and game consoles.

Geek Squad quality is tested by time and does not require advertising, many people use their services every day.

Be modern, buy the best!

Today’s life cannot be imagine without such technology achievements as DVD-players, digital cameras, and so on. Selling offers of the very latest electronics models are updated almost daily, offering consumers more and more advanced choice of electronic equipment with lots of features, they vary in design and price, so they suit any taste and their price will satisfy any buyer.

With such offer production line demand for electronics grows rapidly. For example every advanced user wants his computer or notebook to be the best, he/ she wants the fastest processor, the most capacious hard drive, the largest amount of memory. Every housewife dreams her washing machine had all modern functions and her vacuum cleaner was the most silent. Every husband wants his TV comply with all modern broadcasting standards.

But it is almost impossible to keep up with all innovations. Each new model, first of all, differs from the previous one in price and the value of previous drops catastrophically every passing day. How to save leading position of electronics, which is your reliable assistant?

Nowadays there are many variants to choose technology and keep abreast with the times. There are special shops where sellers manages will give you a piece of advice, tell you about all novelties and differences in a wide variety of goods. Also there are some more types of household appliances trading that exist in the world - online shopping and online auctions. Among many online sellers there are several companies with a worldwide reputation, such as Amazon and eBay.

Amazon.com is the world's largest company by turnover, selling goods and services via Internet. Amazon.com internet retailer was founded in July 1995 by American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and initially sold only books. In June 1998, the store starts selling music CDs, and the same year in November - video products. Shop now covers dozens of categories of goods, including books, computers and accessories, consumer electronics and household appliances, clothing, toys, tools, sporting goods and much more. Amazon rapidly gains Internet trade markets in the world. Amazon operates successfully in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, France and China.

EBay is the world's largest Internet auction. EBay is officially recognized as the most expensive brand in the Internet, leaving behind such giants as Yahoo and Amazon. Market capitalization of company at the beginning of 2007 amounted almost 50 billion dollars. EBay Inc. provides services in the internet commerce sphere, instant payments and voice telephony. It owns such Internet payment services like PayPal and voice telephony like Skype. The number of Internet users registered on www.eBay.com internet - auction constantly grows. Today eBay has over 20 branches worldwide. EBay Company gained success because of adoption of new B2C type trade platform. Here you can buy everything from a needle to a car. The process of order in online stores is simplified to a minimum for your convenience.

It is high time to do shopping!