A Digital Media Communications Career

Digital Media Communications is a large and growing industry that combines graphic design, computer programming, multimedia, and web development. This is one of the most rapidly growing industries in the United States. And while the industry is expanding, there is currently a shortage of qualified people to fill these positions. Browse through any of the internet job boards and you'll see thousands of listings for available positions in this industry with salaries anywhere form $50k - $100k per year and more.

CriticsRant.com Review

It seems like just about everyone gets their movies online these days. Netflix, Blockbuster, and DVDAvenue are just a few of the mail order DVD rental outlets on the web. Unfortunately, it's hard to know what movies are rally any good. The

Putting the 'Commerce'in Ecommerce

Ok, so you've spent the last few weeks developing your new ecommerce storefront. You started with a piece of open source software, like osCommerce or Zen-Cart, and you customized it fully to adhere to your business model. You've integrated your professionally designed template, you've added all of your products and descriptions. you've search engine optimized all of the pages, adding dynamic meta title tags and good internal link structure. You've got just about everything figured out and developed....except how are you going to collect the money?

New Website Makes it Easy to Get a Lump Sum for a Cash Settlement

Continuing our discussion about websites that offer various quoting services, here's on that offers free quotes to get a lump sum for your cash settlement. Their services says that they'll give you up to 4 lump sum quotes from financial institutions that specialize in cash settlements. So, in other words, if you receive regular payments of a cash settlement, you can trade it in and receive a lump sum instead.

PowerSportsTV.com Review

In the past 5 years or so, people have become more comfortable with the idea of purchasing merchandise on the web. Because of this phenomena, we've also seen a sharp increase in the number of price comparison and price quote websites. Our latest review provides free price quotes for those looking to purchase motorcycles, scooters, atvs, personal watercraft or snowmobiles. Say for example you're looking to purchase on of the many varieties of honda motorcycles.

Letters to You Review

Today, we were asked to Review LTY, otherwise known as 'Letters-to-You.com'. LTY is a portfolio of sorts, offering several examples of graphic design and photography. The first and most important thing I'll say about this site is that the graphics are stunning. I had intended to only spend a few minutes on the site while I wrote the review, but I ended up staying there, looking at image after image for well over an hour. Bravo on the work being displayed there.

Is Reliable Hosting a Myth?

If you haven't noticed, it seems that everyone thinks they can be a host these days. You've got a Datacenter, that rents out a server to a host, who rents out VPS account, who rent out reseller accounts. And your host could be any one of those guys. So, how do you know how to find reliable cPanel hosting? Well, that's a pretty good question. Word of mouth is a good approach. Find a host that has a good reputation with your peers. Make sure you do plenty of research, and specifically look for any negative comments about a host.

Moving Large Amounts of Data

More and more, people are beginning to realize that they want to be able to share the data from one of these applications to another. Or, they want to be able to move their application data from an OLTP to an environment more conducive for reporting. After all, reporting on your OLTP will slow down your application, especially if you have a very large dataset and you are doing some pretty heavy analytical reporting making use of some high cpu utilization aggregate functions. But what's the best way to get the data from one application to another?

Downtime - For When I'm not programming

When I'm not writing code, I like to enjoy a movie or a TV show in full high definition and 7.1 surround sound. The problem is, my 63" rear projection HD TV is coming up on 6 years old now. The face has a few scratches now, it's not as bright as it used to be, I'm constantly having to set the color convergence, and occasionally, the vertical hold will flip up a page or two. Time for a new TV. I've been looking around at allot of different LCD and plasma tvs, and I'm surprised that the price has come down so far.

Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

I'll be the first to admit, my adobe Photoshop skills leave something to be desired. I've never really had the time to sit down, and go through each functionality one at a time to learn how to do this things I want to be able to do to images and photos. And now that I found ManipWorld.com, I won't have to. ManipWorld has a bunch of free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, to show me exactly how to do things in Photoshop quickly and easily.