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http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/08/03/business-owners-can-now-verify-their-own-google-pages/

Here’s what the Google Business team had to say about it today:

Are you a storefront business who loves connecting with your customers through the Google+ page that you already created through Google+ for Business (google.com/+/business/)? Now you can verify your Google+ page in the Local Business or Place category. This will unify your business’s online presence across Google Search, Maps, and Mobile and ensure that your customers get the right information about your business, wherever they are looking for you! Verification will enable you to update your business address and hours, respond to reviews, and more — from the the same Google+ page where you currently share posts with your customers. And stay tuned — we’re working on extending the full benefits of a verified Google+ page to more local businesses soon. Learn more here (http://goo.gl/0yHbS).

Read more here:

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/08/03/business-owners-can-now-verify-their-own-google-pages/

Rubber bands vs Water Melon - The Slow Mo Guys

Prometheushasn’t even made its way from the cinema to DVD and Blu-ray yet, but already 20th Century Fox is making plans for a follow-up.

Facebook has more than 83 million ‘fake’ users

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DVI/HDMI vs VGA in digital signage

As DVI and HDMI connections become more and more widely used in digital signage, we are often asked: which is better, DVI (or HDMI) or VGA? There is no clear answer to this question.

First, let’s get some basic knowledge of the elements. DVI and HDMI are exactly the same as one another regarding image quality and resolution. The main differences between HDMI and DVI are that HDMI carries audio and video signal; further more HDMI uses different types of connectors. Technology wise both HDMI and DVI uses the same encoding technology, and for that reason DVI source can be connected to an HDMI connector on display, or vice versa, with a DVI/HDMI cable, with no use of signal converter

What are the difference between DVI, HDMI and VGA?

DVI/HDMI and VGA Video are all video signals which support a variety of resolutions, each one of them deliver the signal from source to display in different ways. The main difference is that DVI/HDMI delivers the signal in a digital format. VGA is an analog format, which deliver the signal, not as a digital stream, but as a set of varying voltages representing the red, green and blue components of the signal.

DVI/HDMI and VGA deliver signals as red, green, and blue color components, together with sync information. The DVI/HDMI standard delivers these along three data channels in a format called T.M.D.S., which stands for “Transmission Minimized Differential Signaling”. This basically involves a blue, red and green sync that are added, and separate the channels

VGA is delivered, almost similarly, with the color information split up three ways. However, VGA uses a color difference type signal, which consists of Luminance, the green red or blue channel, representing the total brightness of the image. The sync pulses for both horizontal and vertical are delivered on the Y channel.

Both HDMI/DVI and VGA signal types are fundamentally quite similar; they break up the image in similar ways, and deliver the same type of information to the display. How they differ, as we’ll see, will depend to a great extent upon the particular characteristics of the source and display devices, and can depend upon cabling as well.

What is better Digital or Analog?

Digital signal transfer, it is assumed, is error-free, while analog VGA signals are always subject to some amount of degradation and information loss. There is an element of truth to this argument, but it tends to back fire in real-world testing. 
First, there is no reason to get signal degradation of an analog VGA signal in digital signage installation where the distance between the player and the screen is short. Digital signage installation in a large retail or education facility for example can present a challenge for analog cabling. But, it is a flawed assumption to suppose that digital signal handling is always error-free. DVI and HDMI signals aren’t subject to signal error correction like downloading a file; once information is lost, it’s lost for good. That is not a consideration with well-made cable over short distances, but can easily become a factor at long distance.

So what should I use for best Image Quality?

DVI or HDMI signal formats is pure digital. There are some arguments that by taking a digital signage player and connecting it straight into digital connector as a DVI or HDMI signal, and then delivering that digital signal straight to the digital signage display, there is a sort of a perfect no loss of information signal. If the display itself is a digital display like LCD, the signal never has to go through digital to analog conversion and therefore is less altered on the way.

The Role of Cable in picture quality

Picture quality, in general, should not be a significant factor in the DVI/HDMI in short distance bellow 50 ft, as long as the cables are of high quality. There are, however, issues when you centralize your player and you send the signal to a display 200ft a way. In this kind of environment analog or digital signal will have problem without using DVI/HDMI/VGA over cat 5 extender. Without using these extenders signal quality issues can come into play.
DVI and HDMI connections, uses SDI technology (serial digital video) which was designed originally to run on coax where impedance can be controlled and compensate. DVI/HDMI signals are run balanced, using twisted-pair cable technology which control impedance to about +/- 10%, and for this reason, are subject to the digital cliff phenomenon. Up to some distance, a DVI or HDMI cable will perform just fine and will not compromise the ability of the display device to reconstruct the original bit stream without information lost. 
As we run longer distances, the ability to reconstruct the bit stream decreases. As a result unrecoverable bit errors start to occur. As distance increases more information is lost to a point that the display becomes unable to reconstitute enough information to render an image. A DVI/HDMI cable that works perfectly at 40 feet may not work at 80 feet. It is very hard to determine the exact distance a DVI or HDMI cable will fail, most quality HDMI /DVI cable will work fine up to 50ft.

The Answer: It Depends

So, which is better, DVI/ HDMI or VGA? The answers unsatisfying, but the truth is that it depends. It depends upon your source player, type of cable, type of display and the distance, and there’s no good way, in principle, to say in advance whether the digital or the analog connection will draw a better picture. You may find that some digital signage player looks better through its DVI or HDMI output, while a different player using VGA output better image through its RGB cable, on the same display. Some installers reports ghosting/blurriness with text using analog and when switching to digital interface made things much crisper. On the other hand, other installers who used DVI/HDMI long cable found that the text was blurry, colors were off and the image didn’t scale to fit correctly and got no issues at all with VGA. In this case, if you are using cable longer than 50ft you should use VGA over Cat5/6 extenders that will control picture quality over distance over 50ft like Minicom.

 

DVI/HDMI vs VGA in digital signage

As DVI and HDMI connections become more and more widely used in digital signage, we are often asked: which is better, DVI (or HDMI) or VGA? There is no clear answer to this question.

First, let’s get some basic knowledge of the elements. DVI and HDMI are exactly the same as one another regarding image quality and resolution. The main differences between HDMI and DVI are that HDMI carries audio and video signal; further more HDMI uses different types of connectors. Technology wise both HDMI and DVI uses the same encoding technology, and for that reason DVI source can be connected to an HDMI connector on display, or vice versa, with a DVI/HDMI cable, with no use of signal converter

What are the difference between DVI, HDMI and VGA?

DVI/HDMI and VGA Video are all video signals which support a variety of resolutions, each one of them deliver the signal from source to display in different ways. The main difference is that DVI/HDMI delivers the signal in a digital format. VGA is an analog format, which deliver the signal, not as a digital stream, but as a set of varying voltages representing the red, green and blue components of the signal.

DVI/HDMI and VGA deliver signals as red, green, and blue color components, together with sync information. The DVI/HDMI standard delivers these along three data channels in a format called T.M.D.S., which stands for “Transmission Minimized Differential Signaling”. This basically involves a blue, red and green sync that are added, and separate the channels

VGA is delivered, almost similarly, with the color information split up three ways. However, VGA uses a color difference type signal, which consists of Luminance, the green red or blue channel, representing the total brightness of the image. The sync pulses for both horizontal and vertical are delivered on the Y channel.

Both HDMI/DVI and VGA signal types are fundamentally quite similar; they break up the image in similar ways, and deliver the same type of information to the display. How they differ, as we’ll see, will depend to a great extent upon the particular characteristics of the source and display devices, and can depend upon cabling as well.

What is better Digital or Analog?

Digital signal transfer, it is assumed, is error-free, while analog VGA signals are always subject to some amount of degradation and information loss. There is an element of truth to this argument, but it tends to back fire in real-world testing. 
First, there is no reason to get signal degradation of an analog VGA signal in digital signage installation where the distance between the player and the screen is short. Digital signage installation in a large retail or education facility for example can present a challenge for analog cabling. But, it is a flawed assumption to suppose that digital signal handling is always error-free. DVI and HDMI signals aren’t subject to signal error correction like downloading a file; once information is lost, it’s lost for good. That is not a consideration with well-made cable over short distances, but can easily become a factor at long distance.

So what should I use for best Image Quality?

DVI or HDMI signal formats is pure digital. There are some arguments that by taking a digital signage player and connecting it straight into digital connector as a DVI or HDMI signal, and then delivering that digital signal straight to the digital signage display, there is a sort of a perfect no loss of information signal. If the display itself is a digital display like LCD, the signal never has to go through digital to analog conversion and therefore is less altered on the way.

The Role of Cable in picture quality

Picture quality, in general, should not be a significant factor in the DVI/HDMI in short distance bellow 50 ft, as long as the cables are of high quality. There are, however, issues when you centralize your player and you send the signal to a display 200ft a way. In this kind of environment analog or digital signal will have problem without using DVI/HDMI/VGA over cat 5 extender. Without using these extenders signal quality issues can come into play.
DVI and HDMI connections, uses SDI technology (serial digital video) which was designed originally to run on coax where impedance can be controlled and compensate. DVI/HDMI signals are run balanced, using twisted-pair cable technology which control impedance to about +/- 10%, and for this reason, are subject to the digital cliff phenomenon. Up to some distance, a DVI or HDMI cable will perform just fine and will not compromise the ability of the display device to reconstruct the original bit stream without information lost. 
As we run longer distances, the ability to reconstruct the bit stream decreases. As a result unrecoverable bit errors start to occur. As distance increases more information is lost to a point that the display becomes unable to reconstitute enough information to render an image. A DVI/HDMI cable that works perfectly at 40 feet may not work at 80 feet. It is very hard to determine the exact distance a DVI or HDMI cable will fail, most quality HDMI /DVI cable will work fine up to 50ft.

The Answer: It Depends

So, which is better, DVI/ HDMI or VGA? The answers unsatisfying, but the truth is that it depends. It depends upon your source player, type of cable, type of display and the distance, and there’s no good way, in principle, to say in advance whether the digital or the analog connection will draw a better picture. You may find that some digital signage player looks better through its DVI or HDMI output, while a different player using VGA output better image through its RGB cable, on the same display. Some installers reports ghosting/blurriness with text using analog and when switching to digital interface made things much crisper. On the other hand, other installers who used DVI/HDMI long cable found that the text was blurry, colors were off and the image didn’t scale to fit correctly and got no issues at all with VGA. In this case, if you are using cable longer than 50ft you should use VGA over Cat5/6 extenders that will control picture quality over distance over 50ft like Minicom.

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·         Fast Wireless Speed - The Linksys E1200 offers fast speed to connect your computers, wireless printers and other Wi-Fi devices at transfer rates up to 300 Mbps speed. 

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·         Advanced Security - Keep Wi-Fi freeloaders and Internet threats at bay with WPA/WPA2 encryption and SPI firewall to help keep your network protected. 

·         Quick to Install - Cisco Connect software helps you set up your home wireless network in three easy steps. 

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Nikon D800 Photos of Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Sea Cave

Nikon D800 Photoshoot of Pretty Blonde Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Malibu Sea Cave!

Shot with the brand new Nikon D800 and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens.

Captured in both RAW and JPEG.

Check out the amazing detail in the full resolution photos! I was running out of CF & SD cards fast, as the files are huge!

A classic California Hero’s Journey Mythology Goddess! Tall, pretty, thin, fit, with pretty green eyes and long sandy-blonde hair, blowing on the sea breeze.

In a sea cave on Leo Carillo Beach in Malibu!

Enjoy the epic beauty of the mythological hero’s journey, in great detail via the Nikon D800! :)

The full resolutions RAWs and JPEGs are amazing!

Modeling the new Hero’s Journey Mythology Gold’N’Virtue Gold 45 Revolver Swimsuits on a sunny summer day in Malibu!

Enjoy!

With her wavy, curly hair blowing on the sea breeze! Best to shoot the caves in the AM, before the wind kicks up and transforms them into a wind tunnel!

All the best on your hero’s journey!

Everybody loves the black & gold bikini !

Nikon D800 Photos of Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Sea Cave

Nikon D800 Photoshoot of Pretty Blonde Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Malibu Sea Cave!

Shot with the brand new Nikon D800 and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens.

Captured in both RAW and JPEG.

Check out the amazing detail in the full resolution photos! I was running out of CF & SD cards fast, as the files are huge!

A classic California Hero’s Journey Mythology Goddess! Tall, pretty, thin, fit, with pretty green eyes and long sandy-blonde hair, blowing on the sea breeze.

In a sea cave on Leo Carillo Beach in Malibu!

Enjoy the epic beauty of the mythological hero’s journey, in great detail via the Nikon D800! :)

The full resolutions RAWs and JPEGs are amazing!

Modeling the new Hero’s Journey Mythology Gold’N’Virtue Gold 45 Revolver Swimsuits on a sunny summer day in Malibu!

Enjoy!

With her wavy, curly hair blowing on the sea breeze! Best to shoot the caves in the AM, before the wind kicks up and transforms them into a wind tunnel!

All the best on your hero’s journey!

Everybody loves the black & gold bikini !

Nikon D800 Photos of Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Sea Cave

Nikon D800 Photoshoot of Pretty Blonde Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Malibu Sea Cave!

Shot with the brand new Nikon D800 and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens.

Captured in both RAW and JPEG.

Check out the amazing detail in the full resolution photos! I was running out of CF & SD cards fast, as the files are huge!

A classic California Hero’s Journey Mythology Goddess! Tall, pretty, thin, fit, with pretty green eyes and long sandy-blonde hair, blowing on the sea breeze.

In a sea cave on Leo Carillo Beach in Malibu!

Enjoy the epic beauty of the mythological hero’s journey, in great detail via the Nikon D800! :)

The full resolutions RAWs and JPEGs are amazing!

Modeling the new Hero’s Journey Mythology Gold’N’Virtue Gold 45 Revolver Swimsuits on a sunny summer day in Malibu!

Enjoy!

With her wavy, curly hair blowing on the sea breeze! Best to shoot the caves in the AM, before the wind kicks up and transforms them into a wind tunnel!

All the best on your hero’s journey!

Everybody loves the black & gold bikini !

Gummy bears are good for eating, bad for you, and mildly attractive to intoxicated individuals.  (What?)  The point is that we’re not using gummy bears to their full potential.  Hence, gummy bear art!

Sure, we could just eat them, but why not use them as friends?  As coworkers?  Asrole models for society?  These ten brilliant pieces of gummy bear art have taken the average gummy bear and turned it into something worth looking at!  (No, nobody has turned a gummy bear into a Kardashian.  Yet.)

 1.  Read: Female Joker Schemes In New Gummy Bear Dress

 

Is this lady scary or is this lady scary?  Correct answer: I peed myself.  In other news, there’s no way I wouldn’t have worn this gummy bear dress if somebody ever asked me to prom.  “I can’t imagine why nobody ever wanted to go to prom with you.”  That’s not entirely true – one girl wanted me to ask her, but as soon as I got close enough to engage in social interaction I had the uncontrollable urge to pretend that I was a carrot.

2.  Gummy Bear Art: Chandelier Hangs Ominously Above

 

This gummy bear chandelier seems improbable, at least when I draw from my past experiences with gummy bears.  Wouldn’t the lights get hot enough to melt these tasty treats?  I would have to bet that the light was only turned on for a short amount of time for the picture of this gummy bear art, and that nobody had the heartlessness to melt all of these gummy bears without them being in my mouth.

3.  Artificial Child Wears Artificial Suit

 

This is almost as creepy as the woman in the gummy bear dress, who is probably married to Tim Burton.  Definition of Tim Burton: the only man who can make nine-year-old children look creepy.  I’m not sure why the designer chose to let the hands have melted gummy bears on them, and it adds an odd effect t hat gives me that funny feeling in my stomach.  *Turns away*  Never mind, I mistook artistic sense for the need to vomit.  “IT’S ON MY SHOES.”

4.  Ram Made of Gummy Bears

 

While this may, at first glance, appear to be the deformed offspring of a horse and some tropical insect, it is in fact this animal we refer to as a “ram.”  Nobody likes rams, though, since we would all much rather swoon over the all-powerful mastodon.  “The mastodon is extinct.”  Oh, yeah?  Then what do you call THIS!  “WHERE DID YOU GET A MASTODON?”  Made it in a petri dish while I was growing children.

5.  Frighteningly Delicious Gummy Skull

 

While this piece of gummy bear art didn’t have its picture taken in the best light, there’s still a chance for us to appreciate its awesomeness.  Bask in its light, if you will.  I need to get rid of my farmer’s tan anyway, since I’ve been hard at work harvesting the corn from this year’s growing season.  “You live in the city.”  Community vegetable garden.  No big deal, except IT’S AWESOME.  I  almost grew some tomatoes this season.

6.  Even Gladiators Have Soft Sides

 

Gladiators have helmets that will protect them from sword blows, but this helmet will protect you from nothing but diet and exercise.  The more you eat, the worse you feel, and the less you need to exercise!  Then you’ll be like me and get to ride your butt-cheeks in those motorized wheelchairs at Disney World and get to the front of the line.

7.  Colorful Gummies

 

This is an ingenious use of gummy bears!  While it probably was not that difficult to create, the colors make my eyes smile.  I would guess that some of the bears had to be custom made, since I’ve never seen these colors in real life.  Million dollar idea: make gummy bears that are rainbow colored and sell them to unsuspecting children at high prices.

8.  Gummy Dinosaur Sculptures

 

This is the most adorable piece of gummy bear art ever created, and stegosauruses are the most awesome dinosaurs ever brutally murdered by environmental conditions.  A note about the orange gummy dinosaur: it seems that the guy’s neck is a bit long, and I can imagine a snake crawling out of its body.  Imaginaaaaaaationnnnnnn.

9.  Gummy Bear Periodic Table

 

Chemistry – not fun.  Gummy bears – fun.  Chemistry with gummy bea rs?  Still not fun.  Anything that has to do with math is n ot fun for two reasons: math isn’t fun.  “You only gave one reason.”  Ooooooh someone’s a smarty pants.  Let me put you in the accelerated track with the other  thirty-year-old men who can count.

10.  Gummy Bear Joker May Or May Not Be Ronald McDonald

 

This is a gummy bear version of Joker.  By that, I mean that it’s a gummy bear ver sion of Ronald McDonald with green hair.  The guy is creepy in r eal life, but when made entirely of gummy bears, he’s just unnatural.  Side note: the creator of this piece accidentally gave Joker a mullet the first time he made the hair.  70′s Joker for the win.