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The QuickCam Pro 9000 i have found to be very useful to me. I have used it for all of my broadcasting at live.bradwelltv.com.

However there are some ups and downs to it, including the microphone. You would never know that the microphone is supposed to cancel noise, as there is always a constant buzzing on it. It also fuzzes up if you talk very much more than a whisper. If i had to rate the microphone on the webcam it would be a 2 out of 10.

The Camera however is a different story. With an 8 mega pixel camera, it just amazes me how clear it really is. It looks sharp, and very clean. It also works very well with video editing software. That is about the only thing you can say about the Camera. It is very good.

Here are the specifications below that Logitech has posted to their website.

“Technical Specifications

• • Carl Zeiss® lens
  • Autofocus system
  • Ultra-high resolution 2-megapixel sensor with RightLight™2 Technology
  • Color depth: 24-bit true color
  • Video capture: Up to 1600 x 1200 pixels (HD quality) (HD Video 960 x 720 pixels)
  • Frame rate: Up to 30 frames per second
  • Still image capture: 8 million pixels (with software enhancement)
  • Built-in microphone with RightSound™ Technology

Here are the Computer Specifications that they recomend

Windows® XP

• • Pentium® P4 (or compatible) processor, 1.4 GHz (2.4 GHz recommended)
  • 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
  • 200 MB available hard disk space
  • 16-bit color display adapter
  • Windows®-compatible sound card and speakers (full-duplex sound card recommended)
  • USB port
  • CD-ROM drive

Windows Vista™

• • Pentium® P4 (or compatible) processor, 2.4 GHz (2.8 GHz recommended)
  • 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
  • 200 MB available hard disk space
  • 16-bit color display adapter
  • Windows®-compatible sound card and speakers (full-duplex sound card recommended)
  • USB port
  • CD-ROM drive”

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More and more now people are becoming the victims of identity theft. The problem is that a great amount of it is from the Internet. Today i have come up with a few tips to keep your passwords safe and prevent hackers from getting them.

1- Don’t use just one password. To many people now days are just using one password. Try making multiple passwords. Another good idea is to keep passwords that are related with the real world like banking, social security etc in the real world, and keep the passwords that you use on line (Youtube, Facebook etc) separate from them. Having them all the same password will increase the chance of being robbed. Think of it this way: If someone gets one of your passwords, and thats the password you used for every single account on line, most likely you now have no access to any of those accounts.

2- Don’t share your passwords. This should be pretty obvious. This usually happens with teenagers and sometimes leads to bullying. Kids will all give each other everyones password putting their full trust in each other. Then one person changes the password, then guess what: The person you gave your password to has control over your stuff, and you have no control what so ever. Even if you trust the person, keep the passwords to yourself. Why would you want anyone else to know them anyway?

3-Make sure that you know all of your passwords- Make sure you use passwords that are good, but make sure you know them because it is not necessarily a good idea to write or type them. If someone gets a hold of these passwords when your not looking weather on paper or on your computer it could be devastating. If you have to type them due to long term memory problems try and set a master password(Sort of like a password for passwords). Some Internet browsers have this feature for example. Having a master password just creates another wall that someone has to get through to get your passwords.

There are plenty other things you can do to protect yourself, but most of it is just common sense. Keep private information private, and don’t share your personal information with others, even if it’s your best friend in the world.

Thanks

Bradleybradwell

Email: bradley@bradwelltv.com

Website: bradwelltv.com

WordPress.com just released their new format for bloggers, and it hasn’t really impressed me with the new features. Here are some problems i think that are negative towards the new format.

1- The Tags, I really liked it when they just had the text box where you could just write the tags in. Although you can still do this, once you click add or press enter they are written onto the web page with “X” beside them. This makes it pretty hard to copy and paste the tags to websites like Delicious or Digg.

2- Not allot of “Noticable” new features. They do have some new code abilities. What i would really have liked to see though would be the ability to add Adsense ads, and intigrate them with your online blog. Unfortunatly you can only do that with WordPress.org. There are ways to put Ads in your posts but it is against WordPress Terms of Use.

3- I cannot see the Word Count. I used this quite frequently when using their old platform, but now i can’t find it anywhere. I have this feeling its around but it is not in immidiate view. It would be nice if they put a wordcount back where it was below the post text box.

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Now here are some improvements that i think are good for wordpress.

1) I like how we are able to edit the permalink to a certain extent. Its nice to be able to get rid of those dashes and all that extra crap. Its also nice that you are able to edit the title to a title that you feel better suits the topic of your post.

2) Eye Candy??? In my opinion it’s not a big improvment, but it definatly works. They have moved the Publish button to the rights side along with the save button. They have the option to look at your most used categories when categorizing your blog. It feels more fluent, and buttons are definatly more clear.

3)Dashboard- I really like how they intergrated a bit of everything including blog stats, comments, etc. I really like the flag that pops up when you have a new comment on one of your posts. This becomes very useful when trying to manage your wordpress site. Again on the Dashboard everything is very clear as to where you can find it.

Overall the new WordPress.com is fine, i do think there are a few minor changes that would help in the overall improvement of the site like the wordcount. I cannot stress enough how important i felt that was. I would just adore wordpress if they would let me put Adsense on it. I think it would attract me towards publishing on wordpress more often. Not that i wouldn’t publish on WordPress

Anyway just thought i would post my opinion on the new WordPress.com. The site is definatly Good looking with lots of eye candy.

Thanks

BradleyBradwell

Contact: bradley@bradwelltv.com

Website: bradwelltv.com

So you have just made a website………………. Now what do you do? Most people create a website expecting it to just take off, and be one of the most popular sites on the internet like Youtube, Google, or Facebook. Well right now you are probably being laughed at. Oh wait there is no one to laugh at you.

Have no fear though. I have come up with some quick and easy solutions to help you market your website.

1- Use the power of Youtube. Create a promotional video and upload it to Youtube. You wouldn’t believe how many hits some websites get by putting it on the massive site. If you do choose to put it on Youtube, try and add a link to your website on the main screen. An example of this would be my website http://live.bradwelltv.com. As you can see i have a title bar at the bottom of my screen, and on the bottom left corner there is my website. Although this is not a link, it is still noticeable to the public. You can get hundreds of hits just by using Youtube, so i defanatly recommend using it.

2-Comment in Blogs! You wouldn’t believe this but commenting in blogs gives you that presence in online communities. People will look to you to answer questions that they think you have knowledge of. Now this doesn’t mean put a comment in any blog. Strategically place them in blogs related to your website and your expertise. Also go onto many blogs, and not just one. This will give you a wider presence throughout the internet, and cause your name to become more familiar in your users heads.

3- Give out contact information. Make sure that on your website you have an about/contact page for your users to be able to contact you. Without a about/contact area your website will look more spammy than professional looking. Without it you will cause your users to feel hopeless, and that they are not an important part of your community. If you have a contact page and receive emails from your users, REPLY!!!!!!
Nothing feels worse for your user then feeling like their question isn’t important. If you don’t reply there is also a very high possibility that you have lost your costumer.

4- Be quick- This is very important to keeping users addicted to your site. Apply fresh new content at least 3 times a week. If your site isn’t updated frequently is becomes boring and unattractive. This doesn’t mean redo your whole site 3 times a week. It means add new things, write something new, or just do something that isn’t old. When i say to be quick, i also mean “be first”. Try your best to make sure you have newly released information first, so that search engines will quickly find the information, and direct it to your site. One of the worst things for a user is seeing the same story come up from website after website after website. They like to see something new, and creative.

Thought i would just write that quick little post today.

Hope you enjoyed.

BradleyBradwell

bradley@bradwelltv.com

bradwelltv.com.

The internet has created alot of new operotunities for just about everyone. Certain people use it for communication, some for games, some for entertainment, and some for business. You wouldn’t believe how easy it is to make money now days with the increasing interest with online businesses. I for 1 have created something similar to an online business. Although it sounds cheasy, it does indeed generate revenue.

The other day i just came up with a random idea to try and make money with a Piczo website. Yes i am talking about those childish websites that your children go on. The website is called http://codegallery.piczo.com, and it works. I have designed the website so that it attracts people to the free stuff, but it also attracts people to the stuff that i do charge for. This will infact generate revenue. I call CodeGallery a “Piczo Help Site” which has become increasingly more popular throughout the Piczo community. These “Help Websites” are usually built to help other Piczo users learn how to use basic html coding. Some i must say i have really been impressed with. Infact some Piczo websites have become so popular that the site owner moves from Piczo and gets their own Domain Ie: http://graphic-fusion.org. Graphic Fusion used to be a Piczo website, but now they have gained so much popularity throughout the Piczo community, they really don’t need Piczo anymore.

Another way to make easy money is to simply use Adsense. Everyone knows about it, and how it can “Mix In” with your website. These Google Ads may look small, but they will eventually bring you a good amount of money in the future.

In the end i think it is safe to say that using the internet is a very easy way to generate revenue from whatever type of website your hosting. Weather it be from a blog, a social networking site, Piczo, personal website, or anything else online for that matter. There is a 90% chance that you will be able to make money off of it.  You never know until you try.

A program just came to my attention within the month, and they say that you can make free phone-calls unlike Skype right from your computer. The program is called Oovoo. I have recently started to really use it, and i must say that the sound quality is pretty good. Of course you are using the Internet which means that there will be a few slow spots here and there. It is pretty similar to what Skype used to be except Oovoo allows you to call anywhere in Canada or the Us for free. Unfortunately you have to pay for an incoming call service.

You are also able to call other people with Oovoo using your contacts list. All you have to do is add them by their user name and there you go. There are also other features included with oovoo including the ability to send and receive files, save phone numbers to an online phone-book, and you are able to video message people. Yes i said Video. The video call quality with Oovoo is very impressive, although once in a while you will get the dropped call. This is very rare though.

I really recommend using Oovoo for your online calling needs. It has worked very well with me, and I’ve used it almost everyday. To download Oovoo go to this website http://oovoo.com.

Any questions?

Email me at bradley@bradwelltv.com

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More and more people now days are attempting to build their own website, and expect it to pull together in just a few minutes. Unfortunately for them this is not at all the case. Building a community and attracting visitors to your website requires allot of work. Domains Seller websites give everyone the impression that when you build a website you automatically get thousands of hits like Facebook, or Youtube. All i have to say to them is Good Luck. Fortunately i have come up with a few tips of my own on building a community for your website.

1. The Community Knows- Listen to your visitors opinions if they give you feedback. Most people make a website expecting to have a very large obvious. Kind of like getting the community to surround him, when he should in-fact be surrounding the community. Take feedback from visitors very seriously. In-fact you should probably have an easy link to your email and or a contact form located on your website.

2. Make it easy for them to access you- Sign up for every social networking website that you can think of including, Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, and Twitter. These websites will become crucial in letting your visitors know that there is fresh content on your website. Also create more than one email account. One that it for the community to email you like bradley@bradwelltv.com, and other ones to receive all of the newsletters from the websites you have signed up for. Make sure you update everything often. That may even mean a few times a day. Just don’t forget that there is a difference between advertising and spamming.

3-Attract the right people- If your running a sports website, you obviously don’t want to get the biggest geek that has ever lived onto your website. You want people that are interested in what you are talking about. Post comments on other Blogs, preferably ones that are related to the subject your are looking for. They usually have a Field where you can put a link to your website. Just remember not to spam on these websites. Your visitors wont respect you if they see that you are Spamming in any sort of way.

4- Stay Committed- If you want a community, you are going to have to work for it. Building a web community takes time just like anything else including school, chores etc. Make sure that you are doing what you want to do, and makes sure that you enjoy it. No one wants to be around someone who dislikes his own work. Staying committed could possibly mean updating when you are on holidays. It could mean updating from a mobile device. It could mean skipping dinner with someone else. OK that you probably shouldn’t do, but you get the point.

5- Stay on topic- Make sure that you are focused on one topic so that the people that visit your website want to stay on your website. For example: If someone has a blog and they have a post about modeling then the next post they talk about spots. They are probably only going to get people looking at the two different subjects separately. What i mean by this is that most likely they will only see the one post, and then leave, as the visitor would have no interest in sports. This doesn’t happen 100% of the time, but is a realistic scenario.

I hope these tips will help you in whatever type of on-line community you may be creating, and i hope that your community will go places. Hey your first way to build a community- Comment on the Post.

Thanks

Bradley Bradwell

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If you really think about it, your office environment is a big influence on how you work. I have noticed with myself for an example that i like a good clean working space, in a larger than normal room. I also prefer it to be silent with very little distraction when in-fact i am working. I differ in that opinion when i am just using the computer for entertainment.

Right now my arrangement of my office as you can see at http://live.bradwelltv.com, is with a desk on one side of the room with a whole load of junk on the floor. I have the Webcam on the other side of the room, and a filing cabinet to my very far right. This room that i am working in right now is probably only 2.5 metres all around. I have very few objects that i keep 24/7 on my desk which includes a land-line phone, and a stapler. What i think makes my office unique is that there is very few objects in it which keeps it feeling light and clean.

So really the only thing that you can do with the arrangement of your home office is first have a comfortable chair. Second make sure your workspace is “workable” if you know what i mean. If you come into the office and want to leave, it is obviously not the right set up, or the right office for you. I also recommend that you keep it cleaned and organized, and try to reduce as much access clutter as your possibly can. This is big…. It keeps distractions at a minimum, and essentially forces you to work.

Make sure also that you have all the supplies you think you would need in the office, “In The Office”. Going some other place to find some supplies can easily cause you to become offtrack, and disrupt your work habits. I also recomend having a telephone/cellphone nearby just in-case you have to make any sort of business calls.

In the end my number one recommendation is to have fun with it. Enjoy your workspace, and make sure it not only does the job. Make sure that it exceeds your expectations with the job, and does everything you need to do with it with profession. I know i definitely have fun with my office, and love coming into it every single day.

Thanks

Bradley Bradwell

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