Category: hardware
The end of optical media
Image via Wikipedia Optical media has had a great run. Music CDs are only now beginning to be retired after being the dominant distribution medium for the last two decades. DVDs continue to remain popular to distribute movies, though their days are severely numbered in favor of both Blu-Ray and, more importantly, Internet distribution of…
Kansas Auctioneers Association convention fun, educational
2009 Hall of Fame Inductees Marvin Knopp John Shoemaker2009 President Dave Webb 2009 President Elect Andy Conser, CAGA, AARE 2009 Vice President Jack Newcom New Directors starting 2009 Megan McCurdy Byron Bina Eric Blomquist Presidential Award of Distinction Richard Garvin Livestock Contest Winner Charlie Cummings Rookie Contest Winner Mike Boesker Scholarship Award Winners Adam Pounds…
Video marketing must account for playback quality
Image via Wikipedia Video can be a fantastic marketing tool. The same video can convey a sense of incompetence if not distributed correctly. Ignoring the difference between an expensively-produced video and simple footage captured with a camcorder, both of which can be effective and important as components of marketing campaigns, the way a video is…
Hard drives fail, protect your data with a Drobo
Hard drives fail. I want a Drobo. I guess I’m probably not going to get much Google play out of those two statements, so I’d better keep going. Hard drives fail. As hard drives keep getting bigger at an absurd rate, they become more complex and more fragile. There are so many moving parts in…
Vista external monitor flash and flicker problem solved
One of the first pieces of auction technology adopted by an auctioneer augmenting his business processes is a projection system. I was at an auction in Denton, Texas, where there were more than 30 large plasma and LCD TVs – most to be sold that day – showing the same display of the item currently…