Friday, November 22, 2013

Website Monitoring - Types

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Today, having a website has become a common need for every business – regardless of size small, medium or large. Websites help businesses access customers worldwide. Customers can similarly access businesses at any time and from any place. All this is because of good maintenance of the website for twenty four hours a day and seven days in a week or round the clock. To provide the service to worldwide customers the companies server or website is always up. When the site is going down the company has to face consequences of revenue loss and reputation loss.

Website monitoring services help businesses to know the up time and down time of their websites with many advanced monitoring methodology and techniques. These send alerts on performance of the website via different modes of communications to the owner. There are website monitoring service providers today. Some of them are free and some are paid. There are different types in website monitoring services. In this article, we will deal with different types of website monitoring.
  • Internal monitoring: Internal monitoring is also known as inside monitoring. There are several causes for a website being down. In the internal monitoring method, the performance of a website measure from inside the firewall. This method is the traditional network management technique. Generally the problems are caused because of flaws in applications of the website, network connection failure from server to the internet etc. It can be solved with some special hardware appliances.
  • External monitoring: Also called 'outside end user performance monitoring' and 'outside monitoring', external monitoring is done outside the firewall. In external monitoring of your website, good Internet connectivity is essential.
These two types are the main categories of website monitoring. Even though there are another two types of monitoring techniques available. Now we will see them.
  • Active monitoring: Active monitoring is also called synthetic monitoring. In this method, the monitoring is done by using a web browser or scripted real web browsers. These scripts will keep on work continuously or upto a certain time intervals. The scripts will analyze and maintain the record of performance and responses measured. It will useful to correct the problems before the end user facing it.
  • Passive monitoring: Passive monitoring is also called as real user monitoring. A copy of the traffic to the website is taken to monitor. Passive monitoring technique relies on the actual inbound web traffic.
Passive monitoring is helpful to discover the exact performance problem in the website. But in active monitoring, issues are identified on the predefined paths only.

Based on the requirement to the business website and the available budget, the owners select the suitable type for monitoring their website.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Car Bluetooth Features

In the way of wireless technologies advancements, bluetooth came into existence. All of we know that it is extensively using in many mobile phones. It allows two compatible devices to connect and communicate. Bluetooth system is become a standard in the automobile industry. The car's bluetooth system lets you operate mobile phone as hands free, Means you do not need to hold the mobile phone while taking or making a call or performing activities such as accessing the address book. You can directly operate some of the phone features on the car's screen when bluetooth is connected. The compatibility is vary from phone to phone to connect with the hands free bluetooth system of a car. In edition, the features and the interface of a car's bluetooth system are also vary from vehicle to vehicle.
  • Text messaging: Some car bluetooth systems available now will allow you to receive and reply to text messages. With text speech technology, the system read aloud the text received or incoming text message. The Ford's sync bluetooth system answers the text messages with its predefined responses. The messages are like call you later and cannot talk right now. The Hyundai's Blue Lind system can allows the user to dictate the text message responses with voice recognition.
  • Audio streaming: The audio streaming is a former innovative feature in the car's bluetooth system, but now it becomes a more common feature. It allows the devices, which are compatible with the car streaming system to stream the music. This is a great feature for wireless access music stored on a device. When the user is connected with a smartphone, he can stream the Internet radio services such as Pandora.
  • Smartphone features: The latest car bluetooth technology features have the advantage of internet connected with smartphones and applications such as Bing and Google maps. The BMW and Mini systems allow the user to download Twitter and Facebook updates or feeds, and they read aloud to the driver.
  • Ring-tone and Volume: Most bluetooth systems allow to adjust the volume of incoming call. The voice of the caller is generally comes from the vehicle's stereo system's speakers. Therefore, it can adjust with the speakers volume. Some of the available systems also allow you to change the ring tone of the incoming call.
  • Call options: There are many comfortable call options available with the bluetooth system. Those are like list of missed calls, view a call history, and let you redial a number, call waiting and three way calling.
  • Address book: Some systems download the phone's address book and allow you to access it. Some systems need to input the phone number one by one, it is not convenient. The additional features available in some systems like identifying multiple phone numbers in a contact nick names etc. Some systems allow you to search through the contacts instead of go through the entire list.
Some systems even display the phone's signal strength, battery level, service provider name, voice mail and DTMF. It makes to use the device more easily with fewer distractions in driving.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Tips on Choosing Antique Wall Art

The walls seem to be daunting, if there are no decorating pieces on it and leaving them blank. There are various options available to you for creating cozy, chic and elegant look. Vintage wall art can be the best option. This article will help you in selecting antique wall art for your home.

Tips For Choosing Antique Wall Art

Following tips will help you in choosing antique wall art for your home :
1) Decide what you are looking for
When trying to search a wall art for decorating your home or room, it is better to ask yourself what are you looking for and how will you use and occupy that area. The room you want to buy wall art is meant for entertainment or for any other purpose ? Remember that, when you choose a wall art for a particular room, it will make a statement. So decide what statement you want to make about your room.

2) Choose the style of antique wall art
Decide what kind of antique wall art you are choosing. Photographs can be the best as antique wall art. Photographs are small in size. But still, if you have negatives of such photographs, you can get it printed off and enlarged. If you don't have negatives of these photographs, it is not a problem, you can add it to big art. A scanner can help these pictures in turning in to digital ones. Then by which you can print them in to larger ones, thus creating an antique wall art.

Moreover, there are lot many different styles of antique wall art which includes oil painting, water colors, hand-stamped prints and even vintage prints. You can choose any kind depending on your taste for decorating your home or room.

3) Other wall art option when choosing wall art
If you want more unique decoration, there is another option to consider for creating antique look and they are stickers of vintage wall art. These stickers have an elegant look with a modern twist. They can add a wonderful décor to any place in your home. Decorating with this technique will save time and money. It is better idea for putting this kind of wall art to the place where your guest can view them anytime.

4) Hanging or placing your wall art
Once you have selected what kind of wall art you are liking and willing to purchase, next thing is to find out where your wall art is going to be set and hung. If the walls you are planning to hang wall art are wide, it would be better idea for buying big wall art. And if the walls are narrow, buy small to medium wall art so that your wall will not look cluttered.

The wall art should be in a way that you will always want to look at. This is something that you should consider always when buying wall art for a particular place.