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Are you start encountering slow PC startup today that you sometimes find it hard to understand why it takes your computer too long to load its operating system and other programs compared to the time when it was still brand new? This is sure sign that your unit has some problems in one of its components which needs to be immediately fixed in order to improve its performance and avoid more serious troubles to occur.

There are many reasons why you have slow PC startup; the following are the possible reasons why this issue occurs: your unit could be infected by virus, the hard drives could be full and it is almost at its maximum capacity level, your RAM memory is full, your registry is cluttered with lots of junk files, and you have a lot of startup programs in your operating system which take too much time loading all of them.

Having the following possible causes for your slow PC startup, let us now deal with them one-by-one; if your unit is infected by virus, then obviously you need to get reliable anti-virus software that will fix this problem and protect your system from further invasion in the future. There are free anti-virus programs available online; make sure that before downloading them, they are really suited for your unit. In most case, the free products have limited power to against more advanced and sophisticated virus; hence, if the free software cannot solve the problem, try using the premium programs.

Another reason why you have slow PC startup is because your hard drives are already full; hence, you need to manually check your drives and delete those files which you are no longer using; or you can also transfer your files into your USB or burn them into DVD files. Additionally, you should also uninstall unnecessary programs which you rarely use that consume lots of spaces. Aside from that, you should defragment your drives in order to organize them and improve its performance.

Still another reason is cluttered registry as a result of the buildup of trash files in this area; causing it to mess up with important files and triggering various errors to occur including delayed start-up. In this case, you need to get premium registry cleaners to solve this trouble.

Just follow the aforementioned procedures and in no time your computer will start running smoothly with no more slow PC startup problems.

By: Ryan Clover

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Jollibee Foods Corporation is a Philippine based fast-food restaurant that is considered as one of the biggest fast-food restaurants around the world, competing with other big fast-food restaurant brands such as McDonalds, Wendy’s, and Burger King. According to its Jollibee web site, it was in December of 2007 that Jollibee has yet again reached a new milestone by becoming one of the worlds biggest fast-food chains in the world with 1,655 stores worldwide and total sales of more than US$1 billion.

The success of Jollibee was further propelled when Jollibee begun its expansions on different chains of fast-food restaurants. Among these is an oriental restaurant called Chowking, a pizza/pasta restaurant known as Greenwich Pizza, a bakeshop named Red Ribbon Bakeshop, a french bakeshop called Délifrance, and an all-Filipino restaurant called Manong Pepe’s.



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Quiche Lorraine may have a legitimate claim for the  title of Grand Dame of eggs. This rich, elegant and custardy preparation, with the regal name,  is quick and easy to put together, especially if you use a store bought pie crust. Although, at least once you should try this quiche with a crust you make from scratch, try my Blue Ribbon Recipe.

Serving 6-8 is no problem with one 9″ quiche and paired together with Cream Scones and fresh fruit, you have a healthy and delicious breakfast, brunch or lunch that even your fussiest critics will swoon over.



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Charles E. Redfield defined ‘communication as a broad field of human interchange of facts and opinions and not the technologies of telephone, radio and the like.’ Little did he realise that to enhance this interchange and to enlarge the reach one is solely dependent on technology. Henceforth, the entire concept of mass communication came into being. Information technology has advanced so much in the recent years that it is now possible for the people, while sitting in the drawing rooms, to witness the events taking place in any part of the globe or even in the space. National boundaries hold no barrier.

‘Mass’ refers to the common man in large numbers who are now endowed with immense light to diminish ignorance. The source of light is the modern age technology agents that have imbibed in our day-to-day schedules just like inborn religion and culture. Internet is an addiction; television is the chewing gum for eyes; economy is reconstructing into e-commerce, and telecommunication is no longer a technical breakthrough.

Telecommunication as the Oxford reads, is a mode of communication over a distance, esp. by cable, telegraph, telephone, or broadcasting; or the branch of technology that deals with such communication(s). Hence, in general all that we communicate through a technology is telecommunication. It has varied aspects, each comprising of its own pros and cons. So rather than generalizing the massive concept, one should rather get to the in depth of each of these part and parcels of the term.

Print media proved its power long back when newspaper gave the hard facts of the Tipu Sultan’s war in 1798. The British government had to be really tough to curb down the power of this undying medium. They immediately announced harsh and strict acts like the Bengal Press Act and the milestone in history, the Language Act. Words in any broadcast media live in time and die easy, but prints continue to stay for years together. Though, in case of books it is a very slow process, newspapers are an indispensable part of our lives. In fact, nowadays, the newspapers have turned out to be detailed magazines that cater to the entire family, let it be kids, mothers, fathers or the grand parents. Especially, with the new concepts where all the newspapers are smudged with colours and flooded with pictures, one has to admit, a picture is worth a thousand words. Nevertheless, it always suffers a drawback, that is, limited viability for the literates only.

Television stands above all mediums because it gives you a virtual experience. Even in the hot month of May it can make you undergo the shivers of December. It enjoys an edge above the print media as in this case it is the medium that grabs your attention rather than you trying to concentrate on the medium. It gives you the sensations in an unmatched package that comprises of colours, dialogues, music, picture, virtual atmosphere, sound effects, brightness, n no of characters, and, much more, all in all you instead of being a viewer become a character in the whole setup. It is evident from the increasing number of channels that television is the most effective medium to hit the common man and percolate the level of communication at the grass root level. ‘Aaj tak’ came in as a revolution in the news networks and evoked the voice of individuals on a national pedestal. Another major example to prove the gigantic power of this past days’ ‘idiot box’ is the sensory pain and an emotional setback that the entire nation underwent on the death of ‘Mihir Virani’ in ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.’

Internet is a rather new concept and technically the most active one. Where it has come out with a boon such as e-mail, it has given us numerous banes. The Electronic Mail has overcome all the physical differences and cut short the time lapse. Needless to mention, all this was not possible without a once ‘accurate electronic calculating machine’, and today’s ‘versatile storage, calculating and operating device’ – Computer.

The shortcomings of the technologies can be analysed and justified with two contrast patterns of theories. The ‘Hypodermic’ or ‘Bullet’ theory reflects the fear or awe of mass media being used for massive propaganda. It suggests, that messages hit like magic bullets, shot directly into the receiver that are conceived to be passive and defenseless. To simplify it reads media to be extremely powerful and the consumers as naïve and malleable. This theory can be easily jeopardised with the ‘Individual Difference’ (ID) theory and the ‘Personal Influence’ (PI) theory. According to ID every individual consumer chooses his medium of exposure as per his convictions and beliefs (Selective Exposure) and reads into the received message in accordance with his preferences, perceptions, and needs (Selective Perception). PI explains the impact of ‘opinion leaders’ on the masses and how the perceptions are modified.

The youth with the selective exposure and perception and under the influence of opinion leaders have grown up to become ‘pre-mature adults’. Everyday we come across unheard and new psychological problems, increasing cases of suicides, and more and more patients of depression and AIDS. Though the problem cannot be attributed to any single factor, a major role is played by the unguarded cultural exposure that comes through internet, television, and media at large. The newest entries in this blind race are mobile phones that have created havocs with their untapped and easily accessible services that are Short Messaging Services (SMS) and the Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS). They are rising debates every month with their camera technology capturing private moments of public figures like Kareena Kapoor and raising question marks on a common man’s life with cases like DPS.

But mass media must be appreciated for its immense power in bringing about the world together. Visuals in America, miles away from India can be seen here through broadcasting technologies that too live. At times of emergencies like Tsunami all television channels gave up all their competitive rivalries and telecasted the ‘Telethon’ live on 15 television channels simultaneously to collect funds for relief purposes. In fact, this relief fund has been the greatest collection ever across the globe. The world felt the pain and grievances of the sufferers and came forward in their own sweet and heartfelt ways, whether big or small. It represented the grief and sorrow the country went through at the national level. Lately, the earthquake in northern India is being taken care of with the entire media.

To summarise, one can coin a simple statement – the global village is now rejuvenating in to a modern global city, with an immense zeal, that must be controlled and checked for the growing powers, in order to hold it, not only as a short term boon, but to not let it become a long term bane.

By: Anuradha Goel

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Mobile phones have become an indispensable part of our lives. Their invention is probably one of the most significant events in the communication sector. While mobile phones are witnessing innovations almost everyday, there is another phase in their fabrication that focuses on people who are impaired in various ways. The introduction of such devices is indeed a milestone in the history of mobile phones.

The contemporary trend in the design of mobile phones addresses the requirement of a class of people who are disabled by few means. There has already been a noteworthy melioration in this task. A couple of years back, there was no worthy attention on this exclusive kind of phones. But today there are many specially designed mobile phones catering to the needs of the differently abled.

This gap in the market is being filled by small but eminent firms as the task is as of now not undertaken by renowned manufacturers. These specially designed mobile phones offer enormous benefits to the users, some of which are described here.

The design of handsets for users with visual impairments is made with special considerations. These gadgets come with large fonts contributing for better visibility of the content, highly spaced buttons that are easy to single out the keys and a screen with superior contrast features for enhancing the display, thus delivering a perfect blend of solutions to the partially sighted users who are interested in the text messaging facility. This also caters to the expectations of users aged above fifty with the reduction in the inordinate number of useless features. A loud speaker tuned for better listening and powerful vibration are add-ons to benefit the hearing impaired user.

Another interesting model comes with no screen at all. It features two call keys and five large number keys which facilitate the user to connect to five of their most crucial contacts. A type of talking phone designed specifically for the blind and partially sighted people has ‘haptic’ keypad buttons without the screen. This device has an in built speech facility with a computerized female voice guiding through all the functions of the phone. It reads out call lists, received messages and even assists when browsing the Internet.

There are mobile phones with an eminent messaging (SMS) function as a form of communication for those who have difficulties in hearing. Brevity of texts that makes conversations difficult and the need for sending large number of messages that makes it expensive are eliminated with alternative options.

For those users who are partially deaf, there are many appurtenances available to assist in mobile hearing, such as induction loops, hooks etc. which can increase the volume and nullify noise interference. There are also mobile phones designed with tactile and perceptible function keys which control the menu navigation with nibs on the number 5 key facilitating effortless location of the adjacent keys when dialling, thus cutting out the need to view the keypad. The power on/off keys are also singled out at a vantage point. The displays offer available options to select backlighting, contrast and illumination for low vision.

There are also several enhancements for mobile phones of the future like voice recognition systems. These systems are easily programmed to work on the command of the voice of the user enabling easy dialing of phone numbers and selection of menu commands. There are umpteen number of mobile phones uniquely designed for the easy usage of people with various impairments from which they can pick the handset of their choice and be benefited.

By: Fredrick Joy

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What does all this Auto Industry Technology have to do with the Trucking Industry, ask many trucking professionals in the industry associations? Well, the Truck Convoys or AI (artificial intelligent) Assisted Modern Truck Systems are all systems which were born from advances in auto technology. Consider if you will the tremendous support that the auto-industry gave the contestants in the DARPA Challenge, as they competed for the title of creating the first autonomous vehicle?

What does all this mean for the future of the trucking industry? Well, it means that trucks can drive together in long-lines without worrying about running into each other saving huge amounts of fuel and alleviating traffic congestion too. It also means we will soon see ESC (electronic stability control) on over the road trucks too. If something does happens during a convoy, no worries because the trucks involved will not be jack-knifed upside down on the side of the road or part of a new decal on the truck in front of them that they just rear-ended.

It is actually amazing to follow the technology from the auto-industry into the truck industry. The truck industry often lags by 5 or more years. When predicting the future of technology in the Trucking Industry it is very important to realize where most of it comes from and that of course would be the many research and development projects occurring in the auto industry. Today’s auto industry innovation exploits will be forever passed on to other parts of the transportation sector and trucking stands to benefit the most in efficiency and safety.

By: Lance Winslow

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