One of my projects is to make a new gadgets site. I have already 10 Wordpress blogs so I want to do something different. I want to make a marketing test to see if a HTML site ranks better than a WordPress one.

I’m oscillating between using Flash or not. There are voices who claim the flash is not correctly indexed and read by search engine spiders. Other people say the search engines have improved and read and index flash pages ok.

All will be up for the template. I’m not a very good designer and I have to work after templates. I want to look for a free template first, but if I can’t find a good one I will pay for a good template.
So let me resume if I will find a flash site which I will like I will use it if not I will use a simple HTML site.

On Dreamtemplate.com I found a free website template which I like. You can see it here . The template uses the colors red which call to action, blue which means calm, peace and is recommended for business and the background is white which makes reading easy. The header image must be changed but with a little of attention and a little of luck I think I can make a decent header. If not there are always sites like get a coder, rent a coder and elance to get custom images.

This template is free for members. I like it but not very, very much. I wonder if it worth paying $59.95 and access to thousands of new templates. To pay almost 60 dollars for one template is a little expensive since this is the only HTML site I want to do for now.

I will get the thousands of templates and pay the fee. After all I can use the templates for later projects.

Of course what it matters the most are the back links. No links back to your site => no Google top ten positions unless you use longtail keywords with almost zero competition. So I will try to get as many back links as I can from different sources like: general directories, niche directories, article directories, blogs, forums and others.

The site will contain only gadgets for boys and toys for boys like: games consoles, RC helicopters, fast remote control cars and others.

If you see a good template for gadgets for boy site please let me know – use the comment form below.

The 10.1 megapixel camera has Double Anti-blur with Optical SteadyShot and High Sensitivity for taking perfect pictures.

The 3.5 inch LCD touchscreen allows for complete ease of functionality of the camera and also drives the Face Detection element ensuring that people’s faces in the scene are in sharp focus and with perfect exposure for fewer spoiled shots.

You can even grab crisp still images (1280×720 pixels) without interrupting video shooting.

Cyber-shot T500 features Face Detection, ensuring that people’s faces in the scene are in sharp focus and with perfect exposure for fewer spoiled shots. Up to eight faces can be tracked at a time, making the T500 ideal for capturing large groups of friends and family.

Sony Cyber-shot T500 features

• New HD movie mode captures high- quality HD video clips
• 10.1 effective megapixels
• Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with 5x optical zoom
• Extra-large 3.5-inch Clear Photo LCD Plus touchscreen
• Double Anti-blur with Optical SteadyShot and High Sensitivity
• HD Slide Show with Music shows videos and stills on LCD or connected HD TV

Shooting modes

• Auto
• Program Auto
• Scene Selection (High Sensitivity / Soft Snap / Twilight / Portrait / Twilight / Landscape /
• High Speed Shutter / Snow / Beach / Fireworks)
• Movie

The Cyber-shot T500 will be available from October 2008. No info about the price for now.

Samsung idea is to migrate internet from the PC all the way over to the television.

Your TV will need an Ethernet port or a special wireless adaptor to access the web.

The Widget Channel will be powered by Yahoo Widget Engine which may develop flash applications along with JAVASCRIPT, XML and HTML and Adobe Flash.

I’m posting about web hosting again because it is vital to host your site to a good server from the beginning because changing your host is a very time consuming process and you can lose data (your work) while transferring files.

I post about web hosting rating because too many host providers claim to have unlimited Hosting Space and Bandwidth.

This is a lie. They don’t really offer unlimited Bandwidth. In the best case all is unlimited, but you can host just 1 domain, the idea is you can’t consume too much disk space or bandwidth with just one domain.

Another way to limit your "unlimited bandwidth" is via the hosting term of services: if your site uses more than 25% of their processor your account will be temporary suspended(in the best case). With a good blog having 2000 visitors per day you can eat 25% of their processor.

I was talking to support people of a "unlimited bandwidth" hosting and the discussion was something like that:

Me: Do you offer unlimited bandwidth?

Support: Yes.

Me: And if I have a popular blog with 3000-4000 visitors per day which needs a lot of bandwidth what it will happen?

Support: We shut down your account.

Nice answer no? The bandwidth was unlimited but if you need to much they will cancel your account and you’ll probably loose all your files from the server.

Before choosing a host see some web hosting tutorials.  

Also be careful at the sites offering Yahoo, Google and Msn free credits to the pay per click programs. The majority of the sites are offering credits only to the US citizens - don’t ask me why.

Web hosting awards can be helpful but don’t base your entire decision on them.   

The classic combination was between Scanners and printers. We will analyze the benefits of each product.

Multifunction printers

The majority of multifunction printers can be used for work and play and offer a 5 in one functions:

• You’ll produce life-like photos with resolution up to 4800 x 1200 color dpi and quickly, too: A borderless 4" x 6" photo takes only about 46 seconds.
• You can also print photos directly from a camera DV camcorder or camera phone, without a computer.
• Your documents will feature bold, laser-quality text, and copies will be remarkably true to your originals.
• You can produce 600-dpi scans with vibrant 48-bit color depth. Plus, it achieves Super G3 fax speed in color and B&W, and its memory can store 20 speed dial codes and receive 50 incoming pages.

The features of a multifunction printer

• Color Inkjet Printer:
  Max Resolution (Black): 600 x 600 dpi, Color: 4800 x 1200 dpi
• Color Flatbed Scanner:
  2400 x 4800 dpi
• Color Copier:
  Max Speed: 22 ppm black, 17 ppm color
• Fax Transmission Speed:
  Black: Approx, 3sec per page, Color: Approx, 1min
• Speed Dialing:
  20 Locations

So a multifunction printer save you:

• space - it is smaller than having all the equipment (printer, fax, scanner etc )
• money - it is cheaper to get all in one printer than buying all equipment separately.

The minus is if your scanner is broken the whole machine must be taken to a service so if the scanner is broken you will remain without printer and fax and Xerox also.

Scanner + Printer 

Printers

You can buy a printer separately especially if you want a portable one. Also if you are forced by the budget you can get Lexmark Printers - they have good prices and performances.

Printer Toner has the same price for multifunction and regular one.

Scanners

Solo Scanners have better performances than the ones incorporated in multifunction printers. Just see the price of feature of a regular scanner.

Features

• Document Handling: Automatic Document Feeder, 100-120 Sheets
• Resolution: 600 dpi Optical
• Maximum Scan Size: 8.5 x 25"
• Bit Depth: 24-bit Color, 4/8-bit Grayscale
• Scanning Speed: 41 ppm @ 200 dpi

Conclusion

Buying a multifunction printer or a scanner and a printer is up to ou and your needs. If you need to save space and money go for a multifunction printer. If you want portability get yourself a portable printer. If you need professional scanning the solo scanner is the right choice.

The user interface lets you control the Samsung i900 with simple and intuitive gesutres and touches; scroll, pan, flip or zoom with a single touch.

The large WVGA display and touch sensitive screen brings full control to your fingertips.

Features:

• large WVGA display with touch screen (3.5" touch sensitive display, 240 x 400 pixels)
• 5 mega-pixel camera with auto-focus, digital zoom, LED flash, face detection, landscape mode
• MP3, AAC, eAAC+ & WMA player
• FM Stereo Radio (RDS)
• Video Recording and Video Streaming. Supported formats: MP4, 3GPP & H.264
• Memory 16 GB internal, microSDHC external
• Connectivity: Bluetooth (2.2), Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g), GPRS Class 32, HSDPA (7.2 Mbits), DLNA Support
• Navigation: AGPS
• TV Out
• Office Document Editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• PDF Document Viewer
• Opera Mobile Web Browser
• SweepUI Interface

Samsung Omnia specs: runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, GPS receiver, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, image stabilizer, Bluetooth support, 3G HSPDA, 3.2 inch touch-screen, Samsun TouchWiz interface.

With Samsung Omnia 16GB you can:

• do all the things you do with a regular cell phone
• listen to your favorite music and radio shows
• watch movies. The TV out is a great feature.
• have mini computer with you all the time. You can surf the Internet, edit and create documents, read ebooks.
• easy find locations due to the incorporated GPS

The last trend in shopping is to spoil yourself with a gift basket or to offer one to someone you love.

There are many Corporate Gift Services to choose from.

Very appreciated are:

• Spa Gift Baskets

From romantic occasions to wedding showers, this elegant gift set will make a welcome gift for any occasion.

Inside are luxurious bath slippers, a robe, eye mask, bath pillow and a countless number of bath and body treats.

• Fruit Baskets

Everyone wants to be healthy so fruits are very desired.

The Organic Mixed Fruit and Nut Gift Box is overflowing with great naturally sweet and juicy fruits and rich and hardy nuts.

• All Occasion Wine Basket

Wine Basket is a gorgeous wood magazine rack that holds a number of delicious wines and gourmet goodies that will please the most discriminating of gift recipients.

• Thank You Cookie Gift Box

The box contains full size cookies and Mrs. Fields® famous nibblers.

• Nautical Cookie Gift Box

Know someone who loves to spend their time at the ocean or boating? Then get their summer started out right with our new Mrs. Field’s® Nautical Cookie Gift Box.

This decorative gift box is filled with Mrs. Fields award winning baked goods that are sure to leave a lasting impression. After the goodies are all gone the recipient can keep their souvenirs from their summer travels inside the gift box.

So have the latest gadgets and a feast with a gift basket.

Version 8.02 is a powerful video converter.

Really cool is the fact that the audio content of video files can be extracted and saved to sound files, and frames can also be extracted to images files in batch mode.

Features

• video capture
• video creation
• combining and extraction
• video editing
• copying CDs music
• audio and video merge (joining)
• MusicID audio recognition
• lyrics search
• audio tag editing
• FreeDB support
• data CD burning
• MPEG encoder and decoder
• AVI converter
• the ability to convert (record) MIDI to MP3, WAV, WMA, and OGG

Formats supported for audio conversion include CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC, and two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV.

Blaze Media Pro is a great AVI joiner. You can use video merge / joiner feature that to combine WMV, AVI, and MPG files.

System Requirements

• Pentium class 800 MHz processor or better
• Windows® 98 SE/2000/ME/XP/Vista
• 1 GB RAM (More RAM may be required for audio and video editing of large files)
• 30 MB HD
• SVGA or higher resolution display
• 4x or better CD-ROM drive (for CD conversions and CD-ROM  playback)
• Mouse (recommended)
• Keyboard
• Sound Card
• Speakers/headphones
• DirectX 8.1 or Better
• Optional CD Writer (for creating CDs).

Price

The Blaze Media Pro software cost $50.00 USD

With version 0.9 released vendors can work to improve the interoperability of their USB 3.0 hardware.

USB 3.0 is an evolution of USB 2.0 that adds to take the bandwidth up to 4.7Gb/s.

The gadgets and gizmo manufacturers will build their new products having USB 3.0 in mind.

Intel is not the only company developing USB 3.0. Other companies working on this standard are

• Texas Instruments
• Microsoft
• HP
• NEC

The USB 3.0 is expected to be the number 1 solution in 2010.

BRAVIA™ X4500 series

• Full HD 1080p
• Available in three screen sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 55-inch)
• Graceful floating design with translucent frame
• Best-ever clarity, colour, contrast and definition with BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 PRO
• Rich, deep colours, superb contrast and reduced power consumption from new RGB Dynamic LED backlight (46, 55-inch)
• Smoother, sharper fast-moving action with Motionflow PRO100Hz technology (46, 55-inch)
• Enjoy digital music and photos from networked DLNA devices

BRAVIA™ W4500 series

• Full HD 1080p
• Innovative styling inspired by new ‘draw the LINE’ design concept
• Superb clarity, colour and contrast with BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2
• Smoother, sharper fast-moving action thanks to Motionflow 100Hz with Image Blur Reduction technology
• Enjoy digital music and photos from networked DLNA devices
• Available in three screen sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 52-inch)

The BRAVIA X4500 and W4500 were created for the ultimate entertainment experience. The TVs are recommended for latest movies on Blu-ray Discs, console games, HD broadcasts.