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The Advancement of Video Conferencing

It’s amazing how fast technology has advanced. I still remember the days when only the very rich owned mobile phones but now, even pre-teens own mobile devices.

Similarly, video conferencing also has advanced by leaps and bounds. There was once when talking to the opposite party on a tiny flickering screen IS video conferencing. There was also plenty of “dead air” which in actual fact, the time lapse needed for the sound to travel from one party to the other.

If you look at the Video Conference System offered by LifeSize, I am sure you will be amazed that not only can we video conference now, we can do it with up for five other participants thanks to LifeSize Room. The high definition quality means that we no longer talk to a blur “image” but a real life looking person.

This means that we could be more efficient in bring across our ideas even if we are in different parts of the world and separated by an ocean!

Show off Weekend

What a weekend it has been. I had to meet up with friends to show off my iPhone. All of them “booked” me as soon as they found out that I won an iPhone and waiting along with me for its arrival.

Now that I have gotten it to work fully and I have learnt to use all of the features, they wanted to play with it and take pictures of it too. I also had to explain the features and stuff as if I was selling it and they were my potential buyers! LOL

Every where that I went to shoot photos to test the camera to see how well the colours will captured, people will go like, “WAH, that is that?” They could not decide if it’s a phone or camera. I had to tell them that it’s an iPhone but I am not sure if they get it but I’d still offer to let them check it out before I could continue shooting.

I think I would need to buy insurance for it! LOL

Startup Loans

A little while back, I wrote that a friend asked me to go into business with her. Frankly, I don’t have an interest in business or even the acumen for it. I also think that going into business would require quite a bit of capital which I could not fork out.

Last evening, I was with a friend who has now semi-retired from blogging and has ventured into business. She did not mention what it was and said that she would only announce it when she has made headway. However, she disclosed that she had to take out a couple of startup loans in order to start this business comfortably.

I had quite a few questions to ask her about startup loans but she told me to read about it online. Ezunsecured.com says that they would be able to help people who wish to start a business or to expand one by matching us with an appropriate lender.

This eliminates the time wasted on searching for one all by ourselves. Unlike other companies offering this same service, EZUnsecured is different in the sense that they do not require us to pay an upfront fee. This means that this is a free service until we managed to get hold of a loan for our business!

Blog Models

I have quite a few friends who are stay at home mummy bloggers. I was telling them how lucky they are because being a single girl, I need to crack my head on what to write every single post but what they need to do is just snap a picture or video of their children for blog content and every one would love reading it because children are so adorable.

It is like they ALWAYS will have somebody to model for them for blog content.

Besides, being mummy bloggers, they have the unfailing support of other mummy bloggers and if I am not mistaken, there is a blogroll somewhere where these mothers have set up blogs for their children, writing about their daily lives milestones achieved. I think that this is a wonderful support group over the internet because every mother loves to read about the things that are happening with other children who are the same age as their kid.

See, being single, not only do I not have an ever ready supply of models, I also do not have this core support of readers. Boooo!

Pushing It!

I know that I am already very, very lucky to have won an iPhone. How about me pushing my luck a little further and try to win cash instead? I could do with a little extra spending money this Christmas. And my iPhone is naked and would need some clothes! Plus, I would need an Apple Bluetooth because the one that I have, a birthday present from a dear friend, is not recognised by iPhone. Bah … talk about monopolization!!!!

This morning, I was told that Blog About Your Blog is running a Christmas giveaway thanks to their sponsor, NeverBlueAds. Surprisingly, this contest was launched about ten days ago and I just found out this morning. Bah….. I am losing touch!

The good thing is that there will be three $100 and one $25 cash prizes to be won in addition to blog reviews and Featured Blog spot, a total of eight prizes. WHO WILL WIN????

Nokia E61i, iPhone, Nokia N810

About three weeks ago, I was told of this contest by Forumerâ„¢ and I thought that I would not participate. I already have a Nokia E61i and an iPhone, that many people would die for, but a free Nokia N810 *slurp* is impossible to pass up on. After all, it does not take a genius to submit an entry.

So, here I am, doing my part, letting the internet world know of this awesome contest that Forumerâ„¢ is holding to celebrate their fourth birthday and in the process, get more entries from you guys to compete against MY entry LOL Just kidding!

Look at the design, it sure looks classy but like iPhone, it does not support 3G connectivity! Too bad!! GGGgrrrrrrr But then like my friend says, Nokia has great designs, lousy products LOLOL I will take that as sour grapes-speak!!!

Investing Through An Established Company

While surfing the internet looking for something interesting to write about, I chanced upon a website of a precious metal investment company. Well, so far, I have only been interested in precious metals and not as a form of investment because I have always thought that it is a very expensive investment that I could ill afford.

However, according to this company, investors like myself could invest in any amount that we are comfortable with, buying gold or silver bullion and the best thing is that we could request for personal delivery instead of keeping our purchase in a bank or depository. We could keep there too, of course but I believe that some small time investors would want to keep these at home too. Imagine that!

This company, Monex Deposit Company (MDC), has more than thirty years helping people make decisions in buying precious metals as an investment. If I were to invest my PRECIOUS money, I surely would need the assistance, knowledge and experience of a well established investment company!