Brayotech

Archive for May, 2009

1. What will you use it for? - Everyone has different uses for their computers. Some will want to use it as a media center with the ability to edit and manage home movies and music. Others want their computer to perform well for gaming. Then there are others who just want to use it to browse the internet, send e-mail and do some minor documentation. These are the 3 categories of computer users and you can be anyone of them or a mixture of any three.2. Now what to buy- Depending on your uses for the computer will depend greatly on how much you are going to need to spend and what kind of performance is necessary. Even though Windows Vista is out, I still highly recommend Windows XP versions. Not only is it much faster, but it is in my eyes more functional and easier to use. Not to mention, less expensive. It will only be sold until June31st of 2008 so get it while you can unless you want to try Vista.a. For those in the media center group- I would recommend a large hard drive of at least 500GB, minimum of 2GB of memory, a standard baseline video card, ... [more..]

After reading about how various indie musicians promote themselves in a NY Times magazine article this past weekend, and meeting Scott Ginsberg for the first time, I have a series of Web 2.0 epiphanies.Ginsberg is the Nametag Guy, a smart young man who wears “Hello, my name is Scott” nametag on his shirt all day, every day, for the past several years. He has a blog, a podcast, a Squidoo “lens”, an email listserv, an RSS feed, Digg and Technorati references, Myspace and Facebook entries, YouTube snippets, and probably one or two other things too. In between updating all these things, he writes books and is a professional speaker. He totally gets how to promote himself using the latest tools.People and businesses that will succeed in this brave new world have a lot of work to do to. The old days of putting together a few pages (or a few hundred) of static HTML are so over. The good news is that most of the tools are free for the downloading. All it will take is your time. The bad news is that the time investment is non-trivial. You can’t farm this out to someone to just do it for ... [more..]

If you are in the market for home medical equipment then you have no doubt heard the name Golden before. Golden Technologies has been a big name in the home mobility industry for over 20 years. Robert Golden began manufacturing lift chairs from scratch in 1985, in his home in Pittston, PA. Lift chairs are recliners that have a rising base that makes it easier for people who are mobility challenged to stand or to sit. At a time when all the other vendors were just buying recliners and adding a lifting mechanism, Golden was designing and creating custom made recliners that were not only comfortable, but designed with mobility in mind.With his partner Fred Kiwak, Robert Golden pioneered the Lift Chair industry and quickly became known for providing quality products that were engineered to last. The company continued to grow and evolved into a company well known for its excellent treatment of its employees. In 1991 Richard Golden took over the company from his father and continued the grand tradition of Golden ingenuity.In 1992 Golden Technologies began to manufacture adjustable beds. Adjustable beds had become popular in 1960, but it wasn't until Golden Technologies took over, that quality adjustable ... [more..]