Don't Live With a Pain In the Neck--Use a Headset for More Productivity!

Written by Larry Denton


From "sick-building" disease, moldy woodwork, toxic carpet, contaminated water, and carpal tunnel syndrome,repparttar modern office is glutted with potential health problems. Even something as harmless asrepparttar 105909 phone can cause chronic pain if you spend hours withrepparttar 105910 handset jambed between your ear and shoulder. The simple solution--a headset.

Do you leave work everyday with a pain inrepparttar 105911 neck? The simple answer might be a headset. In this era of multi-tasking, wedging your phone between your ear and shoulder while you type, search for a document, or even eat, can be literally--a pain inrepparttar 105912 neck. A relatively simple device, a headset does away forrepparttar 105913 need to have any part of your body supportrepparttar 105914 bulky, clumsy telephone receiver, thus sparing you from a stiff neck, sore muscles and a headache. Withrepparttar 105915 wide array of headset options available, selectingrepparttar 105916 appropriate one can be very confusing.

A headset consists of an earpiece, a microphone, and a cord that plugs into an accompanying amplifier, which is plugged intorepparttar 105917 phone. While most people may believe that headsets are allrepparttar 105918 same, that statement is far from correct. As computer hardware evolves, everything connected to it evolves as well; headsets are no exception. Withrepparttar 105919 creation of smaller, more powerful and faster chips, headsets are now being made much smaller, lighter in weight, more affordable, have a much larger range, and offer much improved clarity.

Telephone headsets come in both corded and cordless models and will increase your productivity since you can use both hands to do other work, like shuffling through your files or usingrepparttar 105920 copier machine, while you are talking onrepparttar 105921 phone. The cordless models even allow freedom to work up to 1,000 feet fromrepparttar 105922 amplifier, but they are more costly and weigh a bit more.

Don't Be Duped! Helpful Hints and Advice for CD Duplication.

Written by Larry Denton


Whoa! Your boss tells you he needs a hundred copies of his presentation on CD--by tomorrow morning. Since he wants to impressrepparttar clients he also wants professional-looking labels onrepparttar 105908 CDs as well. A simple marker won't cut it this time. Maybe it's time for a desktop duplicator or to hire a duplicating service. Since most household computers are now equipped with a drive that hasrepparttar 105909 capacity to burn discs, it is no surprise that disc duplication has become big business. But sorting throughrepparttar 105910 tons of information about formats and CD duplication systems can be a nightmare.

CD duplication is no longer a difficult, tedious or expensive process requiring exacting technological expertise. Since most desktop computers now come equipped with a standard drive withrepparttar 105911 capacity to burn discs, it is no longer a rarity to find people making "mix discs" of their favorite songs usingrepparttar 105912 CD-R media. And it is likely, at some point, that you are going to want to make multiple copies of one of your projects--be it a work presentation, a business card, or a demo of some sort.

The term "CD Duplication," taken literally, means to copy CD-ROM's. Actually there are two different methods to make those copies: Duplication and Replication. Duplication isrepparttar 105913 process of "burning" data onto a pre-manufactured CD-ROM. This process requiresrepparttar 105914 use of CD-Recorder to add data to a blank disc. Recorders are included in many personal computers, but they may also be added to a PC as an external disc drive. These devices requirerepparttar 105915 user to burn one disc at a time, a process that takes between 1 and 74 minutes depending onrepparttar 105916 speed ofrepparttar 105917 recorder.

A more automated form of duplication can be accomplished by buying a stand-alone CD Duplicator (no computer hookup required). This device can make many copies ofrepparttar 105918 CD-ROM master simultaneously and can produce 65 or more CD-ROM discs an hour. If you have a relatively small project, fewer than 1,000 copies, this may berepparttar 105919 device for you. Starting at less than $1,600 these disc makers are perfect more independent musicians and even churches who often duplicate sermons and music to make them more available to parishioners.

Replication, onrepparttar 105920 other hand, isrepparttar 105921 process of "stamping" data onto an injection molded CD-ROM. This process requiresrepparttar 105922 creation of a "glass master" fromrepparttar 105923 customer-supplied disc. Using a high-speed stamping processrepparttar 105924 data is actually built intorepparttar 105925 construction of each copy, not added later. Due to expensive equipment requirements, this is certainly notrepparttar 105926 method used byrepparttar 105927 average computer owner.

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