April 18th, 2009 by Anne Ahira

Full Review

The Microsoft zune media player unexpectedly jumped into the portable Mp3 player market and is now gaining some loyalists. This is because the Zune has a bigger 3.2 inch display and a touch-senstive pad with two buttons button for navigation. It isn’t the thinnest device with a 0.5 inch thickness, but it is still cool to carry around with and comes with a wide range of trendy colors.

Concerning the battery life, it isn’t surprising and mostly lasts after 10 or 11 hours of playback. Fortunately , you can charge the Zune media player by USB if you are near a PC or have a laptop with you. To extend the life of the battery by a little bit, you can change the brightness levels.

Music management is pretty good because of the click-wheel that provides quick access to the music you like . The Zune media player also organizes your songs based on the tags letting it pretty simple even if you load gigabytes worth of songs.

The Zune media player comes with a few effective personalization alternatives both outside and inside the device.

Unlike most mp3 players, the Zune has a WiFi option that allows wireless transfer from computers or between Zunes to share songs. The Zune software also comes out a bit buggy and some upgrades pose some problems among some users as well. Overall the Zune media player is a great device that can store a lot and easily play the songs you are looking for.

Product Summary

The Good

The Zune media player has excellent sound quality, good personalization options, WiFi support, and easy song management.

The Bad

The WiFi support in the Zune media player is pretty slow and limited with no browsing facilities. The battery life isn’t the best around and the software can be a difficult to employ mainly to set things up.

Bottom Line

Those having huge mp3 collections should get this player since it has decent sound and you’ll find it rather simple searching for the right song you want. Just keep an eye on the battery life and have some patience with the supplied software.

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March 24th, 2009 by Ricardo d Argence

Creating a professional-looking web site can be a difficult task. Really a complex animal is E-commerce web design. Many web hosting companies are offering web hosting templates or hosting with templates to cut the development time.

Your hosting company should be able to provide you with a web template that can help you whether you’re looking to create a simple website or a fully functional e-commerce website. For less than $30 you can purchase a web template, however a professional designed e-commerce site costs a couple of hundred dollars up to the thousands.

The cost of web templates is still cheap comparing to custom-made e-commerce websites when Web designers charge anywhere from $40 to $120 per hour.

Other than the requirements of most web hosting programs, Web hosting templates that are designed for e-commerce have to have a shopping cart, and it most support an online catalog as well as payment processing. Web templates for e-commerce often include common pages and navigations for online shopping, searching or browsing products, adding items to shopping carts and making payment. The types of e-commerce templates you will find are stand-alone and don’t come with or use a particular shopping cart. It’s up to the webmasters to add shopping cart to the site.

An e-commerce turnkey operation is a different option to e-commerce web hosting templates. EBay Stores, Yahoo! and GoDaddy.com are the most popular turn-key e-commerce solutions for small businesses that want to setup online stores easily. Web hosting plans have varying fee structure. The price of the hosting plan is based on the number of transactions.

There’re many questions to ask, when comparing functionality: 1) whether there’s a limit on the number of products and categories that you can setup; 2) whether a shopping cart accepts online check or debit card; 3) whether it automatically sends out an email notification once an order is placed at your web-site.

When looking at the cost of commerce operation, you’ll need to ask questions about: 1) how much it charges for each transaction; 2) is there’s a setup fee for a new online store; 3) how about handling taxes; 4) what’s the basic monthly fee for transactions.

It is important to speak with the hosting service that you use regarding e-commerce issues and the best options that are available to you.

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