An ultrasonic cleaner colloquially called a sonicator. This is primarily a device for cleaning and this device utilizes ultrasound that generally ranges from 15-400 kHz. This particular device also utilizes a perfect solution for cleaning in order to clean up items that are considered to be delicate. This ultrasound is however not effective and doesn’t work in the absence of the cleaning solution. The ultrasonic device enhances the complete effect of the solution that is deemed appropriate for an item that has to be cleaned. Ultrasonic cleaners are often used in by several companies as well as in some households so as to clean up jewelry, lenses, several optical parts, dental, surgical instruments, fountain pens, coins, watches, industrial parts and other electronic equipment. The Ultrasonic jewelry cleaner is also utilized for everyday usage. Such devices are most likely to be found in a large number of jewelry workshops. An Ultrasonic cleaner is also a common sight in various watch making companies and these devices are duly used in many mobile phone repair workshops. In a mobile phone repairing workshop, the Ultrasonic cleaners are used to clean up a phone that has been rendered useless due to a prolonged exposure to moisture.
Archive for December, 2008
Ultrasonic Cleaners: An Introduction
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Vitamins Ideal for Preventing Hair Loss
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Age is an important factor which is responsible for hair loss. Most of the younger generations have less hair fall when compared to elder generations. This is because; young people generate more hair growing hormones in the body when compared to aged people. Though age can lead to hair loss, today, there are some treatments and medicines available in the market which shed the hair loss and increase the growth of hair.
Thinning Hair mainly occurs because of cell growth in the head. Hair generally starts growing in the hair root which is embedded in scalp. Hair root is the base for cell production, when this root is pushed out of scalp the hair starts coming on head. As age passes by the hair starts thinning because of weak cell generation. Some of the elements like sun, water, wind and bad hair care habits reduce hair and make it bald over time.
Hair loss treatment is possible with natural vitamins. These vitamins are available in the foods humans take. When the diet is maintained properly people will be able to overcome the hair loss problem in old age. Some of the special B-Complex vitamins increase the growth of new cells in the hair and make hair stand tall and thick. People find hair loss product in the form of medicine.
Folding chairs in offices
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Office chairs come in a variety of designs. You can go for either fabric or leather chairs depending on the décor of the room. For a large office there is a lot of requirement for office chairs like chairs for conference and training rooms, operator’s chair, and chairs for boardrooms, ergonomic chairs and many more. For any event that requires large number of office chairs to accommodate more people, folding chairs is a good option. Gone are the days when the only choice offered in folding chairs was basic plastic and metal framed chairs.
Folding chairs are now available in upholstered and mesh fabric, which can go along with your other office chairs too. Stacking and folding chairs for your office are available in a range of shade to go with any kind of event. Some have adjustable backs and armrest too. The padded seats and backs in these foldable office chairs provide extra comfort to the body. Folding chairs are very useful in case you need some extra seats for an event and the best part is after the event you can fold them and keep them stacked in one corner. They occupy very less space and are not expensive also. Folding chairs are even good for home based office where you do not want to invest in a number of chairs as you do not have a daily requirement. But remember that folding chairs are not an alternative for regular office chairs.
10M of the 13M digital songs found no online buyers last year
Monday, December 29th, 2008Over 10 million of the 13 million songs available on the Internet failed to find a single buyer last year, according to a study of digital music sales.
The study by Will Page, chief economist of the not-for-profit royalty collection society MCPS-PRS Alliance, contrasts Chris Anderson’s prediction in his 2006 book ‘The Long Tail’ that the internet economy would shift from a relatively small number of “hits” - mainstream products - at the head of the demand curve toward a “huge number of niches in the tail”.
Its findings suggest that the niche market is not an untapped goldmine, and that online sales success still relies on big hits.
The study showed that 80 per cent of all revenue for the online singles market came from around 52,000 tracks.
The figures were even more stark for albums because only 173,000 of the 1.23 million available on the web were ever bought, meaning that 85 per cent did not sell a single copy all year.
Anderson conceded that Page and his research colleague Andrew Bud, the head of mobile software company mBlox, had found a dataset in which the “long tail” principle did not apply.
He, however, insisted that it would be too early to draw further conclusions before the data and its sources were published.
“There is a reason why the ‘long tail’ has become a fixture in the technology world over the past five years - it fits countless phenomena we see every day,” Times Online quoted him as saying.
“I respect what Will’s done and have no doubt that he has indeed found a dataset where it doesn’t work, but I’m not sure you can conclude much, if anything, beyond that. If he’s trying to undermine the entire Long Tail Theory, he’ll have to provide a lot more evidence. I welcome the debate, but until Will’s prepared to publish data and sources we don’t have much to talk about,” him added.
Page and Bud, on the other hand, believe that their findings seriously undermined Anderson’s thesis, which came with subtitles such as: How endless choice is creating unlimited demand and Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.
“I think people believed in a fat, fertile long tail because they wanted it to be true. The statistical theories used to justify that theory were intelligent and plausible. But they turned out to be wrong. The data tells a quite different story. For the first time, we know what the true demand for digital music looks like,” Bud said.
Page carried out the economic modelling for Radiohead’s In Rainbows album, which was released free on the Internet.
He said: “The relative size of the dormant ‘zero sellers’ tail was truly jaw-dropping. Rather than continue to believe the selective claims of ‘here’s another great example of the long tail at work’, we wanted to find out how longtail markets should be analysed, plotted and interpreted.”
Page and Bud are writing a book about their findings, hoping to stage a debate with Anderson in Brighton next May.
Taking Your Mortgage Marketing Online
Sunday, December 28th, 2008If you are really interested in making a statement for your real estate company, then you should be ready to take a step into the digital era. Mortgage marketing refinance is a difficult field to get into. You will have to do a lot of advertising to get some interested people and then you will soon be stuck trying to reel them into your clientèle. This means you will need some help. A website should be a good starting point.
You can’t just do a quick website. You need a good one. These are people who are interested in a mortgage. They want a professional who has a good website. This means that you will have to spring for mortgage website design. These are specialists who are ready to code a great website for you from scratch to make it just right. It will be up to your specifications and just what you need.
Mortgage websites play an important role in the fight for business. They act as a great automated way to close a number of deals and bring in your leads. It should be simple for you. It will effectively run itself once you get it setup. That should be more than enough for the relatively minor investment that you will be putting out.
Co-Location Hosting
Sunday, December 28th, 2008In general words Co location means placing the things in order. In case of web hosting collocation (Co-location Hosting) means the space given to the website owner for contacting them over telephone on the provider’s location. Colocation hosting is generally required for the website owners who are having the full control of their site. Few customers will require to remove their server any time or to move their serve any time to any location for their internal hosting. So the customers can host their own website themselves and do all the required payments. If a customer has hosted on a colocation provider server then the server belongs to the customer. So the customer will be having loaded server with all necessary information. If a customer (i.e.) website owner is searching for a co-location provider then few things have to be taken in to consideration like 1. The level of the bandwidth the provider offers, 2. What hardware support or agreement he offers, say for example whether he will provide spare parts, time taken for repairing a computer if any problem occurs 3. Size, space and cost of the Server cost 4.The internet speed of the server 5. IP address 6. Backup services!
Finding Hot Cars at ISG
Saturday, December 27th, 2008If you are really interested in hot cars, then you should think about looking at the many places online that are just right for you. It should be pretty easy for the most part. A lot of people like cool cars and there are a lot of people who want to know more about them and ultimately build up their own car. This means that you should be able to find any number of great websites that are able to help.
You probably want to try and stick with the best around though. In Sixth Gear fits that bill. They are a premier supplier of car parts and a great hub for information on new models and better cars. If you are really interested in buying your own, then you can probably find a model in the ISG classified section. These are just a few features that they have to offer. If you are really interested in hot cars, then this is definitely a website that you will want to check out.
The beauty of it is the virtual shop though. They have a full selection of parts that are from just about every manufacturer around. If you wanted a resource of everything available for car customization, then you’ve just found it at ISG.
FEATURE - Banker’s spat with author reveals Russia’s rifts
Friday, December 19th, 2008A billionaire banker has locked horns with a poverty-stricken left-wing writer in a rare public debate over social division in crisis-hit Russia, revealing growing antagonism in its ostensibly well-controlled society.
The debate, which quickly spread over the internet but has not been reported on state-controlled mainstream television, has evoked memories of pre-1917 Russia where hatred between the ruling class and the poor sparked a Communist revolution.
The row started when Pyotr Aven, the wealthy and well connected CEO of the country’s largest privately owned bank Alfa, wrote a damning review of “Sankya”, a novel by Zakhar Prilepin, a member of a banned radical political party.
It tells how Sasha Tishin, a disillusioned young Russian from a provincial town, joins a radical party hoping to change the political system by force, and leads an attack on a local administration headquarters.
“Most of what one needs to hate in life, from my point of view, can be found in writer Prilepin’s book,” Aven wrote in the Russian Pioneer glossy magazine, which targets wealthy educated Russians and has a circulation of 20,000.
The revolutionary views of the book’s protagonist, he added, made him “reach for a pistol”.
Tishin takes part in violent protests, fights with police, plots killings of officials in neighbouring Latvia, and is subjected to brutal torture by security agents.
“Why, instead of bringing order — planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child — does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?” Aven wrote.
After eight years of economic boom, Russia is plunging into economic crisis which is threatening to crush the fragile stability fostered by Vladimir Putin’s government with the help of buoyant oil revenues, compliant state media and heavy-handed police.
Little-noticed when it was first published in paperback by niche publisher Ad Marginem two years ago, the book’s sales jumped to 35,000 this year. Publication rights have been sold to Poland, France, Serbia, China and Turkey.
GHOST OF POVERTY
Prilepin opposes what he terms the “social Darwinism” which has split Russian society. Despite Russia’s oil wealth, about 21 million Russians or 15 percent of the population live below the poverty line of $158 income per month.
He responded to Aven’s comments by saying he had been working hard, selling over 100,000 copies of his books, while raising three children and paying taxes.
“I do not understand what else I should do to be able to buy a flat because we do not fit in the one we have,” Prolepin wrote in Ogonyok magazin, which has a circulation of 70,000 and a wider readership than Russian Pioneer.
He said he had been living with his family in a tiny two-room apartment in the industrial city of Nizhny Novgorod, which was the hometown of Maxim Gorky, an early 20th-century writer.
“The ghost of poverty is still lurking in front of me, it has not gone so far away that I cannot sense its sickening smell,” wrote Prilepin. He said he and his family had sometimes been forced to eat fried cabbage for months to survive.
Some book reviewers have likened Prilepin to Gorky, who was often called “a thunderbird of the Revolution” for books like “The Mother”, written in 1907, about a young factory worker who becomes a revolutionary.
Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga river was renamed after Gorky in Soviet times, but regained its original name after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“Russia is on the brink of the social revolution and such a revolution is badly needed,” a skinny, clean-shaven Prilepin told Reuters in a Moscow cafe. “Russia is now in a turbulent state, now it is all going to start.”
LETTER “FROM AN UNKNOWN WORLD”
With Russia’s rich-poor divide brought into sharp focus by the oil bonanza, there is widespread hatred of billionaires such as Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club in Britain, or market reform ideologists like Aven.
Aven worked in Russia’s first reformist government in 1991-92, which used “shock therapy” to reform the economy, wiping out the lifetime savings of millions of Russians. He was 29th in Forbes magazine’s list of richest Russians this year.
Aven’s former colleague in the government Anatoly Chubais, an architect of privatisation, survived an assassination attempt in 2005.
Prilepin served in police special forces, fought in Chechnya, and then worked as a crime reporter before becoming a writer.
“The difference between me and Aven is basic — in case of a crisis, he and his family can leave this country and watch developments from the outside,” Prilepin wrote in the Russian Life magazine, referring to Aven’s properties abroad.
Aven, bespectacled and fast-talking, told Reuters the reaction to his book review took him by surprise, but he could understand the resentment.
“It was like a letter from a world which is totally unknown,” he said by telephone. “I can understand that reaction perfectly well — the outrageous behaviour of the rich showing off their wealth.”
Putin, first president, then prime minister, and his hand-picked successor Dmitry Medvedev have portrayed Russia as a stable country where the authorities enjoy the full backing of the population. Prilepin’s book evokes a different world, which is missing from the mainstream media.
In reality, Putin disbanded or marginalised opposition parties like the banned National Bolshevik Party, which counts Prilepin among its members, or their allies from chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov’s Civil Front.
“Despite the financial crisis, there are people able to defend the future,” said Aven, justifying his attack on the book. “Moreover, today’s rich came from the same slums as Tishin and had to go through you know what,” he added, recalling the often violent birth of Russian capitalism.
Political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky said Aven’s views were “an ideological manifesto of Russia’s ruling elite” and were in line with the general thinking in the Kremlin. “As long as Aven sits in his office, the regime will not change,” he said.
MIT to hold emerging technologies conference in New Delhi
Thursday, December 18th, 2008EmTech, the prestigious emerging technologies conference from MIT’s Technology Review, will be held in New Delhi in March next year.
This is for the first time that the prestigious EmTech conference, which is attended by nearly 100 leading tech and business visionaries of the world, is being held outside the US after it was launched eight years ago.
‘Asian nations became giants by exporting IT services, drug design, embedded systems to the world. By bringing EmTech 2009 to the Indian shores we hope to bring into sharper focus emerging technology innovations from Asia and Australia,’ said Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Technology Review.
The two-day event in March, being held in partnership with CyberMedia, would also mark the launch of the Indian edition of Technology Review, the world’s oldest technology publication that was founded in 1899.
‘This is the first time that the conference, which attracts more than a thousand top CEOs and entrepreneurs will leave American shores,’ the organisers said in a statement.
‘India, home to sunrise offshoring companies in IT software, biotech and embedded chip design is just the right destination as more than 65 percent of its high tech exports come from the US, the world’s largest market for such services,’ it said.
Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab Chairman Emeritus and Subra Suresh, Dean at MIT School of Engineering will lend their expertise in bringing technology from labs to sessions.
Among other eminent participants are Infosys co-chairman Nandan Nilekani; healthcare pioneer Prathap Reddy; biotech policy leader M.K. Bhan; co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks Gururaj Deshpande; CISCO Systems’ Padmashree Warrior and mentors like Anil Gupta, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad.
FDA panel set to weigh new female condom
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008A new, potentially less expensive version of the female condom faces U.S. regulatory review this week when a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel weighs whether they adequately prevent pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The FC2 Female Condom, made by Female Health Co, is made with a synthetic rubber using a process similar to male condoms that the company says is less labor intensive and should reduce its current cost.
Male condoms, which come in a variety of brands and cost consumers between 50 cents and $2 a piece, are far more widely used than their female counterpart, which costs between $2.80 and $4.
Chicago-based Female Health is seeking FDA approval to market the new version. On Thursday, the agency will seek a recommendation from its panel of outside experts before later making its final decision.
“The whole idea is to increase access,” said Mary Ann Leeper, an adviser and former president of the company.
But FDA regulatory staff questioned whether the company should have conducted specific trials to show how well the FC2 prevents women from contracting diseases or becoming pregnant.
Female Health said it did not conduct such studies because FC2 uses a new material but is otherwise similar to the version already on the U.S. market, the FDA staff said in documents released on Tuesday ahead of the panel meeting.
The company “asserts that such studies are not necessary. This is an important review issue,” the staff wrote.
The company said it also looked at durability of the new material, a synthetic rubber called nitrile. The original condom uses polyurethane.
Both versions are comprised of a sheath with a closed ring on one end that is inserted near the cervix and an open ring on the outer end that stays outside the woman’s body.
Conducting another trial would have taken five more years and cost millions of dollars, Female Health’s Leeper said.
“The design is exactly the same, how you use it is exactly the same … we just don’t believe there is any more information required,” she said.
FDA approval could help boost sales in the United States, which make up just 10 percent of the female condom’s 34.7 million unit sales in 2008, according to Female Health Co.
“We haven’t been able to market the product,” Leeper said. But Female Health is seeking to partner with another company, perhaps a male condom manufacturer or a drugmaker invested in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) awareness, she said.
Most of its U.S. sales are to aid agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Leeper said needs FDA to approve FC2 before it can distribute it abroad.
The bulk of the condom’s use is in other countries, particularly in Africa where public health agencies provide it to help prevent the spread of the HIV virus.
The female version gives women their own option for protection and allows them to insert a condom before intercourse. Most other countries have already adopted the newer version, the company has said.
It also offers other advantages over the male condom, according to the company, including greater protection by covering part of a woman’s outer genitals.
Shares of Female Health Co. were up nearly 5 percent, or 13 cents, at $2.98 on the American Stock Exchange.