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A personal digital assistant or PDA is an electronic item somewhat similar to a regular laptop computer, but smaller, normally the size of a book or magazine. They are like diaries or organizers but far more capable. They may be Wi-Fi-enabled in order to send and receive files, send and receive email and go on the Internet.

in fact, not all PDA’s are exactly the same size or have the same features, but they are all fairly comparable. People use them for taking notes, recording lectures, doing homework, composing pieces and reminding themselves of appointments among a hundred and one other things. The PDA is the tool of preference for people leading a busy career.

Some PDA’s have full Net access and others will permit you to connect to a laptop or desktop computer in order to download or upload files for processing later. With these machines, you can download all your email, for instance, process it on the bus or the train on the way to the office and then plug your PDA into your office computer to send them once you arrive in the office.

More sophisticated PDA’s will also connect to your office and home computers, but will actually go on the Internet independently. This means that you ought to synchronize your home and office computers with your PDA so that all your files and computers have the same copies of all your data. MS Windows has been using this idea for many years and named it ‘Briefcase’.

The electronic briefcase is now reality and has been for a time. In fact, the laptop was the original PDA and what you can purchase now as a PDA is a cut-down version of the laptop-cum-notebook computer.

Some PDA’s are really like notebooks in that you are able to write on the touch sensitive screen. A software program can read your handwriting, after being taught it, and convert it into typed text.

It can also convert typed text into your handwriting. Setting this feature of the PDA up may be quite tedious though with numerous errors taking place in the early days.

The PDA is like a desktop with all the devices that you would expect to find there and near it, like a pen and pad, a calculator, a diary, a to-do-list, a calendar, a phone book, an address book and even a cell phone or even VOIP, if it is connected to the Net. Apart from these ‘physical’ desktop items, the PDA will almost certainly have a database and the capability to read ebooks.

Some PDA’s will also record voice messages, take photos and even read ebooks and messages back to you. A PDA is a most helpful device if you have need of one.

They are handier than a laptop and lighter. They are not a substitute for a computer but rather should be regarded as an accessory to a computer to save you lugging the computer about.

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A science fiction story I once read from a while told the story of a group of scientists who created a supercomputer that was more intelligent than human beings. A scientist could type a question into the supercomputer, which would instantaneously answer with the correct answer. One night, a scientist was working late in the lab alone. He typed the question “Is there a god?” into the supercomputer. Without hesitation, the supercomputer gave its disturbing reply: “There wasn’t a god, but there is one now.”

Computers have come a long way from back in the day when a single computer could easily take up the space of an entire room. Almost everyone has one these days, whether it is a laptop or a smart phone. In fact, they are so common that despite the fact that you didn’t have access to the Internet just a relatively short time ago, you probably take it for granted today. But will a computer ever be as smart, or even more intelligent than a human being?

It seems far fetched to think about. The human brain is so complex and amazing. Just think about the hundreds of thousands of things it is doing at this moment. Quick!! Think about your foot. I bet before I mentioned your foot, you weren’t consciously thinking about it. Yet your brain was completely aware of your foot, and everything that was going on with it. But the brain is in fact so amazing that it doesn’t bother you with all of its minute details. Only if you were to hurt your foot would the shooting pain would suddenly be very noticeable.

Now think about a chair. How do you define a chair anyway? Something with four legs and a seat? Something you sit on? Couldn’t a table then technically fit the definition of a chair? But that’s a table, not a chair, right? And don’t chairs come in all shapes and sizes, like bean bag chairs or those crazy ergonomic chairs? So when you see a chair, how does your brain recognize that you are looking at a chair? It uses something called top down processing. A computer couldn’t do that. To program a computer to be able to recognize a chair, you’d have to plug in every possible definition of a chair into the thing, while your brain can do the work in half a second.

But think again. Computers can beat chess experts pretty easily nowadays. That is because in this case, the computer can utilize top down processing, while a human chess expert can only recognize simple patterns in the game. When you compete with a computer at chess, it enters the game with an entire tree of knowledge of every move that could be made, and every counter move. We like to think we are superior to computers, yet we have programmed computers to be able to recognize most of human speech. Think about how long it takes to teach a human baby to learn to talk, and all the work it entails. Now compare that with the amount of time it takes a computer to download some speech recognition software off of another computer. To be continued in the second article of this set, “Technological Singularity and Exponential Growth.

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In the last article of this series I described technological singularity, which is a prediction that technology will eventually progress so rapidly that the future will be unimaginably different than it is nowadays. I mentioned the fact that it is very possible that in the distant (or not so distant) future, a computer might be built that could outsmart a human being! So if the singularity may be looming in the future, how would human beings get over that initial first hurdle of creating a computer that is smarter than humanity? Theorists reason there are two ways: amplifying the intelligence of human brains until we are smart enough to come up with this computer, and artificial intelligence.

Taking a human brain and expanding its intelligence seems like it might be a long way off in the future, but there are many ways that scientists can do this even today. After all, in laboratories, it is fairly simple for scientists to genetically modify mice. Granted, they are only mice, but genetic modification of the human brain could be an option in the future. Then there are nootropic drugs, which are drugs, supplements and foods that have the ability to improve mental functions. Refer to the field of psychopharmaceuticals if you do not believe that these exist.

Direct brain-computer interfaces exist, which are basically direct communication pathways between a brain and an external device. Monkeys have been able to control robotic arms simply by using their brains! One final example is mind uploading, which scientists are exploring now. This is the process of scanning a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system. If this ever came about this would mean immortality for anyone who wanted to have their minds uploaded. Their consciousness would remain in the realm of the internet long after their biological bodies have died.

Then we return to the notion of artificial intelligence, in which smarter and smarter computers keep on being designed by humans until we have a computer that is smart enough to design another computer that is smarter than itself. Theoretically, every computer that is smarter will design an even smarter computer, until they have outsmarted human beings.

Either way, it seems as though we are approaching the point of a very intelligent, self programming computer soon. Currently, there are a number of computers who are responsible for making very important decisions regarding the human race. The United States Navy lets us know that as military robots become more complex, we should give more attention to the ramifications of their capacity to make autonomous decisions. Military robots potentially hold the lives of other people in their hands, and yes, they do make their “own” decisions. Many people feel that the leaps and bounds that we are already making with Artificial Intelligence should include an effort to make AI friendly and humane. It is definitely worth considering! To be continued in the next article, “What Happens After Humans Design A Computer That Can Outsmart Them?

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In this set of articles I wrote about technological singularity. This theory claims that advances in technology start very slowly at first, then accelerate faster and faster. Eventually, technology will progress so quickly that the future will be completely unimaginable and different than it is today. Proponents of this theory say that change is occurring so rapidly in today’s day and age that by 2024 there will be computers out there that are just as intelligent and capable of the human brain!

Of course, not everyone believes that the singularity is drawing near. First of all, some people believe that no computer or machine will ever be capable of being as smart as a human being in the first place. Others argue with the theory of exponential growth, that in actuality, the rate of technological innovation is actually now declining rather than rapidly increasing. Some critics don’t dispute that there is exponential growth, but feel as though it is not an adequate predictor of change. They are quick to point to the example of quantum theory. The quantum was conceived in 1900, and theory existed and was accepted around twenty five years later. But it took more than forty years to yield any meaningful numbers from the theory.

One extremely fascinating argument against technological singularity is a survey of patents per thousand persons over the course of the years. The number of patents has peaked in the years from 1850-1900, and has been on the decline since. The critics that adhere to this philosophy argue that as complexity grows, the more limited things become, and humans are growing less and less creative as a result. So the prospect of human beings designing a supercomputer seems slim to none from this stance.

Finally, critics specifically find problems with the main proponent of the singularity theory Ray Kurzweil’s chart of progress. Kurzweil bases his theory that technology is growing faster and faster on these charts. In his book “The Singularity is Near” Kurzweil publishes fifteen charts of the history of human evolution from various experts and sources, which all point to the idea that change occurs slowly at first, then grows faster as the gaps between moments of progress get smaller and smaller. Some critics say that a chart that is set up like this is simply biased towards proving what he sets forth to claim, others say that many of the early evolutionary events on these charts appear to be chosen arbitrarily.

Whether you agree with the theory of technological singularity or not, there is no denying that it is indeed a very intriguing idea to think about. Are computers the next step in evolution? Is it simply typical human hubris to believe that we will always be on the top of the food chain? These are all ideas that will become more and more prevalent as the years go by and technology progresses.

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In layman’s terms, technological singularity is a theory that technology will accelerate at an unbelievably fast pace, so fast that the future will be unpredictable, unimaginable, and completely different than the way things are today. Of course there is much more to it, but this set of articles is just an introduction.

In his book “The Singularity is Near,” Ray Kurzweil argues that technological progress follows a pattern of exponential growth. That means that technological growth is multiplied, rather than just added. In a nutshell, exponential growth means that progress starts out slowly, then slowly gets faster. The progress gets multiplied by further progress, which hurls advancement into an extremely fast pace. The more time that goes by, the faster things change.

History teaches us an important lesson about exponential growth. The economy roughly doubled every 250,000 years from the Paleolithic era until the Neolithic Revolution after some type of technological innovation. After this, agricultural economy started to double every 900 years. In today’s day and age, after the technology that came with the Industrial Revolution, the world’s economic output doubles every fifteen years.

That’s a remarkable increase! If you just think about it for a minute, it’s hard not to agree with exponential growth. Think about how much technology accelerates in a year today, and compare that to how much technology accelerated in any year in the 1950’s.

Yet although technology seems to be getting faster and faster, humans can’t seem to keep up. After all, although the human brain has evolved, it hasn’t changed in any major way for millennia. Keeping in mind the increasing power of technologies and computers, it no longer seems so far fetched that a machine could be built that is smarter than human beings. In theory, if it were possible for humans to construct a machine that had better problem solving skills than humans, and was more intelligent, then this machine could take it upon itself to design an even smarter machine. Then if this smarter machine was built, it could design a machine even smarter than itself, and so forth and so on. To be continued in the next article of this set, “How Could Humans Build A Computer That Is Smarter Than Them?

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Today businesses have unique challenges within the company and in the market to overcome in order to stay competitive. Now, advanced technology has become an essential tool to increasing business opportunities, helping businesses make more informed decisions, and adapt to constantly changing markets and trends. Businesses need the computer technology to understand their customers, reach new customers, streamline operations, identify risks, and open new business and opportunities. To meet the new business demands and challenges, Microsoft now provides business software to help businesses maintain a competitive edge.

Microsoft has a wide variety of business software to meet business demands. For instance, Microsoft offers such business software as: Office 2010, Office Project Professional, Office Visio Professional, Office Web Apps, Office Live Meeting, Office Live Small Business, Office Live Workspace, Windows Small Business Server, SQL Server 2008 R2, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics RMS, Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics SL, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SharePoint.

Whether it is a small, medium, or large business, Microsoft software allows businesses to achieve such goals as: gaining better business insight into operations in order to make quicker and more efficient business decisions, gain real-time access to business information to operate more efficiently, and gain the ability to better analyze projects. As well, businesses can effectively monitor sales, improve fiscal management, improve inventory monitoring, reduce production inefficiencies, improve communication, and better simplify management tasks.

Microsoft business software allows a business to decrease operational expenses, make desktop and application managements much simpler, decrease costs for managing inventory, provides IT staff with the right resources to make operational systems more efficient, improve customer service, minimize disruption in services, and create a dynamic and cost efficient business infrastructure. The result of improved business efficiency is reduced operational costs, improved profitability, and more solid business management.

Microsoft business software allows a business to integrate all of the business data into an easy to access and use database so businesses can analyze the information more productively and make informed real-time decisions that benefits business operations. Their software is scalable, customizable, and designed to help automate unique business processes and make it much faster for a company to achieve success.

Microsoft’s software helps businesses improve their bottom line by making more efficient reporting, reducing infrastructure costs, reducing ongoing support costs, boosting worker productivity, and boosting working capital. As well, a business will be able to improve inventory management, reduce the time it takes to get products to the market, trim down administrative overhead costs, reduce communication costs, and reduce employee hiring and training costs.

In today’s competitive business environment, effective business software allows companies to rapidly identify, take action, and learn and adapt to new market trends and new business opportunities. Microsoft software for business solutions helps businesses leverage their resources and address today’s business challenges. By identifying key relationships and problems, and then implementing the proper strategies and applications, a business is better able to maintain profitability and compete in a highly competitive market. Microsoft software is essential for achieving better business solutions.

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Today, there are many different graphic software products available to help businesses and individuals create compelling content. Graphic design PC and laptop software products and utilities are divided into categories based on the functions they perform. If you are looking to acquire graphic design PC and laptop software and utilities for your computer system, the following is a list of the different types of graphic software available which are divided the five categories according to the tasks that they perform:

Web Design Software: This type of graphic software is used by professionals and the novice who want to create websites. Web design software allows the user to create images and topography and the software, by design, will generate the code. Adobe sells Dreamweave, a popular web design software purchased by professionals and the general user. As well, Microsoft sells the Expression Web program targeted to professional web designers.

Web Animation Software: Adobe Flash is the most widely used web animation software program. When using this software, users can perform a number of tasks such as creating interactive website buttons, website animated video clips, and much more.

Page Layout Software: Adobe InDesign is the most popular page layout software. This software allows users to utilize images and typography to produce web pages that contain photos and illustrations. They can also be used for printed material such as magazines, fliers, books…etc. Microsoft Publisher, Quark Xpress, and Corel Draw Graphics Suite are other page layout software programs available.

Image Editing Software: Adobe Photoshop is the most widely used image editing software. This software is used to create graphics, as well edit illustrations and photos. The software is used to create pixel based images. To add color to their illustrations, illustrators will use image editing software. Corel’s Draw Graphics Suite is another image editing software available.

Illustration Software: The most popular illustration software is Adobe illustrator. Professional designers and illustrators tend to choose this Adobe software. Illustration software is used to create graphics, storyboards, and illustrations. Instead of creating images based pixel based images, this software creates images based on vector graphics because the images can be manipulated easily without losing the quality of the image and resolution. Corel Draw Graphics is another brand of illustration software available.

Graphics Presentation: This software is used to create graphics to be presented in a larger format such as for a presentation in front of a large audience. Microsoft software (power point) is the most popular graphics presentation software. Two other software brands are Google Presentation and Apple Keynote.

There are many graphic software trial downloads available as well as complete software packages. Trial downloads are normally free for a certain period of time and after the expiry date, you will be prompted to purchase the software. There are a number of online retailers that sell various graphic design PC & Laptop Software Utilities at affordable prices. When selecting graphic software, it is important to learn what each software program offers to ensure you pick the best software that meets your specific needs.

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Microsoft has a wide variety of PC and Laptop Software and Utilities. The types of products come with a variety of specific features and characteristics. When you purchase software and utilities from Microsoft, it is important to understand what categories they fit in and their characteristics and features so that you choose a product that fits your specific needs. Below are a number of popular Microsoft PC and Laptop Software and Utilities.

Microsoft Word: This Microsoft software product is a comprehensive full-function word processor that is published by Microsoft for Macintosh, PCs and Windows. It can be used for desktop publishing.

Microsoft Works: This software is a full featured word processor that includes: database, graphics, spreadsheet, and telecommunications package. It is published by Microsoft for Macintosh, PCs and Windows.

Microsoft Power Point: Power Point is a presentation package that allows users to slides that include sound and pictures. It is published by Microsoft for Macintosh and PC.

Microsoft Dynamics: This software includes business management software and services designed to help small and midsize companies and organizations boost growth, make better management decisions, and automate processes. One has the ability to license Microsoft Dynamics services, functions, and features to suit their particular business needs.

Microsoft Reader: The Microsoft Reader is a Microsoft program that permits people to read e-books. It is available for download from Microsoft. It utilizes Cleartype Technology to allow for comfortable reading of e-books on PDA screens. .LIT file format is used to display the books. Features include: a search function, highlighting and note scribbling, and text notes. The PC version has an optional plugin for text-to-speech.

Microsoft Paint: Often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint, his program is graphics painting that is included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is saves files as Windows bitmap, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF. The program can be used in color mode or two-color black-and-white.

Microsoft MapPoint: Created by Microsoft, Microsoft MapPoint permits users to work with maps. Users can view the maps, edit the maps, and then combine the maps according to their particular needs. MapPoint includes all of the features of the newest release of Microsoft Streets and Trips, as well as integration with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, and a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) interface.

The Microsoft Windows Backup Utility: This utility from Microsoft allows users to create a copy of the information on their hard disk. It is used by people who want to make sure they have their information backed up in case their system crashes or files become damaged, corrupted, deleted, erased, or overwritten. The Windows Backup utility protects data from accidental loss.

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility: The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility helps fix errors with installation for programs that use Microsoft Windows Installer. It is available for download as freeware.

The above list is just a few of Microsoft software and utilities for PC’s and Laptops. Microsoft has a whole host of products for small, medium, and large businesses to help improve business operations, protect sensitive data, and keep PCs and laptops running smoothly and efficiently. When choosing Microsoft products for purchase, freeware, shareware, or programs already installed on your computer, it is important to understand the functions so that you can make the best use of the products.

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A lot of the top PC utilities software can be complex and difficult to use. There are dozens of menus and buttons everywhere that, much of the time, have ambiguous meanings for new users. If you are getting somewhat established with some of this software, here are some tips and tricks that can help you get through the day.

In Adobe software like Adobe Reader, you can conveniently read important documents or display books electronically. It is very important for tons of PC users, but at times there are a lot of options and it can be hard to tell what to do about some problems. For example, the document you are reading may be too small to read.

Zooming in with Reader is very easy. Simply hold down the Control key on your keyboard and then press the plus key. This will make the document look bigger on your screen and makes it visually easier. Then hold down the same button and press the minus key to zoom back out if you need to. If you hold down the control key again and press the 4 button, it will reflow the entire document to fit on the screen.

One of the default configurations allows you to use the hand tool to drag the document instead of the scrollbar. You may change this in the tools menu, which allows you to select and copy the text for pasting anywhere else. This can be useful for emailing parts of your document.

Microsoft Word is probably the most useful tool on the market today. Students and business owners use this program for all kinds of reasons, but sometimes it is a tedious task to find the toolbar with the mouse to change styles to bold, italics, or single and double spaced.

In Word, if you press and hold the CTRL button and then press the 1 button while selecting a paragraph or before writing it, it would switch the style to single spaced. If you do the same but press the 2 key instead, it will switch to double spaced. You can do this to individual paragraphs or the whole document.

Also in Word document, if you hold the Control key and press either I, U, or B at the same time, you can switch to either italics, underlined, or bold respectively. Then press either of the keys again while watching the toolbar to see it turn off. Now you have no need to move your cursor to the top of the document over and over to switch between bold and italics.

Holding Control and pressing the space bar will turn on the AutoCorrect function. This automatically corrects your typos and other errors while you are typing, though take note that it does not correct all typing errors. It can still be useful because there is now less of a need to press the backspace key so much. You can also press F7 to start the spelling and grammar checker which can be useful when typing important documents.

Above are only some of the great benefits of hotkeys that are offered by these two useful products. If you have a hard time using this software, using these keys from time to time can be of great help. If you learn these combinations, you will be on your way to being more productive.

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You’ll have more room on your desk.

Arguably the best thing about the flat panel monitors is that they save over a square foot of room on your desk. Old school monitors are big, bulky and outdated. Most people are looking forward and changing over their offices to flat panel monitors. If you are looking for a new alternative for the large, bulky monitor you have in your home, a flat screen is the perfect solution. Many models are able to covert to a televison screen simply by pressing a button! This way you can have a high def experience while sending emails or watching your favorite show! Another great feature about the flat screens are the USB ports. Say goodbye to the old days of having to move your big bulky computer around to plug in your digital cable. Today’s flat screen monitors have USB ports right on them so it’s easy to plug and play.

Clearer picture

Flat panels are quickly becoming more known for their clear picture. The flat panels are brighter which makes graphics and text easier to see. Although the flat panels are generally crisper, some come with the option of digital or analog. Most have capabilities for both, but digital is sharper and has the better image. The digital flat panels usually run a little bit higher in cost, but any digital user will tell you, they’re worth every penny.

Penny Pinching

Although the flat panels may be a little more pricy up front, they are actually quite practical in the long run. Since the flat panels are smaller are more efficient, to run, they will save you money in energy costs.

They’re not cheap (though they save in energy costs).

While they’ve come down in price, there’s still no getting around it: You’ll pay a bit more for flat panels (although the gap in prices from CRT monitors has narrowed). That’s because they’re more difficult to manufacture.

A 15-inch monitor, as measured diagonally, will run you $150 to $200. The lower end would be a sale machine, which may not be what you want. If you go up to 17 inches, you’re talking about $200 to $250, and 19 inches, $300 to $350. I consider a 15-inch flat panel marginal. It just doesn’t show enough, even when all I am doing is writing a letter. I prefer a 19-incher.

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