Career Advice and Job Search Tips | SimplyForums http://forum.simplyhired.com SimplyHired discussion forums powered by Vbulletin en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:02:06 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forum.simplyhired.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Career Advice and Job Search Tips | SimplyForums http://forum.simplyhired.com How to converter MTS Video to HD mpeg, wmv,mepg-4, H.264, avi… http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46483&goto=newpost Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:54:47 GMT *Question: * 1: What is MTS video? 2: How to convert MTS video *Answer: * 1: MTS is the raw file of AVCHD video. MTS format is a high-definition MPEG, AVC, H.264 transport stream video file format which commonly used by HD camcorders such as Sony, Canon, Panasonic. Camcorders make use of MTS... Question:
1: What is MTS video?
2: How to convert MTS video
Answer:
1: MTS is the raw file of AVCHD video. MTS format is a high-definition MPEG, AVC, H.264 transport stream video file format which commonly used by HD camcorders such as Sony, Canon, Panasonic. Camcorders make use of MTS in the form of AVCHD, a recording format made specifically for camcorders..
2: Now there is one professional
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Step 0:Install and run MTS Converter



Step 1: Add file to MTS Converter interface. There are three ways to put your files on it.
Method One: Click "Add File", it would pop up one window, and select you want to convert file on this window.
Method Two: At the top of the drop menu, click "File", then select "Add File" to import your HD video and other video or audio files.
Method Three: Drag the file to Tipard MTS Converter interface directly
Step 2: Choose profile
This MTS file Converter places the profile in order, and sorts it by General video, General audio, HD videos, Xbox, PS3 /PSP, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, Wii, Lossless Audio, Mobile Phone, Animation, Portable Multimdia Devices, Zune, Google Phone, PDA(Windows Mobile), User-defined. After you select the profile, continue to select the format on the right drop menu.
Step 3: Click the "Start" button to start your conversion.
Just wait a moment, then your conversion will be finished.

Some powerful functions such as "Merge", "Trim", "Effect", "Snapshot", "Crop" are all available.

HD Converter support all kinds of input file(video, audio and HD video) formats, and all kinds of output file(video, audio and HD video)formats. You can playback converted files on your ipod series, iphone, iphone 3G, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Creative Zen and suchlike PMPs.



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TS Converter ]]> Advertising on SimplyHired.com xiancai478 http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46483 <![CDATA[Who's Firing - Layoffs week ended 11-20-09]]> http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46482&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:15:02 GMT Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 11/20/09. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting.

To see the entire list, read: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/whos-firing-layoffs-week-ended-11-20-09.html ]]> philrosenberg http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46482 NY Times to Goldman Sachs: Pay up to cut public debt http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46475&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:31 GMT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York Times editorial slammed Goldman Sachs for its role in the financial crisis and said that instead of paying big bonuses to its employees it should make a multibillion-dollar gift to help reduce the U.S. national debt.Image:... NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York Times editorial slammed Goldman Sachs for its role in the financial crisis and said that instead of paying big bonuses to its employees it should make a multibillion-dollar gift to help reduce the U.S. national debt.


More... ]]> Self- Employed Area simplyforum http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46475 Who Is Visiting our Site, Why, And What We Do About It? http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46476&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:31 GMT Image: http://smallbiztrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/analysis.jpg So, probably by now, you have a website, getting a bunch of traffic to it and you’re implementing some tweaks to your site along the way. And yet you’ve got this nagging feeling that you’re not making the most of your website... So, probably by now, you have a website, getting a bunch of traffic to it and you’re implementing some tweaks to your site along the way. And yet you’ve got this nagging feeling that you’re not making the most of your website traffic.

Despite the many tools out there, I find that most of us have a similar sentiment.

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More... ]]> simplyforum http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46469 How should one handle maternity leave on a resume? http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46477&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:31 GMT Should you explain a gap in your work history if it involves a maternity leave? Blogger Toni Bowers offers advice to a TechRepublic member who is in this situation. Image: http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1)Image: http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2225 ... Should you explain a gap in your work history if it involves a maternity leave? Blogger Toni Bowers offers advice to a TechRepublic member who is in this situation.



More... ]]> Additional Career-Related Links simplyforum http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46477 Making Pretty URLs for Search Engine Spiders http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46467&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:31 GMT by Mike Moran

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Most search marketing experts are full of advice for folks who are struggling with weird looking URLs that search engine spiders really don't like. I should know, because I have always been loaded with that kind of advice, too.

I mean, here is an actual URL I saw on the Web site for Sears a few years ago:
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/dpp.do?vertical=Buying %20Guides&cat=Televisions&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&splas h=true&n-state=http://www.live.bguides.webcollage.net/_wc/televisions_1.html~~~G!0B6765CD4C51!XRHzYAguDp1SwH 5C~~~~@http://guides.sears.com/server/sears/bguides-televisions-showcase
You can't make this stuff up.

Now, not only is that a URL that only a dynamic Commerce engine could love, but it's one that both search engines and normal people avoid. Spiders probably won't index it and other sites won't link to it.

So what do you do if you have funny URLs? Not necessarily THAT funny, but you have a few dynamic parameters dribbling off the end of your URL, with question marks and equal signs and other weird-looking stuff?

There are some standard things that people (yeah, people like me) advise:
  • URL Rewrite. Depending on how you serve up your pages, your Web server probably has some way to rewrite those URLs from something crazy to something intelligent.
  • Redirects. Sometimes, you can change odd URLs (such as those with metrics parameters dumped at the end) so that many weird-looking URLs reolve to one URL. Just be sure to use 301 redirects instead of other methods, or the search spiders will ignore your instructions.

But suppose that stuff is beyond you? Or you don't even have access to your dynamic Commerce server? Or your shared hosting plan doesn't allow you to do redirects the required way?

That would probably mark you as a normal person who does not beep when you talk. Is there anything that you are allowed to do that you actually have a possibility of being able to do?

Well, you actually have an option in some of these cases. If you have several weird URLs that you are trying to map to a single URL (such as those pesky metrics tags at the end of what is basically the same page), check out the tag. The search engines all pay attention to it now and if you can code HTML tags, this should be something you can do.

But there is a bigger lesson here. Just because you can't personally do something doesn't mean it can't be done. If your host or your Web server doesn't allow you to do these things, then complain to them and think about switching to someone new, if that is possible. If you are simply incapable of doing this stuff (I understand), get help from someone who knows how.

Weird URLs seem like a nit in search marketing, but they can have serious consequences. If your URLs are the size of a small Latin American country, you need to do something.



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More... ]]> Self- Employed Area simplyforum http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46467 <![CDATA[What To Do If Your Competitors' Ads Are Untrue]]> http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=46472&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:31 GMT Should you sue a competitor that lies? Earlier this year, Pantene attacked Dove over ads claiming that Dove conditioner actually repairs hair better than Pantene. But it's hardly the only corporation getting aggressive over ad copy during the recession, Stephanie Clifford reports for The New York Times. AT&T and Verizon and Campbell's and Progresso have also duked in out in court recently. The goal is not a payout, but to get the maligning claim withdrawn or altered. "Since advertisers are required by law to have a reasonable factual basis for their commercials," says Clifford. "Their competitors are essentially demanding that they show their hand." The National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau (the industry's primary self-regulating program for national ads) received a record 82 formal complaints this year. At $2,500 to $20,000 per complaint it's cheaper than suing. Other brands are filing suits under the Lanham Act, passed in 1946 to strengthen trademark law. But buyers don't necessarily respond to the in-fighting. After Progresso and Campbell both filed complaints, sales of ready-to-serve wet soups declined. "They're navel-gazing and they're not thinking about what consumers want to hear," Adland author James P. Othmer told the Times.

Did a VC firm steal a business idea from a babysitting service? The Boston Globe has the story behind the surprisingly bitter rivalry between two babysitting websites, Sittercity and Care.com. The intrigue all started when the founder of Sittercity, Genevieve Thiers, met with the VC firm Matrix Partners to discuss possible funding for her business. Three months after that initial meeting, one of the Matrix Partners principals, Sheila Marcelo, started Care.com, a babysitter referral business that is in direct competition with Sittercity. Marcelo denies allegations that she stole any business ideas from Sittercity, stating in an e-mail, "The idea that 'trade secrets' gleaned from anyone else's business helped Care.com or hurt anyone else's business is, frankly, false." A follow-up article goes even deeper into backstory behind the whole sorted tale.

What's a $9 billion check look like? Like this. Just in case you were curious, the Huffington Post provides the link. It's from an emergency loan Morgan Stanley received from a Japanese bank, which helped save the investment company. Cue jealousy/outrage/bewilderment.

Will subversive advertising spell the end of Twitter? MySpace was doomed when the social network became overrun with obnoxious ads. On the heels of a New York Times article alerting users that their friends tweets could actually be an ad, Valleywag predicts Twitter is following in MySpace's footsteps. The problem, argues Valleywag, isn't advertorial content, but the fact that the tweets in question look like endorsements from the user, and aren't designated as ads until you see the "(Ad)" or "#ad" or "#sponsor" at the end of the 140 characters. What's more the entrepreneurs behind companies like Izea that facilitate this kind of sponsorship haven't always been forthright about disclosing whether or not a tweet is an ad. Izea CEO Ted Murphy used to run Pay Per Post, which Valleywag and TechCrunch both agreed was guilty of some pretty sleazy manipulation.

Preparing for your business launch. Pre-launch preparation can be a paperwork-intensive process. The Wall Street Journal, though, outlines what you need to know about permits, licenses, and more.

Turning up the glitz to woo holiday shoppers. Unnerved by forecasts of grim holiday sales, malls are pulling out all the stops to try and get shoppers in the door. At the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, aerialists twirl 80 feet off the ground as escalator riders gawk. The mall has bumped it's holiday marketing spending up one third from past years in hopes of encouraging a "spillover effect" in which customers come solely for the special events but leave with lighter wallets. "Every resource that you can imagine has been deployed," said Jeff Brown, the mall's general manager. "It's just this big, grandiose, epic sort of show, and it's based on capturing the escapism that people were looking for in the 1930s when the country hit hard times." Don't have the budget to put on a three ring circus? Here are some other tips on maximizing your holiday sales.

Is Wikipedia faltering? The online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which has become the dominant reference guide thanks to free labor from millions of online volunteers, has been losing writers at an increasing rate, according to the Wall Street Journal. "[T]he declines in participation have raised questions about the encyclopedia's ability to continue expanding its breadth and improving its accuracy," according to the article. They also raise questions about the long-term viability of crowd-sourcing, the idea that small contributions from dispersed groups can turn into sustaining businesses. The article notes that the declines may say less about enthusiasm for Wikipedia, which has 34 employees, and more about the site's evolution from a freewheeling forum to something that more closely resembles a traditional research project.

New economic survey indicates joblessness will soon bottom out. The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) released a study today which shows that net employment losses are expected to rebound in the first quarter of 2010, the Associated Press reports. The survey predicts that employers will start adding to their payrolls shortly after that. But don't expect them to ramp up fast enough to replace the 7.3 million jobs that were lost since December 2007--that's not likely to happen until 2012.

Apple leaving a bad taste? Following a recent BusinessWeek article in which Phil Schiller, a senior vice president at Apple, attempted to address tech developers' growing dissatisfaction with the App Store approval process, TechCrunch has aired a few grievances about the interview and the "negative impact" the App Store is having on the mobile development community. "Developers may like the concept having an external [quality assurance] safety net that helps catch bugs, but not one that's incredibly inconsistent and penalizes them with extended delays and notoriously bad communication," the post says, in response to Schiller's assertion that developers actually like the review process. The post echoes the statements of many developers who have complained about Apple's strict app guidelines, including Howcast co-founder Sanjay Raman and Facebook's Joe Hewitt, who recently announced he'd quit developing for the iPhone altogether.

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Apparantly, Firefox requires a significantly high amount of CPU power to run the more media-rich sites. In other words, if you have a netbook or one of the trendy thin notebooks; Firefox could overheat, if not damage, your central processing unit (CPU).

The Mozilla support page addrsssing the problem has all kinds of fixes to offer; plug-ins, resetting this or disabling that.

I appreciate the tips. But, it begs a bigger question. Why would I do any of that rather than just use another browser?

I remember spending a lot of time ten years ago and then some covering the so-called browser wars between Internet Explorer and Netscape. It's hard to say Microsoft lost when IE remains the dominant browser in the world. However, there is clearly no monopoly as once feared.

PC users have plenty of choices: Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and others.

Choice is good. I can choose to not deal with putting my CPU at risk and just use something else.









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