Why drive a disk;

Apple's Phil Schiller, Vice President of marketing, showing off the new iMac ultra-thin at Apple's launch event in October.New innovation can spell the beginning of the end for new iMac shipping DVD drivesApple last week to not keep driveCloud light stream and download faster wayApple crab for the first time be able to 5-inch disk, a floppy disk.

(CNN) --can the phrase "burn a disc" will soon be interred in the tomb of the computer. Place the 8-bit songbokrafik and service of dial-up modems hum buzzing?

Some technology analysts, along with some of the most influential computer makers in the world. Optical disk drive? answer Yes, use valuable space in our ever shrinking gadgets and the ability to stream music or movies on demand have made CDs and DVDs is not necessary.

Rotation of the disk drive's obscurity may have started swirling earlier last week.

Apple's new IMac desktop computer, 50, was released on Friday for the first time. There is no disc drive. The trend has already started on some laptops such as Apple's MacBook Air and of course with the handheld smartphones and tablets. This machine.

"Over time, the dimming of seeing history as a floppy disk, said Michael Gartenberg, research company Gartner industry with technical analysis, Inc.

According to Apple's sleeker and thinner is always off. Disk drive data transfer is no brainer.

"These older technologies will catch us back to Phil Schiller, marketing. Apple's Chief told CNN's sister publication time. "they're the anchor to where we want to go. We found things that have outlived their useful purpose-our competitors are afraid to remove them. We are trying to find better solutions for our customers, we have-so much trust.

If a company's storage history on what is an optical disk drive Mac Edition may be doomed for a 5-inch floppy dumped 3.5 inches, and the first one first iMac has no floppy disk drive.

"The long-term trend is clear, but Apple's always proactive about this movement speed, which in contrast to later, Gartenberg said.

The little Mac Mini's for the record has been free since last year disk drive.

Sony has already announced that it will stop making optical drive itself and introduce Microsoft Windows 8 version of the operating system that runs on Smartphones and tablets, laptops, free disk and PC. The computer giant will be a good position for such a move.

For some users the Web habit and start trending from the action that is necessary to have an external media.

CD audio streaming or downloadable, digital, DVD, Netflix, Amazon or other online movie website, a wide range of video game digital distribution, such as a steam bath, and more. Download from major games and console manufacturers.

"It is a personal cloud service becomes. Increase broadband speeds and ubiquitous There is very little reason for consumers to use optical drives in their computers forward, Gartenberg said.

There is always a chance that the USB port is required for external devices (Apple. The rider of the disk drive, it is worth an external light for $ 79).

So much that Google offers Google drive, Apple has embraced cloud computing with the iCloud, which allows users to store documents, photos, music and movies on the Web server, move to the cloud may refer to the internal storage is less of a concern for those on the go.

Combined with advances in data capture within the "solid state" and broadband speed is fast to download and streaming pain less. As the DVD era can grease skids apples and competitors to make the computer more and more light and inexpensive.

Visit the new Chromebooks laptop that uses Google's Chrome system that depends on cloud, especially for around $ 250 for sale.

In order to ensure The change may be rough for some users.

"For those of you who still owns a DVD and want to see them in their computers, iMac is not suitable of Fortune JP Mangalindan wrote in the opinion of the new iMac" course. The External SuperDrive is $ 79, which is connected via USB cable but if shelling out more for-face it-a feature that still comes standard on most PCs, it also means messing with the smallest set of iMac.

But like it or not, people still pop in the disc may not have long to do it.

"While it may be over the optical drive that really is dead, write Chris Pirillo Lockergnome blog network founder," it is certainly showing all the symptoms of a range of technologies.

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500 GB hard drive, Blu-ray drives for Xbox one specification [updated].

By Mike Suszek 5/21/2013 13:10.

Next-generation Microsoft Xbox 1 star Blu-ray drive and a 500 GB hard drive you must mark Whitten today crab event from Xbox on revealed. System which features 8 GB of system memory, USB 3.0 ports, 8-core CPUS, 64-bit architecture, built-in Wi-Fi and HDMI port input/output. Whitten also pointed to use three architectures of the Xbox operating system.

Microsoft has also next-generation 15 Kinect sensor one of the Xbox controller reveals details of the event.

Update : Xbox and play station 4 comparison of specification is now.

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Simmons Firm's '$5 for the Fight' Donation Drive To Help Unemployed Union Workers Surpasses Goal

A donation match challenge to benefit unemployed St. Louis union workers, spearheaded by the Simmons Law Firm, has surpassed its initial $50,000 goal.

Earlier in March, the Simmons Firm agreed to match all donations to ‘$5 for the Fight’ fundraiser up to $25,000 for a grand total of $50,000 raised. Last week, officials with the fundraiser, which is organized by the St. Louis Labor Council, announced that nearly $27,500 in outside donations was raised.

"On behalf of the Simmons Firm, we are thrilled to see this response and to have played a part in making it happen,” said Attorney Chris Guinn in the St. Louis Labor Tribune. “Thanks to the strength and goodwill of the labor community, this is an outstanding result that will help hard working families throughout the St. Louis area."

The “$5 for the Fight” Fund was originally established in 1996 by the St. Louis Labor Council, AFL-CIO, to assist union members and their families during a financial crisis while they supported a collective bargaining action. It was redirected in 2009 to support unemployed union families, who through no fault of their own, had fallen on hard times because of the down economy. Last year, the campaign raised $134,000 that helped 472 families pay their rent, afford their mortgage, keep their utilities on, eliminate medical bills and more.

The “$5 for the Fight” Emergency Fund is only possible because of generous donations made by caring businesses like the Simmons Firm, union organizations and dedicated individuals. Without them, many of these families would have nowhere to turn for help,” said Robert A. Soutier, president of the Greater St. Louis Labor Council. “Thanks to the leadership of the Simmons Firm, we hope it will be possible for us to help even more unemployed union workers with mortgage payments, rent, utilities, medical bills and more in the coming year.”

Donations can still be made by check or online. Mail a check or money order to “$5 for the Fight,” c/o St. Louis Labor Council, 3301 Hollenberg Drive, Bridgeton, MO 63044 and include your union affiliation if applicable. To make an online donation, visit www.labortribune.com and click “$5 for the Fight” Donations in the left hand column. An option to create a reoccurring automated donation is also available.
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Six Video Marketing Tips that Drive Traffic Cost Effectively

Let’s be honest; driving traffic to your site is not easy; it takes lots of time and effort to get good traffic that can be monetized effectively.

However; we have found that right now (we expect this to change) using video content to drive traffic is comparatively less work, and lower cost than using textual based content – this is simply because less people are creating video content.

This post will take you through some methods of getting traffic to your site using video content. We will not be covering the production process here. If you have never done video production before and are intimidated by the prospect then you can head over to the My Web Presenters video marketing blog for ideas and support after reading this post.

If you use PPC to drive traffic then you will be aware that making a profit is not easy as markets are pretty saturated on most keywords. However; this is not yet the case with video content. You will find that using promoted videos in Youtube gets you clicks more cost effectively than bidding on the same keywords in Adwords.

Yes, the functionality is different; you pay per view on Youtube promoted videos nowadays (they are part of the True View family now) so need to ensure that your call to action works in order to get the viewer to your site; but we have found that if your content is pretty good (does not need to be excellent) then this can be a more cost effective method of traffic generation.

Here is the intro video on using Adwords to promote your video content.

Aside from using Adwords there are many simple things that you can do to make your video content more visible within Youtube.

Be sure to include your website URL in your YouTube video description. At the top of your description is the best place. Make sure you include the ‘http://’ as this makes your URL appear as a clickable link.

Have a slide (or two) in your video displaying your URL: within your video you can include a slide which gives the viewer the URL of your home page or a specific product page – whatever is most appropriate for your purpose.

Use annotations to display your URL & calls to action: YouTube have an annotations feature which allows you to add interactive elements to your videos on YouTube, after you have uploaded them. One of the main issues people have with this feature is that it doesn’t allow you to create clickable links to URL’s outside of YouTube. However, it does allow you to create clickable links to other YouTube videos. You can also use annotations to display your URL and to encourage viewers to visit your website after watching your video.

This video shows you the different ways that you can use annotations in YouTube:

As you can see, there is lots of potential to use annotations in different ways. It is an opportunity to use calls to action to encourage users to subscribe to your YouTube channel.

Top Tip: LinkedTube does allow you to add clickable links to your YouTube videos.

Oneload is an online video distribution website that enables users to upload videos to multiple platforms at once. So, rather than uploading your videos one by one to all of your social media and video sharing sites, Oneload will save you time and do it for you.

Oneload includes a useful analytics tool which can tell you how many times your video has been viewed on each of the platforms you have uploaded it to. This will enable you to understand which platforms are having the best results for your videos and should inform your future video marketing strategy.

By sharing videos quickly to multiple platforms you will get quick traffic to your website – if you have made it obvious to viewers how they should get there (i.e. include your URL in your video – see point 1!).

Similar in principle to guest posting – you want others to help you promote your content.

Strategic collaborations could really give your video that extra needed marketing boost. If you work with the right people you may gain some influential marketing weight for your video.

a) Interview well known people in the industry: As well as meaning you are producing attractive and relevant content, this will also mean you will get some good quality links back to your own website.

b)  Work with other organizations to produce videos: Collaborations are a great way to build relationships and positive reciprocal relationships are likely to yield good results. A collaboration means you are doubling your creative potential and of course, your marketing potential. You will be reaching two core audiences instead of one.

Do not make the mistake of treating your videos as stand alone marketing elements. Uploading them to YouTube and leaving them there for people to find is not enough. Use social media sharing tools to push your video content out to as much of an audience as you possibly can.

Facebook, Twitter, MySpaceTV, Vimeo, Google Video, Revver and all of the others out there are worth sharing with to reach as big an audience as possible.

If you do not yet have a social network strategy for traffic then I suggest that you get started asap as this really can be a fantastic way to drive traffic – you need to build relationships with like minded people and to promote each others content – as if you were in a tribe or a team.

You need people to be able to find your video in the first place – before you use the video as a way to draw people to your website! The best starting point is to know what keywords your target market are searching and then optimise your videos with the keywords that they are using.

Use keywords in your video title, description and tags. Make sure that you actually use tags on your videos! Use captions/subtitles because these are searchable by search engines and will be rich in keywords that are scattered throughout the content of your video. When a video appears in search engine results it is a far more attractive click option than pure text.

Youtube does have closed caption functionality where it auto-generates the subtitles for you – DO NOT rely on this; it is a good starting point but it is inaccurate to a similar degree as Google translate.

This guest post was written by Neil Davidson, who is the Founder of My Web Presenters, who are a leading Corporate Video Production specialist. They work with businesses of all sizes to create and market compelling and emotive video that helps them to communicate with their specific audience.

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