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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
eFax (2013)
Faxing in the twenty-first century may seem outdated in the era of email and instant messaging, but it's still a vital part of day-to-day business happenings in the US, and even more so in some foreign countries?Japan, notably. Fortunately, you no longer need a dedicated fax machine (and the associated cost of phone line, paper, and ink) to send and receive paperwork. eFax, an Internet-based fax service gives you a real fax number that you can use to send and receive faxes?using your inbox or browser. It's a little more expensive than competitors such as Send2fax, but with the price come a number of business-friendly features (digital signature, unlimited fax storage, large file transfer) that make it a must-have for those that want to ditch the physical fax machine. Efax accounts can also be used with the company's free eFax for Android?and eFax for iOS mobile apps.
[Disclosure: J2 Global, the company that owns eFax, also owns Ziff Davis and PCMag.com. We liked eFax?long before the sale, however. You can check out our eFax for review from 5/16/2011, which dates from before the sale.]
Simple Setup
The eFax setup process was quick and easy in my testing. You start by searching for a new fax number (based on area code, state, or country), or porting an existing fax number into the system. There are even toll-free numbers (800/866/877/888) that you can grab at no additional charge.
I signed up for the service by keying in a zip code and choosing one of the available numbers. I selected the 718 listing available for Brooklyn, New York, and clicked "Next," which took me to the account-creation page. There I chose one of several phone numbers (the one I thought I'd most likely remember), input my name and email address, and clicked "You're Almost Finished." For the final step, I entered my billing information and clicked "Start Faxing." I received my fax number and PIN a few seconds later.
Cost
There are two eFax account types that can be used across the mobile app and desktop: Plus and Pro. eFax Plus ($16.95 per month or $14.13 per month with an annual membership) includes 150 pages of incoming and outbound faxes, and a 10-cent per page coverage fee once you go over that amount (there's also a $10 one-time set up charge). eFax also offers a Pro model ($19.95 per month or $16.63 per month with an annual membership) designed for large businesses and individuals with heavy faxing needs. There's a $19.95 one-time set up fee, but with the higher cost comes 200 pages of incoming faxes and a cool voicemail feature that sends left messages to your inbox. Pro accounts also have a 10-cent per page overage charge.
The Plus and Pro accounts are relatively expensive compared to Send2Fax' Home Office and Small Business plans which are $8.95 per month (150 faxes) and $12.95 per month (350 faxes), respectively. MyFax?has three plans, one of which starts at $10 per month for 100 faxes sent and 200 received. Send2Fax and MyFax, however, lack eFax's digital signature and large file sharing features. Those should be considered if you don't need anything more than basic electronic faxing.
Note: The eFax website no longer offers a free, basic account that lets you receive 10 faxes per month is no longer offered on the website, but is available via the mobile app. There is, however, a free 30-day trial offer.
The eFax Experience
Using eFax was as simple as signing up for an account. Firing off a fax required that I open my e-mail client, key a phone number into the address field, add the "@efaxsend.com" extension to the end of the number, and attached the file to send. The recipient contacted me stating that he received the fax six minutes after it was sent. When he responded with a fax of his own, it arrived in my inbox seven minutes later?not bad considering the money I saved on a dedicated machine, ink, and paper.
You can also send and receive files using the Web interface. By default, eFax documents arrive in the PDF format, but you can change it to EFX or TIFF in the Web site's preferences section?I like the flexibility. The eFax Web site also lets you view your entire fax history (which you can keep indefinitely at no additional charge, unlike MyFax and Send2Fax), send faxes using your online address book, update your account, or access the Help area.
One eFax's standout features is the ability to add to digital signature, which can be added to a document using either the Web interface or the free-to-download eFax Messenger (which is available for both Mac and PC). Creating a signature is as simple as faxing your John Hancock to yourself, opening it, and then clipping and saving it to your account. After you've saved it, you can add a signature with just a button click, which eliminates the need to print and sign documents by hand?extremely useful.
The eFax Messenger desktop software gets the leg up on the Web interface as it lets you attach one of fifteen cover pages that range from basic to artful. These cover pages are vastly superior to the ones offered in the Web interface?in fact, the Web interface has a fill-in-the-blanks form field?so eFax Messenger is worth a download for this alone. Received faxes that are in the EFX format can only be opened within eFax Messenger.
We've all experienced the sting of an email bounce back that was the result of attempting to sent too large a file; eFax eliminates that by letting users upload a file and giving them an email-friendly link. The feature lets Plus and Pro account users upload and send files up to 1GB in size. It's simple. It works.
Should You Subscribe to eFax?
eFax works because it makes the fax process simple?you don't need to own a machine or visit Kinkos. All that's needed is a Web connection, which means you can fax from nearly any location. eFax may carry a greater cost than Send2Fax, but you can store an unlimited number of faxes indefinitely, email large files, and digitally sign documents. All in all, eFax is an excellent, well-rounded service for business customers who want to save on paper and ink, and it's the Editors' service for anyone who wants to communicate by fax without the expense and hassle of owning a fax machine.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Why there are bad learners: EEG activity predicts learning success
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The reason why some people are worse at learning than others has been revealed by a research team from Berlin, Bochum, and Leipzig, operating within the framework of the Germany-wide network "Bernstein Focus State Dependencies of Learning". They have discovered that the main problem is not that learning processes are inefficient per se, but that the brain insufficiently processes the information to be learned. The scientists trained the subjects' sense of touch to be more sensitive. In subjects who responded well to the training, the EEG revealed characteristic changes in brain activity, more specifically in the alpha waves. These alpha waves show, among other things, how effectively the brain exploits the sensory information needed for learning. "An exciting question now is to what extent the alpha activity can be deliberately influenced with biofeedback", says PD Dr. Hubert Dinse from the Neural Plasticity Lab of the Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum. "This could have enormous implications for therapy after brain injury or, quite generally, for the understanding of learning processes." The research team from the Ruhr-Universit?t, the Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Charit? ? Universit?tsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences reported their findings in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Learning without attention: passive training of the sense of touch
How well we learn depends on genetic aspects, the individual brain anatomy, and, not least, on attention. "In recent years we have established a procedure with which we trigger learning processes in people that do not require attention", says Hubert Dinse. The researchers were, therefore, able to exclude attention as a factor. They repeatedly stimulated the participants' sense of touch for 30 minutes by electrically stimulating the skin of the hand. Before and after this passive training, they tested the so-called "two-point discrimination threshold", a measure of the sensitivity of touch. For this, they applied gentle pressure to the hand with two needles and determined the smallest distance between the needles at which the patient still perceived them as separate stimuli. On average, the passive training improved the discrimination threshold by twelve percent?but not in all of the 26 participants. Using EEG, the team studied why some people learned better than others.
Imaging the brain state using EEG: the alpha waves are decisive
The cooperation partners from Berlin and Leipzig, PD Dr. Petra Ritter, Dr. Frank Freyer, and Dr. Robert Becker recorded the subjects' spontaneous EEG before and during passive training. They then identified the components of the brain activity related to improvement in the discrimination test. The alpha activity was decisive, i.e., the brain activity was in the frequency range 8 to 12 hertz. The higher the alpha activity before the passive training, the better the people learned. In addition, the more the alpha activity decreased during passive training, the more easily they learned. These effects occurred in the somatosensory cortex, that is, where the sense of touch is located in the brain.
Researchers seek new methods for therapy
"How the alpha rhythm manages to affect learning is something we investigate with computer models", says PD Dr. Petra Ritter, Head of the Working Group "Brain Modes" at the MPI Leipzig and the Berlin Charit?. "Only when we understand the complex information processing in the brain, can we intervene specifically in the processes to help disorders", adds Petra Ritter. New therapies are the aim of the cooperation network, which Ritter coordinates, the international "Virtual Brain" project, which her team collaborates on, and the "Neural Plasticity Lab", chaired by Hubert Dinse at the RUB.
Learning is dependent on access to sensory information
A high level of alpha activity counts as a marker of the readiness of the brain to exploit new incoming information. Conversely, a strong decrease of alpha activity during sensory stimulation counts as an indicator that the brain processes stimuli particularly efficiently. The results, therefore, suggest that perception-based learning is highly dependent on how accessible the sensory information is. The alpha activity, as a marker of constantly changing brain states, modulates this accessibility.
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F. Freyer, R. Becker, H.R. Dinse, P. Ritter (2013): State-dependent perceptual learning, Journal of Neuroscience, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4039-12.2013
Ruhr-University Bochum: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
AP sources: US to back NKorea human rights probe
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. will support an international push at next month's U.N. Human Rights Council to initiate an inquiry into conditions in North Korea, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The world body's top human rights official, Navi Pillay, called last month for the creation of an international inquiry into "serious crimes" in North Korea that would be authorized by the U.N. but performed by independent experts. She called it one of the worst but least reported human rights situations in the world.
Japan has signaled support for some kind of inquiry for consideration by the Geneva-based council, and EU diplomats have been discussing such a move.
U.S. officials, speaking anonymously because the American position has not been announced, said Washington was favorably disposed toward some kind of inquiry but is waiting for nations to reach a consensus on details before formally declaring its support.
Activists complain that the authoritarian state's human rights record receives much less international attention than its nuclear and missile programs that are causing growing concern, particularly in the Asia-Pacific and the U.S. Washington is urging the U.N. Security Council to tighten sanctions on North Korea after it conducted Tuesday its third nuclear test in defiance of previous U.N. resolutions.
The Human Rights Council and the U.N. General Assembly already have condemned North Korea's human rights record, but Pillay said stronger action was needed.
She said as many as 200,000 people were being held in North Korean political prison camps rife with torture, rape and slave labor, and that some of the abuses may amount to crimes against humanity.
North Korea denounced a recent U.N. report on human rights in the country that was conducted by a former attorney general of Indonesia as politically motivated and doing the bidding of the U.S., Japan and the E.U.
"The rights issues should be mentioned every time North Korea is discussed," said John Sifton, Asia advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. "The decades of abuses and famine entail human suffering and risk at levels that are on par with the risk and suffering posed by the nuclear program."
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Attack Marketing: Monster Disses Beats By Dr. Dre As Swizz Beatz ...
Late last week two contrasting narratives emerged regarding the breakup and subsequent business moves of former partners Monster and Beats Electronics best known for the co-creation of Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Tech publications shared Monster's scandalous tale of betrayal, seemingly in response to the news of Beats planned streaming music service, while music and entertainment industry publications focused on Swizz Beatz joining Monster's team. Stitch the narratives together and you've got a clear case of attack marketing.
On Thursday Sam Biddle shared a fascinating long read on Gizmodo revealing what Monster founders Noel and Kevin Lee claim is the real story of their integral role in the creation of Beats by Dr. Dre and their subsequent betrayal by the company they helped build.
The Inside Story of Monster's Betrayal by Beats By Dr. Dre
The father and son team built their company with what many consider high-priced items not quite worth the cost. Eventually, as they searched for new revenue streams, they came up with the idea of high quality headphones. But they decided they needed some celebrities to take their game to the next level and so son Kevin began his quest.
Word got out and Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre came calling but from here the backstories diverge. The Lees claim Iovine and Dre were much more interested in speakers than headphones and it was Monster that convinced them otherwise.
The details are fascinating and I won't sum them up other than to say that eventually, according to the Lees, Team Dre kicked them to the curb after snatching their ideas and moved on to other manufacturers. This process was facilitated by young Lee's mistaken belief that he could negotiate Monster's deals without much experience while facing a team of high priced music industry lawyers.
Though Biddle mentions the addition of Swizz Beatz to the Monster team as almost a footnote, he says little else about the news. In fact, paidContent's Janko Roettgers interpreted their decision to come forward as being inspired by recent annnouncements related to Beats' Project Daisy streaming music service.
Roettgers stated:
"It's unclear yet when the new service, which is code-named Daisy, is going to launch ? but it looks like Monster felt it was about time to remind people of its role in establishing the Beats brand."
Monster Announces Swizz Beatz' Investment and Board Membership
The previous day in separate pieces, both the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard announced that Swizz Beatz had joined Monster's board and invested in the company, inspired by an announcement by Monster.
In particular, Alex Pham's coverage for Billboard makes it clear that Monster is planning a whole new attack on the audio market though it remains to be seen what that means in terms of product lines. Swizz Beatz stated:
"I have a seat on the board. I am a co-owner. This is a graduation for Monster, and it's a graduation for me. For Monster, it shows they are investing in the culture. They are not doing things just to get by. In the next few months, the world will see who the monsters are in this world."
Monster seems to be headed, in part, towards a focus on the luxury market rather than the audiophile market with its Diamond Tears line of headphones though one could certainly consider each company's efforts simply different lines of attack on the luxury market.
However the news of Daisy affected Monster's pr efforts, it's pretty clear that the timing of their Gizmodo confessional is based on the announcement of Swizz Beatz joining the Monster crew as a major element in their plan to make a comeback. While it's more than a simple act of attack marketing, the move cannot be fully understood without connecting the two narratives.
Chaka Zulu Also On Board
In closely related news, Chaka Zulu joins Monster as Marketing VP adding business cred to the rich crew of celebrity endorsers that includes Sheila E, Nick Cannon, Xzibit and Sugar Ray Leonard.
As Alex Pham points out:
"Monster's strategy for celebrity involvement is one of market segmentation. Working with Electronic Arts Inc.'s EA Sports label, which helped bring in Sugar Ray Leonard, Monster is looking to appeal to video gamers and sports fans. Sheila E's marketing campaign is targeted at women. Nick Cannon is helping the company reach out to a younger demographic. And Xzibit generally speaks to the same urban, hip-hop crowd as Dr. Dre."
Get set for Beats By Dr. Dre vs. Swizz "Monster" Beatz.
[Swizz Beatz photo via Business Wire.]
Hypebot Senior Contributor Clyde Smith (Twitter/App.net) also blogs at All World Dance: Videos and maintains Music Biz Blogs. To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.
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Tap-and-slash: Diablo 3 running on the Microsoft Surface Pro
The Surface Pro is billed as a ?no compromise? tablet, offering the best of the mobile experience and a full Operating System. The tablet PC sits in limbo between being compared to tablets and Ultrabooks, and it may be unclear at times what the Surface Pro is capable of as a result. You probably won?t be buying a Surface Pro to sit around and play high end PC games, but if you find yourself with an itch to play Diablo 3, you?ll find it handles the game just fine.
The Intel HD 4000 GPU included in the Surface Pro is hardly what you would consider gaming hardware. It?s really designed to handle HD video and multi-monitor support for mid range laptops, which is what made it useful for the Surface Pro. It?s important to be able to drive the 1080p display on the Surface as well as a connected monitor that is at least the same resolution. Combined with the DisplayPort, the Surface Pro can drive screens much larger than 1080p, or you can install Steam or login to your Blizzard account and fill your 90GB of free space with video games.
Diablo 3 on the Surface Pro plays well in High settings, provided you drop down the default 150% scaling to 125% and play the game in Full Screen. The pen input works for left and right click, which allows you to play the game in a basic way without a keyboard attached. You?d have to be really fast, or crazy, to try and play this game with just the pen for very long. With the Type Cover attached, you can even play with both the keyboard and the pen input, or you can just use a mouse and play Diablo 3 like Blizzard intended. The game plays great until you run into packs of more than 25-30 baddies, when the game will slow down noticeably for a moment.
In the end, Diablo 3 on the Surface Pro is a great ?because you can? sort of thing to have installed. You?re not likely to enjoy playing the game on battery only, and it is one of the few things that will cause the Surface to get warm enough to kick the fans into overdrive. If your goal with the Surface is to replace your laptop, you?ll find that it is capable of playing most games that are out today.
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