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Today, videos are everywhere, from the your digicam holiday video, video blogs, youtube video marketing, to persuasive corporate films. They’re everywhere.

For example Xerox recently launched an online video marketing campaign to get you interested into buying some of their new products. Video blogs aren’t a new phenomenon, but are gaining steam every day.

Gone are the days when corporate videos were boring. Today professional filmmakers run sophisticated video shops to cater to your every needs from corporate training video, to video presentations and live events, which don’t don’t put you to sleep.

While the industry is still underdeveloped in India, it is highly developed in USA. In USA, California has the highest concentration of quality video production firms. One of the California video production company is Groovy like a movie. Its one of the top ranked video production firms, and is based in San Diego. So confident they are of their expertise that they will even refund your money back if they don’t meet their deadlines. Their services include corporate videos, TV commercials, live events, and entertainment videos.

They take care of items such as location scouting, Scriptwriting, casting, to media delivery both online and traditional cd/DVD. It pretty much covers everything.

With many back office processes being done from India, this could be another opportunity for back office video editing and processing. Companies such as these can even globalize and find eagerly waiting clients in India as well. It could be the perfect mesh of American expertise, Indian talent, and a global marketplace. Indian firms are already doing video editing for Hollywood, and this could be an opportunity that has missed everyone’s radar.

For the NBA video game buffs who have wondered where can i play nba live for money? the answer is - at Bringit!

Bringit brings the NBA Live 09 game online in a tournament where you can win cash. Best of all, membership is free. Now you can beat the recession by beating others just doing what you love to do.

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Whenever we hear of outsourcing we think of India and China. Manufacturing went to China and services to India. However life is no longer a cakewalk for firms of these countries. Firms in countries like Mexico are mounting a rising challenge to everyone else.

I wasn’t really aware of the details of Mexican outsourcing industry, except for the fact that from a USA point of view – its cheap, its near. I didn’t even know about any outsourcing company from Mexico.

Recently I came across a Mexican firm which outsources manufacturing, and became more and more interested in their industry. I’ll give you a small glimpse of this company as a case study, if you will. Its called NAPS – North American Production Sharing. If you are a US based enterprise, its services may be of interest to you if you are willing to outsource to mexico.

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Having moved in to a new flat/apartment I was having a lot of problems with white cruddy deposits clogging up showerheads, taps. The crystal like deposits built up on the expensive tiles on the walls and floor as well

After a lot of research and trial, came up with some simple remedies and practices to keep the bathroom clean and happy. I’m sharing them for the benefit of those who are still suffering. I will cover both cleaning and future prevention.

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Its rare to get free domain names nowadays. There still are a few options where you can get a site for free for one year. Here are two very good options.

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Announcing the launch of Byte Monkey’s free eBook Search Engine – Book Monkey. The search engine will help you find free eBooks available for download all over the internet, without the hassle of going all over the internet.

It is also safer as you won’t land up in a harmful website in search of that elusive book. The search is restricted to safe sites only. The white list of eBook sites will be monitored regularly, just in case.

If you don’t find the eBook you are looking for here, then you probably won’t find it anywhere else.

The search engine is still in its beta, and more features will be launched later (like ‘What is new’, ‘Highlighted Books’ etc.).

So all you book lovers out there, take it for a test ride and check it out.

If you do have any suggestion or feedback, please post your comment here.

Note: Some of the book downloads you find in the search point to sites, like uploading.com, with country restrictions. To get around it read my post on how to bypass the country based restrictions.

Pretty much everyone I know who invests in the stock market, seem to be very confident of their ability to pick good stocks. Ability to beat the market is apparently to be found in abundance.

Stock market is a essentially zero sum game (if you take out dividends from the equation). For every Rs/$/Euro/etc. you make, someone must loose an equal amount. So it seems odd that everyone is sure they are not the losers. Surely some of them must be

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For those who love to share files; why share for free when you can get paid for it. Granted you won’t get rich unless you are a heavy uploader of popular stuff. Still it can count for pocket change and can pay for a free dinner, a years payment for your website, etc.

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Microsoft has added new “Fix it” button on its help site. It automated the instructions that the help article recommends to be performed. Usually there is a list of instructions, and you have to manually follow them. The new button automates that. All you have to do is click this button and it takes care of the rest.

Not all help articles have the new button. I found 777 pages with the button (I would have freaked if I had found 666 such pages!).

Anyway, here’s the full list of such pages (its just a modified google search really).

Looks like Microsoft is beginning to show signs of humor. They have released a video for Valentine’s Day and its not bad really. See for yourself:

To see original post from Microsoft click here.