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Luxury Car Dealers WOW Customers They May Never Even Meet Until After The Sale

When a customer spends fifty thousand dollars or more on a luxury vehicle, whether it is a car or truck, they expect something a little more than ‘complete satisfaction’. The customer wants a customized sales and service experience. Luxury car dealers know this and are constantly working to improve their delivery and post delivery service processes in order to “WOW” their customers.

Luxury car shoppers expect a lot for their money. In addition to a highly tuned machine, many buyers and owners are enjoying a completely luxurious experience at their luxury car dealer. In addition to oil changes, luxury car dealers are hosting everything from High Tea to private parties for their valuable customers.

whether buying in person or opting to buy online, luxury car owners should expect nothing less of their luxury car dealer than the same level of service they would find at a Five Star Resort. Even if the buyer never steps foot onto the dealer’s lot, they expect to be treated with something more than merely ‘complete satisfaction’. Today’s buyer wants nothing less than a celebrity experience.  Read more...

Automatic Crash Notification Is On The Phone!

When you get in a car accident, technology is your best friend. Your seatbelt secures you, your airbags deploy automatically, you call an ambulance or a tow truck on your cell phone, and so on. The protective role of technology just grew some more, as an automatic crash notification phone app called My911 can now eliminate a few more steps from the crash back to security. While your airbags are deploying, your phone will already be making the call that may save your life.

The technology to automatically detect a car crash has existed for years. It has been applied with the invention of airbags- an accelerometer detects crash-level G-forces and deploys the airbags faster than you can be launched forward, meeting you halfway to the dashboard with a cushion of air. Smartphones now come equipped with the technology that allows your car to know when to deploy the airbags. It is an accelerometer, and your phone currently uses it to track your GPS location, autofocus the camera, and other functions. New patented technology makes use of this to sense a car crash and begin taking the steps to safety automatically. \  Read more...

Innovative Attachment Provides Versatility

After years of innovation, farm equipment designers have created a multipurpose grapple that efficiently accomplishes user’s trying tasks.

The hydraulic grapple rake, mounted on a dirt bucket by either a bolt-on method or welding, allows tractors the ability to pick up both heavy-sized loads and small debris with the same tool.

An Adaptable Tool

Dusty L. Weiss, of Construction Associates of Spokane Inc., ordered the grapple for the company’s tractor in June 2009, and said it’s a great innovative tool for the company’s everyday needs.

“I recently had to remove materials from the company’s driveway,” Weiss said. “Although I could have removed it myself, it would have been extremely inefficient; the bucket grapple allowed me to quickly accomplish the task.”

Whether agriculture or demolition work is required, Weiss said the bucket grapple is an effective solution when hoping to save money and time.

In spite of the grapple’s many positive attributes, Weiss made a few suggestions on how to improve the attachment’s design.

His 36 inch across attachment weighs approximately 200 lbs. – a characteristic which reduces the amount of weight carried per load. “As a tractor user, you are often looking to take on more than you can handle,” Weiss said. “A lighter grapple would improve productivity; you could pick up heavier loads if the grapple itself were lighter.”  Read more...

The Future Of Smartphones?

If you want to see how startling fast technology is progressing these days, here’s a simple exercise for you: list all the things that your phone still can’t do. Of course, you’ll be able to list plenty of things. But each year, it seems like a few more things get crossed off. Following are a few features that have either been recently crossed off or most likely will be in the future. Hopefully it will get you as excited as I am for whatever the next big thing will be.

Who knew, for example, that an accelerometer could do so much? I didn’t know before that an accelerometer helps your navigation device track your movement, or that the same technology has given birth to a billion amusing little apps that take advantage of your phone knowing how it’s moving around. These two types of application alone have radically changed what a phone is, and who would claim that the innovations will stop coming? For example, since your phone knows when it moves around and how fast, it knows if you get in a car crash. Your phone can call 911 for you in the case that you can’t for yourself. What other innovative apps will be coming up in the next few years?  Read more...

Possible Explanations Why A Laptop’s Screen Annoyingly Turns Off By Itself

Imagine the scenario; you are busy working away on your laptop when for no apparent reason everything goes off! The laptop has just shut down on its own.

Well, naturally, the first thing is to check that your lead has not come out and made you lose power. If the lead is still plugged into the mains, you may have to try the power cycle.

This is a simple routine and can be done in just a few minutes. Firstly, unplug your laptop from the power source. Then remove any external devices if there are any plugged into your laptop.

Next, you need to remove your laptop’s battery. The next step would be to hold down on the power button for a few seconds.

It may sound a silly thing to do given that you have just taken out the battery, but this does in fact work in a lot of cases. This is due to the fact that if you have been using a laptop for a while, you could have some static build up in some of your internal elements of your laptop.  Read more...

Where Has All The Free Computer Software Gone?

There was a time when you could find endless supply of free software for your Windows operating system. However; over the years free seems to have become a bad word, because everyone wants a little piece of the action, everyone seems to want to make a buck. Or when you go and download something free it is filled with spyware, advertising and restrictions on what you can do with the program and the free version. It just does not seem like a good idea to download free computer software today.

Although it seems that most free programs are just not worth it, there still are some items that still exist as truly free programs. There are still some free full featured products that you can come across such as system utilities, some great office applications, nice image editors, security tools and quite a few others that cost you nothing not even advertising to get in the way of you using them.

If you are in need of some good free utilities there are several that are worth looking into. Kill Win lets you program you computer to shut down, restart and log off at times and dates you choose. This is great if you want to run a backup for your system.  Read more...

Open Innovation Defined

What would you guess is the first position of management when you suggest you should license your patents to competitors, hand over your hardly-used trade secret to emerging start-ups and investigate the possibilities of collaboration with your cousins in aligned segments?

The likely response is a swift “are you mad?” as the leadership looks at you with that funny expression you expect when you’ve done something which is not quite socially right.

Emerging presently, however, there is a movement in the innovation space called Open Innovation whose core tenet is that you do just that.

The thinking is that if there is unused intellectual property or other uniqueness in your organization, the best economic results are obtained by licensing it to competitors who might make use of it, instead of letting it sit idle, and unprofitable. And, conversely, by actively seeking out competitors that have something valuable to your business and reaching accommodations with them to get you access.  Read more...

What Is A Data Logger Exactly?

Counting numbers and statistics can be a harrowing and very time consuming task for a business or corporation or association. Going into the world and actually hand counting the many things that go in is not quite the type of job that people flock to. Data loggers help with a lot of the strenuous and boring counting and does not even need human interaction to work. What is a data logger though?

Data loggers are very useful for measuring and counting vast amounts of things. Usually, they are computerized and do not require any help from people. They often have many sensors that are programmed to pick up different things.

There are many uses for data loggers in almost every profession all around the globe. Many different societies and associations use them to assist them in many things. Data loggers make the lives of many people much easier than they would be without them.

Weather stations are the most well known users of this new technology. They often use the loggers to find out total rainfall or snowfall for the day, month, week, or even year. Sometimes they can go back in their data base to compare the current amounts with ones that occurred years ago. These systems are also used to collect and save wind and barometric pressure data.  Read more...

Successful Products Have a new Must-Have Feature

Increasingly, successful products all have a new must-have feature, and that is “beauty”. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but everyone seems to be advertising their “beautiful” design lately, and I know that when I’m choosing software at home, I always want to see what it looks like before I even bother to download.

Beauty may be the new feature, but it is hardly the technological high-ground in the design stakes. That honor goes to Apple, who have gone from Usability, to Beautiful, to Magical. Apparently, when you have something that is “magical”, you’ve really just trumped all competition. Magical implies things that mere beauty doesn’t even attempt. Magical is unexplainable, an enigma that amazes just by being. Even for Apple, that’s a pretty big jump. The rest of us, still doing Usability, can only aspire to Beauty, I suspect, and most of us won’t have even a chance of that. Not everyone can be the prettiest person in the room.  Read more...

Advantage of Desktop Computers and Why Refurbished are the Best Solution!

A desktop computer is a personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location, as opposed to a mobile laptop or portable computer. Prior to the wide spread of microprocessors, a computer that could fit on a desk was considered remarkably small.

Desktop computers come in a variety of types ranging from large vertical tower cases to small form factor models that can be tucked behind an LCD monitor. “Desktop” can also indicate a horizontally-oriented computer case usually intended to have the display screen placed on top to save space on the desk top.

Most modern desktop computers have separate screens and keyboards. Tower cases are desktop cases in the earlier sense, though not in the latter. Cases intended for home theater PC systems are usually considered to be desktop cases in both senses, regardless of orientation and placement.

Desktops have the advantage over laptops that the spare parts and extensions tend to be standardized, resulting in lower prices and greater availability. For example, the form factor of the motherboard is standardized, like the ATX form factor.  Read more...