Got a Domain name, but whats next? By Clare Lawrence thAugust Have you got a domain name, but not sure what to do next? Wellread on. Registering your own domain name is a great start to getting aweb presence, but to get established on the Internet you need afew more things. Most domain registration companies will post up a holding page,often called domain parking. Usually these are a little morethan an ad for the registrar, but some offer business card sitsthat show your basic details such as company name and contactdetails. Once youve got a domain you need to sort…
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Got a Domain name, but what’s next?
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Got a Small Business? Choose the Right Domain Name.
Choosing a domain name can be daunting. Research the subjectafter all, you’re the type of marketer who researches, right?and you’ll be hit with a landslide of opinions, mostcontradictory. There are, however, two points that everyoneagrees on:- Pick your domain before you launch your business.This is especially true if your market niche has lots ofcompetition. Research your domain before you commit to abusiness plan.- Don’t wait too long if you like a domain.While you’re researching, you’ll likely come across a couple ofdomains that attract you. You might be tempted to wait, sinceyou haven’t finalized or refined your business plan. Don’t. Ahandful…
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Parts: I2C real-time clock calendar (PCF8563)
The PCF8563 is a real-time clock/calendar/alarm chip with an I2C interface. This would be useful in projects where the primary microcontroller doesn’t have enough resources for an interrupt driven clock.
We demonstrate the PCF8563 using the Bus Pirate after the break. For a limited time you can get your own Bus Pirate, fully assembled and shipped worldwide, for only $30.
PCF8563 real-time clock calendar (Octopart search, $1.33). Datasheet (PDF).
The schematic above shows a bare-bones circuit for the PCF8563. It requires a simple external oscillator circuit with a 32.768khz watch crystal (Q1). The oscillator input pin needs an external…
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Twittjr
Got an IBM PCjr laying around? Why not turn it into a twitter browsing machine? [Alex Grant] did this for the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Creativity and Innovation festival. You can enter search terms into the Twittjr and it will display the top 3 results from twitter. Leave it alone for a minute and it will refresh on its own. To make this happen, the Twittjr is connecting to another computer that is utilizing the twitter API to make the searches. The results are then pushed back to the Twittjr for display. All of this is done via the…
