'PlayStation 4K' and 'Xbox Durango' will be key to Ultra HD adoption Nate Lanxon Editor of Wired.co.uk Next-gen TV -- with a 4K "Ultra HD" picture resolution -- was this year's hot topic at CES. With leaked details of octal-core processor banks paired with 8GB of RAM, the PlayStation 4 "Orbis" is sounding powerful (just for comparison of RAM alone, the 8GB of system memory is roughly 32 times more than the current model). In 2005, very few people had an HDTV. Then along came the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. That's about to happen all over again -- the next battle is 4K Ultra HD, and every major television manufacturer at CES this year was showing off their best entrants into this arena. But it's like deja vu. It's such perfect timing when you think about it. They have to focus on the high end of gaming (because Apple's eating the casual market) and the next-gen of television and media distribution. How it will happen I believe we will see 4K in consoles enjoy a staggered rollout. Image: Playstation 4 by Joseph Dumary
Allure Finance - Conseil en gestion de patrimoine How to be a mystery shopper - Save the Student What’s better than getting paid? Getting paid to do really fun stuff and get a load freebies, of course! Becoming a mystery shopper is a great part-time gig for students. Not only do you get paid for your time and choose the hours you work, you will often scoop freebies in the process. Most of the big retailers are signed up to some kind of mystery shopping scheme, so there’s no shortage of work, and while it might sound too good to be true, we can promise you it certainly isn’t. To get you all clued up and up to speed, we’ve put together this pretty little thing so you know what to expect, how to get into the job and who are the best companies to go with. What is mystery shopping? While the clue is name, mystery shopping isn’t all about going all Sherlock in your local Primarni. Mystery shoppers are individuals who sign up to an agency or company, which then offers them a database of work they can apply for as and when they want too. It isn’t all about clothes or groceries either. GfK
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De Lignière Patrimoine The best paid online survey websites - Save the Student There are a growing number of research companies out there offering rewards for your opinions, however they're not always as 'legit' as they make out. With this in mind, we've created a run-down of the trusted survey sites, personally tested by our users and us. We reveal how much you can realistically make from each site and share some helpful tips to maximise your profit. Each site has a limited number of surveys each month for each person. SwagbucksVery popular with students, thanks to a wide variety of ways to earn rewards. Rather than just leaving you with a list of online survey sites we wanted to make sure that you get the most out of all of them. Here's a few ways to make sure you get the maximum rewards or profit from each site. It's a good idea to sign up to as many as possible. There is no harm in signing up to loads and you can always unsubscribe if you don't like the service that one of them are providing.
Miscellaneous Symbols Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories, astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others. Tables[edit] Definitions[edit] Images[edit] See also[edit] External links[edit] 40 easy ways to make money quickly - Save the Student On this page you'll find all the best ways to make money in your spare time whilst at university based on our own experience. We'll keep adding new ways to this page so go ahead and bookmark it. And please do share your own ideas in the comments! No-risk matched betting Hands down the quickest way to make a lot of money (well, without breaking the law). 'Peer-to-peer' lending is the future of banking. There are many other creative ways to make money as a student, such as our 50 business ideas.
A new way to get subject line standout Getting the email subject line to standout in the inbox is a continual challenge. Here I’ll show you how you can experiment with a technique you don’t see discussed much in email marketing. It’s about the potential of symbols, such as snowmen and hearts, to achieve this. I say “potential” deliberately – do you think it’s a useful technique – would you use it and when? Email clients have been improving their support for world languages and this has meant also support for the many symbols that are defined in the world character set, known as Unicode. I decided to try a few symbols and see just how well email clients did in correctly showing them. The webmail clients for Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail all had good support. Hotmail Yahoo Gmail Outlook 2003 to 2010 support Unicode symbols, this is how the Outlook 2010 inbox looks: iPhone and iPad had no problems either, however the standard Android 2.2 email client whilst showing the heart symbol (♥) did not show the snowman (☃) or smilie (☺).
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