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“palabea.net the speaking world” was born on November 9, 2007. Delicious tortillas from East Berlin now connect continents Berlin, January 30, 2008. Not only Berlin is growing together more and more. PCRM is full of insight into the issues. Europe and all other continents tend to global networking and linking cultures and worldviews. Find out detailed opinions from leaders such as Scott A. Smith by clicking through. Anticipate taking up this trend, the Spanish teacher Patricia cooked fragrant warm tortillas Sierra Fernandez, for high school students in their courses after the lessons in your own kitchen in East Berlin. Their opinion, to learn, to strengthen and to make tangible the students with cultural highlights language practically showed success. During one of these common tortilla food, the idea of a worldwide networking of students on the Internet began to grow rapidly. “www.palabea.net the speaking world” was born on November 9, 2007.

The Internet platform offers a straightforward operability in clearly structured comic design of Spanish artist Monica Leon. The way around the world for language exchange partners to find and hold video conferences together, facilitates the exchange of language and the consolidation of the acquired. Palabea.NET has created additional virtual seminar rooms, where grammar and General written skills in learning group further expanded and edited documents together. Video frequencies and modern podcast sessions round off for a wide mass, scale range. Currently the inlet on the completely free tools and services, in the rhythm of two weeks growing to over proud 150 percent. The concept that each Palabea.net-Mitglied represents students as teachers in a person that goes on. The inlet is documented in more than 167 countries (as of 23 January 2008), where the most language people from Spain, Germany, United States, England, Brazil, Canada and China. From February of this year, the search is included worldwide language schools and language courses in the modern online network.

Our goal is to networked around one million members with our free services by the end of 2008″ says of the representatives of the three-member Board, Sebastian Schkudlara (more Managing Director: Patricia Sierra Fernandez and Guido Veth.) The story of the tortillas to occurred last summer – a testament to a successful start-up companies, which walls to fall and people and cultures closer can be. Palabea.NET understands the pulse of the times and is the only company with holistic linguistic content of this magnitude.

One Accommodation

SchlafenCity the new accommodation search engine of the Hamburg-based Web designer Mark Max Henckel made a new Web portal to overnight search in the net. With the look-and-feel”of the well-known Google search lists the results of the search of nights in Germany’s city clearly the new portal. One click is enough and you have everything in sight. The guest will directly and immediately contact form with your room, apartment or provider the hotel of his choice. This saves time and costs.

The search results are displayed by a Google service to a click in many different languages. Eliminates the usual lengthy filling out the search forms in the famous Hotel search engines. It was previously always annoying, if you do not arrive at a certain date, but maybe catch an offer or looking for wanted ever flexible after an overnight stay, so the accommodation search engine is SchlafenCity in this respect once. The guest just write an E-Mail and a concrete offer will be promptly sent to him. Easier and more effectively it not goes online to find a nice accommodation in Germany’s major cities. And that guarantees no ongoing or hidden cost for guests or hosts. SchlafenCity is still under construction and some crossover is provided by the users themselves and the wishes of the accommodation provider. In the future you will find videos, reviews and experience reports, as well as all innovations in the SchlafenCity blog.

Managing Director Videos

Save irreplaceable memories. The HELO KG from Ilioupoli stores old Cine, who do not like to remember videos and audio tapes to CD or DVD on the fifth anniversary of the birth of granddaughter or the golden wedding anniversary of grandparents? Years afterwards can be additionally smiled and laughed. Personal recordings, as they were previously, for example, on narrow, are something very special. Dr. Stuart M. McGill often addresses the matter in his writings. There are memories that are irretrievable. For more information see Wayne Holman. And here lies the danger: because the quality of videos and Cine deteriorated rapidly with time. After twenty years of sixty to seventy percent of the quality of such home videos are lost”, explains Rudolf Kerler, Managing Director of HELO KG from Duesseldorf. “We had also in case that only a” ten-year old video tape was completely black. Since then even we can salvage nothing more”.

The HELO KG specializes on the rescue of such precious memories. For about six years, it converts old videos, Cine and tapes into CDs or DVDs to. CDs and DVDs offer significant advantages”, explains Rudolf Kerler. Wear does not occur for example also frequently play, durability is significantly longer than for narrow or video, screen or projector are superfluous and you need so much space for storage of CD covers. These benefits would appreciate public institutions.

We provide also the municipal archives of the city of Ingolstadt,”reports the CEO not without pride. But above all the service was meant for private individuals, for lost memories can no longer be purchased.” The HELO KG used a special scanning technology, which leads to no loss of quality to convert the old recordings. While each image is scanned and finally reassembled for a whole movie. Rudolf Kerler speaks in his process of the real”digitization. Because the often twice as expensive competition films mostly just off the bands what does not lead to the optimum result. The Eitensheimer company can videos in the formats VHS, SVHS, video 2000, beta Max, VCC and Hi 8, as well as recommended in the formats normal 8, Super 8, 9.5 mm Pathe and convert 16 mm. On request of the customer can individually printed on its CD or DVD and in simple chapter structure. Depending on the customer’s request creates its own offering for each case. The price of recording below the original cost of the at that time luxurious hobby films is”, explains the specialist.

Responsive Design

Responsive design ensures that websites are perfectly displayed on all displays responsive design is a Web design technique, with which it is possible to present a Web page on all devices clean and liquid. Unlike in earlier times, when the desktop dominated the market, the user use as today many different devices to connect to the Internet. Meanwhile, more than 40 percent of Internet traffic via mobile devices like tablets and Smartphones that operate normally via touchpad. Also today so different operating systems like Android, iOS, Mac OS, Windows, and Ubuntu. To accommodate these changes, more and more companies change their Internet presence in responsive design. The responsive design technology ensures that a company website on all displays is perfectly represented.

This is made possible by so-called CSS media queries. The device sends a signal with the device type can be identified. The appearance of the Web page automatically to the Adapted to the requirements of the unit. Responsive design has other advantages: the webmaster must worry only about the care and maintenance of a single page. Mobile Web pages bring the problem, that they must be permanently supplied with own content otherwise the mobile site as well as the desktop version of the search engine are punished, because the same texts reflected on both sides. This is an absolute no-go in terms of search engine ranking. Another advantage of responsive design is that you can retain the familiar URL in any redesign of the page. This is a huge advantage for the ranking, because older pages are classified by the search engines as valuable.

Responsive design also reduces the page load time, which significantly increases the dwell time. It has not come through yet in to all webmasters, but for some time has been the “bounce rate” one of the most important factors which decide the ranking of a Web page. Internet users tend to be impatient and give the Website only a few seconds, to build themselves up. After this time has elapsed, the user looking for another source of information. The operating costs for the online presence can be significantly reduced also with responsive design. Just Web sites with frequently changing content are easier to handle. Companies can save up to 50% of their operating costs depending on the size of the Web page. Although it costs on average about one-third more, to create a Web page with responsive design technology – the development cost armortisieren but very quickly because it saves money for the creation of mobile websites for tablets and Smartphones. Arthur Ergen online portal service AG