Getting You Out Of A Bind!
Or Further Bound?

April 4, 2007

Joost offers beta for friends -

What is Joost? Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

Joost is an interactive, IP-based TV software system from the people who brought you Kazaa and Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, considerably richer after the $2.6bn purchase of the telephony start-up by eBay. The parallels with the founders' earlier projects are hard to miss. Joost is P2P PC software; it's free to download and use and requires no special hardware; it's based on proprietary software; and the technology is cooler than the business case.

This is a shrewd move by Joost, and probably a necessity. TV is ultimately about watching something compelling, and compelling TV is made by people who know what they're doing. Despite the buzzword-heavy sales pitch - we heard the words "long tail" and "user empowerment" repeatedly - Joost needs TV production companies and aggregators.

You want to join! You can sign up for the beta at www.joost.com/newsletter/alert/, but you may not actually get to download the beta for several weeks. It took 6 weeks before we were online with Joost. Once online the TV choices were not great, but they are growing....gradually.

Getting My Website Online

This white paper was written with the novice in mind. It is a list of the steps necessary to get your website online and ready for people to view it. It also includes a couple of things that are not necessary for getting your website online, but may be needed or desired.

Our Template Catalog

We have designed many websites from "scratch" using the descriptions of our customers; however, this is a "catalog" of templates we can use to build your website. There are over 90 templates on the catalog pages. Please note that not all templates can be used in all situations. (Example: a template with 7 menu items may be difficult to reduce to 3 menu items and still look good or vice versa.)

HIS Web Pricing Schedule

This is a general pricing shchedule for websites built by HIS Communications. Though the schedule is only in general terms, we hope this will give you a "ballpark" idea of what you might expect from our pricing. Feel free to contact us about it and get a quote for your specific needs.

Setting Up Your Email On Outlook

This white paper was written specifically for those who have email through our hosting or domain registration via HISCommunications.net. It give specific steps to getting the POP3 email set up in your Microsoft Outlook® email package. The screenshots are from Windows XP®. If you need the process for a different version of Windows®, email us and we'll get one out to you if we have one.

Website Color Chart

This site was built by the University of Washington, I presume, for their students; however, it is a very good way for our customers to find a websafe color for backgrounds, headers, etc. to be used on their website. Find the color that best suits your taste and tell us the hexidecimal number (ex:#0000FF) to use on your website.

Microsoft's Update site

If you don't have your computer set to do automatic updates of Microsoft software, this is the site where that can be done. We recommend that all customers who use Microsoft operating systems (like Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, etc.) set their computers to automatically download the critical updates.

World Magazine

A news magazine. In our opinion, one of the best news magazines around. We like it better than Newsweek or Time. We trust it more. They have the up-to-date news. They also have books of interest and movies of interest. Most of the articles are written from a conservative perspective.

Answers In Genesis

Science from a Biblical perspective is waiting for you in the articles at this site. In fact, they have a museum being built that is suppose to open in 2007. We get their magazine and have also ordered some of their DVDs. The ones we have are excellent.