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Home inspection software IQ6000 was developed with very much frustration in using the many other house inspection softtware programs plus with over 25 years of experience performing home inspections, drawing from that experience, I have created IQ6000. The software was made to be extremely simple for anyone to put to use immediately. You should be able to master it after watching one hour of instructional videos, and be able to do a full inspection with it. If you experience or have problems or questions, just e-mail me and we will assist you with it. You have the ability to alter the options, put out the house inspection software report to e-mail, PDF, burn to CD, or print. You can create databases of realtors, inspection reports, and attorneys.
Maryland Home inspections have most certainly been around probably as long as houses. People would often ask someone they were familiar wtih, such as a builder friend, or sometimes even a parent, to assess the condition of the property they were planning to buy or sell.
All too often, that judgement was based on a quick run through, little understanding of the implications of what was important, and quite often someone not familiar at all with the building trades. These were simpler times, using simple construction techniques for the most part, and as was the case, it was much easier to perform an assessment.
That was then and this is now. Times have changed as well as have home inspections. Primarily, the purpose of a home inspection is to inform the customer of any major deficiencies in the condition of the home, integral or influencing peripheral parts or systems of the property. We also hold it of importance to present in our reports the parts of the property which are good. As well, wel know that an educated buyer is more likely to make a better decision. The customer would be misguided if we were to only focus on the problems and concerns we found with the property. Reporting on both the bad as well as the good things about the home is paramount in the decision making process.
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Maryland home inspectors have been around most likely as long as houses have been. People would often ask someone they knew, suck as a parent, friend, or sometimes even a builder, to determine the condition of the property they were hoping to buy, or planning to sell.
A good majority of the time, that judgment was based on scanty observation, little understanding of what was important, or someone who was not versed or knowledgeable in the building trades. This was during simpler times, using construction techniques that were simpler for the most part, and as such, evaluations rendered were predictably simple.
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So I call my telephone company and someone picks up 15,000 miles away. I asked the rep where she’s from. She said, “I am from Mary-Land sir. How may I give you excellent service today?” The accent was… American… in a high society 19th century ultra-polite sort of way.

“Mary Land?” My brain’s editing booth could not screen the snickers in time.

“Yes sir… this is correct sir.” She pushed to the next level. “Yes, Mary Land, sir, on thee eastern seaboard. How may I give you excellent service?”

“The eastern seaboard?” Now laughing out loud.

“Yes sir, on thee eastern seaboard of thee United States. May I give you excellent service today?”

The ‘broken record’ assertiveness technique broke my resolve and she proceeded to give me excellent service, in a deceptive kind of way, though the experience left me queasy thinking about the whole new class of jobs being shipped overseas.

When manufacturing left the United States, the tech sector was supposed to be the new frontier. Americans rushed out to be retrained. Students set their sites on computer engineering. Our tech sector was so good, it created the very systems that made it possible to replace itself. Corporations discovered that an Indian college graduate will work at a call center for 10,000 rupees a month, or just under $60.00 a week. I have no malice for our Indian friends, they only want to work. But our kids are going to have to become proficient at more than playing video games and watching movies to compete with this highly educated and driven mass of hungry labor! Math anyone?

I remember hearing that the receptionist was the “face and voice” of the company and the public would get their first and most lasting impression based on her attitude. (With that much on her shoulders, they should have raised her pay.) Now the whole customer interface has been tossed to foreign nationals. Perhaps there will be a backlash in advertising. “Our tech support is Made in the USA! If the anecdotal evidence on Internet posting boards is any measure, many customers would rather be pierced with punji sticks rather than be taught one foreign language, (the computer) by someone with another foreign language! Written scripts are repeated ad nauseum with no ability to converse off-road and actually make the customer feel understood. Below is a sample, your results may vary.

Reactions to Foreign Customer Service

“I called HP Cares. They didn’t. I spoke with three or four representatives. They all had limited English and spoke with an accent. They all asked me the same set of questions. Many asked the same questions over and over and over again. They all refused to believe that the sticker was not there. They all treated me like I was simply too stupid to find it or maybe I was just blind. And, they all put me on hold…”

“We could not understand each other. Even the simplest English terms were incomprehensible to her. I said goodbye and went through the tedious re-calling process, waiting another 20 minutes or so on hold. The second technician could also not understand English, and the connection broke after a few minutes, so I called a third time, going through the whole waiting drill…”

“I will never purchase another Dell product, ever again. And everyone I know will not purchase their products either…”

It appears that companies may also be outsourcing the trust they’ve built in their brand, along with customer loyalty and retention. I think I’m on to something here. Let’s go American business! Advertise your “Onshore” Calling Center!!!

The call centers are not only in India, they are coming online anywhere a building can put up some computers, chairs and get broadband. A Costa Rican tech support rep working for Toshiba complained in a posting that his job was outsourced to Turkey. Kencall of Kenya, provides its own generators and satellite uplink. I bet they don’t have an employee snack room though.

Foreign Outsourcing vs. Offshoring

“Foreign Outsourcing” is the hiring of a foreign company to do some of your work, while “Offshoring” is the creation of a wholly owned foreign subsidiary which gives the company greater control. According to the financial consulting firm Deloitte and Touche, there was a 38% increase in the number of financial institutions with offshore operations in 2003, with an estimated 500% increase in offshore jobs. See “The Titans Take Hold” (PDF)

Call center work is only the tip of the iceberg. There is an ever expanding list of higher level technical positions being exported from a variety of industries. Engineering positions, architectural design work, computer programmers, computer-generated animation, financial and legal research, insurance claim processing, software coding, AutoCAD, technical drawings and billions of dollars worth of back office services are now being moved from the first world to the third world by mostly the larger companies. This is making it difficult for medium sized businesses to compete.

India is well positioned to receive much of this work because it has a large English speaking population from its colonial history with Great Britain, and a growing pool of Internet-wise graduates ready to work at low Indian wages.

Concerns over data privacy and data theft loom large. Three employees of Msource in India allegedly siphoned off $350,000 from Citibank customers recently, using information obtained over the phone, according to Callcentres.net. The plaintiffs who will go through a living hell trying to gain back their financial identities will not be outsourced, nor will the local judges and jury who will hear the case. A couple other factors that come to mind when considering foreign outsourcing or off-shoring, are Islamic terrorists hostile to western interests, civil unrest, security costs, infrastructure concerns and the global war on terrorism…just off the top of my head.

Growing up we were told to eat all of our food because people were starving in other countries. I remember being chastised for suggesting that we should ship out my left over peas and carrots. Today we should tell our kids to study hard and think outside the box because people in other countries are hungry for their jobs!

Let’s Laugh and Have Faith

On a lighter note, my wife called our credit card company and was transferred to “Mumbai”. (Bombay) In one minute she was squaring off with the mores of a patriarchal society. She was told that she would have to “consult with her husband and obtain his permission and consent, and gain his approval.”

The policy was no doubt born in America, but something in the tone and wording communicated female inferiority and wifely subservience. The idea of being “granted approval” was not going down easy. There may have been some gagging.

“BUT…IF, my husband doesn’t pay his bill, THEN you’ll want to talk to me! Will I need his “approval” and “consent” and “permission” for MY credit to be hammered?”

I was handed the phone at a certain mid-point in the intercontinental shoving match. Something about “your husband will have to make that decision”.

I got on the phone and had a lovely conversation. We marveled at how all of this can be taking place over thousands of miles. Actually I rather enjoyed the experience. Perhaps I can outsource our marriage counselor.

Rick David writes for a Merchant Newsletter @
Merchant America. He
also writes a humor column called,

“Don’t Laugh It Could Happen To You” for
http://sandiego.merchantamerica.com.

Did you ever want to erase everything on your computer? This is a program I found that does that for you quickly and easily.

Active@ KillDisk is a hard drive eraser and is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It’s a hard drive and partition eraser utility.

If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted data (using undelete file or some data recovery software) and use against the owner’s will. We highly recommend you to run this FREE utility for the hard and floppy drives you want to dispose of, recycle, re-use, sell or donate to somebody.

Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. The most secure Gutmann’s data destruction method is also implemented. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever.

This is security software for unrecoverable data elimination for any computer capable of booting in DOS mode from floppy drive. It uses access to the drive’s data on a physical level via BIOS bypassing logical drive structure organization, thus it does not matter what operating systems and file systems located on the machine. It can work with DOS, Windows 95 / 98, Windows NT / 2000 / XP, Linux, Unix for PC.

* Prepare and insert bootable floppy disk.

* Click here to start download. This link downloads zip archive file with the Free version of KillDisk.

* When download window appears, unzip and save executable to the floppy drive.

Or use 1 step Bootable Floppy Creation

* Download and run the Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for Active@ KillDisk (click the link). It already contains all necessary files.

There’s also a way to burn it to a cd here.

Now you are ready to boot from the floppy/CD and use the software for disk erasing. Good Luck.

Ken Savage is a Webmaster employee who writes about what is going on in the Tech industry usually days before it breaks to the rest of the world. He can be found at http://www.kensavage.com

The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity. Recent versions of Microsoft Windows come with the rather basic Narrator. Most legally blind people 79 percent do not use computers. Screen reader choice is contentious: differing priorities and strong preferences are common. Comming year nonprofit worker Anthony Loeff is testing digital tools for people suffering from blindness Experimental approaches in sensory substitution are beginning to provide access to arbitrary live views from a camera.

Access technology such as screen readers and Screen magnifiers enable the blind to use mainstream computer applications. However, using a screen reader is, according to some users, considerably more difficult than using a GUI and many applications have specific problems resulting from the nature of the application. A persons choice of screen reader is dictated by many factors, including platform and the role of organizations like charities, schools, and employers.

Only a small fraction of this population, when compared to the sighted community, have Internet access.

Approximately 24 percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The primary audience for such applications is those who have difficulty reading because of learning disabilities or language barriers. The Macintosh OS also comes with a built-in screen reader, called VoiceOver.

The latter developed in part by Knopper who has a visual impairment. Linux distributions for the blind include Oralux and Adriane Knoppix. More and more, screen readers are being bundled with operating system distributions.

Web browsers, word processors, icons and windows and email programs are just some of the applications used successfully by screen reader users. The movement towards greater web accessibility is opening a far wider number of websites to adaptive technology, making the web a more inviting place for visually impaired surfers. Indeed functionality remains limited compared to equivalent desktop applications, the major benefit is to increase the accessibility of said websites. Later versions of Microsoft Windows include an Accessibility Wizard and Magnifier for those with partial vision, and Microsoft Narrator, a simple screen reader. The console-based Oralux Linux distribution ships with three screen-reading environments: Emacspeak, Yasr and Speakup. A screen reader is a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen. This interpretation is then represented to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a braille output. Screen readers can be assumed to be able to access all display content that is not intrinsically inaccessible.

There are also open source screen readers, such as the Linux Screen Reader for GNOME and NonVisual Desktop Access for Windows.

While Apple Mac OS X includes VoiceOver, a more feature-rich screen reader. The open source GNOME desktop environment long included Gnopernicus and now includes Orca. Screen readers are a form of assistive technology potentially useful to people who are blind, visually impaired, or learning disabled, often in combination with other AT such as screen magnifiers.