On February 17, 2009 all full-power broadcast television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting on analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. Digital broadcasting will allow stations to offer improved picture and sound quality and additional channels.

What Is Digital Television?

Digital Television (DTV) is an advanced broadcasting technology that will transform your television viewing experience. DTV enables broadcasters to offer television with better picture and sound quality. It can also offer multiple programming choices, called multicasting, and interactive capabilities.

Converting to DTV also will free up parts of the scarce and valuable broadcast spectrum. Those portions of the spectrum can then be used for other important services, such as public and safety services (police and fire departments, emergency rescue), and advanced wireless services.

The Transition to Digital TV

TV stations serving all markets in the United States are airing digital television programming today, although most will continue to provide analog programming through February 17, 2009. At that point, full-power TV stations will cease broadcasting on their current analog channels, and the spectrum they use for analog broadcasting will be reclaimed and put to other uses.

The Commission’s digital tuner rule specifies that as of March 1, 2007, all new TVs must include digital tuners. This rule prohibits the manufacture, import, or interstate shipment of any device containing an analog tuner, unless it also contains a digital tuner. Despite this prohibition on manufacture and shipment, retailers may continue to sell analog-only devices from existing inventory. As a result, at the point of sale, many consumers may not be aware that this equipment will not be able to receive over-the-air-television signals after February 17, 2009.

To address this issue, the FCC has adopted a rule requiring sellers to display the following text if they are selling TV equipment with only an analog broadcast tuner:

FourEyesSquad.com can assist you in your transition from ANALOG to DIGITAL.  Contact us via email at foureyes@foureyessquad.com .

Who could actually resist Yahoo! mail’s unlimited storage? You could have numerous number of mails with attachments and not worry about the emails sent to you ever bouncing back to the sender. It’s no wonder why some people would use yahoo mail to consolidate their email addresses.

It’s not a very well-known feature but like in gmail, you could send emails using your other email addresses (as long as you can verify it, of course) and also fetch your pop3 mails. It’s very simple, you just have to do the following.

In your yahoo account, whether it’s classic or the new skin, go to your mail options. You will be brought to different options to manage your mails. Now you have to select “Accounts”, and from there, click on add or edit an account.

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It is true that GMail is one of the best web-hosted email systems around and have a huge disk space to boot! However, this great deal is nothing if it will not be used to its full potential. Being able to archive your mails for future reference and so as to keep your inbox clean is good enough, and so are the labels which makes sifting through hundreds of emails a little easier is good enough, so what else is missing? Forwarding your mails from one account to your Gmail account.

Having one email account to catch all of the non-spam messages from your various email addresses by forwarding them to your main account is not a revolutionary idea. However, being able for Gmail to fetch your messages from your from another server is another is not a very known feature of Gmail. Here, we’ll see how easy it is to set up your GMail account and therefore further using Gmail to its full extent.

Fetching your mails from your other service provider to your Gmail account is easy, just follow these steps: (click on the images to view the full-sized image)

1. Go to Settings > Accounts, there you will see various options for your account such as adding another email address, upgrading your storage (the current is at 5G, who needs more, really?) and what we’re after: Get mail from other accounts. Just click on the “Add another mail account link.”

   

2. A popup window will appear that will be asking you for your email address, (e.g. aaa@foureyessquad.com). Just type it in and click on the Next Step button.

   

3. The next window will ask for details for your new email account such as your password, POP server, and port. It will also ask you what you want to do with the messages that will be downloaded from that account, as always, you have 4 choices:

   

   1. Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server. Usually, when a message is downloaded from an account to a mail fetcher, the message will be archived (or deleted).
   2. Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
   3. Label incoming messages: [email address]. That is the default, but you may change it to whatever you like. As for me, I did not checked it off, rather I created several filters so the messages will be filed accordingly.
   4. Archive incoming messages (Skip the inbox)

And that’s all there is to it! Easy, isn’t it? You have to wait for a couple of minutes for the messages to be retrieved, after that, Gmail will automagically download your messages whenever a new message arrives for you.