Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

Grant discussed tech news of the week – few things he mentioned in his vlog plus some of his personal comments…

• Yahoo! Company rejected Microsoft’s $44 billion takeover.

• Microsoft is acquiring Danger, maker of the T-Mobile Sidekick for $500 million.

• Starbucks ended its Wi-Fi (Hotspot) partnership with T-Mobile in favor of one with AT&T.

• Netflix announced that it would begin to phase out HD DVD rentals in favor of rival Blu-ray discs. 

• Google released software development kit for its open mobile platform called Android.

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Note: This is experimental; please feel free to make suggest. Thanks!

Grant Laird Jr
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com  

Past couple of years, Grant received numbers of request how he create good vlog. (Or best vlog whichever fit you better.) Grant acknowledged that there’s many vlogger out there with success results. Basically, he wants to explain from his own experience and shared his tricks with you.This is for PC-based system with webcam:

• Stick with high quality webcam (At least $50 dollars +)
• Stay at least 1 GB memory RAM
• Make sure you close all apps; its always helpful (Try “msconfig”)
• Set up highest setting at Microsoft Movie Maker or whatever you use to edit your video
• If invest new hard drive; get SATA-type instead of PATA-type hard drive
• Do plenty of experiment before you become comfortable

Keep in mind; you don’t have to follow his way. Just be flexibility and creative. Feel free to share your suggestion and ideas with us!

P.S. He’s working on getting his own backdrop – please forgive him

Grant Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

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Grant talked how he originally started Deaf Network website 10 years ago. (November 1997 – Present) Before he signed up new domain, he used free webpage service under local ISP. Also, he was lucky to learn some HTML codes (Using Notepad) from his friend at job. Of course things are slow but very exciting at this time.

Remember at this time, Netscape was very popular so does AOL and Google was nothing but baby. Dot-Com has gone crazy. Each domain cost $35 dollars – it is very expensive compared $10 per domain today.

Back then, they had few clients such as Merritt Interpreting Service, Deaf Celebration, Jean Massieu Academy, Dallas Deaf Club, and Deaf Action Center. They are important part of his dream – feed information such as events, announcement and others to community yet it’s all free.

You will see how ugly our website was before and it kept get better and better.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deafnetwork.com

Deaf Network of Texas mailing list started off with 300 subscribers and it grew over 3,000 subscribers today. It’s been amazing experience – he will never forget that many people think is email is crazy and stupid. But he saw it full of opportunity for deaf community.

He never dreams it would continue that long but he plan to continue as long as demand is there. He’s blessing to have wonderful supporters, advertisers and fans over years.

Grant Laird Jr
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com