My Tech News Blog

Multimeters and Stuff

2011-11-24T10:12:00.001-05:00

Well what are you looking for in the line of digital equipment test equipment. I found a great site with Laser Distance Measuring Equipment, and other digital measuring equipment. Are you looking for a Digital multimeter, inferred thermometer, meters for measuring distance, and many more items. Looking through the site I did fine Laser Distance devices from major manufactures Fluke to be one of the manufactures.

Laser Distance meters are better to use than the old fashioned tape measure, the laser is straight and true, while a tape measure is flexible and as a result can give you an inaccurate reading. All I know is you have to look through this site for all your needs from A to Z. I saw auto parts on this site, as well as camera and pet food. So you can find just about anything here.

But for the best items and prices you have to look at their Digital test equipment and measuring devices, those rock in my opinion, and if you do a lot of measuring long distances you just need to check out there Laser Distance Measuring Equipment.

WeReward

2011-10-25T08:06:00.001-05:00

check out We Reward earn some money with your mobile phone

Steelers Football

2011-10-25T07:30:00.002-05:00

Thanks for the post, Vernon Lowe

I have a love/hate relationship with the Fall. This is a problem for me. Before I was married, I loved the Fall. It was hands down my favorite season. What is there not to love? Pumpkins. Changing Leaves. Apple cider. Hot chocolate. I like all of these things—no, that’s not even true. I LOVE all of these things. And then, (cue the suspenseful music) I moved in with my husband. And that’s where the ‘hate’ part of the relationship with Fall started. The football. It never stops. From September through January, it is all football in my house, all the time. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am a big fan of college football. I will watch my beloved Georgia Bulldogs every time they are on. This is good, because my husband loves college football too. Great! We can watch it together. However, the NFL is what gets me. My husband is a Steelers fan, but he will watch any game that is on. And thanks to Michigan HD TV, there is a game on nonstop. Of course these games must be watched on the best TV in the house, too, which happens to be in our family room. I am relegated to the bedroom to watch TV, and once I’m lying in bed I might as well just go to sleep. I miss half the shows I want to watch! Fortunately for our marriage, we have a DVR. I record all the shows I want to watch, and then I ban him from the family room anytime I can.

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2011-10-25T07:27:00.002-05:00

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Camera Collector

2011-10-15T13:52:00.001-05:00

This is a great site to do other shopping also; you can find stuff from computers, clothing men’s and women’s, outdoor stuff, and even some electronic stuff. Whatever you’re looking for you can price compare different sites here just looking around saw items from tiger direct, to amazon, so this might be a great place to find some good deals!

I was looking around and found this great site with all sorts of camera’s from the Polaroid instant cameras, to SLR film camera’s most of these cameras are antiques, and quite pricy here but it is the only site I have found with the old cameras. The Camera’s here are of all makes, and models, or most makes and models. Note these cameras are all film cameras I didn’t see a digital camera listed here

System Repair Disk

2011-10-15T13:25:00.003-05:00

What are you going to do if your system gets infected with a virus, and you can’t access your files? Well did you know there is a way that once the virus is removed you can restore you system without doing a complete re-install. Don’t have a CD to do a system restore/repair. Well you can make a system repair USB thumb drive to repair your system. Yes it is possible.

Now you don’t have to have a virus to use this, install a program which is unstable and your computer / laptop wont boot up, you can fix it with the System repair Disk / USB drive.

Well I can’t put the instructions here as I would be copying someone else’s work. But I can put a link here so that you can get the instructions to make your System repair Disk / USB drive. The instructions found here will work for both Vista, and Windows 7

CMMS Software

2011-10-04T11:15:00.003-05:00

Do you have a facility that requires maintenance? If so you might check out the Facility Maintenance Software here. This is not software that you download to you download to your computer, it is browser based, or web based software, so you can get on with your maintenance needs for your facility’s. What do you want to track? Here are some ideas that I think is important. Maintenance Costs, preventing and predicting equipment failures, and lower the total cost of maintenance, just to name a few.

Whatever industry you’re in, this software will work for you. Here are a few to name a few, property management, data center, or even homeowners associations. They all have some form of maintenance costs, be it equipment, labor, you can manage your maintenance costs with the web based Facility Maintenance Software.

Want to try this software out; there is a link available so that you can try it out before purchasing one of the 3 options, of these options are, a software application service, buy and have CMMS host, or buy and have it installed, and hosted on site. There are details at what is needed for each option at . They also offer several support options, of these options are toll free call, email, live chat, and the user community, so looking at these options there is plenty of support and it comes from either the company or the user community.

Printed Circuit Boards

2011-09-24T11:46:00.002-05:00

I was looking around and found this site for PCB’s. Well you might ask what a PCB is. A PCB is a printed Circuit Board, these are found in all sorts of items from radios, cars and trucks, to computers, yes everything these days has or have a PCB in them.

Well now you know you can find a PCB in just about anything, you discover that you have a need for one, be it simple or complex, and you have the knowledge to design it. Just go on over to Multilayer PCB's, check them out. You can specify all the parameters of your PCB weather it is single layer or multilayer, after you fill out the form for the quote, you will upload the design file to them, and you will then get a quote.

Looking through the site Multilayer PCB's, has a very good FAQ section that you can read through, along with sections for quotation, capabilities, and shipping/tracking. While looking at the site they do have a quick turnaround time contact them and work with them Also what is also good they do take many forms of payment, from Major Credit Cards to as simple as PayPal.

Extending Laptop Battery Life 2

2011-09-17T13:36:00.002-05:00

Another way to extend the battery life of your laptop is by:

Dimming your screen. Most laptops come with a way to dim your screen, this in turn will save some of the battery life in your laptop computer. more to come

The Steam Team

2011-09-06T07:56:00.004-05:00

The Steam Team, the number one choice for carpet cleaning in the Austin, and Dallas, Texas areas. They have a wide range of services ranging from green services (taking care of the environment) to Marble Polishing. One of the services I will talk about is Smoke and Fire Restoration. You can find them at this url/address on the web http://www.thesteamteam.com/austin-restoration-services/smoke-fire.shtml . Fires can be devastating there tech’s at the Steam Team will do everything they can possible do to recover as much of your belongings that they can after a fire. Get them started ASAP after a fire, and let them use a 5 step recovery to try to salvage your belongings, find it all out at the link provided.

Looking at this site we are all thinking about the environment well the Steam Team does also. They are one of the non-toxic carpet cleaners Austin. All of their “Green” Chemicals are biodegradable, non-toxic they are safe for all human, pets and most products are made from natural ingredients

All of the Steam Team services are guaranteed. You can see a list of all the Steam Team Services on their web page. Also see there contact info there, in need of some carpet cleaning or restorative service’s contact your Steam Team today.

Extending Laptop Battery Life

2011-09-05T20:46:00.002-05:00

Here is another way to save your laptop battery.

De-frag your hard drive, that is right have all the files lined up together makes it easier for your computer to access the files on hard drive. A drive that is fragmented your computer / laptop has to work harder to gain access to those files, De-fragging regularly, and accessing your file will be faster, and less strain on the battery.

Secure Data Storage Online

2011-09-03T14:35:00.001-05:00

Here are a few questions for you to answer. Do you have a lot of pictures, music, document files on your computer? Natural disasters happen all the time and all over the world. What will you do if a disaster happens to you, will your files be gone, or will they be safe? I know you say you back up your files on an external hard drive, thumb / flash drive, or even on an old fashioned tape backup drive. Well this is what will happen say a flood, and external hard drive might or might not make it through a flood a flash drive might or might not make it, a tape whttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifill not make it through a flood. You say you will store it off site, who is to say the off site location is any safer.

Well there is a solution that might be right for you “Secure Data Storage Online”.
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- Safe
- Secure
- Redundancy
- Encrypted

All those listed and there are more options to keep your files, secure and protected. You upload your files to the server with their FTP program, you can share those file with the specific people you choose. I personally think this is a great option for all your “Secure Data Storage Online”.

Laptop Battery Life

2011-09-03T13:31:00.003-05:00

I have noticed some dont know how to extend the life of the battery on your laptop, and this will work for almost any electronic device that will or can operate on batteries. Batteries are the life blood of a lot of the electronics today

Today I will just five you 1 way to extend the life of a Battery.

One of the best ways is to fully charge the item with the battery, once the battery is fully charged, unplug the item from the charger, turn off all battery saving items you may have running and use it. Let the item discharge completely, till it shuts off or go's into stand by mode. It is then safe to plug it in and charge the battery up. I would do this at least 2 times and it will help you regain some life in the battery

My Cars

2011-08-30T07:16:00.002-05:00

Guest written by our friend Gladys Fuentes

I’m really into cars and I decided to get into collecting them as soon ahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifs I had the money to. I built a big garage out back and now I make a lot of money to consult other driver enthusiasts on what kind of engines they should invest in and what kind of wax to use on their babies. I love my job but it’s kind of something I made up so it’s something I have to figure out as I go. I went to www.BANK-CARD-Processing.com when I first started to look into accepting credit cards and I worked with a lawyer to make sure everything was totally ensured since I do most of my work out of my very own garage. It’s great being able to walk in the backyard and do my work for the day and also to be able to take my dog to work! Having your own business is nice but owning one in your backyard is even nicer if you ask me.

A Droid Sync Program

2011-08-30T06:57:00.002-05:00

I just got a new Droid phone, and my one concern was having it sync with my outlook. This one concern was due to reading and searching the web, and saying therehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif was no http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giffree app out there, and it didnt come with the phone. Well I did find an app that works great, it sync's up my contacts, and my calender, true it doesnt sync up my tasks and my to-do items but it is currently better than nothing, :)

the app I am using is My Phone Explorer, found on the Android Market, and nothing to Buy.

Blue Sky Scrubs

2011-08-15T06:22:00.002-05:00

Looking for Scrubs? Well this site has it all, in all different colors nursing, surgical and what have you, also have scrub hats. You will definitely have to check out http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/ from this page there are many links you can follow to find just what you want.

Do you know what you want for scrubs? If you don’t follow the links in this post, get something you want, and are comfortable in, I use scrubs around the house to relax in just like pj’s super comfy and to lounge around in. you can find basic scrubs, urban scrubs, simple scrubs, tops, bottoms, hats, and accessories well you can find them here http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/ .
Nursing uniforms for sale! These are a great uniform choice if you are a nurse, doctor, or anyone in the field of medicine or beyond. The scrub pants are somewhere between a flare-leg and a boot-cut. The Original scrub tops are tapered at the waist and flatter every figure, and have some new features they have low rise, big bold stitching on them. They also come in 4 basic colors for you to choose from. They are made using the highest quality fabric and designed to be stylish, or even flattering, on anybody and made in the US. The come in different colors such as ceil blue, royal blue, and navy blue, just to name a few. These women’s scrubs have two pockets on the scrub pants, and 1 pocket on the top,

Bing Rewards program

2011-08-12T06:52:00.003-05:00

WOW one of the news letters I get mentioned something about earning credits and points for using BING yes that other search engine that is not yahoo, or google. So I went over to check it out and got 250 credits just for checking it out, and signing up. I did and have already several points or credits over the initial 250 for signing up. You might need a windows live account to earn those points so check it out and start using bing and earning those points

Advertising Agency

2011-08-11T07:09:00.001-05:00

A great Advertising Agency, which wants to make sure the client, is happy. A happy client is a busy client. Those at the Advertising Agency will work for you, just so that you can be happy and busy.

Old media is the new media

This advertising agency is born in the digital, and Internet ages and is our backyard, and they know how it can shape the lives of businesses and consumers. Are you in the prior Century? They are an Advertising Agency taking all of their clients into the 21st Century.

Tracking it all

They have ways at the Advertising Agency that can track your advertising campaign so that you can get the most for your money, if one campaign is not working they will change it up so that you can get the most for your money from day to day, minute to minute. To me it means you will be getting the most for your money. If the advertising isn’t working it doesn’t mean advertising isn’t working for you. It just means it is time for a different strategy, and they will change that strategy,

Their Team

Wanting nothing but the best for their clients, is why they have recruited some of the best, talented pro’s to work your advertising campaign. A Team of pro’s with a laid back atmosphere at the Advertising Agency so that they can reach their true potential and develop your ad campaign with impact. A campaign that will pay you dividends!

Laptop Power Options in Vista and Windows 7

2011-07-03T07:48:00.003-05:00

There are a couple methods for accessing Power Options. One that will work in XP, Vista, or Windows 7 is through the Run command. The easiest way to bring up Run, is to use the keyboard shortcut (Win+R). In the Run dialog box, type (or copy and paste) powercfg.cpl

Or, in Vista and Windows 7, Run can be skipped altogether. Just type power options into Start search and hit Enter or click the Power Options link.

I am not going into the power options itself but just going to let you know the easiest way to get there. the settings are easy. you can find more info at Worldstart

Mom and Me in California

2011-07-03T07:11:00.001-05:00

This guest post from Hong Alexander

My mom asked me to go on vacation this year with her and I think we’ve decided to go to California. She’s never seen San Francisco and it’s one of my favorite cities since there’s so much to see and do there. She’s a huge foodie, so I know she’ll love eating her way across the city and I just love all the culture and museums they have out there. She said she’s a bit nervous about being away from the house for so long so I pointed her to totalALARMsystems.com where she could look into an affordable alarm system. I know mom and I are going to have a blast but we’ve never really spent this much time together for no reason but pleasure, so I hope there aren’t any fights or anything! I love my mom but she can definitely be stubborn at times and she’s got a big of a hot temper. I guess we’ll find out soon whether or not we should be allowed to vacation together for a week at a time!

Start Search on Windows 7

2011-06-26T08:34:00.002-05:00

have you even wondered what you can use the start search box for in your Windows 7 computer? well I am going to start a list of items that you can use, this will not be all inclusive but will help when somethings you need and cant click on.

will start with
you can type in any website address, but you will need to enter in the http:\\ or https:\\
in other words you will need the entire address

msconfig
word = MS Word
excel = MS Excel

there are more but will add some more later

Great Search for Shopping

2011-06-01T22:36:00.002-05:00

I was checking this site out for doing some shopping, it looks like a great site, and very reasonable. The site is www.become.com. Here are a couple of examples I did.

I have a Dell dimension D530 laptop computer. The battery in it needs replacement. All I did was search. The search bar on the site, and it came up with a list of items for my laptop. Of course there are other parts. The battery is there, and from the prices shown seem to be more reasonable than on the Dell Website.

I did several other searches and this is what I search for

I did a search for clarion wireless headphones. This is what I found more great prices and several models shown, I hate wires and I hate those little ear buds they give you for devices like your iPod, cell phone or whatever device you might want to hook them to even your computer. Again the price ranges were from reasonable to expensive

motion activated camera. Many reason to search for those and found several item, from the cheap, fake motion activated cameras to the expensive ones. Reasons you might want something like this is for security purposes. The site doesn’t appear to be a retailer but a search engine for the items you are looking for.

nikon telephoto lens. Not sure if you’re like me, but I like the old fashioned slr camera’s, sure they don’t make them anymore, and they are all digital camera’s but I do like the feel of a large size camera. Well my search on that netted me quite a few lenses of all sizes, and it does take your picture taking to a dimension like you had with the SLR camera

Redecorating my kids' bedrooms to make it green

2011-05-06T09:16:00.002-05:00

Guest post written by Oliiva Clarke

When I do something, I try and get the most out of time doing it. So when I decided to redecorate my son's bedroom, I decided to go ahead and do my daughter's at the same time too. I thought it would also be worth it to try and use green decorations and make the energy in their rooms more efficient.

I went online to get some ideas about how to make their rooms a little green and while I was online doing that I came across the website http://www.texaselectricityproviders.com. I looked through it some and after that I decided to switch over our energy service to one of the providers that I found on there.

I got some really good modern kids bedroom ideas online that had some really creative storage solutions. I'm going to make a little nook in my son's room so that he can practice his drums in there. I'm also going to put up some fabric padding on the walls to pad the sound in there so we won't hear him practice throughout the entire house.

Win 7 Search Tip

2011-01-12T20:19:00.003-05:00

I have been using Windows 7 for a while now, and I love it. With the search feature after clicking the start button, or the round windows logo. you can search for just about what ever you want. ie. add remove programs, just start typing it in, and you can it will pop up in a list and just click on it and you go there, no seaching through the control panel to get to it.

Specialists in recrimination art

2011-01-06T21:53:00.001-05:00

Specialists in recrimination art

Scrubs

2011-01-06T21:12:00.003-05:00

Looking for Scrubs? Well this site has it all, in all different colors nursing, surgical and what have you, also have scrub hats.

Are you looking for scrubs uniforms nurses well you can find them here. They have just the tops, bottoms, or even sets in all different colors or whatever you want they great pocket stitching you can even choose to make you own custom scrubs.

Nursing uniforms for sale! These are a great uniform choice if you are a nurse, doctor, or anyone in the field of medicine or beyond. The scrub pants are somewhere between a flare-leg and a boot-cut. The Original scrub tops are tapered at the waist and flatter every figure.

Scrubs uniforms for sale! These are made using the highest quality fabric and designed to be stylish, or even flattering, on anybody and made in the US. The come in different colors such as ceil blue, royal blue, and navy blue, just to name a few. These womens scrubs have two pockets on the scrub pants,

Comments

2011-01-06T20:26:00.002-05:00

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Great "Advertising Agency"

2010-12-21T11:39:00.002-05:00

Are you looking for a great Advertising Agency? Well you might have just found it. Their belief is that if you’re happy with your Advertising Agency, then you’re busy. Isn’t this is the way to be BUSY!

Looking to bring your advertising to the 21st Century? Well at the Advertising Agency, they mixed media to the limits merging the old, with the new. What is Mixed Media? Well Mixed Media is, a mix of traditional (radio & TV and Internet advertising and marketing) to promote, sell and distribute a product or service. All utilizing a combination of website search engine optimization, TV and radio broadcast commercials, print advertising, pay-per-click advertising, mobile ads, web videos, etc . What more can you ask for in an Advertising Agency.

With their Specific Software you can track your Advertising Campaigns minute by minute, day by day, and ensuring you’re getting the most for your Advertising budget. If your campaign is not working, doesn’t mean it’s your advertising you will be able to tell what is working, and what isn’t working with the software that is provided, this way you can make changes to your campaigns to make it work for you.

Having a dedicated and trained team of professionals at your disposal is another great asset the Advertising Agency provides its clients. If you honestly looking for a great Advertising agency then I honestly believe you have found it here, click any of the provide links for more information to the Advertising Agency.

Please visit for more information: http://www.ThatAdvertisingAgency.com

Ghost Msg in Outlook 2003

2009-06-28T13:17:00.002-05:00

I had a Outgoing Ghost Msg in Outlook 2003 it was a read reciept. Now this was a pain in the neck as it came up with an error when sending mail came up with an error every time. I did a google search and got a link with instructions to find and remove the ghost Msg. and Here is the Outlook help page with the instructions to help you remove the message. You Will also need a a file / program from Microsoft called MDBVU32.EXE to assist in the removal. Now I cant copy the instructions here because of copy rights but am providing the links

Hard Drive Partitioning in Windows Vista

2008-09-26T13:51:00.003-05:00

I was just reading one of my news letters that I get and there was an article on Partitioning the Hard drive or changing the partition sizes within Windows Vista. So I checked it out and it seems to be real easy.

To get to this feature just click on the windows start icon.
then
in the search box type "Computer Management" then when the computer management screen comes up click on Disk Management

you can find the full store / blog post by clicking here the post has more instructions and screen shots

10 items that can mess up your computer

2008-09-22T16:59:00.000-05:00

1 - Plug into the wall without surge protection

2 - Surf the Internet without a firewall

3 - Neglect to run or update anti-virus and anti-spyware programs

4 - Install and uninstall lots of programs, especially betas

5 - Keep disks full and fragmented

6 - Open all attachments

7 - Click on everything

8 - Share and share alike

9 - Pick the wrong passwords

10 - Ignore the need for a backup and recovery plan

Which one is you or how many do you do

Computer Basics

2008-09-21T13:40:00.003-05:00

Hey here is a site for those that need some Computer Basic's for information looks like the Blog is new and the information is from what I can see is good. So if you want to check out the Computer Basic's Blog go ahead and click the link

Checking your hard drive for problems

2008-07-15T17:55:00.002-05:00

I just posted this on mylot and figured I would post this here also

Bad clusters and be fixed by running an old dos program called

chkdsk

This program will check your hard drive and report to you any problems that you might have on it. this can be run in read only mode and will not change anything. Now if the the program finds a problem it will report it to you. To fix the problem you will need to add a few items to the command line. and it should look like this

chkdsk /f/r

This is fix and replace. you will need to reboot your computer and let the program run at boot up this should take care of any problems. Now the time will take has to items to look at and that is the size of your hard drive, and the number of problems that it is fixing. Ohh I am not sure if this works on Vista yet it does work on XP and older Microsoft operating systems.

Ohh also back up your hard drive before running this program!!!!!

Social Networking at its best

2008-05-23T09:03:00.001-05:00

Social Networking is becoming popular now days as you can now make some money from it, so I figured I would address it here a little so that you can check them out and make your own decision. I have been a member of a couple of Social Networking sites and have made a little money. First and formost you can not make money on the Social Networking Sites with out being active. Active you will make some money, not active you wont make money or very little.

1) I like this one it is called Rotatrix Friends Network. If your active and earn the points you can earn some money not a lot at first but some. I think the most I have made in a month is about 2 dollars. but it is fun and I have made some friends. Also if you have referals you make 100% of what they make.

2) Yuwie, another site you can make some money on again you need to be active and you need to have a lot of referals that want to do the same thing you do.

3) ZenZuu I can not say a lot about this one yet I just joined today, so if you can to check it out you can

Chance to Win 1 Million Dollars

2008-04-07T15:14:00.002-05:00

I am putting this here as it also pertains to Web 2.0 Technology.

Hey would you like a Chance to Win 1 Million Dollars well if you do check out the link provided. As they say you have nothing to loose and everything to gain. Just checking out and signing up for this program.

blog review

2008-03-26T17:47:00.000-05:00

here is another good blog with some reviews and tips on it the blog is called project wicked check it out

2 Great Blogs

2008-03-26T17:40:00.000-05:00

here are 2 great blogs by the same person. one is mailbox money and she talks about ways to make money on the internet there. The other blog is Cyber Cools News and you can find anything from fasioin to travel that blog so check it out.

Pay Per Play

2008-01-06T10:00:00.000-05:00

There is a new program out there where you can make some money with your websites the program is called Pay Per Play it is sorta like the news program seen here on this page it pays per play. if interested check it out link is provided

Making Money on line

2007-11-11T10:58:00.000-05:00

Are you interested in making money online, don’t quit your day or night job yet as building an online income will take time. Well I say it is possible to make that money over time. Don’t just expect it to be there over night. It has taken me time to build two of my blogs up to a PR3 for a page ranking to be exact more like 10 and 11 months both of my blog spot blogs are that old. Well with the page ranking I can get better and better offers though several pay per post programs.. Yes there are people that will pay you to post about their sits with link backs to their site.

Find a good program to get involved in and stick with it, be an active member and work on getting referrals (with out sending out spam) . To get those referrals you have many options other than personal friends, you can use pay to click programs, or pay to read programs.

So in closing the best advice I can give you is to build your online income slow, this way it will be sure to stay there. Build it fast and it could fail.

Ohh I am posting this in all of my current blogs. Which is why you may see it copied elsewhere.

Great Recipie

2007-11-10T09:20:00.000-05:00

I love using an Eclectrics® Mixer. One of the advantages is that it is pretty much hands free. Just add your ingredients and then you’re on your way. I have owned a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer before and it is one of the better ones on the market. I want to share one of my family recipes with you. This is really good and I hope that you all enjoy this as much as we do.

Milky Way Cake
1 c butter/margarine
6 milky way candy bars
4 eggs
2 ½ c flour
2 c sugar
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ¼ c buttermilk
1 c chopped walnuts

Melt candy bars over low heat with ½ c of butter. Cream sugar with ½ c butter. Add eggs one at a time. Add baking soda and flour alternating with buttermilk. Add melted candy bars and vanilla. Mix well. Add nuts. Bake in bundt pan at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 20 min.

Frosting
1 /2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
Confectionary sugar
Buttermilk

Mix butter, vanilla and cocoa together. Add confectionary sugar and butter milk until drizzle consistency. Drizzle over cake. This is also good with IceCream.

So as you can see a Hamilton Beach® Mixer is a good one and it does make this tasty cake.

Keyboard shortcuts for XP

2007-10-29T14:55:00.000-05:00

Well it has been awhile since I have done a post I have busy with a live job and have not had the time. Well I in one of my newsletters I get has a link to some keyboard shortcuts to speed things up feel free to check out these shortcuts. Have a good day

Kitchen or Bathroom remodeling

2007-10-29T14:14:00.000-05:00

Need faucets or shower heads or what ever else. Well have you checked Hansgrohe. I have been looking into there site and they have been in business for over 100 years, and that has to say a lot for a company to be around that long. Looking around the site you can find stuff for an old claw foot tub if you have one, to one of the newer tubs / showers if you need plus you can also find all the accessories including the lighting which can be most important also just check out Hansgrohe for all you kitchen, bathroom and accessories that you might need.

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Check out Shopping.com

2007-10-05T18:00:00.000-05:00

Have you checked out Shopping.com lately? You haven’t. Well they have a great line of Televisions there including the KDL46XBR2. This is a flat panel HDTV set which will be great for watching all you’re Football, Baseball, or what ever you watch on.

The Sony KDL46XBR2 is a 46 in Television with great sound qualities weather it is coming from the Cable / Satellite / or even a presentation from the computer.

Also there is a link on this site where you can get reviews of the KDL46XBR2. so check out the site and maybe you might find the TV you want or even something else.

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Great Program for working on your OS

2007-09-19T09:22:00.000-05:00

I was brousing the web today and found a great program that can help anybody fix and repair some problems with their Computers Operating system. It works with most all Windows Operating systems from the latest and greatest all the way back to Win98se. the minimum requirments are not that bad either. Best of all this program is free to try so check it out by Click Here! I hope you check out and try to enjoy this program. Ohh the program is called XP Repair Pro.

New Blogging Software

2007-09-04T07:26:00.000-05:00

I have been away for a while now but I have been playing around with a new bloggign software that you can put on your own host. The software is called BlogEngine and it can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/blogengine now this is free for all the software does have some bugs in it as I am still playing with it on my local webserver that I use for testing purpuses. but the software looks good. ohhh also it uses the .net software for those of you who are into .net so if your interisted then check it out.

Important Rules in Website Design

2007-07-22T14:08:00.000-05:00

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first page you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

Into Marketing

2007-07-20T18:27:00.000-05:00

Are you into Marketing? Have a need for some sales lead management program. Well Lead Dog, Lead Management could be right for you. They work with Secure Computing, Microsoft, Adobe, and others to ensure sales leads are managed effectively. Find out today if this Lead Dogs Lead Management Company can work for you.

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Wired or Wireless Networks

2007-07-09T17:13:00.000-05:00

Well I saw a question on a forum that I belong to the other day asking which is more secure. Well truth be said both about just as secure as the other. Now on the other hand if you dont enable your incription on your wireless router or airport then that is a less secure connection than a wired connection. Wireless networks need to have there incription setup with a good strong access key to be any good, so the more characters in your access key the better.

The Police

2007-07-04T09:56:00.000-05:00

Do you like the Music Group the Police? Well if you do you will be happy to hear that they have a new CD out there, this CD hit the stores on June 5th. There are some great Songs on that Police CD including some of my favorite songs from the past or should I say the late 70’s and early 80’s time frame. Here are a list of the songs on that CD, are any of these songs some of your favorites.

Disc 1:
1. Fall Out
2. Can't Stand Losing You
3. Next To You
4. Roxanne
5. Truth Hits Everybody
6. Hole In My Life
7. So Lonely
8. Message In A Bottle
9. Reggatta De Blanc
10. Bring On The Night
11. Walking On The Moon
12. Don't Stand So Close To Me
13. Driven To Tears
14. Canary In A Coalmine

Disc 2:
1. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
2. Voices Inside My Head
3. Invisible Sun
4. EveryLittle Thing She Does Is Magic
5. Spirits In The Material World
6. Demolition Man
7. Every Breath You Take
8. Synchronicity I
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. Walking In Your Footsteps
11. Synchronicity II
12. King Of Pain
13. Murder By Numbers
14. Tea In The Sahara

Now I myself do not like all of the Songs on this CD but most of the songs on this CD are good. A list of the songs / sound tracks on this CD is posted here. Also when you get your Police CD they have included a really cool vintage The Police Poster which in included with the CD

If you check out there site and their Music you will find that all of there music has been re-mastered and is available on the site, including their most recent CD they have out. So if you like the Police you will defiantly like there new CD they have out called Police CD which has both old and new songs on it.

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Blog Review for (Thinking OutLoud)

2007-07-01T06:15:00.000-05:00

I was reviewing or you might say I was checking out a friends blog, it is called Thinking Outloud. Basicaly the site has just random posts of the Author just Thinking Outloud, and the posts are about just about anything you can think of yourself so check it out.

Pingo an Online Calling Card

2007-07-01T05:36:00.000-05:00

Have you heard of Pingo? They have an online calling card. I personally haven’t heard of them nor can I figure out why someone would need an online calling card. Well reading through the site Pingo offers online management of your virtual calling card. This calling card can be used for both domestic and international calls. Do you need a Cheep prepaid phone card? Well Pingo has them for gifts or what ever you need the cards for. Do you have a need for Discount long Distance? Well Pingo has that also only it looks like they do it better than the other companies. In Checking out the Pingo Rates it looks like they have one of the best which is 1.8 cents per minute for anywhere in the US except for Alaska and Hawaii. Plus you can use their calculator to see how much it will cost for other countries.

Special Promotion - Pingo is working with Qoof.com to pay 5 dollars to the first 250 Pingo users for usermericial videos. I personally am not good at making a video by maybe you are. Maybe you will be one of the first 250 Pingo users and make that additional 5 dollars. Checking out the site I just found out that you can submit up to 5 videos for that 5 dollars and that is a total of 25 dollars from Qoof if you qualify.

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wireless networks do you or dont you

2007-06-21T18:24:00.000-05:00

Do you have a wireless network? If you do there are some things you should do and might not do. What do you or did you do?

1) Have you set up security on your wireless router and is it incripted yes or no

2) There are many incription sceams on the router you have to make sure the computer accessing the router has the ability for a strong incription.

3) Have you changed the default password to your wireless router.

4) Change and turn off the default SSID. Yes change the default SSID (Service Set Identifier) and also do not set it to broadcast either.

These are just some things you should do there are more that you can do also.

Local Business Directory

2007-06-19T14:30:00.001-05:00

@list.org is a Local business directory. It provides for directory submissions so customers can research a business through @list.org either by the business or you can narrow down the search to the state level. Here are some examples of what you can find on @list.org

Insurance
Education

So if you need to find a business and research it in an area check out the Local business directory

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Wireless Power what is it about

2007-06-18T19:03:00.000-05:00

I have been hearing the term wireless power more and more the last couple of days. and it was piquing my interist. Then I saw a post on about it on one of my news letters that I subscribe to. Wireless Power I was thinging it had to do with wireless networking but if you read this post for which I will provide a link to the post http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-news/?p=640&tag=nl.e102 is more about transfering power wirelessly say to a light bulb. This topic will be interisting as it develops in the IT world.

New TV Series looks interesting

2007-06-18T18:36:00.000-05:00

There is a new TV Series starting on June 28th it is called USA Network's Burn Notice. Well this series is sort of like survivor. How would you survive in a city with out any money? Me I don’t know what I would do I would probably try to be or look like a homeless person with a money cup maybe I could collect some money or something, as far as eating go’s in a strange city with no money I would hang out around Restaurant dumpsters and get some table scraps to survive. There are other things I would do like sleeping in the part or depending on the weather a homeless shelter. Check our any of the links provided here to find out more about how USA USA Network's Burn Notice star actor survives after getting burned from the CIA. Can you survive like Michael Weston has to after getting burned from the CIA? I don’t know if I could or not but I would give it one H of a try, I would defiantly be growing a beard and looking scraggly so that I would look like a homeless person and get food and a place to sleep that way. What would you do?

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wireless in the home

2007-06-18T13:16:00.000-05:00

Did you know that there are 2 ways to setup your wireless router. yes you can set it up as a standard router or you can set it up as an airport / access point. Depending on the number of computers in your home it might be wise to do this. Lets say you have more than 4 computers in your home. I have 5 so I need an 8 port router or I need 2 4 port routers.

I have a 8 port Netgear Router business class router for the main incomming router and I have a belkin wirless router for wireless activity. Now I can place the wireless router higher in the house so that I can get more range from it. and I dont have to expend a lot a cat5 cable to have wired connections also so you will save in the cat5 cabling.

Setting it to work as an airport is easy to do and you can assign that router a fixed ip address.

Are you honest with your reader’s?

2007-06-16T13:46:00.001-05:00

Do you have any blog ethics? I do so if I get paid for a post in my blog if I am not given a disclosure link I will at least put at the bottom of my post that it is a sponsored post. With that said Pay Per Post has raised Seven Million Dollars, and is looking for ways to spend it. They will be spending it on the bloggers like this post is going to be sponsored also. How do you think they should spend that type of money? I personally don’t know how they are going to spend it. I would personally like to see them spend it on good opportunities for all of us pay per posters. With more opportunities, always like to say better money for the post we do for them but I also know that, that money comes from the advertisers. Maybe they could spend more of it on Advertising directed towards advertisers so that more advertisers will come in so that there would be more blog ads for us bloggers to post and thus we bloggers can make more money through the programs. If you’re a blogger and you don’t mind posting blog ads on your blog feel free to check out the program there are several requirements that your blog needs to meet before it is accepted. i.e. it has to be over 90 days old with some sort of traffic to the blog and there are a certain number of posts that the blog has to have. Other than that there are a couple of other requirements that need to be met but you can find out all about that on the site. Maybe you can sign up and make some money posting blog ads on your blog.

News Release as follows.

The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored
Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B

Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors

ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.

“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”

To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.

Disabling Downloads

2007-06-13T19:58:00.000-05:00

A question came across while I was browsing mylot so I figured I would put my answer to that question here. First off you need to get to the internet options screen probably under the tools dropdown menu. in most IE versions.

When you pull up ith internet options screen it will look like this.

you will see that I have my secutity set to medium. What I have to do is click on customize.

you will see by this screen that I have found the download section under the customize option, you will see I have download inabled, now if you want the disabled you just need to click on the disable button and then save. now when something needs to download it wont untill you go back and change that option back. Now there is the other option which I have disabled is change the automatic prompting and it will prompt you before you do a download.

Which Coupon do you like?

2007-06-13T19:06:00.000-05:00

Do you like to shop? Do you shop with coupons both on line and in-store? Well I do and I found this great site that I can get coupons for my favorite stores. I found some online stores like Office Depot, Kohl’s, Staples, and many more. I like to shop at Dell.com, Staples.com, and I even visit Bestbuy.com. Now this site has coupons for online use but they are great, and provide additional savings so check out Coupon Chief for online coupons. I personally go to Staples all the time for my computer supplies. I usually go right to the store. So with the coupons I have found at Coupon Chief I am going to start using them when I need something I will find the coupon and do my shopping form home thus saving more money. So get your online coupons here and save some money. One of two places I visit Staples Deals for Office and computer accessories, and Dell Discounts
for Computers and Laptops.

Microsoft Home Server

2007-06-08T12:21:00.000-05:00

Well I was reading through one of my news letters that I recieve, and low and behold there was one about microsoft home server. Now this package intrigued me to a great extent as I like playing with server software. MHS short for Microsoft Home Server is an imbeded product. The part that intrgued me the most was about the backup and restore capability that it has. It will back up your entire computer everynight. If your personal computer crashes and you need to replace the hard drive it is a pain staking task to restore it back to the way it was, sometimes that took 6 months or more to get it the way you want. Now with MHS you just put the MHS CD in your computer after you replace the HD and in about an hour your system is back to the way it was. That is a lot easier than spending all weekend or several days to get it back to the way it was with a whole lot less down time.

Paintball supplies

2007-06-07T16:54:00.000-05:00

Do you go to paintball ranges? Do you have paintball wars? Well I don’t personally do the paintball thing but I know there are a lot of people out there that do, do the paintball thing, and I am sure it is fun. I have found a great place where you can get all your supplies. They have all the supplies here that you would need for example they have masks, gloves, upgrades, spare parts, and paintball guns. Best of all if you order anything from them they will provide free shipping. Now that is a deal to get all your paintball supplies and free shipping on top of that.

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Agloco

2007-06-06T18:43:00.001-05:00

I know I havent posted this here at all but if your a member of Agloco the surf bar is out and working. I allready have surfed my 5 hours for the month of June now what to do with the rest of the month. hmmm any ideas. I wonder If I can sponser my family members I wont till I get word from the Agloco team.

Traveling

2007-06-02T14:26:00.000-05:00

Well one thing everyone needs to do is make some sort of Hotel Reservation when they travel. While I was on the site I just checked to see what it would cost per night at a motel in Nags Head, NC. The Cheapest I found was 130 a night which is not bad for a summer time rate in the middle of summer.

I then did a search on vacation rentals in the same area, and I came up with only one hotel for August and at 170 per night now to me that is High as I don’t like to spend a lot of money but I do know that it is reasonable for that part of the season, and that time of year.

Now I just had to check out their vacation packages also this included airfare, hotel, and a car rental. This was form the closest city to where I live to Maui and what I found is a very reasonable deal for 2 adults and 1 child for a week and the deal came up from 4500 to 6600 dollars for the trip. Not bad for a coast to coast trip and then from the pacific coast to Hawaii in my opinion

Ohh I just wanted to let everyone know that my figures are for 2 adults, and 1 child age 5 that way you can adjust for your family size.

So in Closing if you visit Hotel Reservation.com you can find a good deal with any of your traveling plans. Just remember if you want to plan your own vacation or are on a business trip. You can opt for just booking a hotel. If you want a vacation rental you can book it here also. Or if you want to just opt for the entire vacation package you can do that. All the rates I saw are good and you will probably have a good time with out a lot of hassle.

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Enabling off line files

2007-05-29T19:36:00.000-05:00

In a previous post I said to save your documents on a seperate computer and to make your my documents directory the folder on the other computer. Well to enable your off line files to work.
Open Explorer (this is for exploring your computer files)
Click on Tools
then click on folder options
with the folder options open select off line files

In the above picture is what you see when clicking on the off line files tab. just enable off line files and then select when you want it to sync up. As you can see by the picture it sync's up the files when I boot up the system, and when I shut it down. click ok to save and now your files will be sync'ed up and can go where you go with your laptop, or if your on a desktop your files are saved on a different computer and you have full access to them.

Mint Credit Cards

2007-05-29T19:24:00.001-05:00

First off I am not for or against credit cards. It is up to you to manage your own credit responsibly. Now Mint Credit Cards is offering a special promo package that includes a new low apr, and credit card balance transfer. Mint Credit Cards is also offering a introductory rate of zero percent to new applicants who get their credit cards you just need to visit the site to find out how long that intro rate is going to last. The Intro rate has two terms one for purchases, and one for credit card balance transfer so visit and check it out for your self.

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Another way to save Documents

2007-05-27T09:01:00.000-05:00

How many computers do you have? I have several here. Well how important are the documents you have in your my documents folder? I know mine are important. Well I have one computer that I am running like a server but doesnt have server software installed on it, but it does work fine. see my example

Now I have blocked out part of the Target address but I will explain. Once you have setup a directory on the computer your using as a server, mark the directory as a shared directory. you can even put a password on that directory. Keep that server on all the time. Now when you open the properties of your my documents folder you will see a button that says find target click on that and search your network for the directory that you created on your server type computer and put that address in the Target box.

Now all your documents will be saved on the server type computer. If your using a laptop and will be taking it with you you can syncronize all those documents so that you have them saved on you laptop and they will also be on that server.

If you have any questions about this post please leave a comment.

A New Program from PPP

2007-05-27T08:48:00.000-05:00

There is a new program from Pay Per Post it is called PPP Direct. With this new program advertisers can approach bloggers through PPP. This here will eliminate some of the over head that advertisers pay and more money goes directly to the blogger.

If you’re a member of one of the other pay to post programs like i.e. Loudlaunch. Reviewme, Bloggerwave, there are more out there but I wont mention them all an advertiser might pay 100.00 per post and the blogger posting for that program might get 50 dollars or less. Remember that is an example and not an actual figure, as I am not an admin of those sites nor am I an admin for PayperPost.

PPP Direct charges a ten percent fee and five percent of that goes to Paypal fee’s and credit card charges. So in the above example for some of the other programs, with PPP Direct an advertiser could pay 100 dollars per post and the blogger would get 90 dollars. Remember this is an example and not actual figures.

A blogger could deal directly with the advertisers also, but this could also result in more spam in the bloggers email. I know that I as a blogger don’t need any more spam. If your interested in blogging and making a little money with your blog check them out and keep more of the money.

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LinkMarket

2007-05-16T11:40:00.000-05:00

Are you looking for Link Exchange Traffic on your website then you need to check out LinkMarket. Sign up for a free account and then let the link exchange requests come right too you. You have nothing to loose and it is a way to get backlinks to your blog or webpage. So Check out Link Market and get yourself some back links.

wireless security

2007-05-05T08:14:00.000-05:00

Well I finely just finished setting up the security on my wireless router.

I first installed a newer Netgear router, and got that up and running with my broadband internet service.

I next turned my wireless router into a access point. following the instructions in the manuals made it quite easy.

If you havent secured your wireless connection you need to someone can pick up on your wireless signals and get into your computers (at least this is possible). Securing your router and your computers is the right thing to do. see a previous post on this also.

If you need help or would like specific info on a specific router please leave a comment with the router model number and I will see about getting you the info and posting it here.

Vendpar helping entrepreneurs and investors

2007-05-05T07:38:00.000-05:00

Are you and entrepreneur or an investor? This site I checked out is here to help both investors and entrepreneurs out. They are Venture Alliance Partners and are there to help you. They were founded in 2006 and have a friendly web interface. I have been browsing the site and there is a lot of information there. Please visit Venture Alliance Partners and see what they can do for you.

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DoFollow Comments

2007-05-03T20:54:00.000-05:00

Do you have a blogspot blog. Do you know if your comments are dofollow? Well here is another blog that will tell you how to remove the nofollow tag’s for comments. Check out this Blog: http://andybeard.eu/2007/03/how-to-remove-nofollow-on-new-blogger-dofollow-on-blogspot.html

I Followed the instructions here and have removed the nofollow tags, and now this blog is a dofollow.

Converting to PDF

2007-05-03T10:03:00.000-05:00

Do you have a need to convert some documents from word excel or even webpages to PDF format? Well if you do there is an on line service that you can do this for free and you can check it out here. I did try it and it is very easy to do.

Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader

2007-04-30T19:52:00.000-05:00

I have been playing with Hal a Text to Speech reader. It is something quite different. I was only playing with it on a txt file but reading through everything you can have it read an ebook or when you get pop up messages on you web browser, it does work pretty good I did try it with a PDF file and it didn’t work to hot, but I didn’t go through the help section either. If your interested in getting Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader click here.

Now this site also has other programs. They have an assistant that you can chat with and it will remind you of email addresses, and this is a program that you do have to pay for. The price isn’t too bad either. So you if need an assistant that will chat with you and learn from you then check it out at: http://www.zabaware.com/assistant/.

Also checking the site over they have a bunch of plug in that you can get for the Assistant also i.e. Different voice’s, different Skin’s and more. All these utilities look like they can be very useful to any user that reads a lot on the computer. So Check out: http://www.zabaware.com/assistant/.

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Blog Review (Frugal Wizard)

2007-04-30T19:50:00.000-05:00

Well everyone needs to be frugal from time to time and there are a lot of great times you can find here at Frugal Wizzard Blog check it out http://frugalwizard.blogspot.com/

Masterseek a Business Search Engine

2007-04-27T19:20:00.000-05:00

Masterseek is a business search engine. It provides Business profiles along with contact info about a company. They have listings of over 45 million companies and in 75 countries. Check them out I checked out a listing for a couple of companies that I worked for.

Now if you’re a business and would like your business profile listed here then check it out and add your business to the listing at masterseek.

Screen Refresh

2007-04-26T19:10:00.000-05:00

Do you know how to refresh your screen with out taking the mouse and clicking on the refresh button? Well a friend pointed this out to me today. Instead of grabbing that mouse while your typing away just press the F5 Key and your screen will refresh. Neat trick and I know it works with IE7 I am not sure about prior versions or Firefox. So if anyone out there wants to leave a comment and try this feature out with any of the other browsers. Leave a comment if it works in the other browsers.

Bloggerwave Have you heard

2007-04-26T18:19:00.000-05:00

Have you heard Bloggerwave is now ready for Bloggers? If not let me tell you about it. It is a brand new pay to post program out there. You sign up just like the rest of them you take opportunities that you can complete, once you complete the opportunity you will get paid to paypal and only after you post has been approved and a 30 day wait which is what most programs do. So Check out Bloggerwave submit you blog wait for approval and then start making some money.

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Wireless Security

2007-04-25T18:53:00.000-05:00

I saw a post on mylot where someone has a wireless router setup. and a person/neighbor is connecting to that router to gain access to the internet. Well that prompted this post so here go's

First off I would enable MAC Address filtering. The screen shot is an example from a belkin router.

Turn it on and then program in your MAC Address you can get this by opening a command prompt which you can find by
Clicking on Start
Then Click on Run
you will get a place to put a command in to Run type in cmd and press enter the following screeen will come up

Where you see the c:\> type in ipconfig /all
In this example you will see a link that says Physical Address this is the MAC Address on the router you will need to enter that mac address or else you wont be able to gain access to it.

Now you will need to set the security up. click on the security line in the example and enable it. I recomend setting it to WPA-PSK for the current best security. There are other options there. and it will need to be set according to what the computer has available not all wireless network cards have that particular security incription in that. You can leave the defualt incription set that is fine. Then you will need to set the password.

Once the Security is set up on the Router you will need to setup the wirless network card usually when you connect it will prompt you for the security password. you can set the save the password or Key which ever you prefer to call it. I have one that has over 30 character as the key.

I hope this helps.

Beware Trojan going around through MSN Messanger

2007-04-15T21:22:00.000-05:00

I just want to let all my readers know to beware! my wife got a msn messanger message in it it said is this a picture of you.

Anyway there was a link there and my wife clicked on it. She did get it cleaned up with her virus scan program. but it sent everyone in her contact list that same message. so beware.

McAfee fixed and removed the issue on my wife's computer

Adsense Ads Where to Place

2007-04-15T12:09:00.000-05:00

A friend on Mylot wanted to know where the Best place to place the Adsense Ads. I have purchased an ebook that told me where to place them.

Per the Screen shot above the best place to place the Ads is in the Darker areas

Same thing here different layout. Red Areas are the best place to put those Ads.

And lastly the big Red area is the best with the orange being second.

Wireless Networks, Wireless LAN Security, Mobility, and More (blog review)

2007-04-11T08:18:00.000-05:00

Well I found this great site for Wireless LAN Security, In this blog they will tell you how to secure your wireless router so you can get the most out of its security features.

How To Secure Your Wireless Network is just what it says it will show you how to secure your wireless network. Which we all need to do, I know I still need to secure my wireless network, however I am out in no-where-land so I don’t secure it I just secure it with the mac address filtering.

This site also has a contest for writing reviews where you can win a wireless router which you can find here: http://www.zaibkaleem.com/2007/03/03/wireless-router-contest/ so check it out and take a chance to write a review.

Why Write an eBook?

2007-04-10T19:43:00.000-05:00

It's not true that everything that has been said has already been written. Since that unfortunate axiom came into use, the whole universe has changed. Technology has changed, ideas have changed, and the mindsets of entire nations have changed.

The fact is that this is the perfect time to write an ebook. What the publishing industry needs are people who can tap into the world as it is today – innovative thinkers who can make the leap into the new millennium and figure out how to solve old problems in a new way. EBooks are a new and powerful tool for original thinkers with fresh ideas to disseminate information to the millions of people who are struggling to figure out how to do a plethora of different things.

Let's say you already have a brilliant idea, and the knowledge to back it up that will enable you to write an exceptional ebook. You may be sitting at your computer staring at a blank screen wondering, "Why? Why should I go through all the trouble of writing my
ebook when it's so impossible to get anything published these days?

Well, let me assure you that publishing an ebook is entirely different than publishing a book in print. Let's look at the specifics of how the print and cyber publishing industry differ, and the many reasons why you should take the plunge and get your fingers tapping across those keyboards!

Submitting a print book to conventional publishing houses or to agents is similar to wearing a hair shirt 24/7. No matter how good your book actually is, or how many critique services and mentor writers have told you that "you've got what it takes," your submitted manuscript keeps coming back to you as if it is a boomerang instead of a valuable mine of information.

Perhaps, in desperation, you've checked out self-publishing and found out just how expensive a venture it can be. Most "vanity presses" require minimal print runs of at least 500 copies, and even that amount will cost you thousands of dollars. Some presses' minimal run starts at 1,000 to 2,000 copies. And that's just for the printing and binding. Add in distribution, shipping, and promotional costs and - well, you do the math. Even if you wanted to go this route, you may not have that kind of money to risk.

Let's say you already have an Internet business with a quality website and a quality product. An ebook is one of the most powerful ways to promote your business while educating people with the knowledge you already possess as a business owner of a specific product or service.

For example, let's say that you've spent the last twenty-five years growing and training bonsai trees, and now you're ready to share your knowledge and experience. An ebook is the perfect way to reach the largest audience of bonsai enthusiasts.

EBooks will not only promote your business - they will help you make a name for yourself and your company, and establish you as an expert in your field. You may even find that you have enough to say to warrant a series of ebooks. Specific businesses are complicated and often require the different aspects to be divided in order for the reader to get the full story.

Perhaps your goals are more finely tuned in terms of the ebook scene. You may want to build a whole business around writing and publishing ebooks. Essentially, you want to start an e-business. You are thinking of setting up a website to promote and market your ebooks. Maybe you're even thinking of producing an ezine.

One of the most prevalent reasons people read ebooks is to find information about how to turn their Internet businesses into a profit-making machine. And these people are looking to the writers of ebooks to provide them with new ideas and strategies because writers of ebooks are usually people who understand the new cyberspace world we now live in. Ebook writers are experts in Internet marketing campaigns and the strategies of promoting and distributing ebooks. The cyberspace community needs its ebooks to be successful so that more and more ebooks will be written.

You may want to create affiliate programs that will also market your ebook. Affiliates can be people or businesses worldwide that will all be working to sell your ebooks. Think about this? Do you see a formula for success here?

Figure out what your subject matter is, and then narrow it down. Your goal is to aim for specificity. Research what's out there already, and try to find a void that your ebook might fill.

What about an ebook about a wedding cake business, or an ebook about caring for elderly pets? How about the fine points of collecting ancient pottery?

You don't have to have three masters’ degrees to write about your subject. People need advice that is easy to read and easily understood. Parents need advice for dealing with their teenagers. College students need to learn good study skills - quickly. The possibilities are endless.

After you've written your ebook

Getting your ebook out is going to be your focus once you've finished writing it, just as it is with print books. People will hesitate to buy any book from an author they've never heard of. Wouldn't you?

The answer is simple: give it away! You will see profits in the form of promoting your own business and getting your name out. You will find affiliates who will ask you to place their links within your ebook, and these affiliates will in turn go out and make your
name known. Almost every single famous ebook author has started out this way.

Another powerful tool to attract people to your ebook is to make it interactive. Invent something for them to do within the book rather than just producing pages that contain static text. Let your readers fill out questionnaires, forms, even crossword puzzles geared to testing their knowledge on a particular subject. Have your readers hit a link that will allow them to recommend your book to their friends and associates. Or include an actual order form so at the end of their reading journey, they can eagerly buy your product.

When people interact with books, they become a part of the world of that book. The fact is just as true for books in print as it is for ebooks.

That's why ebooks are so essential. Not only do they provide a forum for people to learn and make sense of their own thoughts, but they can also serve to promote your business at the same time.

How to Write an Ebook

2007-04-09T20:47:00.000-05:00

The hardest part of writing is the first sentence. When you look at the whole project, it seems like an impossible task. That's why you have to break it down into manageable tasks. Think of climbing a mountain. You are standing at the foot of it and looking up at its summit vanishing into the clouds. How can you possibly scale such an immense and dangerous mountain?

There is only one way to climb a mountain ? step by step.

Now think of writing your ebook in the same light. You must create it step by step, and one day, you will take that last step and find yourself standing on the summit with your head in the clouds.

The first thing you have to do, as if you actually were a mountain climber, is to get organized. Instead of climbing gear, however, you must organize your thoughts. There are some steps you should take before you begin. Once you've gone through the following list, you will be ready to actually begin writing your ebook.

Beginning Steps to Writing an ebook

First, figure out your ebook's working title. Jot down a few different titles, and eventually, you'll find that one that will grow on you. Titles help you to focus your writing on your topic; they guide you in anticipating and answering your reader's queries. Many non-fiction books also have subtitles. Aim for clarity in your titles, but cleverness always helps to sell books ? as long as it's not too cute. For example, Remedies for Insomnia: twenty different ways to count sheep. Or: Get off that couch: fifteen exercise plans to whip you into shape.

Next, write out a thesis statement. Your thesis is a sentence or two stating exactly what problem you are addressing and how your book will solve that problem. All chapters spring forth from your thesis statement. Once you've got your thesis statement fine-tuned, you've built your foundation. From that foundation, your book will grow, chapter by chapter.

Your thesis will keep you focused while you write your ebook. Remember: all chapters must support your thesis statement. If they don't, they don't belong in your book. For example, your thesis statement could read: We've all experienced insomnia at times in our lives, but there are twenty proven techniques and methods to give you back a good night's sleep.

Once you have your thesis, before you start to write, make sure there is a good reason to write your book. Ask yourself some questions:

* Does your book present useful information and is that information currently relevant?

* Will you book positively affect the lives of your readers?

* Is your book dynamic and will it keep the reader's attention?

* Does you book answer questions that are meaningful and significant?

If you can answer yes to these questions, you can feel confident about the potential of your ebook.

Another important step is to figure out who your target audience is. It is this group of people you will be writing to, and this group will dictate many elements of your book, such as style, tone, diction, and even length. Figure out the age range of your readers, their general gender, what they are most interested in, and even the socio-economic group they primarily come from. Are they people who read fashion magazines or book reviews? Do they write letters in longhand or spend hours every day online. The more you can pin down your target audience, the easier it will be to write your book for them.

Next, make a list of the reasons you are writing your ebook. Do you want to promote your business? Do you want to bring quality traffic to your website? Do you want to enhance your reputation?

Then write down your goals in terms of publishing. Do you want to sell it as a product on your website, or do you want to offer it as a free gift for filling out a survey or for ordering a product? Do you want to use the chapters to create an e-course, or use your ebook to attract affiliates around the world? The more you know upfront, the easier the actual writing will be.

Decide on the format of your chapters. In non-fiction, keep the format from chapter to chapter fairly consistent. Perhaps you plan to use an introduction to your chapter topic, and then divide it into four subhead topics. Or you may plan to divide it into five parts, each one beginning with a relevant anecdote.

How to make your ebook "user friendly"

You must figure out how to keep your writing engaging. Often anecdotes, testimonials, little stories, photos, graphs, advice, and tips will keep the reader turning the pages. Sidebars are useful for quick, accessible information, and they break up the density of the page.

Write with a casual, conversational tone rather than a formal tone such as textbook diction. Reader's respond to the feeling that you are having a conversation with them. Break up the length and structure of your sentences so you don?t hypnotize your readers into sleep. Sentences that are all the same length and structure tend to be a good aid for insomnia!

Good writing takes practice. It takes lots and lots of practice. Make a schedule to write at least a page a day. Read books and magazines about the process of writing, and jot down tips that jump out at you. The art of writing is a lifetime process; the more you write (and read), the better your writing will become. The better your writing becomes, the bigger your sales figures.

In an ebook that is read on the screen, be aware that you must give your reader's eye a break. You can do this by utilizing white space. In art classes, white space is usually referred to as "negative space." Reader's eyes need to rest in the cool white oasises you create on your page. If your page is too dense, your reader will quit out of it as soon as their eyes begin to tear.

Make use of lists, both bulleted and numbered. This makes your information easy to absorb, and gives the reader a mental break from dissecting your paragraphs one after the other.

Finally, decide on an easy-to-read design. Find a font that's easy on the eyes, and stick to that font family. Using dozens of fonts will only tire your readers out before they've gotten past your introduction. Use at least one and a half line spacing, and text large enough to be read easily on the screen, but small enough so that the whole page can be seen on a computer screen. You will have to experiment with this to find the right combination.

Of course, don't forget to run a spell and grammar check. You are judged by something as minor as correct punctuation, so don?t mess up a great book by tossing out semicolons randomly, or stringing sentences together with commas. (By the way, that's called a "comma splice.")

Last of all, create an index and a bibliography. That's it! You've written a book! Now all you have to do is publish your ebook online, and wait for download request from your website visitors.

Screen Print

2007-04-08T12:02:00.000-05:00

Well I found this great program it is called screen print. What this does is when your viewing a screen you can press the print screen button on your keyboard and the program captures a picture of your screen and saves it to a *.jpg file usually a number with a .jpg extension. This is a great tool for screen prints to put in blogs, websites, etc. You can find it here. Plus and this is a biggie it is free to use for home / personal use. Here is an example it is a screen print of my blog -

Digital Knowledge Center

2007-04-07T16:57:00.000-05:00

Here is a good blog for some Digital knowledge it is the Digital Knowledge Center. Check it out there is a log of good information there.

Get more Traffic for your blog

2007-04-06T14:54:00.000-05:00

I found a way for you to get more traffic for your blog and even get your blog reviewed. you might even get some link backs to your blog which might increase your page rank. To check out this site click here you have nothing to loose.

Speed up your Broadband Connection

2007-04-06T12:55:00.000-05:00

I found this great post else ware on the net and though I would bring it too you. I am not going to quote it here but will provide you a link. Click here to view this post. I did find out that it currently will not work with XP home

Digg this Button in Posts

2007-04-04T17:31:00.000-05:00

I had someone ask me where I got the code for the Digg button on my posts. Well I got it from Digg.com on this page Then with the Blogger setup under the settings and formatting there is a line that has Post template. I copied the code from the page on Digg into the post template and everytime I make a post it comes up.

Wirless networks

2007-04-02T19:55:00.000-05:00

Do you uses a wireless network? Do you know if your connecting to a network that has an infrastructure or another computer that has adhoc setup on there wireless network card (NIC)? If you connect to another computer you are at risk for what ever ailments that they have on that computer.

The way the wireless works with windows if it is set to automatic mode your laptop will connect to probably the network with the strongest signal. I have signed up for several news letters and I felt that this topic needs more attention and publicity so I am provided a link to the site with further info and better detail so that you can fix your laptop so that you don't connect to an adhoc network. Click Here

NASCAR Blog

2007-04-01T09:31:00.000-05:00

Are you interisted in NASCAR then you need to check out this blog. It has a lot of information on it http://racingwithjr.wordpress.com/

Apache, MYSQL, & PHP (update)

2007-03-31T11:40:00.000-05:00

Sorry it has been awhile, Had a Medical emergency in the Family and had to take off for a while

Update all items mentioned have been installed. Since this is all installed on a Remote computer I have had to find a way to upload the rest of my training of PHP onto the remote computer. To upload I needed to turn on the FTP server functions.

I am using windows 2000 pro on my remote machine I have IIS turned off so when I went to turn on the service for FTP It would not work as I dont have IIS turned on.

I searched the Web and have found a free FTP server that works great. I am using WAR FTP server it works great after I figured out how to setup users and directories. If you want to locate WAR FTP program you can find it here http://www.warftp.org/.

Blog Review (Life in General)

2007-03-17T19:36:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone I just came across this site and it is pretty good and it is updated frequently. What you will find on this blog is just like the title of the blog there is a lot of life in general information in there. Check it out at
http://kim-darrell.blogspot.com/

Apache Web Server Install

2007-03-17T11:36:00.000-05:00

Wewll I got the Apache Web server installed. I did have problems getting the server to load, So I had to try and install it several times getting the error messages that come up when the install is almost complete. to do this I had to keep editing the httpd.conf file till I got it right and the Apache Service loaded up.

Now some things that you definately have to do durring the install. First off I used the name of the computer for the Network Domain, then on the Server Name I used the computer name with a www. in front of the server name. I then had to put in an email address, this is what caused y install problems I never initialy put in an Administrators email address before moving onto the next step.

My next option was to use the typical install in order to get it all installed just fine. If you want to get the Apache Distribution for your machine you will need to goto http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Blog Review ( A Little of Everything)

2007-03-16T19:39:00.000-05:00

I was surfing some blog's the other day and came across one for which the title is (A little of Everything). I read through the blog and there is a lot of info there so if you want check it out. You can find it here: http://alittleofeverything-cristlegirl.blogspot.com/

PHP 5.1.4 Install

2007-03-16T14:27:00.000-05:00

Well I just installed PHP 5.1.4 and that was quite easy. I just got the *.zip file and unziped all files to a directory c:\php and that was it.

Next I had to add c:\php to the path of a windows 2000 machine it is done like this

On Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003:
1)Go to Control Panel and open the System icon (Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System, or just Start -> Control Panel -> System for Windows XP/2003)
2)Go to the Advanced tab
3)Click on the 'Environment Variables' button
4)Look into the 'System Variables' pane
5)Find the Path entry (you may need to scroll to find it)
6)Double click on the Path entry
7)Enter your PHP directory ant the end, including ';' before (e.g. ;C:\php)
8)Press OK and restart your computer

Blog Review (I'm really just doing this for a Class)

2007-03-15T12:56:00.001-05:00

Hey there I just came across this blog, This author is taking a class on computer programing, and the pre-req was to create and maintain a blog. Reviewing the blog he has some good posts all comming from a different perspective. It is good reading and I enjoyed it. Check it out at

http://nathansblogforclass.blogspot.com

MySQL Installation

2007-03-15T06:56:00.000-05:00

To day I installed the first part. I went and installed the windows version of MySQL the program installed fairly easy. This was installed on a Windows 2000 machine. When I installed it I accepted the following prompts.

Typical Install, after the install then I selected configure the MySQL server now and then the Finish. Was then prompted to select the server instance configuration wizard which I selected the server machine and the default path for this install.

I then set up the networking part. With a default port of 3306 the other mode was disable or enable strict mode. I took the strict mode for now I can at least learn with the strict mode and change later if I want. I then selected to install as a service and I also included the bin directory in the path for working from the command line with MySQL. I then set the password and I didn’t set up the anonymous account. I was trying to be secure about it. The last part is clicking the finish button.

Here is where you can download MySQL installation.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

Look for Windows Downloads then download the Windows Essentials file it should have a *.msi file extension.

The next part will be on installing Apache

Blog Review (Pastor JR's blog)

2007-03-13T14:00:00.000-05:00

Well I just came across a good blog it has a little bit of everything on it. Check it out at

http://www.writingup.com/blog/pastorjr
Pastor JR's blog

PHP, MySQL & Apache

2007-03-13T12:44:00.000-05:00

Well for the next couple of months I am studying up on the above title. So I am going to concentrate my enteries on those topics. I hope all that read here will be interisted enough to leave comments for me. These posts will be going on while I am learning about the above title.

Blog Review (Mom Is Teaching)

2007-03-12T08:17:00.000-05:00

Well I was just checking this blog out and found this great blog The title of it is Mom is Teaching. Reading through it and a lot of its posts, there is a lot of good informaiton on home schooling. Even if your not into home schooling it has good informaition that you can use to help out your child. Here is the link http://momisteaching.com/