If you are a photography buff or you just want to dabble in photography, you can look into trail cameras. These cameras take pictures of wildlife in the wild with the ability to take high quality pictures in the day or at night. Such unique pictures would be wonderful decorations for your home or perhaps as the merchandise in a side business.
If you have to deal with a lot of shipments, you know how quickly you can get sick of using your keys to open each and every box – and how ineffetive it is sometimes. Instead of wrecking your keys you should get something like the Martor USA box cutter. These devices are easy to use and fit in your pocket. And it even has a safety for people like me who have been know to cut themselves a time or two with sharp things.
Ever since we got our laser printer, I’ve been in 7th heaven. It’s beautiful. The print quality is spectacular and I never seem to need to worry about running out of ink. Whatever you have, be it a Epson TM-T88V or one of those other printers, you know you want it to run well and last a long time. Make sure you treat it right by using it sparingly and keeping the dust out of it.
Have you ever needed to take some pictures with your DSLR but you’re batteries are dead, again? While rechargeable batteries are a must for modern digital cameras, it is sometimes inconvenient to recharge them when you’re not near a plug. AA batteries won’t do you any good. So you ask yourself, where can I get extra Nikon batteries and where are nikon camera batteries on sale There’s your answer.
One of the most popular gifts out there are the ebook readers. You see commercials for them, you see help groups meeting at book stores so people can learn how to use them, you see how wonderful they are and how they can make your life more afordable (how many ebooks are just free?!).
For your next gift, consider giving an ebook reader.
If you’re looking for a wide variety of different printers (maybe to upgrade from your dot matrix finally?) look into HP printers. From inkjet to laser and from multi-functional to large format, there are choices that will fill your needs. That’s right, ‘choices’ as in not just one answer but lots of different possibilities that will all give you different and wonderful ways to solve your home or business printing problems.
What’s the point of blogging if you aren’t getting any readership? You could say that it’s easier to type than write but then just make it a word document. If you’re blogging, it means you want to share and it’s hard to share when you’re alone. Get your blog or website in a free directory and start getting noticed.
Remember you WANT people to read you stuff. You don’t want it to do the equivalent of computer molding – get relegated to page two of a search engine’s results.
It’s nice to know that there are sites out there that are willing to help with SEO but not charging a fortune to do it. At least one will help with directory submissions and not ask for money in return. A simple backlink on your site is all they want. They call this a reasonable request and I think I agree.
I’ve been looking for a way to upgrade my husband’s vehicle from a scooter to something a bit safer. Unfortunately they don’t give away free cars. Sure he’s got a helmet and I the scooters a nice cherry red but who knows how long this is going to work. The scooter doesn’t go much faster than ATV (maybe not even as fast on uphills) and every day he has to call me and tell me he made it to work ok or I worry. I’ve actually gone to Craigslist to see what’s out there. Weird, huh? I;m also now using Shutterfly and Groupon. Pretty soon my name will show up on a Google search and then I’ll know for sure I’m ‘LinkedIn’.
I’m so funny.
I love not carrying cash. Something I certainly couldn’t do without the invention of POS systems. I’d be forever stopping at the bank to get money (I can remember waiting in half and hour long lines in the drive through waiting for a teller when I was a kid). I’d have to go inside the gas station to pay for gas. I’d have to call the pizza place instead of ordering on line. And I REALLY don’t like calling the pizza place.
So thank you, POS system inventor. You’ve made my life a little happier.
You know what’s missing from my new home? Broadcast television. We’ve nixed the cable TV in a cost saving measure but TV that was free when I left this town is inaccessible since I’ve come back. All due to the wonderful HD revolution.
We never got one of those fancy antenna that lets you see programs on an old TV set and we’ve long since gotten rid of the antenna we used with it before because we had cable and didn’t need it. Turns out that even our new HD TV won’t pick up channels without an old fashioned antenna. You’d think the antenna in the TV would be enough but no. So what I could use now is a compendium of antenna reviews. The new season is about to start and I’m going to have to save up for the buy so the sooner the better.
I took my mom on an adventure! We went through the self checkout at the grocery story and she got to use the barcode scanner. I think this was a first for my pre-WWII mom having always seen but never used the device. And it was my first time to see how those checkouts handle actual cash. Mind you, I wasn’t the one with actual cash on me – it was my mother. Pretty hand if you find yourself in a jam and all you have on you is cash.
Yes I am joking around about the last part. Even I stoop to cash use every once in a while and I actually get a little trill about not using my card. I usually end up spending more, though.
Now that I’m letting my kids use the laptop more, and we have stairs in the house and I’ve been seeing them go up and down the stairs with the laptop, I’m starting to freak out. When we got the thing I barely used it but, as it is with everything, now I can’t do without it and if something happens, I MUST get a new one. How am I supposed to afford that? A laptop warranty seems the obvious choice. Well, either that or I make the kids totally computer illiterate. You know, give them a leg up in life.
Hopefully by the end of this move we’ll have a little money left over and I can blow it all on something frivolous and unnecessary. The ultimate in unnecessary would be in getting an expensive duplicate item (or a rare stamp, licking it and mailing it but I think that’s been done). I’ll settle for another laptop like an Acer Aspire or something.
Like I’m really gonna have any money left over.
Where will we be in ten years?
It’s an interesting question to pose at the beginning of 2010. Ten years ago, most of us were still getting used to the idea of MP3 players and cell phones. Now they are ubiquitous and far smaller, faster, cheaper, and nicer than the clunky 2000 models. Movies were just entering their current Fantasy genre craze, and politics were just about as they always were.
Ten years out I see wearable computers becoming the norm that fully access the web, the phone, and any other information that is just about anywhere. The best models will have screens built into sunglasses that can be controlled by eye movements. Movies will be in the middle of a sci-fi genre resurgence. And politics will still be just about as they always were.
I’ve signed up for too many email lists. The number of unread emails in my inbox is over 300 and I FILTER so most of my junk mail actually goes to my junk mail. I just don’t have time to read about all the things I’m interested in like the $.99 shipping sale from the department store or the nordictrack coupon from the coupon site I signed up with or the free delivery on groceries.
It’s really an addiction and I’ve started unsubscribing but I’m a little afraid that by clicking unsubscribe I will accidentally sign up for 10 new ones. Or that I will unleash a computer virus the likes of which no one has ever seen and that it will eat Tokyo in some sort of Godzilla vs the computer virus smack down.
Maybe I’m paranoid – but if I were I suppose I wouldn’t have signed up for the lists in the first place.
With the ubiquitous presence of an internet connection, cheap and common use of laptops, and great TV on many channels, the Slingbox is an obvious invention. This little marvel connects your cable box to your internet connection. No matter where you travel, as long as you have your computer and an internet connection handy, you can watch whatever would play on your home television anywhere, live. What wonders will our world behold next.
With all of the great deals on the internet and in stores across the country this time of year, the accessories that everyone needs are mounts to properly and securely hold on to everything. Your new TV’s, speakers, and other electronics are best utilized by properly mounting them on the wall or on a stylish stand in the proper location in the room. Check it out before Christmas.
My husband takes care of making sure our computer has enough memory. I imagine I could do it myself – it’s not like I’d be looking for mac memory or anything strange like that but he REALLY has it well in hand. Despite my taking an endless string of string of 1MB pictures, we aren’t even close to running out. I don’t know that we’re at the point yet that our computer has more memory space than my own brain, but somewhere down the road I see the day when I’m going to lose that competition.
That’s a little sad to think about.
My latest obsession on the web is going to IMDB and looking up trivia for movies I’ve seen. I finished off the trivia for all the Harry Potter movies this morning and went through all 11 of the Star Trek movies this evening.
It was in doing this that I realized the importance of backing up my data. One of the bits of trivia was that, through a computer malfunction, an entire class of starship was lost. I would have thought that people who use the more technical powers of a computer would have the common sense to backup their data even if it is an enormously huge amount. Actually, I would think that the fact that there is a huge amount of it would make it even more important.
Some people save it to disks and keep their disks somewhere but in case of fire, you’d need a safe deposit box to really be safe and that’s hard to access when your computer crashes at 7pm on a Friday night. (Yes, your house burned down, but you saved the computer that then crashed.)
You could also save it to an external hard drive but that also gives you the risk of destruction through runaway fire in your house. And how would you feel about your brilliant method of backup if you manage to survive the fire? Not so good. So it, too, needs to be kept elsewhere and even your parents aren’t going to be too happy that you’ve came to their house in the middle of the night to retrieve your life’s work.
The common theme here is that retrieval is inconvenient. Unless there were some way to store it in a fashion that makes it accessable from, say a cable or phone line. Wait – there is. You use secure online storage so that you can use your parent’s dial up line to restore your computer, now that you’re crashing at their house after a fire burned yours to ashes.
Problem solved.