Category: Technology

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I Love My New Nook!

My mom bought my one of the best birthday presents, ever! She got me a Nook reader! It is really awesome!

She gave me a $20 gift card with the Nook, so I went online at Barnes and Noble and immediately found 3 books that I have been wanting to read. It only took a few second to download the books on my my Nook and I was reading the first one last night!

The one weird thing about the Nook is that there is not way to turn it off. That’s right! It is always on. There is a sleep feature if you set it down and walk away for longer than 15-20 minutes. But when you come back it fires right up and is still on the same page where you left off.

The battery life is supposed to be about 2 weeks with normal use. Isn’t that amazing?

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Judy’s Old Flame Turns Up In The UK

Longtime girlfriend seems to have found an old flame via the good old Facebook and is tossing around the idea of visiting him in the near future.  She is excited about it but it will be a long trip because he and his family live in the U.K. which is not just your usual “road trip”.

He has suggested using a travel agency that he has used in the past that offers flights, hotels & travel ideas worldwide. It seems that has lived in a variety of places since high school including way up north Canada way.  So he has used them in his many flights to Canada, and all over Europe.  He assures her that they will help her in her search for flights, hotels, car rentals, all that she will  need to make it a pleasant trip.

He is to send her the phone number so she can speak with one their UK travel consultants, when she finds out the details she will fill me in.  I hope she has a blast with a date from the past.

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I.D. & Credit Theft Is a Reality

Watching the news now a days, there is a huge amount of focus on credit and identity theft which is really becoming a major issue.  Identity theft is indeed very scary and I hope it is something that I don’t ever have to experience.

Mail offerings of things like “no annual fee credit cards” are received almost daily, it’s now a fact of life in this day and there are good and bad companies out there, you really need  educate yourself on the subject or you could get burnt.  “Read the fine print”

I’m glad that there are companies out there that can help when you find things starting to  get out of your control.  And I have found and book marked a web site for our use, in the near future, when our teenager will be entering the adult world of credit.  The site that I’ve found is CreditNet.com it features reviews popular credit cards, credit card offers, bad credit repair services, credit alerts, company reviews and that is just the beginning of all of their services.

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Language Issues

I was looking at a web site about a company called Executive Language Training that sounds like it would be a useful tool to many companies out there that are struggling with communication issues.  They have Swedish, Hindu, Dutch, Arabic, along with Cantonese language training classes and many more to choose from also, to help people learn all kinds of languages.  The list was amazingly long.

It sounds pretty cool that they customize their courses to fit your goals, your style, your time line, and your budget. Not only do they teach the languages, but they provide translation services also, like the company that I applied for here in the good old Shenandoah Valley.

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A Day at the Pool

Today was the perfect day to go to the pool. Everyone slept in a little late this morning. We didn’t get back from the fireworks until nearly midnight and everyone was wired up from all of the excitement of all of the wonderful displays that our local recreation center produced this year, in celebrating the 4th of July.

Once the house started waking up and everyone had fed their face with some type of nourishment from my fully stocked kitchen. I went shopping yesterday and spent a fortune on items to take with us to the show, things like beer, wine, wine coolers, sodas, Gatorade, bottled water, chips, dips, crackers, cookies, fruits, well you get the point. So the kitchen is now over flowing with munchies that should last all week-end long, maybe.

Anyway, we decided that today was the first nice day that we have had in a while so we packed up all of our swimming pool gear and took off for a day in the sun and water fun. It was great, fun was had by all, even Hubby came along this time, which is rare these days, and now I’m totally beat and sun burned and ready for bed.

By the way, a belated Happy Independence Day to America, may God Bless us all!

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Used To Like To Clean and Cook

Boy those days are gone.  I even used to clean a few houses to earn some extra money back in the 90’s, it was hard work, but for the most part I basically enjoyed it.  But then again I used to enjoy so many things that I no longer like to do such as, cooking, laundry, working outside of the house.  Guess we all get burned out but I am seriously bummed out about it all.

Hubby insists that when we are better situated in our finances that he will sign us up for a monthly cleaning service that will help make our house more manageable.  There are a few companies out there that you see the little cars in traffic with their mops and buckets all hanging out of the windows, but I never really took the time to check into their services so I set out to do some research on the Internet.

Come to find out – the company that I liked the best, that I could find, doesn’t have an office anywhere close to us, bummer, their site was pretty impressive.  Hubby was watching over my shoulder when I was checking maidpro.com out and he saw where it advertises that they offer franchise opportunities and he jokingly stated that we should check it out since there wasn’t one near us.  So just for grins and giggles I played along.

This Cleaning Service web site answers a lot of questions that can help them assist you in having your residence cleaned by trained professionals and/or to give you information on their franchise opportunities .  They already have well over 100 independently owned locations. You can even get an on-line free estimate, which requires them to call you the next day to verify the information and to give you the quote.

I don’t think I’m ready to open any franchise right now, but if I did I would enjoy researching this opportunity some more.

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Handicap Transport

A few years back my mother-in-law had a massive stroke which took away her mobility as well as her ability to speak. We wanted her at home and that’s where she wanted to be, so obviously any type of assisted facility was out of the question. The only real problem facing us at the time was the ability to transport her to her doctors, or to just get out and go for a ride somewhere. We needed an affordable handicap vehicle with ease of transport, comfortable ride and room. My brother-in-law found a website www.mobilityworks.com – with the first scan came up with the perfect vehicle! He got an amazing deal on a Para-transit Bus that was in great shape, clean as a whistle, and with all the amenities we’d need.

The Salesman even explained how they could add any other special needs devices we would need for our particular case. A very helpful man, and pleasantly sincere. It was a nice Ford, which my brother-in-law really likes, as well as Dad. And I recently found that the very place with the used handicapped vans for sale, was this Mobility Works Handicap Vans and Buses Place. They even design vans and buses for your particular needs.

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Mouse Traps

Just the thought of a mouse trap creeps me out, but it appears that we are in need of a few of them around the house right now. I’m finding mouse droppings in a few areas and we have to nip this issue in the bud before they really take over and make my life miserable. But I can tell you right now that it won’t be me that checks the traps and I won’t be disposing of any dead mice, I don’t have the heart or the stomach.

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Mobiles Underwater

It seems that a company has invented a way of putting a coating on mobile devices to make them repel water. It is called Ion Mask plasma surface enhancement made by P2I.

Although most of today’s devices have not been made with this coating applied, I’m thinking we are sure to see more sleek and less cracks in our next generation of mobile devices as a result of this technology. To think one day maybe people will be able to take their mobiles (cell phones, PDA, MP3’s, etc) in the shower and the tub with no fear of being shocked or the device not working anymore is awesome!

I am looking forward to getting my hands on one as soon as they hit the market, whenever that may be.

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New Face Book

I am one of the few that doesn’t get all up in arms about the changes that Face Book has been enduring lately. None of the changes have been all that significant as far as I’m concerned. And this latest change, this “TIMELINE” is pretty cool if you ask me, it didn’t take me but a few minutes to figure it all out so these folks that are screaming bloody murder about the new “TIMELINE” are just being silly.