Category: Computers and/or Internet


Turning out the lights

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Computers and/or Internet, Friends and/or family, General Life, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
January 30, 2012

Post contributed by Hilton Miranda

My sister and I have been talking about our energy providers a lot recently and trying to decide if we want to go green. We were using Stream Energy Comparison to see how much her provider differed. We both thought that making more green decisions would be harder than it is. Everyone keeps talking about going green, but really I did not know what people meant when they said it. It just sounded like a catch phrase to me. I think it started with my sister always following me room to room and turning all the lights off. I thought it was annoying at first, but she explained to me that we should conserve energy and lights were a part of that. She convinced me we needed to do it with the lights, the water and even with how much trash we threw away. Now the next step for us is choosing a provider that will allow us to keep saving energy and making green decisions. My sister says that no matter who the provider, it really comes down to decisions like turning out the light.

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Did you ever wonder how it worked?

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Computers and/or Internet, General Life, Money and finances, Technology by Paige — Leave a comment
December 20, 2011

Did you ever wonder how it works out that when you use a search engine to find a product or service, how the order of presentation is determined? Well, it turns out there is a whole behind the scenes process called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that determines that. And there is a big money business behind that process!

A business that wants to be one of the top companies listed for a search like that certainly has its work cut out for it! Some of the most technologically savvy businesses would be quick to obtain guaranteed seo services with a company whose sole business is making sure that their client’s web page is near the top of the search. Doing that maximizes the efficiency of the effort; hiring a professional that guarantees results seems to me to be a no-brainer. Why waste valuable time re-inventing the wheel?

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What is going on?

Filed Under: Computers and/or Internet, Entertainment and Fun, General Life, Technology by Paige — Leave a comment
December 18, 2011

Something is going on with my browsers that I don’t like. My Internet Explorer is acting up when I use Facebook; it won’t let me type in anything. And every time I switch from one URL to another a pop up ad window opens up telling me that I’ve won a contest and telling me to fill in the form. I’ve tried using my malware software but it says my computer is fine. Has IE changed so that this happens to everyone?

I’ve tried loading the Chrome browser because I heard that it runs faster than IE on the Windows application that I have, but I still get those stupid pop up windows. With Mozilla Firefox, however, those windows don’t pop up and it runs fine. I guess the best thing to do is to just stick with Firefox, but that makes me sad because I’ve used IE for such a long time that I was comfortable with it. I really did not want to switch to something else. Anyone else out there know what might be going on with IE?

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A Welcomed Change

Filed Under: Computers and/or Internet, Friends and/or family, General Life, Money and finances, Shopping, Technology by Paige — Leave a comment
December 16, 2011

The cost of ink cartridges has always been an issue in this house hold. I really want to start looking for another printer that will not cost me hundreds of dollars each year to keep the Black and White Copies and the Color Copies affordable to print. I do shop around for the best deals that I can find off and online, but even with all of that effort I still pay way too much each time. I have turned into a real printer scrooge these past six months or so and I’m so tired of it. And God forbid if some one wants to do some type of flyer printing for various needs and wants, I find myself getting anxious about the whole darn thing.

My sister just purchased a new printer and she is only having to pay $5 for her black ink cartridge, so I’ve got to go over there and take a look at it and see what type it is, how much it cost her and see if that would be do able for me. Hopefully I’ll be getting some gift cards as Christmas presents, since so many more folks are turning to gift cards for their gift giving needs. And I can’t think of anything better to use them on then a more cost effective printer, because I really do use my printer for a lot of various printing, faxing and copying tasks. Five bucks every couple of months versus the thirty five dollars that I’m easily dishing out would be a welcomed change.

I know that her color ink cartridges cost more than $5, but when I need copies immediately, I need them immediately, you know what I mean? If the printing job needs to be a professional one and can wait a couple of days, then I’ll take the job to Super Fine Printing and let them do the work for me; let them do their magic and use their ink and paper and wear and tear on their commercial printers.

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Where was it made?

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December 16, 2011

My hubby was telling me that we should consider buying a bike rack for the back of the car to accommodate our son’s bike. He said that his friend Darren suggested we check out the bike racks at cracksandracks.com because they have a large selection there, and they offer free shipping. Well, I’m all about free shipping, but since I’ve recently become interested in buying things that are made in the USA, I think that before we order anything I might call their customer support telephone number and ask them if any of their products are made in the USA before I make any decisions about purchasing anything.

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