When you think laptops, you usually don’t think about rugged and tough. Merely a simple drop off your lap from the sofa could severely damage your valuable information, be it several million social security numbers or your favorite PC game. And with professionals in jobs such as construction or architecture having an increased need for such delicate electronics to remain efficient, Panasonic has come up with an answer. The Toughbook laptops are designed to withstand a 3-foot drop, as well as the daily shocks and bounces a physical profession endures. They offer a wide variety of models, all built to fit your situation. All come with Windows Vista, and can be configured to your desires. With the holidays rapidly approaching, these would be a great present for anybody in your home that is looking for a new laptop.
Warm Up The Workplace I have had several job over my professional career, and each one has been full of interesting people. But no matter which one I think of, there was always one or two of the "older" generation employees stationed near my cubicle and would complain more than not about the chilly......
Expand Your Outlet Capacity And Then Some With more and more gizmos I keep adding to my home office, I am slowly running out of places to plug them all in. Power strips are great, but the spaces are so jammed together you can really only plug three or four plugs before the strip gets cramped.......
Bring Your iPod To Life For those of you who have never experienced the sound quality of a Bose system, you need to go to your local electronics store and do so immediately. Forget reading the rest of this post, even, until you get back to your computer. And most likely, you will have......
SensorPlug Motion Activated Outlet I have been looking around for motion sensor light switches for years, mainly because of the increasing amount of teenagers that enter my house and decide not to remember to turn them off. But somehow I always forget to pick a few up when at the hardware store. Since I......
The New Age of Movie Rentals If you are like most people who keep up with today's forever-changing culture, then you probably have some form of an iPod to conveniently carry around your favorite tunes wherever you go. Today's line of iPods offer far more than their predecessors, enabling us to watch TV shows, full-length films......
Drumsticks and Drums Drumsticks are specially designed sticks that are intended to strike the heads of percussion instruments like drums. Drumsticks are especially useful for hitting specific types of drums, especially during orchestral work, jazz music, rock band music and even marching band music. The most common drumsticks are made from oak, hickory,......
Hosted VoIP - Does it Live Up to the Hype? In most cases yes, it absolutely does. There are, however, specific requirements that need to be met to get the best out of a hosted VoIP service. With that question out of the way, let us find out what hosted/virtual VoIP actually is.We are all aware of a PBX......
LATA, IntraLATA and InterLATA Explained The landmark breakup of the AT&T monopoly in 1984 has provided unprecedented choices for consumers and businesses alike. No longer are customers tied to only one source for making local and long distance calls. Because of the myriad of choices now available, costs for making calls have dropped significantly over......
Ideas for Green Home Improvement There are a wide variety of different green home improvement options that you can pursue that are going to improve your home. Some of them are time consuming and expensive, but this is not true for all of them. Not all of us have the money necessary for dropping $15,000......
Needs and Wants in Household Budgeting How much money do you honestly believe that companies are spending on advertising every single year? Sadly, the answer is more than one hundred and fifty billion dollars every single year. The purpose behind all of this spending is to create desire, making us want products and other things that......
I saw this video on YouTube and it has me wondering if it is really something we are going to be seeing in the coming future. The idea behind it is brilliant, although you only get to see a portion of the concept device in this video, it is worth checking out to try and get further details. It certainly is believable, especially since a portion of the computer (the projection keyboard) already exists, as I have reviewed one on this very blog. Look at the video and see if you are as amazed as I was, then consider if they are for real or just pulling our chain.
Text Away Wihout the Finger Cramps. I am not a fan of text messages. My thirteen year old daughter chooses this as her main source of communication. One day, I actually saw on the bill she had over 1,000 text messages, and yet zero talk minutes. I asked her "You do realize it's a phone, right?"......
The New Age of Movie Rentals If you are like most people who keep up with today's forever-changing culture, then you probably have some form of an iPod to conveniently carry around your favorite tunes wherever you go. Today's line of iPods offer far more than their predecessors, enabling us to watch TV shows, full-length films......
5 Gadgets I Couldn't Survive Without. I saw a video on youtube the other day, and it was this creepy looking guy going on about his 5 gadgets that he just couldn't live without. I guess I shouldn't call him creepy, but it just had a weird feeling when I watched it. However, he got me......
USB Office Gadgets Make Life A Bit Easier. With the all mighty USB port replacing those horrible, traditional serial ports from years ago, it has opened the door to a wide variety of invenetions that are both useful and help make our days more efficient. You remember those old serial ports, where you had to breakout a screwdriver......
Stonehenge Clock Is Sure To Mesmerize I have never seen anything like this before, but if I had a clock like this in the house I would surely find myself in front of it wasting away the hours in amazement. Of course there is some pure genious behind all of this, programming the clock to be......
Are You Utilizing Your Corporate Blog To its Full Potential? If you are running a corporate blog and you feel that you do not have the customer base and the blog is not doing well, you may not be using the blog to its fullest potential. There are a few areas you need to examine to evaluate your blog to......
Brand Advertising Review: TOMS Shoes As an early leader in the social entrepreneur wave, TOMS Shoes has inspired many to do better and make a real impact on the lives of thousands of people worldwide. TOMS has a simple one-for-one mission: when you buy a pair of TOMS Shoes, a pair is donated to a......
What is an RSS Feed and Why Syndicate Your Blog? Blog feeds or RSS feeds allow for feed readers to access a site that automatically looks for new content from all of their favorite blogs. By syndicating your blog through an RSS feed you can allow your readership to access all of your new blog posts without requiring them to......
Blogging – You’re Doing it WRONG! (Pt 1) Thatâs right, I said it. Youâre not blogging correctly. This two part article series will expand on my previous post, 4 Things Bloggers Do WRONG! There are a ton of blogs that are already established and a ton of new blogs getting started every single day. You wonât stand out......
Money Hacks Carnival #20 -- Personal Finance Destinations Unfortunately, our host this week was unable to fulfill the obligation, so the carnival is being hosted here at the Money Hackers Network site. This week, I will take you on a tour of the Personal Finance Blogosphere and share with you some of my favorite destinations. But first, here......
I despise the community fridge in our office. Moldy, out of date food and a constant malfunction in maintaining temperature really makes me question if anything left inside it is healthy. It has gotten to be so bad that I no longer bring in a lunch, which gets a little costly when I get a little hungry. I have checked into those personal, dorm-sized fridges on auction sites and want ads, but the thought of parking those ugly, brown boxes that can fit a few cans of soda really doesn’t appeal to me.
There must be a small group of office workers like me that feel the need to keep their personal food and drink items close to them at all times, and for us they have this little Mini Fridge/Warmer that would work perfectly for my needs.
The best feature here is the appearance. It fits nicely under most desks, and has a sharp look with the clear glass door and futuristic look. The fact that the temperature, which is controlled by a digital thermostat, can go from 44 degrees to 140 means you can either keep things ice cold or nice and warm, depending on your lunch for the day. Having such a versatile appliance at your feet will prevent you from ever having to get up from your desk altogether, unless of course you need a restroom break. I haven’t found any decent looking bedpans for office use, but believe you me I am actively searching. It’s not that I am lazy, I just hate running into the same crowd to and from my desk, getting caught up in those awkward, annoying conversations with people you spend all day trying to avoid. Tuck this away under your desk and nobody will even have a clue why they don’t see you anymore.
StashCard Foils Theives, And Annoys Co-workers Now you can foil those would-be pocket pickers with the StashCard, and inventive new way to hide your valuables and protect them from theivery. The StashCard is built to fit into your unused PC slot on your laptop, making it easy to slip your cash, memory cards, keys, or......
Watch Time Roll By Clockwatchers exist everywhere. They sit and stare at the minute hand, waiting for that final minute so they can call it quits and move on to the next part of their day. Kids do it during those dreadful classes, and us adults do it sitting at our desks. So......
Is Japan Really Thinking of Changing the Computer? I saw this video on YouTube and it has me wondering if it is really something we are going to be seeing in the coming future. The idea behind it is brilliant, although you only get to see a portion of the concept device in this video, it is worth......
Boring Workday? Why Not Bang a Drum! For those who have worked in the traditional office setting, you can probably relate to this. You know those days where you get to your desk, and find it hard to get going? After re-organizing your pen holder, shuffling papers from one pile to the next, and staring blankly at......
Attack of the Office Toys. In my continued efforts to finding the right toys to keep my workday flowing while avoiding work, I decided to do a follow-up on just what is out there for us bored and disgruntled workers. Searching both high and low, I found that the Finger Drum Set in my last......
Vintage Red Wine Storage Temperature is an unseen factor when it comes to collecting vintage red wine, and so it is a factor that is often neglected. Unfortunately, it plays a very, very large and significant role in bringing out the best or the worst in a bottle of wine, both when it comes......
Water Changes - Why Are They Performed Part of all aquarists maintenance routine should be performing a water change on the aquarium. Water changes are not just limited to saltwater aquarium - all home aquariums have a requirement for their water to be changed. I was doing my water change today as part of my weekly maintenance......
8 Easy Ways to Exercise Throughout the Day If you are finding that you don't have enough time to exercise due to a busy work or home life, there are techniques that you can use throughout the day that will accelerate your weight loss. Most of these can be done just about anywhere and only require a......
Works For Me Wednesday:Lunchtime With The Hubby! I always have such mixed feelings about where I live, but one thing I am sure of is the fact that I LOVE that my husband is able to come home for lunch during the week. His commute to work takes about 7 minutes and being lucky enough to live......
Consider a Mini Refrigerator for Your Office or Dorm Room You often see them all the time at super center stores. A mini refrigerator is a cheaper and smaller alternative to the larger size refrigerator you often find in your kitchen. However these mini fridges are not for your kitchen. They can be used in a multitude of other places......
Can you tell I am an oversleeper? A fan of the snooze button? Well, since I have been writing for this blog I have reviewed several alarm clocks aimed to prevent oversleeping. And you can add this one to the arsenal. The Sonic Bomb alarm clock is just as it sounds. Guaranteed to wake you up with a near heart attack, it pipes in with a volume just over a jackhammer (113 decibels). And if your ears don’t typically respond well to an alarm clock, just slip the bed shaker under your mattress and you’ll be popping up from dreamland like a Californian in the middle of an earthquake.
Its red and black appearance is a nice touch, and believe it or not it does have a snooze button, just in case you didn’t have your heart in your throat the first time. Get a sonic wake up and cure that oversleeping problem once and for all. I think with this I will never be late for another meeting again. I just hope my health insurance is in good standing. I better keep the phone nearby just in case of an emergency.
Safety From The Comfort Of Your License Plate This autmotive gadget is a life saver, literally. Every morning, when I back out of the garage for work, I take my kids' lives in my hands. Especially during school season, when they are waiting so patiently for the bus in front of our house. Some mornings I oversleep......
Stay On Top Of Emergencies Without Power With all of the storms raging across the country lately, the power companies are working overtime trying to restore electric to the millions of homes that have lost it during the floods, tornadoes, and severe thunder storms. Judging by the activity this early in the season, plan on a wet......
A Keychain Perfect for Sports Bars I laughed when I first saw this little gadget, but now I have been thinking of so many things I could do with it and I want one. It is a universal TV remote small enough to hold your keys. I know, sounds ridiculous, right? But just imagine the......
Tiny Charger...Big Power With Mother's Day fast approaching, I decided this year to begin my online browsing for a gift for my lovely wife from the kids a little earlier. After weeding through several web pages offering something "different" for moms this year, I came to the realization that the marketplace for Mother's......
Swiss Army Knife for the Office Warrior. I still remember my first swiss army knife my older brother handed down to me as a kid. I was always jealous of this one guy in my fourth grade class because he had one, and I forever begged my mom to get one for me. Of course trying to......
Choose the Best Carbon Monoxide Alarms Carbon monoxide alarms beep or whine to alert you to the presence of potentially deadly carbon monoxide gas in your home. Many people who would never dream of going without a working smoke detector or fire alarm still don't use carbon monoxide alarms. But carbon monoxide poisoning is the leading......
Transmutation of Energy In the case of cardiac nerve studies, they found heart nerves don’t seem to suffer any sort of energetic rejection. It doesn’t matter whose heart the heart tissue is from, if it’s still alive it will synchronize. There are stories of organ donees who have memories of their donors? Yes,......
Random Post: Never Seek the Gohonzon Outside Yourself At a discussion meeting this evening we discussed the subject; How has our practice influenced our view of the future. I thought about this and determined that my vision is extremely optimistic now as compared to previously in my life. I connected two passages from the very beginning and near......
How To Find The Right Criminal Advocate When facing criminal accusation it is important to have a lawyer handle the case with utmost care and professionalism. The outcome of the lawsuit can be a life changing occurrence for you. Hence, it is simple to understand how essential it is to appoint a good Criminal Defense Lawyer. Moreover,......
The New iH9 iPod Alarm Clock - The Latest Battery Alarm Clock of iHome by Paul J. Easton Meet the new iH9, the newest ihome battery alarm clock in town. This model is the all new and improved successor to the infamous iH8 iPod alarm clock radio. This iH9 iHome battery alarm clock has a number of new features due to public demands. This......
With more gadgets going wireless, the biggest thing now is to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi access areas that seem to be popping up all over the world. Working on the go has never been easier, and being able to park your butt with your laptop of PDA and enjoy connectivity at the drop of a hat is a great feeling. The only problem is, how do you know where those Wi-Fi access areas are? If you are strolling through New York City, pretty much the entire metropolitan area is hooked up. Smaller towns have coffee shops and libraries that advertise their free wireless access, but you are not always so lucky to have it spelled out on a sign for you. While many of the wireless electronics have their own built-in detectors, you also have the option of this little device that may save you time and energy when looking for a mobile workspace.
This Digital WiFi Detector will point you to the hottest Wi-Fi spots around. And what’s even better is the display will tell you not only where the signal is, but how strong a signal you can expect, ensuring you don’t sit down and set up shop only to find out that you are in a weak zone. The back lit LCD screen is a nice touch, allowing you to read it in even the darkest of days, and also lets you know about what encryption types are there for each network, if any.
Aimed at the traveling professional, you could also use this to ride around your neighborhood and see who is offering free, unencrypted wireless signal. Of course, I would never condone sponging off another person’s network, anyways. After all they can see what you are doing that way.
5 Gadgets I Couldn't Survive Without. I saw a video on youtube the other day, and it was this creepy looking guy going on about his 5 gadgets that he just couldn't live without. I guess I shouldn't call him creepy, but it just had a weird feeling when I watched it. However, he got me......
There's Nothing Fishy About This Mouse It seems like forever ago when the old "ball" mouse existed. The optical version has made life so much simpler, especially when you don't have to remove the ball and clean around the inside every two or three days. You can even use these newer versions on almost any......
Speak-A-Message Opens New Line Of Communication Ok, I have this argument with my daughter all the time. If the cell phone is a phone, why does she use it as an instant message device? The world of texting has made it so that our children are not going to know how to verbally communicate effectively.......
USB Office Gadgets Make Life A Bit Easier. With the all mighty USB port replacing those horrible, traditional serial ports from years ago, it has opened the door to a wide variety of invenetions that are both useful and help make our days more efficient. You remember those old serial ports, where you had to breakout a screwdriver......
Big Printer In A Small Package My job requires a lot of printing. As I have said time and time again on this blog, I travel quite a bit for work. Now, the printers we have available to us road warriors are a little smaller than an old 27" CRT television. You know, the ones......
Rancho Bernardo Inn Golf Resort & Spa, Rancho Bernardo, California Rancho Bernardo Inn Golf Resort & Spa is located in: Rancho Bernardo, California, United States Phone: (877) 517 9340 Website - http://www.ranchobernardoinn.com/ About the Course - The Rancho Bernardo Inn Golf Resort & Spa is one of the premier golf resorts in San Diego, pressed right up against all of......
VOIP Questions and Answers Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, has grown in popularity recently and with that rise in popularity has come a number of common misconceptions and confusion. Global Value Conncet ( http://globalvalueconnect.com ) has complied this simple guide to address some of these most common questions and concerns. What is VoIP......
Palm Pre Vs Palm Pixi The Palm Pixi has been called a cheaper Pre, this has even led to Palm being criticized by consumers who feel that the Pixi is nothing but updated hardware that was designed for making the Pre smaller. The Palm Pixi does offer a few features that differentiate it from the......
Contra Costa County Hike of the Miller Knox Regional Shoreline Location: The lagoon area of the Miller Knox regional shoreline in Contra Costa County's East Bay Regional Park The Hike: A single mile loop through park land located near Point Richmond Distance: This is a 1 mile walk that makes a full loop Category and Difficulty: This is an......
4 Ways a Virtual PBX Can Aid a Small Business Information and communication are the lifelines of small to medium-sized businesses. Blockages in the flow of day-to-day communication can not only prove to be irksome and inefficient, but can result in costly collateral repercussions. Inefficient modes of communication cause confusion and result in lost calls and sales. However, communication......
Ok, if you are ever in the need for a voice recorder, here is the ultimate solution. So light you won’t even know it is in your pocket, this Ultra-thin Digital Voice recorder has it all for the executive on the move. Forst, it is the size of a credit card and weighs only 36 grams, so you can carry it anywhere without the hassle of feeling it in your pocket. At 6.5 millimeters in thickness, you might just have to be careful it doesn’t fall through the cracks. But just because it is so light and compact doesn’t mean you are sacrificing any quality. Try filling up the 1GB of storage that holds up to 69 hours of voice recordings. You can record virtually everything you need with that much storage. And the 4.5 hour recording time in-between charging will ensure you will never miss out on an important conversation. And you can easily recharge the lithium-ion battery via your USB port on any computer. Perfect for anyone who needs to record conversations, interviews, or even document verbal evidence. You never know when you can take someone’s word nowadays. Sorry to be so cynical, but it is the world we live in today.
Warm Up The Workplace I have had several job over my professional career, and each one has been full of interesting people. But no matter which one I think of, there was always one or two of the "older" generation employees stationed near my cubicle and would complain more than not about the chilly......
Palm Sized Copter Packs Big Sized Fun. I say that one of the main purposes of modern day gadgetry is to cure boredom. Yes they make life easier and more efficient so we can pack even more on our plate of life, but what I am seeing more and more is new gizmos coming out that you......
Enjoy All the Wi-Fi Hotspots With more gadgets going wireless, the biggest thing now is to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi access areas that seem to be popping up all over the world. Working on the go has never been easier, and being able to park your butt with your laptop of PDA......
Stonehenge Clock Is Sure To Mesmerize I have never seen anything like this before, but if I had a clock like this in the house I would surely find myself in front of it wasting away the hours in amazement. Of course there is some pure genious behind all of this, programming the clock to be......
Boring Workday? Why Not Bang a Drum! For those who have worked in the traditional office setting, you can probably relate to this. You know those days where you get to your desk, and find it hard to get going? After re-organizing your pen holder, shuffling papers from one pile to the next, and staring blankly at......
Can Cheating Be Put To Stop With Vehicle Tracking? This is something you can find out. Confrontation is the main one as simply put if you know your partner that well you should be able to tell if they are lying or not. Of course you could always follow them around to see just where they are and......
Some Suggestions For Contemporary Office Space Planning In today's ever-changing business environment the requirements of an organization change very fast. The office design that suited an office a few years ago may be outmoded now. In keeping with the transformation in trends, companies should bring in modern design concepts to refashion their office layout and office......
Virtual Office and Answering Service In order to achieve your unique business goals, it is important to create a good impression on your clients and business partners. This is where an efficient telecommunication system becomes significant. By implementing hosted PBX virtual office and answering service, small businesses can establish a strong business presence in......
Small Office Voice Over IP PBX Phone Systems By implementing powerful small office voice over IP PBX phone systems, the unique telecommunication requirements of small and medium sized business organizations can be easily met. This phone system enables sharing of data, voice and videos rather effortlessly.Establish Business Presence at Minimum OverheadsSmall office voice over IP PBX phone......
Solar Garden Lights There are a myriad of different ways that you can improve the look of your country garden landscape, and one such way is to make use of solar garden lights. Solar garden lights present you with a super ecologically friendly and cost effective method of making your garden appear more......
In the “what’s out there to stop workday boredom” news lately, check out this USB Mini R/C Car that will surely keep your desk top going no matter how slow a workday you are having. Plugging into your USB port, the little R/C auto only needs 10 minutes of charge time before you start running through your obstacle course of pencils, erasers, cups, and more. The convenient garage houses the car when not in operation, so that your supervisor doesn’t catch you with non-work related toys on your desk. What a great way to relax and blow off a few minutes of steam.
Live Like a Soprano In Your Own Cubicle. Everybody wants to be a gangster, right? I know I watch the Godfather movies and Sopranos episodes, wishing a part of me could live a fraction of their lifestyle: danger, money and power. My sensible side knows not to follow those footsteps because of the ramifications of such activity. However,......
Remove The Hazards Of Working In An Office You know those days when nothing seems to be going right, and you are sitting at your desk working on a bunch of papers that just never seem to go away? Just was you are thinking you are safe tucked away in your cubicle, bam! You reach for the papers......
Warm Up The Workplace I have had several job over my professional career, and each one has been full of interesting people. But no matter which one I think of, there was always one or two of the "older" generation employees stationed near my cubicle and would complain more than not about the chilly......
USB Office Gadgets Make Life A Bit Easier. With the all mighty USB port replacing those horrible, traditional serial ports from years ago, it has opened the door to a wide variety of invenetions that are both useful and help make our days more efficient. You remember those old serial ports, where you had to breakout a screwdriver......
Spread Unlimited Power With USB-Chargeable Batteries. Do you know how many times I change batteries in my house? Remote contols for the TV and DVD player, the guitar for the kids' Guitar Hero video game, those toys that the kids get for gifts on Christmas and birthdays that never seem to stop. They are all battery......
When Seconds Count, The Police are Just Minutes Away Guns kill people. What an ignorant statement. Search the blogs and left news sites and youâll find an endless number of morons spouting off that statement. Have we become a county of senseless sissies? I think not. There is just a small number of morons out there, but they are......
Timing Home Improvement Service Properly With the economy in the shape it currently is in, any money that you can save through the completion of handyman projects at home is definitely going to be welcome money at this point in time. That having been said, one way in which you can save money on different......
Smart USA Announces Pricing - Base Model Car Will Be $11,590. If you ask me it seems kind of pricey, seeing as how it only holds 2 people. For 11 grand I could get a 2 year old Honda Civic that fits 5, has a trunk and gets gas mileage almost as good as the Smart Car does. Oh well,......
T.W.C sucks and new computer parts mmmm Have sold a few bracelets and have some others being sold by friends and family. I have a few ideas for getting the word out, so we shall see. So I wanted a HD cable box for here in my office. So I figure I'll just put the existing HD......
Shop Smarter This Christmas Now that fall is here we know that winter is soon coming afterward. If you are a parent, you know that your kids are now starting to make their wishes known hoping that Santa and his secret surveillance system, i.e. You, will take note and start preparing the gifts......
I have had several moments in my life where I have “almost” forgot my cell phone. Bars, restaurants, even rides at Disney World, have all played a temporary home to my cell phone. I have made the trip the following morning to claim my phone, and amazingly enough I have yet to experience a time where it couldn’t be found. But my time is due.
For those of us who are forgetful when it comes to our cellular buddy, there is the BlueAlert Bluetooth bracelet to save us from that temporary loss. Not only does this bracelet sync up to your Bluetooth capable phone, alerting you to every phone call (just in case you are like me and can never feel the vibrations when the ringer is off), but it signals you whenever you travel more than 5 meters away from your cell. Talk about multi-functional. Nothing fancy, this plain and simple bracelet can be a very useful tool in saving your life, especially if you are one that depends highly on their cellular device.
It may look corny to wear around your wrist, but trust me it will be worth the clash in wardrobe. And with an increasing number of gadgets connecting with Bluetooth technology lately, it may b more handy than you think.
Long Time Player Re-enters the Game After sitting in the background these past few years in the race for the best mp3 player, the company that first introduced the world to portable music is getting into the game and has shown up with a pretty decent player. Sony made the name "Walkman" common in the 1980's.......
Stay On Top Of Emergencies Without Power With all of the storms raging across the country lately, the power companies are working overtime trying to restore electric to the millions of homes that have lost it during the floods, tornadoes, and severe thunder storms. Judging by the activity this early in the season, plan on a wet......
Enjoy All the Wi-Fi Hotspots With more gadgets going wireless, the biggest thing now is to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi access areas that seem to be popping up all over the world. Working on the go has never been easier, and being able to park your butt with your laptop of PDA......
Extend Your Cell Reception And Reduce Dropped Calls This cell phone signal extender apparently can take care of my cell issues around the house. Tell me if you have this similar problem. I live on a few backroads, so whenever I attempt to use my cell phone I find myself walking around the house, the front porch, the......
Text Away Wihout the Finger Cramps. I am not a fan of text messages. My thirteen year old daughter chooses this as her main source of communication. One day, I actually saw on the bill she had over 1,000 text messages, and yet zero talk minutes. I asked her "You do realize it's a phone, right?"......
Still Visiting Everyone I Ever Met... But Featured in US News It's been a hectic weekend, and it might end with me literally seeing most everyone I have known in the past 10 years. Most days, my wife and I have been visiting three people for three to four hours scattered across the Boston area. I thought this was going to......
An Overview of Wireless Networking Whether you want to make a phone call from your mobile, receive a message on your pager, or check your email from a PDA, we have come across a wireless data or voice network. If a user or a company wants to make data portable then Wireless networking is......
The Right Safety Gear For Boating Before you decide to head out to a lake, stream, river or on the ocean, having the right safety gear on your boat is essential. Thousands of people die or are injured every year because they are not using the right equipment. You can avoid joining these statistics by taking......
Telephones For Telecommuters Why fight the Traffic? Retrofit your business PBX phone system to enable telecommuting.Your employees are faced with exasperating traffic jams, wasted hours commuting and expensive gas prices. They want jobs closer to home. Telecommuting can be a strategic business advantage for companies that successfully implement it. It's time to......
How Your Business Can Benefit From a VoIP Phone System Imagine the convenience of being able to read your voicemails on your computer. No need to dial into your phones voicemail and try to take notes on a long, detailed message. The information is available in written form right on your computer. This convenience is just one of the......
I have been looking around for motion sensor light switches for years, mainly because of the increasing amount of teenagers that enter my house and decide not to remember to turn them off. But somehow I always forget to pick a few up when at the hardware store. Since I have begun this journey for the perfect solution, there have been a wide variety of products out there that have really peaked my interest. For example, take a look at this SensorPlug motion activated electrical outlet. I can really use this for more than just my lights. Radios, televisions, annoying little gizmos that my dear children seem to think magically tuen off by themselves. I know I have ranted about this in some of my older posts, but imagine that I am still being haunted by the very same problem. I really have nobody but my procrastination to blame.
The SensorPlug keeps thing nice and simple. You don’t have to install anything, you just easily plug it into your existing outlet, then plug your device(s) into it and you are done. You can set the timer to shut down after 2 to 5 minutes of inactivity to fit your personal preferences. Whenever motion is detected, the timer resets. And the sensor offers a wide angle range to fit any spot in the house. You can even put one in the office and see who’s nodding off at their desk.
You will really enjoy one of these at your home, especially if your kids are like mine. I am not too sure if the electrical bill will reflect any savings with the rising energy costs of this world, but it will sure be nice to not have to run through the house every ten minutes turning everything off.
Jawbone: Bluetooth Technology With A Touch Of Style I was looking for a decent wireless earpiece for my cell phone the other day, and I came across some interesting looking devices I must say. I always see people in the street, at the store, at baseball games, driving down the highway, all wearing some sort of headset......
Bring Your iPod To Life For those of you who have never experienced the sound quality of a Bose system, you need to go to your local electronics store and do so immediately. Forget reading the rest of this post, even, until you get back to your computer. And most likely, you will have......
Netflix Now Available Instantly On Your TV! For those of you who have no idea what Netflix is, stop reading this and go here. You can come back once you've boned up on your knowledge. Most people have seen their ads enough through online banners and are probably sick of it by now. We started using Netflix......
Attack of the Office Toys. In my continued efforts to finding the right toys to keep my workday flowing while avoiding work, I decided to do a follow-up on just what is out there for us bored and disgruntled workers. Searching both high and low, I found that the Finger Drum Set in my last......
Vroom Vroom Your Workday Away In the "what's out there to stop workday boredom" news lately, check out this USB Mini R/C Car that will surely keep your desk top going no matter how slow a workday you are having. Plugging into your USB port, the little R/C auto only needs 10 minutes of charge......
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Colorado Ski Resorts Among the most popular of all ski resorts in the entire world you are going to find numerous Denver-area ski resorts. The most commonly heard of Colorado ski resorts are Aspen and Vail, though there are numerous other ones to choose from. It does not matter whether you have skied......
Green Electric Hybrid Car There is a revolution going on right now that has many consumers purchasing electric cars, hybrid cars and other green vehicles and cars as a means of increasing the efficiency of their vehicles while decreasing the emissions that their cars create while they are on the road. While one way......
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What You Should Know About The Best Camping Generator Looking for a camping generator can be hard if you don't know what you are really looking for. With so many options of generators out there how do you really know what you should be looking for. Trying to generate power for your computer, your stove, laptop and coffee......
Clockwatchers exist everywhere. They sit and stare at the minute hand, waiting for that final minute so they can call it quits and move on to the next part of their day. Kids do it during those dreadful classes, and us adults do it sitting at our desks. So if we are going to let time manage our every minute, at least we should have a way that makes watching time interesting.
This clock is sure to take your attention, even during the not so boring moments of life. The Time Machine clock is a kinetic timepiece that transfers a chrome ball every 60 seconds, alerting you that a minute has passed. Each minute shifts the line of balls until the passing of the hour, where the entire system begins again. It looks cool, and provides more entertainment than the standard white clock face, with that red second hand that always seemed to move way too fast yet never got you any farther.
You don’t have to be a physics nut to enjoy this one. Place it anywhere you might find some boredom and be amazed.
Remove The Hazards Of Working In An Office You know those days when nothing seems to be going right, and you are sitting at your desk working on a bunch of papers that just never seem to go away? Just was you are thinking you are safe tucked away in your cubicle, bam! You reach for the papers......
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Big Printer In A Small Package My job requires a lot of printing. As I have said time and time again on this blog, I travel quite a bit for work. Now, the printers we have available to us road warriors are a little smaller than an old 27" CRT television. You know, the ones......
StashCard Foils Theives, And Annoys Co-workers Now you can foil those would-be pocket pickers with the StashCard, and inventive new way to hide your valuables and protect them from theivery. The StashCard is built to fit into your unused PC slot on your laptop, making it easy to slip your cash, memory cards, keys, or......
Are Romances Built On Hormones A Good Thing? by Tracy Cooper-Posey, guest blogger and author of Betting with Lucifer. I’ve been touring Betting With Lucifer around a few stops now, and a lot of the feedback I’ve been getting is that it’s a great “old fashioned romance” where the characters really get to know each other as......
Grandma jailed for 15 days by mistake [/caption] A 78-year-old Hallandale Beach grandmother ticketed for driving on a suspended driver's license spent 15 days in jail before authorities announced her license wasn't suspended and an outraged judge set her free. County Court Judge Lee J. Seidman ordered Gabrielle Shaink Trudeau's release in December at her arraignment. "She's......
Open Letter to Miami-Dade Police Department: This is UNACCEPTABLE! chose to stop on is apparently very well lit and that it's very hard for a 'bad guy' to get an official police vehicle (LIES!) and that that rule only applies to unmarked vehicles.nnExcuse me?nnNo.nn 1. I am girl, traveling in my car by myself and it's dark outside.n 2....
My Year End Financial Performance Review Mr. ToughMoneyLove has spent a good part of the past five months being critical of others who use poor judgment in matters of personal finance. Many of my targets have been politicians, Wall Street investment bankers, and disciples of the almighty credit score. Depending on your own attitude about these subjects,......
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