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CostCaptain.com Authorized by Microsoft

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Do you like the Microsoft products? Have you ever wanted to learn more about Microsoft Office 2007 or take advantage of the great things it has to offer? What about some of the other programs like Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Accounting or Microsoft Money; any interest in these popular Microsoft products?

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You will get 100% authentic Microsoft products at academic discounts. There is a Vista upgrade available that starts at $89. Buyers just need to provide academic eligibility and after that, their product is shipped. You will always find that the customer service is friendly and helpful from CostCaptain.com; for getting you connected with all of these great products from Microsoft. Start learning more about these programs and see how they can help you to achieve a higher level of learning or a helpful tool on the computer.

World Ends December 21, 2012

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I watched an interesting program last night on television. It was talking about all the oracles or prophets over time and how they have made predictions that came true. Many of these predictions are vague and are left for interpetation. So it’s hard to say a lot of these are actually right. They are a lot of different predictions that people have interpeted into our time today; that seem to fit.

Now the one big thing that a lot of different prophets was focusing on was the end of the world. It would occur in the 21st century; which we are now currently living in. They even went on futher in some cases and got to the date December 21, 2012. On that date is when a blackhole in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy will be lined up with the Earth and the sun. When this perfect alignment occurs; it is thought the poles will change places. It’s already believed that this has happened in the past. Some believe that Alaska was once on the equator and could return there again on December 21, 2012.

The poles could change quickly or might take several days to do so. The change will result in mass distinction for a lot of plants and animals currently living on our Earth. This could be the last day for man, but with 7 billion people in the world; you would think a couple of us will survive this big climate change. That’s what they were talking about last night on the History Channel. I guess for now it’s just a wait and see thing. You know this would have to happen on a Presidential Election year too!

A Battery For Every Need

Friday, January 18th, 2008

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Your cell phone, car, remote control, camera and laptop all have something in common. They need a battery to run on. The battery is the engine for the electronics world and there is only one place to go when you need that new battery! All Bats is nothing but batteries and it’s the only thing they do. If you need ibm laptop batteries or just a battery for the cordless phone; it can be found at All Bats.

Our camcorder needs a new battery and I will have to be buying one soon. We had it plugged into the charger during a lightning storm and lightning came through the electricity and damaged the battery we have now. We own a Panasonic camcorder and I went to All Bats and clicked on “camcorders” on the right-hand side of their homepage. From there I was given a list of dozens of companies to select from. Panasonic was on their list, so I clicked it on and seen about a million choices to choose from. Okay, maybe not a million but there were a bunch, I’m guessing easily over a hundred choices of Panasonic camcorder batteries. So now it’s just a matter of matching up my model number to the choices All Bats have available. If you need a battery for anything and I mean anything, just take a look at All Bats and you won’t have to look any place else!

Pay Per Play Advertising

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Is pay per play advertising going to be the best new thing since sliced bread? Well this really isn’t new and it has been around for a little over 2 years now. What is going to be new is the amount of advertisers that’s going to start using these pay per play ads to promote their companies or products with. Net Audio Ads is going to open up a whole new stream of advertising for marketers and people that want extra exposure for something. While all the advertisers will be lining up to get in on this new form of advertising, there is something you can do to get in on all the fun.

People that are webmasters or have their own websites on the internet can place these net audio ads on their websites. When someone visits your website they will get to hear a short audio advertisement for somebody like Taco Bell or Harley Davidson. This is similar to some of the click-on ads that people get paid money for each time someone clicks the ad. You can find a lot of websites out there now that host these click-on ads. If someone visits your website and doesn’t click on those ads, you don’t make anything from it. Your visitors must click the ad to receive credit, but this isn’t how these pay per play ads are going to work! You will get credit each time someone just visits your website, because the net audio ads will play instantly on their arrival to your site. So your visitors want have to click anything for you to get credit!

If you have your own website and would like to host these pay per play ads, be sure to sign up now. If you hurry and sign up right away, you can join in the affiliate program and earn even more money from your referrals. You must do this by February 1st or you won’t be able to take advantage of the affiliate program. Everyone that signs up before that date can continue to enjoy all the benefits from the affiliate program after February 1st, 2008! If you’re looking to get in on the ground floor of the next big thing, now is the time to sign up! NetAudioAds is going to be backed by one of the big 5 search engines.

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Package Instructions

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Those Christmas gifts are getting harder and harder to figure out. The instructions are in so many languages now, it’s hard to find the english ones. Sometimes you can get a book with a technology gadget and it takes a long time just to find the english instructions. Usually the instructions are not that long, but when you write them up in 10 languages, they have to give you a book to cover all of them.

I’m not one that really follows instructions too well anyways. I’m more the type of person that just tries to eye-it-out and pushes and shoves things into place. Sometimes I end up breaking something that I shouldn’t, but I usually can get the thing to work a little bit! I just wish that manufactures would choose some other way of distributing their multi-language instruction books that they insert into their electronic gadgets.

Web Hosting Plans

Monday, December 17th, 2007

You can now get three great web hosting plans with Network Solutions. Web Hosting Services are important to those webmasters that have to host their own websites on. These services should be easy-to-use and at a fair price. Network Solutions offers 3 different plans that will help meet your website needs and your pocket book. Their best value plan is the Advanced Web Hosting and you can start with this plan for less than $14 a month, when you purchase it annually. Your Advanced Web Hosting plan includes 15 GB Disk Space, 400 GB Monthly Data Transfer, 6 FTP Accounts, 100 E-mailboxes and 40 Directory Pointers. That’s a lot of information that they are willing to host for you each month and this plan should take care of the majority of webmasters needing a good Web Hosting service.

There is a smaller plan and a larger plan available to help meet the needs of others. The basic Web Hosting is less than 10 dollars a month and includes everything the Advanced Web Hosting plan has, but just less of it. For those needing more disk space and a monthly transfer rate can get the Pro Web Hosting from Network Solutions. This hosting plan has everything the Advanced Web Hosting plan has with just a lot more of it! So if you need a good hosting company to host your website on, please be sure to check with Network Solutions and see if one of their hosting plans is right for you.

Top Tech Blogs

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

It seems like everyone has a blog these days. They are a lot of good blogs that deal with technology and all the latest gadgets on the market. These are great blogs to learn about all the new and exciting products that are available now or will become available to us soon.

According to a recent MSN article, they rank some of the best technology blogs out there. My blog didn’t get noticed, but my blog has a wider target base than just technology. These blogs deal directly with the technology market that exists out there now.

1. Slashdot

2. Engadget and Gizmodo

3. TechCrunch

4. Ars Journals

5. ReadWriteWeb

6. Scobleizer

7. Epicenter

8. GigaOM

9. ValleyWag

10. Good Morning Silicon Valley

That is rank of the top 10 blogs for the 100 that they listed. I think number 10 ( Good Morning Silicon Valley ) is a great name for a blog. I’m gonna have to go through each one of these individually and see which ones I like the best. Some of the other notable blogs that got my attention by their titles were:

Tivo Blog

The Official Google Blog

GM Fastlane

BloggingHeads.tv

Danger Room

PaidContent.org

Cartoon Brew

Mental Floss

38 Pitches

Blog Maverick

I Can Has Cheezeburger

Those are some of the ones that caught my eye. The 38 Pitches is a blog by the Boston Red Sox Curt Schilling and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s blog is Blog Maverick. They would seem like sports blogs, but I guess they have a tech-side for them to appear in the list. The GM Fastlane blog deals with the GM cars and a big board member posts on it regularly that makes it attractive. I really like the name of the Mental Floss blog and is obviously a description from “dental floss”. It was one of the best blogs I seen, based on just the name of it. Be sure to let me know some of your favorite technology blogs.

Clocks by Howard Miller

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Anyone looking for a clock or is in the market for one, should really look at all the one’s Howard Miller has in stock. So many to choose from and there’s really some great information you can find from their blog. One article even deals with selecting the perfect interior clock or a designer for a clock that you might want to put in your office or home.

The Howard Miller clocks are really some of the best clocks you will find out there today. No other companies today put the beauty and design efforts like the guys do from Howard Miller. They come in a variety of designs and prices and it’s easy to find the perfect clock for you; when you see all the choices they have available.

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The Howard Miller Majestic Grandfather Clock is one of the clocks I would like to have in my living room. It’s a large curio floor clock from the Broadmour collection. It has a special cast dial that really brings out the elaborate corner spandrels and center disk with an astrological, blue moon phase. There are several other grandfather clocks you can choose from at Howard Miller. Let me know which grandfather clock you like the best?

Some of the other clocks you can find at Howard Miller are the Grandmother Clocks, Mantel Clocks, Wall Clocks, and even some watches. Also, be sure to look for their Home Decor, Fine Jewelry, and all the New Clocks that they have available right now.

You will notice a lot of different makers that can be found at Howard Miller’s too. The clocks made by Ridgeway, Chelsea, Bulova, Hermle, and Movado are just a small sampling of the clock makers you will see in their huge collection. So there’s no need to ask anybody else what the time is, when you buy one of these beautiful clocks from Howard Miller for your home, office, or it even makes a great gift idea with the holiday season just right around the corner.

Have you ever heard of the atomic clocks before? These things always have the correct time and it’s because a place in Fort Collins, Colorado keeps them all on time. It’s fascinating to learn how these atomic clocks work; for anyone that isn’t that familiar with the atomic clocks. You will also be able to find one of these atomic clocks for the road, if anyone needs a traveling atomic clock. Be sure to look at all the clocks Howard Miller has to offer, and let me know which one you own or would like to own!

Have a Coke and a Smile

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Do you enjoy drinking Coke as much as I do? I think Coke is just a piece of America that is as popular as apple pie and baseball. What would America be without Coke? If you love Coke then don’t forget about one of their newer products that a lot of people have been enjoying in Coke zero. I think you will find the same great taste with Coke Zero and less of other things that you might not want in your soda.

Now Coke has a fun way to spend some time on the computer. I’m not sure exactly how they do it, but you now can make your own little movies online. They took some old movie clips and now you can type in some text and the characters in the movie will say what you type. Does that sound great or what? I have already had lots of fun playing around with it, and I’m sure you will to if you give it a try. Don’t forget to save your work and send it to your friends and show them just how creative you are. It’s really hilarious listening to these characters saying some of the crazy things you can make them say. I took the comedy approach when I made my movie, but you can make yours more of a serious tone. So Coke is giving you the chance to script your own movie and I have no doubts you will love it, if you just give it a try. It’s very simple to do and will truly make having that Coke with a smile!

Fireworks and the 4th

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Well I am sitting in my bedroom now and it’s about 10 at night. I can hear fireworks going off in full effect as the people in my neighborhood are celebrating the 4th of July. Thanks to all the troops and their families that are currently serving in the military and for all those brave men and women that have served in the past. I salute you all and know that we can enjoy the fireworks on this day, due to all your hard work and sacrifice.

I think fireworks seem to go higher, brighter, and louder every year. It’s amazing the way they create those little boogers. I wouldn’t even know where to begin, if I had to create some sort of firework. I just hope it isn’t too dry out there and no fires get started from everyone shooting off their fireworks.

I hear the military has some sort of “firework” (if you know more about this special weapon please chime in) that can create daylight during the night. It is something they can shoot up in the air and will show them where the enemy is at. For anyone that has seen this (which I haven’t) they say it’s amazing at how this type of firework can just brighten everything up and it last for several minutes. I have seen the older war movies where the enemy troops move across a field and our troops shoot one of these up in the air and it exposes them easy for the troops to begin firing at them with their guns. It looks pretty neat on the movies when they do this, but they say the modern technology of these things is really amazing now at just how long and how big of an area it will light up. I wouldn’t mind seeing one of these U.S. Military weapons shot off on the 4th of July, so I could see what everyone is talking about. Have a happy and safe 4th of July!

Heavy Equipment Operators

Friday, June 29th, 2007

For all the heavy equipment operators out there or people that are wanting to become heavy equipment operators. They will now have the benefits of seeing live videos and animation to help them work better with heavy equipment and most importantly, doing it in the safest manner possible. These videos should be very helpful to all the heavy equipment operators.

Many of the accidents that occur with heavy equipment are preventable. I believe NAHETS plans to use these videos to help prevent the accidents that are occurring now. A lot of rental companies will rent out skid steers everyday to hundreds of people. These skid steers are dangerous or can be, when they are not used properly. When used correctly they can be a very helpful tool, and hopefully these safety videos pertaining to skid steers will be seen by the operators before using the equipment.

PRESS RELEASE

The National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools NAHETS, has become an approved video training publisher with the
popular website www.howstuffworks.com.
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Matt Klabacka, NAHETS President states, “This is a major milestone for NAHETS to achieve the status of “training content provider” for one of the Internets most popular self-help websites.”

HowStuffWorks is the leading source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site has since grown to be an award-winning online resource for millions of people of all ages.

NAHETS curriculum development department and internet video department, in conjunction with yellow metal tv, have created a series of heavy equipment training videos entitled, “Yellow Metal Boot Camp.”

Skid Steer Yellow Metal Boot Camp Sample 1
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The skid steer series represents the first of many training videos that NAHETS and Yellow Metal Boot Camp will produce, and includes live footage and 3-D animation. Each series begins with a “Safety First” component emphasizing the importance of safe operation of the equipment. NAHETS will publish, and disseminate these into the web 2.0 environment.
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Klabacka says, “NAHETS is focused on a long term strategy in providing quality, publicly
available, heavy equipment specific, instructional material in a rich media environment.”

According to Klabacka, “heavy equipment instruction, which is made available to the public, can improve the results obtained through the equipment’s use, increase the longevity of the machines, reduce property damage and accidents, and, most importantly, help to cut down
on the number of injuries and even save lives.”

Heavy equipment accidents are common and many are preventable. After watching the Yellow Metal Boot Camp Skid Steer Safety module, Klabacka stated “Every skid steer rented in the country should come with this basic safety video.”

“Equipment rental companies across the country are renting hundreds
of skid steers every day and many of the operators are clueless on safety matters regarding this very useful, yet potentially dangerous piece of heavy equipment.”

Science Fiction Audio Books

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

You can now get some of your favorite science fiction books downloaded straight to your computer. This is a great way for science fiction lovers to simply start downloading audio books from online. Getting all your favorite science fiction audio books can be easily done now. AnEarForBooks offers a lot more than just the science fiction books. You will also be able to download books in business, history, humor, radio shows, self help books, and TV & film. There is a lot of choices to choose from and if you were looking for religion or spiritual audio books, then AnEarForBooks.com can help you find those too!

I have never downloaded an audio book before, but it sounds like a great new way to get more exposure for books. If you have downloaded an audio book before, let me know which one you downloaded and would you be willing to download an audio book again?

Rambus Memory

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Adding Rambus Memory to your computer is a great idea! Getting more memory for your computer will allow you to save more songs and keep more files in your folders. It’s really easy to eat up memory on our computers these days. There are so many programs that just take up a lot of memory to perform correctly. So it never hurts to have as much memory on your computer as possible.

CheapestRDRAM.com makes it simple to upgrade memory on your computer. They will help you along the entire process to make sure your memory is installed correctly on your computer. They have an easy-to-use tool on their website to see what memory is compatible with your computer system. If you want to get Rambus RDRAM RIMM Memory, then get over to their website and learn about all the advantages of having more memory on your computer and how their prices are the cheapest around!