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How to Live Without a Personal Computer

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

After my laptop broke, I was in despair wondering how I would get along without my own personal computer.  Though it was hard at first, it seemingly became easier as time went by.  Live without a personal computer is doable if you have the right tools to do it.

How I Live Without a Personal Computer
Some of the tools I use now are 1) an external hard drive for saving all the data I need. 2) a cell phone with wifi for checking my websites and chatting with friends.  With these two tools, its easier to not miss my laptop computer.  I can even watch movies on my cellphone if I wish.  In many ways my cellphone can be my computer, minus the ability to move a mouse which does make things harder.

I spend many hours on friends computers, in internet cafes, and on my cellphone.  Sure it can be a pain, but it can be freeing.

What Would You Do Without a Computer
I realized after my computer was gone how hard it was to live without it.  Most of my entertainment is tied up in my computer.  This includes movies, music, phone calls, chatting, work, the list goes on.  One little device can do so much, and without it, it’s like losing your swiss army knife of connectivity.

This brings me the question.  If the internet went down around the world, could everyone cope?

Fizy The Fastest Music Search Engine

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

I’d have to give the title to Fizy for the fastest music search so far I have experienced.  With Fizy you can quickly find songs all over the internet.  One type onto Fizy and you will locate both songs and music videos of any artist or song title before you can blink.

Features of the Fizy Music Search Engine include a listing of the length of the track, and to listen to the track as a standard audio track with the option often to view the video if you so wish. Basically this is a great way to search for all the music you could ask for. They even filter 30 language so you can find almost any song.

Fizy can be accessed at Fizy.com

How to Defeat Spam, Become Spam Free

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Spam, it is not only deadly, but a fierce enemy. Sure everyone’s goal is to be spam free, but is spam something that you are going to defeat easily? No. I’d like to tell you it is possible to live in a nearly spam free world, but alas this is far from the truth.

Cost to deliver one million spam messages? Little, close to nothing.

Ways to Defeat Spam and Become ‘Nearly’ Spam Free
1. Email – Start with your email. Take the time to use the unsubscribe feature at the bottom of most spam emails.  Set up email rules.  I use web.de and can setup special rules so that whenever I get an email from a certain email address, it will automatically become deleted.
2. Browsing – Make sure your adblocker is on.  Popup ads can be blocked easily.
3. Visual - There is such a thing as visual pollution/spam the billboards that you seem forced to stare at.  Unfortunately there is no good way to get rid of these… legally.
4. TV Ads - Watch all your television delayed. Anything live and you’ll end up wasting 15 minutes watching tv ads.

We are getting bombarded everyday with more and more ads, spam, and other distractions. Already they’ve come to our phones, our email, our postal mail, our phonelines.  Sometimes it seems as if everyone wants to sell you something.  Sure you will never be ad free, but at least taking a few steps to reduce that might just save you time from deleting spam, watching commercials, and any other daily distractions.

Cheapest HD TV Projector, My Cheap HD TV

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

What would it cost for a 60 inch HD TV? How about $150?  The cheapest HD TV Projector might be easier than you think.  With my current setup, infocus projector and HD TV Tuner the whole setup cost me $160.

Getting the Cheapest HD TV Projector
I used eBay to get my InFocus projector for $150 which works well for the price with still at least 1500 hours on the bulb.  Keep in mind if you watch TV day and night a projector might not be the best option.  But for those who prefer HD at night from a PC and HD tuner, this is a great option, portability and a gret price.

Building Your Own HD TV Projector
For like $100 you can build your own high quality projector.  But keep in mind these methods are far from portability.  If you travel like me, getting a standard projector is the best way to have big screen on the go, but if you just need a basement movie theater, build your own!  I wrote earlier on how to do it HERE.

What About the HD Tuner for the Projector?
Oh yeah getting one cheap? Well if you haven’t gotten your HD converter box yet, get it now!  Though this isn’t ‘true’ HD, it comes close.  Using the S-video output on my Apex DT250, I am able to get a very good picture.  Keep in mind it only gets HD Signal broadcast over the airwaves.