I'll still continue updating this one. I'm waiting to be approved for adsense. Should only take about a week. I start my college courses on the 28th. I've been doing a lot of online shopping to find cheaper books.
Also this year I'm going to buy 2 Ebooks. I'll see how that works out. I didn't know how it worked in the beginning but once you buy the Ebook it's only on your computer for a limited time. So you don't get to keep them permanently. However I am looking for other sites to buy books and college supplies. I found the easiest way of finding the cheapest price is to Google the ISBN.
It's been a while since I have wrote anything. My other blog is here. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to combine both of these blogs onto a main site, then I'll provide my viewers the link.
Comments, suggestions, ideas, and anything else is welcome as well.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Banned commercials!
Ever go on Youtube and type in "banned commercials" they may not all be American, the reason i say that is because a couple of them were in french, but still it is a way to take some time out of your day if you have nothing else better to do.
Lots of these are hilarious and i guess t.v. figured they were to much. Although it's kind of hypocritical, all of a sudden somethings to obscene to be on t.v. even though it's been on their for the longest time. It just makes no sense to me.
I think personally the rating system is a load of crap. If the people who actually rated the films, movies, music, and games actually had a life and weren't so stiff if you know what I mean. Their decisions wouldn't be so ridiculous.
Heres what kind of ticks me off though. You go into a store pickup a game that's animated, mind you it's probably made for kids. But no you have to pull out your i.d. to make sure you're of age. Who came up with this idea seriously ? It's not like it's drugs or something, and I don't think that if you play a game, kill somebody in the game. You're just gonna pop-up with the idea "oh i'm gonna kill someone" that's honestly the dumbest thing i've ever heard of in my life.
For all the kids out there that want to play a game without showing their i.d. you can go online and play Americas Army, among many other games where you can "kill" other players. That's what I think is stupid. You can go online, download tons of games for FREE and you can kill all day long, no rating system on that thank god. Anyways my point is you can download games for free kill all day long even if your 12, go to a store and they want to see your i.d. oh and you have to pay?
Free games are better although they do get boring, as do all games. The downloads can be sometimes huge depending on what you want to play ranging from 1 megabyte to 4 gigabytes. They could be more or less who knows. If your sitting on a t3 connection then your set, if you're on dial-up however you might as well walk down to the store, buy a game, play it for a month or two, go on a weeks vacation and your download might be done.
I don't know how long it would take someone to download 4 gigs on a dial-up connection but i know just to check my e-mail on dial-up it took me 15 minutes. I went and watched t.v., ate, and read a magazine and it still wasn't done. Obviously i'm just knocking the whole dial-up idea but you get the point of course.
Tell me what you think, although this was a mixed blog post of everything, post your commentary, suggestions, and what you think on how our wonderful government rates what we watch and play!!!
Lots of these are hilarious and i guess t.v. figured they were to much. Although it's kind of hypocritical, all of a sudden somethings to obscene to be on t.v. even though it's been on their for the longest time. It just makes no sense to me.
I think personally the rating system is a load of crap. If the people who actually rated the films, movies, music, and games actually had a life and weren't so stiff if you know what I mean. Their decisions wouldn't be so ridiculous.
Heres what kind of ticks me off though. You go into a store pickup a game that's animated, mind you it's probably made for kids. But no you have to pull out your i.d. to make sure you're of age. Who came up with this idea seriously ? It's not like it's drugs or something, and I don't think that if you play a game, kill somebody in the game. You're just gonna pop-up with the idea "oh i'm gonna kill someone" that's honestly the dumbest thing i've ever heard of in my life.
For all the kids out there that want to play a game without showing their i.d. you can go online and play Americas Army, among many other games where you can "kill" other players. That's what I think is stupid. You can go online, download tons of games for FREE and you can kill all day long, no rating system on that thank god. Anyways my point is you can download games for free kill all day long even if your 12, go to a store and they want to see your i.d. oh and you have to pay?
Free games are better although they do get boring, as do all games. The downloads can be sometimes huge depending on what you want to play ranging from 1 megabyte to 4 gigabytes. They could be more or less who knows. If your sitting on a t3 connection then your set, if you're on dial-up however you might as well walk down to the store, buy a game, play it for a month or two, go on a weeks vacation and your download might be done.
I don't know how long it would take someone to download 4 gigs on a dial-up connection but i know just to check my e-mail on dial-up it took me 15 minutes. I went and watched t.v., ate, and read a magazine and it still wasn't done. Obviously i'm just knocking the whole dial-up idea but you get the point of course.
Tell me what you think, although this was a mixed blog post of everything, post your commentary, suggestions, and what you think on how our wonderful government rates what we watch and play!!!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Useless products.
We were looking online the other day and they had a rabbit pee catcher. Now what's the chance of your rabbit purposely peeing outside of the cage ? Kind of makes me wonder who invented the product in the first place.
I'm sure there are many more useless things you can buy out there. If you look on google, you should find some rather hilarious products like the ones explained on this website here.
Bringing this up makes me think of not so useless products, but I have one particular item in mind. The magic bullet. It was a good idea and all of that but it's a piece of crap. Maybe other people have had more success than me with it but after about 5 minutes of using it, you could smell the motor over-heating.
The only useful product that i've bought that was "as advertised on t.v." was the double boiler fondue set. This was actually useful. Since you could go out to wal-mart or kroger. Which happen to be both grocery stores, not everybody has the same stores. Anyways you can buy chocolate bark for about 1-4$ depending on how much you want. Get butterscotch bark, throw in some pretzels and we call them haystacks around my house. Bunch them up and put them on wax paper. Well i'm sure you get the point.
Post what useless products you've seen on television, suggestions and commentary is welcome as well. Thank you all :)
I'm sure there are many more useless things you can buy out there. If you look on google, you should find some rather hilarious products like the ones explained on this website here.
Bringing this up makes me think of not so useless products, but I have one particular item in mind. The magic bullet. It was a good idea and all of that but it's a piece of crap. Maybe other people have had more success than me with it but after about 5 minutes of using it, you could smell the motor over-heating.
The only useful product that i've bought that was "as advertised on t.v." was the double boiler fondue set. This was actually useful. Since you could go out to wal-mart or kroger. Which happen to be both grocery stores, not everybody has the same stores. Anyways you can buy chocolate bark for about 1-4$ depending on how much you want. Get butterscotch bark, throw in some pretzels and we call them haystacks around my house. Bunch them up and put them on wax paper. Well i'm sure you get the point.
Post what useless products you've seen on television, suggestions and commentary is welcome as well. Thank you all :)
Buying for less.
Everybody online is always trying to get the best buy. Funny how theres a store named just that. But anyways buying online is the cheapest way to go when it comes to computers as well as electronics among many other things such as antiques.
Ebay is well advertised everywhere. You hear of it in movies and on t.v. all the time.
Buy.com I've never used this site but it's been on t.v. alot.
Newegg is also useful but only for electronics I bilieve.
The one that I find most useful for electronics, cameras, usb drives, hard drives etc. is Tigerdirect.com I've bought from here and I especially go here on the black friday sale. Instead of going out because stores are packed.
Google has it's own shopping search engine which is fairly useful as well. You type in a keyword, and it has list options.
Have any suggestions as to where you can shop for less, commentary, as well as suggestions are welcome.
Ebay is well advertised everywhere. You hear of it in movies and on t.v. all the time.
Buy.com I've never used this site but it's been on t.v. alot.
Newegg is also useful but only for electronics I bilieve.
The one that I find most useful for electronics, cameras, usb drives, hard drives etc. is Tigerdirect.com I've bought from here and I especially go here on the black friday sale. Instead of going out because stores are packed.
Google has it's own shopping search engine which is fairly useful as well. You type in a keyword, and it has list options.
Have any suggestions as to where you can shop for less, commentary, as well as suggestions are welcome.
Free* stuff online.
Ever see an ad in the top right of the screen saying FREE* Ipod nano. Not true at all, these ads are quite popular on the web and you will find them everywhere. Some of them even talk which can be really annoying.
If you have the program ABP however they are easily blocked and you will never have to deal with them again. ABP meaning ad block plus is a firefox add-on that I have previously talked about.
The catch to these so called "free" things are one of two things. Running in circles, I don't mean literally but clicking after clicking after clicking. It never stops and never seems to end. Or they require you to sign up for a bunch of spam give you the work around deal and at the very bottom of the page it says you have to do one silver offer, two platinum offers, and one gold offer.
What this means is you have to actually subscribe to the "offers" in order to get what you want. Now wether this is legitimate or not, I don't have a clue. I have heard of people signing up for the "offers" and getting what they want as long as they unsubscribe after the trial period is up. But what happens if you forget you've signed up, they charge you. You get overdrafted then you have to deal with what seems to be your worst nightmare.
Truth is it's not free as long as it says FREE* it's a pure give away that you have to pay/subscribe for something in order to get it. If you even get it at all. The whole point of writing this post was because I wanted to order FREE* prints online of photos, there is one small catch though. Not a really bad one but it's something they should tell people before hand. You have to pay shipping and handling. On dot photo it was in the $3.00 range. You get 50 free prints.
On shutterfly however you only get 25 free prints but it's 1$ cheaper. I guess it depends on how much money you'd like to spend. At the moment though due to not having a job, and the poor economy, gas prices on the rise as well as many other things i'm going to pinch every penny I can.
If you have the program ABP however they are easily blocked and you will never have to deal with them again. ABP meaning ad block plus is a firefox add-on that I have previously talked about.
The catch to these so called "free" things are one of two things. Running in circles, I don't mean literally but clicking after clicking after clicking. It never stops and never seems to end. Or they require you to sign up for a bunch of spam give you the work around deal and at the very bottom of the page it says you have to do one silver offer, two platinum offers, and one gold offer.
What this means is you have to actually subscribe to the "offers" in order to get what you want. Now wether this is legitimate or not, I don't have a clue. I have heard of people signing up for the "offers" and getting what they want as long as they unsubscribe after the trial period is up. But what happens if you forget you've signed up, they charge you. You get overdrafted then you have to deal with what seems to be your worst nightmare.
Truth is it's not free as long as it says FREE* it's a pure give away that you have to pay/subscribe for something in order to get it. If you even get it at all. The whole point of writing this post was because I wanted to order FREE* prints online of photos, there is one small catch though. Not a really bad one but it's something they should tell people before hand. You have to pay shipping and handling. On dot photo it was in the $3.00 range. You get 50 free prints.
On shutterfly however you only get 25 free prints but it's 1$ cheaper. I guess it depends on how much money you'd like to spend. At the moment though due to not having a job, and the poor economy, gas prices on the rise as well as many other things i'm going to pinch every penny I can.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Free software
With people trying to stay secure constantly i suggest a few free programs out there that will keep you secure.
The first one I would like to introduce is Avast, although you do have to register it's still free. One thing I like about this program is the fact that it talks. Nice to know you have a virus at 4 a.m. !!! Sorry for the sarcasm but the voice gets annoying really fast when it's unable to delete a trojan. It says it over and over and over again with a little nag screen.
A utility that's actually useful is dban. Google it on the web. Boot and nuke is a powerful formatting tool. Need I say more ? It's something you would use to wipe your hard drive before you sell it or give it away.
Glary utilities is also useful. It comes with many features. It does a whole line of things in one click so you don't have to, cleaning cookies, web history, fixing registry as well as many other things.
An on screen recording tool, Cam studio. you can record anything that's on your screen wether it be webcams or video chats. If you need any help finding links i'd be glad to help you in your search. This doesn't really help your computer but it is useful and easy to use. It's useful for youtube videos.
Speaking of cam programs another useful one is manycam, you can play pre-made videos as if you had a webcam, even if you don't.
Theres one last program i'd like to talk about and that would be comodo firewall. It has the ability to make all of your ports stealth as well as several other good and easy to use features built-in. I would suggest using this if you don't have the money to invest into cost-worthy programs such as mccafee.
There are many other useful free programs to keep your computer secure. I've only listed the ones I have personally used and had no trouble with.
If you have any suggestions to other programs, software, freeware or anything else you would like to add. Feel free to post/comment.
The first one I would like to introduce is Avast, although you do have to register it's still free. One thing I like about this program is the fact that it talks. Nice to know you have a virus at 4 a.m. !!! Sorry for the sarcasm but the voice gets annoying really fast when it's unable to delete a trojan. It says it over and over and over again with a little nag screen.
A utility that's actually useful is dban. Google it on the web. Boot and nuke is a powerful formatting tool. Need I say more ? It's something you would use to wipe your hard drive before you sell it or give it away.
Glary utilities is also useful. It comes with many features. It does a whole line of things in one click so you don't have to, cleaning cookies, web history, fixing registry as well as many other things.
An on screen recording tool, Cam studio. you can record anything that's on your screen wether it be webcams or video chats. If you need any help finding links i'd be glad to help you in your search. This doesn't really help your computer but it is useful and easy to use. It's useful for youtube videos.
Speaking of cam programs another useful one is manycam, you can play pre-made videos as if you had a webcam, even if you don't.
Theres one last program i'd like to talk about and that would be comodo firewall. It has the ability to make all of your ports stealth as well as several other good and easy to use features built-in. I would suggest using this if you don't have the money to invest into cost-worthy programs such as mccafee.
There are many other useful free programs to keep your computer secure. I've only listed the ones I have personally used and had no trouble with.
If you have any suggestions to other programs, software, freeware or anything else you would like to add. Feel free to post/comment.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Things to do for fun.
Sitting at home being bored gets old quickly. Surfing youtube how-to videos lets you find some interesting things.
For instance, mixing peroxide with mountain dew makes it glow. But I highly doubt it's drinkable after. Or this one everybodys seen and there's a parody of it on several shows. Mentos and Cocola or a generic off-brand soda.
I've also seen Youtube videos of people putting ice on their arms with salt. My girlfriend done this like a week before I moved in on cam. She had a scar for about a month. Bodily harm isn't fun to me!
That and flipping a can of air duster up-side down. It blows out liquid which then freezes. I don't advise that anyone tries something that would hurt them. If you're easily entertained like me you should be able to find something and make it keep you busy for quite a while. Wether it be the internet or something recreational.
Tons of sites out there with flash mini-games such as Addictinggames.com . Or if you have the system requirements you can easily go and find an MMORPG or whatever other genre you like on the internet. Games like Maplestory, WoW, Rumble fighter, Flyff, among many others to choose from are all free. Although some do have cash shops which give you the better advantage within the game.
I think personally the cash shops make the game un-fair because not every kid has mom & dad willing to invest 20-100$ into a game just because the computer babysits the child for 1-6 hours out of the day. Not to be knocking on people and their parenting skills but this seems to be sadly true for most parents.
Yeah I might not have kids but keeping your kid on the computer for 6 hours out of the day playing video games can't be that healthy. Hell it's even proven it's not healthy.
Have any suggestions, rants, complaints, or your opinion maybe ? Feel free to post.
For instance, mixing peroxide with mountain dew makes it glow. But I highly doubt it's drinkable after. Or this one everybodys seen and there's a parody of it on several shows. Mentos and Cocola or a generic off-brand soda.
I've also seen Youtube videos of people putting ice on their arms with salt. My girlfriend done this like a week before I moved in on cam. She had a scar for about a month. Bodily harm isn't fun to me!
That and flipping a can of air duster up-side down. It blows out liquid which then freezes. I don't advise that anyone tries something that would hurt them. If you're easily entertained like me you should be able to find something and make it keep you busy for quite a while. Wether it be the internet or something recreational.
Tons of sites out there with flash mini-games such as Addictinggames.com . Or if you have the system requirements you can easily go and find an MMORPG or whatever other genre you like on the internet. Games like Maplestory, WoW, Rumble fighter, Flyff, among many others to choose from are all free. Although some do have cash shops which give you the better advantage within the game.
I think personally the cash shops make the game un-fair because not every kid has mom & dad willing to invest 20-100$ into a game just because the computer babysits the child for 1-6 hours out of the day. Not to be knocking on people and their parenting skills but this seems to be sadly true for most parents.
Yeah I might not have kids but keeping your kid on the computer for 6 hours out of the day playing video games can't be that healthy. Hell it's even proven it's not healthy.
Have any suggestions, rants, complaints, or your opinion maybe ? Feel free to post.
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