In My Bag

Last week I was asking on Twitter for a decent MP3 player that wasn’t such a resource sucking hog like iTunes. Klumsi recommended a Mozilla based program called Songbird. Songbird is built off the same platform as iTunes, but is optimized to be quicker, more efficient and kinder to a computer’s system resources.
I liked [...]

It’s back to school time, so that means it’s time to think about clothes shopping! I know, I know, back to school shopping is supposed to be about school items — backpacks, lunch boxes (well, if you’re in elementary school), binders, paper, pens, pencils, etc. But you and I both know that in reality, [...]

In an attempt to save money, I sometimes buy generic brand cereal. One brand in particular that I often pick up is Shurfine. Shurfine’s line of “knock off” cereals include Apple Rolls (Apple Jacks), Tootie Fruities (Froot Loops), Frosted Wheat Puffs (Smacks) and Magic Marshmallows (Marshmallow Alphabets).
Generally, the value is well worth the purchase [...]

My laptop is a beastly nine and a half pounder that throws off a lot of heat. So much heat, in fact, that even routine use in an air conditioned room for more than an hour can cause it to overheat and shut down, unless there is adequate airflow around and underneath it. For [...]

onlinecheck.com offers several financial services, including a merchant account for interested customers. From my experience as a freelance writer, I can tell you a lot about merchant accounts. The basic merchant account provides a business with a way to safely accept credit card payments from all major credit cards. The account works by transferring [...]

Jimmy Dean’s Sausage, Egg & Cheese on a Biscuit is delicious, but something I will never, EVER purchase again. On August 12th, 2008 I purchased a six pack of these sandwiches. I stored them per instructions. Today I went to microwave the last of the six sandwiches, and was greeted by a big spot [...]

Every few days a new post pops up on Twitter (twitter.com) or Lavish (lavish.nu) asking for recommendations on webhosting providers. I have my own recommendations, of course (vonetwork.com and estarr.com), but sometimes people are looking for webhosting providers that aren’t so popular in our little blogging circles.
I checked out some of the recommendations [...]