How do you drive a vehicle in winter when roads are wet and slippery and covered with snow and/or ice? Sure, common sense tells us that you should drive carefully and slow down, but what if that is just not enough? A few years back a question like that wouldn’t have even crossed my mind! [...]
Or I could’ve simply named the post ‘Saving money by selecting the right light bulb’! Once upon a time, selecting a light bulb was as simple choosing a 60 watt or a 100 watt bulb, depending upon how bright you want the bulb to be. There was one popular size, you screw in the bulb [...]
If you are a blogger, you’ll find this post curiously entertaining; if you are a reader, you’ll get a behind the scene sneak peak at what keeps a blogger awake at night! Going through my site statistics I noticed that the traffic for this blog has been gradually increasing and last month alone, the traffic [...]
We’ve all bought stuff based on commercials that turned out nothing like how it was advertised. (Shamwow guy, you listening?) Sometimes we buy stuff on a whim, only to be disappointed later. I know I have. But not all my impulse buys have been duds. Here are some purchases that turned out to be better [...]
Steve Jobs was voted the CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine. And my, what a decade it’s been! He brought back Apple from the throes of doom to making it the most admired company in the world! In 1997, when Jobs returned to the then troubled Apple, Michael Dell, when asked what he would [...]
Rechargeables This is a no-brainer! Rechargeable battery technology has improved so much that there really isn’t an excuse for not using them. The new generation rechargeables have a number of advantages over the traditional ones. They retain charge for a long period of time No ‘Memory-loss’ effect Can be re-used hundreds of times without loss [...]
Times have changed! I remember 10 years back, when I joined a Credit Union that happened to be outside my state, the only way I could deposit a check was to find another credit union’s ATM and make a deposit. Soon they introduced prepaid deposit envelopes. Now a deposit would mean a trip to the [...]
According to Netcraft, as of December 2010, there were 255,287,546 websites on the internet! That’s a lot and this number is only going to go up. How do you position a website from these millions of sites? To give an analogy, a TV program is measured by its reach and advertisers pay according to the [...]
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If you are shopping around for a decent printer, here are some tips that might save you some money. PRINT-SCAN-COPY-FAX. Buy an all-in-one (print, copy, scan and fax) rather than a single function one. The price difference isn’t that significant PAPER JAMS. Biggest annoyance in a printer is paper jams. Read reviews to see if [...]