Took a break from Blogging

I took a break from blogging for about a month to settle things that happened suddenly in my life. A family member had a heart attack during his normal exercise in the morning and left just like that. It was a sudden shock but these things happen in life. What’s come next is to take care of the stuff that he left behind so that all of us can get back to our own life. The most difficult part will be the psychology impact or damages due to the sudden death. That will require more time to heal. Still life goes on and that’s the only thing that we can do.

Ever wonder who’s behind the call?

Did you ever wonder who’s behind the call or where the miss calls are from? You have the miss call numbers but have no idea who and where it is from. So do you call it back or just leave it? Personally I’ll just leave it as if the person is seriously wanted to reach me, he’ll call again. But what if there is an emergency and the person that was calling you unable to make the call again? Well, anything is possible but then most of the time you’ll find that mostly are just some promoters or banks calling up to promote their services. No matter what the call is, sometimes it is better that we could trace and check up the calls before we return call. That’s when you need Phone Info Tracer. The site enables customers to trace any phone numbers including cell phone numbers from United States and Canada. You’ll be able to find out owner’s name, address, carrier and other details before decided to call back. Sometimes these services are useful in helping you to stop calls from harassing telemarketers or other annoying calls.

The value of money

How do we determine the value of money? Well, you might check the current exchange and define the value of money from each country. That’s just how much each currency worth in different country. What I really want to discuss is the value of money to each person. Take for an example if you work in a fast food restaurant and you get paid for 7~10 dollars an hour, a thousand dollars is considered a lot of money to you. That is because you measured it by how many hours that you can earn it. If you’re a Hollywood stars or a popular singer, a thousand dollars is nothing to you as you can earn it in just a couple of hours. In other words, the value of money decreases as you earning power increases. The value of money is different for different people. The money that you spend easily in one night might just be enough to keep one family warm, shelter and feed for one month. Don’t waste, make full use of everything.

Crunchyroll feeds your need!

Crunchyroll is another free online video I found lately. The quality of the video is nice, at least equal of better then youtube. You can find some latest movie, drama, anime, music video and some game clips on the site. Check it out. Just to remind that your internet line needs to be fast enough so that it wouldn’t take long time to buffer the videos.

How do you want your coffee to be?

Looking at the picture above, I like my coffee with just espresso and steamed milk. The rest of the stuff is just making the coffee less coffee. I just want to taste the original flavor of the coffee. Sometimes cream and chocolate syrup just takes away the original flavor. Why do I mention this? Well, if you go to a coffee shop and order a cup of coffee with cream, chocolate syrup or other stuff, the person who makes the coffee really needs to know what his doing. I mean if the person that makes you the coffee doesn’t control the ratio of coffee and other mixtures, you won’t get your coffee. You’ll get cream with coffee flavor or chocolate with coffee flavor. Coffee becomes the mixtures instead of the main portion. Do you experience that before?

Girls are evil!?

Check out this picture I found. Agree or disagree? I’ll let you all debate on that. I do know that if you check history, legends or other ancient old story, female always accuse to be the root of all evil. Funny thing is that male chooses to be with them.

Experience the Binaural Beats

Do you know what Binaural Beats is? Well, it’s tones or music that affects our brainwaves when we listen to it. According to IDOSE, it can simulate various states for example altering moods, behavior and consciousness. In my opinion, I think it is possible because music does affect people. It won’t be surprise if certain tones or music can actually make you stop drinking coffee, reduce headaches or keeps you awake. The most common type that we know is that some music can make us relax. Don’t believe it, try it out yourself.

How to reuse coffee grounds

I found an interesting article about how to reuse coffee grounds at How to do things. I did mention about this before at my previous post, so I guess I’ll just remind you all again with other similar article. There are 10 alternative uses for coffee grounds in this article. They are:

1. Keep the kitchen drains smelling fresh
2. Dye
3. Cleaner
4. Cat/pest repellant
5. Enhance carrot and radish growth
6. Deodorizer
7. Give your hair a boost
8. Dust inhibitor
9. Grow your own mushrooms
10. Cooking

I guess you might not get the meaning of the top 10 list above, so just visit the related link to the article to get the full info.

Save money through Airline Credit Cards

The oil price is still going up and it is time to take some action to cut down some travel expenses. Especially for those that travel a lot either it’s on wheels or taking flights, travel expenses definitely will be increase. In this situation, airline credit cards can help you save a lot of money. You can’t stop travelling as its part of your work, so why not make full use of it. Before you apply for an airline credit card, do a study on various airline credit cards available. Choose the best one that suits your travel condition so that you get the best benefits out from it. There are lots of features that you can consider for example no annual fee, bonus miles, double miles on travel and gas, travel insurance and many more. It’s the little things that add up to big saving. Take some time to work it out and you might end up saving form hundreds to thousands.

Need to do some calculation to save some money?

Dollar Times have some interesting widgets to help you calculate your expenses. It might not be that accurate but at least it will give you an idea on how much you spent or save. The site have financial calculator for coffee savings, gas savings, commuting cost, retirement, mortgage, millionaire, car loan, cigarette and many more. Below are couples of widgets that I like most.

Put a Coffee Savings Calculator on your site!

Put a Gas Savings Calculator on your site!

Looking for answers and info online?

We often go online to search for answers and info to solve our problems and questions. You will find the answers and solution online but the thing is how long it takes to find the right one. The normal way that most people do is just type in the keywords at Google or yahoo search engine and sees what’s come out. Unfortunately it takes a lot of time until you get to the answer. You need to look through all the search results to filter it out and that takes time. Well, here’s an article that introduce 100 sites that can help make things easier and faster – 100 places to go for good answers online.

Check out how wonderful internet is

It’s 4^th of July and it’s holiday for US. Giving that it’s Friday, that makes it 3 days off straight. How do you spend your holidays? If you’re reading this, I assume that you’ll spend most of your time online. As you already come so far, keep surfing on. Check out this site and see how wonderful internet is. If you love it, show it to your family and friends. Happy holiday and enjoy.

Increase of oil price solves traffic jam issue?

Did you notice or feel that traffic has been smooth right after the announcement of the new oil price? Well, I do feel that less cars on the road and haven’t been experience much traffic jam. Seems like people started to car pool or take public transportation to work to help reduce expenses. This might be the only good news after the increase of oil price. When fuel becomes expensive, people will think twice before starting their engine. When fuels are cheap, everybody that owns a car can just take it for a spin even if just getting a pack of cigarette or a bottle of water. When things become expensive and hard to come by, people will treasure it and use it cautiously. When things are not valuable and easy to come by, people will start wasting it. This goes the same as clean water, food, clean air, electricity, paper and many more.

Make, all about DIY

MAKE is one of thousand blogs that interest me a lot. If you like DIY and interested in design then this might be the blog for you. There are a lot of ideas and tricks that you can do it yourself to help save a few bucks daily. Now that the price of oil is increasing rapidly, we all should start the saving habit. Either it is money, energy or time, any action that helps on saving in these areas will eventually reduce your expenses burden. Don’t forget that recycle all your useless junk or rubbish also helps. Let’s get back to MAKE site. Some of the DIY requires some electrical knowledge and skills. Some projects even need a work shop in order to build. Whatever the DIY projects, most of them will make you say “Interesting, why haven’t I thought about that. Looks easy and simple. I might be able to make it too.” If you really want to try it, just make sure that you do it with cautions. You don’t want to cut your finger or hurt yourself doing it.

Making copies of your PC

Macrium Reflect is a free software that allows you to make disk imaging. This type of software is mostly use by IT people where he has hundreds or thousands of PC to prepare. Instead of installing each and every PC one by one, it’s much faster and easier to just make copies. That is if all the PC are identical. Here are some of the features available for this software.

• Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS).
• Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD.
• Built in scheduler.
• 32 bit and native 64 bit versions.
• Industry leading compression levels and speed.
• Linux based Rescue CD with Network access and full GUI. Only 6.5MB in size!
• Built in CD/DVD packet writing engine. Supports packet writing to DVD DL media with Windows Vista.
• HTML log files.

Coffee cuffs, anybody?

This is really something for coffee drinkers that always order to go coffee - Coffee cuffs. When you’re not using it, you can just wear it on your wrist. These coffee cuffs also helps identified which coffee cup is actually yours. Especially when you’re having a meeting and everybody is ordering the same type of coffee from the same coffee shop. Unless you put a mark on the cup or holding it until you finish it, there’s a big chance that you might sharing the same cup with others. Well, this is sure a cool way of having your coffee.

More Good news for Coffee Drinker

You may check out the latest articles from Yahoo Health. The article is by Will Dunham with title No Higher Death Risk in Long-term Coffee Drinking. Basically coffee drinkers don’t have to hold back on having their favorite drink. Below are few of the points that I can summarize from the article.

1. Drinking coffee up to six cups a day was not relate to increase of death among the middle-ages. Women experience a small decline in death rates from heart disease.
2. There is no association between coffee consumption and cancer deaths. So far most of the test and reports are showing positive in coffee drinking.

Until there is a solid prove that shows coffee drinking is bad for health, I think I’m going to stick with it. Any way I think even if there are prove that coffee drinking kills, I don’t think people will stop drinking coffee. Take for example alcohol and tobacco. People rather die than stop having them.

Some Thought About Writing

I've been writing blogs for quite some time now. I can say that it's really a fun and interesting experience. Particular in the writing section. The only time that I ever write something is back in university. Back then writing an essay for my English 101 lesson is hard work. An essay will took me about 2 weeks to really squeeze it out from my brain. Now you can imagine how things are when I started to write again. Lucky for me there aren't any rules on how you can write your article. Even so, it took me about 5 days to actually write something out. It's not that I can't write it out, just that I need to check and recheck several times so that I feels it's alright to release it on my blog. I think that's what we call confidence. That's what I went through in the initial stage of my blogging. Now I'm able to write at most 3 articles per day without catching my breath. Things get easy after a lot of practices.
In the beginning, moving a solid rock is extremely difficult. After getting the rock to start rolling, the next steps is to try controlling it. That means I need to fine tune the way I write, the content quality and the topic that I should be focusing. Pretty much getting the rock rolling the way I want and the direction I want. The question right now is where is the right direction and which is the right method. My final destination is simple. That is to earn sufficient money online so that I can have a better life. That is the goal but the process of working towards it is the most enjoyable part. There is nothing better then doing what you enjoy and reaching your goals.

This is one R2-D2 that I got to have

Talking about gadgets of star wars and R2-D2, this is really a must have for the fans. I think almost everybody will love to own one of this. This is something that you can show off to every guest of your house.

Get in touch with your website visitors

Having a website to help promote business is not a new thing. Almost any business form small scale companies to big companies are able to make full use of the internet. In most cases email is the only method used for communication between customers and business providers. Business still can be done but sometimes emails might be confusing and misunderstanding. It will be much better to discuss business out loud directly to avoid misleading and mistakes. That is why most of the big business discussion is held directly face to face in a meeting room. Instead of using emails, calling customers directly might be a good idea. ProCallBack by Mercia Networks is a product that allows website visitors to leave their phone number and send it to you directly. The info will be send to you immediately using SMS text messages. You may then call back you customers for further discussion. It is a good feature as customers don’t have to spend any money on it. A lot of the website that we seen have a contact number for customers to call in. Most of the calls charges are bare by customers. That way some business opportunities might be lost because some customers don’t feel like paying for it just to ask couple of questions. Taking these expenses away from customers might just happen to increase your sales. This can be considered as a type of customer service that most people like.

Download Free Ebooks

Part of saving the trees and forest is to reduce the usage of papers. It’s what we call saving the environment. It is one of the methods to slow down global warming. Green forest is the air conditioner for the world that we live in. Reducing the usage of trees, woods and papers is the best method to reduce cutting down the forest. That means reducing the production of books. One way of doing this is to digitalize the books. Saving and selling it in a form of ebook. As long as information can be kept and transferred then it should be fine. Country like Japan is transferring hardcopy books into softcopy where people can read it through laptops, palm or cellphone. Here are couples of sites that I found giving out free ebook. Check it out, you might just find some information that benefits.

Etext Center
Online Book Catalog

Free Product Samples Site

The Free Site is the place for you to grab some free product samples. The site will try to keep things up to date so that you won’t miss the samples. Unfortunately free stuffs come and go pretty fast, so you need to act as soon as it is available. The offers in this site are mostly for US. That’s a bit disappointed but there’s nothing much we can do about it. All we can do is to keep on searching free stuffs that are available in our country. There is nothing personal about this but business. All of the free samples listed in this site are absolutely free. There are no postage fees, shopping fees, stamping fees or handling fees. All you need to do is to sign up forms.

Cut down your fuel usage

The price of gasoline is increasing rapidly these couple of years. It’s still increasing at this moment as you’re reading this post. It is said that the price will go up until $200 US dollar per barrel. No doubt with the increase of oil price, many related products will increase their price too. The first direct effect will be transportation. That means taxi, bus, trains, ferries and planes will increase their fees. So what can us as a consumer can do to reduce the price? Well, just do the obvious one, cut down the fuel usage. Besides, it’s saving the environment too.

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.