High Priced Disposable Laptop

Almost two years ago I purchased a brand new laptop with all the hypes and whistles available at that time. Its amazing how technology change so fast because everything in that laptop computer is turning obsolete in comparison to what is available nowadays. The worst part is that its only been almost two years and its no longer functional. Since I didnt availed the extended warranty, I cannot get help from the manufacturer without paying to get help or assistance from them which kind of a bummer because paying almost a thousand dollars for an item that broke down even before two years and not get any fixing help is really poor customer service on their part. So we been trying to figure it out ourselves, by process of elimination, having disected such computer, its clear that its not the battery, the ac adapter, nor the CPU that is the problem. Its probably the motherboard that is having an issue which is a complete bummer because it should not have such problem only after two years. In my opinion, motherboards should last a lifetime, atleast 10 years.

Its sad that many computers are built to fall apart within the first two to three years of its purchase, basing on all the readings and research that I have done, I am definitely not alone having issues with broken computer just after two years. Im sure I can find a way to fix it, but the sad thing is the specifications are a little bit outdated as today standards. I only have 4GB RAM, when you can get 8GB to 16GB RAM nowadays. I have a dual core processor in this laptop when nowadays the more powerful quad core, or even six core are already out in the market! Not to mentioned such laptop only have 300GB hard drive, it sounds like a lot of memory at that time but its hardly any space for a person with all the games, graphics, photos that we store nowadays, right? I would definitely prefer atleast 750GB up to 2TB in it.

The amount of money I paid for my laptop two years ago, I can definitely get three times better unit and new. By trying to upgrade my laptop, I would be better off buying a new one. Upgrading RAMS, CPU, hard disk takes time and money and everything adds up, by the time I add everything, I can probably get a new computer cheaper with better and faster performance than my upgraded one. As a consumer, makes you feel like your high priced (one thousand dollar) investment is just a disposable item when they only last for two years by either breaking down or becoming outdated.

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Living In A Secure And Safe Home

When one of the people that I know asked me for an advice about moving to a new city and finding a home there, I told him that its not just about the physical features and ammenities of the house that he needs to consider but most importantly the neighborhood as well. Moving to a new area can be exciting and full of promise to be able to start a whole new life surrounded with almost new people and new surrounding but the pitfall is that you are starting from the ground up, you dont know anybody and you dont know how safe and secure the neighborhood is.

Safety and security must be a top-most priority when it comes to living in our homes. There are several areas nowadays where neighbors come together and organize a neighborhood watch by trying to get to know who are the people living in the neighborhood inorder for anyone in the area to recognize when there are some uncommon activity that will take place. But aside from neighborhood watch, its good when homeowners have a home surveillance system inorder to monitor anything suspicious that may occur. Nowadays with the rapid growth and advancement of new technology, its easy to get a really good security video camera that is a high resolution for clearer and better viewing of video inputs. When you install these security devices, its important that you have a backup battery and equipment guide inorder to know how things operate, and during power failures, your equipments still do the job for you and you can still rely on it.

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Telivision Show Recording Advantage

Telivision surely gone a long way. Before the end of February 2009, the nationwide implementation of digital signal is in full effect (in the USA) and making your analog telivision old and obsolete, but can still be usuable if you can obtain a signal converter from analog to digital.

Nowadays, clear high definition picture is among the sought-after advantage of going digital. Another great advantage of going digital is being able to set reminders of your favorite shows and being able to record!

Different telivision channels compete with each other tremendously, and at peak hours specially in the evening, each channels broadcast their most popular shows almost at the same time frames. As a result, many viewers ended up confused which channel to go to and what show to watch. If only there was a way to watch all your favorite shows at your own pace and not miss any of them! Fortunately, now there is, we can now record shows that play at the same time, this way, while watching one show, you can watched your other recorded favorite show at later time at your convenience.

Recorder unit usually is an additional package that you can avail at an additional cost to your availed tv package. People have different views and comments with regards to availing a digital recorder because it is not something that you automatically get for free when you signup for cable or satellite signal. I personally didnt like the idea of paying extra to get the recorder unit, but one day we decided to try it for a month, and now its hard to imagine not having one! The best thing about having a digital recorder for telivision is having the power to pause, forward, rewind, stop the show at any time. And if you are busy at the time the show is played on telivision, if you recorded the show, you can play it at a later time! That is definitely convenience and you are in full control, and best of all, you can fast-forward the commercials in between entirely!

Written by JazeVox of www.HonestlyFresh.com

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Cordless Mouse Innovation

I am a great fan of cordless computer mouse simply because it is so easy to store, easy to carry wherever, and easy to handle and use. We still have few working computer mouse with cords, but with the convenience of cordless mouse, why mess with cords and deal with it?

I specially prefer the cordless mouse design with USB in it and uses a regular battery, that you can buy almost any store, the size AAs or AAAs, the smaller the better...The USB drive you can fit at the back of the mouse when not in uses and automatically turns of the unit and save the battery of the mouse, is such a energy-saving idea.

A computer mouse with cord have its own convenience like not having to worry about separate battery for the mouse, but the battery-saving design of the cordless mouse allows prolong use the mouse before one has to worry of replacing the battery anytime soon. The battery is available in most stores and is the type the battery that most household have stocks of, so it almost the least of cordless mouse users worries.

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BT Home IT Support

Normally, we do not worry too much about computer problems when everything is working right just like they are suppose to. But there are times when our computer decides to break down on us unexpectedly, and give us a hard and difficult time. Not all of us are computer savvy and expert when it comes to the technicality and functionality of the computers, so when a computer have problems and errors such as computer started hanging on you in the middle of a task, computer loading so slow it is consuming so much time, or when all of a sudden the monitor turns blue and then all those foreign characters started appearing right before your eyes, etc. Things like these can caught you off-guard and unprepared that these are definitely one of those days that BT Home IT Support is heaven sent.

BT Home IT Support offers both over-the-phone assistance and in-house service. You can get expert, professional advice, technical support or pc help right in the comfort of your own home via phone or you can also arrange appointments with their technical professionals to come to your place. Even if you dont have computer problems, BT Home IT Support also offers other services such us computer maintenance, advises about set-ups and installations, or gives you expert advises if you have questions related to anything computers, networking and more. So next time you need computer repair, help or advice about computers, BT Home IT Support is there to the rescue.

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Broadband Wireless Internet Connection

As the internet technology progresses in a very fast manner, a strong demand for a faster, stronger, and more reliable internet connection is definitely on the rise. And when it comes to internet connection, one of the most reliable connection that you can get nowadays is the broadband internet connection, with its famous always-on online browsing technology without the interruption of any landline telephone calls like dial-up does.

Nowadays, new technology development like high definition graphics and images, huge bytes-size files of music downloads, and big memory consumptions of both movies and videos definitely all require a powerful tool like BT Broadband Wireless Hub for broadband internet that can accomodate such new developments and will allow you to enjoy all these amazing new technologies without slowing down or sacrificing your speed and browsing time. And if you sign up today for a wireless broadband connection with download speed capability of up to 8Mb, you also get FREE wireless BT Home Hub and at the same time, you will enjoy 24/7 customer support.

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To Buy Or Not To Buy DVDs

We finally broke our regular record this month, we ended up buying four (4) new release DVDs within a month period: Harry Potter 4 or 5?, Pirates of The Carribean 3, Bourne 3 and Lost 3

Earlier this year, we decided to upgrade our cable TV channel package and add HBO and Cinemax channels pack together with the regular package so that we can eliminate the costly habit of buying DVDs everytime new movies comes out in the store. We thought that if we have movies on TV that will keep us busy, we will not be so tempted to buy new DVDs everytime new movies came out, it will save us $19.99 per DVD movie we do not buy.

Since we made that commitment, we have done very good until this December, when most of the new DVDs movie being released are movies that we already have copies of the earlier episodes. So sadly but excitedly, finally we broke our regular record, and bought four new DVDs to add to our old collections. Hopefully, we can think of these purchases as Christmas gifts for ourselves so we dont feel so guilty about spending the money on DVDs that will eventually depreciate in value as years go buy and new technologies comes out, like the new HD DVDs, which are double the price of DVDs, and of course like computers and telivisions, the new technologies are always better, faster, more loaded with features, and more capabilities.

There is always something new to buy, hopefully we spend our bucks in things that lasts. Right now, we are satified with DVDs, we no longer watch old tech VHS movies because its getting outdated. And it seems like DVDs is going on the same boat too, specially that the market is pushing the HD DVD nowadays, so hopefully DVDs will remain for a long time, even if HD DVDs are heavily marketed nowadays.

What about you, do you still watch VHS copies? Do you usually buy new DVDs movies when they are release in the market? Are you planning to buy the latest HD DVDs and the HD DVD player?

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Television in the Bedroom

When I was growing up, we only have one wooden boxed television (TV) and it was a black and white with small screen TV and it was situated in the living room where all my family gather everynight to watch shows together. We only had the regular channels with around 10 channels choices, there was no cable TV, we only had an antenna at the roof top.

Nowadays, most family have multiple television, one for each room, some people even place another TV in their kitchen and bathroom. We currently have one TV in the living room and one in the bedroom. I used to not be able to sleep with any kind of noise when Im trying to sleep, but nowadays, since we have television in our bedroom and we watch shows from bed every night, I have come to love the idea of having TV in the bedroom, not just in the living room. Surprisingly, I can now sleep in the night even if the TV is on, but when we feel like it is almost time to sleep, we usually put the TV on a timer 30 to 90 minutes more showing time and set it to have it turn off automatically so that even when we fall asleep, the TV will not be stay on the whole night and dawn.

WHat about you, do you watch TV in your bedroom? Can you sleep with a music on or the TV on?

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Search For Earth-Like Planet

This posting is gonna be totally different and unusual compare to my usual posts, that I have ever written. I am writing about my opinion on a very extraordinary and huge universe.

Last night in the History channel, i was watching this documentary episode about scientists going highs and lows exploring the vast universe around us, studying each planet they encounter with their state-of-the-art telescopes to search for a earth-like planet, similar planet where we all live in. These scientists are searching for a possible habitable planet for humans. It is amazing how these scientists are so determined to look for a planet like earth, a livable area with water, oxygen, etc.

With all the years of living here on earth, it never cross my mind to live somewhere else beside earth. But these scientists sure have wider persperstive, they are looking for that earth-like planet where someday humans can visit or live in. Nobody knows if a planet like this actually exist at all, but looking for it might someday result in discovery and will one day become norm and part of history. Just like how everyone before came to believe that earth is flat and was later discovered that it is actually round!

The question that lingers through my mind while I was watching the TV show was that, what if these scientists will really discover that there is a livable earth-like planet out there, what are the chances that anyone here on earth decides to move out there and live there instead? Probably a new technology will be developed to make traveling there possible and turn into a space exploration business and make it into a destination.

What are the possibilities that humans could possibly move to another earth-like planet if discovered later on? It is beyond the norm, and definitely beyond the ordinary to even think about it, but what if millions of years from now, earth will sadly become inhabitable effects due to devastating events like global warming, nuclear problems, etc. Will these be a reason enough to move somewhere else and live to another earth-like planet?! It is hard to imagine and come up of possible answer to this extraordinary question, but what do you think??!

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The Language of Texting

Its been more than a decade since cellphone text messaging or texting were popularize in many asian countries like Philippines, Japan, China. And I mean popular, you see little kids facing each other communicating via cellphone texting, instead of talking to each other. Young students walking in the streets, texting instead of watching the road to make sure that you are not stepping on anyones shoe. It is so popular that you see signs in the road that says, no texting while crossing. Churches, banks and other offices forming new rules about no texting while in the premises.

Its recently been popularize here in the US. Only this past few years that text messaging is frequently advertised and popularized in the US, like the use of text messaging to vote for contestant in American Idol, and other contest shows in TV.

But for those who are new to texting, it will be a mind buggling experience for anyone who just receive his/her first or second text message. It is because the text messaging community is utilizing a different language, or also known as the TXT language.

The txt language is not really a whole new language but writing a word in different way to make it shorter but implies the same thing/meaning. It is almost like an abbrevation but in some cases, it is not. Below are some examples of txt words commonly use by text messaging community.

Most text words are spelled according to how it sounds like:

C U ---------> See You (what it actually means!)
K -----------> Okey
L8R --------> Later
nyt ---------> night
D-----------> The
luv----------> Love
How R U ---> How are you

Others txt words are written in initials or similar meanings like:

TC ---------> Take Care
am ---------> morning
pm ---------> afternoon, evening
Message----> Msg

It is not hard to learn the text messaging language, it is mostly the same words language (mostly English), just written in a different way to make it shorter for the purpose of being able to express what you really wanna say and have it fit in a cellphone message capacity, usually counted numbers of character per message, like 200 characters maximum per message. If you can fit what you need to say in one text messaging then, you pay one message. In the texting world, you pay per message you sent and here in the US, also per message you receive. So the more words you can fit per message, you save money.

Written by JAZEVOX. All Rights Reserved.

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