Capresso hot milk frother

Posted on February 28th, 2008 in Houseware Appliances,Useful Items,Useful Stuff by Laura

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This capresso machine is an excellent houseware appliance for those wanting a frothy hot milk or even hot chocolate. This is a automatic hot milk frother machine with safety steam button and very easy to clean. Its discrete design matches all kitchen decorations and fits in a small space. With this capresso you’ll get frothy hot milk in a few seconds.

It gets my stamp for useful stuff.

This sure is a hot spot

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 in Fun Stuff,Home Items by Laura

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Relax if you can. I doubt it. Where you can buy this article? I really dont know but in case you really want one, just light up yours at home, although I don’t recommend it.

Illumistick - 12 hours of light

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 in Home Items,Useful Items by Laura

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This is very useful stuff when you go on outdoor activities in the dark, if you’re going camping or even at home. This Illumistick uses no batteries or matches, you just have to activate it and during 12 hours you will have light. Of course this is not a flashlight therefore no rechargeable flashlight kit available. After the 12 hours…well…it will be daylight, you won’t need to activate another one.

Interesting Cufflinks to complement your outfit

Posted on February 19th, 2008 in Clothes,Fun Stuff,Useful Items,Useful Stuff by Laura

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Do you like to play cards? Well these ones in the picture are not for playing but they are a piece of art. Have you already guessed what these are?cufflinks.jpg

I can give you an hint: they can complement an outfit for those playing cards, professionally or just for fun. Yes, these are some interesting silver cufflinks with card theme.

If you prefer gold to silver, you can find beautiful gold cufflinks like these ones of music theme.

Entrecard - Advertise for free

Posted on February 18th, 2008 in Blogging,Free Stuff,Useful Services,Useful Sites by Laura

 

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For a few weeks that I’ve been seen those banners from Entrecard and although I entered in the front page several times, I never signed up, well until last week.

Last week I signed up and at first it looked a little confused but after reading the Entrecard guide page everything was clear.

After signing up with Entrecard you just have to look around at other bloggers cards, visit their site, drop your card and earn Entrecard Credits. You can then use the EC you earn to advertise on other bloggers sites. If they accept your card you will show on their Entrecard badger. Bloggers can accept or reject the advertise request.

Sounds confusing? What about having to have one account for each blog? That’s really tough, worse if you have many blogs. I have three so I must have three email addresses and three Entrecard accounts. The worse part: once dropping cards is a good thing, I never know which Entrecard I am dropping. I like to drop cards on my category, once I have three categories I have to pay attention to the Entrecard I am dropping.

The real good thing, I’m getting to know many good sites, some of them already added to my feed reader.

Useful Service: Laptop Rental

Posted on February 17th, 2008 in ,Useful Services by Laura

laptop.jpgThis is a useful service for those willing to rent a Laptop. Whether you are a private person or a company, you can take advantage of laptop rental services.

Imagine that you are going on holidays and you need to be online for quite some time, you can rent a laptop for a few days or weeks depending on the vacation duration.

f you want to make for instance a powerpoint presentation in a company and you don’t have a laptop, you can rent one for just one day. The same for company exhibitions, Fairs, weekend shows, etc. , all can use the laptop rental service without the need of buying a laptop.

Useful Service: Franchise Gator

Posted on February 16th, 2008 in ,Useful Services,Useful Sites by Laura

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If you are looking for a home business or to get your own business, you can take a look at franchise information available online. Some businesses are low cost start but others require a huge initial investment.

Check Franchise Gator and look at all the opportunities available in the franchise Directory. I find some of them really interesting and who knows, I will find the business I have been looking for.

Relax…if you can

Posted on February 15th, 2008 in Fun Stuff,Home Items by Laura

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To you love cactus? Do you have flower pots all over the house with them?

What about a sofa made of cactus, for sure your friends will be impressed…just…don’t forget to warn them about not sitting there or you’ll be in trouble.

Cleaning my database directories

Posted on February 15th, 2008 in Blogging,Useful Stuff by Laura

Clean up time over here and on my other blogs. A few months ago I wanted to change the templates so I downloaded a few, tried them and I finally made my choice. I ended up having several templates on my template directory as well as on my plugin directory. Some plugins were just for testing, to try if they were suitable for my blog and the ones not in use remained there deactivated.

All not in use templates are being deleted as well as the plugins I tested and I don’t intend to activate .

I recommend this to all bloggers, it can prevent some CPU over quota errors (I had this in the past) and it will make your database lighter.

So today instead of cleaning my house or doing a colon cleanser to clean my body, I’m cleaning my database directories.

Are you really getting donations on your blog?

Posted on February 9th, 2008 in Blogging,Useful Stuff by Laura

These last few days, while catching up with my feed reader, I noticed that a large number of blogs have on the sidebar the “Donation Option”. I wonder, are bloggers getting donations from other bloggers? Do bloggers really make a donation for a coffee or a simple donation to another blogger? Is it just a “bait”? Does it work?

If you have a Donation button on your sidebar please let me know if you are getting donations and if blogger tell you why they are donating. For sure the donations won’t be enough for a business funding, but if they really help us to buy a cup of coffee, I’m in.

Chair Mat Bed

Posted on February 9th, 2008 in Fun Stuff,Home Items,Useful Items,Useful Stuff by Laura

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Amazing mat or should I say chair or bed. A friend sent me these Chair Mat Bed pictures through email. I truly don’t know how this works but this “item” can be used as a chair, a mat or a bed. Interesting? Yes, I think so.

If some one visiting this site ever saw such item please leave me a comment and let me know where did you see it.
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The Sedona Method - Happiness all around

Posted on February 7th, 2008 in Free Stuff,,Useful Services,Useful Stuff by Laura

I usually blog about useful and funny stuff. When people see or read funny stuff they smile or laugh, but does that mean they are happy? No, not at all. Many times people laugh as an immediate reaction to some action but inside they feel a profound sadness. Can we learn to be happier? Yes, of course we can and The Sedona Method is here to help us accomplish that goal.

Inside pain can be difficult to deal with but we can learn out to get rid of it and have a healthier and peaceful life. The Sedona Method has been helping people for three decades by spreading happiness worldwide with wonderful results.

You can get help with:

Bad Habit Addiction
Caretaker
Drugs and Alcohol
Eating Disorder
Emotional Trauma
Financial Abundance
Freedom from Depression
Grief
Low Self-Esteem
among many other subjects

You can start by signing up to the available newsletter where, for free, you can receive the best advices and guidance regarding this method. You will also get a Free DVD and CD.

Happy for no Reason by Marci Shimoff is definitely a book I must read. 7 steps to happiness are at my fingertips. I’m not going through a good phase of my life and by reading the excerpt of the book I feel it can really help me out finding my way out of my depression and sadness that has been haunting me.

The Sedona Method is here to stay and to make a lot of people happy.

Twessenger - Conecting Twitter to MSN Messenger

Posted on February 7th, 2008 in Blogging,Free Stuff,Fun Stuff,Useful Services,Useful Stuff by Laura

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I’m still trying to figure out how to Twitter straight into Messenger. I found this interesting post through TwitterFeed where OwenC writes about a MSN Messenger Add-on called Twessenger that makes the connection between Twitter and MSN Messenger. I followed all the steps but it still isn’t working for me.

What is supposed to happen is, each time you write a Twitter our MSN Messenger will update our status with the Twitter Message. This will bring you more exposure once, those that don’t use Twitter or are not following you on Twitter, but are a contact in your MSN Messenger are able to see your Twitter updates. I guess I’m going to go through all the steps again and see if I can make it work. This is a good service!!

Free Mortgage Quotes and Advice

Posted on February 6th, 2008 in Free Stuff,,Useful Services,Useful Sites by Laura

Are you looking for a mortgage? Are you tired of having to pay for mortgage quotes and advice? Well, let MoneyMagic help you!. If you are a homeowner or a first time buyer you can find free advice and quotes for several types of Mortgages and Loans.

It’s very simple and fast, you just have to complete the form with some information about yourself, wait for a phone call from a independent Financial Adviser and get a free quote based on your needs and circumstances.

ou can also check the Mortgages guides so that you get more information about:

  • Flexible mortgages
  • Offset mortgages
  • Fixed rate mortgages
  • Interest rates
  • among many others subjects

This is a useful service and remember, it’s free.

Car Donation - A useful solution for old cars

Posted on February 4th, 2008 in ,Useful Services,Useful Sites by Laura

How many time do you see abandoned cars on the streets waiting for someone to pick them up and take to the trash.

In case you have an old car you want to get rid of, donate it to Car Angel. This is a no-profit company that accepts donations of several vehicles and the money they get from those is used to make movies for children and teens. You can donate cars, boats, RVs, trucks among other vehicles. Car Angel has given away over 2.4 million videos. Here is an example of a video:

Chinese scroll cellphone design

Posted on February 4th, 2008 in Fun Stuff,Gadgets,Useful Items by Laura

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I find this design amazing. This is a cellphone designed by Yun Liang and it is inspired in the Chinese Scrolls. The cellphone is rolled up in a scroll when closed, the numbers remain outside, when you want to access the data you just scroll it out and use it as a normal cellphone. Although a masterpiece in design it can cause a migraine to those that are not very fond of new designs and technologies. But this really is a major piece of art.