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Blog Title: All Tips and Tricks

A collection of tips, tricks and useful stories gathered from experience to make youe life better.

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How It Feels To Be Homeless At 51

This morning, I went shopping at a nearby supermarket. While I was getting the bags out of the car trunk, I heard a voice behind me. It was a man with white hair and beard, looking at me as if he was about to ask for directions. He was smiling, I smiled back and prepared to tell him that I don’t know the neighborhood (although I’ve been living here since 10 years ago).

Surprisingly, he asked me to give him some money. I asked him why, and he told me that he wanted to buy a bread. I thought that was enough reason for me and I gave him money for the bread, while whispering that I could use some money too, but I don’t ask other people to give me. Then he started telling me his story, how he is currently homeless because he was stupid enough to borrow money which he wans’t able to return, thus being forced to sell his apartment. He looked rather clean and he was not smelling. I asked him where he was sleeping and he told me that his night lodging was in the nearby park. Winter hasn’t come yet, but it is already very cold here, the wind is blowing quite strongly, so I can imagine how pleasant it can be to sleep outside. He didn’t seem to be bothered by that. His strongest wish was to resist like that for 8-9 more years, so he becomes entitled to get a pension from the state.

I asked him how does he manage to eat every day. The answer was obvious: he was looking for people parking their cars, asking for money to buy food, just like he did with me. I noticed that it probalby takes a very long time to gather the money for a day’s food, as everything got crazy expensive over the past years. He agreed, and he said that now he’s acquired the experience to filter the “potential clients” - he said that men are more merciful than women, and that people driving expensive cars were more willing to give him something, rather than those driving cheap cars.

During the whole conversation, the guy was smiling, and he was telling meall that as if it was absolutely normal to sleep in the park and to get washed in restaurants. I bet that when he was young, he would have never imagined that he’d be doing all that at 51.

Isn’t life strange?

How To Zip And Encrypt Your Documents For Free

Do you remember how long ago you have heard about Zip for the first time? I think it was even before Windows was invented. Internet was an unknown word yet at that time. Computers were DOS operated and the instructions for compressing and decompressing documents seemed like magic words to me. What I didn’t know by then, but I’ve just found out tonight is that the .zip standard was invented by PKWARE. This explains why those commands were starting with pkzip and pkunzip. For those of you who are interested, PKWARE is giving away a non-commercial use license of a much more modern version of zip, the SecureZIP Express. Not only it is free of charge, but you have the chance to win cool prizes in the new “Decrypt and Drive” contest.
SecureZIP Express has several useful features. The basic ones are compressing/decompressing and encryption of files that you store or send. Compressing files is a great way to save storage space, especially on memory sticks and CDs; besides, there are situations in which we want our files to be secured, as they are not meant to be seen by anybody. The software also includes a digital certificate so you can exchange files securely with others without using passwords. Only the person the file was encrypted for can open it when you use a digital certificate. SecureZIP Express has no toolbars or spyware. For years, PKWARE has given free .zip software away. Now, together with the software, they are giving away a lot of prizes including a Honda scooter, bicycles, Wii games, gas cards, and more.

For entering the contest, you need to visit www.DecryptandDrive.com, download the free software, then come back to play the game. You need to have SecureZIP, and the digital certificate it installs, on the computer you play the game from. SecureZIP Express is also available for download at www.securezip.com. Good luck and let me know if you win something.

Dirty Blue Widgets Poetry Jam Sessions Are Officially Open

I’ve just launched a new blog and a new invitation for all of you to help me. I’ll let you know how, in a moment.

First, despite the fact that my new blog is somehow connected with internet marketing, it is a poetry blog. Every reader can be an author. I’m only starting the poems, and you are invited to write the next line in the comments. Then, another reader adds a line to yours, and so on, until the poem is complete. Then I publish it in the Dirty Blue Widgets Archive section and I start a new one. My intention is to write a poem a day, but I’m aware that it may be slower in the beginning, as not many readers have yet discovered the Dirty Blue Widgets poetry jam sessions.

The idea came when I was thinking how to approach my participation in an SEO competition. I wanted to make it fun. Then I remembered how I was about to be expelled from school in the 6th grade, because of a poem I’ve written about two of our teachers. They didn’t seem to appreciate my talent. Too bad! The poem had about 20 pages and I’ve written it during several weeks - I was adding new lines every day. Everything was so cool, until my desk colleague thought her mother would like the poem and she showed it to her. That lady liked it so much, that she asked the teachers to keep her daughter away from me.

Too bad I never got my poem back.

What are these dirty blue widgets anyway

Nevertheless, I’m now back to my poetic habits and challenge all of you to bring your contribution to the Dirty Blue Widgets poetry jam, and to spread the word about it. The SEO contest will end on January 20th. Any promotion from you is welcome. If you are passionate about SEO and you wish to join it, please check the previous link. Briefly, the contest is open to all members of The Affiliate Academy, so you’ll have to join in and stay a member for the whole contest duration. There are lots of things to learn in there, so I guess you won’t be sorry for joining. It is not free, but if you are really passionate about internet marketing, you can see a return of your investment pretty soon.

Thank you. I’m looking forward to see your contributions in the poems

Curiously Awesome Gifts

It’s Christmas time again, so we start thinking at our beloved ones, at possible gifts that they’d like. This year I’ve started looking for gifts earlier than ever. Maybe that’s because of the online shops I’m currently running. I’ve almost persuaded myself that I need an artificial tree this Christmas, although I’ve been a fan of natural trees all my life. Now, after I’ve seen how cool some artificial tree models can be, I’m considering buying one, thus saving one of the real pine trees.

I want to show you some strange gifts in the videos below. I’m not encouraging you to buy any of them, despite the fact that the videos are affiliate and I make a commission for each sale. I just wanted to share them with you, and have some fun together.

Multimedia Software For Video Encoding And Conversion

The multimedia age made all music devices I’ve used in my teens look obsolete. I grew up in the vinyl discs era and I have a great collection of such discs I don’t listen to anymore, but I can’t throw away either. Now we can do anything we want to our music: we can listen to it while relaxing, we can take it away with us when we go out, we can edit it and record our own original songs if so we wish. Of course, we can’t do all these without the help of specialized multimedia software such as an audio converter for changing the audio file format, a video encoder for converting AVI and WMV files to MPG formats. After we convert the files, we surely could use a DVD ripper software, so we can write the music on CDs or DVDs to archive it in our library or to take it with us in the car.

How to Choose the Multimedia Software

Multimedia software defines those computer programs which let you do all things I’ve mentioned above and even more. When choosing a multimedia application, you need to take into consideration your needs: what do you want the software to do? What’s your final purpose? Do you need only to rip music on CDs, or you could use some video creation and merging as well? You need to see what are the supported formats of files, to see if it is good for you.

Blaze Media Pro: All-In-One Multimedia Software

Blaze Media Pro is a multimedia application which offers all these functions: audio converter (supporting MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG and other known music files formats), an MP3 encoder and decoder, MPEG encoder and decoder, CD and DVD burner, video and audio editor, to name only a few of its facilities. The system requirements fall within the average range (800 MHz processor, 1GB RAM, 30MB hard disk, sound card). Of course, for creating CDs you’ll need a CD writer. The operating system can be Windows 98 SE/2000/ME/XP/Vista. I don’t know if it works also on MACs, but you can ask the support staff if you are interested.

I’ve shot some videos recently, and I needed to edit and merge some of them, so I’ve used the free trial version of Blaze Media Pro. The video editing operations that can be done with this multimedia software are multiple, covering actions such as deleting frames, cropping, trimming, flipping, mirroring, text overlaying. If you need, you can overlap an audio file over the video - this was the feature I needed so badly, because I had a part of video where the person speaking made a mistake and I needed to replace the text with the correct one.
What I also liked, but I didn’t have the time to play with yet, are the effects and color adjustments you can add to the video - this is on my to do list for the weekend.
Despite the fact that it’s a big time hog for me, I’m happy I discovered this multimedia software. I enjoy making my own videos, you know.

Do You Read Online Humor Blogs?

I so much appreciate online humor when I find it, that I really need to tell you about my latest discovery: The Junk Drawer | Humor for the Masses, a blog run by Kathy, who defines the thing she’s doing there like this:

What’s in The Drawer? Here you’ll find stories about anything that amuses me, confuses me, or makes me blow a gasket. I complain a lot here, but that’s a good thing! Some of my regular readers consider a visit to The Junk Drawer cheap therapy. You can always come here to unwind and unload.

I arrived to Kathy’s humor blog by chance, reading a post about tweaking a blog to make money online by attracting more search engine traffic to it. The Junk Drawer was the subject of a small case study in there and I went to check it out. One hour later, I was still in the drawer, despite the fact that I had one client waiting for me to finish a job. I’m so familiar with tech support for old parents, that I can argue Kathy’s following statement any given time:

Despite our ongoing nightmare, there is one undeniable fact: My Dad may be the world’s biggest tech support challenge, but he’s the only octogenarian in his senior apartment complex who has a computer and is not afraid to use it, and I say that’s pretty cool.

This is surely cool, but I happen to know another one, who’s making me re-install his operating system every two months, because he doesn’t know any English at all, but clicks on everything that’s clickable.

Now, as Kathy says, go “take a look around the drawer. Just leave everything where you found it.”

Kathy, I left everything as you wanted. I just took your feed for my reader. I surely could use your online humor any given time.

How Often Do You Buy New Gadgets?

I don’t know how unusual this is for a girl, but I love to buy new gadgets. If one month passes and I don’t change my keyboard, or get a new mobile phone, or even a new Logitech universal remote, I feel like a child without toys. I suppose I could very well live without all these cool, shiny, tech things. However, my life principle is something like: if your money is not enough, don’t cut on spendings, just go and earn more money. I know this is easier said than done, but still, I don’t want to change this lifestyle which I find fun and comfortable.

How Do You Find Out About New Gadgets?

Usually, I take my info about new gadgets from internet, TV and magazines. Even if I read about some cool device in a magazine, I still like to browse the net, to find reviews and opinions of other users, before I buy it. This is how I came across a website which offers information about gadgets and tech news. Gadget Advisor is one of the places where you can find out more about new gadgets and computer software and cool programs such as online backup service or top extensions for Firefox. All reviews offer detailed information, including prices and technical details. Besides, Gadget Advisor has a clean, pleasant layout, not crowded with ads like most of these new gadgets and tech review blogs.

So, what are your best tips for buying new gadgets?

Tips For Remarkable Halloween Costumes

Are you ready for this Halloween yet? If you aren’t, you should hurry up with the preparations, get your costumes, find the decorations, invite your friends and expect to have a lot of fun. We don’t have this celebration in our country, but I’ve set up a Halloween online shop for those who do. Browsing the shop, I found a cool girl costume which I want to show you:

Girls Light-Up Pumpkin Princess Costume - $ 29.99
She’ll light up the night, just like her pumpkin pals. Costume includes pumpkin stem hairpiece, and dress with fiber optic lights; 2-piece set. Comes with 3 button cell batteries. Polyester. Imported.

Baby Costumes Are The Cutest of All

These are absolutely gorgeous, and for the first time in my life I was sorry for two things: that I don’t have a toddler and that I don’t celebrate Halloween. See it for yourself:

Baby Pumpkin Halloween Costume
Price: 19.99

The cutest little thing to come out of a pumpkin patch. Hat and plush pullover pumpkin with attached leaves and face. Polyester. Imported. Fits up to 24M.

All Costumes