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Save money when you purchase ink and printer supplies at 123inkjets.com

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I’d love to take a poll to see just how many of my readers have digital cameras, laser or inkjet printers, or even photo printers and scanners. My guess is that at least 85% of my readers have a printer and possibly a digital camera, and that a good number of you might also have a scanner and a photo printer.

Why do I think that most of you have digital cameras and printers? Well, because I’ve visited your sites and read your comments. Many of you are web designers, photographers, graphic artists, web developers or have small to medium sized businesses.

I have all of the items I listed above with the exception of a photo printer. That’s next on my list. You see I do a lot of graphics, and as you know I have been developing my photography skills. I occasionally print out my photographs or graphic work. I frame them and give them as gifts. I’ve also been considering starting a small business where I would sell some of my photographs and art work online.

Considering that I like to print out my work I need to be sure that I have ink for my inkjet printer and both regular and photo quality paper on hand at all times.

I hate going to computer, department stores, or even office supply stores to buy my ink and photo paper. I always feel that the prices are much too high. You know, when I purchased my last printer (this is my third!) I purposely bought it with the price of ink in mind. The one I bought has separate color cartridges so that If I run out of yellow or magenta for example I only have to purchase the color that I’m low on, and not a whole set of colors. I thought that this might reduce the overall cost of printer ink, and while it has I still find it very expensive if I purchase it through a retail store.

So that’s why I’m starting to take a look at the fantastic prices over at 123Inkjets.com. They carry a large variety of brand name premium laser and inkjet cartridges as well as all of the other types of printer supplies that I need.

Just looking through the site for the type of Cannon Inkjet printer cartridges that I need for my printer I have discovered that I can purchase the cartridges that I need for 75% less than what I’ve been paying in the retail stores. I’m amazed!

Remember I gave an example of running out of yellow ink? Well if I had to purchase that in a retails store I’d pay anywhere from $13 to $19, but at 123inkjets.com that same cartridge is only $3.75! It’s even cheaper if I purchase three or more as I’d get them for $2.75 each.

Now I’m all excited! Yes, printer ink is exciting when you can save 75% off the retail price. It is!

I went on to look at their stalk of printer paper and discovered that I can get 20 sheets of photo paper for as little as $3.95 to $11.80 depending on exactly which type I’d want to purchase. I like to have a variety of photo paper – matte, glossy, and in different sizes which is why I gave a range in price. I can tell you that if I were to purchase the types of photo paper that I’m interested in at a retail store that I’d be paying approximately $20 or more for 20 sheets.

You know, I don’t think I’m ever going to purchase my Inkjet printer cartridges or photo paper in a retail store again. The prices at 123inkjets.com are amazing!

123inkjets.com offers free shipping on sales of $55 or more throughout the continental US. With those prices why not buy everything that you’d need at once and get free shipping too? I know I would.

So what are you waiting for? I know that the majority of you have an inkjet or laser printer in your home. Go take a look at 123injets.com and see for yourself how much money you can save if you make your purchases with them.





Amazing zero click picture correction software

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I’ve found an amazing software product. I couldn’t wait to tell you about it either because I know that many of you enjoy taking photographs, but might not be all that great when it comes to editing them and making a good photo turn into a fantastic photo.

Well, look no further. I found software that you’re going to wish you knew about years ago. It’s Photobot, the world’s first ZERO CLICK picture correction software. I visited the site and saw a demonstration of how the software automatically brightens dark photos, takes red eye out of pictures, and gives life like color to photographs automatically.

You can download Photobot for a free 30 day trial, or purchase it now for the low introductory price of $29.95.

Now you can put fantastic photos into your posts or on your websites and you’ll save a lot of time using Photobot because you won’t be tinkering with your photos. You’ll have more time to concentrate on other aspects of your blog or website.

Want to know more? Here’s the company Press Release:

Photobotâ„¢, the First ZERO-CLICK(TM) Picture Correction Software, Now Commercially Available Find Photobot at major outlets including Amazon.com and Overstock.com, and at leading camera stores like Adorama and B&H Photo-Video Tribeca Labs (www.tribecalabs.com), a leading developer of digital imaging software and services, and winner of the DIMA 2006 Innovative Digital Product Award, has announced the release of PhotobotTM, the first Zero-Click picture correction software.

With Photobot, consumers now have a fully-automatic program that instantly brightens dark images, reduces red-eye and gives their pictures life-like color. There are no more buttons to push, no more sliders to slide – no work to do and no time wasted. Photobot does it all for you, automatically.

Photobot is now available for purchase at major outlets like Amazon.com and Overstock.com, and at leading camera stores, like Adorama and B&H Photo-Video. “We are pleased to announce the commercial availability of Photobot in conjunction with such well-known retail partners,” said Mike Bevans, one of the Partners at Tribeca Labs.

How It Works Once installed on the computer, Photobot continually searches the user’s hard drive for photos. When “he” finds them, he goes to work applying award-winning, multi-patented technologies to instantly and automatically optimize picture quality.

Photobot uses Perfectly Clearâ„¢ to improve brightness, Full Spectrum RGBâ„¢ to deliver vibrant, life-like colors and FotoNation’s Red-Eyeâ„¢ to reduce red-eye. Importantly, Photobot’s technologies are all adaptive, which means that he only makes adjustments to images if they are needed, and then only to the degree necessary to achieve optimal results.

“Photobot is specifically designed for the everyday point-and-shoot consumer that wants to take lots of digital photos, and have them come out looking great,” said Bevans. “Busy moms and dads don’t want to have to do photo-finishing work on their computers. Taking pictures is fun, but correcting them is homework. With Zero-Click technology this chore is eliminated forever; users simply save pictures to their computers – and seconds later Photobot provides them with great looking photos.”

Correct your pictures – Protect your pictures In addition to improving images, Photobot also automatically uploads them to the user’s personal Swiss Picture Bank account, where they are protected from hard drive failure, accidental deletion, theft and disasters of all kinds.

Tribeca Labs operates Swiss Picture Bank in the same high-security data centers that Swiss banks use to store billions of dollars in electronic assets. “Swiss Picture Bank is the first practical, effective solution to the problem of digital picture backup,” said Bevans. “Most consumers aren’t very diligent about backing up their pictures.

With Swiss Picture Bank, your precious memories are automatically backed up for you so that you’re never at risk of losing years of your life’s history. Swiss Picture Bank keeps your photos safe. Forever.”

MSRP: $29.95 including a free introductory account at Swiss Picture Bank. For more information, visit www.photobot.com. # # #

Protecting our pampered car

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You know, when we bought our house and moved in one of the only regrets that I had was that our new house didn’t have a garage. You see, we’d lived in an apartment before getting our house and our car was always kept in an underground garage.

This was great for both the car and for us. The car always started well in the winter, we didn’t have to clear snow off of it, and it didn’t get bird do do all over it either. Our car was pampered.

Now, our car sits at the beginning of our long and narrow driveway. The driveway that is a wind tunnel in both the summer and winter. The driveway that the birds fly along in a repeated path, often leaving signs of their passing on our cars hood or windshield.

In the summer time, because of the wind tunnel effect that our driveway has, I find that our car gets awfully dusty. So whenever I’m watering the lawn and garden I tend to lightly spray the car in order to get some of the dust off of it, and well, to remove the bird droppings too.

I’ve even gone so far as to think about getting some type of cover for the car. I was reminded of this a little while ago when I came across wolf car covers. The site has a large selection of custom and universal car covers, car bras, Tonneau covers for pick up trucks and a number of car, truck and even boat covers, mats and related accessories.

I actually found both custom and universal covers for our cars make and model and the prices are reasonable. I’m actually considering getting one for our car as it will help protect it against bird droppings, rain, snow and ultraviolet rays.

Our car will continue to look nice for a lot longer – less chance of rusting, scratches or other types of damage. I’ll have to see what my husband thinks when he gets home. I’m pretty sure he’ll think it’s a good idea.

If you’re interested in getting a car cover or a car bra for your vehicle check out Wolf car covers.

Greek Food

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Since I’ve been having kind of a bad week Chris and I decided to order some take out food from one of our favorite restaurants. We haven’t order from that restaurant for a long time, or treated ourselves to much take out since we are trying to watch our money, so it was quite special.

We ordered the vegetarian Mousaka, Spanakopita, Saganaki, and lamb chops. The two meals came with their yummy Greek potatoes and rice, and a nice tossed salad.

Mousaka is similar in some ways to Sheppard’s pie. The regular version has a ground meat at the bottom. Since it’s Greek food I doubt that it’s hamburger. It’s probably ground lamb or pork. The top is mashed potato. The vegetarian version is what we ordered and the bottom is made up of grilled veggies- mostly eggplant.

Spanakopita – is Filo (light flaky pastry) wrapped spinach and cheese.

Saganaki – is a type of goat cheese that is very lightly breaded with cornmeal and then they pour either Vodka or Ouzo on it and set it on fire – lightly toasting it. Yum.

Right, so it probably wasn’t the healthiest meal for me to have. Especially since I seem to have problems with corn meal. I had awful pain after eating dinner for hours and hours, but you know what? I loved the taste of it and that’s all that counts. I have to treat myself occasionally even if I have to pay for it.

If you’re curious and you’d like to see what food we ate, you can visit the Omonia Restaurant and look at their menu. I’ve eaten in the restaurant twice, but for some reason I enjoy their food better as take out.

What do you know- I checked to see if I spelled the names of the various foods we ate properly and I did spell all of our menu items correctly. This Greek neighborhood must be growing on me.

Find the best prices for contact lenses at lensshopper

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I wear contact lenses almost daily and as a result have to purchase replacement contact lenses a couple of times a year. I’ve started purchasing my contact lenses online and there’s three things that I look for when I’m looking for an online contact lenses store.

One of the things that I look for is obviously “Do they have the brand and model of contacts that I like to wear?”. If the answer is yes then I move on to look at the prices of the contact lenses. If the price of the lenses is satisfactory I then also check to see if they charge for shipping, and how long it will take to receive my order once I make my purchase.

All of those things are important to me when I’m buying contact lenses.

I like lensshopper.com because I can look at the listings for my brand and click on the lowest priced item. Once I do that I’m taken to the Online store that is offering the lenses for the lowest price. You can also scroll down their list of lenses that begins on the home page, or use the search box above the listings to search for the make and type of lens for which you’d like to check prices.

Their systems certainly makes searching for the best price a heck of a lot easier. This is another site to be added to my bookmarks.

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