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iGliss – organize your media and all the websites you enjoy in one place!

May 5, 2007 by Tricia

I just spent some time visiting a new site where members can Mix, sync, and share your media from the Web and PCs. This new site is called iGliss.

The site was created in order to make it easier for you to both collect, mix, synchronize various types of media, and then share it with your friends or with the world. Once you register you can begin using the site to share your favorite photos, videos, audio recordings or even blogs from the web.

There are so many interesting features it’s hard to know where to begin. You can use iGliss in so many ways. As I mentioned above you can simply use it to share your pictures and videos with friends and family, or you can use the site to keep track of cool photos that your friends and acquaintance’s have recently posted on Flickr.

You can watch the latest videos from sites like YouTube and Grouper, or listen to internet talk shows and news podcasts. You can even use it to read new posts from from favorite blogs.

I really like some of the features. I mean, I run several websites, yet I want to stay in touch with what’s happening on the web and read my ever growing list of favorite blogs but it can be hard to keep up with it all. I spend an hour on a forum, an hour or two reading RSS feeds or visiting site after site, then to relax or get ideas for posts I might sometimes stop in at Youtube to see if there’s any good videos that I can use. Now, with iGliss it seems like I can do much of that right from the iGliss site. That’s amazing. For me that would be a real time saver!

You don’t have to upload anything to the site. All you need to do once you become a free member is start selecting websites, RSS feeds and any other media that you’d like to list in your account and iGliss will automatically synchronize the media content that you’ve selected and keep track of it all for you.

I’m in. I just signed up for a membership. I think I’ll be exploring the site for a while! See you there I hope!

Washer or dryer acting up? Check the Appliance repair forums first

May 5, 2007 by Tricia

Don’t you just hate it when an appliance suddenly stops working? Naturally it always seems to happen with little warning, and you only discover that there’s a problem when you are about to use the appliance. For example, you might have just finished washing your clothes and when you put them in the dryer you discover that the dryer isn’t working? Or perhaps it’s your dishwasher, Air conditioner, microwave, stove or refrigerator that stops working.

The immediate thought that goes through most of our heads when we discover that a major appliance is not working properly or has stopped working is that we’ll have to purchase a new one, or get an expensive repair service in to fix the appliance. Most of the time we are not financially prepared to do this so it causes a lot of stress, doesn’t it?

While both of those scenarios could end up being true, why don’t you try visiting the Appliance Repair Forums first and see if you might be able to fix the problem yourself.

The appliance repair forums will likely be most appealing to those who are natural do it yourselfers, but even if you don’t think you are that handy check it out first before you call the repairman or go out and buy a new fridge. Sometimes all you need is one small part that’s easy to replace in order to get an appliance back in working order.

I’ll give you an example. When we first bought our house we were happy to find that we had a built in humidifier on our furnace. Well, it worked for the first year or two that we had the house, but then it suddenly stopped working. As I said earlier our first thoughts when we discovered it wasn’t working was that we’d have to purchase a new furnace humidifier.

We took a bit of time and looked into the problem, talked to some people online and in some of the DIY stores and discovered that motor breakdown was common on these things and that we probably just need to buy a new motor for the humidifier. We did, and it was easy to install and our furnace humidifiers been working ever since. The motor wasn’t expensive, certainly cheaper than buying a new furnace humidifier, so we saved ourselves a lot of money by doing the simple repair ourselves.

Now, the Appliance Repair forums doesn’t discuss furnace humidifiers- or at least I didn’t see that topic as I browsed through the forums, and I was just using that as an example to show you how easy an appliance repair might turn out to be. The Appliance Repair Forums does discuss all of the major household appliances that tend to be costly to repair when they do break down.

If you own a microwave, dishwasher, washing machine, garbage disposal, stove or range, dryer, air conditioner, or refrigerator why not bookmark this site just in case your appliance breaks down. If and when it does, visit the forum and get advice from the appliance repair experts. The forum is completely free to use although to ask a question you will have to register on the forum first.

Browsing through the forums I’ve seen questions such as how to tighten a refrigerator door handle, icemakers, and the fridge being too warm, in the washer forums I discovered questions about the spin cycle not starting automatically, an unbalanced basket and the detergent door leaking water out the front among many other questions. Each question had a number of answers as the various appliance service technicians that frequent the site tried to help the appliance owner.

If and when you ever have to visit the Appliance repair forums be sure provide as much information about the problem that you are having with the appliance, as well as it’s brand and model number if possible. Your question will be answered by an actual appliance service technician.

Consider bookmarking this site. You never know when you might need it, and getting help on the forum could end up saving you a lot of money.

Make life easier – schedule household chores fairly with Chore Buster

May 4, 2007 by Tricia

Tired of being the person who does the majority of household chores? Wish the kids would either actually do their chores or stop fighting over them? Why not try this great new free site Chore Buster. This site was created in order to help you generate chore schedules that will be doled out fairly to all the members of your household.

How cool is that?

Whether you live alone and just want to make sure that you remember to clean your stove once a month, turn your mattress or wash the floors twice a week; or live in a household with kids of different ages who should be able to do some chores I’m sure you’ll find that Chore Buster is just what you’ve always wanted, even if you didn’t know that you did.

Using Chore Buster you can easily create a free account, add the members of your family who are able to do chores and assign tasks that should be done, daily, weekly or monthly. Chore Buster then automatically schedules the tasks according to the persons ability or availability and rotates them through the list of household members so that they are distributed fairly. So if your daughter washes the dishes tomorrow evening, your son might get the chore the next night and so on.

I think this is great. I didn’t create a chore list for my husband and I because we are actually pretty good about household chores. We both do just about everything. I think the only chores we defer to the other are 1. garbage – he’s usually the one to take it out, but I’ll often gather it up, and 2. He doesn’t like cleaning the bathrooms and doesn’t do the best job when he does do it so I end up doing it, but otherwise we’re pretty fair in this house. I may however still sign up and assign chores – at least it would help me remember to do the chores that only get done once in a while.

I did however go through the hand Chore Buster Demo to see what it was all about so that I could tell you all about it. First of course you should register for an account. Once you’re ready to get started begin by adding the members of your household who can do chores. Once you are done adding your family members you can edit each persons listing and assign a task level of normal, or only 75%, 50%, or 25% of the regular household chores. Like this:

Once you’ve finished adding and editing the members of your home you can move on to list all the chores that regularly need to be done around the home. Chore Buster has a handy already created list of chores that would need to be done in most homes that you can import into your account to save on your typing. Once you have listed all of the chores you can set about editing each one:

As you can see you can choose to not assign certain chores to particular people, decide how often it should be assigned, and give it a skill level.

Once you are done adding all the members of the household, editing each person, adding chores and editing them as well, make sure that you have checked that at least one member of the household is sent the list of chores weekly or even daily.

I can see this taking a while to set up properly, especially if there are several people in a home with varying skill levels, but think about it – how much time do you spend assigning chores now, or being frustrated when the kids start fighting over chores. Once you’ve spent the time to set this up you can pretty much forget about it. You’ll get a regular email with a new list of chore assignments and the tasks will be rotated through the members of the household so everything will be distributed fairly. No more fighting! No more wasted time assigning tasks!

What do you think? Are you going to give it a try?

Broadband providers in the UK

May 3, 2007 by Tricia

If you live in the Uk and you’d like to find a cheap broadband service you should take a moment and look at Broadbandsuppliers.co.uk. They have listings of all the major broadband providers throughout the UK.

Looking through their list of broadband providers I see listing for companies that provided unlimited broadband, and ADSL broadband. You can compare broadband providers to see who will offer you the best prices and services that you need.

Companies such as AOL, Eclipse, BT, Tiscali, Pipex, Plusnet, Talktalk, BE, and Virgin are all listed. Check it out for yourself and see if you can find a new cheap broadband provider.

Teen boot camps help troubled teens

May 2, 2007 by Tricia

When I was still a young teenager myself my oldest brother, 19 years my senior, got married and had a son with his then wife. My brother worked a lot of long hours during the day and evening and his wife ended up at first what we believed was post-partum depression, but then it turned out that she was schizophrenic. She just couldn’t handle carry for my baby nephew and he was in fact being neglected when my brother was not home to care for both the baby and his wife.

My mother and I stepped and took care of the baby, and for most of his first year of life he lived with us. I was just 12 at the time and it felt like I was already a mother, especially considering that my own mother was getting close to 60 at the time and tired more easily than when she had her own children to care for. Believe me, after that I knew I didn’t want to get pregnant as a teen!

My brother and his wife eventually broke up, and since custody was normally given to the mother back in those days my little nephew ended up living with his maternal grandparents because his mother was just too ill to care for him properly.

Just to keep a long story short, lets just say that as a teen my nephew didn’t do very well. I don’t know if it was his messed up upbringing or the fact that much of his maternal family had a history of mental illness, but when my nephew eventually returned to live with his father he was a hellion.

He tried to set fire to the house with my brother in it, and made what we are sure a few other attempts on his life, stole things and did all kinds of cruel things. He eventually took off at 16 and lived on his own in a number of different cities throughout North America.

I’m happy to say that he got his life back in order and he’s married and a father himself. I honestly never thought that he’d straighten out.

If there ever was a candidate for Boot Camp my nephew surely was one. I only wish that we’d thought of putting him into a boot camp when he was still a teen because he might have straightened his life out that much earlier.

Boot-Camp-Boot-Camps.com is a great site for anyone looking for information on the various types of boot camps available. They have listings for Military style boot camps and Teen Boot Camp – Help For Troubled Teens. It seems that they have listings for most of the United States and Eastern Canada.

Originally boot camps were started as an alternative to jail for troubled teens, but now there are several types of boot camps available. There are State/Province run camps, as well as private camps.

These camps challenge teens mentally and physically and give them some order in their lives. I know that some of the kids that have gone through these programs really straighten out. They go back to school and get their life in order.

If you, or someone you know has a troubled teen, you might want to visit Boot-Camp-Boot-Camps.com and see what types of camps are available for the child, as well as read through the many articles and resources on the site.

Washer or dryer acting up? Check the Appliance repair forums first

Make life easier – schedule household chores fairly with Chore Buster

Broadband providers in the UK

Teen boot camps help troubled teens

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