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Enjoy reading? Join Booksfree and have book rentals delivered to your home

March 22, 2007 by Tricia

Pretty much everyone has heard of Netflix right? Well, what if there was a company that offered a similar service, but for books and audiotapes? Good news! There is a service that offers book lovers on-line book rentals.

The service is called Booksfree, and it offers it’s members a wide selection of books and audio tapes. They have everything from the latest best sellers to the classics. Members can select from over 88,000 audio and paperback titles, fiction and non-fiction, from over 35,200 authors.

Books are expensive to purchase, and we all have busy lives and sometimes don’t have time to visit the local library to take out new books to read. Why not start a membership with Booksfree and have the audio tapes or books that you’d like to read shipped to you free of charge?

Booksfree offers several membership plans. You could have anywhere from two to 12 books shipped to you at once for as little as $8.49 to $34.99 per month. All membership plans include free shipping both ways, unlimited rentals, no due dates, and of course no late fees.

When you sign up for a membership you can create a list of titles that you’d like to rent and they’ll automatically ship the number of titles that your membership allows you to rent. The remaining titles on your list will be shipped in a future order. Return your titles in the pre-paid shipping envelope and your next title choices will be sent to you. It’s that easy.

A Booksfree membership would be great for an avid reader, a family or even as a gift for a relative. Perhaps you have an older relative that can’t get out as much as they used to, maybe a Booksfree membership would make an ideal gift?

At this time this service is only available to residents of the United States and it’s territories. I’m hopeful that the service will be available to Canadians and perhaps other countries sometime in the near future.





Filed Under: Great Reading, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services, Shopping Tagged With: book rental, booksfree, convenient, free return shipping, free shipping, Gift Idea, low membership price, membership, save time, savings, shipping

Next time – we’ll have our HDTV flat screen professionally installed

March 21, 2007 by Tricia

hdinstallerslogo1.gif Around this time, back in 2004, we noticed that our 29″ Sony Trinitron TV was having a hard time starting. We’d turn the power on, but the picture would be static, and then blurry until the set had warmed up for 15 to 30 minutes. The problem had actually been going on for a number of months, but it was getting worse.

We looked into getting the TV repaired, but found that we could purchase a comparable TV for about the same price as it would cost us to repair our 10 year old television set. So, we decided to take the plunge and treat ourselves to a HDTV ready television.

After spending a couple of weeks doing research on the various types of HDTV ready television sets we decided to get a Samsung. Well, we went through two RCA’s first, but that’s a whole other story!

The following story is one of the main reasons why I have decided that anyone purchasing a flat panel TV should have it professionally installed rather than using the services of companies like BestBuy or Circuit City or trying to do it on your own. Instead, I’d recommend that you get professional TV installation for commercial or residential locations from HDInstallers.com.

The television set and the home theater system that we’d ordered were delivered to our house about a week after we’d made our order at the store.

Unfortunately for us, the company that we purchased our new television set from didn’t offer an installation service. That’s probably a good thing though because I know a couple of people that have used the services of boxstores for their flat panel TV installation and they weren’t all that happy.

We ended up setting up the television and the home theater ourselves. It was very difficult. We have a vcr, a dvd player, a multi-CD player, and a DVD recorder that all had to be hooked up to the TV and the home theater system. It took us at least two weeks to get everything working properly.

If we had used a professional HD installer, the technician would have discovered several of the problems that plagued us right away. You see, we had a weak cable signal. A professional installer would have discovered that as he or she set up the television, home theater and all of our other electronic equipment and they would have either fixed the problem for us perhaps by installing a booster, or let us know that for a better picture we’d have to have the cable company come out for a service call to fix our weak signal.

Having our flat screen television professionally installed would have also allowed us to use our new television within hours of it’s arrival in our home. Instead, it took us weeks to set everything up ourselves.

We wasted time. We were frustrated. We weren’t happy with our TV because the picture wasn’t as good as we had expected thanks to the weak cable signal – and the last thing that you want when you’ve just spent a few thousand dollars on a new TV is to be unhappy with the picture! We also argued quite a bit as we tried to set up the television ourselves. It just wasn’t the new television experience that we’d been hoping to have.

If only we’d been smart enough to contact a great LCD TV Installation and Plasma TV Installation Service Company we wouldn’t have gone through all of that anger and frustration.

HD Installers are Nation wide LCD and Plasma television installers. They service every major city in the United States. The company provides both residential and commercial LCD and Plasma television installation, as well as home theater, projector and screen installations.

HD Installers will install your LCD or plasma television on the wall or table stand for you, plus, they will also integrate all of your audio and video equipment – including a current or new home theater system so that everything works properly. They’ll even program your universal remote control for you.

If you are thinking about getting an HD Flat screen TV or if you’ve already ordered your new TV you might want to visit HDInstallers.com as their article section is a great resource for installing your big screen lcd or plasma television. The articles discuss things that you should consider if you want to install your HDTV above a fireplace, and what cables you will need when you install your new TV, plus many other things that you may or may not have considered.

If you are simply trying to decide what size tv will be best for the room you plan to put your new LCD or plasma TV in then you should read the HD Installer calculator article.

Honestly, after the experience we had when we purchased our flat screen TV I’m certain that we will have our next flat screen professionally installed. I mean, when you decide to have your flat screen TV installed by HD Installers you are working with professionals with years of experience. Not to mention that they also have a 100% satisfaction guarantee, offer a one year warranty, and are fully insured.

Filed Under: Services, Shopping, Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: articles, audio, cable, Commercial, electronic equipment, flat screen, HD Installers, HDIstallers.com, HDTV, home theater, insured, LCD, PLasma, projection screen, projection TV, residential, speakers, Tech, technician, Television, TV, Video, warranty

Aerocare Air Ambulance service

March 14, 2007 by Tricia

As a nurse working in a busy emergency room I can’t begin to tell you how important medevac services can be.

In case you aren’t aware – a company such as aerocare.com, provides air ambulance services, and air evacuation medical flight services. It’s a valuable service, as sometimes an air ambulance is the only way to rescue someone from a remote area, or pick up a patient from a multi-vehicle accident on a highway. They can get to a patient quickly and get them to a hospital faster than a ground ambulance in many cases.

A number of the nurses that I’ve worked with in the past have worked for air ambulance services. Perhaps even Aerocare. I’ve heard stories of stressful trips bringing a patient back home from one country to another. Often the patients my fellow nurses have cared for are critically ill and these patients sometimes become even sicker as they travel to a hospital in their own country or via air to a trauma hospital.

The nurses and other medical staff that work for Aerocare have to be sharp and on the ball. Certainly if I ever needed the services of Aerocare I’d feel secure in knowing how professional the medical staff would be, just because of my own experience working in the ER with some of the best nurses I’ve ever worked with who’ve done medivac work in the past.

Why am I talking about Aerocare? Well, it’s March break. People often take vacations at this time of year and sometimes they get sick while they are away from home. It’s always good to know about an air ambulance service that could bring your sick father or mother home if they became critically ill while vacationing in another country.

If you needed the services of Aerocare you’d appreciate the fact that competent medical staff would accompany your loved on either on a regular flight home, or via special air transport. Medical staff would monitor your loved one’s condition all the way home and care for them as needed to make sure that they made it safely back to a hospital in their home Country.

Aerocare offers 24 hour worldwide service, with a flight nurse and staff medic on each mission. Considering that they provide their service worldwide they have extensive domestic and international experience. Their medical equipment is state of the art.

As I alluded to earlier, they also provide commercial airline medical escort services.

The pricing for the services they provide is reasonable as well.

I hope that people don’t end up needing the services of an air ambulance service anytime soon, but it’s good to know about service such as this isn’t it?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Services, Shopping Tagged With: Aerocare, air ambulance, air transport, commercial airline escort, crohns, flight medic, Health and Fitness, health care, Health Fitness and Beauty, health services, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, medical evacuation, nurse, pain, RN, worldwide service

Make your dreams come true with Dream Manifesto

March 14, 2007 by Tricia

Everybody has dreams and wishes. Dreaming about our future life often starts when we are just small children playing games with our friends. I don’t know how many people ever end up being what they dreamed of being as a child, but I bet, even if they didn’t follow their childhood dreams that a little bit of the dream is still alive in them today.

The great thing about having dreams and goals for ourselves, our family and our futures is that we can set new goals or start new dreams at any point in our life. It’s almost never too late to change the track that your life is on.

Dream Manifesto has created a software program that helps your focus your dreams and your goals into successful accomplishments. The companies motto for their new software is – Dream Manifesto – Create Prosperity & Abundance in Your Life. Sound good?

It’s an interesting software concept. You just use the Dream Questionnaire or the Wizard to create a dream that you want to manifest in your life. The software then helps you direct your thinking towards making your dreams and goals come true. There’s nothing like having a program on your computer that works to motivate you towards making things happen in your life.

Here’s a recent press release from the Dream Manifesto company, read it to learn more about this interesting software program:

PETALUMA, CA (March 9, 2007) – Dream Manifesto, LLC. releases the Dream Manifestation Wizard V1.1 for Windows & Mac.

The Dream Manifestation Wizard® is a software application to manifest your goals & dreams and to create abundance & prosperity in your life.

Once started, the Wizard will ask you what dream you want to manifest in your life. If you are not certain about it, you can use the built-in ‘Dream Questionnaire’ to find one or more powerful dreams that you would like to manifest in your life. Learn the simplicity of creating your dream template that consists of text, an image and your voice. This template will function as your dream blueprint.

Command the Dream Manifestation Wizard® on how often per day you want to program your dream into your subconscious. Once this is done, relax, sit back and work normally on your computer. The Dream Manifestation Wizard®, running in the background, will provide an audible cue – a gong – before it appears on your screen.

The Dream Manifestation Wizard® comes complete with over 100 dream templates, so you can start immediately manifesting what you always wanted.
The Dream Manifestation Wizard® creates an exact blueprint in your subconscious of what you want to manifest. Your subconscious mind will immediately start to work on turning your dream into reality, applying the latest discoveries in quantum physics to shift and direct your attention toward new possibilities.

Requires Windows XP, Vista or Mac OS 10.3 or later.
The program is available for immediately download or on CD-ROM and costs $29.95. With the current promotion you save $20.

Filed Under: Sales and Marketing, Services, Shopping, Software, Web and Technology Tagged With: Abundance, change your life, dream come true, dream manifesto, goal, goals, motivate, prosper, Prosperity

Free ringtones for your cell – top bands and TV shows

March 10, 2007 by Tricia

Have you ever gone looking for free Ringtones for your cell phone on the Internet only to find a bunch of ringtones that are just muzak. You know – electronic music that sounds a bit like the song you were looking for, but not really? They never have any vocals either of course, and are often worse than elevator music.

Well I was just visitingMSNEmotions.org and I spent some time in their free ringtone section. They have a huge selection of more than 1000 ringtones to browse through. I mean they’re real songs! There’s a top 40 billboard list, as well as songs from all the top bands. They also have TV show ringtones too.

I really like the Red Hot Chili peppers so when I saw that they had Californication I immediately downloaded it for my cell. It was really easy to do. I just downloaded it to my computer and then uploaded it to my phone. Done!

The ringtones should work on any cell phone that supports wav/mp3 ringtones like Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Ericcson and most of the major cell phone brands.

Check it out if you want ringtones from your favorite bands on your cell. Oh, they also have free cellphone wallpaper too.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Recreation, Services, Shopping, Web and Technology Tagged With: cell phone, Cool stuff, download, Entertainment, Favorite bands, media, Mp3, Music, Paper, Recreation, ringtones, songs, sound, top bands, TV

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