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I love Dogs and I’ve found a great site for dog lovers

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

I adore my puppy. She’s become my new muse. I’ve spent an awful lot of time over the last three month researching everything dog.

Whenever I become interested in something I tend to do a lot of research on the subject. I go to the library and borrow books, I search the internet for more information on the topic and I also tend to talk to others that are also interested in the same topic. Often I read so much that I end up creating a website to not only discuss my latest intense interest, but also to create a place for others so that they can quickly learn all the things that I’ve learned on one site. I certainly did this when I became interested in reptiles! I’ve got two huge reptile related websites as some of you probably already know.

I haven’t gotten to the “make a website” stage yet and I may not this time round, but you never know. What I have been doing is visiting a number of dog and Labrador Retriever related websites, joining dog forums and reading up on dogs in general.

You might remember that my puppy was quite sick when we got her. I had to learn as much as I could in order to try to make her better. She’s doing a lot better these days. She’s still got some problems, but over all she’s doing quite well. I thank the many great sites that I discovered for helping me help her recover from her many ailments.

One of the sites that I came across along the way is the I-Love-Dogs.com website. If you’re thinking of getting your first dog or getting another doggy companion you can spend some time on the site reading the pros and cons of various dog breeds and of course looking at the many dog pictures that proud owners are more than happy to post.

I-Love-Dogs.com is a major dog portal where you can talk to other dog owners, discuss dogs in general on the forums, talk about your dogs health or behavioral problems or share some tips that have worked for you and your dog companion.

Along with the extensive dog forums you’ll find sections with dog games, lists of great dog names, free stuff for your dog, recipes for home made dog food, articles about dogs and dog training and many other great dog related categories. Heck you can even shop for supplies for your dog too.

If you are a dog owner you should take a moment to visit the I-Love-Dogs.com website. I’m sure you’ll find something there of interest and you’ll probably learn something new too.





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A great Toronto search engine

February 17, 2008 by Tricia

I’ve found a great site to search for all things Toronto for those of you who live or who are visiting this great city. The site is called Toronto Major League Search and it’s easy and handy to use.

Say you need a cab and can’t remember the number for the cab company that you normally use, just go to Toronto Major League search and type in taxi or the name of the cab company and a results page will come up. You’ll likely be able to find the cab company that you’re searching for with a simple search such as this.

When you do a search you can also specify a location. For example I live in a part of the Toronto known as The Danforth so I did a search for Restaurants and I wrote The Danforth in the location area. This brought up about 6 pages of restaurant results. The various restaurant locations were shown on a medium sized Google map with the restaurant listings to the right of the Google map.

I did find that I got better results with my searches when I was more specific. For example I decided to search for Greek restaurants on Danforth Ave and more of the restaurant results seems to be on Danforth.

I do like that the site is tied in with Google maps. It’s nice to be able to see where something that you’ve searched for its located. It will save a lot of time in deciding which location to give my business to if I can pick one out easily that’s close to where I am.

Just like most search engines you can search for pretty much anything. give it a try and see if you find Toronto Major League Search helpful too.

Oh and if you know of a great business that should be listed on the site you can submit it using the link at the bottom of each page.

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Looking to buy or sell a property in South Africa?

February 14, 2008 by Tricia

I just finished watching the latest episodes of Survivor and Lost and looking at all of that lovely scenery has me dreaming of exotic locals.

Do you ever think about living in another country or perhaps having a second home in another country? I know that several of my readers work from home and make their income from their websites, as I do. All we need is a good internet connection and we could work anywhere right?

Here I am talking about how nice it would be to move to an exotic location and I’m forgetting that some of you live in places that I’d love to travel to and perhaps move to!

If any of you happen to live in South Africa or if you’ve thought of purchasing a home there you should take a look at the Property Home website where you can view South Africa Property Listings. You’ll find property listings by real estate agents, private sellers, property developers and property landlords.

Not only will you find South Africa Houses for Sale, but you’ll also find properties to rent or “to let”.

One feature of the site that I really like is that once a real estate agent or property owner has registered one of their properties on the site they can then go and search for a prospective renter or buyer.

PropertyHome has a database of close to 50,000 prospective home buyers. Their system is set up in such a way that real estate owners can quickly and easily search for suitable buyers for their properties. In fact, within seconds of listing your property for rent or for sale you’ll be automatically provided with a list of prospective tenants and buyers whom closely match your property listing.

This sounds like a great way to market a property! I really don’t think that we have anything quite like this in Canada … not on this scale anyway. I think it’s great. If I were seriously looking for a home in South Africa I think I’d be happy to register and list what type of property I was looking for and then be contacted by both private sellers and real estate agents. It would save me time going through all the listings on several sites!

I also like the fact that if I were selling a home I could put up a listing, perhaps one that said “Real Estate Home for Sale by Owner” and immediately get a list of prospective buyers for that property. It sounds win win to me.

The very best feature is their special introductory offer. Property Home is offering all advertisers the opportunity to list their properties for free for a total of three months. I know that it’s not possible to sell or rent all properties within three months, but I think a high percentage are sold within that time period and if a seller or renter were able to find a new owner or tenant in that time it wouldn’t cost them anything at all for the listing!

At this point I have no idea if Chris and I will ever move out of the country or purchase a second property elsewhere but it’s good to know what’s out there isn’t it? Hopefully this information about Property Home might come in for a few of my readers.

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Great site to find newsletters and RSS feeds of interest

February 7, 2008 by Tricia

Since I haven’t been feeling that well over the last few days I spent some time finding pet related forums to visit. I’m new to owning a dog and I’ve still got a lot to learn. It’s good to have a few good dog related sites bookmarked so I can go and ask some questions if I’m not sure if something my puppy is doing is normal or not.

One of the sites that I came across is called the iContact Community. It’s actually a forum that archives newsletters and blog posts from small- and medium-sized organizations across the globe. Of course I headed straight to the pets forum to see what I could find!

I found a newsletter for funny dog stories that I ended up liking so much I subscribed to it’s RSS feed. There were also a few other sites with dog related articles that I ended up subscribing to as well.

You can find newsletters and RSS feeds for all kinds of topics at the iContact Community website. Topics range from Arts, Automotive, Entertainment, Business, Education, Events, health, hobbies, politics and several more categories. Have a look, perhaps you’ll find some sites of interest.

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I got free samples through mysavings.com

January 29, 2008 by Tricia

Do you remember about a month ago I told you about a site called mysavings.com where you could get Free Stuff? Well I’d like to tell you about my experience.

I spent some time on the site going through all the different free samples that I could send for. Of course I couldn’t request all of them because some of the free samples were only for those in the US. The Mysavings.com site did make it easy for me to search for free samples that I qualified for though as there are Country icons at the top of each page. I simply clicked on the Canadian flag and it brought up items that I could request.

I can’t remember all the items I requested but I do remember asking for a free sample of Greenies – a dog treat that’s good for their teeth and that I think freshens up dog breath, a sample or two of various dog foods, three different Oil of Olay products and a sample of Garnier Fructus Shampoo or conditioner. All of those samples have arrived with the exception of the dog food samples. I’m sure they’ll come. Some of the items that I was requesting clearly stated that the samples wouldn’t arrive for four to six weeks.

Another thing that I liked about the free sample section of the site is that you can search for items by major category or by using the search box. Once you find a free sample that you’d like to apply for you just click on the link and below the sample description and link to product site you’ll see a comment section where those that have also requested the item can talk about their experiences. I found this helpful because there were a few products that people stated they’d requested months before and the samples simply hadn’t arrived. That saved me time as I decided not to even bother trying to request those samples.

If you visit the site you’ll discover that you can get all kinds of free samples. There are free samples for baby or children’s products, pet products, automotive, beauty, health and makeup, college and students, magazines, home and garden, office supplies and more.

Mysavings.com isn’t just a site with links to offers for free samples. No, not by a long shot. You’ll also find free online coupons such as printable grocery coupons, coupon codes to use at online stores, and coupons for restaurants too.

They add new coupons and free samples weekly so it’s good to visit regularly. You’ll get to try samples of products that you’ve perhaps been thinking of buying and you can save a lot of money with all those coupons.

Visit mysavings.com today and see what free samples you can get or what coupons could save you money!

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