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Piggybob personal accounting system

October 30, 2006 by Tricia

Piggybob – don’t you just love that name? Yes, but what is it? Piggybob is a personal accounting software program that I just found as I was surfing the net. It’s a user friendly personal finance and time manager.

With this software you can keep track of all of your income and your various expenses in a simple and easy manner. It looks like it’s easier to use than other programs that I’ve tried such as Microsoft Money. You simply file in the pop up boxes when you want to add an expense or add income and the system keeps track of your finances for you.

The software also comes with a calendar to which you can add anything from friends and relatives birthdays, important meetings, appointments or due dates for bills that must be paid. You can also set reminder alarms for any of these calendar related events.

This software looks like it would be great for anyone from someone who wants to keep track of their finances at home to a small business owner. You can download a fully functional 30 day free trial from the website and see for yourself if this simple personal accounting system suits your needs.





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology Tagged With: accounting, event calendar, personal finance software, Piggybob

Sticky Buttons

October 27, 2006 by Tricia

No that was sticky buttons, not sticky buns. Geesh! You people amaze me with your dirty minds!

We’ve been struggling with our cordless phone for the last few months. No scratch that – it’s had a few problems for about a year now.

It started with us no longer being able to turn the ringer off – that was about a year ago. I don’t know about you, but when you work shift work there are times that you just don’t want the phone to ring, because, of course, if it does it’s usually just after you’ve managed to fall asleep. Ok, well, then, if we don’t want this phone to ring I guess we’ll just unplug it.

Then some of the buttons started to stick every now and then. Often the numbers 6 and 9. It wasn’t too bad at first but over the last couple of months it’s gotten worse and worse. On Tuesday it was so bad that I had to use my cellphone to check our home phone messages because I’d already tried to put in our password 7 times on our cordless phone without it working. The buttons either weren’t working or when I finally succeeded they put in two or three of the number I’d been trying to punch in.

I’ve got a cordless phone that can be used to answer calls but forget dialing most numbers. It doesn’t work half the time. Is there an orphanage or retirement home for phones like this? I think I need to send ours there.

So on Tuesday amongst the many other things that I did on Tuesday we went phone shopping. We ended up getting a Motorola cordless phone. One of those ones that has two extra handsets. We only have TWO phone jack in our house. Yeah, we should have had more put in when we got the house but I guess we figured two would be ok.

Our tiny house now has 5 working phones! A corded phone in our bedroom, a cordless in the living room / dining room – both of those use the phone jacks, a handset in the kitchen, and the other extra handset is in one of our spare rooms upstairs right now but I’d like to move it to the basement ’cause if we do we’ll have all the floors covered. The fifth phone is the cell phone.

No more sticky buttons! The only problem now is that if we don’t want the ringer to wake us up we have even more phones to silence. I’m sure there will be times that we’ll forget one or two of them. *groan*

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology Tagged With: cell phone, corded phone, cordless, new phone, phone buttons stuck, sticky buttons

VoIP forum

October 12, 2006 by Tricia

My husband and I have been thinking about changing over to VoIP, and we’ve been trying to learn more about it.

What is VoIP?

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), is a technology that allows you to make telephone calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line. Some services using VoIP may only allow you to call other people using the same service, but others may allow you to call anyone who has a telephone number – including local, long distance, mobile, and international numbers. Also, while some services only work over your computer or a special VoIP phone, other services allow you to use a traditional phone through an adapter.

We’ve recently discovered the forums over at Vonage. Reading the forums has been very helpful. You can learn more about Voip products and read articles there, and you can also read the latest news about VoIP technology. The forums are owned by Vonage, who established the VoIp information site over 4 years ago, and naturally Vonage also offers VoIP to it’s customers.

Visit the Vonage forums to learn more, maybe we’ll see you there.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Internet, Recreation, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: computer, forum, forums, information, Internet, Product, Tech, Technology, voice, Voice over Internet Protocol, Voip, Vonage

Finally reviewed!

September 26, 2006 by Tricia

A very long time ago, ok maybe last May, I submitted my site to be rated over at Bloggy Award. Now, several months after I changed this blogs domain to feverishthoughts.com my site has been rated.

My site was apparently rated last Thursday, if you’d like to read the article and tell me what you think you can find it here.

I thought it was pretty good as ratings go. He must have gone to the original site of this blog (http://triciaswaterdragon.com/blog ) and didn’t pick up on the fact that it had changed domains when “it took him to a new domain when he clicked on a link”.

I can’t find any kind of link on the Bloggy Award site to e-mail him and let him know that the link should be updated to my new domain, and that my sidebars roll up now, so they hopefully look a little less cluttered. I just did that last week, don’t you think it looks a bit better?

If you read the article of my site come back and let me know what you think of it.

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I’m being stalked! No, no it’s not my old lady neighbor Sofie this time. Well, yes she still continues to stalk me by knocking on my door or calling me each day if she doesn’t see me at least 5 times a day. No this time it’s another blogger!

Shelli from Shelli’s Sentiments has fixated on me this week. I don’t know if I should be honoured or scared? I think I’ll go with honoured and pleased since she’s saying such nice things about me over there. You should check out her site if you haven’t been there recently. She’s really sweet and I love her site. She’s also the winner of the Compassionate Award from the Blog Emmy’s. She deserved the win!

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Another person you should go visit is Doctor Mom. See that square thumbnail of her site in the left upper corner of the page? yep, she’s my renter this week. She’s renovating her cul de sac – thanks to someone called Mr. Fab who wants a bigger lot on the street, and she need a place to stay. The idiot of the week has been chosen. Go on over and see who it is, I’m sure you’ll get a laugh when you do, the photos are Hilarious!

It also turns out that she likes baseball – the Minnesota Twins I think. Speaking of baseball, my hubby and his dad when to the Blue Jays game last night. They beat Boston!

So go on over and vist Doctor Mom at You’ve got 2 B Kidding would you? Let her know that her favorite landlord sent you. I just know you are going to love her site.

Filed Under: Blog traffic exchanges, Blogging, Cool stuff, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Linky Love, Services, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: blogger, Bloggy Award, blogs, Doctor Mom, domain, neighbor, Renter, Shelli s sentiments, stalker, stalking

Ice Cream Days and Multimedia Freebies

July 8, 2006 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Signs

icecreamdays

I think that’s a nice sentement, don’t you?

This photo was taken on Wednesday afternoon when my husband and I were finally about to go home after picking up the free item that I mentioned in my previous posts. We needed and wanted Ice cream. Yummmm this place is a small shop that makes it’s own ice cream. Order a cone with one scoop and they give you a gigantic scoop … really it could fill a whole bowl. Good prices too.

That’s the second time I’ve had ice cream this week. I think I’ve used up my summer quota already.

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Now, on to the good stuff. Some of you have been waiting for me to tell you what techy item I got for free this week. Well, that picture was taken with it, and so was the latest photo on Breath of Life.

The Buzz creating company that contacted me gave me a Nokia 6682 cell phone on Wednesday.

It’s a multimedia smartphone. It came with several extras too- a 512 mb memory card (it had 64 mg already), a bluetooth wireless headset, and an extra set of headphones for listening to MP3’s. All in all, the phone and the extras are probably worth over $500. I can get organized on it, or view documents with the mini microsoft office software that’s on it (ie view excel, word and powerpoint docs), list things on the calendar or record my thoughts, control the phone with voice commands, play games, connect to the web – it’s has the Opera browser on it, make conference calls, and that’s only the start. I’m still exploring and discovering all the things the phone can do.

Best of all though, is that it has a 1.3 megapixel camera built in. Ok so 1.3 megapixels doesn’t compare to the latest digital cameras but I’ve found that it takes pretty good photos. I can also record up to an hour of video if I want to.

I actually already made some videos. Chris and I accidentally ended up on the Molson Indy race track as it was being created, when we were on our way to pick up the phone. That was kind of neat, so on our way back home with the new cell phone we decided to get on the track and make a video. It’s not bad and it was kind of fun to make. Really, how often does one get to drive on a formula one race track anyway?

Then we went to the beach and took about 60 pictures along the way. I guess it must have taken us about 3 hours to get home that day, but we had a lot of fun. You should see all the volley ball nets on the beach. There must be 200 of them all strung out in long rows of 10 or so. Here, I’ll show you:

couplehundredvolleyballnets

The only problem is that the video is in 3GP and to upload it to a place like youtube I need to create a file that is under 100k in AVI or MPEG format. If anyone could give me some suggestions for some conversion software I’d appreciate it.

Chris and I are going to a Party tonight. It’s out of town, in the fun city of Brantford. I’m being slightly sarcastic here. Just a little, uhm yeah. Anyway, the party should be a good one, and it will give me another opportunity to try out the phone and see how it works for party photos. Hmmm I wonder if I can take it in the hot tub with me? The house we are going to has a huge hot tub. It’s going to be fun. Oh, it’s also Chris’ birthday and the party is partly going to be a surprise for Chris and a surprise for his sister and brother-in-law who are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. I expect to have a hang over on Sunday.

We’re taking our Home Stay student with us too. She doesn’t want to stay alone in the house. I swear we take her everywhere with us, even the grocery store! Ahh. Next weekend we are going out of town again and she’s coming with us then too. It’s like we have a kid – one that wants to be with her parents. No really, I think it’s because we are always doing interesting things and we are kind of fun to be with- especially my husband Chris. He’s always fun.

I’ll leave you with the CN Tower rising above some Condos near Harbor Front:

cntowercondos

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Filed Under: Cool stuff, Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: camera, Chris, Digital, digital camera, free, interest, Multimedia, Nokia 6682, Party, Photo Hunters, Signs, Smartphone, Software, Video, weekend

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