A few months back, we featured this bit on how to afford college. Now supposing you have prepared well for your child’s college plans, it’s probably a matter of deciding where. The thing to remember here is how to help them and not how to choose for them.
Kids going off to college should be properly [...]
For those who are in charge of the family food – there is no need for you to worry every single day what to cook for dinner because we have laid out helpful tips on how you can plan your meals without you getting way too stressed out over it.
19 Jul
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Family, Sex and Relationships
There is no clear-cut and surefire formula for true love. But when two people are always understanding and respecting each other, their individual differences are addressed in such a way that they end up closer than ever. Read on below and find out how you can develop a more emotional connection with your partner.
18 Jul
Posted by Alex as Crafts and Hobbies, Home and Garden
Now this is a real nifty trick. If you’ve been too drunk to have punched the cork into the bottle and the morning after, you decided that the bottle’s a keeper and you may want to reuse it. But you taking out the cork seems to be impossible without smashing glass. Then you won’t [...]
I was surprised at the message Firefox popped up just now. It prompted me that Firefox 2.0.0.5 is ready for installation and I did. I must have missed this update on my RSS feed reader. In any case, I’ve checked the release notes to see what’s with this latest incarnation.
Apparently, this is more of [...]
18 Jul
Posted by Alex as Food, Holidays and Tradition
Save for my allergies to shellfish (Yes, it sucks that I can’t wolf down lobster!), I love sushi. While initially considered as a Japanese thing, many restaurants (and even office cafeterias) are serving sushi. At least that enables us to appreciate this rather tasty delicacy.
Now obviously this should be taken light-heartedly. Steps are described [...]
Another one for those quick and dirty (they’re neat, actually) work where firing up Photoshop or GIMPShop isn’t just the better alternative. Oh how we love generators.
I’m always a fan of those “for Dummies” books. While I know they’re probably the lousiest sources of hardcore information around, they’re not written for experts anyway. Hey, [...]
For tech newbies, cookies aren’t the ones that Cookie Monster devour with amazing gusto. They’re little files stored in your computer containing preference data when visiting websites.These little bugger has been a source of much concern from privacy advocates since information like default settings and search tracking can be stored in these files.
Google [...]
You never count how many glasses of water you drink everyday even though you’ve always known it should be 6-8. You might think, with all the soda you gulp in a day, that you have all the liquid you need. But choosing water instead of a soda cuts your calories and improves your body nourishment. [...]
17 Jul
Posted by Alex as Behavior and Ethics, Business, Work and Career
You’ve sent a thousand copies of your resumé for the past months and finally it has paid off. You’ve been hired for a kick-ass job, and you’re dying to show everyone just how amazing you are at work. Well, there’s only one way to do it and that is to do it. Sure, you have [...]
Spreading some homegrown city love around the United States, Bloggy Network launches is My Home - a mini-network that’s all about cities. Currently the site features nine cities - Atlanta, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Memphis, Nashville, and Philadelphia.
So if you’re looking for that distinct local flavor for each of the cities, is My [...]
16 Jul
Posted by Alex as Computers, Windows Tips
For those of you who are still adjusting to the new look and tools arsenal of Microsoft Office 2007, here’s a couple of things that you can do to tweak the way Office 2007 looks. Probably another GUI “concept” aside from the Ribbon that you now notice is this thing called the Quick Access [...]
16 Jul
Posted by Alex as Communication, Technology
I don’t have an iPhone and I probably will not buy one. Just like my stance with the iPod. I’m not a Mac hater though. I think. If I had enough resources and loose priorities I may have purchased a MacBook instead of this Asus. I’m just not the type of guy who’d jump [...]
I was about to use “How to Clean Cobwebs” as a title but I think that would solicit “duh”-comments from a lot of people. In any case, this post is on a few tips and tricks on how to get those cobwebs and dust fuzz that you may get in hard to reach places like [...]
15 Jul
Posted by Alex as The Web, Vacation and Travel
True. A lot of us have probably asked (as kids or even as grown ups) that proverbial question. Not that you can actually dig straight down and go through molten rock and through the super dense core of the earth. But hey, curiosity can get the best of you at times.
So how do you [...]