Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Here’s some excellent news for you apartment hunters out there: check out the web for your new pad! I wish that this was available for me during all those apartment-hunting years when I was younger. It would have saved me a lot of inconvenience and time. Back then, we relied on classified ads or word [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Speek. All opinions are 100% mine. Wow, social networking and teleconferencing is really growing! I’ve been on a mission for finding various (free) web-based telecommunications programs. On is network chat (still searching), another is VoIP (getting there), and another is something that kind of [...]

I was recently on a hunt for a p;ace where I could store my audio tracks– preferably for free. The video-sharing sites abound, it’s crazy there are so many! But I have had a difficult time finding a site where I can upload my audio. Then, Kim Komando comes out and announces one! Cool. It’s [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of eSmart Tax. All opinions are 100% mine. Every year, more and more people take advantage of the convenience, speed, and ease of online filing for taxes. Fling the taxes is painful and stressful. Doing ALL that paperwork makes the task absolutely onerous. I know, [...]

It’s winter for us in the United States– that means more inside activities. For us, it means more reading. I have a stack of books that I’ve ordered from the library, but there are several books that I desire to read that my library does not carry (I like history books, especially ancient civilizations and [...]

About a year ago, I got the tiny Asus Eee PC, pre-loaded with a Linux operating system, Xandros. While the OS wasn’t too bad in of itself, it had a ton of junk in it that I couldn’t uninstall (like a goofy Chinese dictionary, and a Mr. Potato Head Paint program). The OS gobbled up [...]