It’s so easy nowadays to find a home, thanks to the Net. Wow! I loved poring over homes for sale… dream dream! LeasePurchaseSearch.com has made it all very easy, too. It’s a website dedicated to helping prospective homeowners find the perfect home under a lease purchase contract (rent to buy). Thanks to the unstable housing market, property values have plummeted, which makes it a perfect time to get a home. Not everyone has all the money upfront for such a large purchase, and not everyone can get a big bank loan, either. A lease purchase option is a terrific way to work toward owning your own home.
The website makes searching very easy: you can search by city, state, zip code, home price, bedrooms, and bathrooms. The search results are clear cut– many have photos– and they offer details on the property, with contact information. Nice! No longer do you have to call dozens of realtors or scour the newspapers for availability of, for example, Lease Purchase Philadelphia opportunities. It’s a great way to search for a beautiful home.
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I’ve been moaning and groaning lately about my problems with my photo blog– I just don’t have time to deal with the photos! I loev taking photos, I love looking at them… but it has become a hassle to download them from the SD card, load them into my computer, edit them, upload them to my photo-sharing site, and *finally* post them on the blog. It would be really nice to skip a few of those steps, if I could.
Well, I can! There’s this nifty gadget called Eye-Fi and it’s the hottest little thing to hit the gadget world. The SD card has wireless capabilities. When you purchase the card, you activate the wireless functionality, and snap photos. The Eye-Fi comes in four different SD cards with up to 4GB memory, each with their own functions: Home, Share, Explore, and Pro. This brief video starring Erin Manning gives a quick rundown of how Eye-Fi works.
I like the idea! Of course, I’d have to take quality photos the first time (I am known for snapping 4 to 5 photos of the same thing, just in case most don’t turn out. I think it’s a precaution from my celluloid camera days).
The Eye-Fi looks good not only for it’s ease in uploading photos wirelessly, but it also has an automatic backup setting that organizes all photos by date onto your computer! It will also upload videos from your camera as well as photos.
I think it’s a photographer’s (and photo blogger’s!) dream. And if you go to the website, you can see that there’s a new Eye-Fi card with 8GB capability now! Plus, there’s a nice special for getting an Eye-Fi free if you purchase 200GB storage with Google. Check out the Eye-Fi website for more details.
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If you are holding on, STILL searching for perfect gift for the technology geek and audiophile in the family– or looking for a nice music accessory for your home– what have you been waiting for? Check out this classy PDX-60 from Yamaha. It works with your iPhone or iPod. It’s a wireless speaker system with the characteristic Yamaha quality and style. The PDX-60 will allow you to enjoy your games, music, and movies with superior lossless quality, all the while your iPod or iPhone is cradled in the unit. Yamaha uses their new technology yAired, which provides outstanding quality– wirelessly– without the interruptions, delays, and degradation sometimes associated with wireless devices. And yAired allows remote control operations, too, for volume control and and power on.
Plus, the design of the PDX-60 is swanky! It comes in four different colors to compliment your style. I love the teal, and the pink is smashing.
I have four music lovers in the family (the husband is a musician and the children are following his footsteps) and wouldn’t they love this as the centerpiece in the living room! The Yamaha PDX-60 is functional as well as beautiful– the wireless transmitter will recharge the iPod or iPhone as it sits in the charging cradle.
It’s slick, classy, affordable, and a perfect accessory for any iPod fan and music/movies lover. Check out the website for more details, to place an order, or on how to find a authorized Yamaha dealer in your area.
This news isn’t going to please the tree-huggers…. the latest development to come down the pike in the insatiable thirst for energy is paper. Yes, paper! Scientists have been tinkering away, and have found that paper, when coated with ink made of silver and carbon nanomaterials, allow it to become a high-energy, highly-efficient source of stored energy. Such “paper battery” storage is said to contain more juice than the lithium-ion battery.
The same feature that helps ink adhere to paper allows it to hold onto the single-walled carbon nanotubes and silver nanowire films. Earlier research found that silicon nanowires could be used to make batteries 10 times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries now used to power devices such as laplop computers.
“Taking advantage of the mature paper technology, low cost, light and high-performance energy-storage are realized by using conductive paper as current collectors and electrodes,” the scientists said in research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This type of battery could be useful in powering electric or hybrid vehicles, would make electronics lighter weight and longer lasting, and might even lead someday to paper electronics, the scientists said. Battery weight and life have been an obstacle to commercial viability of electric-powered cars and trucks.
Unbelievably, there is speculation that this type of energy will be available for commercial use in the near future. What do you think about this?
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I have a slew of blogs, and one of them is a travel blog. We have THREE cameras and a camcorder with which I or the kids take photos. It’s so much fun to snap photos! But when it comes time to get them off the camera and upload them– what a snooze! It’s become quite a chore. I usually leave the photos in my camera until I have time (or motivation) to work on them. Then, there’s the tagging, the organizing into folders…. BOOOORING. :S
I’ve seen a gadget on a few other blogs, and now it’s my turn to take a look at it: it’s called Eye-Fi. It’s a very special SD card, and it basically allows you to upload your photos and videos wirelessly from your camera to your computer, or even to your photo-sharing website (such as Flickr, Shutterfly, WalMart, etc) even if your computer is off. All you need is a camera that takes SD cards (and most digital cameras do) and a wireless connection at home (through your Internet router). Very cool! There’s a video by Erin Manning that shows how the Eye-Fi cards work. I found it very informative.
The Eye-Fi SD cards have 2 to 4GB space on them for photos and videos. It will automatically back up and sort your data into folders organized by date.
Technology just never ceases to amaze me. The Eye-Fi is the first wireless SD card. I had to go to the Eye-Fi website to see how this thing works. There’s a small wireless device in the SD card. You must activate the card first, then take photos for upload. There are four kinds of Eye-Fi cards: Home , Share, Explore, and Pro.
Home works in a basic way. It uploads only photos to your computer through wireless. All you have to do is snap photos, come home, and turn your camera on. The Eye-Fi will do the rest. It only comes in 2 GB size.
Share is a step up. It will upload photos and videos to your computer AND to your photo-sharing site. It comes in 4 GB size.
Explore is a little more adventuresome. The Explore will locate nearby Wi-Fi public networks, and upload your photos and videos wirelessly to your online sharing website, and will also tag your photos by location (called geo-tagging).
Pro is the top of the line. It will upload photos, videos, and RAW files and do everything the Explore does; but Pro also accepts Ad hoc wireless uploads.
You can visit the Eye-Fi website to see a comparison of the cards and more information. The cards aren’t terribly expensive– only a little more than a high-speed SD card would be. It’s all very convenient! I love the geo-tagging feature, that would save me a ton of time. Eye-Fi may just be the wave of the future, eh?
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