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Frugal Random Acts of Kindness

You don’t need to hand out $100 bills to practice random acts of kindness (ROAK). In fact, sometimes the smallest or least expensive things can mean the most to someone, whether they are a friend, a neighbor or a stranger. It is amazing how a ROAK can really make someone’s day and change a bad attitude to a good one. Here are some random acts of kindness that you can practice while still leading a frugal lifestyle. Wouldn’t it be great if we all decided to try and do once nice thing for someone every single day? Pretty soon, doing … Continue reading →

The Phenomena of Second Notebook Computers

Today must be a day for me to talk about interesting phenomena. One trend that I have been noticing lately is the growing number of people who are purchasing second notebook computers. Much like the second (and third and fourth) televisions in a home, second notebooks seem to be coming almost a standard desire, or seen as a very convenient necessity. For our terms, when I talk about a second notebook, I don’t mean having more than one notebook in a household that is assigned or used by different household members. Dad may have a laptop and so may Junior, … Continue reading →

Are You Shortening Your Laptop Battery’s Life?

One of the concerns that plague laptop owners is whether or not they should make an effort to run down their laptop computer battery to nothing before charging it back up again. Sometimes this just isn’t convenient, such as when you shut down your laptop at night and it only has 15 minutes of battery time left. That 15 minutes is certainly not enough to get your through the next day, but if you plus the laptop in to charge it, are you shortening your battery life? The brief answer is probably not, although there are some considerations to make. … Continue reading →

What is E-Ink?

You may have heard about E-ink or electronic ink becoming available in many devices. But what is it? Why is it important? Where will you be seeing it next? Read on and you’ll get the scoop. E-ink is both the common name of a technology as well as the name of the company that produced it. When someone is referring to e-ink, they generally mean and Electronic Paper Display, or EPD. It is a process that features an electronic display that mimics text or graphics on paper. Far from the usual computer-type displays that we are used to, the EPD … Continue reading →

Computing Review: July 14th Through July 20th

Have you been sending e-mail from your campground? Did you even know that you could? And what about that iPhone bug that they found? If you haven’t heard about all of this, yet, you can check them out right now. Here is the computing review for July 14th through July 20th. July 15th Computing Review: July 7th Through July 13th Well, it looks like the rush of iPhone news has died down a bit. We have had a great week talking about all sorts of things. Video games have been on the radar a lot. July 16th The $100 Laptop … Continue reading →

Computer Accessory Deals

Notebook Case FAR I love my laptop. Okay, so it’s not actually mine, it’s my son’s. But as the parent, I get first dibs when I need it. He saved for it and we kicked in the other two-thirds as a Christmas present. It’s been a blessing at times. They’re so convenient. The only thing I worry about with it is dropping it. No, we didn’t buy the $200 extended warranty even though the salesman was pretty convincing. Instead, we have it packed into a very nicely padded case. It cost a lot more than the Free After Rebate deal … Continue reading →