SeaWorld, the family-friendly and awesome oceanic life theme park, is opening a brand new roller coaster called Manta just 22 Days from now in May. You might remember a while back an ad that ran on this site and a contest I wrote about for “Manta Mania,” – well here it is, folks! Manta Mania…
Hack the Planet, Ethically, and Get Paid
It used to be an internet dream job that was somewhat mythical in nature. Black- or gray-hat hackers would tool around on computer systems finding their inner workings and exploiting them, until one day they either got caught, or got bored trying to break in for fun or profit. Either way, these talented hackers somehow…
Shrimp & Bacon Grits with Hushpuppies
Growing up, I never much liked grits. In fact, I still won’t outright decide to eat a bowl of grits. The idea actually grosses me out a little bit. Say what you will about me not being a true Southerner (I don’t talk like much of one anyway unless I’m trying to be charming), but…
Got an Itch for HDTV? Scratch it With Charter
If you’re only recently aware that the 21st century has brought people into current technologies like HDTV, high-speed internet and internet-based phone service (VOIP, or voice-over-internet-protocol), you probably have been wondering what all the fuss is about. Perhaps you’ve just been confused, and not really been sure what you want, but you know that you…
SunEGrl Loves to Shop – and Save!
I found this blog, and thought it was interesting enough to share. SunEGrl has lots of links to savings for online shopping, hotel and travel stuff, and other cool ways to save money. What caught my eye besides the savings, is that SunEGrl has recently purchased her first home, just like me. Some of what’s…
Protect Your E-mail Privacy for Free
There are a lot of e-mail options out there to choose from! Whew! If you don’t believe me, just go to Google and type in “Free E-mail Service” and you’ll get more results than you’ll know what to do with. The big names will come up first, G-Mail, Hotmail / Windows Live Mail, Yahoo!, AOL,…
How to Hack the LaCIE Ethernet 1TB NAS (Rack-Mount Version)
I’ve recently had access to a LaCIE Ethernet 1TB (terabyte) NAS (network attached storage) server similar to the one we use at our work place. These things are great because you don’t have to hook them up to a computer (they’re really just small computer servers with huge hard drives). Also, you can make user…
Win a Flip Ultra from AnyLuckyDay.com
Website AnyLuckyDay.com has a great contest from the folks at Flip – the easy to use personal camcorder now being used by tons of bloggers and vloggers across the internet. It shoots 60 minutes of video and has 2gb of storage space built-in. You can easily use this nifty camcorder to upload videos to your…
SocialSpark Stimulates Economy
As many of you know, I sometimes write and do advertising on my blog for a company called IZEA. Those of you not familiar, IZEA is a social marketing solutions company. In hard times, businesses are failing, advertising budgets are shrinking, and as a result, less people hear about your business. It’s not that people…
Take a Screenshot with Your iPhone
Today I was over at Ted Murphy‘s (@tedmurphy) blog and I saw he had an interesting tip for iPhone users. He had posted a screenshot of a program on his iPhone and immediately got lots of comments asking him how to do it. “To take a screenshot with an iPhone simply press the sleep and…