Free Pay Pay Per View

Do you have a HDTV set?
Do you live in Katy,TX area?
Do you have Comcast cable service?

Well if you answer yes to all that items, you can try to 'surf'  ATSC (digital) channels from 71.1 to 84.10.

Actually what I thought of this is that some of my neighbor has rented a pay-per-view programs and I was able to see it. So the completion of the program is at the hands of the renter. Meaning if they pause, stop, FF, REW what is being shown, you can see the same action too. Also, you  do not have the exact time of when the show starts. If you happen to caught the beginning of the show and the renter finishes it. You are in luck, if not, it is otherwise. If you dont like it, just go watch sesame street at PBS. Or you can buy your own PPV.

I do not know how it is done, I just watch. There are different shows that are being watched so all you have to do is catch them.

A little note beside, if you have little kids, be careful in channel surfing because you know what are the'shows' that are being shown in PPV. It may be a little early for them to watch. ;P

Thats it!

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Gigabit Switch for US$3.00 AR

Well how about that!?!

I am talking about this, Airlink AGIGA8SW-B. Just got one and all I can say is it is good for the price, After rebate that is. Actually the whole cost is about 50 bucks including S&H. But after the rebate the cost drops down to about 10 bucks. The shipping and handling is not free though that why it is not 'exactly' 3 bucks.

I am not promoting in any way this product or seller, I am just sharing this info for other people to save some green.

This switch performs as it should and no driver to be installed. All you got to have is an extra ethernet cable since it is not included in the deal.

Pros:

• Supports jumbo frame


• quiet operation


• cheap (You have to get the rebate though)


• good LED indications

Cons:

• gets a little warm


• bulky power adaptor


• not that elegant looking (who's going to stare anyway, mine is inside the closet)

Other info you can find here.

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All in one email client

How many email accounts do you have?
Two, three, four maybe more and from different popular free internet email providers.

How do you access each of them?
Surf the different websites then login, one account after another...

I have an easier way of doing it. It just takes a little bit of reading the FAQ and help files on setting and configuring it up.

In the scale of difficulty in doing it, I say three with five as the hardest.

So here it goes =====

Have you read about "Thunderbird"?
This is an email client software and the good news is it is FREE. Thanks to the guys in Mozilla for their hardwork in developing this. All you got to do is download the software and install it. Then register your POP accounts and voila! You can read your email in one client.

Now, I said that this is all in one. What I meant by that is that you can read email and news, not to mention RSS as well. Now, to get email from non POP email providers like Yahoo and Hotmail and other web based emails, you need to load this Webmail add-on. Also download the specific provider add-on.

With the case of Gmail and AOL related service, you dont need the add-on. Thunderbird can fetch your emails right from its configuration settings. Same as true with Netscape email.

You need to load the extension for Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to fetch your email.

Heres the steps I did:
1. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird.
2. Download the Webmail add-on.
3. Download your specific email provider add-on.
4. open thunderbird and load the Webmail add-on by selecting tools > add-ons
5. Click install, select the saved webmail file.
6. Restart thunderbird
7. Load your email provider extension by selecting tools > add-ons > install
8. Restart thunderbird, repeat procedure for each different email provider listed.
9 Configure you email account, refer to your email account and server settings.
10 Make sure the webmail service add-on is running and you account is properly defined.

Some limitations are there like if your email service provider is not (yet)supported, for corporate emails as an example. I do not have corporate email account so I cant comment on that aspect.

I compared Thunderbird with Outlook in terms of memory usage. Thunderbird uses smaller memory resource, 65 MB as compared to the latters > 100MB. Thats a few chunks spare for use of other programs/services.

Thats it! You can read all (if not, most) of your emails from the free popular internet email providers around.

PS I may have missed some more specific item, all you need to do is read the help file or the FAQs.

Have fun and safe computing!