Cat problem

Anyone got some cheap and effective suggestions to discourage cats from spraying and tearing up my porch? There are about 5 cats running my neighbor hood tearing up things. Part that makes me most angry about it is most of them have collars. Also they keep me up at night. I heard of sprays and stuff but I really don’t have money to waste.

Keeping Your Computers In Sync

There are several pieces of good software to keep your computer in sync.

1. GoodSync - is my favorite syncing tool and they offer a free version which is what I use to keep my documents the same on all my computers.

2. SyncToy - is a free sync tool offered by Microsoft. I suggest the beta 2.0 version.

3. Allway Sync – offers a free limited verison but does a excellent job of syncing.

Know a good syncing tool?

Google pushes for "white space" frequencies

Google is pressing the US government to allow the unlicensed frequencies of TV “white space” to be used for wi-fi.

For those that don’t know the white space is a buffer zone so that things signals aren’t interfering with other products such as television programming, but with the move to digital that isn’t as relevant. Google point as long as devices are approved and tested not to interfere than there is no reason this space should not be used.

I agree with google there is no reason to let a valuable frequencies sit unused for no good reason.

Source: BBC News

2 Great time saving software

Here is 2 very handy software to save you time throughout the day. All of which are for windows.

Texter - which allows you to use a hostring that when activated replaces it with a predefined text. This can save you with emails and signatures or if you often find yourself answering the same questions over and over.

launchy - which is very similar to quicksilver on mac, basicly allows you to quickly launch a application without having to find it in the start menu with a few keystrokes. It even becomes faster the more you use.

Problems

I doubt I will be updating this much as I am looking at losing everything. Through some bad decisions and damn credit cards, and a serious decrease in income I am looking at losing my home. I have a job which pays alright but my investments went though the crapper.

Sorry for the site being down

I have been dealing with other issues so in order to save money, I have moved to free hosting for the time being. Also sorry for the site being down for so long. As I have been busy. I imported the post using blogsync from wordpress. It was a handy little program, saving me a ton time.

Downloading and listening to free music

Lifehacker offers a list of sites and tools to help you get free music.

clipped from lifehacker.com The Hype Machine aggregates MP3s from the vast world of music blogs. Searching for an artist in The Hype Machine returns tons of results, and you can stream the songs inline in the results. The site itself provides links to buy music at Amazon or in iTunes if it’s available, but you can also click through to the read the original blog post containing the song and download music directly from that site. The handy player at the bottom of The Hype Machine’s page creates a playlist of all the results on a page so listening to the results is easy. You can also choose favorites to build playlists. Most of the sites in the section are brand new, but Hype Machine has time on its side, having been around since 2005. (Read more)

10 Webapps for your business

1. Zoho offers a suit of webapps for business and personal use. They offer a word processor, spreadsheet, CRM, project management and more.
2. Project2Manage offers a free online project management software.
3. Freshbooks offers an online invocing and time tracking service for freelancers and service based business.
4. YouSendIt allows you to send up to 2gb files to clients they also offer a up to 10mb free.
5. PayPal gives you a way to collect and make payments without having tow worry about sharing or storing critical finanicial information.
6. FaxZero offers a way to send faxes without having to invest in a fax machine.
7. Craigslist an invaluable tool for finding clients, supplies and etc.
8. MyNewCompany helps with legal documentation for startups.
9. Qoop offers prints on just about any product you want to promote your business.
10. Work offers how-to guides for your business industry.

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Jump starting the ecomony

Productivity501 had a interesting post on how to jump start an [tag]Economy[/tag].

One particular idea I thought was great is  giving a tax benefit in hiring the unemployed.
How to Jump Start an Economy? at Productivity501

1. Make it easier to hire people off unemployment. For example, the [tag]government[/tag] could give an employer a 90 day tax break on all the taxes they pay for employees that are coming off unemployment. This would help encourage businesses to hire people who are currently costing the government money and could drastically reduce the expenses of hiring someone until the company knows if they are a good fit or not.

To add, since most of the [tag]factory[/tag] jobs are going overseas, how about we start sending more money to education paying for low income population and reforming it so that its more effective. If we are to base our economy on our technology than we need to keep our [tag]education[/tag] at a top level and more easily accessible. I would love to see education become free to the people rather than the outrageous tuition [tag]students[/tag] pay now.

[tags]business, unemployment, federal[/tags]

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Interest rates cut by .75%

Fed cuts interest rates by 75 basis points – MarketWatch

Acting forcefully against [tag]economic[/tag] risk and [tag]financial[/tag] [tag]market[/tag] meltdown, the [tag]Federal[/tag] Reserve cut its overnight lending rate by 75 basis points to 3.50%, the Fed announced Tuesday. It was the first time the Fed had cut interest rates between meetings since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. “The committee took this action in view of a weakening economic outlook and increasing downside risks to growth,” the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement. Downside risks to growth remain. The committee met on Monday evening.

Another attempt by the feds to boost the economy.

[tags]housing, mortgage[/tags]

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