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I put a lot of faith in “Consumer Reports Magazine”… that is until I read an article about non-OEM third party ink and cartridges. Long story short, the “report” said that it wasn’t worth the money to venture into off brand inks and cartridges. The main reasons they site for avoiding 3rd party inks are Read More …
SATURDAY 12/11/04 Picked up our first 5 chicks from a friend. They are half RIR and half Australorp and are 3 weeks old. Hens or Roosters… we just don’t know. Here is a picture of the parent chicks and Alana with the chicks (she’s so happy). A video of Alana sharing her Cheerios with Read More …
This was actually one of the first LED conversions that I did, but I never posted it because I’ve been wanting to re-do it to make it nice and pretty. The problem is that it works so well that I haven’t been pressed to make any changes. This being the case I’m posting the modification Read More …
In addition to the LED tap lights I’ve made, I’ve also received requests for some custom LED lighting applications. I usually use bright white LEDs or the bright blue LEDs for these projects but have many other colors to choose from. For most of these applications a very special circuit was designed to run the Read More …
It has been generally accepted that it is difficult to refill Canon carts more than 5-10 times because they stop providing a reliable ink supply when they have been refilled too many times. There are several theories to explain why these cart carts “clogâ€, but the explanation that seems to make the most sense is Read More …
Web Hosting Thoughts I’ve had a bit of experience with a plethora of web hosting companies over the years and thought I’d post some of my thoughts and experiences over the years. Speaking of “a plethora of web hosting companies” here are the ones I’ve dealt with over the years (that I can remember) in Read More …
Can you believe that approximately 85% of all email is SPAM? Well, if you’ve come to this page, then you probably already know that. There are a ton of ways to reduce / eliminate spam, but this is what has worked best for me and is something that is pretty easy to do.
Our VTech 900 mhz cordless / portable phone started having a hard time keeping a charge so off we went to Radio Shack for a new battery pack… “WHAT?!?!? $16.00… that’s about how much we paid for the phone! Thanks but no thanks!” I pulled the battery pack out and looked at it a little Read More …
(a rant by Rob Ludlow 11/20/03) The advertising demographic of my site www.reviewum.com is very geographically and age targeted: College Students I attempted to contact local business’s regarding advertising a while ago when my site was much smaller, and the reception wasn’t so good. It seems that many brick & mortar / mom-pop shop businesses Read More …
Last night my wife came to me with the age old question, “Do you have a good battery for this?“ I didn’t have an answer. I knew I had a box of batteries, but were any of them “good”? I don’t have a battery tester in the house, but from my past experience I knew Read More …