Computing & Internet

Get Free Travel Directions Online

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If you remember, I once wrote about losing my way in my one hometown. Well, I am very bad at directions. And my sister too. When my sister wants to go on road trips, she will get the map directions through PublicRoutes.com

This website offers the free service of giving us street directions and traffic updates for most major cities in the United States and United Kingdom.

The best part about this is that we just have to input our starting address and destination address and select our mode of transport, whether by road, rail or on foot. Click on the GET DIRECTIONS button and we will be given the best route.

And if we would like to be more specific, we could even let the system know that we would like to stop somewhere by giving a location and even select our travel.

Don’t ask me how this system works since I am so not technical minded but let me tell you, I am very impressed!

Blogging

Feeling Bad

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I maintain so many blogs, giving priority to sponsored blogs that I often neglect my passion blogs. It’s not for lack of ideas that I do not update them, but for lack of time and energy. I wish I was this robotic entity where I can just go on and on, blogging away. Can you imagine me as the pink Energizer bunny?

It is all right if there is no traffic to my blogs, but guilt is enhanced when I see the same visitors coming time and again only to find the same ol’ content.

It is especially bad when there are even people who blogrolled me, thank you very much, only to find yesterday’s news on my blog *sigh*

Some friends asked me why I bothered keeping those blogs when I am so hard-pressed for time. Like I said, I have a passion for them and one day, if paid blogging falls apart, I would still be happily blogging away at my passion blogs.

General

Beautiful Great Priced Furniture

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I was looking for bedroom furniture online since I am thinking of redecorating my room and wanted to get some ideas. I stumbled upon a website called Great Priced Furniture which is the largest North Carolina furniture online retailer.

I was impressed with the collection of furniture from bedroom to baby furniture, living room to kitchen and dining room furniture.

On Great Priced Furniture, I could shop by furniture category, manufacturer or collections. It’s very easy to navigate and seamless. I love the quality and creative designs of their selection and it is great news that they provide international shipping. Yay!

With so many beautiful collections, it is going to take me quite a while to decide on which to buy!

Computing & Internet

ReviewMe Opens Up Marketplace

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ReviewMe, the used-to-be exclusive blog for pay marketplace has finally opened up to admit almost every blogger into their market. This is good news for me. I have registered with them way before their launch and I tried to submit my blogs when they launched but my blogs did not qualify. Well, how could they when my Technorati rank, which is one of the statistics that are factored in, could not be pulled due to the f@rked Technorati reading. Unfortunately, it is STILL not rectified. I think I should just give up.

I am happy that they have finally opened for the small time blogger. Well, this is what I am thinking since I do no see any Google Page Rank improvement on my blogs.

From what I see, ReviewMe’s new marketplace system is better than the one which required us to bid for a review. Bah! That’s just wasting time, like I said.

Plus ReviewMe let’s us book an unlimited number of campaigns and they allow us a week or more to submit our post. Isn’t that great?

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Adorable Baby Shower Decorations & Supplies

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I was helping my colleague look for baby shower supplies as she was busy with work and left the preparation for the party to the last minute, when I came across Party Pail. My, am I impressed with the many baby shower decorations and supplies!

My colleague had a hard time deciding on the theme for the baby shower. I suggested the adorable Noah’s Ark baby shower kit.

My colleague was not satisfied as she wanted something pink. So we continued browsing the website and both agreed on Lil’ Princess Baby Shower.

Just look how cute this set is!! The best thing about theme sets from Party Pail is that everything is included in the kit including the invitation cards. We could even add on individual items of the same theme to cater for a larger party!

In The News

Maxis To Turn Private

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With this move, I wonder what is in store for the subscribers. I was a Time subscriber when Maxis took over the company. From a cheap mobile plan, I was forced to upgrade to an expensive prepaid plan. Those days, prepaid was very expensive. So I switched to Celcom. It is not that Celcom is cheap, but then I am a small user and I have no complains so far.

A friend of mine is a subscriber of both Maxis and Celcom mobile broadband packages and according to him, Celcom is faster. When he streams music through online radio stations, there is no buffering at all. He could switch from one station to another like tuning in to FM radio stations. The same could not be said for Maxis. Moreover, Celcom’s coverage is wider than Maxis. When he visited me, I used his Maxis line on his laptop and oh dear, it was worse than a 56K dial up connection.

I was just about ready to tear my hair out.

So without public funds to utilise by turning from a public listed company to a private entity, will the services of Maxis ever improve further or will it go stagnant, or worse, deteriorate. Time will tell, I guess.

Computing & Internet

Because I Was Bored…

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I thought I was the only one to turn to online videos, joke sites and other interesting sites BUT I just stumbled upon a blog by the name of Because I Was Bored… . The owner of this blog has compiled some of internet’s latest, funniest, weirdest video clips from various video sharing and humor sites to share with us, to “unbore” us, to entertain us just so we do not have to search these funnies out by ourselves.

I have already bookmarked this website and I feel that with all these interesting content on one blog, it is easier for us to surf to especially when we are bored at the office. Shhh! Don’t tell the boss, ok??

There is this video that I would not have come across otherwise, which is of a 3-year-old solving the Rubik’s cube. I have played the Rubic’s cube for years and still can’t even solve it and I don’t think I ever will because I have given up hope on myself.

But here in the video, is a 3-year-old doing it.

I also enjoyed one of the videos which is a 30-minute compilation of some of classic cartoons. This video is great and it brought out a lot of good memories for me. What a great site this is. His boredom has cheered up my days almost every day!

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