Monday, February 8th is declared as National Clean Out Your Computer Day. Why should you? Because over time computers can get bogged down with unwanted files, temporary files and folders, duplicates files, downloads and more. You would be surprised how much space you can recover in just one sweep of getting rid of stuff that you no longer need. There are several ways that you can go about cleaning. Manually, by searching around, or you can use a tool like Iolo Technologies System Mechanic. See this page for a few tips from them about keeping your computer running up to par. A few that you should definitely be doing include: Delete unused, old or duplicate files, emails, email addresses, bookmarks and favorites. With System Mechanic’s “Remove Junk Files”, “Remove Internet Debris” or “Find Duplicate Files” tools, you ...

I have several fetishes, purses, sandals, boots, cute cell cases, usb keys, and sunglasses. Yes, admitting you have a problem is the first step right? I think my sunglass fetish is the worst one of all. I believe that I have about 8 pair right now, and that is because a couple of pair were recently broken by my children. Don't you just love kids? At least I can get them cheap! I refuse to spend a lot of $$ on them because I may lose them, or my children might get their hands on them, so I won't spend too much. I show around and can find them just about anywhere. But now I think I am in heaven because of I found out that I can get cheap wholesale sunglasses. Hee hee. Just what I needed! Now I ...

My girls are 6. For the past couple of years they have already been into makeovers, dressing up, manicures and such. They are definitely girly girls and they love to look pretty. We were given the opportunity to try out The Magical Beauty Collection from Carol's Daughter. It is a Princess Tiana themed hair and body collection. We received shampoo, conditioner, and bubble bath. The packaging is beautiful and really gives off the feeling of salon products (which greatly impresses 6 year olds!) Each bottle includes a catchy phrase of self-confidence. The shampoo says "The Beauty Within", the conditioner "Inner Shine" and the bubble bath "Sharing Means Caring". The products are pediatric tested, and use all natural ingredients and no harm chemicals which is always a plus. They saw the Princess & the Frog with their Grandmother and they ...

For some it's easy to blog everyday. It's just what they do. But when other aspects of life get busy, it is usually the blog that gets neglected first. A day or 2 of lapse is usually ok, but any longer and you are likely to lose some of your readers. I was browsing around the other day and came across a challenge that @thescottbishop is giving himself on his blog, Real Time Marketer. It's simple, blog something every day for 28 days. Why? My reasons are about the same as Scott's: 1. Increase blog traffic. Blog traffic can always be better. And a constant flow of steady good content is the way to achieve that. 2. Increase RSS Subscribers. If your content is good, readers will want more and will subscribe to your RSS feed. 3. Get ...

These are great tips to let your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend (you get the point) know that you are thinking about him or her if one of you is traveling for business, lives in separate towns, or any other day that you are not together. 1. Send your sweetie an SMS telling them that you are thinking about them when you know they are in a boring business meeting, stuck on the train in a commute, or studying up for a company test. This will make them smile for a moment or two. 2. Use your cell camera to take a photo of yourself blowing him/her a kiss and send it off via MMS. Or, hold up a sign saying "I (heart) You" and take a pic of that and send it off. 3. Take a photo of yourself standing at the ...

Over the past couple of years I have helped a few friends get started with a website or blog. There are always many questions, and I try my best to answer them. The first 2 steps after you decide that you want a site and the purpose that it will serve is getting the site up and running. The main part of that is answering 2 questions: 1 . What will my domain name be? and 2. Where will it be hosted? The domain name should reflect what the site is about. Folks should know that as soon as they read the name, so that it is memorable. Be it your own name, your nickname, the name of your business, or what your niche is (hint: LittleTechgirl). It shouldn't be so wild that they have no idea what the site ...

I have been doing some maintenance on my webhost and cleaning up old sites, databases, files, etc. Earlier today I goofed and nuked the database for this site. But, before I started I used the Wordpress export tool in wp-admin to export all my posts, etc. (or so I thought). I had just done a complete database backup via sql 2 days ago so I felt well covered. So, I was not too worried when I had to restore the database from 2 days ago and then import the xml file to restore posts since then. Well, I soon found out that there is a major issue with the Wordpress export function and it only had very, very old posts in it. I had a similar experience with my test site. I am quite mad. I luckily had only written 3-4 posts since then, but 2 of those were paid ...

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter. All opinions are 100% mine. These days everything we do has to be fast. Everyone is busy and in a hurry and working on the internet is no exception. We get fast food, want fast cellphones, and drive fast cars.  So why are you still waiting on your slow DSL connection? I know a few people that use the DSL service in my area (who I will let remain nameless) and they are constantly reporting problem. Dropped connections, slow download, and outages seem to be quite common. Well I have been using high speed internet since 1998. In those 12 years I have had very little problems. I love my service. The few times that I have had to call for service they always thank me for being ...

I love having interesting conversations with my kids. Here is an interview that I conducted with my first born Alexis (6) a few days ago. 1. What would you like to be when you grow up? Alexis: "I want to turn into a man and be a fireman" Me: "Uhh, what? Why?" Alexis: "So I can be a firefighter" (meanwhile in the background kristopher is going "no no no, Lexi you cannot be a firefighter!") Me: "You do not have to turn into a man to be firefighter" Kayla: "There are such things as fire girls!" Alexis: "Ok, well i want to be a firefighter!" 2. What is your favorite thing about being a kid? Alexis: "That I get to go to school. And I get to go to spanish class." Me: "Is that it?" Alexis: "Uhh, no. That I don't have to iron my clothes and get burned." 3. Where do babies come ...

I used Vonage for a couple of years way back when it was brand new. I loved it and had very little problems. The problems that I did have were due to my internet connections which was also pretty new and not too reliable at the time. The only reason that I stopped using it at the time was because of the alarm system in my new house and it's incompatibility with VoIP (another post all in itself). Sigh... Why should you use VoIP ? Well the main reason is cost. VoIP customers save around 50% a month off their bills. And that is why I have been thinking about switching back. I do not use my home phone all that much anyway.  And I think a fair amount of people these days are the same way. We ...