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Entries for September, 2008

How to find bank foreclosed homes to buy as investment properties

Looking for a list of foreclosed houses to purchase as investment properties? The Countrywide Foreclosures Blog may be just what you were looking for.
It doesn’t look like this site is officially affiliated with Countrywide. In fact, the author of the blog, Dimitris, offers this explanation of the site:
I started this blog to show [...]

Get Free Movie Downloads from Amazon

Adobe’s penchant for poor application design strikes again! See this news story, recorded earlier today:
Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A security hole in Adobe Systems Inc software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com [...]

Another Green Tea benefit: Inhibits Breast Cancer Growth In Female Mice

There are many well-documented health benefits to drinking Green Tea.
Green Tea reportedly helps to soothe rheumatoid arthritis, lowers high cholesterol levels, helps to prevent cariovascular disease, staves off some infections, and now, according to at least one study, it significantly inhibits breast cancer growth in female mice.
The benefits of Green Tea are [...]

How to remove yourself as a “Fan” on your Facebook profile

I’m posting this tip because it took me forever to figure out how to remove myself from being a “Fan” of something or other on Facebook.
Seems that it is really easy to become a fan of something, but when you decide that you no longer want to be a fan, it’s not easy to find [...]

Suppress your appetite without adding calories with these appetite control foods

This article at Natural News.com lists 5 appetite control foods that will help you suppress your appetite without adding additional calories. Below are a couple of important tips from the article, along with a few of my own.
Fresh drinking water. Drink an 8-ounce glass of water when you first start feeling hungry, you will [...]

How do you boot from a CD or DVD in Mac OSX or OS X? How can I ignore the startup disk/volume?

I recently had to upgrade my Mac Mini from OSX 10.4.x (Tiger) to OS X 10.5 (Leopard.)
In order to do so, I had to figure out how to make my Mac boot up from the CD/DVD drive, not from the hard disk.
Here are few different methods for booting from CD on a [...]

Free up Disk Space on your Mac by Removing unnecessary OSX language files

Mac OSX.
It looks pretty.
It’s based on BSD.
But it’s a disk space HOG, with a full install consuming nearly 20GB of disk space.
Fortunately, there is an easy way that you can reclaim 1-2 GB of disk space on your Mac. By default, Apple’s OSX installs hundreds of language (localization) files [...]

Who won the first 2008 Presidential Debate? Do polls show Barack Obama or John McCain?

One day after the first presidential debate in 2008, opinion polls as to who won are mixed. Many polls show Barack Obama coming out on top, while others indicate the John McCain stole the show.
Below is a collection of various polls that I’ve tracked down. If you find any others, post them in [...]