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If you’re a blogger you’re probably always on the lookout for opportunities to boost your blog traffic.
After all, more traffic results in more conversions (sales, advertising revenue, email signups, etc.), right?
Well, I recently began researching ways to boost the traffic to RicksDailyTips as well, and one of the tools I stumbled across is a service called 10DollarSoloAds.
This post is a review of my experience with them.
This is now a digital world, and chances are you use multiple devices to communicate with friends and family, watch videos, play games, share photos and any of 100 other digital activities.
Have you ever stopped to think about what would happen if you lost all the precious photos and other files you’ve accumulated on your computer or mobile devices over the years?
Unfortunately, bad things happen, and it pays to be prepared when disaster strikes. After all, hard drives crash and files get accidentally deleted. And yes, it will happen to you if it hasn’t already.
That’s why I’m constantly stressing the need to back up your data on a regular basis.
But the thing is, backups alone aren’t enough. Why? Because backups themselves can get lost or corrupted! What would you do then? [Read more…]
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Is your home or office in an area that’s prone to frequent power outages?
Does it receive fluctuating power levels from the main grid?
If so, you’re surely aware of the need for a high-quality Battery Backup System or UPS.
If you’re like most folks these days, you probably take tons of photos with your smart phone, and maybe even a point-and-shoot digicam or DSLR.
If so, you probably know that it’s very easy to make a photo smaller.
All you have to do is load it into your favorite image editor and either crop it or resize it, and the resulting image is almost always as crisp and clear as the original.
But try enlarging a photo instead and you’ll quickly realize that you have a problem. When you resize a photo to make it larger, you typically end up with an image that’s blurry and pixelated.
In short, you generally end up with a mess. [Read more…]
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If you have ever needed to find the circuit breaker that controls a certain electrical outlet you know how difficult the task of finding the right breaker can be.
It usually involves plugging a lamp into the outlet and then switching off all the breakers, one by one, until the lamp goes out.
If you don’t have a partner watching the lamp, that means you have to switch off each breaker and then make a trip to the outlet to check the status of the lamp. If the lamp is still on, you still haven’t found the right breaker.
What’s worse, after you have finally found the right breaker you discover that you have flashing clocks and powered-off appliances all over the house.
Needless to say, this almost always turns out to be a time-consuming, tiring and frustrating process.
But it doesn’t have to be that way… [Read more…]