Big cars, truck and SUV’s are just not moving off dealership lots- and why would they with 4.00 a gallon gas prices?
Nissan has done something pretty interesting marketing to get them on the road- they are giving away a fuel efficient Versa with purchase of a Nissan Titan truck.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6285107
Signs have been there for a while for me but I have been in denial. Not too many tedious computer jobs that installing apps to a new hard drive. It can be quite cleansing to start anew but for the most part I hate it/ I have been building and upgrading computers since buildings computers since 1996.
My last favourite tasks have always been backing up and then formatting a drive or installing onto a clean drive. blech.
So some symptoms that something was amuck:
Anytime you cannot check your disk for errors it is not good. It means you a corrupted section on the drive that is most likely beyond repair.
I haven’t been about to run a virus scan for about 6 weeks without getting a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and horrible warnings about your kernels being stacked.
The whenever I connected my camera I got same error and blue screen.
-A noisy or loud hard drive is an about to fail hard drive. Any kind of clicking or whiny metal on metal sound is NOT good.
- Your computer is slow and you are sure it is not spyware or other malware/virus or running to many program at once.
If this happens you should try and runs a dskchk, your compter will scan itself for errors and try to repair errors.
This is how I do in Windows XP.
You can force it to check for errors by going to to Start–>Run and type in command prompt: cmd then type chkdsk and run.
You will then have to type in ( you won;t be able to copy in paste) chkdsk volume:/f then enter . It will ask you “Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)” type Y . When you reboot it will repair errors.
To get it to scan and locate problems then repair type in chkdsk volume:/r instead.
If your computer freezes or hangs during process try doing a couple of times. Also try defragging the drive. before yuo scan for errors.
If you are unable to complete a chk dsk then your drive is most likely about to fail . You need to back up your stuff.
What to do: back up you stuff. I like Acronis True Image for Home . It will take an image of my drive and I don’t have to reinstall everything.
Some external drives come with software to take image for you. I HIGHLY recommend you copy onto an external drive if you think your drive is going to crash OR better yet on a fresh install of everything or when your PC is working in top notch condition take image and copy onto eternal drive, then put away until you need it.
I foolishly copied image onto a partition on another physical drive and it got eaten by virus a couple of years ago.
If the worst has happened and your drive has all ready failed and you can’t access your drive in any way- you can try a couple of things.
Add another new hard drive and use the damaged drive as slave to try and recovery old data. In the past I have have some success with a completely unattainable drive but putting in the freezer (!) over night - put it in ziplock bag) hook up drive and copy over as much as possible while you have access/
Google Ad Manager is a new service offered by Google for Google Adsense publishers. You can use it to sell ad space. It lets you set up and manage ads on your site or blog very easily.
An idea whose time has come for many site owners and bloggers who are not comfortable/don;t know how or don’t have a safe payment method set up for advertisers to buy ad space.
One significant factor is valuable real; estate that may otherwise be taken up by a ” your site here” ad can also be used with Adsense Ads.
using the new Ad Manager to not be as intuitive as Google Adsense. It is not something you can can start and finish in 5 minutes.
The tutorial the Google is using for the new program is awful and bound to leave many newbies in tears.
I started setting u today and when I have a bit of data I will post some hints and tips on using Google Ad Manager. It is sure to be a powerful tool- especially when it comes to reporting.
yes, I know I am posting disproportionate amount of cell phone posts lately. I tend to hyper focus on things and this month it is cell phones and smartphones.
iphones have not been available in Canada but I have seen many. Canadian have been buying the phones over the border using an American address ( which I believe is illegal)
I am not a fan of touch screen stuff. When looking for a new phone the helpful clerk commented when I was looking an an HTC that i would hate it… because of the touch technology- I knew exactly what he was thinking- that an 40-something soccer mom would not be able to use it… ARGH. No, i just don;t find it the most efficient way to sue a bleeding phone!
Anyway- I better learn quick as I am planning on getting a Samsung Instinct next month when they are released by Bell.
I digress. I have been following Roger’s Canada marketing of the iPhone here in Canada. It has been highly anticipated and followed int he media because of the way Rogers; has chosen to market the phone and consumers have reacted with fury, Apple has also been disgusted and their is speculation they will not even carry the iphone in their Apple stores. Rumours abound that they will also short ship the phones and send them over to Europe instead.
Why the controversy over the iPhone?
Rogers ( up until a couple of days ago) rate package was completely out of whack and a blatant exploitation of consumers.
1) Contract length of 3 years.
You can only get iPhone on a NEW three year contract. Current Rogers customers must wait to upgrade to an iPhone.
2) Cost. On top of phone plan ANOTHER 60.00 just to use iPhone. You won;’ believe what comes next and what you get for 60.00
3) Data cap. Rogers will allow users up to 400 MB of data transfer. Ouch. This is a gross amount of money to charge and will get eaten up by most users very quickly by apps like GPS and media transfers.
Many believe in part because of of several grassroots campaigns to boycott and petition Rogers, like www.ruinediphone.com , Rogers announced yesterday that they would offer a new plan for limited time ( very limited). They are offering a $30-a-month plan with 6 GB data on the iPhone, on top of voice plans that start at $20 plus a system access fee of $6.95 a month. The new plan will be offered only until Aug. 31 and only to new users.
Still not that great.
