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Making The Move From Cable To Satellite TV

Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

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As an Aussie I like to check other countries every now and again to see how some of the services we get here stack up with those being offered overseas. Today I wanted to give cable TV a go. I get Foxtel over here and I pay $101 per month for a package that includes one foreign station, (RAI International), sports channels and a couple of movie channels and stuff. The reason I pay for Foxtel is that a lot of the time the free to air channel sucks and there is nothing worthwhile to watch. The other reason is I like to watch my sports live and hate those delayed telecasts.

This morning after a brief search I came across a Direct TV, an American service which had a really cool price comparison feature. I actually picked a package which was far superior to mine and found I could get it for under $60 a month. Man I figured that was pretty good. The only problem I found was that I couldn’t find if their Direct TV Service offered RAI International, although they did state that “DIRECTV offers more then 40 Spanish-language channels, and a variety of programming from around the world” and so it could well include RAI. I could call the number on the site to find out for sure but thought that would be pointless seeing as how us Aussies have to miss out on the good deals again.

So, are any of you guys using Direct TV System? If so, how did it compare with cable and did you use the comparison feature on the website? Also what inspired you to make the move, was it the Digital TV factor, the price, service or something completely different.

Changing Your Lifestyle Doesn’t Have To be Painful

Friday, February 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

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It doesn’t matter where you turn these days it seems that someone is having a go at you about your general lifestyle, whether it be about exercise or about the food that you eat. It could be a friend, someone who makes a passing comment as you’re walking down the street or the constant media bombardment that you get on a daily basis. The thing is that there is a lot of advantages about living a healthy lifestyle, and it’s more than just the way you look, it’s also about how you feel and the longevity of life itself.

When promoting a healthy lifestyle, it’s not just about going on a diet as diets are short lived and most are doomed to failure. It’s more about changing the way you eat long-term and sticking to it as this will have a prolonged benefit and does away with ballooning weight effects that normal diets produce, which in itself is very unhealthy. Therefore a healthy lifestyle is exactly that, it’s when you make the decision to change the way you live and make it a lifestyle choice, one that you will stick to.

Perhaps that is what puts most people off, the fact that as much as they want to be healthy they feel that they are unable to change their lifestyle as the sacrifice is too much. This can be so true for those people who love their food as they may feel that it is all too hard to change their diet and that eating healthy is so bland and boring. The fact is that this is so far from the truth and that with the correct approach and food combinations there are many ways of treating your taste buds to burst of fresh flavor.

I’ve found some very interesting ways of combining natural foods into healthy meals at Phytolife.com. As there motto is to ‘Power Yourself Naturally, their site concentrates on phytonutrients, which mother nature as blessed us with through the availability of the very diverse fruit and vegetables. The recipes that are found there are all quick and easy, and more importantly are very tasty.

Now, I’m not telling you to go vegetarian, something that I did do for a very long while until I got married, but I am saying that it should be a very important part of your diet. Substituting these meals for the unhealthy takeaways and those frozen dinners can make all the difference. This is a life choice that can enhance the life of you and your family. Your new lifestyle should also include an exercise regime, and I am not talking about going to the gym. When you think about it, our bodies were not designed for a sedentary lifestyle as those muscles were designed to do more than just laying on the couch. Go out and kick the ball with the kids, take those long evening walks and enjoy the surroundings, even if you have to drive to the park or something where you can get some fresh air and enjoy a bit of nature, just don’t become a couch potato.

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The Advantages Of Hosting Your Own Blog

Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

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I have always been an advocate of hosting your own blog or website and there are many reasons for using the services of a decent webhosting package.

Probably the most important is the fact that it allows you to pick your very own domain, one that is most suited to your product or service and one that allows the best SEO advantages and is well suited for the many marketing techniques.
It shows that you are serious about your blog or website. How professional do you think it looks to an advertiser or prospective client when they see that you have opted for one of the many free services.
Individuality, is also an important point as by hosting your very own site, not only do you have your very own domain that you can proudly promote to the world, it also allows you countless more ways to individualize your site or blog.
Another important point, one that strives with point #1 for dominance is that it gives you security and complete control. Security in that you don’t have to worry about your ‘free’ site suddenly going missing, causing you to lose everything that you put into it. Control in that you don’t have to worry about your writing style or of offending someone. I know of people who blog on community sites who have had their blogs terminated because someone didn’t agree with what they had to say.
SEO, is another good point as it allows you greater control to apply some of the many SEO techniques available, more than if you decided to go for some of those free packages.
You also get to keep all the revenue generated from your blog. With those free sites you only get to keep a portion and most of the time you don’t actually get to see any of it.
Many a web host will also offer you incentives for joining, anything from a free domain for life to free templates for your up and coming website.
The ability to earn more income. I can safely say, as a blogger who has used both forms of blogs, free and self hosted, that I’ve made way more money on those blogs I host on my won domain. Most webhosts also have an affiliate program and how much easier is it to promote something that you are completely happy with than something that you have never tried. The money I have earned from promoting my hosts have more than paid for the hosting cost itself.
The benefit of adding subdomains is also a great plus as this allows you to expand your site and earning capacity
There are many more advantages for hosting your own blog or website and I have decided to leave no.10 open so that you my devoted readers and commentators can add their own reasons to my Top 10.

In case some of you are not sure which is the best package for you there are many sites on the net that rate individual hosts and it is always a good idea to see how other people have rated webhosting sites. This may give you more insite as to which package may suit you.

As a side note, I would like to point out that the tree links point out to the three Hosts that I personally use for my blogs and websites.

Do Your Shopping With Ease With ShopWiki

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 1:25 am

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This post has been brought to you by your friends at Shopwiki.com

In my last post I mentioned how blogging shouldn’t just be about the money, because if you focus just on the money side of it, there is every chance that it will compromise the quality of your blog. The honest truth is that most people take up blogging because they want to earn some extra cash and whilst the majority of them continue because they develop a passion for it, the rest find it all too hard and lose interest.

The thing is that we all need money to live, and when possible, to by the niceties in life. More and more people are discovering that you can buy quality products on the net and at the same time save you money. The trouble is that a lot of people find it difficult to source the right products and this is where shopwiki.com comes into play.

Imagine that your child’s birthday is coming up and you haven’t the time to physically go shopping, but the thought of searching the Net for some decent Toys and Games is also a little daunting. Shopwiki.com is specially designed to help consumers find specific consumer products on the Internet with ease. Where Google targets every single thing on the net that has even a slight similarity to your search query, including those distasteful porno sites, the wiki only target products relative to your search that are available on the Net.

You may be interested in educational toys that stimulate the mind or perhaps something that promotes a more active approach to fun such as a SpongeBob SquarePants Water Slide. No matter what you are looking for, this particular wiki plans to make your search simpler and more productive. Their consumer written wiki will help you to not only find the product, it will also show you where you can buy it. Rather than wait until the last minute to try it out, why not hop on over, give it a whirl and let me know what you think.