Archive for January, 2008

I want to go there

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I am really starting to think about how to turn the much-predicted downturn to my advantage. After the fuss over here last September with the run on one of our banks, parallels are being drawn with the US subprime market. Over there we have seen photos of people outside the houses they bought, [...]

My advice

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

There is a refreshingly down to earth website that brings a little sanity to financial advice here in the UK, called the Motley Fool. Apart from their prediction of house price falls of twenty per cent this year I rather like their style. Whether or not their prediction proves to be true they [...]

Where to get cash

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I have noticed since the turmoil on world markets began last year that actually more and more of us are being affected by lenders’ changing policies, meaning we may not get a loan application accepted by the first company we approach. Fortunately it is now quite easy to shop around if you have a [...]

Savings on iPods

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

One great thing about having internet access is the ability to shop online and usually pay a lot less. Only recently I discovered that there are all sorts of web portals that will serve you the latest, unpublicised discounts and low prices at your favourite online merchants. The savings really came home to [...]

Free CDA to MP3 Converters

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

A free CDA to MP3 converter, otherwise known as a CD ripper, is what you use when you want to convert your conventional music into the more compressed, space-saving audio format that is MP3. Aside from that a free CDA to MP3 converter may also act as an MP3 to WAV decoder, as well as [...]

Playing games

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

A couple of my blog readers have left me comments recently and we ended up comparing notes on games of chance and the best places to play them online. If you visit a site like this you want to to feel safe and enjoy the games at the same time. A win would [...]

Making Money from iPods

Monday, January 21st, 2008

I hope you enjoy reading all the information that I am posting on this website. I began this blog to share my experiences of trying to get my tunes back when the hard drive crashed on my notebook computer, and along the way I have spent a lot of time blogging. As a [...]

Ringing

Friday, January 18th, 2008

I am old enough to remember the days when mobile phones used a set of standard incoming call alerts and I was amazed to see how the whole market for Free Ringtones
has literally exploded.  Now any self respecting phone user under the age of thirty – and often those who are much older – uses [...]

Trouble brewing

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I have been talking to my nearest about kitchen equipment and there has been a slight disagreement between us over the choice of certain gadgets that I see as essential in a well-equipped home.  When it comes to coffee, I dislike the instant stuff and for that reason my krups coffee maker has pride of [...]

My Italian Quest

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

This summer I have promised myself that I will return to Italy to walk in the Cinque Terre villages above the Gulf of Genoa. It is more than twenty years since I had the pleasure of staying in a rural Italian hotel and I cannot wait to go back there. This is an area that [...]