Helio cell phones dish up great tech packages

Helio has its crosshairs centered over being the new web leaders in mobile technology. They are dialing in on some of the hottest web plans to date including MySpace mobile and GPS controlled Google maps.

MySpace Mobile

With the new MySpace mobile option you can log in to your profile at any time and anywhere. Have current updates on your blog comments, comments and personal messages at all times. You will never find yourself looking for a fix to know what people are thinking about your new mirror picture again. In addition, if you are a Helio member you get four extra profile pictures for your MySpace account. If you weren't already sold you gotta be by now.

GPS and Google Maps Mobile

Never get lost again with the Google maps in hand at all times. Find locations by address or business name while on the go. In addition, use the GPS buddy beacon to keep tabs on your friends, family or significant other at all times.

The three different devices from Helio range from 100$ to 225$ with packages running from 65$-135$ a month with free 2-day shipping on all orders.

Are we to the point where we get annoyed to be reminded of the death toll in Iraq?
You can read the story here http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/11/29/hillside.crosses.ap/index.html and decide for yourself.

In my opinion it seems like some people would like it to be more publicly known what is going on with our troops and there are others that would like to hide it and never discuss it.

Cingular, Samsung and Microsoft have teamed up to make one badass phone (if that is what you want to call it) with the new Blackjack. This thing is pretty much a tiny computer that makes phone calls.

Get ready to enjoy all of the innovative technology when you wrap your hands around this bad boy. The phone comes equipped with Windows Mobile software, Media Player 10 Mobile, Cingular video, a microSD slot, over five ways to receive e-mails and messaging, a 1.3-megapixle camera and much more.

This phone is also very stylish. Its sleek design makes all the other smart phones to date look like hunks of garbage to me.

I just signed up with a new 2-year contract with Qwest so I am pretty much stuck with the phone that i have. If I were not I know that I would be getting one of these things.

976 million dead birds a year.

Recently I heard a report stating that from 5-50 million birds die each year due to the existence of cell phone towers. Apparently at night the birds circle the red light on the top of the towers thinking it's a star. They repeatedly circle the light thinking they are following it to their destination and finally just get exhausted and drop to their death.

At first glance I thought, well we should do something about this. Something has got to be done. Then I looked into it a little further and found that this is not a significant amount of bird deaths at all. Compared to things like cars, high tension wires and of course windows Communication towers are the least lethal of the list of man made things to fly into.

An estimated 97 to 976 million birds die each year from flying into windows. Yep, you heard me right. Flying into windows… So if you feel guilty when you are using your cell phone next time do something good for the birds. If you put a screen on the exterior of your home windows you just might save a birds life :)

Here is a little video that I thought might add to this article :)


I got the chart above from sibleyguides.com

Top tips for getting ready to buy your 1st home

Buying your first home is a very exciting and sometimes stressful endeavor. One thing on the stressful side is the whole loan process. People are looking through all of your personal finances and telling you what you can afford and what you should not have done in your past. They will pull your credit report and go over it with a fine toothed comb. All this is before you even hit the streets to start looking at homes.

To make this a whole lot stressful there are many things you can do. Following some of the tips I have here on this will surely help.

Top tips for first time house buyers

1 : Find a Realtor that you feel comfortable with. If you find somebody trustworthy stick with them. This person is going to be spending a lot of time with you.

2: Take care of your credit. Get your credit report and find all of the flaws on your own. Pay off all collections or settlements. There may be some skeletons in your closet that will be better taken care of now than in the mortgage office.

3: Save your money. This is extremely important. If you can get 20% of the loan amount saved you can avoid the PMI (private mortgage insurance). PMI can cost 200$ a month or more and stays on your account until you prove that 20% equity has acquired. You will save thousands of dollars if you can avoid PMI.

4: Keep all of your documents. Everything that you sign or that is given to you must be kept in a safe place. I hope that you will not ever need them but if you do, they are priceless.

5: Don't take out any new loans or credit cards. Every loan, credit card or even cell phone you apply for requires they pull your credit report. Each time they pull your report a few points is deducted from your credit score. These few points could be the difference in a few hundred dollars on your monthly mortgage payment so it is best to wait until after you buy a house if you can.

6: Pay attention to the roof, appliances, furnace and water heater. If the house has a 20 year old roof and a 15 year old furnace you need to bargain down the price. These are very costly things to repair and they will need to be done within the next couple of years. It is always ideal to find a house with all new appliances but this shouldn't detour you from the your favorite pick. Use these weaknesses as a negotiating point.

7: Visualize what the house will be like. Often times people are turned away from great houses due to ugly carpet, paint or even furniture. Try to visualize the rooms with your style and furniture. It is amazing what a roller, some elbow grease and a bucket of paint can do to a room.

Good luck and I hope you find that perfect abode.

Warning : this video is profane, racial and disturbing

Friday night Seinfeld's actor Michael Richards who played Cosmo Kramer had a physical meltdown Friday at the Laugh Factory comedy club. He was in his words "interupted" by a African American patron to his show Kyle Ross and he lost it.Richards responded to the heckling by screaming "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass." The Tirade goes on and gets much worse when he starts pointing and screaming "he's a ni#$er" over and over.

I have watched the video and I promise you that it is hard to stomach. I am the type of guy that can handle a pretty rough joke but this doesn't come off as a joke in the least. The way that this comes off is hateful and disgusting.

Here is a link to the video but I warn you that it is very disturbing. The only good thing about this is that people in the audience had the balls to stand up, do the right thing and leave the show. Sometimes it's hard to do the right thing in the moment but a few people got it right in this clip.

I just watched the video one more time and it is really really really bad.

What is Google page rank and what does it get you?

Google has invented their own system for ranking the authority or value websites from 0-10. Page rank is strictly judged on the amount of links to your site from other websites. So page rank is essentially a reflection of the work that you have done on your website. If people like your site, a certain article or picture they will post a link to send people there. Links are not all equal however. The higher the pages rank of the linking page the more weight it will pass on to you. Attaining higher ranking links will in turn give you more traffic due to their viewers along with helping you with your page rank.

What does PR do for you?

PR is in a sense like a diploma. A diploma stands for all of the hard work you have done. It is a symbol of your knowledge. Having the diploma doesn't help you solve problems in your field, however the knowledge that it took to acquire the diploma is what finds your solutions. Having a higher page rank isn't going to make your site more valuable, it is just going to back up or credit the fact that you are a highly respected source in your niche.

Achieving a page rank of 5 isn't going to make you more money (unless you are selling links). Getting the page rank of five is the result of the work that you have already done that will make you the more money. Your traffic will most likely go up from a PR4 to PR5 because you will have more inbound links. Those inbound links are always a direct result of something that you did. It could be an article that you submitted or somebody wanting to quote your content on their site. You could also have an image that is popular or many other reasons to receive one-way links to your site.

Content is King!

The more quality and original content you can create the better. If you want to write an article about “widgets” take it a step further and contact the creator of widgets for an interview. If you could get an interview with him/her on your site many other widget sites will probably link to you to show their users the industry news. Write articles about your widgets or a very specific type of widgets. If you are the only person on the net that has an article about South Caroline Red Widgets then you should come up first for that search.

Publish Articles

Also try submitting your articles and content to other sites in the industry. If they like your articles they will post them (it’s free content for them). In the articles always include a one way back-link to your site. Every time you publish an article you have just earned yourself a quality back-link.

Submit to Directories

Some directories are free and many of them cost money for monthly or yearly sub listings. If you are on a low budget find a list for free directories that you can submit your site to. Free directories generally take longer to get listed and have a faster pay option that lists your site a little higher on the page. If somebody is going to find your site through a directory they may also put a link somewhere on the web.

Get Viral

This is what everyone is after. If you can create links that duplicate many times over you are in the money. Many people post a quality article on their site and then submit it to digg.com to achiever the “digg affect”. If you site gets dugg and makes it to the top page you will see a massive up tick in traffic. If the digg users like it enough to bring it up to the top page they will also like it enough to blog about it. This will all result in new quality back links to your site. Which will in turn create higher PR and more traffic channeling through your link network across the web to your pages?

Have passion

Ultimately if you enjoy your site, others will too. Finding passion in your niche will make creating content a breeze. I wish the best of luck to all of you out there on the world wide web.