Have you ever wished that there was an easier way to find things on the Internet? Well now there is another way to Find People and things on the Internet.

Find.com Search Engine is the newest means of finding things on the Internet. Not only can you find people, but you can Find Jobs too. What sets Find apart from the crowd? They have gone back to the older style of searching. Remember when Yahoo had categories and you could browse through them to find what you needed? Find has done that.

Do you want to find someone from your past? Go ahead, use Find Friend to do find them. You just go to find.com, enter their name and you’ll get all the same results you would with other browsers. Just easier to remember.

My favorite part of Find.com is that you don’t even need to use the search feature to get search results. All you need to do is know what keyword you want to search for, then type http://www.find.com/your_keyword to get your search results. It couldn’t be any easier if you wanted it to be. Sometimes, going back to the old way isn’t a bad thing, especially when it comes to technology.

Some days, I feel like one of the most technologically challenged people on earth. I have a laptop and have considered getting a mobile router and air card for it, so that I can actually get more use out of it. I probably won’t because I don’t take my laptop anywhere, really.

I don’t know why I own it, a lot of the times. I barely use it. I never leave the house, and when I do, I don’t have the need to be attached to it. *shrug*

I still need to invest in a flash drive. There are no doubts about it. I have different computers, despite them being networked, it’d be nice to not have to rely on flaky network connections. Plus it would nice to be able to toss stuff on a flash drive to take to the library for easy printing. It’s hard to keep emailing stuff back and forth to do it.

Maybe I’ll ask for one for Christmas.

Every day there is at least 3 commercials for high definition television, especially with the Digital Conversion coming in February. I have to say that the transition bothers me greatly, but we have to take it and accept it whether we want to or not. I already upgraded one television, the other will have to wait a while, though.

The problem is, unless you have a new television, you have to have a converter box. That’s fine, but that doesn’t mean that if you buy a plasma television you will automatically be fine. No, you may even have to buy a new antennae if you aren’t getting your local channels via cable or satellite. This isn’t really fair either.

What should you do? Find yourself an online plasma store and get yourself a new television, don’t bother with the converter box. Why? In the end, you’ll need a new television, so why buy the box? Upgrade your cable, upgrade your satellite service, it’s worth the initial cost. Trust me.

I need to invest in some laptop memory soon. It’s frustrating to try to use it lately cuz Vista is a memory hog. What can I do tho? I didn’t get it to be able to run a ton and I should be able to use it for my tax class without a problem. I should just remember to take it with me when I know I’m going to have time to kill.

For instance, today I sat for a while at McD’s while Rob had a meeting and I was left twiddling my thumbs with nothing to do. Thankfully I keep a notebook in the car at all times. I started a bit of a story, not that great though, so it’ll probably be just the first couple paragraphs and nothing more.

Does anyone know what a Cat5e Keystone jack is? I have no idea what it is. I try to keep up with technology and gadgets, but this one is something that I’ve never heard of. From looking at pictures, it’s a jack for networking cables along the same line as a telephone jack.

Is it what you see in a hotel that offers wired Internet in their rooms? The jacks you see in the wall to plug your network card into? That’s what it looks like to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was, especially because of it’s resemblance to a phone jack.

So much going on, so little time to get it done. It sucks, especially when I’m trying to work on stuff that requires the Internet and my Internet goes down for multiple hours. I was doing fine, then all of the sudden my connection started to drop. After a few minutes, it died totally. About a month ago, my ISP died for over 30 hours. Now, it died for at least 8 hours. I went to bed at Midnight and it was still down, after going down around 4pm.

I had to wonder, since I know they had router issues, if they had used cisco routers if the problem wouldn’t have occurred. I’m sure we’ll never get an answer, since we didn’t last time. Oh well. Life will go on. I survived without the Internet, but it definitely put me behind.

We were cleaning house the other day and came across some picture frames in a box that never got used. We also found several canisters of film that never got developed as well. It got me to thinking about the changes in photography in the last few years. We went from digital photography being completely unreachable by most people because digital cameras were so expensive to film cameras being almost completely obsolete.

Do I have any idea what’s on that film we found? No. Most, if not all, of them are Rob’s and were taken before he and I met. That’s been over 8 years now, so god only knows what it is. I found several packages of negatives, negatives for pictures that I’m not sure I even have any more. It makes me wonder if that’s what the future is going to be like? What are future generations going to say when they find a digital frame from 2008?

In a way I can’t wait to see what the next 10 years bring because the last 10 years have been interesting.

Now, I’ve had computers since the early 1990’s and most of them have come to me used. Either via someone giving me a hand me down or via computer rentals. There’s nothing wrong with this and to be honest, I’m starting to think that it’s the best way to go.

I bought my computer through Dell, had problems with it being DOA. They replaced it, but now the new one seems to be having driver conflicts. Easy enough to fix, but still frustrating because I shouldn’t be having problems. It seems like when I rented, I had no problems to use the full service contracts, but now that I have limited service, I have problems.

So yeah.

Ah, one of the greatest inventions there has been in years, MP3 players. Why do I think they’re such a great invention? Because the personal tape player and cd player was as well, when their formats were popular. They kept you from having to hear the music that others are listening to while in the same space and what could be better than that? I mean, do you want to listen to someone’s offensive lyrics or want to expose a child to that? I know I sure don’t. I respect others when I play music and with an MP3 player, I can keep my music to myself.

So I’m in a technological overload lately, it seems. I bought a new computer, but it ended up not working. So effectively, I’m on my laptop that is reserved for working, trying to do the little things that I do every day. That doesn’t always work, since they take some pretty hefty chunks of memory. So then there’s this discussion I was involved in about whether a used cisco router was worth the money or not. I say yes, others say no, buy new. While I agree with them in most cases, I don’t understand why they seem to think that new is better. If it works, if it’s guaranteed, and even if it only lasts a few months, you’ve saved money trying out a piece of equipment you may not like in the end.

I thought I’d be able to get a new computer without it having any sort of issues. How wrong I was about that. Suck Suck Suck. Maybe I should have just bought an HD TV so that all I had to worry about is whether I need an HDMI splitter or not. I am starting to technology, but at least my laptop still works properly. That’s all I need right now.

So, we have a laptop, but it only has 512MB of RAM and Vista on it. It works great, it’s barely over a year old and it’s a bit sluggish. I need to find some good laptop memory and upgrade it when I have the extra money. I love having a laptop, I just wish I had thought ahead and realized that I would need to have more RAM. I know I am glad this desktop has more than the bare minimum.

I swear, I need to do something about my cell phone service. I live in the middle of nowhere and get no signal in the house. In fact, I don’t get signal until we’re well into town. Where as, my husband gets fairly decent signal no matter where we are. I might have to get one of the cell phone amplifiers to boost my signal at home so that I can check my texts more than once a week. I keep missing fairly important texts because I have no signal. It sucks.

So, a month ago, I ordered myself a 1GB stick of RAM for my desktop computer, thinking that as long as I got the right speed and such, it would take any off the shelf brand. But being a Dell, my computer has to be contrary. I received the memory and put it in. Booted and the machine and it only saw the one stick. Not good.

So after fiddling with it a bit, it still didn’t work. I learned later that my particular Dell takes special memory. Yeah. Twice the price of what I bought. So, I’m sticking with what the system has. I’ll eventually upgrade to a new, non-Dell, computer. But for now, it does what I want, so it’s all good. It just serves as a reminder to research harder before buying RAM again.

So one of the weird things about technological advances is that often, you have to live in a major city in order to take advantage of the newest technology. In fact, quite often you don’t even know about the latest technology unless you are tech savvy and read up a lot on the Internet. For instance, the latest technological advance for home computer users is fiber optic cables for networking. I didn’t know that they were an option for home networking yet.

It’s definitely an odd world that we live in when you have to rely on the Internet to learn about the latest technology. Unfortunately, there are too many unreliable sites that provide false information, so people never really know what is true and what isn’t. Perhaps the news needs to start covering technology again, like it did before the Internet blew up.

So, living in the middle of nowhere, my cell phone reception is really shoddy and spotty. In fact, right now if I turn my phone on, I’d get about 2 bars of signal. Definitely not enough to make or receive a call and it’s barely enough to send and receive text messages. This is the way my phone behaves anywhere within 10 miles of my house. Sometimes, I’ll get lucky and pull in a bit of extra signal, but not very often.

Normally, this wouldn’t bother me, but there have been so many house fires in my area recently that I’m scared of being without phone signal. We can’t rely on neighbors to call the fire department in case of a fire, since we’re in such a rural area. Most of them wouldn’t even notice, to be quite honest. By the time any of us got to one of the neighbors, and got a call in to 911, it’s quite likely that our house would be completely gone.

With that being said, I’ve been looking at getting a mobile cell phone booster so that we can have a decent signal in case we have some sort of emergency and have to rely on our cell phones. They amplify the signals that are already in the area and draw them in for better reception and fewer disconnects. It’s definitely something that I’d like to have if something were to happen here.

The thought of watching our home burn and not being able to call 911 scares the hell out of me. It seems like at least once a week, there is another home that has burnt here. Just today, a high school friend and his wife lost their home. Thankfully, the only casualties were three cats and not humans. Perhaps, mobile cell phone booster could have helped someone who lost their home in this area, since the entire area is mostly a dead zone.

Is your new years resolution to start dating (again)? Then you know just how hard it is to find a decent date. You can different personals or dating sites like yahoo personals, but which one is the best? That’s why you should check out the matchmaking service offered by 5 Star Dating. You can find sites that offer Gay and Lesbian services. If you’re interested in someone who is a Christian, they narrow the sites down that way as well.

You can get a comprehensive comparison of sites like eharmony or match.com from the same source and have a more accurate idea of which site will work best for your needs. If you aren’t using a comparison site, you’re getting information from people who may have only looked at one site and not the other, but with 5 Star’s matchmaking service, they have gone to all the different dating sites. You will get a more accurate picture because it’s the same people reviewing the sites.

So if your resolution for 2008 is to find love, let 5 Star Dating find the best dating site for you.

One of the biggest problems with surfing different sites is that some of them have evil popup windows. If you stumble across the wrong website, you can save yourself a lot of hassle with a good popup blocker. If you typo a web address, you can end up on a site that far removed from what you wanted. Somewhere like an adult website that’d riddled with a lot of leecher cookies.

It seems like more and more of the popular websites are having to compete with spammers who grab similar addresses so that they can get anyone who typos the web address. For instance, if you typo something like google with one too many o’s or something and end up with an adult web site that you didn’t want to visit. Many of them are riddled with popups for different enhancement drugs.

So yeah, before you surf, make sure that your popup blocker is enabled.

I’ve heard a lot of people with wireless internet bitch and whine about it dropping all the time. My DSL modem doubles as a wireless router as well, but I never had the need for it until I got my laptop this spring. Once I got that set up with the wireless, I was able to ‘net from wherever I want in the house. I’ve never had any issues with the wireless dropping either. It makes me wonder why others have so many issues. Do they have the same issues with a wired connection? I get the same speed wirelessly as I do wired, I have no dropping issues unless the isp has an issue.

I’ve been considering going fully wireless, but it’s a bit of a waste, since my modem sits right on my desk and there’s no reason for my desktop to be wireless. I do know that we’re getting a second laptop at some point and that will be wireless, but beyond that, there’s no real point in it, other than the fact that it would eliminate the two ethernet cables that are under my carpet running to the server and Rob’s computer.

They don’t even really bother me either, since they’re under the carpet and not getting tangled in anything now. Who knows, maybe I’ll eventually get rid of the server and his desktop, but that’s a long time down the road.