Product & Sales Configurator Software.

I believe one of the factors that leads to a loss in a company is not being able to provide an accurate price quotation to customers. There are companies who had to absorb the expenses when they use more money to complete a project than what was quoted and contracted. Not only that, when it takes a long time to provide a quotation, it also puts the customers off from dealing with those companies. Of course customers would go to those companies that are efficient and fast. And giving a quick quote is the first impression they could get of your company.

Giving an accurate quotation is very much important when it comes to manufacturing products at a very large scale which are always being configured to the needs of customers. Each customer has different kind of orders so you need to customize your calculations too. So how to do it faster and more accurate? The answer is Configure One Configurator Software which can be obtained at www.configureone.com. Not only the software can help provide a more accurate and quick quote but also help to create sales drawings, material bills, detailed product information and much more.

You may want to try their demo software and experience the advantage this software can give your company. Just sign up for their demo trial.

Maximum Security Safes.

Looking for ways to keep your valuables safe in your own homes or for your retail businesses? Then you should check out the security products at maximumsecurity.com. They provide quality, security safes. Jewelry safes, wall safes, gun safes, buglar and fire safes, depository safes and more. Just got to name it they might have just the thing for you.

Maximum security safes, located in California has been giving satisfying product and services to their customers for years and due to their professionalism and expertise in the area, they have been one of the leading suppliers for quality safes. You may browse their website to see what are available, but for more information for the best price they have got to offer and other information, you may need to give them a call or just visit them at their showroom.

For tips and guidance in choosing the right kind of safe that you need, check their "Ask Max" section. This is where you can read about the reason why you should have a safe, the types that are available, what to look for and how to make your choice. However as stated above, if you need a more questions, you may contact them using their contact form available on the site, or you may call or meet with a knowledgeable salesperson face to face at their showroom.

Luxury home and garden decor.

Having a house filled with beautiful decorations must be a dream for many women and men too. If you are one of those who really enjoy to decorate their homes and gardens, then you must visit Upside Living. They have plenty of wonderful home decors and garden products. They also offer quality unique gifts from around the world. I believe you would be simply mesmerized by the various items they have, just as I did.



You should check out their Italian Pottery collection. From dinnerwares to wall plates. Further, since mother's day is just a couple of days away, perhaps you would want to check out their unique gifts collection. They had them categorized. Gifts for baby, for men, for women, for wedding, for other special occasions and more. You will definitely find something that you would love.

Anyway, when you decorate the interior of your home, you also have to make sure exterior looks good too. The garden. At Upside Living, they offer numerous fine garden products that you can choose from. Windchimes, Tiki torch, fire pits to name a few. Windchimes has always been a favourite of mine. I can not imagine a garden without windchimes.


What I have mentioned here is just the tip of the iceberg. They have more to offer. So check out their website to see more.

Sell items on ebay the easier way.

One of the places I go to when shopping online is ebay. I find it more convenient because most of the sellers are willing to send the items here. Further, the prices are sometime a lot cheaper than any other websites due to its auction feature. Not to mention the interesting things you can find there, that you can not find anywhere else online. Fancy a mickey mouse collectible toast? Yes, a real toast that has a picture of mickey mouse on it. Or where else can you buy a potato that looks like a head of a poodle? These people sell everything!

I like to "window shop" on ebay. Looking at the items sold and the prices. One item I found that was sold at quite an astounding amount is this painting, sold at $350,000.




They don't only sell cheap stuff on ebay. Anyway, if you would like to sell items on ebay that you do not need, but just do not have the time to handle the questions from potential buyers, or to handle the shipment, you can get iSold It to do the selling for you. Just drop the item that you want to sell on ebay at the nearest iSold It shop, they will evaluate the price of your item by doing some quick research online, and check it in, but not without your instructions on the details you want to be inserted on ebay listing. They will give you a receipt and send you on your way. Then they will start taking photographs of your item and list it on ebay. After it being listed they will send you the url of where you can view your item being auctioned on ebay.

Once your item is sold, they will collect the payment for you and ship the item to the bidder who won. When the transaction all complete they will send you a check or send to charity of your choice if you want it so. Of course there will be a commission for them. That is most probably why you may only sell items that has a minimum value of $75 if you want their help. So items like the above art, is an ideal item you should send to these guys to handle the selling for you.

My verdict for creative zen.

After a few days having this mp3 player, I would really recommend it. The price is good, and the player is just awesome. With 16.4 million colour display for its screen, the videos and photos look great. The sound is every bit sounds good. Only thing with all electronic products, you will bump into problems too, I had a bit of trouble trying to plug the thing to my PC at first. My pc problem actually. Read reviews regarding this, seems like a common problem but nothing you cannot fix unless if the player is faulty, which can happen to any player including the ipods.





If you would like to read more about players other than ipods, visit anythingbutipod forum. They cover cowon, iriver, creative zen, and samsung players. And perhaps a few others which I don't remember. Maybe you might want to use their player comparing application on the site which is very easy to use.


I only have time to use it when Bonnie is sleeping and my husband is around, to hear if Bonnie wakes up. LOL But still good at times when everybody is sleeping, just watch some short clips and then go to sleep. I can watch spongebob squarepants. Ha ha. I'm waiting for my sdhc card for my zen to arrive in the mail.

Mp3 free download.

As I have mentioned in a post a few days ago, that I ordered a Creative Zen Mp3 player. Still waiting but I'm expecting it tomorrow if not next week on Monday. Since then I have been looking around for sites where I can get free music downloads, movies or music videos.

I found Mp3Rocket.com. You have to download a software first though. Its basically a peer to peer sharing software. There are 2 types to choose from. The basic one which is free and Mp3rocket pro which you have to pay a one time fee of $29.95. With the Basic software, you get to download but at a standard connection and may get support from the support forums. If you get the Mp3rocket pro, you get 25% faster download speed and full technical support. The software is free from spywares and malwares as certified by cnet.

I am trying out the basic one of course. The download speed is pretty good. I can imagine how good it would be if it is 25% faster. I have used a few other p2p softwares before so I know and this one is quite fast to download. Other features that I like about this software is that you can watch streaming online tv from all over the world and listen to online radio through it. You get to play flash games too.

I am currently downloading some music videos and they are downloading fast. I like this software and I think I'm going to continue using it. Give it a try yourself. Go to Mp3rocket.com to download.

Goat's milk cream

Some postings back I did write about the benefit of Goat's milk and that I bought a Nature's Recipe's Goat's milk based cream for dry skin, eczema and psoriasis through ebay.co.uk. After first application, I notice how smooth and moisturized my skin was. I usually had to apply lotion a few times a day. But with this I only had to use once.

The cream when applied it leaves a white creamy texture on the skin. You have to rub it. But later I found out that you don't even need to rub it in. You just spread on the skin and after sometime it soaks through the skin and no more whitish colour left. Just smooth, soft skin.

So far my skin is not flaky anymore and not dry as before. The only cream that really works for me! Well, as I mentioned in my previous post regarding this, Goat's milk soap worked well with my skin. I am rather happy with the product.

In case if you want to know more you can check out their website of theirs through the link above in this post.

For the comic book collectors.

Do you have a prized comic book collection that you are proud of? Like to show them off but just don't have enough people you haven't shown them to? You will be happy to know that you can actually have people to show your collection every day. People who collect other things and even comic books like you do. Other comic collectors that would drool over your collection. At iTaggit.com.

There, you can upload pictures or videos of your items and submit them for appraisal. Meet other collectors with the same passion. Find experts to consult with. They even provide a comic price guide so you know what's your comics real worth, for trading, insurance and resale purposes.

The site is not limited to only comic books. So if you have a collection of something, check out this site.

Web design blog

Stylishdesign.com is a web design blog that talks about,well, web designing of course and also some tips about anything regarding the web. You may find interesting and informative posts regarding Search engine optimization, css, web site directories, tools and softwares, web templates and more. In a way it is a central for information on how to build a good website. Either for a personal website, information, non-profit, education or even business websites.

It does have a look like a technical blog. But the thing that I like about the post is that, they are usually straightforward and easy to understand. A post that caught my interest and I believe many other bloggers' interests would be the post titled "You can never find out the true PageRank" which I feel has some kind of logic with what the author was saying about PageRanks. There are more posts regarding PageRanks, so if you want to know more you can check out this blog. If you are interested about Adsense you may want to read one of his popular posts regarding this, "We are an adsense addicted generation."

I think this blog is useful for both beginners and professionals. Though I assume that the blog is rather new but I believe the author will never fail to add more content to it soon enough.

Annotate online

While I was a University student, I remember having to take back group assignments to do at home for the holidays.When it is a group assignment usually we need a lot of discussion and most of the time we did it online through chatting since everybody lives some place far from each other. When we need to get the assignment in writing and we had to agree on how it should be written, this is where the hassles and problems came in. We kept sending the documents to each other. I edit it, send it back to my friend she edited it, write in small fonts for the purpose of notes that we later need to delete. Messy, messy work. Even terrible if there are more than 2 people working on it. Worst of all, when we send by email attachments, there were many copies to handle.


This would be the same problem to many people, especially those people who has to work with a group of people at the same time.Getting each group members' opinions and suggestions before doing or deciding on something.Wouldn't it be easier just to have one document, uploaded on the internet, where everyone involve can see it and do the highlighting and annotations, reply to these annotations, all online on one copy? I believe, these group of people would be happy to know that there is such a service. It is called A.nnotate. Visit their page at a.nnotate.com.

A.nnotate is basically an online service for people to share notes on documents using a browser. You can upload any document. Microsoft words, Microsoft excel, Powerpoint, Rich text format documents, pdf files, Openoffice documents and spreadsheets and even webpages!Currently the service supports Firefox, IE 7 and Safari browsers. So no downloading of programs or plugins needed.

The service is currently used by 3,800 researchers worldwide. You can start using their service by trying out their free trial available on their website.

International Phone cards

For those who are living abroad like me, or have loved ones who are studying, working or living abroad, must have spent a lot of money to call loved ones back at home.I usually use skype, but only inconvenient thing is that, I need to on my pc every time to make a long distance phone call, and wouldn't be able to make calls to my father back in Malaysia if I am not at home or nearby an internet connected PC.

Using international phone card usually costs much more expensive. However there are international call cards that can be bought cheaply online. Such online sites you can try is at the phonecardsavenue dot com. Using phone cards from them you can save up to 95% from international long distance phone bill. That is a lot of saving.

Phone cards are delivered straight online so you don't have to wait and start making calls right away. When I browsed at the website, I could not believe seeing so many different international phone cards that are available. I remember using an international phone card with my mobile phone, not only I was charged on the call, but I was also charged on the connection fee too. But I see that most of the cards there need no connection fees at all. Taking Hungary as a country you want to call for example, it costs only 0.6¢ per minute on one of the phone cards rate. That is cheap in my opinion.

About the site. It is VeriSign secured, which means online purchase through that site is safe. Searching is very easy and very fast to load as well. Further, if you encountered any problems, they have an online support which you can refer to. To use the site, you may need to register and create an account though which can be done fast and verified immediately.

Currently they have a 3% cashback promotion on every purchase. So don't miss this good offer!

Lake district holiday home

I once wrote about how much I would like to go camping and particularly in a caravan. I really would like it. Something to break away from the normalcy of daily life. But I have another dream that is to spend weekends by the lake somewhere not too close to the busy city life. Fishing, have outdoor lunch and dinner, and go for a dip when ever I feel like it especially in the summer. I believe many would love this too.

However wonderful it is, I don't think many of us can afford to leave the place where many of the jobs are, i.e the city. Nevertheless, it would be nice to spend weekends for a holiday near the lake.Even better, to own a weekend house or even a caravan by the lake!

Further, I believe it is much cheaper in the long run to own a holiday house instead of having to rent or lodge at the nearest hotel. So with this in mind I guess, Southlakeland Parks in the UK made a holiday lake district to realize dreams of many people, to own their own holiday homes by the lake.

Buyers may choose from the variety of homes and even caravans that are available at the Fallbarrow park and the White cross bay park. They may even choose either pre-owned or new ones.

The idea of owning a holiday home by the lake is really a wonderful idea to behold indeed.

Free business directory

I have submitted my blogs to a few web and blog directories available. This way, people can find my blog when they browse the directory or make a search. Which means, free traffic to my blog. For business websites it is very advantageous to submit their websites to these kind of web directories. Not only they would get more traffic but also they're website would get better ranking and search engine optimized. (SEO)

Though there are many business directories out there, but most of them requires you to pay a certain fee. However, there are web directories that offer free web directory listing. One of them is, dirmania dot org.

The directory has a Google page rank of 3 and search engine friendly. Therefore it would be a great help for small or medium sized business to improve their rankings and easily searched.

When you add your business website, you are required to choose the category that your business is closely related to. Among the categories that they have are, Arts & Humanities, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Kids & teens, etc. So be sure to put submit your site to the right category.

After your submission, if your listing meets dirmania's requirement, it should be approved within 24 hours. That is quite prompt.

So if you have business website, don't miss this opportunity to improve your site's ranking.

Westway Stools.

Here is another product from Westway UK online store. westway - stools. The stools are all modern in design and available in a range of colours to suit any colour themes of your homes or your tastes. Below is one stool that I personally like.




Most of the stools are made of moulded plastic with metal base, metal stem and equipped with gas lift mechanism. All except one or two types always to bought in pairs. So if you check their website and thought that the price might be a little too steep for a stool, they are for two. While you're at it, do not forget to search on for the matching tables available from Westway too.

Just like the stool in the above picture, I think the ones with arm rests are usually very comfy. That is just a matter of personal opinion. To many people, even without would still be comfy. Another thing is, stools are great because they don't take much space compared to an ordinary chair. So I guess not only the stools would be perfect for seating by the bar but also would be nice to have them in small kitchens. Which is quite common to have small kitchens in Europe.

Westway Bean bags.

Bean bags have been around for quite some time, and as I can see, there are more and more people starting to fall in love with these comfy seats. The living room is the place where family members and even friends come to hang out with each other. What else would be perfect for such activities if not Bean bags? Bean bags are perfect for living rooms and just about any place where people use as a place to lay back and relax. Kids, teenagers and adults alike would definitely love them.

If you are in the UK, at Westway, they are offering some luxurious and comfortable yet affordable westway - bean bags and cushions to add the extra comfort for any home. The choice of fabrics and natural earthy colour designs would suit any where in the house and even any other colour theme of the room. They simply look like they would blend in anywhere.

The bean bags are filled with polystyrene beads and the covers are removable and some are machine washable. While others may need to be dry cleaned or wiping with a damp cloth would do the job.Prices of the bean bags are between £34.99 and £49.99.

So if, you are thinking of getting one or two bean bags, check out Westway's affordable luxury online store.

For the little soccer fans

With all the soccer games on PC, Playstation, gamebox and such, perhaps many kids would rather stay at home and play soccer through the screen rather than playing the real thing themselves. Perhaps a little encouragement to play outdoors is what they need. If you have a decently sized back yard you might want to get some Soccer Equipment for the little soccer fans.
Try looking at soccergoalzinc dot com for the right portable soccer equipment for your kids. Soccer equipment usually only comprise of a ball and a goal so the equipment are easy to carry, easy to set up and light weight. They look professional too. Thus making them suitable for soccer practice for the young ones.

An example of the many portable goals that you can from.

They are portable so you can just carry them anywhere you would want them, so the kids do not have to miss practicing their soccer skills even if they go and visit their grandparents or even camping some where with ample grounds to play on.
Soccergoalzinc has a standard rates for delivery across US. The price difference is only of the delivery times. The faster you want to get hold of the equipment the more you have to pay of course. You may choose from between 5-7 business days delivery to 1-2 days business delivery. Just got to let them know.

Free webhosting

I just found this web hosting (not paid review okay. LOL) When I said I found I really found. Well, maybe introduced is more like it. Came across somebody's signature on a forum.

http://f.erocio.us/

Of course you can find many free webhost out there like geocities, freewebs and such. But this one allows you to have your own domain, subdomains, unlimited email etc. They are still quite new but said to be reliable. How reliable, I'm not sure. You just got to try to know.
What will you get from them? This is a list I just copied and pasted here.

* 2,000 megabytes disk storage
* 30 gigabytes monthly bandwidth
* unlimited MySQL 5 databases
* unlimited email accounts
* unlimited FTP users
* unlimited sub domains / domains
* twice hourly backup, so you never lose your files
* software, such as WordPress, phpbb, Joomla and more
* RealAudio / Video & Quicktime streaming
* any type of files (mp3, pictures, video, etc.)


Not so bad features for free hosting.You need to buy your own domain though. Can either get it somewhere else or through them.

Thing is, to apply you need to have some php knowledge and some knowledge in designs. Plus you have to have your own other website for them to check in order to approve your application. If you don't have one you can build one for the application purposes.

So, if you have the knowledge of php and web designing, want to have the cheapest hosting out there (free is cheapest to me :p), this thing might be for you.

Custom photo cards

I am one of those people who love Custom Photo Cards or any thing personalized with photos of loved ones. Come to think of it, who doesn't?

Custom photo greeting cards include more personal touch by the sender compared to the ordinary greeting cards. If you like to send greeting cards to family and friends for every holiday or occasion, every year, you might want to try this for a change. They would love them. Try cardsdirect.com custom greeting cards and photo cards services to order your set of greeting cards online. You will be able to choose the photo you would like to be on the card and write anything you want on the front and inside of the card.

One particular card that caught my eye is this one below.

Though on their website, it is a suggestion for a Valentine's greeting card. But I imagine it would be nice to send such a card with a wedding picture on it as a Thank You card for attending the wedding. The picture can be the latest favourite wedding picture of the bride and groom. Not only it works as a perfect Thank you card but also as a momento for those who attended the wedding. Priceless.

George Divel at LinkedIn

I wrote about George Divel in my previous post some time ago. He is a financial consultant who has been in the consultancy business for 10 years.
A president of his own financial consultancy firm based in Baltimore since February 2005. Also one of the owners of Playbook sports bar and grill since 2006.
To know more about George Divel's experience and other information, check his linkedin profile. Go to LinkedIn dot com and search for GeorgeDivel.

A short buzz.....

Here's a short Buzz. If you happen to stumble upon this blog after searching for faucets, kitchen accessories, or Blanco sinks, you may be interested to check out faucet dot com. An online store selling Bathroom, and kitchen accessories and furniture.From kitchen cabinets to bathroom lightings. A great deal of choices available. So check them out because you might find something you want for a great bargain.