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Get a Better Deal on Your Car Insurance
Have you checked your car insurance rates lately? Ever stopped to think how much you might save by shopping around? It’s nothing like the bad old days when those rates were cloaked in mystery. Auto insurance companies are fighting for your business like never before. No doubt you’ve noticed how hard the car insurance companies [...]
Sheds 3.0
A storage shed can be put to many uses – from backyard barn, to pool cabana, greenhouse, or office. But how many sheds are versatile enough to be used for three out of four purposes? That’s what I’m setting out to with my little saltbox shed. I’m looking to carve out a little home office [...]
Home Server
While Bill Gates was in Las Vegas yesterday, singing the praises of the new Microsoft home server (video), I was wandering around our local CompUSA, looking to cobble together a home server on the cheap. Now I’m not going to invoke the GMTA statute, but a home server or network attached storage device (NAS) has [...]
Popular Myspace Backgrounds
So what makes a great Myspace background? A while back, I put a bunch of retro MySpace backgrounds out there just for hoots. I’ll do a bunch more when I have the chance. I’ve been trying to figure out what folks are looking for … which begs the question: what are the most popular Myspace [...]
Help Desk Software Review
Looking for Help Desk software? After tackling the topic a number of times, I turned up a new resource outside of the gnomieverse a few weeks back. Greg Bulmash has penned a nice review on finding the right help desk ticket solution. With a new site almost ready to launch, Greg needed to have a [...]
CRM Software?
I need some suggestions. What’s the best customer relationship management (CRM) program out there these days? A friend of mine is buried in customer email and feverishly combing the market for a solid CRM program for his ecommerce company… I’m looking for a good CRM solution that I can use to handle all of our [...]
Chris Gets the Gospel on Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
I first wrote about energy-saving compact fluorescent bulbs here on Lockergnome two and a half years ago. Chris just saw “An Inconvenient Truth” while floating around the Caribbean and decided that compact fluorescents are the way to go. Well, yeah little brother! I guess Al Gore is more convincing than yours truly… We’ve had compact [...]
Free Photo Prints?
The online photo labs are battling it out for your post-holiday snap business. Isn’t it time you think twice before plunking down those big bucks on yet another set of ink cartridges (that seem like they drain themselves while you’re not looking)? A whole slew of digital photo printers are offering free photo print deals [...]
Sheds 2.0
Thinking about adding a shed to your backyard but don’t know where to start? The Internet might present a confusing landscape, but there’s help out there. The geekbooks.com sheds site is a beacon of light … it doesn’t sell sheds … it’s all about helping you make the right choices, whether you’re looking to buy [...]
