26 May 2009 – Technology Update
I have a few tips today for you. Two of them will help you find a great deal and the last ones will save you money on printing, paper and ink. I hope you all had a great weekend and are getting ready for summer vacations and just enjoying the kids home from school.
CraigsList Reader Powerful Desktop Application: You can have the power to search all of craigs list postings. Nationwide craigslist search tool allows you to search multiple sites and monitor new classified posts via email alerts. You can also limit your searches to titles or postings that have an image. Powerful desktop search engine software for bargain hunters. Go to www.MotionT.com and check out the tools they offer. BTW, the Craigslist Reader is FREE. I am using it to find a car for us to use for a while. It really works and I recommend it to you.
Last Minute Auction is a great site to use to find a bargin on eBay. This is from their website. lastminute-auction.com was born of a pretty simple idea. We had always used eBay and knew that there were some great bargains on the site … if only we could find them. There are a thousand ways to define ‘bargain’, but the one we decided upon was Under a Dollar, Under an Hour. We started searching for these typs of auctions, selfishly intending to use the results ourselves. However, when we realized there were constantly thousands of auctions that met our ‘bargain’ criteria, we thought we should probably make our lists available to the world. Our moms always told us that we should do something to help mankind before we die. Although this was probably not what they had in mind, we think it counts.
Printing Is Not Free: You have to use lots of ink and paper. And ink, especially, is not cheap. Luckily, you can use your printer and cut costs.
GreenPrint: This program will help you print only what you want. Sometimes you only need a few pages of a document or site. Why print the whole thing? Highlight unwanted pages and remove them. GreenPrint will calculate how many pages and dollars you’ve saved. http://www.printgreener.com/productworld.html
Smart Web Printing: Printing off the Web can waste a lot of paper. You end up printing navigation, pictures and ads. With this program, you can select a specific part of the page. You can even make selections from several sites. And then you can print them on a single piece of paper. http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/cache/482779-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=ex_r602_go/smartwebprinting1/central Free
Ecofont: The font you use for writing documents also matters. Different fonts use different amounts of space and ink. Ecofont claims to use 20-percent less ink than similar fonts. Letters are full of holes http://www.ecofont.eu/splash_en_pro.html Free