How not to buy a car!

Posted on September 3, 2011 by admin

1. Don’t buy a car using credit.
Why you might ask? Because you cannot afford the car if you don’t have the money for the car and it puts you at a disadvantage when talking with the car salesman and will put a dent in your credit report as they will perform a hard check on your credit.

2. Don’t buy a car using a large loan.
If you want a $60,000 car and you don’t have $60,000 in liquid income then that is something you cannot financially afford to have or maintain. Save up for big purchases and include the estimated cost of maintaining that purchase. This should be things like what the cost per gallon will be, regular maintenance on the vehicle, depreciation and how much paying for the car will take away from other bills you have to pay.

3. Don’t go in and pay the sticker price for the car, if your walking in without a cash in hand you will have less to bargain with in negotiating the price you want to pay. It is very hard for a car salesman to turn away real money for the full amount of the car right now, then someone that will be making little payments over time that might not actually finish paying.

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Five things you can do to save up for an Apple iPhone 5

Posted on September 3, 2011 by admin

1. Take 50% of your paycheck in savings and investments that can bring you more money.

2. Work two or more jobs, if your maxed out at job one at 40 hours a week you might be able to pull in some hours at job number when you get home from the primary job and on the weekends.

3. Sell some of your electronics on ebay that you no longer use but know it can benefit others.

4. If you have books, especially college level books you can sell them on Amazon or if your lucky a college library to get some money for them. Which is a great idea especially if you have mastered everything in the book.

5. If all else fails I am sure there are some people in your neighborhood that will give you $50 bucks or more per task for mowing the lawn, cleaning rooms in the house, tutoring, etc. on an hourly basis depending on what you have to offer make a deal.

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Battlefield Bad Company 2 Mod Tools / Editor

Posted on September 26, 2010 by admin

Many of you might have been wondering the status of BFBC2 / Battlefield Bad Company 2 mod tools or an editor are. DICE has posted a detailed description on some of the internal and external details on the possibility of an Editor for Battlefield Bad Company 2.

Zh1nt0 and you folks have asked about it, so here’s a piece on the mod tools situation for BC2 PC.

Frostbite 1.5 consists of these components:

* The game runtime
* The editor runtime
* The content processing runtime (aka “the pipeline”)
* and some plugins for Maya

The game runtime is distributed outside of EA, but the editor + pipeline + Maya plugins are not.

So let’s take a look at some things that would need to be solved before we’d be ready to distribute the editor + pipeline.
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Battlefield Bad Company 2 Teleport Hack Thoughts?

Posted on September 26, 2010 by admin

There appears to be a hack called the Teleport hack for BFBC2 – Battlefield Bad Company 2 server R21 that allows hackers to teleport people around the map at will. These can include teleporting the entire other team to one location to blow all of them up with C4 or gun them down in a spawn point to be killed by the opposing team, teleport individual players outside of bounds, or teleport ones self anywhere they want and also the ability to revive players on the opposite team after they die. There has been a fix released R22 which has hopefully corrected the BFBC2 Teleport Hack problem. Has this hack affected your gaming community servers players and admins?

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The iPhone 4 Antenna

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin

I am sure many of you know that the antenna in the new iPhone 4 is causing many problems for users depending on how they hold the phone. But the real question is how did something so troublesome make it into a production unit? It is rumored that Apple may have let their ego get a little to ahead of themselves and thought that they could release hardware like many game developers release games and try the fix it later do a patch approach. Well the not paying attention to details has really started to hurt their image of their market leading record phones. Hopefully for Apple they have learned from this mistake and will in the future do more testing on their products before they release them to the public to make sure they are released with the highest of quality.

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Apple iPad to buy or not to buy?

Posted on May 30, 2010 by admin

I am sure many of you know the iPad is now out and a very popular device that many have already purchased by now.

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Now the big question is: “Do I need an iPad?”

There are currently two versions available one with just Wi-Fi and one with Wi-Fi and 3G available which requires a separate data plan purchase which comes in different flavors (250MB or unlimited). Now I believe many of you are wondering well if I get the 250MB package can I upgrade? Well the answer is yes as an upgrade feature is available right inside the iPad. There are also new apps being created for the device that are also available for the iPhone/iTouch. But since this is a new device there will probably be apps built exclusively for the iPad.

Now you might also be wondering what could I use this for?  Well here are a few things you could possibly use the iPad for:

-A reader for your eBooks
-A nice music player for your iTunes collection
-A movie player for your videos on the go, so you do not have to take your home tv with you out the door
-A network administrator device when doing inventory for a large server farm.
-A tech machine for when you go out to clients houses or businesses to look up their order and verify that everything is good to go and add new things there on site if needed.
-If your a sales/margeting agent for your company having the iPad and your companies software out and about can help you improve your presentation when seeking out those new clients.
-A presentation controller would be a very good use for this.  Ever did a presentation and got tired of looking weird with the mouse or missing critical features with those pointers?  Well the iPad could help this problem go away and not have you stuck at the laptop during presentations.
-To make some extra money if your a developer – you can build iPad apps for general users or business users to help bring in some additional revenue streams.

There are many more possibilities for the iPad but you would have to take a look at it’s features and offerings to see if it is something that would have a ROI (return on investment) for you in the short or long term.  For IT companies this could pay off big time in terms of productivity, and connectivity between the companies systems that the iPhone, just can’t cover in it’s small screen compared to the iPads 9.7 inch screen.

I encourage many of you to check the product out at your nearest apple store to see how it fits your life/business.

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Monster Fish

Posted on April 22, 2010 by admin

Thought you were afraid of Paranas well this fish will take that fear up a notch, it is called the Goliath Tiger Fish found in Africa and it’s hungry for you. What are your takes on the Goliath Tiger Fish?

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Beyonce Pregnant

Posted on March 25, 2010 by admin

MTO reports that Beyonce is pregnant. I am sure many of you know Jay-Z has been wanting to be a father for some time now. Congratulations to them both.

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VALVE Gabe Newell speaks on his thoughts of DRM

Posted on March 14, 2010 by admin

The big boss at VALVE has given some nice information on how he feels about DRM.  Even though VALVE’s STEAM platform has DRM it is a more user friendly DRM.

At this year’s Game Developer’s Choice Awards, VAVLE’s Gabe Newell won the Pioneer Award, and he used the opportunity to share a slide show with the crowd of developers, press, and business people. His message? DRM is not good for business.

He spoke about DRM adding negative worth to products, and his remarks were greeted by loud and enthusiastic applause.
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Tiger Woods in Rehab…

Posted on January 19, 2010 by admin

Radaronline reports that Tiger Woods in Sex Rehab

Tiger Woods is getting treatment at a top sex addiction program in Hattiesburg, Miss., sources have told RadarOnline.com exclusively.

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The troubled golf great checked into Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, sources say.

Roger Federer Says He’s Talked To Tiger Woods

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