Category Archives: Reviews

Retrieve Your Deleted Photos Using Card Recovery

During the Great Backup Accident of 2010, I ended up losing 200 to 300 photos.  I don't take photos a lot and my camera card holds 4GB.  But lucky me, just about ten days prior to the incident my card was full and I sat down and moved a bunch of photos onto my hard drive – for safekeeping, of course. Heh. I did contact a local company, Data Doctors, to see if it would be possible to retrieve data… Read the rest

Review: Quicken 2010 Deluxe

I have used Quicken for seven years.   I started out with Quicken 2001 back in 2003.  In July 2008 I upgraded to a newer (used) computer and could not locate my Quicken CDs so I ended up moving to Quicken 2008. In March, AJ and I went in together on a new desktop computer, and once again I could not locate my Quicken CD! I combed the house and looked everywhere it could have been.  I also could not find… Read the rest

Review: Why I Love Print Friendly

You might have noticed a little button at the bottom of each of my posts that says Print Friendly on it. If you ever want to print a post from my site to read later, all you have to do is click on that little button. Here are the reasons I love Print Friendly: Some websites and blogs are very unfriendly when it comes to printing.  Now I don't have to copy and paste the article I want into Notepad… Read the rest

SodaStream Soda Maker Review

For Christmas I got my son AJ one of these Sodastream Soda Makers. He's been using it for two months now, and here are the benefits that we see to using it: Water Tastes Better – You control the water source.  We are lucky enough to be able to drink well water which is delicious. I don't know if you would have the same experience with tap water. Drink Less – AJ finds that he drink less because it's not… Read the rest