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How to Keep Your Refrigerator Running Efficiently

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Regular refrigerator maintenance is vital to assuring yours is working efficiently. Here we will give you some easy tips to follow to make sure you are getting the most out of your money.

It is a good idea to clean the condenser coils about every three months and if you have pets around the house, it is recommend that you do this about once a month. To clean them, use a vacuum or even a broom, this will remove the dust that has built up on the coils.I was looking for more information and found it here. This dust will cause the refrigerator to work harder than it should. To access the coils you have either remove the grill that is located at the bottom of the fridge or pull out the fridge from the wall and clean it up from the back. The coils’ location all depend on your refrigerator.

Periodically, you should clean the drain hole or the drip pan. Many refrigerators rely on this to remove the condensation that builds up with use. Be sure to remove any food particles that may have built up, and also look for mineral deposits.

The gaskets are a vital to ensuring the efficiency of your refrigerator. Be sure to clean them often with an All-Purpose cleaner. An easy way to find out if your gaskets are functioning properly is to shut a dollar bill and to check if it can be easily pulled out. If it can be, then that’s a good indication that they need to be cleaned. While cleaning, be sure to look for cracks, which are an indicator that the gaskets are damaged.

Making sure that the refrigerator itself is leveled and not slanted ensures a secure seal.

If your refrigerator makes ice or dispenses water, change out the water filters as needed according to your owner’s manual.

Differences Between Incandescent and Fluorescent Lighting

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

With the recent introduction of many new types of home lighting, it can often be hard to keep track of the various types of lighting available. The most common decision a homeowner must make when purchasing new bulbs is whether to choose incandescent or fluorescent bulbs.

Incandescent light bulbs are the type familiar to most homeowners. They are typically found in the regular bulb shape, and output is measured in watts. They work by transmitting electricity through a thin filament, usually made of tungsten, that then emits light.The whole story can be found at http://mydecorarticles.com/improve-your-kitchen-by-making-use-of-right-light/3227/ While this type of bulb is inexpensive to make and sell, much of the energy created by the filament is lost as heat rather than being converted to light. This inefficiency has led the United States government to begin phasing out incandescent light bulbs. The most popular alternative is the fluorescent light bulb.

Fluorescent bulbs are constructed using a glass tube filled with argon and mercury gas. These gases are easily excited by electricity meaning that they are able to emit a great deal of light with a small amount of electricity. This also results in less energy lost as heat. While fluorescent bulbs are more efficient, they cost more to construct, and there are concerns about the effects of mercury on the environment if the bulbs are not properly disposed.

Use a Power Strip to Save Electricity

admin — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A power strip is a simple and effective way to save hundreds of kilowatt hours on your electricity bill each year. Many household appliances work in conjunction and continue to consume electricity even when they are turned off. this consumption is called stand-by power. If you have a TV, VCR, and DVD player all plugged into different outlets they are consuming power even when they are turned off. The only way to prevent stand-by consumption in this situation would be to unplug each of these appliances whenever you head to bed. By using a power strip you can cut this stand-by power to all three devices with the simple flick of a switch.

Another example of voracious stand-by energy consumers is your home computer set up. By plugging your computer, modem, printer, and scanner all into one energy source you can cut your electrical consumption by up to 200 kilowatt hours a year. The solution is so very simple, and the savings is more than enough to lure one to be more conscious of the amount of energy being wasted while your appliances and devices are not in use. If you wish to do yourself and your planet proper, buy a power strip.

Cities You Wouldn’t Expect to Have Wireles…DO!

admin — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It’s no secret that wireless internet is now available all across the country, but some cities that have access to broadband may surprise you. Here are a few of the newest wireless cities in the United States that you might not have guessed…
Kansas City – in both Missouri and Kansas, suburban parts of Kansas City are now able to enjoy the benefits of wireless Internet.
Greensboro, North Carolina – this relatively small city in NC have had wireless access for quite a while. Though it’s a sleepy town, residents here are jumping on the wireless bandwagon.
Bridgeport, Connecticut – you wouldn’t think there would be a lot of demand for wireless in Bridgeport, but you would be wrong. Academics and professionals alike are loving wireless access in Bridgeport.
Boise, Idaho – there’s more business in Idaho than you imagine, and people all over Boise and the surrounding areas love having mobile Internet.
Columbus, Ohio – Ohio actually has quite a few wireless networks, and Columbus is one of the biggest. Professionals and farmers alike are getting great benefit from mobile Internet here.

The Mobile Backhaul Problem

www.wireless-bypass.com — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:07:53 +0000

Mobile backhaul is the transport of wireless traffic from the cell site to the switch, or mobile tower. As more and more consumers use the internet and download apps from their cell phones, backhaul traffic backs up and slows down service. This not only aggravates customers, it causes network congestion and overtaxes operators. The solution to this backhaul traffic overload is increasing backhaul capacity. Already, many wireless providers have upped their backhaul capacity. Clearwire is increasing its backhaul capacity 250 or more,T-Mobile USA is upgrading to fiber backhaul, and Verizon Wireless is planning on increasing its backhaul capacity using Verizon Global Wholesale. The challenge is increasing backhaul capacity without overstepping the budget. Hopefully, advances in wireless technology will eliminate the problems we’ve been seeing with backhaul and create a plausible alternative. Already, AT&T is planning to try an enhanced fiber-optic backhaul connectivity that will hopefully boost their 3G service and help the development of their future long term evolution devices.As consumer expectations rise, service providers struggle to meet their needs. We’re always looking for something faster, stronger, and better. Eventually, technology evolution will reach its limit. Though there is still room to improve the mobile backhaul situation, its worrisome that this room for improvement will be short-lived.

Net Neutrality

www.wireless-bypass.com — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:51:15 +0000

Though the topic of net neutrality has been hot in the past few weeks, no one seems to be getting anywhere on the topic. The big questionWho, if anyone, will regulate broadband internet service providers, has yet to be answered.Most recently, Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski defended his plan to impose regulations on broadband ISPs in front of the financial services subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. He backs his plans despite the recent court ruling stating the commission lacked the authority to regulate.Genachowski is trying to get around this court ruling by classifying broadband internet as a common carrier service (putting it in the same category as phone service, which can be regulated by the FCC). Was Genachowski going too far by trying to outsmart authority? The answer to this is unclear, but we do know that it caused a fair upset among many members of the board.On the other hand, a new group called the “Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group” (BITAG) has raked in high profile members such as AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Google, Intel, and Microsoft.So, which way is the right way? Clearly unregulated broadband internet will not continue forever, but how will we decide who will regulate itand how will these regulations be played out? It is a question that needs answering before things get out of hand. It is an unfortunate necessity that as technology continues to improve the rules regulating it has to get tougher. While it may seem the argument goes in circles, eventually a decision will have to be made.

Share and Track All the Places You and Your Friends Go with Foursquare

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:39:27 +0000

The internet market is saturated with social networking sites and it takes something truly unique to stand out. Foursquare is a relatively new site that brings a whole new aspect to keeping up with your friends. Unlike many others of its kind, this social network doesn’t focus on what you are doing but where you are and where you’re going. When you arrive at a building, whether it be a restaurant, movie theatre, or grocery store you check in using your mobile phone. This site offers applications for many of the popular smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry and Droid. Foursquare users without smartphones can still participate through text messages.Foursquare awards badges for certain activities, and crowns a mayor for each location based on who checks in the most times in the last 60 days. Some people make this a competition and try to check in as many times as possible in order to keep their mayoral title. Even better, if you go somewhere that isn’t already listed on foursquare you simply add the venue to the application. With foursquare you can see where all your friends are and let them know your whereabouts. Features of the application also let you add comments about the location where you are such as a favorite dish other customers should try or a great sale going on at a clothing store where you’re shopping.Many businesses are beginning to catch on to this trend to and using it as a marketing tool by rewarding their Foursquare patrons. This application provides businesses with analytic data about their customers, which they can use to offer discounts and specials. Some restaurants might offer a free meal to their Foursquare mayor or give a free drink to customers on their 5^th check-in. They can also promoted their company by having a Foursquare night and offering a special to all Foursquare users if they show up and check-in at their business.

How Wireless Internet is Transforming the Green Transportation Industry

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:23:21 +0000

We’ve all come to understand how essential wireless internet is when at work, for checking email, and keeping up with friends on Facebook. But, what about driving a car? As oil supplies dwindle and environmental efficiency becomes an increasingly important topic, many car-sharing companies are emerging. One of the better known of these businesses is Zipcar. When you become a member of Zipcar you can reserve a car of your choice from a location of your choice at the time you need it. You then simply unlock the car, drive it as you need and return it when you’re done. This system is environmentally friendly because it reduces the amount of cars on the road, the amount of miles each person is driving, and many of the vehicles are hybrid cars.So where does wireless come in? After joining on zipcar.com, you can make a reservation months in advance or only a few minutes. When making a last minute reservation the Zipcar iPhone App can be extremely useful. No matter where you are you can reserve a car as needed. But don’t despair, if you don’t have an iPhone, many other smartphones can make mobile reservations using a GPS app called WHERE. Even better, if you would like to extend your reservation and the car is available this can all be done on your smartphone with wireless capability. Reservations and extensions can also be done on zipcar.com.Zipcar also makes use of wireless throughout the use of the car. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is used for locking and unlocking the car. A Zipcar user simply scans her card against the card reader in the car’s windshield, which recognizes the reservation and unlocks the car. At the end of the trip, after locking the vehicle, details from the trip can be viewed at zipcar.com.Zipcar is an easy, Eco-friendly way of getting you where you want to go, and wireless internet is making it a system bound for success.

Your Wireless Internet Need Not Be Strictly Mobile nor Patchy

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:12:11 +0000

The universe of wireless internet technologies has really come an incredibly long way since the first cell phones were equipped with web navigation capabilities back in the early 1990s. Since then, successive revolutions within this field of modern telecommunications technology have riveted the wireless internet-using population, opening up new possibilities that many of us wouldn’t have been expecting for another 10 or 20 years! Among the most significant strides forward to be made in recent years have been the arrival of fourth generation mobile standards, the ability to use wireless signals from stationary locations and the increasingly reliable, non-patchy nature of wireless networks in the nation’s principal urban (and increasingly suburban) communities.With every new generation of wireless internet that technicians and engineers unleash on the broader population and marketplace, there are truly exciting advancements to come with. From second to third generation mobile standards we saw the door opened to voice over internet protocol applications and other broadband-intense applications; now, from third to fourth generation mobile standards we are seeing even more dynamic VoIP applications and other apps that most of us would only expect to use on a potent desktop computer. Furthermore, next generation wireless internet is bringing us download speeds that most cable/DSL subscribers can only expect to get on the best of days, with speeds topping 10 to 12 Mbps on a regular basis.The network architecture being deployed in many next generation systems is so clever that, lo and behold, citywide wireless internet is finally hereand that is meaning wireless connections for stationary, home or office based users. Why not take advantage of a superbly reliable signal that offers you more service flexibility (such as simultaneous stationary and mobile access) and which brings better speeds to your office or home setting?! With next generation wireless, all this and more could be yours!

Setting the Stage for Total Wireless Access

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:10:51 +0000

If you ask wireless internet users what they are looking for most, you’ll probably find one answer continuing to pop up: great service in all places from one provider. It sounds simple, but it has been by no means easy to get such service from an internet provider.What would it take for total wireless access to happen? First of all, there would have to be the network which can get it all done, especially on the mobile front. Wired networks obviously can’t, since there are going to be places which are almost out of bounds where people will need to use the internet on the road. The latest wireless networks cannot cover entire states yet, but they can cover entire metropolitan areas with high speed internet.Of course, that would cover access on the road, but it would have to get up to the speed that home users can access all the time. Slow mobile networks are not appealing at all. The network that can get 5 MB speeds on the road is something to get excited about for wireless users.The flip side to getting top speed in wireless internet on the road means you could get access to the same network at home. At this point, things could really become simplified. You’ll have the high speed access on the road; you’ll have high speed internet at home as strong as anything you’ve had with wired connections; and you’ll have it from the same company.Last but not least, you will need to have the price somewhere in the range of reasonability. Everyone knows that high speed internet is possible in a variety of ways on the road, but the affordability factor has always been a major issue with tech developments. Getting the best of both worlds at an affordable price is total wireless access to get excited about.