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If you are an international worker, expat, or frequent traveler like me, you will no doubt at some point be bringing your electronic devices with you. I thought I would write a quick write up on things you should be aware of when bringing devices from one country to another. It seems this is one of those things that is misunderstood by a majority of people. It's actually quite simple to understand and you can easily get your devices to work in pretty much any country you are visiting with little to no cost.

The common misunderstanding is that you need a step-up or step-down transformer to use your devices. I can't believe how many people spend upwards of 50-100 dollars to buy a transformer to use with their electronic devices which is absolutely unnecessary. Read more »

I have to start by thanking my mom for getting me into computers. It was back when I was 9 years old and my mother brought home this thing called a PC from work. I guess they were upgrading all of their machines and gave some of the machines away to their senior level staff. This so called PC was the IBM 5150. It ran on a floopy disk drive (a 5.25 size floopy disk) and it was one of the first personal computers that you would find in American homes at the time.

The day of losing things in your house is over! Check out this new company Stick-N-Find. They sell little bluetooth stickers not bigger than a US quarter. Stick it to items that seem to go missing easily around your house. When you can't find it, open up this cool iphone app to track down your item using bluetooth technology.

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I shared one of my favorite online sites a while back, but I thought I would do a quick write up again. About 3 years ago, a friend of mine in Japan, recommended this online supplement and vitamin store, iherb.com. I have been an extremely happy customer for the past 3 years and I would like to share this website with you! You wont be disappointed!

Over the past 10 years, I have tried and tested a handful of hosting providers. I have typically researched providers that specialize in offering hosting solutions to small and medium sized businesses/websites. If your website receives around 100,000 unique hits a day or gets traffic like Twitter, Google, Facebook or Apple, these providers would not be your top choice, but for the rest of us, they are!

Most of the websites I build, are just fun little hobby sites that I will throw together and then take down after a few years. So for me, a budget hosting provider is a perfect fit. Many of these budget hosting providers, also have premium and business grade solutions in addition to their budget line of hosting plans. This way, if your site grows in traffic and demand, you can easily upgrade with the same provider to a more robust and fully featured hosting plan. Read more »