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Cheap TV

Mike — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:00:43 +0000

There’s an article on Yahoo that touches on a subject I’ve pondered for some time now. How can I avoid paying such ridiculous fees for cable TV service, but still watch the television programs and movies I want? Yahoo’s article suggests there’s twelve cheap ways to watch TV.

Makes sense to me because I pay almost one hundred dollars a month for cable TV and internet access; (bundled services are supposed to be cheaper.) If I were to subscribe to a video content service such as Netflix, I would only be paying for what I want to watch, and not what the cable company forces me to pay for (that I don’t watch anyway!)

Netflix starts at 4.99 a month with benefits like quick 2-day turnaround on DVD rentals by mail. They also have video streaming with great quality, with thousands of TV and movie titles to choose from.

Plus streaming video is available from most of these online services, with the option of downloading to your PC, Mac or DVR. In researching this post, I have learned that streaming video is available to supply content to your Xbox or Roku box, and even some Blu-ray players from LG Electronics and Samsung.

Read Internet Email in Outlook & Leave Messages on Server

Mike — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:16:43 +0000

I finally got around to using Outlook2007 from my Office2007 installation. It was pretty easy to setup to download my POP3 email from Yahoo. It took a few hours to get all my mail, there were 16,000 messages in my Yahoo Inbox! It will take weeks to sort through all this mail, but that’s OK because I wanted to get back into the habit of using Outlook, since it’s on my resume. If you say you use it, then you should really use it, right?

However, AFTER downloading all that mail, it dawned on me that my online Inbox is empty, because Outlook deleted all those messages after downloading them. I forgot the POP3 email setting to Leave Messages OnThe Server, so the email client would only COPY the messages, but leave them online so I can read them from multiple computers. I like to read my Yahoo email and Gmail from work, from home, laptop at Starbucks, or where ever I am. Don’t you?

Here’s the steps I took to find and change the setting to Leave Messages On Server:

Settings to Leave POP3 Messages on the Server

Read POP3 Email messages on multiple computers (Outlook2007 Microsoft Office Online.)