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Excerpt: So most prepaid calling cards are cheap prepaid calling cards. I mean when you think about it, the calling cards really are significantly cheaper than the cost of calling from a landline. My parents pay around 20 cents a minute to call me and I have found calling cards from the United States to Venezuela for a low at 3 cents a minute. I found most of these online. Of course this is not surprising since you are able to find most things you need these days online. So anyway; if you go online and search under…

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Excerpt: HDTV: Buying Guide, Part Two. In my first article I wrote how there’s never been a better time to buy a high definition (HD) television, and I had just preordered the Samsung HLS-5087W 50 inch rear projection DLP unit. The Samsung was delivered last Thursday and here’s a summary of my initial reaction. First let me give some background on preparing for the new HD television. I’m a satellite TV subscriber and needed to upgrade my DirecTV hardware to be HD-compatible. So last month I logged on to http://www.directv.com and ordered the HD upgrade package. For…

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Excerpt: Sticky Conversations. Confronting people is a part of doing business and a part of life. It’s not always fun, but sometimes necessary. With a little help and the right attitude, it can be done with grace and ease. Can you just feel the sickness in your stomach right now? That feeling when you know that you have to have a conversation that you are NOT looking forward to, but know you need to have. It plagues you for days before you have to face the inevitable and then the moment arrives when you make contact with the person, and there they…

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Excerpt: Teach Your Kids French. Teaching your kid a new language can be extremely beneficial to them in the future. Just think of the opportunities it will open up in later life. They’ll have a head start over other kids and it’ll be an excellent addition to their college applications. We all know that kids pick new thing up much faster than adults, so now is the perfect time to help them learn French. Here are some suggestion that you may find helpful… Is it hard to get you kids attention? Are they forever playing on their computers or listening to…

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Excerpt: Did you know you can actually increase the speed of your dial up connection by as much as a factor of 7? Why settle for a crippled 56k link when you can experience the joy of a dial up accelerator? Here’s the lowdown. Do you remember the days? Firing up your 200Mhz turbo PowerPC, dialling up using your 56k modem, waiting an age for your hotmail page to show up, waiting some more to check your e-mails only to have your connection die just as you hit the send button! How times change. It’s funny, once you’ve used broadband you quickly forget…

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Excerpt: 3 Tips for Sending Special Messages. Staying in touch with family and friends has never been easier with the speed and efficiency of today’s technology. We live in a world of e-mail, text and instant messages and mobile conversations. While such options make it easy to stay in touch, these technologies have also lessened the emotional aspect of our communications. Here are a few suggestions on how to use technology to stay close to loved ones and, at the same time, bring back the personal element in your communications. * Send a personal DVD message. Now you can give the…

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Excerpt: Phone cards are an excellent way to stay in touch with family and friends without ending up with an astronomical phone bill at the end of the month. But before you choose the phone card that seems to be the cheapest available, be sure you know all the details of how that particular phone card works. Some phone card companies have a service charge for each call you make using the card. That means that you’ll lose several minutes each time you use the card – typically anywhere from four minutes to eight or even ten. If you have a…