Pay $600 for an Iphone, over $2000 for the life of the contract? Now you can really use your new iPhone for something useful ! Now you don’t wish you hadn’t thrown away your old Gameboy, do you?

Seriously, how are you finding your new iPhone? I can’t buy one here, and even if I do, I can’t use it! So I have to enjoy the experience of owing an iPhone vicariously! Comments, please!

Well, to continue my saga about the PC, I recently got my fixed PC back but it has been gutted completely. If you remember, I took it in to upgrade the DVD drive and the video card just to get better and faster video editing work done.

BUT…

I was told the Motherboard was faulty, and had to have it replaced. Given that the computer was nearly four years old, I was lucky to find a compatible mother board. Then I had to have the VGA card upgraded, but the first one wouldn’t work at all with the mother board. It was quite a saga, as the repair shop replaced everything until they concluded that the VGA board was at fault (too cheap?). So they ordered a more expensive one, it worked.

I added a Sony DVD Burner as well as 512MB of Ram. Again, I’d shot for 1GB, but was told that I couldn’t … not enough slots! I thought Atlantic City didn’t have that problem!

And I replaced the hard drive with a newish one…

So, all in all, a new PC basically: motherboard, VGA card (ASUS N7600GS), Hard Disk, DVD burner, memory. Only the original case, the RAM, and the power supply are left!

Who knew it would be so much trouble? And the damage, NT$8,500, all in. But at least I managed to roll my PC back to XP SP1. It was so much snappier before I did the ‘right’ thing, and allowed M$ to update my software. Now, I don’t do that any more, despite the risk of being ‘attacked’. For my own needs, I decided that the risk of being ‘hacked’ was (if I surfed carefully) far less of a problem than a sluggish PC with numerous hotfixes and updates.

But that’s just my experience.

Generating traffic for your blog is largely an online activity, right? It needn’t be. For example if your blog is a geographically located blog, or if you are a business that uses a blog, you may find that giving flesh’n’blood presentations could drive additional traffic to your website, as well as create additional interest in your products. There are many situations in which you could find yourself giving a presentation: at the local library, to colleagues, at a club, etc..

When I was giving presentations a few years ago, we were always asked at the conference if we needed a projector or not. Naturally, we weren’t give the choice of whether the projector was pc compatible or even the brand. So when the presenters got to the room for their presentation, it was often a hit or a miss regarding the projector. Would it work with my pc? Would it work at all even?

So, if you are giving a presentation, a little extra expense can be a good way to guarantee that you have the equipment you need to look good, and to make your presentation look good. You can find great projectors to rent (now that’s a good idea!) from Boston projector rental, which will ship the projector to you via Fedex, and after you’re done, you ship them back the same way.

The whole process involves just four steps:

With shipping to all major US cities, and prices starting at $99, the next time you have a presentation, do consider renting your projector! Just visit Boston projector rental, select the date you need the projector, complete the order process. Fedex will deliver the projector before your presentation, then you’re ready. When you’re done, you ship it back via Fedex. That’s it!

Anyway used a presentation to provide information about their blog? How did you go about it?