The one laptop per child project is a very important world wide effort, to provide children in poor countries with a small laptop.  It is one project that can make a difference in the education of these children. As a person who uses computers and technology to make a living online and an avid computer user I full want to support this project. Shortly I will be buying a laptop to support the effort. If you would like to take part in this program please follow the Amazon.com link as they are the partner company for distribution of the laptops and collect the payment.

One Laptop per Child XO Laptop (Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop)

A few days ago I watched a Canadian television show called market place. They did a report on how stores add expensive cables to the purchase of a new HDTV. The cable are called HDMI and are offered by the sales person, who in most cases leads you to believe that your new TV will not work well without cables that cost $200.00 or more. The most famous brand would be the Monster Cables. The questions is do you need these cables? The CBC network that aired the show had the expensive cables tested at their head office against a cable that cost $12.00 online. I know that there is room for debate, but if the CBC which broadcasts in HD and has so many years of television experience test a cable I do have faith in them. The result was that the expensive cables performed exactly the same as the $12.00 no name brand cable bought online.

If you are in the market for a HDTV stay away from the expensive cables you do not need to spend the extra money, unless you are rich and want to brag that you spent $200 on a cable. The same is true with USB printer cables (which I bought for $1.00 at the dollar store) if bought with a new printer, stores charge about $25.00 for the cable. I have not had any problems with my dollar store USB cable in 3 years since I go the printer. I also have bought a S-Video cable from the dollar store and it has worked will with my DVD player and TV. If you are going to buy cables I recommend that you do some research before you buy. Also do not believe the sales person the cables are just an extra sale for them that provides some extra commission.

Today on CNET.com they also had the same idea. Do not fall for the scam you do not need a $200.00 Monster Cable to make your new HDTV set up work properly.

Here is the link to the CNET.com story CLICK HERE for story on CNET.com

Please pass this information around do not let your friends and family be taken advantage on these high priced cables.

Merry Christmas to you and your family. Hope everyone got what they wanted under the tree this year. If you got gift cards this holiday make sure to spend them on the sales coming up this week. There are a lot of great deals to be had. You might also play it smart and buy some item for your home business. Look around your home office and see if there is something that might make your work day more productive or buy a book. There is a new book on using AdWords that might be of interest to all online markets.

Winning Results with Google AdWords, Second Edition

This book would be a great purchase to start your ppc campaigns for the new year.

I also have a post toady on HDMI cables for your new HD set up it’s a must read.

Today the blog got a new theme. This theme works much better with the information in the blog. There are some new features added and RSS is now working. It was very simple to change the theme and get everything running the way it should.

The next few days I will be adding more content and make a few more changes. You got to love WordPress it is the easiest blogging software around and with so many plugins you can do almost anything with this platform.

My other blog which I started about 5 months ago is www.moneymyweb.com which I set up with godaddy.com’s Quick Blogcast. Well it is sad to say, but that blog has not done to well getting index with the search engines. The fault me be with the blog software that godaddy.com uses. You are very limited as to what can be added or changed. This has made me question if I should just kill that site. Since I paid for a year of service and the domain, I might just keep it going and try to get some traffic over the next little while. The Quick Blogcast platform was a big disappointment.

At the time I set up the blog I did not think of just getting hosting and adding WordPress like I did with this site. Well I can still update www.moneymyweb.com and copy some of the content to this site. The next blog I create will for sure be a WordPress very easy to use and many great features.

Welcome,

This is the first post for Vendingmatic. This blog is about using the internet as your own vending machine. There are many people making money on the internet and I will update this blog with new ideas for you to try and make money online.

Since this is the first time I have used WordPress I might encounter a few problems while I learn to use the software. The first thing I need to do is change a few colors and start adding content. As a new blog I will also need to figure out the SEO to get the site indexed by the big search engines. Well I will keep doing some research and should have some interesting post soon.