School is starting up next week for many of us students! I remember the first time I moved away from home and needed to start paying the bills. The most expensive costs for me were my communication costs.

That being internet, phone and of course TV! I was paying over 200.00 dollars a month!

This is where Charter Communications comes in and helps us all out! 

Charter offers Cable Tv, High Speed Internet and Telephone Services. They have a great online bundler that helps you bundle your packages very easily. Charter offers unbeatable prices for your digital home!

Charter High-Speed® Internet at $19.99/mo for 6 months, Charter Digital Home™ and High-Speed Internet at $69.98/mo for 6 months or Charter Digital Home™, High-Speed Internet, and Charter Telephone® at $99.97/mo. for 12 months. After purchase, the buyer will be sent a Free Shell gas gift card and is automatically entered to win 1 of 30 HP Compaq Presario C770US Laptops. This is an amazing Back to School Deal!

Bring your home to life with Charter! They are having a very cool contest!
When you sign up for a back to school special you have a chance at winning 1 of 30 HP Comapq Presario
Laptop Computers. 30 days, 30 laptops = 30 winners!

Charter is very reliable service.. you can’t go wrong!

You need High Speed anyway, Why not get a Gas Card and a chance to win what you really WANT this year – a new laptop!

This is a great deal for students!

Charter Laptop-a-Day Giveaway

With Social Networks on the rise there are so many different networks to check out on the web. Being aware of all them is nearly impossible as many are trying to be better than the last. Yahoo Mash was Yahoo’s attempt at what would almost seem like a facebook but run by Yahoo. Yahoo stated that they were closing this service in April of this year. Just yesterdya they have pulled Mash offline. The network was always in beta and Yahoo did not do very well at all with this test. Yahoo has over 500 million users world-wide and just couldn’t create a usable/interesting social network for users. 

From the Mash Blog:

 Slydial.com is a very cool service offered for US phone numbers. This site lets you connect right to anyones voicemail. You don’t have time to talk or don’t really want to talk at a certain time. Slydial is very easy to use and a great tool to use when you still need to communicate but you just don’t want to deal with the drama/situations or are pressed for time. I tried it out and it’s great! 

See what the ladies on The View had to say about it:

 SuperCook.com is something that you should know about. When you start running out of food and have bits of ingredients here ant there, this website is going to help you out. Basically you enter in the search tool the ingredients that you have in your house. The engine will then go give you options to what you can make with your ingredients. Right now I have chickpeas and beans… Festival Refried Beans, Taco Pie II … are among some of the results given. 

‘Supercook returns recipes you can actually make right now with the ingredients you have. It even tells you exactly how many recipes you can make, broken down into ‘Starters’, ‘Entrees’ and ‘Dessert’ categories. With Supercook, finding a great recipe is no longer a hassle, simply put in all the ingredients you have at home and Supercook will instantly provide you with hundreds of recipes that are all within your reach. If a recipe requires ingredients you do not have, Supercook takes the guesswork out by clearly listing the additional ingredients you will need. This eliminates wasted time spent browsing through recipes to determine whether or not a recipe is right for you. ‘

PeopleVancouver.com is an online community that I started for Vancouver around 10 months ago. It has been a great experience for me. I love putting time into moderating and updating. I am proud to say that the community is almost at 1000 members. Only 9 more members away and it’s very exciting! 

If you are from or interested in Vancouver then this place is for you. Join others in this niche community and post photos, videos, or start your own blog. There are many different things the site offers. 

Check out the community here

I am always looking for new webhosting services. I have many different web projects and it gets very costly. Today I found a great company! WebHostingGeeks.com that helps you find the best web hosting comapny at the best rate. Having a good web hosting company is very important over time. Their servers can go down, they may be a bit slower- Web Hosting Geeks is the new solution. Users rate different web hosting comapnies based on their experiences. You can see an overall rating of

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 Just read a post about GPS company Garmin partering with where.com company ULocate. If you are not aware- where.com provides gps social networking attributes to most mobile phones. I have had it on my iPhone for about two weeks now.

‘WHERE™ is a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what’s around you. Are you looking for the hottest restaurants, jonesing for your next coffee fix, or running dangerously low on gas and need a cheap fill-up? Maybe you just want to connect with some friends. Whatever you’re after, WHERE delivers the best in local information from Eventful, Yelp, GasBuddy, Zipcar, ShopLocal, Starbucks, Buddy Beacon® and more.’ 

This sounds very cool! I am able to see what’s around me - ok

 I wonder about privacy though. Do I really want people knowing where I am? Where they could just at the click of a button see that I was or am at Starbucks. Ohhh… but maybe this will come in handy for my family… no they could just call me and ask where I am. Location based sharing - is not going to be hot at any time, it’s not going to take off- nobody wants to be watched or share where they are. Facebook already has created social problems for many. People can see if you are telling the truth, watch your online activity. I have heard of at least five relationships ending because of Facebook. Jealousy of online conversations with others.  

So what social problems will emerge where people can now watch not only your online life but your physical one as well?

I just don’t see it happening-

Last week I was up at Whistler to document Crankworx 2008. You can read that post here.

The video below showcases the days events. Enjoy