Archive for November, 2011

Cleaning the Level Sensors in Your Motorhome or RV Holding Tank

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Over time and with regular use, your RV holding tanks can build up sludge on the inside walls, which often causes false readings on the panel. You may have just emptied the tanks, yet the reading on the panel still shows that they're full. Regular cleaning of the holding tanks ...

Removing Water and Dirt Stains from Your RVs Exterior

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

If your RV is like ours, water and dirt run down from the roof onto the exterior where the awning ends, or from the drip rails, and stains the paint. We bought the motorhome used in September of 2008. We had commitments during the winter that didn't allow us ...

RV And/or Motorhome Vacations

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

RV and/or Motorhome Vacations With the economy today, fewer and fewer Americans are not able to enjoy the versatility and convenience of motorhome travel. They are missing out on seeing our beautiful country and meeting our beautiful people. There was an increase of motorhome ownership across the country ...

Breeze Inn in Seward, Alaska

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

One of our families favorite places to visit in Alaska is Seward. It's less than a three hour drive from Anchorage, and the city has so much to offer! Before we purchased our motorhome a few years ago, we were dependant on staying in hotels or bed and breakfasts. Several ...

Have You Heard of the Terra Wind Amphibious RV Motorhome?

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Remember the hysterical 2006 movie, RV? Robin Williams takes his reluctant family on a cross-country RV adventure. Williams never quite masters the art of using the parking brake and in one harrowing but hysterically funny scene, the RV rolls into a lake and sinks. Well, Robin could have saved some ...

7-Zip – a Free, Open Source Compression Utility For Mac and Linux

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

When I'm running Linux, I always make sure, after I've installed all my other stuff (like codecs to watch pretty much any format of video (and audio) there is, all the Internet programs I like, and so forth), to install a few different file compression utilities. These utilities, such as ...

Free High Definition Desktop Wallpapers – Fractal Series 1

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

For my next graphics release pack, I have taken the three fractal images depicted in the slideshow "Abstract Fractals - Made In Apophysis 2.0 - Series 1" and re-rendered them at high quality to be used as desktop wallpapers. All three renders come at a resolution of 1920 x 1440 ...

How to Create Password Protected, Encrypted or Split-Archives Using WinRAR

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Have you ever had a large file, let's say a 500MB file that you wanted to upload to the Internet but the place you want to upload to only allows 100MB or something less than 500MB? Have you ever had a file that was a bit personal, lets say some ...

Torrents: Using Free Online Resources to Safely Download Anything

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

If you don't know how to use torrents by now, you should. It is the safer way to download free files online, compared to P2P clients like Limewire or KaZaa. It does take a little longer to learn how to use torrents however, and this is what I'm here for. ...

Get Free Trees to Plant for Arbor Day

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

On a recent drive between Milwaukee and Chicago, I passed a number of eerie subdivisions where all the houses and garages blended together in treeless monotony. The urban sprawl of Chicagoland has turned many green scenes into stark enclaves of concrete shopping centers and tree-free townhomes. How do we prevent ...