Clutter Saps Your Energy
Knowing the downside to clutter is good to open your eyes. But what good does it really do if you aren’t shown a way out? To get organized and gain energy, clarity and friends, follow Nike’s advice and just do it. Tackle one room at a time. Begin with whatever room you use the most. Don’t think you have to get through the entire house in one day; that would be unrealistic and could undermine your efforts in the long run. A simple thing like adding a Power Shelf in rooms where there are loads of cords can make a huge difference.
Where there are cords for cell phones, chargers, or computers, a storage solution like The Power Shelf can come in super handy. This shelf replaces a standard wall outlet and offers a resting place to whatever item is being charged. This could be anything from a computer to an electric tart warmer for fragrance. Cords can be neatly wrapped around the arm of The Power Shelf, removing the cluttered appearance from kitchen counters and desks.
Clutter Can Cramp Your Social Life
Oftentimes what happens when a home becomes cluttered is that the homeowner stops entertaining. When friends stop by, they may even meet them out on the front porch instead of inviting them in for a cup of coffee. Nobody wants to feel ashamed of their home. Equally, nobody really likes that uncomfortable feeling when a friend comes in and reacts to the stack of magazines taking up an entire kitchen counter. Clear out items that you no longer need, and get organized places like a Power Shelf to store those things that you do. This will lead to a happier and healthier self esteem and social life!
A Power Shelf Provides Help For the College-Bound
The first lesson a teen heading for college should begin to master is that of time management. In high school, it was a bit easier to juggle school with activities and chores. College will be a whole different ball game, especially for those carrying a full load of classes. Trying to balance work, play and school can quickly turn disastrous for teens who don’t know how to manage their time. To help them, you could take your teen shopping for a good organizer. This could be a book like a planner or it could be something for the tech savvy that gets charged in their handy Power Shelf. As long as it works for them, and gets them to add all classes and activities to their schedule, it’s good.
One big way a parent can set their teen up for success is to assist them in getting their new living space organized. This goes for everything from the closet to the kitchen. Clutter will wreak havoc on a busy college student, sapping the energy needed for academic success. Organizing the work area of your college student is an easy task with the help of The Power Shelf. This easy to install shelf rids the area of the clutter of cords and small items needing power. Replacing the standard wall outlet with a Power Shelf gives a new place for items such as cell phones and even the all important laptop. Cords wrap neatly around the arm of the shelf, and the item sits securely on the shelf, keeping counters and work spaces free of clutter.
A teen should be encouraged to add any deadlines to their planner the moment the deadline is given. A planner should be used to properly plan out time for study and play. Once items are in their planner, they can then prioritize them based on deadlines and time commitment. A student must learn to gauge how much time each assignment will take, and then block that amount of time out in their planner for each assignment. Doing this will prevent the student from beginning a task and spending so much time on that one task that they miss others.
So today the review is going to be on the Cyberpower four port USB hub. This USB hub comes with the wall adapter for drawing power from your outlet instead of from one main USB port. This way you don’t have to worry about blowing one of your precious USB ports on your computer or on your PS3, like I use it for.
The Cyberpower hub connects to your main USB port through a mini USB cable that comes included with the hub itself. The hub is made out of semi-transparent, hard plastic that enables you to see the four LED indicator lights that let you know which USB’s are in use.
With all the experience that I’ve had using the Cyberpower hub, there is nothing that would make me buy a different USB hub. If you’re looking for a few extra USB ports, I highly recommend the Cyberpower USB hub!
Today I’m going to show you how to make this USB fan that I had hooked up to my PS3 in my desk setup videos. This tutorial was requested by xXSamObrienXx.
So what you’re going to need is some electrical tape, a soldering gun, which I don’t have right now because I don’t know where I put it, so I can’t really get it, and you’re going to need an old USB cable. As long as it has a standard male USB on one end, then it doesn’t matter what’s on the other end. You will also need a fan from inside an old computer.
Alright so when you take the shell off of your old computer, you should see a fan up near the top somewhere, it shouldn’t be too hard to find if you look around a little bit. Some computers have multiple fans, so just choose the one you like best!
So basically, as you should see, there are three wires coming out of the fan. If you have more or less its ok, just keep reading. Normally you will have three wires, a red, a black, and a yellow wire. First you will need to unplug the fan from the motherboard and wherever else it’s connected and remove it from the computer. Now, you will need to snip the end off of the wires so you should be left with three raw wires hooked up to your fan. Once this is done, you need to cut the end off of your USB cable. Make sure it is not the standard male end of the USB before you do this. Now, inside the USB wire, there should be a black, a red, a green, and a yellow wire? I’m pretty sure those are the colors, but if anyone knows that I’m wrong please correct me and I’ll fix this.
Before we start to assemble your USB cooling fan, you might want to clean it off because computer cooling fans tend to get pretty dirty after they have been used. Once you have done your fan cleaning duties, you need to strip the red and black wires down on the USB and on the fan so that you have enough showing underneath to solder them together. When you have done that, get the soldering gun or iron warmed up and dig up that solder we all have lying around and get ready to put on the finishing touches to your USB cooling fan! When everything is ready, take the red wire from the standard male USB and the red wire from your computer cooling fan and solder them together. Then do the same with the black wire from each of the pieces. When they are all ready to go wrap each individual wire with your electrical tape and then wrap them both together so this insures a nice strong bond that will hold for as long as you need it.
Now it’s time to check and make sure all your hard work payed off, so bring your new PS3 cooling fan to wherever you keep your PS3 (or other gaming console) and plug it in. NOTE: I am NOT responsible for anything that happens to your PS3 or whatever you plug your new USB cooling fan into, if something goes wrong it is not my fault.
There is a part two to this which is posted below.
First make sure you have a free USB port on your PS3, I had to unplug my iPod charging cable first. Posisition your new USB cooling fan either behind the PS3 or near the top of it, depending on where you want to use it and plug it into the PS3, then fire it up! In a few seconds your new USB cooling fan should start working. I hope this helped and everyone enjoyed it!
There are also many other uses for your USB cooling fan besides cooling off your PS3. I’ve seen people actually stick it underneath their laptops to cool them down and help with the air circulation. Just mess around with it and try it for different things! Don’t forget to make a video response to this video or the first one showing everyone your USB cooling fan and what you use it for!
This post is going to be about a video made by VvComphelpvV on YouTube. His channel can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/user/VvCompHelpvV I would really recommend subscribing to him because he is constantly coming out with new videos that teach me new stuff all the time! I may be featuring him on another post if I find another one of his videos super useful. If you would like to check out his website, it can be found at: http://www.VvCompHelpvV.Co.Nr where you can support him by purchasing some of his merchandise. You can also follow what he is going to come out with next and what he has previously come out with.
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Today I’m going to show you how to get rid of a whole lot of nonsense on your computer, in other words, temporary files. Now this is good to save some hard drive space and it could possibly make your computer run faster.The most space I’ve heard that someone saved is 37 gigabytes! That is a lot of space to have tied up in temporary files that you don’t need. So if you have never done this and you have had your computer for a while, then you will probably save a whole lot of space from this.
So lets get started with the how-to part of this post. First you need to go to start>run and a box should pop up that says, “Type the name of a program, folder, document, or internet resource, and Windows will open it for you”. Down below that there should be a box that you can type in. click in there and type this exactly: %temp% then press OK. Now a window should come up that has lots of files in it. All those files are just files that your computer saves automatically in the background. All of these files are not needed for your computer. If you look through a little bit you will probably see a folder called cookies and history. I wouldn’t recommend deleting those folders because then you wont have those in your internet browser anymore.
Now before you delete all those pesky files, press ctrl+a and right click on a file in there and go down to properties. When the window comes up look at the size of them. Sometimes this will take a minute to add it all up and you will see the size increasing. Once you see it stop remember that number or write it down so that when you’re done you can leave a comment telling me how much space you saved from doing this.
Now you want to select a bunch of the files and delete them. Sometimes you will come across a file that can’t be deleted because you have programs running in the background so just leave those there. You may also have a message pop up asking you if you want to delete the read only file. Just click yes or OK. Another message that might come up is one that says this file is a program file, are you sure you want to delete it? For these files I recommend clicking no or cancel unless you really know what you’re doing. When you’re all done deleting everything that you could, press ctrl+a again and right click on a file and click properties down at the bottom. Now check and see what the size is of the files left. Normally its only a few kilobytes or maybe up to a megabyte or two. Don’t worry about it if it is a little bigger, you just saved a whole ton more space anyway so it doesn’t really matter.
Another thing is that you should do this once every month or two to keep that space saved and not hogged up again by the temporary files. Also remember to leave a comment telling me how much space this saved you. I will be sending this list to VvCompHelpvV to let him know as well.
