Posts by Steve Alvarez
I recently attended a free weatherization class provided by The Housing Center, which is a joint project of the Dane County Housing Authority (DCHA) and Project Home. This non-profit group assists first-time home buyers, as well as those who aren’t so new to the home-ownership arena, with things such as the home-buying process and home maintenance.
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I recently took on a home project of connecting several electronic devices up to the Internet. Unfortunately, none of these devices had built-in wireless connectivity, and my home router was nowhere near these devices. While there are multiple solutions to connecting these devices online (wiring up home, networking over power lines, expensive wireless bridges, etc.), they were all costly, and I wanted to see if I could accomplish this for little to no money.
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I was listening to the radio this morning while getting ready for work, and I heard that the EPA had designated March 16th through the 20th as “Fix a Leak Week”. My first thought was, “Oh great, another national something pitch by some group trying to garner media attention”, but as I drove in to work… (read more)
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I have to admit; I was excited when I first started receiving a digital television (DTV) signal at home back in 2005. At that time, I had an old projection TV that was capable of displaying a digital picture, so I had taken the plunge and bought a used set-top digital receiver to see what this DTV thing was all about. I have to admit, the seventy-five bucks I spent on that receiver was definitely worth it, as the picture and sound were nothing like I had witnessed before watching over-the-air TV programming. Now while some might think I was an early adopter of this technology, the truth is I was already behind as over-the-air DTV programming had already been in place in the top 10 US-markets since 2002, and had already been around in some areas since 1998 (41 TV stations to be exact).
I immediately began telling my family and friends about this…
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