Use your computer to get something for nothing. You should know about SwagBucks, Bing Search & Gifthulk.
What person is not interested in getting stuff for free? I spend a lot of my time looking at a computer screen on a daily basis. Not sure how but I somehow stumbled across swagbucks. I must have registered for something and it signed me up for a swagbucks account. Either way, I forgot about it and never really used it. One day while checking my spam email address, I saw that swagbucks was giving away 90 swagbucks because it was my birthday. Never heard of them, so I thought I would see what I could get for 90 swagbucks. That is when I started to learn more about swagbucks.
What is SwagBucks?
SwagBucks is a loyalty rewards program. You can earn swagbucks from watching videos, searching the web, doing surveys, shopping, etc. Being overly suspicious, I thought I would give it a try because it just seemed too good to be true. Turns out it didn't take but a few searches for a few days before I was able to get my first gift card, a $5 Amazon.com gift card. Then it only took a few more days to get another one. In just a few short weeks, I have been able to get $20 in Amazon gift cards, just doing what I normally do anyway. I will keep on until I get enough to buy some big purchases for Christmas presents. It is real easy to get the bucks and I am thrilled to have come across it. You know there is another way to get more swagbucks? Yes, referring others to join. Anyway, swagbucks offers tons of gift cards and other things to spend your bucks on. Plus it is easy to earn the swagbucks. Win-win situation if you ask me. Try them out.
Bing Search
Bing also pays you in points you can use on gift cards. Sign up, search a few times everyday and get points. Free is almost always good. Sign up here (insert shameless referral plug and clickable link here)
Gifthulk
Basically, the same premise as Swagbucks. Surveys, watching videos and searches get you hulk credits for gift cards. Gifthulk
Monday, July 8, 2013
Backstory and History
Backstory & History
I have worked with computers since I was 8 years old back in the early 1980s. I got my first Commodore 64 and the obsession began. I spent many hours writing code to play simple games on that machine copied directly from coding magazines of the day. From these examples, I was able to help write a simple tax program for my father's business that helped him print tax records. I didn't like all the typing and coding but I knew enough about it to be useful. I began to find that I really enjoyed fixing and upgrading the hardware.
I was able to work on computers during high school years in the late 80s and was able to take classes for Diversified technologies as a senior in high school. Every day we were allowed to go to the local community college as a part of our high school curriculum and learn outside of the normal classroom studies. My tech class was geared to electronics, robotics, computers and industrial engineering. It was 90 minutes of daily bliss in my boring school day. That one class helped me get many jobs early in my life.
After High School
I attended community college for one semester and just didn't connect with the college life. I quickly found myself bored from what seemed like a glorified high school agenda again. Nothing new, same old stuff. I dropped out of college and started working various jobs. It wasn't until I was able to land a data entry job for the State of Mississippi that I was able to get my foot in the door in computers. At this time of my life, desktop computers were just starting to become popular with business and government agencies. Since I had some knowledge from my technology class on computers, I was hired. I did the daily work doing data entry and helping others learn how to do a few things on the computers that were less skilled. The great part of this job was that they offered to pay for employees to take courses that would help them develop new skills. So naturally, I took courses in computer certification. These certifications helped me to get better jobs in computer industry until I finally was able to fix and upgrade computers full time with a limited college education.
Currently
I now work as a contractor for the Army as a computer specialist. My day is filled with problems to solve and I enjoy making things work. Many times it is trial and error and thinking outside the box for a solution. Most of the time, it is knowing how to "google" for the fix.I have come across many complex scenarios and errors and have fixed them all. I thought I would start sharing those fixes here in a blog.
I have worked with computers since I was 8 years old back in the early 1980s. I got my first Commodore 64 and the obsession began. I spent many hours writing code to play simple games on that machine copied directly from coding magazines of the day. From these examples, I was able to help write a simple tax program for my father's business that helped him print tax records. I didn't like all the typing and coding but I knew enough about it to be useful. I began to find that I really enjoyed fixing and upgrading the hardware.
I was able to work on computers during high school years in the late 80s and was able to take classes for Diversified technologies as a senior in high school. Every day we were allowed to go to the local community college as a part of our high school curriculum and learn outside of the normal classroom studies. My tech class was geared to electronics, robotics, computers and industrial engineering. It was 90 minutes of daily bliss in my boring school day. That one class helped me get many jobs early in my life.
After High School
I attended community college for one semester and just didn't connect with the college life. I quickly found myself bored from what seemed like a glorified high school agenda again. Nothing new, same old stuff. I dropped out of college and started working various jobs. It wasn't until I was able to land a data entry job for the State of Mississippi that I was able to get my foot in the door in computers. At this time of my life, desktop computers were just starting to become popular with business and government agencies. Since I had some knowledge from my technology class on computers, I was hired. I did the daily work doing data entry and helping others learn how to do a few things on the computers that were less skilled. The great part of this job was that they offered to pay for employees to take courses that would help them develop new skills. So naturally, I took courses in computer certification. These certifications helped me to get better jobs in computer industry until I finally was able to fix and upgrade computers full time with a limited college education.
Currently
I now work as a contractor for the Army as a computer specialist. My day is filled with problems to solve and I enjoy making things work. Many times it is trial and error and thinking outside the box for a solution. Most of the time, it is knowing how to "google" for the fix.I have come across many complex scenarios and errors and have fixed them all. I thought I would start sharing those fixes here in a blog.
config_initialization_failed stop 0x00000067 error in Windows XP
config_initialization_failed stop 0x00000067 error in Windows XP
I had this error rear it's ugly head the other day. I thought I would post it to my blog since it was an easy fix, but no documented fix that worked for me found on the internet. While a user was transferring files to a USB portable hard drive, the power went out. When the PC was rebooted, it got this error. Some posts I read said that it was memory or corrupt registry. It was neither registry or memory. I figured it might have corrupted the master boot record. I installed and booted from Windows XP CD, ran repair function to get to a DOS mode and typed fixmbr and rebooted. Worked like a charm. Just thought I would share.
config_initialization_failed stop error 0x00000067 (0x00000001, 0x00000008, 0xc0000035)
config_initialization_failed stop error 0x00000067 (0x00000001, 0x00000008, 0xc0000035)
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