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Organizing our Remotes and other gadgets

by The Diva

Last weekend my husband and were shopping in Walmart and I happened to be looking for some kind of basket or box to store all the wires, chargers and other accessories that come with our cellphones, iPods and other electronic gadgets in.

We ended up in the Craft area of Walmart and I founds some beautiful wicker baskets that ended up being just what I was looking for. I bought two of them actually … one to store all of our TV, Stereo, CD Player and Home Theater’s remotes in and the other to store all of the above mentioned wires and accessories in. We should be pretty organized now!

I noticed some beautiful fountains while we were in the craft area. The tabletop kind. My husband just loves those for some reason. Maybe as we get closer to his birthday I’ll get him one.

Speaking of remotes and wires and accessories for electronic gadgets .. how do you keep all of those things organized?

Filed Under: Crafts, Home and family, Home Decor, Items to Try Tagged With: accessories, camera, electronics, fountain, gadgets, husband, ipod, remotes, stereo, stuff, table top, tech, tv, walmart, wicker baskets

Just a little bit more Christmas shopping to do

by The Diva

I’m planning to go shopping this weekend for the last of the Christmas gifts that I need to buy.

I didn’t buy too many gifts this year. We don’t have any extra money, but of course we still have to get a few gifts for the kids in the family at least. I was thinking that one of my nephews might like an iPod. I already checked and he doesn’t have one yet, so it would be the perfect gift. I spent some time earlier today reading an ipod shuffle review and I’m pretty sure that I’ll get him an iPod Shuffle.

Now that I think of it the iPod and maybe just a few DVD’s or Video games and I should be finished all my shopping. If I’m lucky perhaps my shopping trip this weekend will only take an hour or so.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and family, Items to Try, Kids and Teens, Music, Shopping Tagged With: christmas, dvd, ipod, nephew, Shopping, vidoe

Should I get an iPod Nano?

by The Diva

You know what? I don’t have an MP3 player. I know .. I’m horribly out of date it seems.

It’s not like I don’t want an iPod or some kind of MP3 Player, it’s just that money has been kind of tight for the last few years and getting a music player wasn’t at the top of our list of extras … even though it’s something that both my husband and I agreed we wanted and could use.

Anyway … I’ve been eying the new ipod nano. It’s small, it’s cute and price wise it’s not bad.

I even like the commercials on TV for the iPod Nano too. I know, that doesn’t really matter, but it does show you how versatile the iPods are.

Do you have an iPod? What about the new iPod Nano? Anyone have that one – do you like it?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and family, Items to Try, Music, Recreation Tagged With: enjoy, husband, ipod, ipod nano, mp3 player, Music, music player, want

Trying to decide if we should hook up an iPod to our home theater system

by The Diva

My husband and I decided to buy a new TV … oh about three weeks ago. Since that time we’ve been waiting for our new Plasma to come into the store. Sad that you have to wait so long for a new TV these days isn’t it?

We bought a new TV because our 2004 DLP TV seems to be dying. We think there might be something wrong with the DMD board as the picture just freezes and goes black and white every now and then (about once a week). We know our DLP’s days are numbered!

We decided to replace the DLP rather than repair it because in the 6 years that we’ve owned it we’ve had to replace the light bulbs two or three times, had to replace the color wheel – at a total cost for all of these items of about one thousand dollars! Fixing the DMD board would cost approximate 800 to 1000 dollars … we just can’t see pouring more money into this TV. So we’ll put it in the basement and use it occasionally until it finally dies.

So … while we’re waiting for our new TV to come in (the store says it will be in on Friday!) we bought and hooked up a new home theater system. Lets just say that hooking up the new home theater system to the DLP wasn’t a piece of cake! It took hours and hours! Tested our marriage a bit too. LOL

Anyway …now the system is working and when we get the new TV we should only have to move a few wires (components) from one TV to the other and hopefully everything will work just fine.

One nice thing about the new home theater receiver is that we can hook up a special iPod dock to it and play music from the iPod through the receiver. We do have a 200 disk carousel CD player hooked up to the receiver but it’s old and I’m sure we’d get better sound if we used an iPod … or rather my husband is sure of that.

Of course … we don’t have an iPod (or the accessory docking station) so I spent a little bit of time earlier today looking at the various versions of ipods. I think if we’re going to buy one I’d get a classic iPod that has 160 GB of storage. We have a LOT of music on the computer and on CD’s – enough that we’d probably come close to filling up a classic iPod.

So before we go out and spend another $350 to $400 getting an iPod and the special docking station that works with our Yamaha receiver let me ask you a question – Have any of you run your iPod through your Home theater system? If you have, how is the sound?

The reason I’m asking is, if it’s not going to make a huge sound difference we might as well keep using our 200 disk CD carousel until it dies on us too. However, if there’s a major sound improvement (like full true 5.1 sound) we might go ahead and splurge to make our sound system complete.

Filed Under: Appliances, Entertainment, Home and family, House and Home, Items to Try, Music, Television Tagged With: audio, buy ipod, color wheel, DLP TV, DMD board, docking station, dying TV, entertainment unit, home theater system, ipod, light bulbs, new TV, Plasma TV, receiver, Samsung, Yamaha

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