I noticed Dreamhost VPS pricing change. They have changed the pricing sturucture for VPS RAM Usage and removed Burstable RAM.

Dreamhost VPS – Before

Montly pricing was based on RAM usage.

• 300 MB RAM would cost $30.00 per month
• 300 MB is Guaranteed and upto 600 MB is Burstable ( Swap Space)

Dreamhost VPS – Now

With new pricing model, RAM amount is doubled for the same price.

• 600 MB RAM will cost $30.00 per month
• Burstable RAM is not available anymore.

For smaller sites where there is a steady traffic, this would reduce hosting expense by 50%. Adjusting the RAM for traffic increase would get the job done.  Also, this move will encourage sites in Shared Hosting to move to VPS.

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Anil Chawla – friend of mine has created this cool Twitter App called TweetyMail, eMail to Twitter Posting App. It allows you to tweet straight from your email inbox, without switching to new window or Twitter App.

How it Works

To get started, click the “Sign in with Twitter” button below. After signing in, tweetymail simply needs to know your email address. You can then tweet and use Twitter by sending emails to tweetymail. You can also set up tweetymail to automatically forward tweets, mentions, and Twitter search results to your email.

Features

• Very fast and easy to tweet from a mobile phone. You can attach pictures and include links, and it will automatically shorten URLs.
• Automatically receive email alerts when someone mentions you on Twitter. You can create email alerts for other tweets and searches too.
• Send and reply to direct messages on Twitter using email.
• Follow/unfollow users by sending or forwarding emails.
• Full support for all languages (as long as emails are sent using UTF-8 character encoding)
• It’s really like a full-featured Twitter client that works through email.

So, what do you think of TweetyMail? Ready to give it a try?

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Alight, I have to agree that I hate to do gardening and lawn maintenance work. Being First time home owner, there are so many things we had to learn over last 2.5 years about Home Ownership. So, far we are enjoying our home.

2 Summers back, I had to go out of town for over 4 weeks and when I came back, almost entire lawn 4000 Sq Ft was brown. I had the Water Sprinklers set to 7 Minutes ( 3 times a weeks), but that didn’t help.

So, we decided to go with Tru Green Lawn Care service, hoping they will take care of the lawn and get that lush green back to our backyard.

TruGreen Lawn Care – Review

It would cost $35 per application for 7 times in a year and $180 for Aertaion and Re-seeding. This was cheaper than Scotts Lawn Care program. So, we signed up with them last year around September.

Manager who came onsite said it will take about 1 year to get the Lawn back into healthy condition. We were all excited and after 10 months condition of lawn is still the same with weeds.

• 2 Weeks back, they had come for applying Fertilizer and there were so many weeds. If they were good company, they should have applied the weed control without even asking us. We had to call them to apply weed control.
• TruGreen re-seeded the lawn in September last year, and there was not improvement after 4 months. So, they re-seeded in February again and that didn’t help. In March, carbgrass and weed control was applied. Right after that, they lawn was re-seeded again. My understanding is that, re-seeding has to be done only after 3 months of applying weed control to the Lawn.
• Now, they claim that it’s hard to grow the grass in red soil. I would expect them to know this when they first analyzed the law while providing the rate quote. They should have know it was red soil and made treatments from the beginning of the program accordingly. Not after we spent money for 4 to 5 applications.
• Also, they are suggesting that there is Fungus infection and it would cost additional $35 to control that. Why would you guarantee that lawn will be healthy, and then keep adding reasons later. I just don’t get that.

Overall, Trugreen is just another company that wants your money and promises are words to get your business. Stay away from them if possible.

Plan of Action

We are going to report to BBB of Raleigh, North Carolina and send this article to our account manager. If things doesn’t work, we will cancel the service and spread this article to as many neighbors as possible.  I really feel for the 2 of my friends who signed up for the service after I referred them. Even though I got referral credit, I feel bad for their money they wasted.

Update 1 (July 28) – I called TruGreen to cancel the service. Customer Rep said, she will ask the Manager to give me a call to see if there is something that can be done to compensate the service we had. It’s been over 2 weeks and I haven’t received call back from them.

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I the previous article I had posted about how I got Dish Network Program Access Fee Waived. One of my friend had contacted Dish Network technical support to check if the satellite receiver 622 provided by Dish can be connected to Vonage VoIP phone connection instead of landline. Here is the response he received from Dish Network

Connecting Vonage To Dish Network Receiver

Thank you for your email. Only some of our DISH Network receivers support VoIP telephone services. This issue is being researched and we hope to have a solution for our customers with other model receivers and broadband phone users in the near future.

When using VoIP instead of a land line, there are applications that you will not be able to take advantage of such as our interactive TV services, Customer Support Application, and Caller ID. Furthermore, you will not be able to use your remote control to order any Pay-Per-View events or movies. Pay per view can still be ordered online at Dish Network at no cost. You can also call 1-877-347-4778, but please note that a $1 transaction fee will be added to the price of the movie. Another consideration is, without a standard phone line, an additional $5.00 per month access fee will be applied to your account if you have one of our dual tuner receivers (models 322, 522, 625, 622, 722 and 942).

To ensure the receiver is set up for use with VoIP, please perform the following:

Press the Menu button

• Select System Setup

• Select Installation

• Select Phone Setup

2. Change the Outside Line option to Prefix Code.

3. Add the prefix *99.

4. If VoIP requires a filter on the phone line, make sure that is installed as well.

Also, your VoIP provider should set the service to the highest bandwidth setting and enable fax/modem enhancement features.

Your business is greatly appreciated and we thank you for allowing us to be of assistance to you. If you have further questions you can respond to this e-mail or access our online technical support at the following link: link

A Technical Service Representative is available via live chat 24 hours a day, 7 days per week regarding your concerns. Please click the following link to use this option.

Thank you

If I haven’t waived the fee I was planning to try the above solution. But I would had to move my vonage phone adapter to near my tv, which would be real pain with my current setup.

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Interesting DUI tale

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We got few artwork, pictures with frame. I was very reluctant to hammer nail in the dry wall. But, figured out all the home has some kind of pictures in the wall. So, there should be some easy way to hang pictures in dry wall.

I did some research  went to Lowes and spent 1 hour in the hardware nails and screws section. They had many varieties of screws. I figured out wall anchors is based on type of material on which anchors will be used.  Example surfaces – dry wall, metal, concrete surface, ..

Dry Wall Anchors

But, before I went to Lowes, I watched few Do It Yourself Videos and it was very helpful. I had always thought, nail or screw should be hammered only at places where stud is located behind the wall. I used stud finder to hang mirrors. But, finding studs in living room will not suit the location of the art work.

I spent total of 1 hour in research to find the right way to hang and here’s an interesting video I found useful.

Video Dry Wall Anchors

I purchased Buildex and it just took less than 1 hour to hang all the artworks and pictures in the wall. It takes 2 minutes to drill the screw into the wall and 10 minute take measurements and less than 5 minutes to hang the adjust the pictures. Bingo! My home got new looks.

So, using dry wall anchor was easy and I have few more wall hangings, I will have to go to Lowes agaib to buy few more dry wall anchors. It costs less than $2 for 6 wall anchors.

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