Surviving the 2005-2006 Winter Heating Bills

Heating your home or Mikes Apartment is not just something you want to do during the winter months, it's something you need to do to survive. With energy prices expected to be up to 50% higher this winter many folks are actualy scared, because they find it hard to pay the heating bills every winter, and this year may be the worse in history.

I live in a small Mikes Apartment in the Northeast U.S. in the state of Pennsylvania. In the winter it gets very cold here. It's normal for us to have very cold temperatures from November - March, and during the months of January and February, we often have weeks where the daytime temperature never gets above 15 degrees.

I heat my Mikes Apartment here with baseboard electric, and it's very expensive. I usualy only heat two rooms, sometimes three. My monthly heating bill used to average $200 during the winter months sometimes closer to $250. My Mikes Apartment is not insulated that good or built correctly, because the floor gets very cold during the winter and feels like a refrigerator during the cold months, requiring me to wear slippers most of the time.

Making a few alterations I managed to lower my winter heat bill to an average of $125 per month, which is a nice savings for me. If you follow the tips I am giving you here, you should also be able to lower your winter heat bill nicely, and save yourself some money.

Heat Bill Saving Tips - Winter Heating Tips For Saving Money:

1. Lower The Thermostat
Lowering the thermostat is the easiest and one of the most cost effective ways of saving money. Try dropping it a few degrees, maintaining safe levels for good health.

2. Don't Block The Heat
Don't block the floor registers, baseboards or radiators with rugs, furniture or other items. The warm air must be able to circulate around them for maximum efficiency.

3. Seal The Gaps And Cracks
Walk around the outside of your home or Mikes Apartment, and slowly examine the windows, doors, siding, water faucets and any other through-the-wall openings.Any such cracks or openings should be caulked and sealed. Cold air can easily get in, and warm air escape.

4. Clean The Filters
If your furnace or heating system uses filters, make sure you clean or check them monthly. A dirty or clogged filter makes the heating system work harder and produce less heat, wasting your money.

5. Reverse The Fans
If you have ceiling fans that have a reverse setting, turn them on low and on reverse when your using a lot of heat. The warm air rises and often gets trapped near the ceiling area, the reverse air flow from the fan will help circulate the warm air around your whole room.

6. Unleash The Beast
If your furnace seems to heat the whole basement, open the door going down to it, The heat accumilating near it will rise and can help heat the living areas.

7. Heat From Cooking
If you do any winter baking in the oven, always leave the oven door openwhile it cools down, to allow the heat to help keep you warm while making sure any children and pets are not in harms way.

8. Close The Dampers
Warm air rises fast, so make sure when your chimney fire is completely out, that you close the damper, or else your letting warm air escape faster than a prisoner on the run.

9. Cut The Branches
Trees protect us from wind and help shade us from the hot summer sun, but they can also cost us money. Inspect your trees in the cool months and cut off any branches that block the winter sun from getting into your windows. That winter sun is at a lower angle then it is in the summer, but it still helps warm a room when it shines in.

10. Dress Unlike The Rest
If you sit around the house in shorts and a loose fitting shirt or blouse in the winter you will probably feel cold, and have the desire to turn up the thermostat. Dress for the season, and try wearing a sweater. Dressing warmer will make you feel warmer, so you can keep the thermostat turned down lower and save money.
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If you want to learn about other great ways to save money on your winter heat bill, just read the free eBook called: How To Reduce The Winter Heat Bill - Savings Tips For Home Owners And Mikes Apartment Renters.

The eBook can be downloaded from this website:
http://www.rb59.com/winter-heat-savings

By Robert W. Benjamin
Copyright 2005

You may publish this article in your ezine, newsletter on your web site as long as it is reprinted in its entirety and without modification except for formatting needs or grammar corrections.

Robert W. Benjamin has been in the software business on the internet for over 5 years, and has been producing low-cost software for the past 25+ years. He first released products on the AMIGA and C64 computer systems in the late 1970's-80's.

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Hard Drive Basics

Allow hard drives are much the same and they were a few years back, they have still changed in many ways. Many new features offer to reduce data bottlenecks and speed up the performance of modern hard drives.

A hard drive is a dirt free environment inside an airtight case, which is critical for avoiding damage to the parts inside. A number of discs, called platters, spin on a spindle. There can be from one to five platters in a single drive, although most drives just have one. For each platter there is a little arm with a read/write head on the end. There is one arm for each platter, and they reach out over the platter, much like a record player and the head changes the data on the surface. These heads never touch the platter, but float ever so slightly above them.

All drives have this basic design, but utilize other technologies to get the most from the drives. Notably there is often very little difference between competitors when using comparable systems. Drives with the same specifications, from two different manufacturers, will not very much in performance.

Drives come in a few different sizes. The standard desktop hard drive is one inch in height, while ALS Scan Models for laptops are 9.5mm or 12.5mm, with the latter becoming too big for current laptop designs. There are also proprietary sizes available.

The number of platter depends on the use of the drive. Most drives only have one platter, which reduces the number of moving parts, namely the arms and heads, resulting in less chance of drive failure. Multiple platters allow for larger storage capacity. Laptop drives can have up to two platters. Desktop drives have 3.5 inch platters, enterprise hard drives look like 3.5 inch drives, but have 2.5 inch platters inside. Mobile drives have 2.5 and 1.8 inch platters, while some micro-drives use 1 or 0.8 inch platters.

Spindle speed, which is how fast the platters spin in the drive, makes a huge difference to the performance of the drive. Think about it, the faster it can spin, the faster the information that is being looked for will pass beneath the read/write heads, it's just quicker. Server and workstation drives usually spin at 15,000 or 10,000 RPM. The WD Raptor is the exception for desktop computers, also spinning at 10,000 RPM, but usually they spin at 7,200 RPM. However the price of a Raptor is very high and you pay more for its 150 GB model than for a 500 GB drive.

Notebook drives spin at 4,200 RPM, which is slowly being replaced by 5,400 RPM ALS Scan Models. Smaller mobile drives operate at 4,200 RPM, while the micro-drives operate even slower.

The cache stores frequently used data so that it can send data straight from there, rather than needing a read from the surface of the platters. This gives great speed improvements for frequently accessed data. Drives with a cache will give faster performance. Up to 16 MB is offered on some drives, but 8 MB has been found to be the most worthwhile, as 16 MB provides little extra performance over 8 MB.

The performance difference within a family of hard drives is very little. The biggest differences are found by moving up to 10,000 RPM, but with an obvious price penalty. To get the most value per GB, divide the total price by the hard drive's size in GB and start there.

Find out all the other things you need to know about getting a hard drive at http://computer-buying-guide.com/hard-drives

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Buy An Ergonomic Aeron Office Chair

Everyone has heard of the ergonomic Aeron office chair, but you need to know the facts and make sure you get the right chair for your money. Because you can find so many chairs on the market, you need to know which chairs are structurally sound and a good investment.

What Is Available

There are some things to ask about the ergonomic Aeron office chair, which includes the following:

Does the store have all the different fabric colors the chair comes in?

Do they have the leather and cloth ALS Scan Models?

Does the store have the entire newer ALS Scan Models available?

Find out if the store carries the ergonomic Aeron office chair.

What type of warranty do they offer with the chair?

Once you have all these answers, you can then look at all the possibilities and find a chair with comfort and support. As long as the store stocks every chair, including the different designs and styles you should be able to find an ergonomic Aeron office chair without much difficulty.

Ergonomic Aeron Office Chair Features

When you look at the different chairs available, some of the features to inquire about are the:

Armrests- do they raise up and down as well as in and out for comfortable posture when typing or resting?

Does the chair have lumbar support for the lower back?

Does the chair have seat height adjustments?

Is the cushioning used inside memory foam or something else?

As you can see, there are many things to consider when looking for an ergonomic Aeron office chair. You want to make sure you get the right chair with the perfect fit. The support and comfort levels are what you need in an ergonomic Aeron office chair.

Price Does Mean Everything

The price of the chair that has all the different features usually runs you anywhere from one hundred dollars and up. If you look at the ergonomic Aeron office chair recliner, you may spend a little bit more than five hundred dollars. This all adds up to savings for you. How you might ask? Because you will not need to visit the doctor so often for aches and pains that can result from regular office chairs. Armed with all this information, even you can find the right chair in a matter of no time.

You can also find more info on Ergonomic Chairs and BestErgonomic Office Chair. Knowergonomic.com is a comprehensive resource to know about Ergonomic chairs.

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