What is Smart Grid

Adventure Sam, Jenny, and Jason

One conversation in particular that caught my attention is when Jason told me where he works–at Duke Power headquarters in Charlotte. He explained to me what Smart Grid is and how it will affect the future of powering our planet. Smart Grid is fascinating and I’m going to briefly share the basics of what I’ve learned about this futuristic form of power consumption management. In addition I have discovered two videos from Duke Energy that I will share below that explain the fundamentals better than I will.

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Introducing HomesinCarolina.com – New Real Estate Search Site

Homes in Carolina

Introducing our new real estate search site http://homesincarolina.com. Search, buy, and sell homes and land in North Carolina the easy way. Call Richard Drecksler @ 828.273.6363

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TwitterFeed automatically updates my Facebook Pages and Twitter

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I’ve just started using TwitterFeed to autopost new Adventure Paul blog entries to my Facebook Page and Twitter profile. Most of my updates are via this website so TwitterFeed will save me the time of having to manually update both social services when I post a new entry. At first I was hesitant to auto-update because I like having a personal message attached with each link. However, as I begin to travel & adventure daily–and update most frequently via the website–this service should be valuable.

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Gmail Introduces HTML Signatures FINALLY

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Finally, finally, finally Google has rich text signatures now–which means you can change the color, font, and format of your signature at the bottom of e-mails. It also means you can FINALLY include html links and images. I’ve been waiting a long time for this. It never made sense to me that Microsoft Outlook has had that feature for years but Google overlooked it.

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Google Adsense Wordpress Plugin

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It is easier to use a plugin to display your Google Adsense ads across your website than to manually input the code on each post. I use the plugin called All-in-One Adsense and YPN to manage the advertisements that appear within my posts.

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Social Bookmarking Bar Wordpress Plugin

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I use Add To Any, a Wordpress plugin that let’s readers share my posts on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, via e-mail, or any other social network you can think of.

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Best Google Android Apps For Your Mobile Device

Best Android Apps

If you are using Android, this article is for you.You can use the following applications on any Android enabled phone regardless of what model or service provider. In this particular list, I did not profile any of the applications that come pre-installed like Google Maps, Goggles, Messages, etc. Instead the list includes applications that you might not have heard of before and are available FREE in the Android Marketplace.

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Photoshop Effects – The Basket Weave Photo

Basket Weave Justin

Check out this photo I made while learning new Photoshop skills. I appropriately call it “The Basket Weave Effect” because that’s what it looks like. It’s a cool effect, but I can’t think of any applicable reasons to use it in advertising.

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What is the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org?

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This article explains the differences between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org so bloggers can understand the value in self-hosting their blogs with their own domain name instead of using a sub-domain like “yourblog.wordpress.com”

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Why do successful blogs need their own domain name?

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This information is for bloggers who currently use a sub-domain such as “yourblog.wordpress.com” I’m going to assume that by reading this article you would like make your blog more successful. To me this means building an active readership and subscriber base by writing informative articles that yield high search engine placement. I’ll also assume you are open to the idea of making money with your blog too.

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