As Mitchelaneous moves into it’s seventh year of bringing you the best of well, whatever I happen to be bringing you for the day, I want to spread the love around.  I’m looking to accept your articles, tips, resources and more to be published right here on Mitchelaneous.com. At the current date and time, you would be exposing your work to around 15,000 visitors a month and over 800 RSS subscribers.  What do you have to lose?

So what kind of content am I looking for?  Here are some basic ideas:

• Online Application Reviews or Tips
• Desktop Program Reviews or Tips
• Great Wallpaper
• Web Development Help or Tutorials (CSS, HTML, PHP,etc.)

That is just scratching the surface though.  If you have an excellent idea for a tutorial or series of articles you’d like to write, just let me know and I promise you we will find something that works.  I am looking for original work only right now, no reposting content from other websites and really I want to give a person out there a shot to get some attention that has not had it before. 

Each post will be followed up with a short bio and a link back to your own website, so hopefully I can help generate some traffic back to your website too.  If you are interested, please feel free to use the contact link above to reach me or drop me an email at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.

Here is Chris explaining the basics about Geeks:

It is a cool idea, and I like it thus far.  We will see where it goes from here.  If you want to give it a shot, feel free to make friends with me.

http://geeks.pirillo.com/profile/Mitch

In the hope to drum up some interest in the new project, he is also giving away a Ipod Nano (to one lucky winner) for those who spread the word about him. Heck I would have done it for free too. Shameless promotion aside, reading some of his posts he has up thus far I am highly impressed and can’t wait to read more. Might have to try to get him on the podcast too.

Here are some of my most popular posts for the last month or so.

• 9 WordPress Alternatives
• Open Google Notebook in Firefox Sidebar
• Mitchelaneous Guest Writers Needed
• Get More From Google Reader Guide
• Web Hosting’s Impact Players of 2006

As you can see it is all over the board. Popularity can be a funny thing sometimes.

When recording, if you think you sound a little funny – put the microphone above your nose or near your eye. You might have to turn up the mic sensitivity a little ‘bit but it will sound better. This is for people who think they sound too nasally or who might have a problem popping their p’s.

Also if you are a heavy mouth breather (no – I mean that in a good way) this could keep you from sounding like you just ran a three mile race before recording.

In hopes to open new folks up to even more great writers and personalities out there on the Web I am going to open my blog up to new “guest bloggers”. There are a lot of great people out there – and many of them you probably have never heard of. Well that is – till now.

So what are the requirements?

• Have a passion for writing, technology or the Web
• Need to be able to string more than three sentences together
• Have something you’d like to share with others

What do you get? I’d be more than happy to toss an “author” credit your way as well as a link back to your own project so people can get to know more about you. If your spot becomes more permanent you might even get a cool little bio on here too.

If your interested, and you want to write about the above mentioned topics you need to have a passion for – drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll be in contact with you soon.

Well I am happy to say that changed when I got my Panasonic DMRES35VS VCR/DVD Recorder.

Here’s a little official copy about the device:

It doesn’t get a whole lot easier than this. Keep a stack of DVDs, and you’ll never miss another program. One touch recording can be set to keep from recording over your favorites, and you can even watch one program while recording another with Time Slip. The Direct Navigator shows you thumbnails of every program on the disc as you browse through your burgeoning collection. You’re on your own, however, to figure out where to find the time to see what’s been recorded.

What is the major pro for getting this device? Well for me I have boxes and boxes filled with old VHS wrestling tapes that will probably never be released to DVD. I had been copying them from the VCR to the computer, and then burning them – but that just takes time I do not have. With my new toy here I can just start it up and let Panasonic do the rest of the work.

So if that is the pro, where is the con? Well the only bad thing I can say about it is it takes a college degree to figure out how to work all the features that come bundled in with it. I have learned the basics of copying a VHS tape to DVD – but the fancy stuff I will have to leave for another day.

All in all I am very happy with it though, and if you find yourself in the same boat I would highly recommend it.

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