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Helpful Tips For Housework Part 2

1. Need to paint a room, but hate the noxious fumes? Add two teaspoons of pure vanilla extract to a gallon of (water based) paint. It neutralizes the odor.
2. If you have stains on your golf balls or piano keys, erase them-with an old fashioned pink eraser.
2. Did you spill coffee on the carpet? Sop [...]

Quick Tips For Wordpress Speed Up

The subject of optimizing Wordpress and making a website Stumble / digg proof, has been rehashed so many times, that I had to talk myself into even writing a post about it. This list is short and straight to the point about optimizing Wordpress, with easy to use plugins and tips. Most of these have [...]

Helpful Tips For Housework Part 1

1. Having a copper-polish emergency? Look in the fridge: Ketchup eliminates tarnish from copper.
2. It’s really gross to find meal worms in your cereal bowl. Keep them out of the cupboard with a few sticks of wrapped spearmint gum on the shelf. They hate the smell.
3. To repel ants, find where they’re coming into the [...]

Must Have & Highly Recommended Wordpress Plugins

List of highly recommended and must have Wordpress Plugins for the casual blogger to the full time professional blogger.
Akismets - This plugin stops about 90% or more of comment spam on my website, for any blogger you need to make sure your website does not become over ran by spam.
Wp-super-cache - Anyone who has a [...]

Where’s Your Purse Been?? Disturbing Facts

Note: I try not to post older Tidbits on my website, but this one was sent to me from a friend and I never knew about this, and I think it’s worth posting for those who missed it from two years ago. Even though I am a guy and have no intentions of ever owning [...]

Useful Products For Everyday Life

This list of goodies was sent to me via email, it has some very good information in it, so I thought what better place to post it then on howbits.com. So enjoy and I hope it helps out some people, I am going to add two remedies to the bottom of the list that have [...]

SEO Addon Domains / Subdomains

This article is about the use of Folders vs Add-on Domains, also referred to as Subdomains, and the advantages and disadvantages of SEO and PageRank for both.
Naysayers - Web SEO Guru Idiots
Many web gurus will argue that search engines will see that the IP address is the same for each website and will put the [...]

Pest & Weed Control Tips

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.
No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Good-bye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill [...]

Food Tips & Tricks

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy.. No soggy microwave pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they [...]

Optimizing Database - Avoid Exceeded CPU Quota

This guide is short and sweet and to help people optimize and speed up their WordPress websites, or a Database driven website such as Joomla, Drupal, etc, and to avoid a possible Account has Exceeded it’s CPU Quota screen from their Webhost. These simple steps will keep your website running smooth, and make the website [...]