I’m back into the game!

It hasn’t been a real secret the last few months but if you didn’t know, I am in the process of getting a divorce.  It probably isn’t something that is going to shock or amaze people.   You’d probably think it is normal to get divorce, and I’d tend to agree with you.   It however doesn’t mean, that I long for the touch of a female.  After all, I think it is ingrained in everybody to have someone special with them for most of their life.  I have started to look around to see what I could find in the way of Free Android dating Apps, but in truthfulness most of them fell short.

They’ve fallen and can’t get up!

As I’ve been looking around for all the free sites out there that might be useful in finding someone special, I’ve really haven’t found anything really significant out there but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a few good runner ups out there that I would recommend to my friends and family.  I figure I at least point you in fairly safe direction and let you figure out which ones you may want to explore.

 

• Plenty Of Fish(POF for short) — I’ve been using this app pretty much every day checking to see what it would find.  I haven’t had any hooks yet but that just might be that I’m a blogger.  Most females, I think are a little turned off by that, don’t want to be in the lime light sort to speak!
• Skout —  I’ve pretty much given up on this app.  I constantly be bugged with advertising and thus it got really annoying really quickly.   I also didn’t like the atmosphere, they were always trying to get you to buy credits or something to impress girls.  I’m not here to impress just to date them.
• Zoosk — This one is pretty a joke but I thought I would at least tell you why.  They seem to think that you would want to pay to send and receive messages from girls.  I am not going to pay a monthly subscription for something that has no guarantees.  So it was good to a point but it wasn’t one that I’d recommend to a lot of people.  Zoosk was the one where I’d get those dating scams a lot, so you’d be best to look elsewhere!
• MIU Meet — I don’t really know what to say about this but It looks really promising,  It just recently came on the Android Marketplace and thus I haven’t had a lot of chances to play with this.  The User Interface is really good on this but other that one, I can’t say much else until I do more research on this one.
• OkCupid Dating — Another good look UI but haven’t yet had the chance to sit down and look into this one.  I will be doing that later on this week and updating this post when I find out if this one is really that good!

Those are the good but I do want to point out which ones you might want to avoid because they are basically a paid service, in which you have to pay a monthly fee!

Fee Based Services!

There are going to be several but I am going to at show you a few of the ones that I’ve found to be fee based.  It isn’t as though these sites are bad but they do have problems with the prices and since there is no guarantee that you will find someone.  I just don’t believe this is the right avenue for me!

• Match.com — I really don’t have a problem with this service but then again, I don’t want to be a paid member!
• Christian Dating Cafe — Another one of those but again, I really don’t have a problem with them it just isn’t my cup of tea!

As you can tell these are just 2 of the many sites out there that have their own agenda of charging people to do more things with their account. Most of these that you will go to will always have a paid version but I just wanted to show you some that you can use without having to pay just to send messages back and forth.  I hope this helps you and others find what your looking for!  

 

It wasn’t extremely difficult!

I am not saying you have to be an expert on Android, but it does help!  I didn’t have to do some things that would actually make it easier for me to install Android 2.3.7 but the hard part was first you will definately need to root and possibly unlock your cell phone!  I did have a few hiccups when it came to installing this new Android operating system.  In this little tutorial I will be discussing how to do that!  In case some of you were curious, I am using the HTC Inspire that I unlocked and rooted a few weeks ago!

After Unlocking and Rooting the Device!

You have several options available to you.  You could just leave it that way and use it with any carrier you may want to use or you could add Ice Cream Sandwich to your newly unlocked and rooted phone.  I will say that doing this may void your warranty of the phone in question, so it is best to only do this with phones that have no warranty that way if you brick your phone then having to worry about paying for it out of pocket if it is under warranty!  So I leave that up to you and I will make sure to tell you, I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone.  You do this at your own risk.

Download the ROM Manager!

This is how I did to install the Android Ice Cream Operating System, but others may have their own way.  Some of the more user friendly ROM managers are:

 

• ROM Manager by Clockworkmod — I used this one to make to upgrade my phone to ICE Sandwich, I used my HTC Inspire which now my phone tells me it is a HTC Desire.  Guess they used the same hardware just changed the  name!  On a Side note, if you need to boot into recovery Mode, just press POWER+Volume down.  (You should clear cache, data, and something else but can’t remember on my HTC Inspire!)  
• Droid 2 Recovery Bootstrap by Clockworkmod — Haven’t used this but it is again by the same company so it must be decent enough!
• ROM Toolbox Lite by JRummy16 — Another one that I haven’t tried but looks promising!

These are just three that I’ve found but you must know that their are probably a dozen more ones out there that you may want to try.  These are just recommendations on which ones that I have used or might try later on!

Last step!

The last step is to find your mod that you are wanting to install and install it.  I used the Cynagenmod for my chance to have the Ice Cream Sandwich update, but it is totally up to you what mod you may want to install.  You just have to remember to backup your data that you think is the most important and remember that you have to pick carefully what you want to install and hope that it won’t brick your phone.  Which may be a possiblity, although unlikely.  

Paul Sylvester

 

The storyline thickens!

Anybody who knows me, will tell you I’ve been having some major financial problems because of what has happened in the last few years.  I won’t go into much details but I am moving on in my life and thought it was high time to become a improve on my abilities.  In this article, we will be discussing why this is good and what the steps are to even consider doing something like this.   I know some of you have already decided this from the get go but are hesitant because of what your wife might say or for that matter your family.  It is all in about how you aproach the matter and let them do their own quest for answers.  If they really love you then it is in their best interest to allow you to learn more.

Use what you know!

So I’ve been doing a lot of research on this very matter and want to give you a few sites that might help you out.  Nothing can begin until you take the first steps.  So Here are a few sites that will help you along your way:

• Career Explorer — http://www.careerexplorer.net/
• Kuder — http://www.kuder.com/
• Job Market Explorer — http://www.iseek.org/jobs/jobmarket.html
• Indeed — http://www.indeed.com/
• Monster — http://www.monster.com/ 
• Snag A Job — http://www.snagajob.com/

These are just a few to say the least.  I’ve been having really good success with my Job goal by going to your local employment office and checking them out.  Each state calls them differently but they are do relatively the same thing.  Helps you find a job and look for one in the same process.  

Improving your Abilities and Skills!

Nothing Says you know what your talking about in an interview until you have the skills to show them off.  Now I’m not saying go into an interview and be cocky or trying to be to over confidence but you should at least try to be ready for all you questions.  You are sitting there thinking, but how do it without paying two much money.  I’m not saying it is going to be easy but there are plenty of government programs out there to do just that.  You can have the government pay for your college education if you fall with in the guidelines.  I don’t know all of them but here are a few websites that can help you find that out also:

 

• Pell Grants — http://www2.ed.gov/programs/fpg/index.html
• FAFSA — https://fafsa.ed.gov/FAFSA/app/f4cForm?execution=e1s1

I’m sure there are more than that but you should at least start there and try to find something that you can use.  Sometimes they can help direct you to the right place in your local area that can help you.   Each state is different and thus I can’t list them all, but this is just going to be a reference for those who might want to go back to college because continuing your education is always a good idea.  In the coming months, I am hoping to make my blog post shine even more, but for right now, It is going to make me do very little blogging because of all my time and effort in going to college.  So please be patient with me!

Paul Sylvester

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