Blog archives for March, 2009

Great Uses for Coffee Filters

Earlier today, found a great use for those paper coffee filters we use. Those round ones, like in Mr. Coffee coffeemakers.

Seems granddaughter needed to put some snacks in something to carry to the living room and she asked me for a paper towel. Well, I was making a new pot of coffee at the time and I just gave her a coffee filter. And it worked great and made clean up so much easier than if she had used a napkin or paper towel.

Now here are more great uses for coffee filters:

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers. Most times, better than a paper towel!
2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling. Works better if you spray the filter first.
3. Protect China – Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter between each dish. Same with moving.
4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter. Heck, coffee filters are just that for any liquid, filters!
5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes. Wife thought I was nuts, but even she has to admit this was a neat way to use a coffee filter.
11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
12. Wax Eyebrows – Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows?  Use strips of coffee filters.
13. Absorb Grease – Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc. on them.  Soaks out all the grease.
14. Razor nicks – Keep in the bathroom.  They make great “razor nick fixers.”

And lastly, I carry a package of coffee filters in our van. One use for a vehicle? Use as an emergency spout to put oil or transmission fluid in your vehicle to cut the waste and the drippage over your engine.

Short Url Redirection | Make A Long Url Short

How many times have you had a long url and wanted it a bit shorter so it would look better on your site or blog, your emails, or when you are on twitter? Or one of those ugly affiliate links where everytime you use it, everyone who sees it knows at once that you are promoting something?

Wish there was a way to shorten those long urls? There is and it is free to use. Go to Make It Tiny URL Service, enter in your long url, and it is converted to an easy to use url that is nice and short.

Now you can take a long url like https://secure.sexinyourcity.com/signup/gateways/signup.php?memberid=2056768&natssess=c6544b4e6daa1d7b80a3433c3effc800&gateway=NETBILLING   and make it smaller to http://miturl.com/102

Use this service every time you have a long url and need to shorten it.

Recuva – File Recovery

Have you ever deleted files like I have on more occasions than I can count? And wished you had them back? This free Windows utility may be just the ticket to recover the deleted files.

Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Go now and get your copy (did I mention it is free?) at: Recuva

And here is a free service I know you will want to use quite often. Because you and I always have long urls that are best shortened up before using in emails, twitter posts, and on sites. Excellent way to not only shorten those long urls, but to hide those affiliate links. Go to the Make It Tiny URL Service and start using the service (it is free) to shorten all your long urls.

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