Tracking System Technology

Why GPS Tracking Systems Are Becoming The Most Popular Car Accessory

GPS tracking systems are no longer James Bond type technology used solely by government agents during top secret missions. Vehicle tracking devices are now used by everyone from businesses, consumers to law enforcement agencies for a variety of applications, making GPS tracking systems one of the most popular selling car accessories today.

But why are GPS tracking systems becoming so popular now?

The answer is simple, cost. Their has never been any doubt of the benefits and advantages tracking system technology provide businesses, consumers and law enforcement agencies. Tracking system technology allows consumers to monitor teen driving habits or an elderly family member who may be suffering from memory problems, businesses to document mileage and improve routing, and law enforcement agencies to monitor potential criminals while working in an era of budget cuts. However, up until the last couple of years most GPS tracking devices were expensive, bulky and not viable solutions for the average consumer or small business. Now a GPS tracking system can be purchased for as little as $199.00 per unit, making GPS tracking devices one of the fastest growing car accessories purchased by consumers.

With tracking system technology now being affordable to almost every consumer, what will you be monitoring with your tracking system?

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Kid Ukelele Cover – While My Guitar Gently Weeps

This is a very impressive cover for a kid. I wish I could play like him when i was his age. He has a really good head start in playing music.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps was originally written by George Harrison of the Beatles in their double album.

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GPS Tracking Devices

The following is a sponsored post.

GPS Tracking company Land Air Sea, Inc. offers multiple passive GPS tracking devices. Two of their most popular items are the 3100 INT and 3100 EXT GPS tracking units.

Both of these GPS tracking devices by Land Air Sea are highly acclaimed due their compact build and powerful GPS tracking capabilities. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and running on just 4 AA batteries, these GPS tracking units are easy to install and are water-resistant. Up to 100 hours of data can be stored, and with the software included, the data can also be played back in an animated map through Google Earth.

The 3100 INT and 3100 EXT GPS tracking units are identical in capability and power, and they really differ only in appearance. The 3100 INT features a powerful internal antenna, allowing a sleeker design. However, the 3100 EXT model may appeal more to those who aim to conceal the unit. According the the LAS website: “With our 3100-EXT, there are more installation options available; an external antenna allows you to hide the 3100 unit in areas where GPS reception is limited… When retrieving the device, the user can simply disconnect the external antenna, thereby requiring just a one-time install of the antenna.”

Land Air Sea is the premiere manufacturer of passive GPS tracking systems. For information on where to purchase your own GPS tracking unit, please visit their website at www.landairsea.com.

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Hurricane Ike Aftermath

These pictures featured on Boston.com are just incredible to me… powerful, beautiful, terrible.  They have captions, but I think they speak just fine for themselves.

It was by God’s grace that our home in Houston suffered as little damage as it did.  The house was without electricity for 14 days, and I certainly did more than my fair share of whining… but photographs like these make me want to slap myself for complaining about a power outage.

A horse grazes beside a house, surrounded by floodwater, near Winnie, Texas after Hurricane Ike, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Ike was the first major storm to directly hit a major U.S. metro area since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. (AP Photo/Pool, Smiley N. Pool)

Image of Hurricane Ike on September 10, 2008, taken by the crew of the International Space Station, flying 220 miles above Earth. Ike barreled into the densely populated Texas coast near Houston early September 13, 2008, bringing with it a wall of water and ferocious winds and rain that flooded large areas along the Gulf of Mexico and paralyzed the fourth-largest U.S. city. (REUTERS/NASA/Handout)

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Ike passed over Cuba and Haiti prior to its landfall in Texas. This is a view of the flooded waterflont in Baracoa, eastern Cuba on September 7, 2008. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

This image from September 8, 2008 was provided by the U.S. Navy. Homes seen in Port De Paix, Haiti remain flooded after four storms in one month have devastated the area and killed more than 800 people. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) has been diverted from the scheduled Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance deployment in the western Caribbean to conduct hurricane relief operations in Haiti. (Emmitt Hawks/U.S. Navy via Getty Images) #

The surge before the storm swamps Galveston Island, Texas, and a fire destroys homes along the beach as Hurricane Ike approaches Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) #

An alligator is seen crossing a road in Sabine Pass, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, as the area recovers from the effects of Hurricane Ike. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) #

Flooding over access road 523 to Surfside beach, caused by Hurricane Ike forming in the Gulf of Mexico, is seen near Surfside Beach, Texas September 12, 2008. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) #

Homes and businesses on the Clear Creek Channel in Seabrook are surrounded by rising water from Galveston Bay on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 after Hurricane Ike passed through overnight as a Category 2 storm. (AP Photo/The Galveston County Daily News, Kevin M. Cox) #

With Hurricane Ike offshore, Michael Gardner walks in high water in front of a burning marina warehouse in Galveston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Fire fighters could not reach the structure so they allowed the structure to burn. (AP Photo/LM Otero) #

People ride in the back of a pickup truck through floodwaters from Hurricane Ike Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 in High Island, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool) #

A single home is left standing among debris from Hurricane Ike September 14, 2008 in Gilchrist, Texas. Floodwaters from Hurricane Ike were reportedly as high as eight feet in some areas causing widespread damage across the coast of Texas. (David J. Phillip-Pool/Getty Images) #

An overturned car sits in floodwaters from Hurricane Ike September 14, 2008 in Gilchrist, Texas. (PHILLIP/AFP/Getty Images) #

A house sits among debris, piled up by storm surges after Hurricane Ike made landfall September 14, 2008 in Crystal Beach, Texas. (DAVID J. PHILLIP/AFP/Getty Images) #

Flooding from Hurricane Ike inundates a high school football field in the town of Delcambre, La. Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Richard Alan Hannon, pool) #

Hurricanes can leave strange debris, from winds, waves, or fleeing residents. Here, an animal skull and antlers are seen in the middle of the road after Hurricane Ike in Bridge City, Texas., Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) #

Oil slicks in floodwater surround a pumpjack September 14, 2008 in High Island, Texas. Hurricane Ike made landfall yesterday morning at Galveston causing widespread wind and flood damage along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. (Smiley N. Pool/AFP/Getty Images) #

Eddie Settlocker assesses damage caused by Hurricane Ike at an apartment complex he manages September 14, 2008 in Galveston, Texas. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #

A cat looks down from a a tree in the flooded West End section of Galveston, Texas, after hurricane Ike hit the area Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero) #

Greg Schenck struggles to remove debris from a drain on North Main Street just north of downtown Houston after the passage of Hurricane Ike, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP /Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool) #

A woman walks through a flooded neighborhood street, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, in Orange, Texas. Hurricane Ike’s surge overcame the levee along the Sabine River that flows by Orange causing widespread flooding to the city. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) #

A man inspects the damage in front of the JP Morgan Chase Tower after Hurricane Ike passed through the city September 13, 2008 in Houston Texas. Hurricane Ike made landfall in the middle of the night causing widespread damage. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) #

A building maintenance worker walks over shattered glass from windows blown out by Hurricane Ike on the JPMorgan Chase tower Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) #

A cemetery flooded by storm surge from Hurricane Ike is shown, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008, in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) #

The Hollywood Community Cemetery is seen with several caskets scattered about after surfacing due to flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, in Orange, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) #

Search and rescue workers drive down a flooded road as they search the Sabine Pass area of Port Arthur, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 following Hurricane Ike. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) #

A house burns uncontrolled in a flooded neighborhood as Hurricane Ike approaches the Texas coast, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) #

A bulldozer clears debris along Interstate 45 after Hurricane Ike hit September 13, 2008 in Galveston, Texas. Hurricane Ike has caused losses of between eight and 18 billion dollars, according to early estimates from risk assessment companies on September 13, 2008. (DAVID J. PHILLIP/AFP/Getty Images) #

U.S. Air Force Pararescueman Staff Sgt. Lopaka Mounts, assigned to the 331st Air Expeditionary Group, receives a hug from a resident during search and rescue operations after Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas September 13, 2008. (REUTERS/U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr./Handout) #

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Guitar Hero for DS $30

This one’s for the gamers!

Today only, Amazon.com is offering Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS for only $29.99, and it ships FREE within 5-9 business days.  Regularly priced at $50.

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compare prices for textbooks

This one’s for all you students… check out CampusI.com to compare prices.  This awesome website combs the Internet for the best booksellers and lets you see at a glance what the books cost.  And once you’re done buying your books for the semester, make sure you save this website to your Favorites!  At the end of the semester, get back on and use their Price Search tool to sell your books online for the best price.

By the way, CampusI also does searches on other kinds of books, DVDs, music… even videogames.  Check them out!

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whatEVER!

Is she not the CUTEST girl you’ve ever seen?! [although I hope for her parents' sake that she cools off that little attitude in the next five years or so]

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kenneth cole jackets – $50

Wilson’s Leather is having a crazy sale… up to 75% off and FREE shipping.

Check out the deals on men’s outerwear, handbags, briefcases and more!

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deals of the day – express, footlocker, champs

To oblige a special request from a male friend – here are some guy-friendly deals!  Thanks to Slickdeals.net.

Printable coupon from Express/Express Men:  $20 off $75 purchase or $10 off $20 purchase.  Valid through August 26.  Online coupon code for the same deal is 5160.

Friends & Family events are going on now at Footlocker and Champs.  30% off.  Valid August 21-24.

Enjoy!

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i may never buy another bottle of perfume again

I used to be a “signature scent” kind of girl… I wore Elizabeth Arden’s Green Tea for the past three years [it was Cool Water for the 6 years before that, and Gucci Envy for 4 years before that].  Lately though, I’ve been drawn to so many new and beautiful fragrances.  There are just hundreds out there – it’s hard to choose!  I also have this weird thing about not using what everyone else does – which is why I never really got into Bath & Body Works, Clinique’s Happy, Estee Lauder Pleasures, or anything else with a giant following].

Well for those of us who love to wear lots of different scents, but don’t want to spend hundreds building up a collection to display on our bathroom sinks… LuckyScent.com’s rare and exclusive scents might just do the trick.  They feature a vast array of $3-$6 samples, all of which come in  little glass vials [the kind they give out at department stores].   Many of these scents are very high-end – it’s not the stuff you’ll find at a JC Penney counter, and you likely won’t recognize many of the brands.

This approach to fragrance is awesome for the following reasons:

- tiny vials take up less space in my bathroom than bottles [I don't care for the pretty bottles]
- they’re perfect to toss in my purse, stash at my desk at work, or pack in my cosmetic bag for travel
- I can buy 20 different samples for the price of one bottle
- I can change with the seasons [citrus for summer, spicy for fall, etc.]
- it’s highly unlikely that anyone else is wearing the same fragrance as I am
- fragrances change after a year or two anyway – it won’t hurt to toss a $3 sample that’s gone bad

Can’t wait to try a few of these out…

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