Salmon remain one of the most popular species of fish for fishing enthusiasts to try to catch. It helps that they’re one of the most versatile fish species and that schools of them are to be found in a great many waterways, including both inland bodies of freshwater and the salty depths of the open ocean (salmon spawn and are born in freshwater but live the majority of their lives in saltwater).

You therefore have a great selection of fishing hotspots for you to visit and catch salmon. Hit a few up, once you’ve gotten yourself one or more trusty salmon fishing rods.

Salmon fishing rods for saltwater fishing put a premium on rod strength. Like most ocean-going fish, salmon that live in the ocean will likely have a lot more fight in them than their inland counterparts, most of whom are at the end of their spawn and therefore more demure.

Though freshwater salmon fishing can be a challenge, too. You’ll find lots of freshwater salmon in fast-moving rivers that are interspersed with rocky rapids. Good-sized salmon will be heavy enough, but the drag effect of the water current will make them feel doubly heavy. Be prepared to work your arms when going after them, and make sure your fishing rod is up for the task.

But since freshwater fishing may involve a lot of trekking through the back country, portability will be a critical factor when you’re looking for freshwater-appropriate salmon fishing rods. Steer clear of those pocket-sized mini fishing rods; they’re definitely portable enough but might be too brittle to withstand the pull of grown salmon. Pick out a sturdy segmented fishing rod that you can break up into its two or three composite parts and store in a compact fishing storage box, and you should be good.

The Lamiglas G200 Salmon and Steelhead series is one popular brand of rods for salmon fishing. Top-notch guides equipped with rings of aluminum oxide are one of their features, as are high-quality cork handles and up-locking reel seats that have cushioned hoods. The rod blanks are made of graphite and bear high gloss finishes and metallic ice-blue trims. All these rods are two-piece rods and earn high marks for portability.

The Fenwick HMX Salmon and Steelhead Fishing Rods also deserve mention. Outfitted with dual-tapered graphite blank design that has cross-scrim construction, these rods can definitely handle the pull of salmon caught on their lines.

Pink Floyd owes its name and much of its early musical influence and style to original front man Syd Barrett. When Barrett succumbed to a gradual mental breakdown circa 1967-1968, fellow band members picked up the pieces and continued to be a hugely successful musical group. But they would not forget him. In 1975, guitarists Roger Waters and David Gilmour put their ongoing sense of loss over Barrett into music in the single “Wish You Were Here.”

Like Barrett itself, the song has an enduring legacy. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it number 316 on a list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” Performers from a diverse cross-section of genres have recast the song in their own cover versions: reggae artist Alpha Blondy, rock group Pascale Picard, metal band Angra, hard rock group Velvet Revolver, and rapper Wyclef Jean, among many others.

The song also draws emulators from legions of amateur guitarists who look for and learn the wish you were here guitar tabs. The Internet affords them an abundance of resources for doing so. For starters, they can go to Pinkfloydonline, a Pink Floyd fan site that has guitar tabs for many Pink Floyd songs. The written tablature and the lyrics for “Wish You Were Here” are here, all on one comprehensive page.

If you look up Wish You Were Here guitar tabs on YouTube, you’ll get a whopping 2,380 results—a huge number for any one song. They include four videos by Justin Sandercoe, a musician who runs the guitar Web site Justinguitar.com.

Each of Sandercoe’s four YouTube videos is a 10-minute walk-through of specific chords: Video number one is the intro chords, video number two is the verse and chorus, video number three is the into solo, and video number four is a demo of the intro, verse, solo, and chorus all put together.

Other sites for finding Wish You Were Here guitar tabs include the following: Tababunga, Ultimate Guitar Archive, and Guitaretab. Tababunga has a 10-minute video presentation plus tablature.

No fewer than 20 tablature pages await you on Ultimate Guitar Archive; different pages break down different parts of the song, so you might scroll around to make sure you have all your bases covered. Guitaretab’s results are a little simpler. Just four pages come up, and each one shows only a few lines of chords. This site is a good starting point to get the basics down pat.

Compatibility is key when you’re looking for a stand for your TV set. Any good stand won’t necessarily do—not if the TV or the stand is too big or too small. You’ve got to measure your TV and evaluate your room and viewing angles, then determine what proportions to look for in the TV stand.

Figuring all this out when the TV is a wide-screen TV might seem especially tricky, since these TVs take up copious amounts of space to begin with. But it doesn’t have to be. Just know in advance what to look for.

First, shopping for wide-screen TV stands requires finding stands that are on the hefty side but not too hefty. You want to have lots of room for the television and any accompanying equipment—speakers, DVD player, etc. But wide-screen TV stands that are too wide will just take up space and potentially make the television look small. A good rule to follow is looking for wide-screen TV stands that are 25%-30% wider than the television that you will be placing atop them.

Additionally, you should consider how high up off the ground you expect your eyesight to be when you are watching TV. A stand that raises the screen to two to four feet is probably safe. Anything over that, and you could find the experience to be a bit taxing on your eyes and neck.

The manufacturer Amanda Corner has a commendable stand for wide-screen TVs. An attractive beech wood piece with solid metal legs, it rests the TV atop a surface that’s 24 inches high and 56 inches wide. Below the table surface, you’ll find storage shelves for DVDs and home theater equipment, all of which you can enclose behind the pair of frosted glass doors.

If the wooden furniture concept appeals to you, you might also like Burnham’s Wide-Screen TV Stand Console. Four drawers are included for holding papers and magazines. Plus there are two shelves with ample storage space among them. With 21 inches in height and 53 inches of width, the stand has plenty of space for most large-screen TV sets, also.

You might also consider the BDI Casata, a deluxe wide-screen TV stand that sits the TV atop a 72 inches-wide, 21.5 inches high table surface of walnut or black oak (you choose). Concealed casters make maneuvering the table easy, and you’ll find abundant storage space behind the gray tempered glass doors.

Experienced musicians know how to read tablature and thereby play the tunes that they like. Amateur music fans might not be versed in how to read tabs, but that doesn’t mean that they have to miss out on the fun. Video game guitar tabs allow them to play songs with no knowledge of sheet music required.

Video game guitar tabs are an online trend geared uniquely toward guitarists (video tabs for drummers and keyboarders haven’t come out yet, though you never know when that may change). What these tabs do is display a row of vertical lines representing guitar strings and then flash numbers along the strings. Each number represents a location of where you would hold down the string or strings.

Video game guitar tabs have a few drawbacks. For one, they don’t tell you how long to hold each note. That’s not too big of a problem, though. If you have a good feel for the song, you can deduce by ear the length of time that will work best for given chords. Another shortcoming is that non-guitarists will not know how to read these tabs. If you’re in a band and need to collaborate on a song, you may run into a lot of complications.

But in all, video tabs’ pluses definitely outweigh their minuses. They’re a great help to new guitarists learning to master hammer ons, slides, string bends, harmonics, and other techniques.

LoveToKnow Video Games is an excellent go-to site for general information about video game guitar tabs and for leads on the best sites you can visit for finding game tunes that you might be looking to play.

Video Game Jam is one such lead. This site has a vast selection of tabs, and you can view them or print them for free. In addition, guitarists who have created their own tabs can submit them to the site for possible publication.

Game Tabs is also a great site to visit. Its collection has guitar tabs from many popular computer titles and consoles. The tabs are free to download. You’ll find side forums on this site for discussing tabs with other users and for suggesting other tabs that you’d like to see created.

The Mushroom Kingdom is yet another worthy tabs site, albeit with a Mario Brothers theme (hence the name “Mushroom Kingdom”). You’ll find tabs for most Mario Brothers songs, in addition to graphics, MP3s, and desktop fonts.

Barcode readers and computers work in tandem nowadays, and so the newest models of barcode readers are designed with universal serial bus (USB) interfaces to allow easy connections to computer systems. Connecting a USB barcode reader and a computer isn’t too difficult, as long as you have a basic understanding of both pieces of equipment.

You begin by locating the USB port on the USB bar code reader. Most scanners connect to a computer via a data cable. Somewhere on the barcode reader is the terminal into which you will plug the USB connector. That’s the USB port, and you’ll know it by its rectangular shape and signature lettering (the lettering will be either “USB” or a diagram with an arrow, square, and pair of circles).

Once you’ve located the USB port on the USB barcode reader, you will push the USB connector into the port. Then, turn to the computer and install a bar-code reading software program. This software is what deciphers the bar codes so that the computer can process them.

Most new barcode readers are sold with compatible barcode software, so you shouldn’t have to look any farther than the packaging to find the software program. If it isn’t there, check sites such as WaspBarcode.com for downloadable versions.

You might have a few additional steps involving a bar code information database. Bar code scanners usually connect to this database when they first go online. Some barcode readers will need to you to buy an additional adapter to complete this connection, though others do not.

The number of USB barcode readers on the market today is enormous. Many of the brands are names with which you should be pretty familiar. A case in point is Hewlett-Packard, whose USB Barcode Scanner is a fast-performing product capable of 100 scans per second. It is well-suited to retail departments and any other operation that has to scan barcodes quickly and easily.

IdAutomation isn’t as well-known as Hewlett-Packard, but its USB Barcode Scanner with GS1 Databar is worthy of notice regardless. Bearing a lightweight build, comfy design, and easy installation that you can complete in one step, it’s an exceedingly user-friendly product.

It’s a high-performing one; too, as it’s capable of reading barcodes from flat-screen monitors and has a built-in decoder that transmits information to the computer instantaneously. It will go many years without wearing down, and it’s powerful enough to read 200 scans per second.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers hit “Under the Bridge,” a deceivingly ambient melody in which front man Anthony Keidis relates his struggle with heroin addiction, still gets regular radio play nearly 20 years after its debut on the 1992 album “Blood Sugar Sex Magik.” It also gets repeated props from aspiring guitarists in dorm rooms and apartments everywhere who take it upon themselves to add the “Under the Bridge” guitar tabs to their repertoire of covers.

Enter the term “Under the Bridge” guitar tabs into the YouTube search engine and more than 180 results will pop up, including step-by-step lessons in how to play the song. Contributor John Hasson, for example, created a virtual graphic presentation that shows a computer image of a guitar’s six strings and beams lighting up each corresponding string as the song plays in the background.

Hasson’s video is only 46 seconds. But a full 3-minute video by Joe Wiles of the Rock and Roll Conservatory appears in person with a guitar in hand and demonstrates the specific chords and how he forms them. Wiles notes that at the time of the video’s production, the tabs to “Under the Bridge” are the 66th most frequently downloaded guitar tabs on the Internet.

When you’re just starting to learn the “Under the Bridge” guitar tabs, it probably helps to have the chords written out for you as well as told to you verbally. You’ll get the written tablature at the site Tababunga, a Web site that compiles guitar tabs to hundreds of songs.

Accompanying the Tababunga “Under the Bridge” tablature is a 10-minute video showing a guitarist playing the song for you. He doesn’t say anything, but he does stop and play each chord slowly while the camera zooms in up close enough for you to see what he’s doing.

Once you master “Under the Bridge” and start playing it, you’ll be in good company. The a cappella group The Flying Pickets covered it on their 1994 debut album. Jazz musician Frank Bennett followed two years later with his own version, in which he added some elements of bebop and big band. Mos Def, Tony Hadley, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have also adopted the song into their play lists.

All Saints, a British pop band, is credited with having the most popular cover version, though it deleted certain references to drug use. Keidis did not think very highly of this version, however.

Lots of stores host two-for-one specials from time to time. But one type of bed is a twofer special that you can partake of just about any day of the year. That bed is a trundle bed (also called a trumple bed or a truckle bed), and its claim to fame is that it is actually two beds in one: a main bed, and then a smaller twin bed that fits underneath the main bed but can be rolled out when needed on its casters.

This bed is a terrific space saver and a bargain for those buyers who might on occasion need an extra bed for when guests drop in and have to spend the night. Families whose children share a room are another group of buyers that like trundle bed frames, since one of these beds can essentially double the amount of sleeping space in a room.

Trundle beds achieve this double bed space by virtue of their unique trundle bed frames, which lack box springs and rails, and thereby afford extra space with which to fit one bed under the other. Trundle bed frames are also distinguished by their casters, which enable easy rolling in and out.

There is no need for you to buy a special trundle mattress. As long as you have the frame, any standard mattress and coverings will suit you just fine. Trundle Bed Store is one great go-to source for trundle frames. You get to choose among frames to match just about any size of trundle bed: kids’ bed, queen-size, king size, day bed, full-size, and twin.

At Trundle Bed Store, you’ll find trundle bed frames like the Metal Frame Trundle Bed with Foldable Legs. Its legs fold down so that you can slide it under a top bed with ease, and then fold up when you need to bring it out and set it up for someone to sleep on it. Order it, and it will be shipped to you fully assembled. Just pull it out of the box and its 76-inch by 40-inch framework is ready to roll.

The White Twin Size Bunk Bed Trundle is a wooden frame. An appealing coat of white paint covers its solid wood body. You add this bed to an existing bunk bed. It’s comparable to the Metal Frame bed in its size dimensions—74 inches by 40.5 inches—though it’s advertised as a bed frame appropriate for youth.

When spring starts and the weather begins to warm, the trout comes out to feed. Fishing enthusiasts who like to catch trout especially look forward to this time of year for the feeding binges that schools of trout will embark on at major tributaries, rivers, and underwater springs. You’ll be in good stead if you’re at big bodies of fresh water, where the largest trout are found.

Of course, it will also help if you’ve shopped wisely for the best trout fishing rods. Don’t worry if you’re new to trout fishing. Ask anybody who works at a fishing-supplies store for some advice, and they can fill you in on what trout fishing rods will give you the best results when you’re out on the water.

But a few general rules will be good for you to know in advance. The first is to look for light poles. Successful trout fishing requires lots of sensitivity; you need to feel when the trout are biting on the line. So instead of a big heavy pole, look for a pole that is demonstrably flexible, lightweight, and bendable.

The Eagle Claw Featherlight series is one brand of rods that make for great trout fishing rods. Composed of extra-sensitive, lightweight polyester fiberglass, these rods are high on performance and fast action while exceptionally easy to grasp and hold. You get gold-shaded stainless steel guides that make casting superbly smooth, and the graphite reel seat keeps your grip secure. What’s more, the cork rod is high-quality and will stay comfortable in your hand even if you’re casting it all day long.

The Daiwa Tournament Trout Spinning Rod is another brand that fishing experts like. It’s a small but powerful rod that will deliver great results in a diverse variety of fishing environs, though it is said to really shine in light-tackle luring and kayak fishing. Comfortable cork grips, a refined graphite blank, and cut-proof oxide guides are among its noteworthy features.

Whatever rod you choose, you’ll up your success rate if you equip the rod with a light spin-casting reel (assuming the rod isn’t already equipped with one). Also buy the proper line: A 4-pound or 2-pound test microfilament fishing line will be ideal. Heavier lines are best avoided, since trout have sharp vision and may see them. The drag, or line tension, should be on medium or medium-high when you start. You can loosen it later if needed.

Freshwater fishing is fun. But depending on the type of fish, you might find yourself doing a lot of trudging through woods and ravines to reach the streams where the getting happens to be good. This is all fine and good if you like to hike. But you obviously want your fishing gear to be fairly mobile and easy to carry. Nothing will take the fun factor out of a wilderness fishing trip like overly cumbersome gear that weighs you down.

Herein lies the appeal of the telescoping fishing rod, a type of rod whose length is retractable (note: It’s also sometimes called the telescopic fishing rod). You can withdraw a telescopic fishing rod to a stub as short as 12 inches when you need to pack it up and bike, hike, or drive to your destination. When you get there and it’s time to cast, you can then unfurl it to its full length, which on some rods totals 20 to 30 feet.

Fishing enthusiasts who snowshoe, kayak, and surf fish love these rods due to their ease of transport. And as you can imagine, storing a telescoping fishing rod is very low-hassle. Fishing-supply stores sell collapsible storage tubes that the rod will fit into in a cinch.

The rod’s spinning reel will usually be ultra-light mechanisms made of low-weight monofilaments. You’ll find it easy to use and very fast-action. Add new line to it at the start of each fishing season and it will be all the faster.

There are hundreds of telescoping fishing rod brands and models on the market. One of the most respected of them is the Ogeechee Outdoors Palos Verdes Series Telescopic 7 Ft Spinning Rod, a 7-footer that closes to 18-and-a-half inches. It’s most often recommended for campers and anglers.

Anglers may also like the Chuck Woolery Travel Rod. It’s not as compact—the rod closes to 25 inches—but it is light and easy to tow around. Advanced anglers are the crowd for whom this one is recommended. It’s said to be too challenging for beginners.

The Master Telescopic Fishing Spinning Pack Rod is also worthy of note. It collapses to 14 inches and expands to 6 feet. For its small size, it is nonetheless a very durable rod that will hold firm even when a very hard-fighting fish is on the line. And it’s simple enough that beginners and master anglers alike can enjoy using it.

When hotels and hospitaliers are looking for the best hair dryers with which to stack their rooms, they often turn to the hair dryers manufactured by Sunbeam Hospitality. It’s not hard to see why. Sunbeam hair dryers have a longstanding reputation for comfort, ease of use, and a gentle touch.

Sunbeam hair dryers include models like the 1632 Global Economizer Hair Dryer, a sleek wall-mount dryer that is tailor-made for minimal noise level, an enhanced air flow, and a switch that lets you adjust the heat setting from 1200 watts to 1500 watts (being able to switch to a lower wattage is a potential for big cost savings, so cost-conscious hospitaliers should take note). Plus, there is a removable lint filter to keep the air flow clean as possible.

The 1629 Global Wall Mount is another commendable Sunbeam wall-mount dryer. It runs strong at 1500 watts, though three power settings allow the user to adjust the intensity as needed. A removable lint screen and a five-and-a-half-foot-long cord are standard features on this dryer. It’s also got some features you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find in a dryer: a night light and a clock.

The lint screens are a bonus for the guests who use them. Though hospitaliers should note that a little maintenance is required. That lint does build up, so the screens should be removed and cleaned once a week.

Sunbeam makes hair dryers for everyday use by consumers, too. Some great Sunbeam hair dryers are of the handheld variety. They’re dryers like the 1621 Black Retractable Hand-Held Dryer. A six-foot-long retractable cord attaches to a wall of your choosing while leaving you plenty of freedom of movement. That cord is retractable, as the name indicates, so there is no lengthy cord to get tangled up in things after you’re done.

The dryer itself produces a powerful current, given that it’s 1875 watts (you can lower it to as low as 700 watts, though). A tourmaline coating reduces the dry time even further while helping to keep your hair sleek. Two air-speed settings and a cool-shot button allow you to adjust the current to your hair needs.

While you’re shopping among the handheld Sunbeam dryers, also look at the 1637 Silver Retractable Hand-Held Hair Dryer. It’s got all the perks of the 1875: two air speed settings, a cool-shot button, a Tourmaline coating, and a six-foot-long cord that you can retract after use.