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How-To get free HD Television in Ottawa

If you live in Ottawa and you don’t want to give Rogers or Bell your hard earned cash then you can do what I have done and it only cost me 20 bucks and I get all the HD channels I need.

Things you need:

  • Digital HD antenna
  • +25 feet of coaxial cable(May need longer if you live in a house)
  • A television with a digital tuner(Almost all new tv’s have these built-in to them)

The antenna can be purchased from many retailers but the cheapest ones can be bought from Walmart, XS-Cargo and Factory Direct.

My antenna came from Factory Direct and cost me a total of $14.99! Some assembly was required to but nothing super technical.

From my own experience the price of the antenna doesn’t equate to the quality/reception of the antenna. I use to use this one but it was TERRIBLE, good thing I never payed 70 bucks for it. 🙂

1. The Unboxing

2.Some assembly required


3. Almost there

When you have your antenna assembled, attach your coaxial TV cable to the antenna and put the antenna in your house/apartment window. Hook the other end of the cable to your television, your television still neets to be setup to use OTA which is burried in your TV’s menu system … I dont have steps for this part. 😀

Once your television is finished scanning for channels, sit down in your favorite chair and enjoy all the free HD television you would ever need.

A TV antenna works best if there is nothing blocking your line of sight to the antennas. So if you mount the antenna high you can get all these channels:

  • CBC (English) 4.1
  • Global 6.1
  • CBC (French)9.1
  • CHCH 11.1
  • CTV 13.1
  • Omni114.1
  • TVO 24.1
  • TQ – Tele Quebec30.1
  • TQS (V) – CFGS34.1
  • TVA – CHOT40.1
  • CTS 42.1
  • “A” Channel 43.1
  • Omni2 60.1
  • CityTV65.1

To learn more about Ottawa OTA go here.

The ones in bold are the key ones for me, if I want to watch other channels like Space or Discovery I connect my laptop to the televison with an HDMI cable. If you go online you can watch these stations:

The not so free sports packages:

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How to add Adsense ads to Tumblr properly!

It’s very easy to place Google Adsense ads to the body of your Tumblr posts. In our example we’re going to demonstrate how to embed a 468×15 text Google Adsense ad into the middle of our post, this process is the same for all javascript based ads.

Before doing any of the instruction below this line create your desired blog post without any Google Adsense ads in it, take care of the text, positioning and formatting first!

Once you’ve created and published your post go to the dashboard of your Tumblr blog, click on the Cog icon to go to your blog Preferences page:

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By default Tumblr strips out advanced HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from the regular post editor.

To ensure that Tumblr can accept the JavaScript code thats needed for our Google Adsense ads, we need to ensure that under “Edit posts using”, you’ve selected “plain text / HTML”:

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Be sure to save this new preference.

In a new browser tab goto Google Adsense and copy the javascript that was generated when you created your Google Adsense ad, copy it to your clipboard and go back to your tumblr blog:

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What you need to do next is edit the blog post you created previously, you will notice that the editor is now showing plain html markup. Find the area where you would like your Google Adsense ad and paste in the Javascript from Google:

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Our inserted Google Adsense ad:

Save your changes and go view your tumblr post, it may take few minutes for the Google Adsense ad to appear.

Remember:

  • Because of how the Tumblr post editor works if you make any other changes to the post after the ad has been added then when you save the changes you may actually strip out javascript and effectively kill your Google Adsense ad.
  • Dont edit the code from Google, changing the code will cause the Google Adsense ad not to work