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2008 is the year of the mobile internet, right? We hear that every year. Let’s forget about predictions and focus on what’s available right now. We bring you over 20 mobile internet applications that you’ll actually use.
Bookmarking
Mobiseer.com - Find mobile websites, mark them for later use, and even build a mobile web page with your favorite links for quick access.
Treemo.com - A site that allows you to publish videos, photos, and more to both the normal web and mobile devices.
BareSite.com - Strip a site or RSS feed down to the bare bones to make it easier on your phone, also use the site as search engine on the go.
Flurry.com - Access to email, feeds, update your friends and more.
Goosync.com - Sync your Google Calendar with your mobile phone or PDA.
MoMail.co.uk - Access any and all of your email accounts from one centralized mobile mailbox.
PlusMo.com - A widget service for mobile devices that has over 20,000 widgets at your disposal.
Publishing
Blogs.Xanco.com - Publish a mobile blog directly from your phone using SMS or email.
Gatsb.com - Publish your camera phone pictures directly to the web.
MixelPix.com - Publish your photos from your phone quickly to the net.
SpotMob.com - Shoot your video in 3GP format and publish it directly to the web.
Umundo.com - Publish videos and pictures from your phone to the web.
UPhoneBlog.com - Publish your on-the-go pictures as a life blog and then use it on any number of other websites.
Zannel.com - Share videos and pictures from moments in your life.
sourceAlternative links Download AVG 7.5 Pro Antivirus for Free [RapidShare & MegaUpload] There is no word as to how long the subscription is good , but hey its free.
http://code.google.com/p/googlehacks/
To get started perform the installation then type your search query in shown textbox above, choose the type of media you want to search for and you’re done. You will be automatically taken to a Google Search Results page with relevant results.
Powderhouse Productions is getting ready to launch ShoeTube.tv, a web channel devoted to nothing but shoes. For thoes of you who might not be familiar with this company they create documentaries such as megaStructures featured on national geographic channel, extreme engineering , world in the balance etc.
ShoeTube.tv is promising to deliver and feature a mix of broadcast-quality programming, user-generated videos/photos, and sponsor-created content. You'll also find articles on what's going on in the footwear industry, professionally-penned blogs and tons of community features that give every woman who is crazy about shoes a place to express their inner soles.
Shoetube.tv will be the destination on the web where women will gather to share their passion for shoes.
I was just thinking a youtube for shoes thats a bit odd, but then thought to my self well this could be a pretty good niche, just imagine how many women are crazy about shoes and would spend hours on this site, it could become quite a lucrative en devour.
The site is slated to launch in February 2008, geared toward women 18 to 44, the site also hired fashion writers to blog about shoes and build forums. Shoe fanatics can comment as well as upload their own shoe videos.
- Best Places to get rapidshare links
- Browse bannded or protected sites
- Professionally done new blogger template
- Ever wished you could search rapidshare
- Ebookee
- Hide your rapidshare or megaupload links
- Direct movie downloads too good to be true ?
- Your ultimate list to tv links
- unlmited rapidshare downloads
- Watch documentaries online
If your a user of Feedburner you might have also noticed it doesn't really give you much variety in terms of button designs and size, your very much limited to a few choices and if your not much of a photo shop expert then you pretty much don't have a choice. For those of you who might want to go for a different feel of rss buttons and stand out amongst the rest then the following links will definitely be of some use to you.
wizard-creek
rssbuttons
If you’re using wordpress the Chicklet Creator Plug-in twistermc
rssicongallery
You need fresh ideas on how you can create unique rss button see the following step by step tutorials on creating your own Buttons. The tutorial ideas give you a rough concept of how you can design the Rss like button, so add your own words to give the final effect.
Iris-Design - How to Design A Web 2.0 Like Rss Button
PinkZap - Turn Traditional Icons into Rss Icon & Button
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I have to admit I spend an awfully long time online, my job requires it, my previous college/university projects required it. Over the past few years the internet has helped me tremendously in my learning experiences. Most of the time during college /university programming projects I never used to ask the lecturers how to solve a problem due to lack of faith in them, I was never satisfied with the answers I received, most of them if they didn’t know would say “Google it” or am sure if you search the web you will find the answer so most of the time I resorted to finding my own answers online. This may be different for other people as I’m in programming field most of the materials are in abundance via the web.
I believe what makes you a brilliant student is not always about going to the best universities in the world or the most expensive institutions, all that is great and I encourage it, but its about taking it upon your self to take the initiative to want to learn and take that extra step to self learn and go beyond just the assignments, explore different areas in your subject field and always continue to look for more challenging tasks to get you to think and expand your thought process.
Web learning gives you an alternative means of learning. And for those of us you might not have the cash to go off to Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Stanford , online learning is definitely an alternative or a supplementary option.
Stanford (stanford.edu)
Stanford Courses on iTunes U
Provides course through iTunes U Courses can be downloaded and played on your iPod, PC, or Mac and can also be burned to a CD.
Open University (open.ac.uk)
Free Open University Courses Online
Carnegie Mellon University
Free Carnegie Mellon Courses Online
Course options include, but are not limited to, statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French and physics.
Tufts University
Free Tufts University Courses Online
Courses include lecture notes, assignments and other supplementary materials.
University of California , Berkeley
Free UC Berkley Courses Online
UC Berkley offers live webcasts (live video) archived podcasts of their courses for example biology, astronomy, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, psychology, legal studies and philosophy.
Utah State University
Free Utah State University Courses Online
Some of the courses include Latin and anthropology to physics and theatre arts.
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Free Kutztown University Courses Online
Offers free business and entrepreneurial courses available on the web. Course topics include accounting, finance, government, business law, marketing and sales. Interactive case studies, comprehensive text, slides, graphics and streaming audio all help to demonstrate the concepts presented in each course.
University of Southern Queensland
MIT
MP2P Technologies announced today the launch of Omemo, an altogether new type of P2P network. It creates a virtual hard drive in which users may save files, however, said files are stored in cyberspace rather than on the user’s local hard drive. Omemo’s distributed storage network is fast and scalable creating a nearly limitless supply of storage space and freely available, uncensored data that can include digital music, video clips, images, software, and documents.
Unlike Google’s anticipated but not yet delivered storage offering, Omemo empowers its users to share resources by creating an open source based P2P network that brings together available free space from hard drives willingly shared by users. It allows users to add, share, and organize their own content - anonymously - thereby forming an exhaustive, live multimedia library managed exclusively by the Omemo community.
“Omemo is essentially a multimedia version of the wildly popular Wikipedia but built upon our P2P network,” said Pablo Soto, CEO of MP2P Technologies, and a 28yo developer who was also behind Blubster and Piolet. “Our development team has worked diligently to create something new to advance P2P file-sharing and bridge it to the 'wikiocracy’ born out of the social media revolution. Welcome to the O-Drive.”To further ensure privacy and the principles of online democracy, Omemo is both anonymous and controlled by the community and no single, centralized authority. Every aspect is 100% community policed; from the promotion of superior content through community voting, to the organization of files, and the flagging of inappropriate content, for example.
"There is no way to know who uploads a file, nor who downloads it," a spokesperson says.“Omemo shares resources, not files. In fact, the Omemo network is so vast that it is capable of hosting countless copies of the entire Wikipedia website or could host the Radiohead digital storefront without any of the bandwidth issues they experienced with their ambitious IN RAINBOWS release,” added Pablo Soto.
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If you have shared or downloaded legal or illegal movies online from paid for services or warez sites you might have noticed the file sizes are usually small an average of 600-700MB . Well if you have been wondering how to go about compressing some of dvd movies. Dvix is offering a free copy of its Divx pro software which allows you to compress your large dvd movies to more manageable file sizes.
If you have no idea wat DivX is well its the name of a popular video compression technology developed by DivX, Inc. The format was developed to enable users to play and create high-quality videos in a fast and convenient way, while still maintaining the best quality possible. The DivX codec is currently the most popular MPEG-4 based codec because of its quality, speed and efficiency as well as the wide range of DVD players that support DivX.
If you compare DivX movies to DVDs they're able to offer the same image quality at a much smaller the size, which makes them perfectly suited for movie downloads divx is one of most used format in distributing movies and videos online.
grab a copy of divx pro now here while the offer still lasts, am not sure how long this promotion is for so check it out.
- Windows Version
- Mac Version
Use gmail as a hard-drive
G-Mail Drive is small application that literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder by creating a virtual drive that allows you to use Gmail as a storage medium allowing you to perform saving and retrieve files as if it where your local hard drive.
You can drag and drop files into the drive, or use standard cutting and pasting. When you add a file, it sends an e-mail to your Gmail account with the file as an attachment. If you delete a file from the virtual drive, it deletes the associated e-mail, as well. Thats pretty about all you can do, but a pretty hand tool and an easy way of having an alternative means of backing up your files.
Listen to Music and Playlists from Gmail
For firefox users you might want to try out Gmail Files space to store and manage music by installing the extension, uploading some music, and then entering Player mode. From there you can create playlists from the music you've uploaded and play them in the embedded flash player.
Locate incredible Amazon discounts with DealLocker's secret Amazon Discount service a tool to find the secret and not so secret Amazon discounts. These are different than Amazon.com coupons, these items are where the price has dropped. According to the site the tool allows you to search 10% to 99% percent off for Amazon.com and every other Amazon site except Amazon Japan.Its almost Christmas you might just find that gift your looking for at a discount.
uTorrent has a Google widget/gadget for your Google Home page/igoogle that allows you to remotely monitor your downloads, take note this gadget only allows you to remotely monitor so the sad thing is you can only watch without control over your downloads. The good thing is you can embed this gadget about anyway online for example in blog or website etc.
How to set you your uTorrent gadget
The first thing you need to do is download and set up the utorrent webUI plugin if you haven't done so already take a quick read on my previous step by step on how to achieve this. Once you have performed all the steps outlined in the guide you can head on to your Google home page. Take not you will need to have an active Google account in order to gain access to your Google home page.
step 1 : login into your Google Homepage.
On your Google Homepage select "Add stuff " the button located at the top right hand side of your page.
step 2 : Now you should see the Add gadget menu.
Select "Add RSS Feed" this link is located near the bottom left hand side of the page.
Once done this should invoke a pop textbox that will allow you to enter the following URL http://conradpoohs.com/uTorrent.xml
Take note they are two variants of this gadget that I have seen so far via the uTorrent forums. The first link above gives you the following gadget see pic below.
The second URL http://river.hidden.googlepages.com/uTorrent.xml gives you a gadget that looks like this
The main difference is the first link gives you a gadget that has an extra option to limit the total number of active torrents downloading (just for cosmetic purposes).
After clicking the "add" return to your Google HP. You should then see the one of the gadgets above depending which link you decided to use.
step 3: What we need to do now is configure the gadget so that it will then display the torrent trackers currently loaded in the uTorrent
In the "Address" box you will enter your IP address. If you are unsure what it is go to the myipaddress.com and it will tell you your address.
The "Port" box is for the port you currently have open as the listening port for incoming connections to the uTorrent. You can find it under uTorrent's options ->"Preferences" -> connections tab as shown below.
Lastly, for the "Guest username" type guest this is the default for admin login type in the username you previously chose to use with the webUI plugin.
If you have reach this part your pretty much done you should have all the information entered as shown in this picture below.
click save and you should see your active torrents
Post your comments here or problems you might face in trying to configure this gadget. Take note if your behind a router you will need to look up port forwarding for your specific brand and type of router this is different on every router.
To map your ipaddress to something more meaningful have a look at how to setup you own domain name for free.
will be posted on 15 December 2007
If you haven't seen my previous post of how you can control and monitor your uTorrent client remotely see it here.
Brio beta allows you to host unlimited online meetings with up to 3 meeting participants, via your web browser.
Some of the features brio has
- screen sharing
- interactive white board feature to perform sketches for illustration purposes
- Access your meeting with a personalized easy URL
- document file sharing
- integrated VoIP,
- teleconferencing and multi-point video
Take not its still in beta you can give it a try here
Acebird.com
source lifehacker
Well they was youtube now there's filesTube a search engine dedicated to files what kind of files? well things like (rapidshare files, megaupload files etc) .
This a much better way of searching for such files and its apparently not powered by Google, that means what you might not be able to find using Google you might just find using filestube. I have to admit they where a few search queries that did not produce any relevant results using Google search but filestube managed to get some pretty relevant results some where spot on. Overall the web interface is clean and its not clattered with advertisements making the surfing experience that much better.
I just noticed people are using this search engine to find nothing else but porn , most of the top searches are porn my goodness.
Other things you can do with the service
Download lists.
Organize your search results. You can easily group download links in manageable lists. You can also share your download lists with friends.
Download history.
Keep track of your downloads. By default every file downloaded with FilesTube is shown in your download history. This enables you for example to quickly find links of downloaded files for ratings and comments.
Link submission
Free flash mp3 player that you can embed into your blog or website.
When you're trying to find someone online, Google's not the only game in town. In the last two years, a handful of new people search engines have come onto the scene that offer better ways to pinpoint people info by name, handle, location, or place of employment. While there's still no killer, one-stop people search, there are more ways than ever to track down a long-lost friend, stalk an ex, or screen a potential date or employee. The next time you wonder, "What ever happened to so-and-so?" you've got a few power people search tools to turn to.
Note: Stalking is serious business. When we say 'stalk,' we're exaggerating, not recommending.
Find Phone Numbers and Addresses with ZabaSearch
Look up anyone's home address(es) and phone numbers at ZabaSearch, a creepily-comprehensive people search engine that will freak you out when you search on your own name but save your ass when you desperately need a former coworker's phone number. ZabaSearch's index includes listed and unlisted numbers and addresses (though the founders say all the info is public record.) Search the "Deep Web" with Pipl
My favorite new search engine of the bunch, Pipl digs up information about a person Google often misses, supposedly by searching the "deep web" (or "invisible web.") Pipl returns an impressive number of results for most people who use their "real" names online, including personal web pages, press mentions, MySpace pages, and Amazon wishlists. You can also narrow your search for common names by entering city, state and country, too. Search Several Social Sites at Once with Wink
So the person you're looking for likely has a Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, or Xanga account? Instead of searching each service individually, enter their full name or screen name, plus other identifying information like interests and location at Wink to do a one-hit comprehensive search of all those services at once. Get Employment Results at ZoomInfo
Job-centric search engine ZoomInfo aggregates people and company information in one place to help candidates find the right job, but its people search tool also turns up information about corporate types especially well. ZoomInfo's information listings on people, culled from the web, include people's employment history and current job title, whether or not they're looking for a job. Search by a person's full name at ZoomInfo, and when you get too many results, filter them by geography (U.S. and Canada only.) Find More than College Students at Facebook
Incessant notifications, Beacon, and zombies aside, one of Facebook's greatest utilities is finding people online, and it's not just for students anymore. Chances are your grandmother set up a Facebook account this year, so all those annoying emails might be worth tracking down your best friend when you were 9 years old who moved to Florida on Facebook.source lifehacker
I have been speaking English since forever, but just sometimes once in a while you run into some words that you just have no clue how to pronounce. I came across a great pronunciation tool or audio dictionary whatever you want to call it, that might just help in this situation and thought I should share it, maybe it might be of some use to you. HowJSay offers instant audio of a huge collection of words pretty much said the right way. I can just imagine how this tool could save you from one of those embarrassing moments when you stumble on a word giving a speech or presentation to a captive audience, and you end up saying bob wire instead of barbed wire.
Rapidgrap is a free service that allows you to literally have unlimited downloads from rapidshare with the capability to pause and resume your downloads using one of the download manager recommended by the creators of rapidgrab flashget or orbit. All you will need to do to start using this service is copy and paste your rapidshare link into the textbox shown on the main site enter secret code and grab the new rapidgrab link of your entered rapidshare link. Copy paste the link into the download manager and your good to go.
Take note according to the FAQ version 1.7.x of flash get are recommended for best performance.
download flashget1.7.x here
download orbit here
To have the illusion of continuous downloading you can queue up all your downloads and resume so as each one finishes the next will begin.
According to the site FAQ download speeds will be upto 200 KB/sec for the first 800 MB. After you reach this limit, download speed will be limited to 32 KB/sec. During my testing averaged between 25 - 35kb/sec. I cant complain its a free service.
Overall the services works great so far i kid you not and definitely beats having to wait for that counter you know what I mean if your a user of rapidshare.
if you have tried this service out post your comments let me know what you think of it.
This mini article is all about PLR articles the good and the bad. I have tried to bring my insights in an unbiased manner, so you can get the full picture about PLR article. Whether you’re convinced to use them or not it’s entirely up to you the reader to decide whether it’s the best approach to take in your quest to building internet traffic, an online presents or credibility and authority online. Another issue which I will address is How to pick the right PLR content distributor, Part 2 will outlines some of the best PLR services online and some free online services you can use to check wither your articles are 100% unique, before publishing them to your blog or website or to Ezine directories.
Firstly let’s take a look at what PLR (Private Label Right’s articles) are. The term PLR refers to articles that are written and made available for several purchasers (you) to buy and use with no strings attached. PLR articles give you the purchaser total control over the article to do what you please literally. That means you can change it claim it as your own created work without having to worry about any copyright infringement. You can include links to your products or affiliate products, change or add any graphics you wish, edit or use the existing content as is, submit to article directories in order to generate more back-links to your site, but of cause all this comes with a price to pay.
For those of you who keep up to date with my blog would know that most of the services I blog about are 100% free as I am an advocate of free things, but the reality is that something’s are best bought, If your going to go for PLR articles you should be prepared to spend a wee bit of cash, nothing much though that will leave a noticeable dent in your bank account. If you’re serious about leveraging articles as means of internet marketing and not willing to pay a bit then don’t even bother try getting the free articles.
Why would you want to use ready made articles for your website or Blog?
- Time is major factor for some of us; we simple can’t find or don’t have enough time to start pumping out articles a day and have enough time do our daily chaos.
- Writing is not much of your thing.
- Your just plain lazy or overly procrastinate getting nothing done.
- You don’t have enough ideas or inspiration on your respective niche. I believe once you think it at least 90% of the time theirs something like it similar online make it all the more difficult to come up with a truly original idea. Take note 90% is an arbitrary figure.
- Hiring ghost writers at places like elance.com to write unique content for you can become quite an expensive endeavor for the average Joe.
Benefits of PLR articles
PLR articles are more cost efficient than hiring someone to write articles for you generally available for $5- $30 for 5 to 200 PLR articles and some as low as 80 cents a piece. Having PLR articles at hand could be a great benefit and would make all the difference in building up traffic and more readers to your website or blog.
Another major benefit is building your brand through article marketing by structuring PLR articles into opt in newsletters, auto responder, special reports or free give away or pay-ware e-books. These can build credibility and a strong online brand. Consistent information of value keeps your readers coming back to you
PLR articles can be used to develop new content websites; you can use them for blog posts, to add additional supplementary content to an already established site or maybe these sites could be a source of generating money via pay per click services or affiliate programs such as click bank.
Maybe your going away on holiday but yet still want to make your blog or website appear as if its been updated daily you can use PLR articles as a way to set your site on auto pilot allowing you to automate your article publishing process.
Your cant write to save your life ok maybe that’s a bit too much, maybe your English is not that good. It's much easier improving a ready made article than writing a brand new one entirely from scratch. PLR Articles are a godsend for those who are having trouble writing their own articles
As most experienced online marketers know, writing unique quality content is not only difficult, if not outside the reach of most people without an innate talent for this, but it is not by itself any guarantee that more money can be generated from simply publishing more of it. PLR articles can serve as a way to generate more ideas for your respective niche.
Most private label articles are written by professionals and compiled with the latest research and information by writers who do this for a living time saved in performing your own research on the topic. That’s been done for you , the need to spend valuable time performing such tedious tasks is omitted.
The not so goods about PLR articles
Some of the problems of PLR articles are not necessary related to the quality of the written content itself, but by the distributors of the PLR articles. The probability of acquiring low quality PLR articles is high unless ones takes it upon him or her self to do some extended research into finding the right PLR distribution service. They are just way to many conman’s cropping up online making it all the harder to find genuine and authentic services. Most PLR services force you to invest in a membership to their site. After paying for access, you never know what type of content you're going to get. Theirs also a high probability of getting sustain material. Even thou it may be cheap but its still money right?
Your not the only one getting a piece of the meat. The problem is some PLR services are trying to make a quick buck out of you its now a gold rush as many have seen that selling such content is such a good lucrative business. Original content and authentic ideas are entangled in the get rich quick schemes. Just give it a try, try Googling “plr articles” you will see what I mean, some of these site are an eyesore and don’t look credible at all, I would be very suspicious entering my credit card number.
Usually you can get a lot of articles for a cheap price but the problem is you have to share all of those articles, generally, with of other people this leads to a whole bunch of information regurgitation.
Everyone has the same content and if everyone uses that content as they have received it then the search engines are going to notice.
Don’t just take the PLR content and use it as is. Try by all means to recreate it or use it as a form or way to get ideas and insights.
A lot of people misuse PLR articles, thus the people have tended to frown over PLR articles. If people find out that your content is not original and you have the very same thing that a couple of other websites. There goes your credibility and month or years of establishing an online presence.
The constant needs re-modifying and validating whether the content is authenticate so as to not get penalized by search engines. This process could be more time consuming making the whole point of using the article useless. Recreating the article from scratch. Would be required, this will very much depend on your writing skills, for some even modification is hard leading to ruining the whole article.
On that note PLR articles are only as good as what you do with them. If you use them without modification of any kind, of course you’ll probably fall in the trap of duplicate content. Rewriting and tweaking is very important in order to convert your PLR content to unique content. If PLR articles are use correctly they could potentially serve as a source of content that could really help move peoples online businesses forward or Blogs/websites.
It’s important that you do thorough research before cashing your money out to some of these services.