November 16th, 2007 at 02:11pm Under Uncategorized
Finally I am back. I am hoping to pick up everything in a short time.
First of all, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
For the new year I am hoping to bring you more news about the web technology. I also hope to increase my frequency of posting - hopefully at least once a day.
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November 9th, 2007 at 09:34pm Under Reviews
So far I have written 6 posts for Smorty. Here is my earnings report:
31 August - $6
9 September - $6
27 September - $6
4 October - $6
19 October - $6
There is also a post waiting for approval, which should pay me $9.
So far I have found this service pays really fast. It probably take a few days to approve your post. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. Once approved, money would be transferred to your Paypal account immediately.
My website is not having a high page rank, but I can see that there are more and more opportunities available for me to write! I can choose the ones that I think would be relevant to my blog. Since my blog is a technology blog, I usually write about electronics, websites, computers etc.
Sometimes I get too busy that I have to let these opportunities go; and I don’t really want my blog to be full of sponsored articles anyway. But still, I would say Smorty has brought me some extra cash, fast and easy.
If you don’t know about Smorty, here you go:
Advertisers wanting to advertise on blogs can use Smorty to distribute their request to bloggers. Bloggers get paid to blog about the advertisers; good or bad comments are accepted.
Check this out!
(Brought to you by Smorty)
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November 9th, 2007 at 09:17pm Under Reviews
I just come across this website about special Sound effects. Apparently Brice Carrington has been in the field for 20 years.
His sound effects has been used in films, video games, software and ringtones. What makes it stand out?
One of the key is that they are original. They are recorded live on the field using 6 microphones, to create the true 5.1 effects. If you are into dinosaur type of things, then you can imagine the sound that a T-Rex is eating. But your imagination can’t beat the real-ness of Brice’s sound effect. Recorded with a real lion chewing the bones, tearing the flesh… It is just awesome!
Brice travels around the world, recording different types of sound. His greatest work is the creation of Ultimate FX - which is now a huge sound library capturing a lot of sounds in great demand across various multimedia industries.
Brice’s latest creation is the Baidans Mixer and will be available within 2007. This is good news - with this software, consumers can create their own sound effects in their home movies!
If you want to know more, including the films that his work was featured, please visit his website for details.
(Brought to you by http://www.bricecarrington.com/)
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November 2nd, 2007 at 07:31am Under Press Release
Christmas is coming! Are you planning to start your Christmas shopping very soon? Watch your credit card balance - it goes out of control very easily.
There is a way to save money during this Christmas shopping craze. How about comparing the pricing, online, before buying?
Sit back and relax, have a cup of coffee. Then start your browser and go here: savebuckets.com
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST HAUNTS INDEBTED BRITS
- New price saving site launches to save Brits up to 20% this Christmas -
As the nation approaches the final countdown to Christmas, new research rings alarm bells over the financial impact of Christmas in credit crunch Britain. The research from the new money saving website Savebuckets.com reveals that as Brits prepare for Christmas, many are still paying off last year’s festive spending.
With 41 per cent of Britons paying for Christmas on credit last year, almost one in five are still paying for last year’s festivities (17%), fewer than one in three having cleared their Christmas debts when their January credit card bill arrived (29%).
Following a year of consumer confidence in 2006, Christmas spending soared 52 per cent in two years (from an average £548 per adult in 2004* to £837 per adult in 2006), with over one in five Brits spending over £1,000 on Christmas last year (22%). This year, with spending power at its lowest level for 10 years**, consumers are feeling the financial hangover from a more confident Christmas enjoyed on the credit card and loans.
Alarmingly, it is cash strapped youngsters and low income earners who, having spent the most on last Christmas, are most likely to be feeling the repercussions of last year’s spending spree (see figures below).
The research into the financial impacts of last Christmas amongst a GB representative sample of 2,000 British adults was carried out by the new money savings website Savebuckets.com which launches this week to enable Brits to get more for their money this Christmas.
With these alarming figures in mind, Savebuckets.com will give shoppers the opportunity to save up to 20% on their Christmas shopping. Putting consumers back in control of their spending, the site searches over 700 retailers for the best price on around one million products. The site includes a unique price checker which allows consumers to set the price they want to pay for items, notifying them when the price of a product falls to within their budget.
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November 2nd, 2007 at 07:27am Under Web 2.0
First of all, what is a tag cloud?
A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Tags are typically listed alphabetically, and tag frequency is shown with font size or color. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag. (Source Wikipedia)
Apparently tag clouds only appeared recently. They are widely used in blogs. But the first website to employ a tag cloud is, not surprisingly, Flickr.
There are 3 types of tag clouds:
1. Font size representing the number of times that tag has been applied to a single item. This displays data about an item that has been added, and precise results are not required.
2. Font size represents the number of items to which a tag has been applied. This shows the popularity of each tag. The tag cloud on this blog, by technorati, is this type.
3. Tags used to categorize items. Larger tags represent larger quantity of contents in that item.
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