24 Jan 09 Need a new computer – check out Surplus and Discount Computers
Surplus computer means that makers overstock, excess, or slightly superseded inventories in huge quantities were purchased. What that means for you, the customer, is truly remarkable discount computer prices. Check your local paper or online advertises for Surplus Sales! The benefit and value of surplus computers were traditionally available to only corporate buyers or large dealers.
The sellers of surplus computers and discount computers are committed to offering great savings to you, the customer. Desktop PCs, laptops, notebooks, barebone systems, complete computer systems, computer accessories, everything in computers you can find in surplus and discount computers.
Sometimes repackaged products are sold as surplus computers or discount computers just check that they have been evaluated, tested and quality assured, fully functional and repackaged prior to you laying down your hard earned cash.
22 Jan 09 Web browers – Firefox
Just looking at upgrading my WWW browers and thought I’d throw a quick review of the Firefox browser is fast becoming the browser of choice for online fans for several reasons. Here are just a handful of reasons why you should consider this browser, it’s
1. Faster, Safer
2. Got Popup Blocking
3. Has good Privacy and Security controls
Like most modern browser you have the options of tabs or you can surf several pages on one tab, you can actually set up your home page to have several webpages in it, unlike most browsers where you can only have one.
Of course RSS syndicated feeds, if you haven’t already, subscribe to crazylinks4free here!. RSS feeds are commonly used by news and media sources; let you read the latest news headlines as they happen. On top of this you will enjoy hassle free downloading as all files you download are automatically saved and managed to a single location on your computer, of your choice.
Go ahead and take a look at what else the browser can do for you today, site link is here.
20 Jan 09 Quick Tip: Write an Interview Thank You Letter
I’ve been applying work recently and I found this technique that may increase your chances.
So you’ve just had an interview and it went well. Now you what to make a lasting impression on your interviewer?
Send them a letter thanking them for the interview.
While sending a thank you letters isn’t required or expected (most people don’t send them), it’s very courteous and shows the interviewer you were interested in them, their company and what they had to say if you write post interview thank you letter and send them to all your interviewers.
In today’s highly competitive job market where not many jobs are around, your thank you letter will signal that you are courteous, professional and that you are really grateful for the employer taking the time to interview you.
With a quick search online, you can find lots of free thank you letters, or sample interview thank you letters. Use these examples as guides on who you should structure and what you should say in your interview thank you letter. No matter how busy the potential company is, it’s always nice to receive a genuine “thank you.” from someone.
Just make it a habit of sending out job interview thank you letters and you should see how quickly you find yourself on the short list of top candidates.
Tags: Interview Thank You
19 Jan 09 Freeware Games – My Favs (Part 3) – Glest
This is a great real-time strategy game, where you are in command of the armies of two different factions: Magic, which prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield and Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and their mechanical devices.
Glest screen snapshot
Glest is also an open engine that can be used to create new strategy games. The engine is based on XML and contains a set of tools for designers. A few mods already exist.
Released: December 2004
Download link (51 MB): Download here
Tags: freeware games, strategy game
17 Jan 09 Death Rally review – great huh!
This is a great game that has been around forever (1996) (it’s Dos based!). Despite it’s age, it still has a strong following.
With visually splendid graphics and with great game play, Death Rally provides a great top-down perspective to the racing game genre.
Your objective: earn money in the battle races, fighting hard for each and every championship point. Each race can be lethal, if driving wasn’t hard enough; your fellow competitors are constantly showering you in a hail of bullets. If you lose, it’s possible to repair your car and cover those bullet holes, but the winner spends his well deserved winnings on new armor, tires or engines.
As you a whizzing along, you can shoot your way through screaming pedestrians, grab some more ammo and do some shady deals for The Dealer. Check your morals at the door, no trick is too dirty in Death Rally, when you’re preparing for The Final Confrontation. Beaf up your car since only the strongest armor, the most souped up engine and the largest guns will see you through to the final battle – The Adversary.
Throughout the game, if you need a break, check out the underground market, some of the things you can purchase are: Landmines, Spiked bumpers, rocket fuel or sabotage. These can assist during the game to some nasty accidents your fellow competitors.
The game is built using a hi-performance 3D-Engine with features texture mapping, lighting effects and shadows. Death Rally creates a level of visual impact that was ahead of it’s time, unseen before in the racing game genre. All cars are 100% rendered, and you are supported by an animated hi-resolution menu system. Great game playability makes sure that you are entertained for hours.
Death Rally supports network multiplay for up to 4 players, or you can just play alone. PC connections can be made via the serial port (if you still have one!) or via the internet.
Key game features:
- Over 20 megs of action packed animation
- 6 different cars
- 19 different tracks
- Each car is equipped with different weapons
- Ugradeable Armor, Engines and Tires
- Up to 4 player multiplayer
There have been some reported issues running the game under XP or Vista, have a look at some of my other articles.
Tags: death rally
16 Jan 09 Monitoring your sites popularity
I thought I would share some of my favorites for monitoring my web sites popularity online. These tools assist you discovering things like the number of unique visitors, backlinks, traffic, site demographics, what is the website worth etc. Important note – whilst it might sound great that your web site is worth $10, most of the data provided is just estimates, don’t take it to hear, get excited and purchase that new car! Please!
Here is my short list, what’s your favs?
Popuri
Socialmeter
Quarkbase
DnScoop
Tags: site monitoring
15 Jan 09 Squiddo – what is it?
In recent years, Squidoo has become one of the most fashionable social networking services that internet marketers use to create websites and achieve high search engine rankings. Squidoo, which in some ways is similar to Blogger, allows individuals to quickly set up a website on any niche that they are interested in. Squiddo provides all of the tools needed to create an eye-catching website, you don’t have to worry about having the required web building experience or technical skills to create a cool website.
Squidoo allows web masters to use pictures and images and also embed videos. While the basic layout of the pages is the same, people that use Squidoo can customize the look+feel to their liking and to advertise their own products. You can also add banners and product images.
Squidoo offers a large number of different ways for internet marketers to make money. These include revenue sharing (between Squiddo and yourself) with Adsense or other sponsored ad companies. They also allow you to make money by using affiliate programs such as Amazon or eBay.
One of the biggest benefits of Squidoo is that their lenses, search engines love them. If you keep them fresh and continuously updated by adding incoming links to them, you should see good traffic results.
Maintenance of Squidoo pages is also very easy to update, the Squiddo administration panel is very easy to drive and there is a good online help system.
To assist you getting going, Squidoo has an internal user community where members can visit other member’s lenses, participate in the forum, make comments and communicate with each members. Some members who are experts and understand the inner workings of Squidoo can generate traffic just from the system itself. However, most people depend on non-members to visit and purchase from their lenses. Use traditional traffic generation techniques (there are plenty documented on this site), a lens can be marketed like any other website.
The major issue with Squidoo is that you don’t own your lenses, you are using their tool, environment and hosting, if the company folds (possible but highly unlikely) you would have no recourse your site is gone.
There are lots of benefits to marketing with Squidoo, but I’ll cover this as a future discussion topic, Squidoo lenses are definitely worth adding to one’s internet marketing arsenal.
14 Jan 09 How to make a solid and regular passive income from Adsense
As you are aware, Google offer publishers a tool for placing adverts on your site, Adsense. By tuning your approach to search engine keywords you can make a regular Passive Income from the Internet. Over the years, studies by internet marketers have been performed into how they can maximize their income with Adsense, bellow are my tips on a proven approach.
Many web site owners spend lots of effort searching high and low for that magic list of high paying keywords that no one else knows, it’s quite common to see these “High Paying Keywords” questions in Internet forums, however successful publishers use the follow formula:
Your Web sites Income = Visitors x CTR x Click Value
Where,
1. Visitors – The most visitors, the more page impressions and the more chance you will get a visitor clicking on ad within the page
2. CTR (Click Through Rate) – The more visitors click an ad on your site, the more Google counts towards your income
3. Click Adsense Value (High Paying Clicks) = Keywords – The higher the value of an ad keyword, the more income you will receive.
When Internet advertising was new, it was common to get high paying ad clicks of $30 – $50 from Adsense, but these days are long gone. There are still high paying niches, such as Cancer, Debt, Insurance, your limited marketing budget doesn’t challenge rival large players websites to get traffic. Whilst not impossible, my suggestion is not to focus on these niches.
So what niche do you focus on? Well, there are lots of good paying keywords which have a lot less competition from other sites which you can rank more easily rank higher in search engines and enjoy link traffic within an acceptable Internet marketing budget.
Tags: adsense, keyword optimization, keywords
12 Jan 09 FREE Online File Type converter
There are lots of websites on the Internet that are able to convert different file types into other formats. Eg, you may have a OpenOffice file and you want to convert it to Microsoft Word 98 format or maybe you have a Giff .gif image file and what it into jpeg .jpg format.
Zamzar.com can help convert most of today’s popular file formats into other formats. Here is a list of the different file types and what they can each convert to:
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php
Sometimes you receive a file from someone but don’t have the actual program, so it’s great we can just change the file format online to a format suitable for our application. There are several other websites that might assist you:
Free Online PDF Creator – http://online.primopdf.com
11 Jan 09 Eight easy ways at no cost to Market Your Business
Are you trying to promote your business with a tiny marketing budget? Opportunities are plentiful for low or no cost marketing. Here are a few that won’t cost you a cent.
1. Publish articles about your area of expertise. “How-to” articles are always welcome. Ensure you include your web URL, email address and other contact information.
2. Write articles and letters to the editor of publications your target market reads.
3. Get involved in an community or organization project.
4. Build complementary alliances with non-competing businesses and partner with them to cross-promote each others businesses.
5. Write a unique report. A “super how to” list for your area of expertise. Distribute the article freely. Ensure that your web URL, email address and other contact information is included.
6. Speak at groups and organizations events. Make sure that the audience is your target market otherwise you are wasting your time.
7. Carefully target relationships with various media sources, online and offline.
8. Write press releases that are newsworthy and distribute to your special contacts.
The more active you can be, the more interested you will generate for your business.
Tags: Market Your Business
