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Colorado Schools Ban Tag?
2007-08-31 06:30:00 Do you listen to Glenn Beck on the radio? Or perhaps watch his TV show on Headline news? What a great, common sense, down-to-earth guy, he is. I love the way he just tells it like it is. I recently read a transcript about one of his shows where Colorado schools have banned the game tag. Are ... More About: Schools , Rado
Keep Track Of Your Time With WR Time Tracker
2007-08-29 06:50:00 If you need a fast and easy way to keep track of your time for projects, you should give WR Time Trac k er a look. It’s free, for one thing, but you have your choice of using the service on their site or downloading it to your own server and tweaking as you please. Once you create ... More About: Tracker
Blog Contest To Increase Your Traffic
2007-08-28 06:56:00 Honestly, I don’t know how he does it. Garry Conn is not short on ideas for making money with blogs. Not only does he provide great blogging tips in general, but he’s always announcing some new blog of his or some way of helping you to make a little extra moolah. This time he’s providing ... More About: Contest , Traffic , Blog
5 Myths About Copyrighted Material
2007-08-27 18:00:00 I found this little corner of the Web many, many moons ago. Mr. Brad Templeton is the author of it and I often refer to it to freshen up my understanding of copyright law, which can come in handy for us bloggers, yes? Actually, he debunks 11 myths. I just wanted to cherry-pick the ones I ... More About: Myths , Material , Myth , Materia
Drummin? Up Some Link Love #17
2007-08-26 17:29:00 [Drum roll please] Here’s the latest edition of my Drum Corps series: Kyle explains the benefits of using Google Reader Notifier. If you’re a Windows user, then you can download this nifty little app to alert you when your faves post something new. Brown Baron brings us an awesome mouse that every gamer should have. It’s called the ... More About: Love , Link , Some
Guessing Now Can Earn You Bucks Later
2007-08-25 07:49:00 Ever thought you could predict the outcome of something? Perhaps you put a little wager on a game, political event, fantasy football, who or what will get such-and-such award. Well, with GuessNow you just might earn a little reward for guessing the right thing. The site is really one big game and completely free to play. ... More About: Earn , Bucks
All The Portable Apps You Can Eat
2007-08-24 04:09:00 Okay, maybe not eat, actually, but you’ll have plenty to choose from to store on your USB drive for sure. If you’re an on-the-go person and looking for portable apps, then Lupo PenSuite is where you need to be. Broken down into categories, you’ll find browsers, email clients, video and audio players, MP3 tools, CD rippers ... More About: Portable , Portable Apps
Feelin? The Love
2007-08-23 07:24:00 Mike and Tish combined their powers for good yet again and came up with another type of award…one that they have bestowed upon me. The award is given to bloggers who have not been featured on BlogsWeLuv (but could be some day?). And if you haven’t already visited that blog, stop by now. You may even ... More About: Love
Fresh Badge Generator
2007-08-21 07:30:00 I’ve seen quite a few badge generators, but I don’t think I’ve seen one as good as Fresh Badge Generator . In true Web 2.0 style, you can create numerous variations until you get just the right combination of color, font, glare, gloss, and shadow. You even have your choice of shapes: retro flower, sawtooth seal, rounded ...
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
2007-08-21 06:27:00 You may have heard in the news about an illegal immigrant who was hiding in a church in Chicago to avoid being deported. Oh! Did I type that out loud? I meant to say she was claiming sanctuary in a church in Chicago. Gosh, I almost made it sound like she actually was being ... More About: Stupid
So How Many Infectious Diseases Today?
2007-08-19 07:42:00 World Clock does more than tell time. Much more. You can discover how many traffic accidents have occurred, drownings, abortions, illegal immigration growth, oil pumped, computers produced…and so on. And you can do this for a timeframe you select: year, month, week, day, now. According to the web site, Poodwaddle.com, there are a variety of sources which ... More About: Diseases , Today , Seas
The Sky?s The Limit With Thor Towers
2007-08-18 23:17:00 Have some extra time on your hands this weekend? Then spend it on Thor Towers. Your only tool is the space bar. As blocks drop down from the crane above, you release them one by one. The goal is to make a stack as high as you can. Each block shows the number of blocks you’ve successfully ... More About: The Web
Smackdown: co.mments vs. coComment
2007-08-15 07:38:00 Hi. My name’s Mark and I’m a Blog Schmoozer. (”Hi Mark.”) To be a blog schmoozer, one must leave comments on blogs and forums for the sheer joy of socializing, learning, sharing, whatever. I confess, while it does have its perks, it’s not always easy. There are times when it can be challenging keeping up with ... More About: Reviews , Smack , Smackdown
Drummin? Up Some Link Love #16
2007-08-13 06:19:00 A new week and that means a new list of inductees to my Drum Corps ! Clickalite Glen says, “I have made 3 changes to this blog to make my RSS stand out, but not enough that it would put off the reading experience or annoy anyone.” Good tips. Go get ‘em. The Views Of The All Seeing Eye Feeling ... More About: Love , Blogging , Link , Some
Keep Your Thumb From Doing Double-time
2007-08-12 06:22:00 If you’re old enough to remember being taught to type on an actual typewriter, you were probably taught to add two spaces after the end of a sentence. The reason for this was because typewriters had a fixed amount of space for each character. Because of this, it was hard to distinguish where one sentence ended ... More About: Time , Blogging , Double , Thumb , Doing
Gummy Footage Found In Archives
2007-08-12 04:19:00 I was digging through my grandparents attic last night and found something shocking! Apparently a well-known alien named Gummy has been among us humans for some time. He’s quite the dancer, too. Check out this footage. Who’s that girl he’s with? She looks familiar. Technorati Tags: humor, charleston, gummy More About: The Web , Archives , Foot , Chives , Hives
A Review On Paid Post Sites - Last Batch
2007-08-10 19:09:00 The rest of my reviews on paid-post sites covers a handful more. I decided to combine them since I only have brief comments to say about each. Smorty Being a member of this one for a few months, I haven’t seen this one grow in the way of opportunities much — not much at all. I do ... More About: Reviews , Review , Post , Sites , Paid
A Cat With A Bow And Arrow - Sounds Like Fun
2007-08-07 07:59:00 Honestly, I don’t know how people come up with these ideas. My latest time-waster is Cat With Bow Golf. You’re this cat with a bow and arrow. The object is to pull with the proper amount of strength on the bow and hit the bullseye. The cat is like a rag doll, what with its arms and ... More About: Sounds , The Web
The Last Bookmark You?ll Need For Images And Fonts - Ever
2007-08-06 06:57:00 Simply put, Blue Vertigo is likely to be the last resource you’ll need for: stock photography fonts clip art textures Photoshop brushes sounds (although I didn’t find Soundsnap) icons There are over 1,000 links to such repositories. Some are free, others are paid, but you can at least get to them to find out for yourself if they’re for you or not. Though it ... More About: Bookmark , Images , Fonts , The Last , Ages
Extraordinary Boost In Viewers On MyBlogLog
2007-08-05 18:00:00 I try to check my stats regularly, but I’ve never seen anything like this before. This evening I noticed that my profile on MyBlogLog indicated a whopping 4,600+ readers and 6,700+ page views on MAMD as of this writing. According to my reports, a lot of people visited a post I made about Bigstring, a service providing ... More About: Boost , Extraordinary , Xtra , Ordinary
A Review On Paid Post Sites - Sponsored Reviews
2007-08-05 07:36:00 Earlier this week I reviewed PayPerPost . Now it’s Sponsored Review s ’ turn. The low-down Sponsored Reviews has quite a few opportunities to choose from when compared to PayPerPost, and all are categorized for easy selection. Unlike PPP, however, the amount of money you can make from the opportunity is shown by how little and how much the advertiser ... More About: Sites
Prevent Nuclear Disaster With Robot Goal
2007-08-04 19:00:00 Robot Goal is more than the average shoot-em-up game. It requires a little forethought, which is something I like in games because it keeps you sharp (and I know how some of you like to stay sharp ). Your mission: program a sequence of moves for your robot to collect green spheres. Once you collect ... More About: Robot , Nuclear , Disaster , Vent
A Review On Paid Post Sites - PayPerPost
2007-08-04 06:55:00 Over the past few months, I’ve written posts that have been sponsored by the likes of PayPerPost , SponsoredReview s, Bloggerwave, and Smorty. I thought it was time to write a review about them, so over the next few days I’ll be posting about each. PayPerPost The granddaddy of this line-up, this is the one that has paid me ... More About: Sites , Paid , Payperpost
Drummin? Up Some Link Love #15
2007-08-04 06:30:00 Ah, yes. It’s that time again for spreading a little link love. As I browse the Web throughout the week, I make careful note of blogs I find interesting, entertaining, useful, or sometimes all three. Who will be next? Why these five, of course. Ghosts in the Machine My friend Sharon has some interesting news about web ... More About: Love , Blogging , Link , Drum Corps , Some
How Would You Spend $800?
2007-08-02 06:34:00 My friend, Matthew, of Blog About Your Blog (of which I’m a contributing author) is promoting a contest over at INVESP Consulting. They’re trying to increase their RSS subscriptions, and with up to $800 as the prize, I think they’ll do just that. Here’s how it works Subscribe to their feed. Easy enough, but there’s a little ... More About: Would
Where To Find A Toilet With MizPee
2007-07-31 18:00:00 This isn’t so much as an endorsement of a service as it is a review of something that I find comical. Say you’re in unfamiliar territory and you’ve just finished a large glass of water, maybe two, at a restaurant. You forgot to [ahem] relieve yourself and now you’re walking down the street and ... More About: Find , The Web , Toilet , Where
Never Miss A Release Of Software Again
2007-07-30 18:00:00 With Beta Marker you can discover new software while keeping track of the software that you like. You’ll never miss out on the latest release again! It’s sort of like BlogCatalog in a way. You create your profile and mark software that you like (like joining communities). Find someone there that shares the same interest in ... More About: Software , Miss , Release , Ease
Create Self-Destructing Emails With Bigstring
2007-07-30 06:52:00 Ever send an email to someone and wish you could take it back? Perhaps it was to the wrong person, maybe it contained incorrect information, or maybe you were a little angry when you wrote it. With Bigstring, you can call it back or even cause it to self-destruct. You have a few choices available when ... More About: Emails , Create , Tring
Speak The Language Of The Country You?re In Please
2007-07-29 18:00:00 I found this video a while back while browsing. The message is clear: America has gone too far to accommodate other people’s languages in its own country. The one time that I have been out of the country, I appreciated the translations to my language when it came to signs, like the kind you would find ... More About: Country , Language , Speak , Ease , Peak
Speak The Language Of The Country You?re In Please
More articles from this author:2007-07-29 18:00:00 I found this video a while back while browsing. The message is clear: America has gone too far to accommodate other people’s languages in its own country. The one time that I have been out of the country, I appreciated the translations to my language when it came to signs, like the kind you would find ... More About: Country , Language , Speak , Ease , Peak 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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