Tuesday, October 2, 2007

How About Some Anagram ?

If you play cross word puzzle , at some point of time you would have come across anagrams. Even otherwise, anagram is fun way to keep you entertained. Care to see some interesting anagrams

Rearranging the letters of

"George Bush" gives "He bugs Gore",
"Madonna Louise Ciccone" gives "Occasional nude income" and
"William Shakespeare", "I am a weakish speller"??!

The above is from the site called Anagram Genius. There is also a free trial version for download if you are interested to use if offline.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Online Tips

If you are looking for some good tips on anything related to technology , being online , blogs, tools , adsense etc www.quickonlinetips.com is a place worth giving a shot.

It has loads of information you can amuse yourself with.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Online Scrabble

Who doesn't know about the popular board game scrabble ? Played with 2 to 4 players by using square titles to form words that link with words existing on the board, it combines knowledge (language proficiency) and luck.

Alfred Mosher Butts initially designed it in 1931 and after it fair share of rejection and transformation it was only in 1948 that this game legally came into existence. But after that there is no turning back.

If you are an avid scrabble player check out the following online sites where you can play , challenge, learn more and cherish


http://www.scrabble.com/
http://www.scrabulous.com/

Mattel one of the official producer has the speed scrabble game online for kids

http://www.mattelscrabble.com/en/kids/

Have fun.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

HP's Free Online Training On Technology , Marketing , Business

  • Want to learn more about the business edition of Vista or wish to create your own marketing material from free templates ?
  • How about running a mail campaign or learning about computer security.
  • May be you are interested in Firewalls and Storage Networks.
  • Wish to keep you updated on cutting edge technology?
The best part is all these can be learned at the comfort of your home/officeplace 24* 7. If you say 'Yes' to any of these then you will be happy with Hewlett Packard's (HP) free training on Information & Technology for professionals in IT, marketing , Business and much more.
Follow the link HP Free Online courses . Just register with your email id to get started on great content for free.
Before you rush to HP did you check my previous post on Microsoft freebies ?
Do drop me a note if you know about any such great links for the benefit of all.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Wish To Know What The World Is Searching

People are constantly searching the net for various information through the search engines that constantly look out for the searched information and spew out the related links.

While the world is searching you may want to sniff their search terms for various purpose such as

  • build a website dedicated to the most searched item

  • know the popular key words to write articles

  • build an ad

  • or just to kill time when you are jobless at office

How will you know what the world is searching for ? That is where dogpile's searchspy comes in handy.It list the search terms from popular search engines such as google, ask, yahoo and livesearch. Also it operates in 2 modes , the filtered and the unfiltered


  1. Filtered mode - exclude offensive content and shows family friendly terms

  2. Unfiltered mode - no filtering is done , hence any adult related or offensive words searched will be listed

Infact the picture shows it clearly.


Get it at Dogpile SearchSpy

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Write Reviews And Earn Money Plus Freebies

If you are good at reviewing computer software products, games , utilities or anything related to computers and can give an unbiased writeup of the product then check out http://www.softwarejudge.com . It is a place where you not only get to earn money for your writeup you may also end up getting free games, products.

Check out the rules page and start writing if you are interested.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

4 Excellent Guides To Build Blog And Earn Money

These are 4 gems , ebooks/ezine whatever you may call it, coming from personal experience, trials, failures and success of people who have made internet and blogs their primary or almost primary earnings.

All the books are free. There is truck load of information for us to fill our small heads with. Read and be benefited.

  1. Deep Secrets Of Successful Blogging - The all in one golden book with valuable inputs covering topics from blogging , SEO , business, making money online, building traffic etc.Learn tips and stories from 30 experts who are the who is who in blog and internet world.
  2. Make Your Site Sell MYSS! 2002 Site Build It - The people who helped thousands to build and market websites for online business and claim to have sold more than 100,000 copies of the Bible of Internet sales . Don’t be putoff by the year of the book. Most of the information is still relevant in this huge 802 pages book. It has loads of information on 3 main topics product development & positioning , Site selling and Traffic Building .
  3. Make Money Online - John Chow is a familiar name in the blogging circles and in this book he shares some of his monetizing techniques such as Text Ad Links, Kontera , Review Me,Google and tips such as Deep Linking , comments and much more which can bring traffic. The 59 page book was released on 30th May 2007 and has many links to his earlier posts.
  4. Blog Profit Blueprints - Yaro Starak has been blogging since 2004. The book released on 31st May 2007 is a 55 page pdf talking about his experiment and success in monetizing his blog. You need to signup and confirm your subscription before you get a link to download the article. He talks about the necessacity of ‘Pillar’articles that make people stick to our blog and ‘Communication Channels’ to market our presence and the pathway that brings the crowd.

Courtesy: Credits to the respective authors and organization.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Earn Money With 12 Paid Blogging Websites

Anyone with a little capacity to write can make money blogging with networks that pay to blog.

Listed here in alphabetical order are 12 paid blogging networks each with their own terms and conditions to qualify as a member. Check out , Sign up and Start Making money.

  1. bloggerwave
  2. blogging ads
  3. Blogitive
  4. Blogsvertise
  5. creativeweblogging
  6. LinkWorth
  7. PayPerPost
  8. Payu2Blog
  9. ReviewMe
  10. smorty
  11. SponsoredReview.com
  12. Weblogs,Inc

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Popular Social Networking Sites

Social Networking sites helps people connect with friends and other people with similar interest. By offering cool features like music / photo sharing, Instant Messaging , blogs, forums, events connecting with friend and communities these websites attract teen-age to middle-aged crowd. Most of the sites have free registration and generate revenue through advertisements.

SN sites are great places to spread news as it reaches the connected groups very fast. There are a few hundred SN sites currently online. Listed below are some of the popular sites now

  1. Myspace - The biggest and fastest growing site .
  2. Orkut - Run by google with half the user base from Brazil. About 60% of the user are in the 15-25 age group .
  3. Classmates - Founded in 1995 it was one of the forerunners of Social networking sites connecting students in U.S. It has spread to different countries since then.
  4. hi5 - With about 60 millions users its users spread all across the globe .
  5. Friendster - About 47 million registered users connected.
  6. Xanga - Collection of Weblogs
  7. Windows Live Spaces - Managed by MSN , a collection of weblogs
  8. Facebook - Networks of 30 million users in groups such as student, office, regional etc.
  9. Linkedin - Connects 13 million professionals worldwide.
  10. Live Journal - Established since 1999 , people share journals/ blogs in communities

Monday, August 27, 2007

Microsoft - Official site for Free Training , template, pictures and others

Ever wanted to have some training to know more about the microsoft products. Wish you have some pictures, clipart to make your presentation more interesting ?

Just go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

1. It is a the official website of microsoft that provides free online training to its products such as excel , word, powerpoint, vision etc .

2. There are tops of pictures , jpegs and animation that you can download and use without the fear of copyrights and law suites.

3. There are templates that you can download and use it give a fresh look to your power point presentation and best of all it is free of cost.

I bet it is your pot gold.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

15 Freelance Job Sites

Listed below are 15 job sites to findfreelance work. Some require paid membership others offer free service. The jobs sites are listed alphabetically and not according to popularity or projects.


1 www.Careerpark.com
Claims to have projects from employers such as Bayor, Fila, Bauch etc covering a lot of job categories

2 www.Careerpath.com
Uses Careerbuilder search

3 www.Dice.com
Good collection of High end jobs

4 www.Elance.com
Paid membership required to bid for projects

5 www.Freelancers.com
For those involved in design, illustration, editing, and photography.

6 www.freelanceyourproject.com
Projects with Open auction format.paid membership required

7 www.gofreelance.com
Jobs in Admin Support, Consulting, Programming, Photography , website design and development

8 www.Guru.com
Claims to connect with 629,000 professionals

9 www.Hotjobs.com
Once of the most established job sites from Yahoo

10 www.Monster.com
Huge collection of jobs across the world. Use 'Freelance' to search

11 www.ProgrammingBids.com
Mostly website designs, logos, flash, GUI, perl/cgi/php scripts from freelancers, programmers & web designers

12 www.Projectlance.com
Boast of 100 new projects everyday

13 www.Rentacoder.com
Comprehensive site with project listing on many platforms and technology. Coders can register for free.

14 www.scriptlance.com
Free signup and no monthly fees for programmers

15 www.Vault.com
Covers a spectrum of industries. Must use "freelance" as a keyword in your search. Includes optional feature for excluding headhunters.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

5 Free Blog Tools

You want to blog ? Here is a listing of 5 free software that helps you to blog . Some of these hosts your blog for free. For others you may want to check out a hosting company. There are good hosting companies in the market for less than $10/ month.


1. Wordpress

One of the most loved blog platform with cool widget moving capabilities and various plugins to enhance the functionality.

Follow the URL: http://wordpress.org/


2. Blogger

An equally popular blog tool with a strong user crowd.

Follow the URL : http://blogger.com/


3. MSN Spaces

A mix of social networking and blog , sharing photos, gadgets, instant messaging and other Microsoft Windows live functionality included.

Follow the URL : http://home.services.spaces.live.com/


4. b2evolution

Has capabilities to manage your file and photos and allows multiple blogs with varying skins. You can run this blog from any webserver having PHP and MySQL , while the tool itself is free you will need a hosting company to run your blog.

Follow the URL : http://b2evolution.net/



5. ebloggy



This comes with support for blogger templates , blog statistics for you to improve your blog and is highly customizable as per your needs.

Follow the URL : http://www.ebloggy.com/

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