Everyone likes a good old Rant from time to time. Its a great way to get things of your chest and calm you down.
Well now we can all do it, and tell the world what we think.
Check out this cool RANT website, that enables its readers to submit there own rants, as well as read up on the rants of the website creator.
Monday, 3 March 2008
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
HD-DVD KO'd
So, as is common knowledge at the moment, Blu Ray have appeared to have won the war. Toshiba announced last week that they were no longer making anymore players and Microsoft officially announced that they would no longer make thier add-on for the 360.
Its good news that after 2 years that the format war is finally come to an end. Its a shame that the better product for consumers didn't win though. HD-DVD was certainly imo better than Blu Ray, having more features and better picture (according to many reviews) , the greater sound and best of all the better price
With Blu Ray having to play catch up on most features that the HD-DVD player provided (PIP, firmware upgrades etc), lets hope that the price will now follow, as Blu Ray seem to be pricing themselves out the market. With HD-DVD players now as cheap as DVD players (Xbox add-on only $50 in the states), it seems that HD-DVD will end this war with a large, but worthless final battle.
Its good news that after 2 years that the format war is finally come to an end. Its a shame that the better product for consumers didn't win though. HD-DVD was certainly imo better than Blu Ray, having more features and better picture (according to many reviews) , the greater sound and best of all the better price
With Blu Ray having to play catch up on most features that the HD-DVD player provided (PIP, firmware upgrades etc), lets hope that the price will now follow, as Blu Ray seem to be pricing themselves out the market. With HD-DVD players now as cheap as DVD players (Xbox add-on only $50 in the states), it seems that HD-DVD will end this war with a large, but worthless final battle.
Does all this matter? imho NO. Blu Ray will never over take DVD's, just like minidiscs never had a touch on CD sales. This whole Format battle was a waste of time.
With Upscalers out there now, capable of upscaling to near high def visuals, I cant see many people ditching there DVD's for expensive Blu Ray discs.
Further more, the future of Video will follow the direct path of Music, I have no doubt about that. Downloading will become more and more popular and accessible and with many streaming devices now available, the future is surely Digital Distribution.
Microsoft and Apple have jumped on to the downloading band wagon and offer hours of HD content through the 360 and Apple TV.
Both act as streaming devices too, so you can even watch all your divx collection in front of the TV, as you can with the PS3, ipod touch , Pinnacle devices and loads more of equipment out there.
Digital Distribution is the future, and all the big names have set themselves up for this. Blu Ray is just a mear stepping stone.Published!!
Yep, that's right. I have just seen an article that I wrote get published on Ezine Articles.
Ezine articles is a pretty cool website, where you can find articles about anything and everything. Articles are submitted by common folk and if good enough, will get approved and published online.
You can see my article here it is a copy of one of my previous posts - this one
Whats the point in submitting an article if its on my blog? Well it should help bring in more traffic to my website. My article will appear on Ezine's high traffic homepage, RSS feed and Email alerts.
So if you have a blog or a website you wish to promote, using Ezlines is a great way. If you submit an article then ensure that you put a link to your website at the bottom. This will also give you a free link to your page, which will come in handy with SEO.
As an "Expert Author" I can now have one of these labels on my website:
It feels like I'm in some kind of exclusive club, but I'm sure they agree to hundreds of articles... but still. This is my moment of glory!!
Ezine articles is a pretty cool website, where you can find articles about anything and everything. Articles are submitted by common folk and if good enough, will get approved and published online.
You can see my article here it is a copy of one of my previous posts - this one
Whats the point in submitting an article if its on my blog? Well it should help bring in more traffic to my website. My article will appear on Ezine's high traffic homepage, RSS feed and Email alerts.
So if you have a blog or a website you wish to promote, using Ezlines is a great way. If you submit an article then ensure that you put a link to your website at the bottom. This will also give you a free link to your page, which will come in handy with SEO.
As an "Expert Author" I can now have one of these labels on my website:
It feels like I'm in some kind of exclusive club, but I'm sure they agree to hundreds of articles... but still. This is my moment of glory!!
Monday, 25 February 2008
Worlds Most Annoying Website
Seriously this is Uber annoying. But funny at the same time. Check it out; Funny but annoying
That's all i have to say on that, so this is a pretty short post.
But while i am here, i also wanna share this video that I found on Youtube that had me in stitches.
The video is put together by a girl called "Paperlilles", one would assume that that is an Alias, but you can never be to sure these days, with names like Apple and Romeo doing the rounds.
While you are watching that you might as well check out some of her other videos, some are pretty good... others aren't so.
That's all i have to say on that, so this is a pretty short post.
But while i am here, i also wanna share this video that I found on Youtube that had me in stitches.
The video is put together by a girl called "Paperlilles", one would assume that that is an Alias, but you can never be to sure these days, with names like Apple and Romeo doing the rounds.
While you are watching that you might as well check out some of her other videos, some are pretty good... others aren't so.
Friday, 22 February 2008
Ask and You Shall Get
We've all seen them magic 8 balls where if you have a tricky question that needs answering you can just ask the little black ball and it will give you its honest answer.
Well, just like the Rubik cube and lava light the eight ball is so 1980. So what do we do now with a difficult question?
Simple, ask the Internet. I found out today that it will not lie and gives you an honest answer.
The question I haven been asking myself of late is "am i awesome". So i typed this into my FireFox web browser and a website come up confirming what I already know. Check it out yourself (or click right here)
Cool ah?
Now for the record, I'm not that sad and i don't really ask myself that question. I was just trying to find a decent domain name I could use for a new Blog. But guess what... all the good ones are already taken.
What the hell is gonna happen is 10 years time when someone wants to set up a website. All that will be left will be really long and crap. "hi check out my new website, called zzzzzzzzxxxxxxxxhidhf.com" (quick better snap that one up, its still available).
Oh, FYI - If you have got any questions about anything just "Google it" first. Its so annoying when people don't look themselves before asking a simple question!! - Rant Over.
Well, just like the Rubik cube and lava light the eight ball is so 1980. So what do we do now with a difficult question?
Simple, ask the Internet. I found out today that it will not lie and gives you an honest answer.
The question I haven been asking myself of late is "am i awesome". So i typed this into my FireFox web browser and a website come up confirming what I already know. Check it out yourself (or click right here)
Cool ah?
Now for the record, I'm not that sad and i don't really ask myself that question. I was just trying to find a decent domain name I could use for a new Blog. But guess what... all the good ones are already taken.
What the hell is gonna happen is 10 years time when someone wants to set up a website. All that will be left will be really long and crap. "hi check out my new website, called zzzzzzzzxxxxxxxxhidhf.com" (quick better snap that one up, its still available).
Oh, FYI - If you have got any questions about anything just "Google it" first. Its so annoying when people don't look themselves before asking a simple question!! - Rant Over.
One Dollar a Day
This Blog has now been running for a little over a month now and as you can tell I have added a handful of Google Adsense ads, Adbrite ads, ads from Matched.co.uk and Amazon Ads too.
The reason for this is to make money. Apparently people now manage to make a full time wage from just Blogging. That’s pretty cool.
People like John Cow, Randy Brown and Jim Karter make a whole lot of money from there Blogs and Websites.
John Cow has recently reported that he made more than $30,000 for the month of January from his Blog. WOW…
Obviously it takes a lot of time and effort to pull in that kind of money from Blogging, but how cool would it be to actually quit work and just Blog for a living. You can work wherever and whenever you wanted. One day im going to start doing this...
Well after reading up on some of these money making Blogs a lot of people say that you should start by aiming to make $1 a day from your websites.
This advise is really aimed for people who want to make money by setting up a number of Niche website (sites that once set up, require no additional work and can be left alone (assuming that they have a wealthy supply of constant traffic)). That way if you create 200 websites and are earning just $1 a day for each site at the end of the day, you are actually earning a nice little penny ($6,000 a month in fact. More than enough to live on)
Well I have some good news… iSmooch had its first $1 day yesterday. Google Adsense generated $1.07. (I earn money each time one of my visitors click on a Google sponsored Ad on my website)
Its not much but it’s a start. Can this be maintained… not sure. But iSmooch had more visits yesterday than any other day. 39 - which is pretty lame. But we all gotta start somewhere.
As mentioned I also run ads from Matched.co.uk. This works differently in that they pay me £3 per month for each ad I display (maximum of 5 per website). So from them I should make £15 a month, approx $30. So therefore I am guaranteed my $1 a day target. Anything else from Google, Adbrite and Amazon is a bonus. (I haven't been using Matched.co.uk for long, so we will see what exactly they are about and if I get paid).
Now £15 a month isn't that much. John Cow, raked in $15,000 in January just from selling ad space on his website - Something only big popular websites can command. Maybe one day iSmooch can start charging that…. One day!
Apart from iSmooch I have recently set up to other sites. One is aimed at gaining revenue from Adsense and affiliates and the other is an EBay affiliate project.
Unlike iSmooch, which is hosted by Blogger, free of charge, I have had to pay for some web hosting for my other sites - $7.95 a month. I paid $49 for a cool plug-in for Wordpress that allows me to display EBay auctions on my website and I have just paid $80 to Google Adwords to market my new Niche site. My goal is to use SEO to gain traffic, but in the meantime I thought I'd try Adwords.
Seems like a lot of money for a noob like me, who has no experience what so ever, but I believe you need to spend money to make money.
If I continue this spending each month for a year, to recover my costs I need to make $3.07 a day, based on the following costs:
Web hosting: $7.95 a month
Google Adwords: $80 a month (only experimenting with this for a month so may not continue)
EBay Plug in: $49 one of payment. If I pay it of over 12 months it will cost $4.08 a month
Total month cost: $92.03
I am running 8 ads from Matched.co.uk, so I will earn approx $48 a month from them. Leaving just $44 a month left to make, or $1.47 a day (based on 30 days).
Obviously I want to be making a profit, so for now, I am aiming for an average of $4.47 a day. Which for the first month I doubt I will get close to earning. I need to SEO my bad boys up and draw in some traffic - which I am working on and may take some time.
As I have said I am completely new to this, and I feel like im jumping in with both feet, but we will see.
Wish me luck!!
The reason for this is to make money. Apparently people now manage to make a full time wage from just Blogging. That’s pretty cool.
People like John Cow, Randy Brown and Jim Karter make a whole lot of money from there Blogs and Websites.
John Cow has recently reported that he made more than $30,000 for the month of January from his Blog. WOW…
Obviously it takes a lot of time and effort to pull in that kind of money from Blogging, but how cool would it be to actually quit work and just Blog for a living. You can work wherever and whenever you wanted. One day im going to start doing this...
Well after reading up on some of these money making Blogs a lot of people say that you should start by aiming to make $1 a day from your websites.
This advise is really aimed for people who want to make money by setting up a number of Niche website (sites that once set up, require no additional work and can be left alone (assuming that they have a wealthy supply of constant traffic)). That way if you create 200 websites and are earning just $1 a day for each site at the end of the day, you are actually earning a nice little penny ($6,000 a month in fact. More than enough to live on)
Well I have some good news… iSmooch had its first $1 day yesterday. Google Adsense generated $1.07. (I earn money each time one of my visitors click on a Google sponsored Ad on my website)
Its not much but it’s a start. Can this be maintained… not sure. But iSmooch had more visits yesterday than any other day. 39 - which is pretty lame. But we all gotta start somewhere.
As mentioned I also run ads from Matched.co.uk. This works differently in that they pay me £3 per month for each ad I display (maximum of 5 per website). So from them I should make £15 a month, approx $30. So therefore I am guaranteed my $1 a day target. Anything else from Google, Adbrite and Amazon is a bonus. (I haven't been using Matched.co.uk for long, so we will see what exactly they are about and if I get paid).
Now £15 a month isn't that much. John Cow, raked in $15,000 in January just from selling ad space on his website - Something only big popular websites can command. Maybe one day iSmooch can start charging that…. One day!
Apart from iSmooch I have recently set up to other sites. One is aimed at gaining revenue from Adsense and affiliates and the other is an EBay affiliate project.
Unlike iSmooch, which is hosted by Blogger, free of charge, I have had to pay for some web hosting for my other sites - $7.95 a month. I paid $49 for a cool plug-in for Wordpress that allows me to display EBay auctions on my website and I have just paid $80 to Google Adwords to market my new Niche site. My goal is to use SEO to gain traffic, but in the meantime I thought I'd try Adwords.
Seems like a lot of money for a noob like me, who has no experience what so ever, but I believe you need to spend money to make money.
If I continue this spending each month for a year, to recover my costs I need to make $3.07 a day, based on the following costs:
Web hosting: $7.95 a month
Google Adwords: $80 a month (only experimenting with this for a month so may not continue)
EBay Plug in: $49 one of payment. If I pay it of over 12 months it will cost $4.08 a month
Total month cost: $92.03
I am running 8 ads from Matched.co.uk, so I will earn approx $48 a month from them. Leaving just $44 a month left to make, or $1.47 a day (based on 30 days).
Obviously I want to be making a profit, so for now, I am aiming for an average of $4.47 a day. Which for the first month I doubt I will get close to earning. I need to SEO my bad boys up and draw in some traffic - which I am working on and may take some time.
As I have said I am completely new to this, and I feel like im jumping in with both feet, but we will see.
Wish me luck!!
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Face off: WitW vs Departed
A couple weeks ago I showed you how cool it would be if your favourite film was taken and re-worked into a horror.
Well if you search the net you will see plenty of these videos are floating about, but to be honest, the Teen Wolf and Mary Poppins ones were the best.
Well as I was searching through Youtube I found a great cross over trailer. Departed, perhaps one of the greatest gangster movies in the last few years, takes on the guys from the great childs tale, Wind in the Willows.
This is some funny stuff and well worth a watch. Check it out:
Im sure this will make you LOL and maybe even ROFL
Well if you search the net you will see plenty of these videos are floating about, but to be honest, the Teen Wolf and Mary Poppins ones were the best.
Well as I was searching through Youtube I found a great cross over trailer. Departed, perhaps one of the greatest gangster movies in the last few years, takes on the guys from the great childs tale, Wind in the Willows.
This is some funny stuff and well worth a watch. Check it out:
Im sure this will make you LOL and maybe even ROFL
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