Archive for October, 2006

It’s difficult for most people to realize how easy it can be to use the Internet to make money. It’s not really so difficult once you know what to do and how to do it. The problem for most people is that they don’t have anything to sell and if they did, they wouldn’t know how to attract people to their website to sell it. The Information Product Creation Course is a five-hour course that shows you step-by-step how to turn your desire for Internet sales into a real money-making opportunity. This guy starts from scratch. He doesn’t even have an idea when he starts, but you will learn how to brainstorm and come up with a real winner.

After he gets the idea he needs to get going he shows what tools to use to bring your idea to like online. He goes over choosing and registering a domain as well as how to effectively advertise your new product’s website. You don’t need anything fancy to do all of this. If you have access to the Internet, Windows, and a web browser then you are literally in business. I can’t wait to get started myself. Get started today and watch as you earn money while you sleep!

Nintendo added new video recently of people playing games on the Wii for the very first time. It looks like these people probably wouldn’t play video games on their own normally, but they are having a lot of fun with the Wii. Unfortunately they use Flash 8 for the videos. It’s not their fault, but Linux users are out of luck viewing these. Watching these videos, though, made me even more excited for the Wii release.

Most firewall security analysis tools either look at past activity and warn you about what has already happened in the past or they look at your current settings by hammering the network with tons of packets and telling you about the results. AlgoSec takes a different approach. They analyze your network’s settings and run simulations without sending a single packet over the network. They then warn you about possible future breaches of security so you can fix them before someone exploits them.

I first saw this at ldswebguy.com. I tested this myslef and was quite surprized. The #1 spot on a google search for “church” returns lds.org, the official homepage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Result #7 is a link to mormon.org, a site geared toward people who are not memebers of the Church who want to know more about it. This isn’t meaningful in the long term because these things can fluctuate. But it does indicate trends on the web and what people are linking to when they talk about church.

At the payperpost blog they have a video up of the newest crazy idea they’ve come up with. At payperpost.com you can get paid different amounts for different types of blog posts. The payperpost crew has decided to take this out of the computer and into real life. These guys seem like a lot of fun. They give a random postie, Victor in San Francisco, a choice of three different tasks and each one has a different dollar amount associated with it. I don’t want to spoil it for you, so just give it a look-see. And by the way, if you want to join payperpost after watching this use my email address as the one who referred you and I get $5. PayPerPost just keeps getting more and more interesting. Did I mention that they are funding my impending purchase of the Nintendo Wii?

I wish Dell wouldn’t use weird connectors for their laptop hard drives. I opened up an HP laptop and there was no unusual connector, it was straight IDE. Two of the laptops I have gotten from Krissy’s dad are missing the converter from IDE to some proprietary thing. Now I get to troll around on eBay and bid ninety-nine cents and pay six dollars in shipping on these things. I can’t wait for the UPS ground to get from Florida to California. Let’s see how long it takes.

Vonage is the most popular VOIP system in use in the US. Some aspects of VOIP are different than regular telephones. Sometimes it’s not straightforward getting things set up and running just the way you want them to. Vonage users come together to help each other accomplish what they need using Vonage and VOIP tools. If you are a Vonage user check it out. If you are interesting in Vonage they have all sorts of help available for you, too!

The LDS community online is huge and growing every day. Digg.com is a social news website where the users decide which stories are the most interesting and decide what news stories and links make it to the front page. Sustaine’d applies this same thinking to track stories submitted by Latter-day Saints. When you like a story you can sustain it, if you don’t like it then you can oppose it. When the story gets enough sustaining votes it shows up on the home page. It looks like I have yet another site to check every day.

Sometimes you might be working on your blog and need a tip getting something customized just right. If you’re like me then you often receive programming assignments and find yourself stuck on one little tiny problem that you just can’t seem to solve. I don’t have very much experience with Java and that’s what language all of our programming assignments are in this year. It gets really frustrating sometimes when I know what I want to do but can’t quite figure out the right way to do it in Java. CodeCall Programming Forum is an excellent resource for getting help with programming problems big and small. Programming experts and professionals frequent the forums and offer their help for free! Whether you need help with Java, C, or even just plain HTML you can hop onto the forum and get answers.

Last night after we had shoveled and sifted many wheelbarrows full of dirt Krissy got to work sanding the small table we have at the entrance of our apartment. She wants to stain it a dark cherry or walnut color to match our other furniture and the white stain on it had to go. It was amazing how much effort it took even with a power sander. I think she was outside sanding of over two hours! She just doesn’t know when to quit. But, it’s mission accomplished and the sanded table is back home ready to be stained. We thought we already had stain but realized after getting home that we only have finish-restoring liquid that isn’t powerful enough to stain on its own. I guess it will just have to wait until Monday or Tuesday.