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The Money Alert is an interesting finance site whic provides you a lot of informations from the finance world. Here's is where you can find a lot of very useful things. The site is owned by Robert Valentine which is a well-known expert in the matters
concerning investors. His articles on financial planning matters that concern investors have been published by several publications throughout the United States. Mr.Valentine has lectured at numerous events, sharing information on wealth accumulation and preservation. He assists investors age 60+ with strategies designed to preserve their capital, increase their income and more profitably organize their investments. Robert has developed a specialty in working with retirees and those about to retire who want to protect their principle and insure that their money lasts. His practice focuses on helping pre-retirees and retirees avoid the most common financial mistakes.
Here is a Letter of Instruction and an Index Funds where you can read more about this site. The design is a simple and visitor-friendly one so you won't have problems navigating it. Go head and give them a chance, visit without worries.

FastUpFront has established itself as a leader in the lending industry and it seems that their mission is to help businesses succeed by offering simple and effective programs for business financing with a focus on quality service. They are also providing unsecured cash advances for businesses which can rise up to $250,000! Whoa ! Where have you seen such a thing before ?
A business cash advance is a great alternative to unsecured business loans, bad credit business loans, and small business loans. FastUpFront's business cash advance is based on future credit card sales and they facilitate success by providing cash in advance, quickly, without the formalities and strict requirements of a business loan offered by banks and other lending institutions. Loans require security (collateral), good credit and a long business history. New businesses and businesses with bad credit business loan may still qualify for an unsecured cash advance.

Business Cash Advance Requirements

* Your business is registered in the United States
* Your business accepts credit cards
* Your business processes $2500 or more in credit card sales

But you haven't heard the good news. Unlike traditional loan options, with their unsecured cash advance you are not fixed to a repayment schedule. If you have a slow period we take a smaller payment; working with the flow of your business. So, what's best than their services?

Gadgets4Nowt is an interesting tech related site that offers you the possibility to see the gadgets of the moment. They are also giving some informations about some models , oh and you can also find some interesting news there. It's a site where you can buy Apple products ,such as laptops, ipods, iphones and stuff like that. I really like the site , the design isn't complex at all , and everybody can navigate in their site without having any problems. The only thing i don't like is the fact that when you put the cursor on a pic, the picture starts moving. It's a SEO thing, i recommend to remove that stupid picture movement, and they can do that from. htaccess. To conclude, you should give this one a try , cos it really deserves it.

Online Games Zone is another site with online games , as it writes in their name. It's the best place to play free online games and you have the posibility to pick from hundreds of browser-based free online games. Action games & jump and run games, casino games, puzzle games, fun games, classic & retro games or skill games and others are ready for you to play. You can play by yourself, match up against friends, colleagues or co-workers and you never have to install them, because you can play them everytime - day by night - online. The design is very simple and interesting , go there and have fun playing your favorite online games.

Here's an interesting matrimonial site , especially made for muslim people. This site is like no other before and its design which is a free service in the online Muslim Matrimonial industry launched in 2006. Their site members range from 18 to over 60 years old. The majority of our members are 25 years or older. These are the people who really found their mates here at MuslimMuslima.com. Their site has only "Free" members who can create a profile, upload their photo, search the member database, and show interest in other members. In addition they can do all this and also send email and chat with other members. So , it's interesting. Go an check !

Apnatoronto.com a Pakistani Community operated by a group of Pakistani IT professionals and offering a large database of hundreds of Pakistani businesses operated in Greater Toronto Area, information about Masjids and Islamic centers across Ontario, largest database of Urdu and Pakistani newspapers around the world, community events, free classified section and much more.
It seems that their goal is to list every residential & commercial business of Pakistani community in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding areas which i think is a interesting thing. They also have a Pakistani Restaurant Reviews section where you can find a lot of good restaurants and they also provide a Pakistani Web Directory to add your site. I really like their site because the design is fresh and clean , and the ads are well positioned. You shouldn't have problems navigating this site. Go there and chose a destination. You need to relax.

I've found an interesting website out there , called My Cat Wears Clothes. There you can find a lot of pics and videos with cats and not only. It's kinda funny if you read the articles thinking at what a cat might say regarding that subject. The design is very clean and easy to navigate. I didn't had problems in finding something i wanted to check. At My Cat Wears Clothes you can also learn more about cat training or you could read a lot of free e-books that you can download from this blog. I am sure you will like this site too, go ahead and take a look at their articles.

Calling Cards is an international online calling cards shop , that offers you the posibility to buy phone cards for internationl calls. Their shop provide cheap international long-distance and domestic prepaid calling cards which let you make calls anywhere and anytime with lowest rates and highest quality of connection! You get more minutes for you to talk and choose calling cards without hidden fees.
You receive PIN number and Access number immediately at any time and any place on the screen and via e-mail. As simple as that. The design is very clean and easy to navigate. If i will need a prepaid calling card i would defenetly visit this site and buy a card from this site. It looks very professional and there are a lot of positive feedbacks that guarantee the quality of their services .
They can also offer you to refill you phonecards. There are many other features as PIN-free access and balance transfer opportunity from one card to other. For more details visit their site and trust me , they are professionals.

LiveMileHigh.com . What can i say ? I don't even know what it this blog about. I tried to find out but i've found just one post. Firstly , i think this blog should have a new and fresh web 2.0 theme (if admin want to make it a succesful site), secondly , admin should write something about his blog in the "About" page , so everybody can find some answeres there. If you ask me , this blog won't even have readers. Why's that ? Because you need more than just quality articles , you need a good design and some other things like : contact page , about page and things like that. Anyway , i suggest www.moneyvelator.com if admin want to turn this one into a succesful site.

We all like to read fresh news daily , even if we like the subject or not. I've found a blog called The News Party. I didn't thaught it could become my favorite news blog in such a short time. The 2.0 theme and the clean and easy to navigate design made me think that with a little more promovation this one can become your favorite too , but not just yours too all news lovers. It's not an old blog but it's a well organized one with some interesting video and text articles. Give them a try and visit their blog, it worths.

Fight-Vids.co.uk is a martial art community (like myspace or facebook) where users can create profiles, talk with other martial artists, upload their training videos, choose their favorite videos, keep a training blog, and it seems there will be many many other features that are on their way. Even if i am not a fighter , i like this site because it can offer you a lot of chances to meet new people and to share your training program. The design is a clean one and the website is easy to navigate. There aren't so many ads in it , but they won't even bother you while reading. If you are a fight lover , than your place is here at Fight-Vids community. Anyway, i think a little more promotion will make this one bigger than it is right now. Go there fight lover !

PC Tech Guide is another tech related site, but not just an ordinary tech site, they have quality posts and i saw they are very responsable. The site has a simple clean and fresh design , and the ads are well placed , so they won't bother your eyes. I like it very much because everyday they post new informations , news and things like that. I usually drink my coffee and read their latest articles. The PCTechGuide is the web's number one PC technology resource, providing clear, accessible information on computer hardware, maintenance and operation. With comprehensive guides on components and peripherals, tutorials on common computing tasks, and articles on a wide range of computer related topics, the PC Technology Guide helps thousands of IT consumers, students, hobbyists and professionals get the computer knowledge they need every day. Another fact that made me love this site is the simple navigation. Go there and check them out , i'm sure you will be very pleased with what you'll find there.

A lot of people prefer downloading an mp3 rather than buying the original cd. That's why a lof of searches are based on this downloading stuff. I am sure that you also prefer to download music from the internet so that's why i'm preseting Unlimited Music Downloads blog. It's an interesting blog made on a blogspot domain , a place where you can find out more about music downloads and how and where you can download and copy/burn all your favorite music to your CD, computer or your MP3 player such as iPod, iRiver etc. I like this one because it tells you everything you have to know about music downloading and they are also reviewing some download sites. Go ahead and give them a visit.

I always assumed that Medicaid or Medicare would pay for my parents' long term care needs.

I was very wrong, and I'm not alone. Most Americans believe that the need for Long Term Care Insurance is

overblown. Most Americans are in for a rude awakening, because many of us will

eventually need LTC but won't be able to afford it.



The first question would be: What is Long Term Care Insurance? The answer is more

complicated than you may think, so we highly recommend you read the sites linked in this

article. In essence, Long Term Care Insurance cannot prevent you from ever needing long

term care services, but it can help you protect yourself and your family from the

financial burden or depleting your assets.

Secure Delivery gives you secure, automatic delivery of your products to paying customers while you do other things. Secure Delivery automatically validates purchases, authorizes downloads, and tracks your sales while preventing link sharing and product theft. I wrote about this site because i am sure it will help you a lot in your business , so it's better to know about every chances you have before you start making money with them. I will try this one too cos it never knows. After a successful payment thru this site, the buyer is redirected to their instant download page for your product. The buyer is also sent the download link via e-mail. You can choose how long the download page remains active, and even how many times attempts can be made at downloading your product. I don't think it could be easier than that. You'll save a lot of time with this one and i'm sure you'll earn more and easier. With a fresh and easy to navigate , Digital Product Delivery can become your closes friend in online money making.
The membership isn't free , but you can have your free trial too.

Do you have a website or a blog? If you do , then you must read this article. When i start a site , i think how to advertise it best , or better. I looked for a lot of promotion but i never found a good and quality one. Today , i present you AdToll , a trustworthy service that allows web site owners to generate revenue through advertising. AdToll is the link between Publishers who want to sell ads on their web sites and Advertisers who want to buy ads. With a clean design and easy interface which is also easy to navigate , AdToll has a lot of fans all over the world, and their honesty and hard working have been proved a couple of times. AdToll can also help you to promote your website , but it also helps you to advertise on it , that's why i think it's the most complete advertising service all over the internet.

I've found an interesting blog out there , called The Credance and the article that jumped in my eyes was How to make $0 to $5 in just 30 days using Google Adsense, cool huh? This article will help you learning about how to make money with Adsense, it's an interesting article which i recommend it for begginners. There are some steps you have to follow , and you'll find them all at this blog. I am sure it will help you a lot while you are trying to make you own succesful website. Go there and show them your love and apreciation for their style and for the quality of their posts. How to make $0 to $5 in just 30 days using Google Adsense

This is getting a little bit ridiculous. Every week, a new service or process seems to emerge offering full unlocking for your iPhone. The problem, at least until now, is that the unlocking has been either too complicated, too time consuming, or too "located in Hong Kong." iPhone-Sim-Free claims to do away with all of that nastiness, offering what they claim to be "the worlds first (and only) software driven sim unlocking service for the iPhone(tm)." Sounds pretty straightforward to us. Their company is currently offering 3 free unlocks to "top press" prior to releasing the beta version of their software sometime within the next 48 hours. These dudes don’t play. We’re excited to see where this goes, and it looks like we’ll get a pretty good look. Stay tuned for more info as it surfaces.

Are you one of those closet Karaoke freaks? Do you think that you can belt out a version of "I Will Always Love You" better than Whitney herself? Or do you simply have a song stuck in your head? Whatever the case, Midomi is trying to cover that. This new online service allows you to search for music by simply humming a few bars of that devil song. The service employs MARS (Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System), allowing you to sing a little somethin’ into your computer’s built in mic, and get a matching song in return. Sound dope? We think so, though repeatedly singing "I could make a mil’ sayin’ nothing on the track" produced results of varied success. If you get tired of searching for those long lost songs, Midomi also gives you the option of recording and sharing your very own renditions of classic tracks. Virtual Karaoke, what?

Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google China, reported that Google will acquire "one or two companies" in the country and invest in up to five more in the coming year. While the specific companies were not named in the report, the acquisitions/partnerships are thought to be a part of the search company's ongoing efforts to unseat rival Baidu.com as the country's leader in internet search. A (U.S.-based) Google representative told Wired News he couldn't confirm Lee's comments due to the time difference in Beijing. A statement is expected on Monday.

In the past, Google (or ‘Guge,’ what is to be its Chinese name brand) has made no secret of its plans for China. In fact, CEO and president Eric Schmidt said his company is off to a pretty good start already, and that "the tenacity of Google…will bring significant victories in China over the next few years."

I found this picture on The Superficial blog and i was so amuzed by it that i decided to post it here , so you guys can see it. Ha ha, i never thaught someone will do this thing to Paris , i mean someone that hadn't met her bed yet.

Buying and selling ads without the middleman

When selling link and text ads on your site you have 2 options sell ads privately or use an agency such as linkworth, textlink ads or PPP. Their are benefits too both ways of selling advertising space on your website.

Benefits of using a middleman

Using an agency or middleman means you don't have the hassles of trying to find advertisers, telling them about your site, negotiating the price and then looking after them when they keep emailing you to say their links aren't there and THEY ARE THERE.

Ad Agencies

Selling ads using a middle man means you might have to sell them slightly cheaper, all publishers sell ads at a slightly lower price to agencies even large newspapers and TV Channels they don't have the costs involved with trying to find ad buyers. Rupert Murdoch would sell you an ad cheaper if you were an agency.

Collecting

Google Notebook - Highlight the content you want to save, Note it with this extension. You can organize different ‘notebooks’ with their own sections. Each note will have a link back to the original website.

Session Manager - Great for doing research and rounding up a few sources. Save the session of tabs so you can come back to them later.

coComment - Keep tracks of comments you’ve left on other websites. This is particularly useful if the comment section is providing more resources than the actual post content.

Speak It - Have articles read out to you so you can do the dishes while researching. Not to be used while at the computer - speed reading = productivity. This extension uses the Microsoft TTS Engine.

DocuFarm - This is a cool extension that previews word, PDFs etc within Firefox. It comes with a search, which you can also use to search PDFs!

Writing

Scribefire - Performancing.com’s popular split-browser blog editor. Multiple blog management, categories and simple source editing. FTP Uploads are available but buggy. No good image support.

Deepest Sender - Very similar to ScribeFire, these two extensions lack greater features like image uploading, time-stamp editing and compatible tagging. Both are very easy to set up.

Resizable Text Area - If you stick with your regular blog editor, such as Wordpress, this extension comes in handy to resize the text area quickly and freely.

Spellbound & Google Toolbar - Inline spell-check, ala Microsoft Word. Use the extension or Google Toolbar’s built-in spell-checker. Both work great. Superseded by Firefox 2’s built in spell check.

Tabinta - turns the Tab Button to a text editor spacing tab rather than cycling through the web forms. Only interacts with the text area, otherwise does the regular Firefox tabbing.

Split Browser - Great when copy and pasting content and URLs, this extension makes it easy to split any tab any which way. Put your editor in a ’sidebar’ and continue surfing the other tabs in the other pane.

Copy Plain Text - This is a can’t-live-without extension for me. When I copy text, I don’t want any of the original site’s formating, links or text-link-ads to be copied over as well. Just the text. That’s what this extension does.

Copy As HTML Link - Use this extension in conjunction with Copy Plain Text to create links for your posts. Only make links when you want with the text you want.

Images

Web Developer - Other than View Source and those functions, Web Developer is great for getting image information like size etc. If a site is making it hard to get access to their images, use the View Image Information button to get all the images and their links. Respect copyright.

Snagit - to use with the SnagIt image capture application, this extension just makes it easy to start grabbing screenshots while still in Firefox.

Picnik - this web based app trumps SnagIt in many respects. With the Picnik extension you can grab a screenshot of the visible page, or the entire page, with one click. The same goes with any images on the web, including a button at Flickr.com.

Picnik is also a very good image editor. I don’t use anything else to edit images for articles. You can take any photo, from your computer, Flickr or Picasso account, or anywhere on the web, and start editing without downloading anything to your computer.

I've found an official release from Google concering the Pagerank update. We all know that Google Pagerank Update is delayed so i thaught everybody is interested in this.

"It has come to our attention that there is a widespread outbreak of concerned webmasters talking about the future of the Google PageRank system. The delay
as many have called it of the PageRank update is nothing of the sort. There are certain circumstances that have caused the present update to take longer to propagate than past updates.

New search engine algorithm changes are taking place which have affected the PageRank update. We recommend that all webmasters and website visitors in general continue on with business as usual. The PageRank update will occur when the new algorithm changes are fully functional and pass quality assurance checks.

On a side note the new algorithm changes consist of new filters to block automated spam websites. We are also focusing on websites that blatantly sell text links with the sole intention of boosting a specific websites PageRank. There are several factors that will be used to help us determine if a website is selling text links to boost the linked websites PageRank. Websites that are flagged for selling text links will receive an immediate drop in PageRank viewable by the Google PageRank tool bar, search engine rankings will suffer and the website will be removed from our index. Most live websites that are currently going to be effected by this have already realized at least two of the penalties above. Services that offer a fee to review a website based on it's content will not be penalized for doing so as it helps the indexing process.

We recommend that you follow the Google webmaster guidelines to prevent your website from being penalized."

News Corp. said its Fox Interactive unit, which largely consists of MySpace, turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.

News Corp. chief financial officer David DeVoe said the revenue figures exceeded the company’s internal benchmarks. News Corp. had projectedMySpace revenue to top $500 million this fiscal year. The results include revenue from MySpace’s deal with Googleto monetize search results. DeVoe said that Fox Interactive is expected to benefit more from the Google deal in fiscal 2008. Officials said that Fox Interactive as a whole should be able to approach annual revenue of about $1 billion. This growth would come from the Google search deal, international growth on the Web and better monetization. News Corp. is also benefiting as advertisers flock to social sites at the expense of portals.

This is my first blog post , i finally decided to make my own blog. Even if it won't be on a personal domain , i promise you i will write only interesting and smart things here. I will write about releases , announcements , IT , news , celebrities and also my life. Keep in touch and i hope you'll like my blog. Feel free to comment my articles.