Wireless speakers for iPod touch.

This is what I wanted-a pair of wireless speakers for the iPod my son bought for me before he left for Norway. The iPod touch he got was a used one though in a new condition. My near deaf husband wanted his son to get him ipod touch speakers and that too 'wireless 'so that we can carry the entire audio system to the terrace and enjoy the communication without any disturbance.

I showed the source to my son and asked him whether it would suit the iPod touch he gave me. He read the specification online (thesource.ca) and immediately approved of my choice of Centrios Duet Wireless Speakers with iPod Dock.

What he said further made my husband jump with joy. This wireless audio system is compatible for the ancient and very outdated mp3 player that my husband uses.

I placed an order and awaiting delivery.

Voice commenting on blog posts.

Even with advent of instant status updates through Twitter and the likes, we all like telephone communication. We can exchange information more quickly when we talk than when we type online.

For example, you feel like expressing your opinion after you read a blog post or a tweet and you start typing online. If you are given the option to call the author of the blog post or tweet, wouldn't it be more convenient?

But this requires you to know the phone number of the person you want to talk to. Jaxtr.com offers you a solution to to call anyone in the world without knowing the phone number!

Find out how it works by visiting jaxtr.com

100+ Ways to Battle Blogger’s Block

Why do you blog? Do you blog for money? Do you blog for fun? Actually, the purpose of your blogging will largely define the strategy you apply. I blog for both: fun and money, but fun goes first. Therefore, each of my 20 blogs I started because I liked the topic, because I wanted to learn more about, and because I was more or less confident that the same topic will be interesting for my readers.

But, overtime, your interests change, you feel that there is nothing more you can say on the topic, and you just do not want to discuss the topic any more. Here it comes blogger’s block. If I feel like that, I usually put the blog on the passive preservation mode, remove it from the active blogs list and focus on other topics. Overtime, my perception might change, I might find a new perspectives or the new line of discoveries on the topic, thus become interesting in the blog again. These blogs are returned to the active list. Other blogs will remain on the passive lists forever, supported by by-monthly posts just to keep them alive. In any way, if I do not feel like writing on the particular blog or topic, I just skip it and go to the next. Well, it is my way of coping with blogger’s block.

BloggingBookshelf is offering more than 100 professional advices on how to battle the Blogger Blog in their free eBook. You can download the brochure from the following link:

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Latest solution to treat cellulite.

The moment I told my elder sister that her cellulite treatment won’t work because she has procrastinated for more than six months since she first detected the symptoms, I regretted it. I should not have been so negative.

My sister is not all that knowledgeable when it comes to modern day ailments. She is an old timer and believes that her highly orthodox diet shields her from diseases. Her health proved that till date.

She picked up bits and pieces of tips to treat her cellulite and started her own treatment which I knew is not sufficient. I told her either she can buy a gel that I recommend or she consults a dermatologist. She is too shy to show her cellulite affected area.

With strong persuasion, I made her to meet a skin doctor who confirmed that she should have met her long before.

I was not surprised when the doctor prescribed the same cream that I recommended to my sister.

Learn how to make money out of "Resell Rights" products.

I have been on to buying 'resell rights' products for quite some time now. Even before I realized it, I had bought more than 100 different resell rights products that include video tutorials, pdf guides, niche ebooks etc.

One day, I sat in front of my PC and thought about what I am going to do with all the digital information in the form of mini websites. I did not know a thing about FTP, uploading the sites, editing the sales page to put my name on it or to change the asking price.

I started looking out for video tutorials that would teach me all that and help me to launch my resell rights products online. With in half hour, I got what I wanted. I spent time to learn all the skills and tested my knowledge with it by uploading that exact video tutorial that taught me how to make money out of resell right products.

Here it is:
Learn how to make money out of "Resell Rights" products.

5 Free Mobile Apps for your Taxes Visibility

This post is not about blogging. Since the due date of the tax form submission is coming close, I would like to share with you several free taxes related applications for smartphones, which will help you with this process. Hopefully, your blog monetization was successful last year, and your extra (or full time) income came as valuable addition to your home budget.

1. The IRS's App

IRS announced its first of a kind app called IRS2Go which allows taxpayers to find basic tax information and track the status of their refunds. The app is available on iTunes and in Android Market. Take note that you are required to enter your SSN in order to check your status.

IRS indicates that if you e-file your tax return and are owe a refund, you will be able to check your refund status via the app after 72 hours. If you mailed your tax return, it may take 3-4 weeks.

2. Federal Tax Estimator 2010

This app by Nate Ram has been reviewed on the CBS Tech Talk show. The app lets users estimate their federal tax liability. It supports all filing status options, allows for multiple W-2 forms, tracks dependents and unemployment benefits, storing all data on your mobile phone. Available for Android and iPhone.

3. Tax Reference 2010

This Chesnut designed application provides you with a wealth of tax information at your fingertips including corporate tax rates, retirement contribution limits, depreciation, business deductions, personal tax rates, itemized deductions, estate and gift taxes and lots of other useful financial data and so much more. Definitely a great app to use for tax planning all year round, and it is available for Android and iPad (iPhone).

4. iTaxMama

Created by Tax Anxiety Inc., this app helps keep your tax due dates organized by providing an easy to use tax planning calendar. It includes reminders for quarterly tax payments, tax filing deadlines, and has been fully updated for this tax season.

5. Pageonce

H&R Block and Pageonce have announced that you can track the status of your tax refund from your BlackBerry, Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone. To facilitate this, H&R Block’s Tax Center is integrated into the Pageonce mobile app and provides DIY filers with timely updates of the status of their tax return, and more importantly, their federal and state tax refunds. Users simply enter their H&R Block At Home username and password in the Pageonce mobile app, and their information is automatically populated into the Tax Center. Taxpayers can instantly see when their refund will arrive.

To learn more about the service, head over to the Pageonce site.

Do follow backlinks from Twellow.

How many of you are using Twellow.com, an yellow page of Tweeters? It is a directory Tweeters arranged under every possible category.

While creating your profile, you can list all your social media contact information that include FriendFeed, Mixx, Delicious and so on.

As soon as you permit Twellow to access your Twitter profile, it brings back a lot of your information which is then automatically included in your Twellow profile. All the links in your Twellow profile are do follow.

See the screenshot below. The blue highlights are 'do follow' links.












Twellow is very useful to get targeted followers and you too can follow Tweeters who are in your niches.

Twellow navigation is very friendly at every stage while searching the directory or while editing your profile.

You can make use of Twellow in many ways to increase your brand awareness. Use it first to promote your blogs and get a free oneway, do follow backlink.

It doesn’t matter where your RV breaks down.

The one and only dependable motor home breakdown service without any mileage restrictions is offered by the Good Sam. If you care to look up in the Internet for stories of gratitude by those who got timely help when their RV broken down, you will only see the name of Good Sam.

As a guest of my friends, I was invited to travel in RV a few times. Once, unexpectedly, the RV refused to oblige the driver’s cajoling. Most of the RV users would not like to be towed back to their starting point or destination whichever is nearer to the breakdown point. They would like to move on.

As an organized person, I had the telephone number of the Good Sam. Their online technical assistance to our driver could not get the huge vehicle to move. After giving the directions to our location, we only had to wait for a few hours before help came.

Adsense Earnings, Tips, and General Thoughts

I got several questions from the readers of this blog on how my Google earnings do versus my expectations, some complaints that the earnings drop significantly down from the beginning of the year, and some requests to share useful tips on how to boost the Adsense earnings from blogging. As you probably know, revealing the Adsense earnings and statistics is not allowed by the program rules, so trying to follow them, I will just mention a general trends:

1. Being in the blogging business from 2007, I should admit that my Adsense earnings are slowly climbing up, however not as fast, as I would like it to do. It is still a good side income and source of inspiration and self-realization, so, overall I am quite pleased with the general outcomes.
2. At the end of the year, I have lost one of my blogs, and all the efforts to get it restored failed so far. As soon as I understood, what the reason for the ban was, I actually stopped any additional appeals. The blog was devoted to the Online MBA, and it was totally my fault that it was banned. The reason – using my own study papers as sampled for the blog on how they should be written, while publishing student papers is forbidden by the Google Adsense rules. Learning through mistakes…
3. The income from the beginning of the year is indeed slightly lower than expected. There are several reasons, which might contribute to that:
1. When the blog, I mentioned above, has been banned, the entire account got blocked. As it was during my ski vacation, with no Internet, it took me about a week, till I have learnt about the incident and restored my account. All my Blogger blogs were inaccessible for a week, and that is not a good way to treat your faithful readers and visitors.
2. After the shopping season, investments in advertising may go down, so it is understandable the cost of the click decrease.
3. Overall, I observed the rough trend of dropping earnings for the period from January to April, with gradual increase from beginning of April through the end of December. Note that it might not be a global trend, since other program users report different results. I guess, it depends on the niche you are working, the structure of the blog, and from some other details.
4. In spite of the earning decrease, the amount of unique visits per day is steadily growing, so there is a good chance, that these visits’ monetization is just matter of time.
5. In terms of advices and recommendations, I am not sure that I have enough knowledge and experience to share them with broad public. By simple googling, you can find tons of useful, and not so useful advices.

I will just offer you several general, but fairly reasonable tips from Ryan on the Adsense business arrangements:

a.       Be Committed To Your Adsense Business.
Many publishers never see their Adsense business as a real business but rather a virtual fun. In order to succeed you need to be a 100% committed. Take your online business seriously as you would with your offline business. Be professional, track your progress and never make the same mistake twice. Sometimes, novices have the fallacy that their online actions stay transparent and unseen. Well, you better be careful because everything is tracked and consequences are lurking.

b.      Stay Within The Circle
Use the latest Adsense tools and software for your business. The super Adsense earners are always very smart. They apply the services of these tools first and dump them when they get ineffective. These tools serve as their secret weapon and that is why they must get hold of it first.

c.       Choose the right Keywords
A lot of publishers go for those keywords that have high payout range with too much competition. They might get lucky every now and then. But the mega Adsense earners always look out for those less competitive keywords and build a lot of sites with them. It pays more on the long run.

d.      Start With An Umbrella
In order to be more focused and effective, you need to start with a broad subject which you can easily break down. Choosing a broad niche and breaking it down makes your work concentrated and allow for flexible connection between your sites or blogs. This way you also keep your visitors longer into your site.

e.      Keep It Simple
Make your sites or blogs simple and easy to navigable. A slick home page with clear links always predisposes the visitors positively and you reduce the bounce rate of your site.

f.        Purpose
Do not build a site without a purpose. Your site cannot be everything to everybody. It has to be narrowed down to a topic. Target a certain group of people with common interests. They are going to be your audience in the long term.

g.       Consistency
Track your success and repeat what works. Building just a site is not enough. You have to build to exhaust all possible sub-niches within your broad subject. Then chose another subject and continue your work. Your audience will appreciate the valuable content you give to the web.

Another bloggers community at Blog Farm.

The Blog Farm is a recently started community of bloggers that offer several ways to generate instant blog traffic.

How it works
* Add your blogs and confirm ownership by placing a badge on your blog.



* Find and add other bloggers as your friends. This will facilitate reciprocal visits instantly.

* Find blogs by category, read, leave a comment. You are assured of similar courtesy.

* When you visit others' blogs, you can cross-post articles of interest. An assured way to syndicate your blog posts.

* There is a forum that I found to be very active. The first thread itself offers to add your blogs for which you want followers.

* The forums has more uses to gain knowledge and ask questions.

The site is a bit slow; you need patience to explore it. Overal, it is an excellent platform for blogging communities to increase visitors to their blogs, syndicate their blog posts and generate regular viewership.

Do you think you know what you need for your office?

This blog post could be a lesson for many and a reminder for those who automatically assume they know all when it comes to setting up a new office for any business.

It was in the year 2000 when I set up my office for my mathematics-training center. As I said, I thought I new all about buying office supplies online and went about doing just that.

On the first day of my office, I spent nearly 4 hours (intermittently) on the telephone to order a myriad office supplies that included (don’t laugh at me):

• a mini waste basket,
• two shelves to store whiteboard marker pens,
• business card holder,
• a handy telephone book,
• a box a rubber bands,
• tags for tying up answer papers,
• paper cups
• a wall clock.

When I originally bought whiteboard and other paraphernalia of all the big office supplies, I prided myself at my efficiency.

When you next order office supplies online, you better visit officesupplygroup.org and browse through their big catalog. You won’t miss anything.

Instant blog traffic through new bloggers community.

I found out an excellent bloggers community at bloggers.com (it is not blogger.com) In the wake of impending closure of Yahoo! owned mybloglog.com, this comes as a great alternative to blogger to build network and increase blog traffic.

I would say bloggers.com has more networking features than mybloglog.com

Features of bloggers.com
You can add all of your blogs in your dashboard. The system publishes a thumbnail of your blog automatically. You need to place a small badge of them in your blog as a verification method.

You can browse the blogs by several parameters including your native town and add them as your friends, visit their blog and follow them, vote for them, etc.

They will also come to know who voted them, who followed their blogs and this naturally gets you a visit to your blog.

Remember to click on "talks' tab which is further arranged in several categories. Read the discussions, participate and this again directs visitors to your blog.

The blog directory itself is organized in various categories to add your blog and browse through others' blogs. This paves way for fresh blog content ideas for bloggers.

There is a personal messaging facility too to interact with friend bloggers.

Whenever I log in, I could not come out for another hour. There are responsive blogger and some great blogs that I never found in any other blog directory.

Remember, it is a bloggers community. It is not just enough to add your blogs and exit, hoping others will visit your blogs. You must visit as many blogs as you can based on your interest of course. Add bloggers as friends, vote for them, participate in talks and you are guaranteed for a long haul of blog promotion.

Big Collection of Free Blogger Templates with Reviews and Ratings

If you are building your blogs on free Blogger platform, you noticed that the new options significantly improved your capabilities to use customized templates from extensive choice of options. However, if you cannot find a suitable design, you may look for alternative sources to find a suitable template.

There are many websites offering Blogger templates collection, so there is not so difficult to find one you really like. In this post, I would like to present one of the sites – Blogger Styles. They provide thousands of template downloads and ratings on each of the blogger templates.

Samples:

If you are designer, who would like to share your personally created template, you can submit it to the site for review and posting.

Website: http://www.bloggerstyles.com/

Famous for smoke?

Even while watching all the world cup matches, I somehow steal time to make a few blog posts. Watching live sports on TV gives me plenty of material for blog content. The gestures of umpires, expressions of players and viewers, sarcastic comments and useful quotes from the commentators are all great for blog content.

I think it was last Saturday when I saw to my surprise a few middle-aged women smoking cigars while lustily cheering the soccer players. I knew women smoke cigarettes but cigars…? Aren’t cigars costly?

My husband is a smoker. He told me that there are good cheap cigars too; it is not necessary that one should always buy the costly stuff from Cuba.

Ah, Cuba! There is all probability that my husband knows nothing about Cuba or its whereabouts but surely, he remembers what Cuba is famous far!

I think this applies to most of the people-eh?

The darkest chocolate you may ever taste!

As they say in bars, “Make it large, double large”, I told my husband to make it dark, very dark when he asked me about my preference for the Dark Chocolate Gift Basket that we intended to give to our son on the day he is scheduled to leave abroad. After all, it is his first foreign assignment and my husband wanted it to be a memorable day.

(Knowing his big appetite for cakes, I wonder memorable for whom!)

At the last minute, my husband changed his mind and ordered a large dome shaped dark (very) chocolate that arrived an hour ago. Here is the photo of it. Doesn’t it look dark and large? Just look at the finish! What a skill!

If you like what you see here, then I am sure you would fall in love with Shari’s Berries, favorite of at least 50,000 thousand chocolate lovers from my state alone.

Please take time to visit the Google page below that has about 8000 images of Shari’s Berries.

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I warn you! You may fall madly in love with them.