Week 3 – #5 Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal with Tinfoil

“If high placement isn’t getting your signal as far as you’d like, break out the Reynold’s wrap. This video shows how a little tinfoil fashioned into a “Windsurfer” parabola can increase your signal strength several decibels.” [Source: lifehacker.com] Download the Template Here

Week 3 – #6 Gore for President?

“Al Gore’s seven-year journey from loser to laureate began in bitterness, settled for a time into self-imposed exile and led him in the end to rediscover his voice on climate change. The question now is what he will do with the prestige and attention that came to him with the Nobel Peace Prize. The answer appears to be that he will neither embrace nor reject another quest for the presidency, but harness the speculation about his intentions to become a more formidable force on environmental policy and a power within the Democratic party.” [Source: http://www.nytimes.com] Read More

Week 3 – #7 More Gmail storage coming for all

 

“The Official Gmail Blog has announced that Gmail’s storage counter has received a much-needed bump in its storage growth rate, which will put Gmail storage at 6GB by January 2008. Additionally, the premium Premier Edition is seeing a jump to 25GB from 10GB. We’ve covered how to free up space in Gmail (and so have you), but these storage bumps should go a long way toward keeping Google’s promise that you’ll never need to delete another message.” [Source: www.lifehacker.com] Read More Here

Week 3 – #8 Blinkx over Adsense?

“Bloggers are getting more and more options to make money off their Web sites. Video search engine blinkx is launching on Wednesday a service that allows people to make money when they embed video clips on their Web sites– regardless of where the video comes from.

Blinkx has technology called AdHoc that matches relevant text ads with the context of video they accompany. Blinkx will share 50 percent of the revenue generated from the ads with the publishers of the Web sites hosting the video. Advertisers pay every time an ad is clicked on.” [Source: Cnetnews.com] Find out more at: www.blinkx.com

Week 3 – #9 Top 5 Facebook Applications

#1 Top Friends – “Save time and show your friends some love. Add a box of up to 32 of your BFFs to your profile. Now they are one click away, you don’t have to search every time you want to go check up on them. Now the question is… who is in your top friends box?” [Source: Slide, Inc. ]

#2 FunWall – “Add some FUN to your Wall! Let your friends post photos, videos, slap funny pictures on pictures — and more! — on this replacement for the boring original.” [Source: Daniel C. Silverstein and Bobby Joe ]

#3 iLike – “iLike lets you add music to your profile and find your favorite concerts (not to mention see who else is going!). Bonus: Use it to get free mp3’s that match your tastes and try to beat your friends at the Music Challenge.” [Source: iLike, inc ]

#4 Free Gifts – “Don’t like to pay for gifts? Free Gifts allows you to send gifts to your friends for free! At least one gift added every day!” [Source: Zachary Allia ]

#5 Picnik – “Picnik is the perfect solution for editing your photos without ever leaving Facebook. Crop, rotate, resize. Fix colors, exposure, and red-eye. Get creative with 20 effects like borders, lomo, and sepia. Connects to Flickr and Picasa Web accounts too!” [Source: Bitnik, Inc]

Week 3 – #10 Backup your files online for FREE with Mozy!

“Backing up your essential data is important—and can be annoying. For most users, if it’s not easy, it won’t happen. Automated backup to a remote location is a nice, simple solution, but the monthly storage fee may be another roadblock. Enter Mozy Remote Backup, a FREE service that will securely store up to two gigabytes of files for Windows users and automatically back up changes.” Sign up here

Week 2 – #1 Search Engine for Internet Radio Stations – iheard

“iheard.com makes it easy for people to find their favorite internet radio stations by providing an easy to use search interface and directory with thousands of stations organized by genre, country and language.

We do not host or stream radio stations, we capture and store rich meta data about each station and connect listeners with stations around the world.” [Source: iheard.com] Start Searching Here

Week 2 – #2 Make Money from Blogging

The following are a list of advertising programs that go into greater detail how to start making money on from your blog:

Google AdSense
https://www.google.com/adsense/login/en_US/
Google AdSense allows you to earn money from relevant ads on your blog or website.

ReviewMe
http://www.reviewme.com/
A blog ad network that pays blogger to write sponsored posts.

PayPerPost
http://payperpost.com/
Another blog network that pays blogger to write sponsored posts.

Kontera
http://www.kontera.com/mainform.aspx?type=1&aff_ID=11116
Ad network that serve inline ads on a blog.

Text Link Ads
http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=35183
Ad networks that sell text links for blogs.

Week 2 – #3 MindMeister Online Mind Mapping

“MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions.

Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map – and see each other’s changes as they happen. Using integrated Skype calls, they can throw around new ideas and put them down on “paper” at the same time.” (From: www.mindmeister.com) Check it out Here

Week 2 – #4 Woman fined $220,000 for illegal music sharing

“A Minnesota jury has ordered a woman to pay $222,000 (£109,000) for sharing music over the internet, in what has been hailed as a landmark ruling.

Jammie Thomas, a native-American who works on an Indian reservation, was ordered to pay the six record companies suing her $9,250 for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case. The sum is equivalent to about five times her annual salary and is expected to force her into bankruptcy.” (source: http://news.independent.co.uk/) Read More

Week 2 – #5 Getting Ripped Off – Computer Repair

Can you really trust your computer repair guy? CBC has done a investigative consumer report catching ten computer repair shops who overcharge, oversell and misdiagnose. (Source: http://www.cbc.ca) Read the full article here.

Week 2 – #6 Photoshop tutorial on using layers for effects

“Tutorial on how to cut out an image in Photoshop and stack layers to create image effects. Samples of finished graphics.” (Source: YouTube.com)

Week 2 – #7 Make your own laptop stand with a ring binder

“This has been done before (a lot). Some of them are just clumsy, look bad, or can’t be applied to Apple laptops because of the limited bending-angle of their screens. I’m suprised nobody looked at the obvious, and constructed a stand from a ring-binder. Its very cheap, easy to build, portable, and in addition contains most of the clutter i need on my desk (post-its, pen, my two external drives). You can even bundle any cables through the metal hole present in most binders. And most important: It perfectly fits the color of my laptop!“(source: chillu.com) Read the full instructions here

Week 2 – #8 – FREE File – Alternative to Norton 360… Blink Personal Edition

“Blink Personal Internet Security provides consumers with the most protection available. Blink Personal is the only Internet security solution to protect a user’s system and sensitive data from viruses, spyware, phishing attempts, identity theft, and other attacks that target system flaws and misconfigurations. Users can rest assured that their system and sensitive data are safe through the unique combination of the proven protection technologies.

Version 3.2.0 adds protection for LDAP and VNS servers, improves the performance of the application protection engine, and streamlines the licensing process.” (source: http://www.eeye.com) Download Here

Week 2 – #9 News – Make Money with YouTube

“It looks like Google’s $1.65 billion takeover of YouTube is about to pay some dividends. YouTube is rolling out a new video unit with Google ads embedded into them. Publishers who run the unit will get a share of the income generated.

From the looks of things, publishers will be displaying videos from Google’s choosing – you will not be able to earn money showing your own videos in the player. YouTube is claiming the video content will be targeted to your site because you can choose the categories or have Google choose the video based on your site content.” (Source: www.johnchow.com) Read More Here

Week 2 – #10 FREE File – OpenOffice

“OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.”(source: http://www.openoffice.org) Download Here

Check out the video tutorial below!

Week 1 – #1 Homepage Startup over igoogle?

“Homepage Startup tries to set itself apart from a stampede of web 2.0 start pages by focusing on the fact that the majority of web users regularly visit no more than a handful of websites. The concept is pretty straightforward (if not exactly original): set this site as your homepage and when your browser window opens you have instant access to your favorite search engine and a grid of links to your favorite websites. Each link is identified by a screen shot and you can easily rearrange them by dragging and dropping to your hearts content. You can even get this all setup before creating an account.” (http://www.downloadsquad.com/) Check it out Here

 

Week 1 – #2 Joost Internet TV

“It’s video – more than 15,000 shows, with more added daily. It’s online – all you need is a broadband internet connection. And it’s free. So what are you waiting for? So many choices, so little time. Use the Explore section to find channels, shows or videos. You can browse by category or check out what’s new and popular. If you need instant gratification, use the search bar to find what you want.” (http://www.joost.com/) Check out Joost Here.

Week 1 – #3 Free File – Audacity

“Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more! See the complete list of features.” (http://audacity.sourceforge.net)
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Week 1 – #4 Web Application – Google Calendar

“Simplify. Organize. (And relax.) Organizing your schedule shouldn’t be a burden. That’s why we’ve created Google Calendar – our free online shareable calendar service. With Google Calendar, it’s easy to keep track of all your life’s important events – birthdays, reunions, little league games, doctor’s appointments – all in one place.

Using Google Calendar, you can add events and invitations effortlessly, share with friends and family (or keep things to yourself), and search across the web for events you might enjoy. It’s organizing made easy.” (www.google.com) Get it Here