If you’re selling online you probably are familiar with PayPal – and the gouge they take out of your incoming income. With the PayPal Fee Calculator you can avoid the aftershock by knowing what your fees will be in advance. That way, you can adjust your price to have the buyer absorb some of the cost. Cool.
This is a free tool – so enjoy freely.
Since MySpace is drowning in a sea of spam and no relief seems to be in sight, now would be a good time to start looking for a new online meeting place. If you want to get in on the ground floor of a social networking site that offers chat, photo albums and mp3 downloads (that’s very cool), join 3gb community www.3gb.biz.
3gb is so new in fact, their TOS reads: “This is the terms of service agreement.” OK. I can deal with that. Expect the usual bumps in the road as the platform develops. This is the best time to become part of a new community.
Relax a little, will you? Get on your computer and kill something.
Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive). The game is meant to bring death match back to the basics, with fast paced action, perfect weapon balancing, and very excessive battles.
Version 2 of Nexuiz includes a single-player campaign with completely new advanced bot AI, five new maps, new particle effect system, weapon changes, and complete precompiled bumpmapping with GLSL shaders. The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since then it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times, and the game is still being updated and developed, currently at version 2.4 and new releases being developed.
Decent web directories that you can submit your sites to are getting pretty rare. Either they want a couple hundred dollars for each submission or what they have to offer for free is worthless. Sometimes listing your links at these sites can actually be harmful to your rankings instead of helpful. If you’re looking for a free web directory, you should look at Dirmania.
DirMania is a business web directory that provides free website advertising. The site has a PR 3, if you care about that kind of stuff and offers a direct link to your small or medium sized business/website. The directory is organized by categories and is very search engine friendly. Your listing can go live in less than 24 hours if you meet the listing requirements. (Not hard to do if you don’t try keyword stuffing or other lame 2002 tricks.) Be sure and provide a good, human friendly description of your site with appropriate keywords and a catchy title and you’re in.
The submission form has all the instructions and advice you need to determine if your submission is quality or not. Think common sense. Make sure you are submitting your link in the most relevant category to its content and make sure that the content is offering something useful to the visitor. It is, isn’t it? Then you’re good – otherwise, anything that is submitted to a blatantly wrong category or is nothing but spam will be removed from the directory.
Play by the rules and scoop up some link love. We all need it.
Here’s an easy-peasy way to create a favicon from any perfectly square (for example 100 pixels x 100 pixels) image on your computer. Yes, even your sweet mug. Wait – you don’t know what a favicon is? No shame, read on:
A favicon (short for “favorites icon” and also known as a page icon), is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage that is displayed in the browser address bar next to a site’s URL.
So obviously you must have one. Go here now –> FaviconGenerator and create t your heart’s content.
Another post for the environment – yeah!
When you think of recycling HDPE (High Density Polyethylene – but you knew that), you probably think of all the plastic that you can you can throw into your recycle bin. But that’s not all there is to it. Some HDPE, such as Virgin HDPE Granules is repurposed before it even gets used. Virgin HDPE comes from scrap plastics left over from the production of many different items. This plastic is called virgin because it was never used or abused and doesn’t have the colors or wear and tear (including possible contaminants) of plastics recycled after their lifetime of service. This is pure, clean plastic that takes color well and can be used for any type of production.
That’s not to suggest that your dutifully recycled HDPE isn’t useful or good – it’s still excellent for many uses – so don’t stop recycling it. It’s just nice to know that a recycled motor oil container won’t be holding your Diet Coke tomorrow. At least I think it’s nice to know. What it will be is possibly a grocery bag or outer packaging material or … well, there are too many to list. So now you know. Just because your recycled plastic may not be “virgin” any longer, it’s still a good time.
Spring always reminds me of the need to care for the Earth – while we still recognize it. Here’s a free download that can help you in your efforts to diminish your carbon footprint. If you have one.
Calculate your carbon footprint with this easy to use calculator software. Enter in data to figure CO2 generated from activities including transportation, energy, trash or waste, recreation, purchasing habits, food, and more. Lear n where you can go green by calculating your carbon footprint and then focusing on areas where you can make the most positive impact on the environment. The software gives you CO2 footprint details from each category. For transportation you can enter in up to 6 different cars and their respective fuel efficiency, airline travel, bus travel, and rail travel.
To figure your energy use and carbon footprint, you can enter in your location, number of people in your house, as well as energy use from fuel oil, natural gas, and electricity. Also included are indirect carbon footprint categories like recreation habits, purchasing habits, waste, recycling participation, food, and more. Different units are available so you can calculate your carbon footprint in metric units or English. You can also print out a summary of your carbon footprint results.
Enjoy.
You don’t need to have 20 kids or 200 friends and family to figure out that buying birthday cards can get real pricey real fast. And time consuming. Well, forget that because “all life all online” is just getting better and better.
What I’m talking about today is CardsDirect’s online birthday cards. They offer a great assortment of cards (not just birthdays) at prices that are better than most store prices without the hassle of slumping out and picking a card from a disarrayed rack. Plus you can personalize the cards right online. You can even bulk up and save time and money by planning ahead and having your cards ready.
If you’re a mom, you know what a time saver this is just for birthday cards. But think about all the thank you cards you’d like to send (or knew you should have sent but didn’t have the time to get one). Mothers – for some reason – are expected to remember every holiday or otherwise important day and be there with the appropriate sentiment. What are you Super Mom now? Well, you can be with CardsDirect.
Here’s a sample card that’s one of my favorites:
OK, now you’ve saved time, made those special people happy, remembered to pick the kids up from wherever … wouldn’t some fresh-baked bread be nice?
