31 Jul 07 Cooler Gadgets, gadgets for drinking pleasure

If you thought you had seen all about gadgets, you will be amazed to discover that there is always a new way to improve something. And if you like partying, making cool presents to your friends and improving your drinking pleasure, you have here the perfect site for this.

We are talking about CoolerGadgets, a collection of gadgets that claim to be perfect for activities such as BBQ’s, partying, dog walking, hiking, fishing, etc :-). Some of the offers you can see in their site are things like a MotorCooler - a cooler that can actually be DRIVEN :-), the Tower of Power Corkscrew - the coolest & easiest to use corkscrew on the market or the OpenerHat, a baseball hats with bottle opener built into the Brim.

Ideas are plenty, so just browse around because I am sure you will find something amusing and amazing for your next present.

27 Jul 07 Shvoong, abstracts only

I got today a mail from Shvoong, a website that I tried several months ago and that I had totally forgotten about them. Shvoong is a place where you can write abstracts, summaries, reviews, etc from published books, news or whatever so other people get to know a bit about it. It is like building a huge library of summaries that you can browse before deciding if it is worth it to read the full original source or not.

Whatever the idea is good or not ( seems it is as they have already almost 400000 articles), the email came to announce an improvement in their system. You know, I tried very enthusiastically Shvoong at the beginning because it was a source of small income, you can get some money (not much honestly :-)) writting summaries that later get exposed to the public for general voting. You get a percentage of the revenues they obtain due to advertising according to the popularity of your reviews ( also you can translate to several languages what others have written and get cash for this). But I found out soon that the effort was not being rewarded enough so I stop translating and writing articles.

I have decided to give it a try to their improved system and soon will start again posting some abstracts there. You can also post extracts of your blogs so you increase your visibility in the net, and if you happen to be a student or be around places where many people may be interested in writing, you can even print some flyers and hang them up in the walls of your schools with a code, so when people sign up with that code you get some revenues for that, check their affiliates page for info :-).

24 Jul 07 Advantage Processor, managing online payments

Everyone willing to take profit of online payments has always the same problem, what service/application to use that is reliable, secure and does not takes such a commission that I lose all the profit I can make with my business?.

I guess you all can think of several alternatives with different characteristics. One of the latest available solutions in the market is called Advantage Processor, it offers ways for merchants to accept credit card payments for both online credit card processing, offline card processing, and both high risk and low risk merchant accounts.

To start using their services you need to apply for an account on their website and shortly you will be contacted by their team to find out what are the needs you have. It may be a good solution for your online business so you do not have to worry too much about the payments!.

21 Jul 07 Who is amung.us, how many visitors you have?

The title and domain is not so easy to type and remember correctly,but this new service is a funny and interesting application to see how many visitors you have at this precise moment in your blog or site. We are talking about Who’s amung us and it is so simple that the only thing you need to do is to insert a couple of lines of code such as:

<a href="http://whos.amung.us/show/e8627c40"><img src="http://whos.amung.us/widget/e8627c40" alt="hit counters" width="81" height="29" border="0" /></a>

and you will get a nice counter showing your visitors.

Another catchy way to get info on your visitors, don’t you think?

18 Jul 07 Blog Juice Calculator, your blog rankings

Thanks to TechTear I have found an interesting tool provided by the guys of Text Link Ads named Blog Juice Calculator. In fact, it is a checking tool similar like DNScoop or the Spanish Checker to get some numbers from your blog site and be able to compare it with other similar blogs in your category. You get a comparison table with the readers in Bloglines, Alexa ranking, Technorati position and incoming links. All this gives you a mark that you can use to publicize your blog much better.

15 Jul 07 Shopping Path, help to buy better

Although they are still in their initial stages, this utility seems is gonna become one of the best comparison tools for helping buyers find their product on the net. We talk about ShoppingPath, a new website powered with Yahoo Shopping! that will bring to you all the needed info to compare and buy products on the net. So far they are in Beta, but you can see an example in CrispyShop and get an idea of how it is working. I like these kind of applications, it makes my life so easy when I need to buy something that I almost don’t get anything that I have not compared before using some online websites. Let’s hope they will get live soon for everyone!

12 Jul 07 Fooooo, multisearch for videos

If you thought that looking for videos in Youtube was not enough, now you will see have the opportunity to increase your search to more than 23 millions videos all over the net with this new application. It is called Fooooo ( I have to count the number of "o" to make it right every time :-)), and it is a japanese service that allows you to search videos from YouTube, DailyMotion, MySpace, GoogleVideos, Stickam and some more. Not bad, ein? :-). You have no excuse now to say that you can not find a video to illustrate your posts…