Archive for November, 2008

Qualcomm plans to link people to the internet without the necessity of a personal computer.
Piggybacking on the increasing availability of 3G wireless networks in developing nations, Qualcomm can enable people in developing nations to access the internet without a traditional computer.
Once online, people unable to afford sophisticated home computers or packaged software will be [...]

I have had antivirus software running on my computers for quite some time.
I always wondered… how well is it working?
One day I was reading Web Worker Daily.
So, on a lark, I downloaded Malwarebytes – the basic version is free. The paid version is only $25.
It doesn’t interfere with my present anti-virus program and though [...]

Just got back in after some time playing around Veteran’s Day and had 2 email harvesting scam contacts waiting for me… one on a Gmail chat and one on Facebook.
Both were similiar … saying my photo was on a site or I’d been tagged in a photo. These were from people I don’t normally contact [...]

While Mystery Shopping IS a legitimate industry, this one should have seemed bogus to start.
People who put resumes on the big “job sites” or who get email are promised mystery shopping jobs.
The person receives a $3800 check by COURIER (Fed Ex, UPS or other private courier to avoid the breaking POSTAL laws).
They are told to [...]

If you can tolerate the fuzzy transmissions and somewhat erratic service, you may really like Skype for business. After all, they say, your messages are “encrypted” and “secure”.
But not really.
Obviously there are powers at work who wish to monitor and, if necessary, suppress dissent and take any good ideas they can for their own [...]

Etsy.com is a unique online sales platform that is designed for people to sell their own handmade items directly to the public over the internet. Unless you’ve made it yourself, you can’t sell it here.
I love the idea though of creating a market place for specifically HAND MADE items like these as opposed to a [...]

I found this through my friends at Brigada.
Here’s an artist who finds old book covers, journals, etc and “recycles” them covers by creating new journals with new “parchment” style paper.
The covers are “recycled” and the new paper is “recycled”, so that in itself will appeal to people and the journals have a very “retro” [...]

Real Estate Developers are starting to cater to people who have to or wish to work at home as seen in this article from Canada.com
They’re designed to accommodate low traffic home based businesses. The work at home office in these units has it’s own separate entrance and wash room and, best of all, is [...]

The Guardian UK notes that a company has been licensed by the US government to produce miniature nuclear power plants smaller than a “shed” that can power 20,000 homes for very reasonable prices. This was a process developed at Los Almos and licensed to the company.
If feasible (deployment is expected within 5 years possibly!) [...]

How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series) is a title that reminded me of a friend. He went to a major midwestern university to earn an accounting degree. He paid his way through university by doing LANDSCAPING “on the side”. He graduated and became a junior accountant at a prestigious firm. [...]