Archive for 2009

The cost of producing audiobooks and ebooks and delivering them is falling through the floor.  One major pubisher is using that fact to boost the sale of their paper and ink books. By using the falling price of technology in this way they can keep selling their bread and butter – traditional books which people [...]

Here’s an example of an iPhone app sold to support a nonprofit. You have to have itunes downloaded to see it. Sadly I can’t capture the picture from iTunes to show you either. (The picture is of another iphone app – “I Grenade” made by the same iphone apps designer.) It’s one of those applications [...]

Here’s a great article on removing “Related Links” from You Tube. If you’re doing a blog, you may wish to use this routinely for all You Tube video. At the very least it’s good to know how to remove links to offensive videos. It’s a simple matter of doing this: Simply add &rel=0 to the [...]

This is an amazing Video of girls singing music that’s created solely on applications they’ve downloaded to their iPhones! They sing pretty well but it has made me turn on my phone to see what kind of musical applications I could be downloading to my iphone! Great video! Without further adieu… The only drawback… they [...]

Saving money is in vogue today. So these videos are getting lots of play on You Tube. It’s a 90+ year old Granny who reveals her “Great Depression Cooking Secrets”. One of them is “peas and pasta”. It’s funny. You make that with some bacon and chicken and they call it “Chicken Carbonara” at a [...]

If you want an excellent free way to dress up your Twitter background, please check out Twitbacks.com. Fast. Simple. Free. Better than messing around trying to do it yourself! Great! Here’s a snapshot of mine:

Updated 3/24/2009. Since originally posted, there have been many concerns expressed about this company. Please proceed with caution. Obtain multiple quotes in advance of making a sale. Also monitor the “spot price” of gold before selling. The facts about HOW the worth of your gold is estimated are valid . Please check ALL your options [...]

I noticed the New York Times is even asking out loud: Why are IPhone Users Willing To Pay For Content? As an iphone user myself, I don’t know the answer. But I have paid up to $9.99 for a “to do list” application and consider it a great investment. I doubt I’d spend that much [...]

You might want to read about The New Breed of Mommy Blogger… It’s an interesting phenomenon – bloggers who spend as much time promoting their own “brand” as anything else. They promote their blogs by putting out business cards in bookstores, grocery stores, etc. to reach their mommy audience. And for some this is REALLY [...]

A friend of mine told me the story once about a man who for a short time literally lived on the five dollar bills and checks he received in the mail. Now he wasn’t a bum or anything. He had known the heights and the depths of the “professional network marketer lifestyle”… a kind of [...]