Archive for April, 2009

Swine Flu Outbreak Map

by Ades on April 30, 2009 in News with 22 Comments

Unfortunately swine flu is spreading fast and WHO has raised the level to 5 (out of 6). Phase 6 is the pandemic phase. (click on the image below to learn more about WHO phases).

You can keep track of swine flu developments in a graphical form at BBC website, Swine Flu Outbreak Map page. It shows day to day developments on the flu.

Please take precautions when at work and commuting to work. Here is what the WHO officials want you to do:

Wash your hands with soap and water often.
Avoid close contact with other people as much as possible
Wear a surgical mask if you are in contact with other people
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. Germs spread that way.
Avoid leaving your home while sick except to get local medical care.
Always cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.

Let’s hope that it will be over soon, InshAllah.

Checking out EntreCard Ad-Network

by Ades on April 30, 2009 in Make Money, Online Advertising with 13 Comments

As you already know (yes you should check my miniblog) EntreCard is running their own ad-network now.

I did a test run with $25 funds, promoting my color picker software in their Web Development category. Here is the results:

From the results you can see that the CPM rate was $0.4927, and CPC rate was $0.1096. I guess they run a combination of two types. In total I got 50,739 impressions and 228 clicks for my $25 bucks.

My funds were depleted right away within 24 hours, that’s because they do not provide daily limit options.

Here is how campaign creation page looks:

Yeah, it’s dead simple. No daily limits, no campaign type (cpc, cpm) selection. Also at first they did reject my website, I don’t know why, perhaps it was not a blog? But then I see they re-approved it.

Selling your credits

I am sure most of you had EntreCard accounts and perhaps some of you have some credits in their accounts still. If you do, now you can sell them for $1 for every 1000 entrecard credits as announced by EC founder on his tweet.

So, it’s time to make money if you had thousands of credits in your EC account! If you are new, you can always sign up for EC now.

In general I think it’s a good move by EC to open their own ad-network, both for advertisers and bloggers.

Website: http://entrecard.com

Google News Timeline

by Ades on April 28, 2009 in Google with 29 Comments

Want to read Google News like a newspaper? Go to newly launched Google News Timeline by Google.

Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.

URL: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

shoemoney interview

by Ades on April 27, 2009 in miniblog with 10 Comments

yaro starak did an interview with jeremy of shoemoney. it’s a long interview (77min). jeremy talks about his past projects and how he made it to the top. download here.

entrecard ad network

by Ades on April 27, 2009 in miniblog with 4 Comments

entrecard gets its own advertising platform, now you can just pay and get your banners on thousands of blogs click here

LogoDesignTeam – year three

by Ades on April 23, 2009 in Sponsors with 16 Comments

logo design team LogoDesignTeam has been advertising with AdesBlog for the past 2 years consecutively, and I am humbled to know that despite the current economic slowdown they have decided to stay for another year. For that, I would like to thank them and wish them a successful year with AdesBlog!
About LDT

LDT is a logo design company that specializes in high quality, affordable custom logo design services. It employs 90+ professional graphic designers who are talented, experienced and most importantly passionate about what they do. Their service cost $149 for the entire process of coming out with a brand identity (i.e logo) for your company, you will be given four different concepts where you select one and choose the direction of your brand identity. LDT offers unlimited logo revisions and a 100% money back guarantee.

Logo Repair Services

LDT offers an interesting service called logo repair. Logo repair include things like cleaning the logo, improving the concept, and creating vector files out of your old logo images.

If you are interested in transforming your logo into something more exciting, request for a quote here.

Holiday Logo Designs

If you want to have a touch of emotion on your logo for that special holiday, this is the service that you are looking for.

Think of a holiday logo like a universal greeting card and you will get the message. Your very own logo… but with a happy face. Don’t envy Google and its fun logos! Now, have some fun with your own set of exclusive holiday logos. request for quote.

Make Money with LDT

Finally, if you are an effective blogger and online marketer, you can sign up for LDT’s affiliate program and make money with it. You can refer people to their services, or offer logo design services under your own name/company, LDT will do all the work and you – will be enjoying the results of their hard work – getting your share for every referral. sign up here.

Website: http://www.logodesignteam.com

P.S If you are interested to build your brand with AdesBlog, contact me here.

FastCopy – transfer large files fast

by Ades on April 21, 2009 in Software with 17 Comments

Since getting hdd media player with 650GB of disk space I have been doing some large data transfers. But Windows operating system does a terrible job in transferring large files especially to external hard disks. It hangs, it prematurely terminates the transfers, files get corrupted… you name it.

One way to do large file transfers is using MSDOS’ xcopy command, but it can get troublesome using MS Command Prompt especially when you do not know the commands.

Luckily there is a better way. FastCopy (freeware) (see screenshot) does the same what xcopy does, and even faster. Since it doesn’t use the cache of OS at all, other processes (applications) won’t be affected (i.e become heavy or hang) by the transfer.

It can also verify the copied files making sure that you do not have the corrupted files.

Since finding it I have been using it extensively and so far it’s doing a great job. Highly recommend it.

Website: http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en
Download: FastCopy v1.98 (placed it in my shared folder)

PickyDomains – let others pick domains for you

by Ades on April 18, 2009 in Make Money with 26 Comments

This is an interesting business model and a useful tool for those who want ‘outside the box’ ideas for their new websites’ domains.

Let’s say you are launching a new online project and thinking of finding a suitable domain name for it. You have brainstormed yourself and have listed some domain names, but you are unsure if they are creative enough or web2.0 enough. So you think, only if I could use the creativity of the internet users for this task!

PickyDomains is a website that allows you to utilize the internet users’ ideas… It’s not free but for $50 you could land a ‘million dollar domain name’ so to speak. So it works like this, you give $50 to them and wait for suggestions to flow in… once you like particular domain name you chose it to purchase it. All suggested domain names are available domain names, system will automatically check and discard the registered domain names.

And the best part is if you don’t like any of the suggested domain names, you will get back your $50.

Making Money with Picky Domains

If you have creative mind you might want to try making money with Picky Domains. You can sign up as contributor and if your suggested domain name is picked by the buyer, you will get 50% of $50, that is $25 for each accepted domain name.

Website: PickyDomains.com

New publisher program for Asia

by Ades on April 17, 2009 in Make Money with 16 Comments

Performance Network is a new publisher program for Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. It’s developed by Innity Berhad, Malaysian leading online advertising company.

It’s positioned as a premium publisher program and promises to offer highest CPM rates in the region. One of the requirements for the program is websites/blogs must have a minimum of 2,000 page views per day on average to be qualified.

It’s good to see some competition to Nuffnang and Advertlets.

With their banner exchange program you will also be entitled for free advertising in the network, and they have some pretty big sites in their network, like: NST, SinChew, LowYat etc.

So, if you live in one the countries listed above and have a high traffic site/blog, here is a chance for you to maximize your income with this new publisher program.

Website: http://network.innity.com (Good luck to Innity!)

new alexa

by Ades on April 17, 2009 in miniblog with 7 Comments

alexa has a new interface, looks much better now

WP Plugin: Breadcrumbs

by Ades on April 16, 2009 in Usability, WordPress with 20 Comments

Breadcrumbs are a great way to improve navigational system of any website, especially directories and blogs with many sub-folders.

This wp plugin allows you to integrate breadcrumb links to your blog [see screenshot]. As you know WordPress by default only lists the folders that the article was posted in and not the hierarchical structure of the current post.

I think it will be useful for those who are using wordpress as a CMS for their website.

Website: http://mtekk.weblogs.us/code/breadcrumb-navxt/