Well it’s that time again, so here are my November 2007 income results. This month the sites pulled in $120.95, a nice increase over last month. Here is the breakdown by income stream: Adsense: $39.64 eBook Sales: $19.94 Amazon Affiliate:… Read More »November ’07 earnings report
Firefox has released 3.0b1 and I’ve been eagerly awaiting a version that leaked less memory than a sieve, so I thought I’d give it a go. After downloading it, I was very impressed with it’s performance and styling updates. What… Read More »Enabling add-ons with Firefox beta
I believe the perfect gadget has just been released in the Eye-Fi wireless SD memory card. This amazing little gadget combines a 2GB flash memory SD card and a full-blown Wi-Fi adapter into one tiny bundle. With this bad boy… Read More »wireless meets SD storage in the Eye-Fi
Like most aspiring dot-com moguls, I am fairly dependent on staying in Google’s good graces.“ I’ve got $122.72 in my AdSense account right now, waiting for the next payout.“ If I manage to get my AdSense account suspended or banned,… Read More »Stupidity Shield – how to keep from clicking on your own AdSense ads
As October is officially over, I thought I’d share my October 2007 income results. This month the sites pulled in $80.13, almost 30% more than the previous high month (August 2007 @ $49.05). Here is the breakdown by income stream:… Read More »October 2007 – best month to date
So, you have some books laying around? Think selling them online could make you come cash and clear out some space? It’s definitely a possibility, but where should you sell them? There are five major options for the amateur bookseller: Half.com, Amazon, eBay, ABE and Alibris. All five have their strengths and weaknesses, but my biggest concern when looking at selling my extra books was the cost. Seller’s fees, shipping, etc. can take a toll on the bottom line. So I set out to see who has the most seller-friendly pricing structure. This what I came up with:
| Selling | Profit at: | ||||
| Price | Half.com | Amazon | Ebay | Alibris* | ABE** |
| $5.00 | $4.21 | $2.79 | $0.74 | -$0.16 | $0.23 |
| $25.00 | $21.21 | $19.79 | $19.99 | $15.84 | $17.53 |
| $55.00 | $48.36 | $45.29 | $49.02 | $39.84 | $43.48 |
| $125.00 | $112.46 | $104.79 | $116.69 | $95.84 | $104.03 |
| $300.00 | $277.46 | $253.54 | $286.00 | $235.84 | $255.40 |
| $1,000.00 | $949.96 | $848.54 | $963.25 | $795.84 | $860.90 |
| * $19 annual fee divided into a hypothetical 300 books a year, with a $1/book charge for ‘basic’ plan ** $25 monthy fee divided into a hypothetical 25 books |
So you figure out that some lowlife is grabbing your RSS feed and using it to populate his MFA splog. Maybe you used copyscape (www.copyscape.com) to find him, maybe you were alerted by a loyal reader. No matter how you find out, you need to take action to avoid Google’s duplicate content penalties, a loss of trust from your readership, or unfair advertising competition from your own content. So what can you do? The quickest and easiest thing you can do is send a DMCA letter (really!). Here’s how to do so in 3 easy steps:Read More »Help! Someone’s stealing my content!
WordPress (which powers this site) announced a couple of major advances this week: Version 1.0 of WordPress MU – a multi-user version of Word Press, and bbPress – a forum software that integrates with WordPress. WordPressMU reaching 1.0 is a… Read More »WordPress advances
I got three more emails today from staff members who were not in our Help desk software (because their accounts never made it to Active Directory from NDS), so I decided to dig a little deeper into the problem.
Looking at the DirXML console, I noticed some users were erroring out with the message: “problem 1005 (CONSTANT_ATT_TYPE), Atta 0, AttphysicalDeliveryOfficeNamephysicalDeliveryOfficeName)”.
Now I already knew “physicalDeliveryOfficeName” mapped to the NDS Location value from setting up our help desk software. Looking at the users they had one thing in common: Read More »Identity Manager: AD to NDS sync fixed
Sometime after my review of Linksys’s CIT 200 cordless Skype phone, my phone claimed it was ‘unregistered’ and wouldn’t talk to the computer. Unfortunately, the manual does not tell you how to fix this situation. However, the Internet is a wealth of information and I came up with the following steps to fix the problem:Read More »CIT 200 – unregistered error & solution