Author Archives: T.J.

November ’07 earnings report

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: $1.92 CJ Affiliates: $0. WidgetBucks: $2.87 eBay sales: $56.67 Adsense climbed nicely, from an average [...]

Enabling add-ons with Firefox beta

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 didn’t impress me was the lack of add-ons. I mean, how can I possibly live [...]

wireless meets SD storage in the Eye-Fi

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 in your camera, you can take pictures and wirelessly upload them to your computer or [...]

Stupidity Shield – how to keep from clicking on your own AdSense ads

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, I won’t see a penny of it – ever.  Since I try hard to keep [...]

October 2007 – best month to date

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: Adsense: $34.21 eBook Sales: $44.87 Amazon Affiliate: $0. CJ Affiliates: $0. WidgetBucks: $1.05 All time [...]

Selling Books for fun and profit

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 [...]

Help! Someone’s stealing my content!

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 [...]

WordPress advances

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 biggie – I tried an older version about a year ago, and it just didn’t [...]

Identity Manager: AD to NDS sync fixed

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 [...]

CIT 200 – unregistered error & solution

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: [...]