wibiya widget

RSS

Communication Cube

Filed Under:
A cubic bluetooth design with three functions. Wireless connectivity to your mp3 player or mobile phone so that you can take hands free calls or listen to music while you’re driving, walking or cycling. It also has the added benefit of USB memory so that information can be stored. It’s also a time piece.
.
Ideal for wearing around your neck or on your key ring or keychain, it can be charged directly via UBS on your computer. The grid shape displays the time in one block and has the control keys in another. The time is displayed in a simple square formation; hours, groups of five minutes and single minutes 1-4 in a block.




edit post

Time Tracking

Filed Under: Labels:


A sleek stainless steel concept that will wrap around your wrist like a futuristic bracelet. Grooves in the face continue into the strap and the time is presented with LEDs that illuminate in lines between the grooves; hours 1-12, 5 minutes groups and single minutes.
It is made in Japan and one of the hottest gadgets in Japan

edit post

Apple Marketing Tactics

Filed Under:
Once you enter the Big Tent of Apple, it’s exceedingly hard to find the exit.

Over its 33-year history, Apple has consistently elected to limit consumer choice, creating a situation known as “lock in.” As soon as you start buying stuff from Apple, you’ll find it difficult to move to products made by someone else without losing everything you’ve already paid for.

Of course, many people don’t want to leave Apple’s tent. After all, it’s filled with iPhones and MacBooks and other cool stuff. And Apple is hardly the only business that tries to lock in customers–wireless carriers are probably the worst offenders. Nor is Apple the only vendor to use one product as leverage to push others onto consumers (let’s declare Microsoft the champion there).

But no other technology company exercises the same amount of control over what its customers can and can’t do with the things they bought. Part of this approach is due to Apple’s deep belief that a closed digital ecosystem with limited options benefits both Apple and its customers. Part of it is due to an all-consuming desire for control on the part of the ringmaster, otherwise known as Steve Jobs.
by Dan Tynan

edit post

10 Ways to Make Money Online by Blogging

Filed Under:
1- Asking Donation
You can place a Donation Button of Paypal anywhere in your blog. Just make sure your visitors can see it.

2- Pay Per Click Ads
You can participate any of the ad publishing network that exist today. We have Google Adsense, Kontera or Infolinks, AdBrite, Bidvertiser, and other contextual ad networks. Once accepted, what you need to do is just copy the code and paste it into your blog’s template.
You’ll earn money if any of your visitors clicked the ad.

3- Write Sponsored Review
You can also make money by writing sponsored or paid reviews. You can get clients by directly contacting possible sponsors or you can just join paid review networks like PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews etc.

4- Mobile Ad for your Blog’s Mobile Version
You can also make money from your blog by setting up a mobile version of it and on your mobile blog (or version of it) display the mobile ads through the AdMob. Just like the other ads of other ad publishing networks, you’ll earn money once a visitor (mobile) click the ad.

5- Sell Directly your Blog’s Ads Space
Actually, you can earn a lot by selling directly your blog’s ad’s spaces to advertisers because 100% of the ad space price will be yours, compared to when just publishing ads of any ad network wherein a part of the price will be taken by the ad network.
However, you need to learn to market your blog so that advertisers will find your blog and will rent a space from it.

6- Sell your own e-Book
Write your own ebook. I know you have your own expertise. You may know a lot about painting, then why not write a guide on how to paint ebook. If you are knowledgeable on how to assemble PC, then why not write an ebook about it.
Then you already have your own ebook, promote it by writing blogposts at your blog.

7- Sell the Products of Other People
You can also earn commission by simply selling other people’s products through your blog. You can join the associate program of Amazon and YesAsia. Then promote the products of these companies. If someone buy products through your referral, you’ll be paid a percent of it.

8- Sell the Services of Other Companies
Promote a webhost that you consider the most reliable webhost. But you need to be their affiliate so that you can earn commissions in every referral you make.

For example, you can join DreamHost as an affiliate. Then write a review about their hosting services and post it into your blog. If someone bought a webhosting account, you’ll be paid a certain amount based on its terms and condition.

9- Sell Text Links
You can also earn money by selling text links from your blog. You can do it by directly selling text links to advertisers or just join the TextLinkAds.

10- Sell Your Blog
After creating a blog, successfully publishing useful articles into it, and successfully making it popular, if you want, you can sell your blog.
not all people do this but some selling their blogs online.

edit post

Autodesk Releases the SketchBook Pro App for iPad

Filed Under:
Autodesk, Inc. has announced the availability of the Autodesk SketchBook Pro App for iPad, a new professional-grade paint and drawing application designed exclusively for the iPad. The app is available on the App Store at at www.itunes.com/appstore.
The Autodesk SketchBook Pro App for iPad combines high-quality digital pencils, pens, markers and airbrushes with a Multi-Touch gesture-based user interface, enabling users to create everything from quick sketches to high-quality artwork. Geared for both occasional doodlers and professional illustrators, SketchBook Pro transforms the iPad into the ultimate digital sketchbook. Using the same paint engine as its desktop and mobile counterparts, the new SketchBook Pro App for iPad delivers a complete set of sketching and painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface.
“The launch of the iPad brings both creative professionals and consumers unparalleled sketching capabilities on a mobile device,” said Samir Hanna, vice president of digital concept at Autodesk. “The SketchBook Pro App for iPad provides a fun drawing and painting environment that also applies widely to professional artists and designers from all industries.”
Key new features in the Autodesk SketchBook Pro App for iPad include:

· Full-screen 1024 x 768 work space with support for any device orientation
· An innovative Multi-Touch interface that delivers an immersive and streamlined experience
· 75 brushes with customizable settings, including synthetic pressure sensitivity and brush modes for free sketching and creating straight lines, ellipses and rectangles

· Six full-resolution layers per sketch with complete control over layer order, visibility and opacity
· A built-in, live news page that alerts artists to upcoming events and highlights featured artists and their SketchBook creation
The Autodesk SketchBook Pro App for iPad is available for US$7.99 exclusively through the App Store on iPad at www.itunes.com/appstore. Also available on the App Store is Autodesk SketchBook Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch. To learn more about the SketchBook products, visit www.autodesk.com/sketchbookpro.
Autodesk, Inc., is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software to help customers experience their ideas digitally before they are built. Fortune 100 companies ¾ as well as the last 15 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects ¾ use Autodesk software tools to design, visualize and simulate their ideas to save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation for competitive advantage. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com.

Autodesk, AutoCAD and SketchBook are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Academy Award is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Multi-Touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document.

edit post

WePad vs iPad

Filed Under:
WePad OS, Apps and Cloud
The WePad is a tablet that provides its users, partners and developers with an open platform – for that ‘we feeling’. The WePad is operated via a multi-touch display, and a variety of applications giving the user access to a wide variety of content and functions. The WePad is built on the WePad OS Linux-based operating system, which provides support for Android and Adobe AIR applications, amongst others. Numerous applications may be downloaded and installed from the WePad Store (designed as a meta store) or from integrated open stores. In addition, fully automated system component updates running in the background provide the user with optimal availability and security. WePad OS WePad OS is based on open source technologies. A current Linux distribution with its own touch-based user interface provides the basis for WePad OS. All applications are installed automatically and either run natively on the system or on a special layer. Experienced developers can fully exploit the capabilities offered by the OS on their WePads and extend these as required. The WePad, however, is a device – similar to the iPhone and iPad – that can be operated intuitively by all users without any previous knowledge. WePad Apps Some of the applications offered in the WePad Store are: Web browser (support for Flash), media player (including music playback directly from the smart card), Web radio, photo album, file management, email program, e-Reader (all open and available formats including ePub and PDF), instant messaging program, VOIP and video telephony program, calendar, address book, task list and a large collection of games. Various newspapers and magazines from numerous publishing houses are also available for download from the WePad Kiosk for a small fee. The WeMagazine Reader allows the relaxed and fluent reading of content and includes interactive content as well as the integrated WeFind search engine. Technologies underlying the applications range from standard Web technologies to native Linux, Java and Adobe AIR applications as well as complete web-based services. The integration of applications from open stores such as Android or Adobe AIR Marketplace is supported. This is to prevent the further formation of ‘application islands’. The user is therefore free to choose which applications they wish to install from the various stores via a front-end that is, as far as possible, standardised.

Product specifications
Comparison: WePad vs. iPad
WePad
iPad
Display
11,6“ mit 1366 x 768 Pixels, Colour, Multi-Touch
9,7“ mit 1024 x 768 Pixels, Colour, Multi-Touch
Processor
1,66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M
1,0 GHz Apple A4
Memory
16 / 32 GB, Extension with SDHC Card up to 32 GB possible
16 / 32 / 64 GB
Webcam
yes (1,3 Megapixel)
no
Peripherals
2 x USB integrated, Card reader, Audio output, SIM Card Slot, Multi-Pin Connector
Adapter for Camera and Card reader, micro SIM Card Slot
Java / Flash / Adobe AIR
yes / yes / yes
no / no / no
Applications
WePad Meta-Store integrates multiple Stores, Support for native, Java, Linux, Adobe AIR® and Android Apps
iTunes AppStore, Support for native Apps (Objective-C)
Multitasking
Yes including Live-Information on Home Screen
Limited
Battery life
ca. 6 h
ca. 10 h
Supported eBook Formats
ePub, PDF, TXT, Mobipocket, WeBook premium format at Q4/10
ePub, iBooks Store, Launch in Germany unknown

Connections
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n), optional 3G (UMTS/HSDPA)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n), optional 3G (UMTS/HSDPA)
GPS
yes (Model WePad 3G)
yes (Model Wi-Fi + 3G)
Case
Magnesium-Aluminium
Aluminium
Dimensions
288 x 190 x 13 mm
242,8 x 189,7 x 13,4 mm
Weight
800 g, 850 g (Model 3G)
680 g, 730 g (Modell Wi-Fi + 3G)
Further details
Ambient Light Sensor, Acceleration Sensor, Stereo, Internal Microfon
Similar
Accessoires
Dock, Case and Sleeve, Wireless Keyboard, broad support for standard PC peripherals
Keyboard Dock, Dock, Case, Wireless Keyboard, Camera
Connection Kit
Model
Price*
WePad
16GB+, WLAN
449.- €
WePad 3G
32GB+, WLAN, 3G, GPS
569.- €

edit post

Secrets of SEO

Filed Under:
1.) Passion
The SEO is industry is full of successful people whose passion for SEO is unbelievable. Take Rhea Drysdale for example, she spent thousands of dollars of her own money to help protect the industry from someone that tried to trademark the term "SEO". that could have affected the whole industry. Rhea isn’t the only one with an intense passion for the SEO industry but she is the most recent example. How does your passion for SEO rate compared to the industry leaders? SEOmoz users have a huge passion for SEO and a large number of them are at the top of the top ranked user list.
2.) Work
Hard work is one secret that every SEO will tell you is true, things don’t come easy in this industry. SEO doesn’t happen overnight and isn’t something just anyone can do, it takes someone who enjoys diving into link reports, analytics, and writing reports to clients. SEO’s are a hard working bunch and to be successful you need to put a bit of sweat into your projects. Are you spending your fair share of time invested in your SEO techniques, if not, imagine if you were putting your full potential into all your project, the results could be endless! Prioritize your projects and put more effort into those that will give the most in return.
3.) Good
Practice, practice, practice – to become successful at SEO you need to practice everything you read in real world situations. Since SEO is ever changing, you need to continue to practice the techniques you have acquired and make sure those techniques are still valid and will work with your current project. Without practicing of SEO techniques we still might be stuffing our meta keywords tag, which is a scary thought. Setup a domain and website where you can test your theories and explore the results without effecting your clients websites.
4.) Ideas
Successful SEOs are always coming up with new ideas! Richards gave some great tips on how to come up with ideas, they included: listen, observe, be curious, ask questions, problem solve, and make connections. All of those things can be done in communities like the one here at SEOmoz, get out there and start making those connections and asking questions. Making comments on blog posts is a great way to start making connections or even creating your own YOUmoz post with techniques you use.
5.) Focus
Focus on the good techniques that are going to make your clients achieve results. Some of us are spread too thin working on web design, web development, and many of the other things that go into creating a successful website. Having the ability to focus all your energy into just SEO can really help you succeed within the industry or help you achieve your SEO goals. This might be easier for people in large organization who have co-workers who can focus on the other needs of the clients. If you don't have the man power to focus on just one topic make sure you are part of a community that shares their techniques and tips.
6.) Push
In the video Richard talks about how it’s not always easy to push yourself but that’s why they invented mothers. Personally my mother wouldn’t know what SEO is and would have no idea how to push me to be better at it. I’ve found that clients are always going to be pushy when it comes to rankings and that can be who pushes you to educate yourself on the newest techniques within the SEO industry and help you and them succeed.
7.) Serve
Serve your clients something of value and not just empty promises like some of the shady emails your clients receive. Happy clients will lead to great referrals and increase your bottom line. Along with serving them great results in the SERPs, provide them with some useful knowledge to help them understand why SEO is important to continue to do and not just a onetime thing. Increases you clients knowledge about the SEO process will reduce questions and concerns in the long run.
8.) Persist
Persistence is one of the most important tips for success as an SEO. I bet almost every successful SEO had a few failures in their SEO life but they kept moving forward and didn’t let it slow them down. Richard made a great acronym for the word “CRAP” that will help you persist through some of the C.R.A.P. out there. Don’t let one speed bump slow you down, put your head down and continue to grind forward. Nothing feels better than seeing something you have worked really hard on meet the goals you set down, though lessons can always be learned from your failures.

By chenry

edit post