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Making money on the internet is not easy but this article shows how some people are making tons by having adsense on their website. Sigh…I wish I was one of them…

Take Andrew Leyden, former House Commerce Committee counsel and founder of a dot-com venture that failed, who started PodcastDirectory.com, a search engine for podcasts. As the site’s popularity rose from a hundred hits a month in 2004 to nearly a million now, Leyden started making the equivalent of an entry-level government worker’s salary — $30,000 to $40,000 a year — simply because people clicked on ads. That allowed him to work at home in Chesapeake Beach, Md., trying to make more money by attracting still more traffic to his site.

Here is a cool, new gadget that allows you to transfer your entire CD collection to your iPod while barely lifting a finger. This automated CD-Ripper is called the Pico.

Here’s how the Pico works…You stack your CD’s onto its 25 disc spindle, and then sit back, relax, and watch as the Pico automatically rips the contents of each disc to your hard drive. From there you can transfer the music files to your iPod. The Pico also doubles as an automated DVD/CD duplicator allowing you to burn up to 12 CD’s or 6 DVD’s in an hour…again, barely lifting a finger.

The Pico doubles as the world’s smallest automated DVD/CD duplicator and allows any small business owner, musician, filmmaker, teacher, or salesperson to duplicate (burn) up to 25 copies at a time for projects or presentations.

The basic Pico duplicator costs $699 and the Riptastic software option is an additional $99. The Pico is now available direct from Disc Makers

Amazon.com has unveiled the much anticipated, at least to some people, context sensitive ad box which works similar to Google AdSense.

A brief explanation about the Omakase

Omakase – leave it up to us! Omakase links will show an Associate’s visitors what they’re most likely to buy based on Amazon’s unique understanding of the site, the user, and the page itself. To create Omakase links, simply modify the template and appearance elements below and copy the resulting code on to your page. Then leave the rest to Omakase!

To get to the Omakase links area, just login into your Amazon Associates accounts and click on “Build Links”

Packeteer Inc has launched a new version of the wide-area file services, WAFS, technology it acquired when it bought Tacit Networks Inc in May, adding features that take advantage of the fact that the WAFS platform runs on a Windows operating system.

One of the issues raised by competitors after Packeteer acquired Tacit was how it would deal with the fact that its own WAN optimization/app acceleration devices (the PacketShaper range) run on a real-time OS while Tacit’s iShared products run on Windows. Far from promising integration onto a single platform, however, the Cupertino, California-based company said the two portfolios are essentially designed for different purposes. It said PacketShaper goes into a network core, whereas the iShared technology goes into both branch offices and HQ.

That affirmation can perhaps be questioned; after all, PacketShaper may well be optimization the link out to a branch office, just as an iShared platform is, the difference being that WAFS addresses storage-related protocols like CIFS, NFS and MAPI whereas WAN optimization/app acceleration works on HTTP, FTP and others. Nonetheless, Packeteer has decided to make a virtue of necessity with Tacit’s Microsoft reliance, and as such can argue that its WAFS offering has the edge on others (Cisco’s Actona technology, Riverbed and Expand’s DiskSites product) which are on other OSes such as Linux.

Arguably the worst fear is fear of the unknown. With conflicting
reports being published about the extent of click-fraud, investors are
left in a position where they simply don’t know how deep the rabbit’s
hole goes.

This is why Google’s announcement that it will start revealing
information to advertisers about click-fraud is such good news.
Advertisers will be armed with the information necessary to better
police click-fraud and feed information back to Google about additional
fraud they may be suspecting. This in-turn will enable Google to
continuously refine its fraud-detection algorithms.

At the end of the day, investors are concerned about a massive exodus
of advertisers away from pay-per-click models because of click-fraud.
By instilling greater confidence in the accuracy of its reporting,
Google helps ensure that will never happen. And it yet again has shown
that it is more responsive to market risks than its competitors.

Carbonite ONLINE BACKUP Service is on the News again…

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 20, 2006–Carbonite, Inc., announces that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to include a year of free online backup with Microsoft Money 2007. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft Money 2007 Premium and Microsoft Money 2007 Home & Business will ship with a free one year subscription to Carbonite MS Money Backup that automatically backs up all Microsoft Money files on the user’s PC. There is no limit on the size of the Money files that are backed up. At the end of the year, users can renew their backup subscription for $14.95 per year. Users may also upgrade to the full Carbonite Online PC Backup service for $49.95 per year. This service protects all user data, including photos, music, documents, email, etc., and capacity is unlimited.

California Travel Experiences is a blog from sftravel.com. Its kinda cool and I read a post that talks about a trip to the famous Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. That prison was also recently shot for Xmen 3…Cool. I might visit it when I go for my USA trip later.

Enables fluid integration and migration of systems going forward in complete support of business expansion

London – July 25th, 2006 – Fast-growing financial services company Alliance Trust Savings Limited (Alliance Trust) has gone live with a global deployment of Cape Clear’s Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) software as the basis for implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Alliance Trust benefited from a quicker, simpler implementation at a lower cost than with conventional approaches, in part thanks to the dramatic reduction in coding that was required by using the Cape Clear ESB.

Business Challenges
Alliance Trust operates in a highly competitive and dynamic financial services environment and by 2005 had recognised that its legacy IT infrastructure limited its ability to expand business both in terms of volume and in terms of services it could provide to its customers. Its existing IT environment also presented challenges in terms of allowing Alliance Trust to meet ever changing regulatory requirements.

“In particular, a limitation of our previous IT environment was that it did not allow for transactions and dealing functions over the web,” explained Rowland Strickland, chief operating officer at Alliance Trust, the financial services subsidiary of Alliance Trust PLC, the FTSE-250 investment company. “In today’s highly competitive market, it is essential that we offer online transactions to our customers at a time convenient to them.”

ESB
After conducting a full review of its infrastructure Alliance Trust also determined that its existing IT systems would not be able to provide the foundation for future developments. Because of this it decided to opt for an immediate migration strategy. The key issue was to ensure that this investment would be maximized with all new systems closely integrated going forward in complete support of its business strategy. To fulfill this need, Alliance Trust identified the need to build a Service Oriented Architecture.

An extensive list of potential vendors was assembled from companies that included EAI vendors, Application Server vendors and pure ESB vendors. As a key requirement in the selection process, the vendors had to demonstrate that their ESB and SOA products and services could enable a low-risk, low-cost and rapid introduction of new systems without requiring the need to write additional platform-dependant code.

Alliance Trust decided to use Cape Clear’s ESB to build an environment that would allow for rapid changes to its systems to meet emerging business, market and regulatory requirements.

Aligned directly with business strategy “In choosing a solution we were looking for two things in equal measure; the right solution set, and knowledge and value added in terms of SOA direction. The economics had to be right for our size of company and we needed a rapid implementation which would not drain our own limited internal resources. Cape Clear delivered on all fronts. What’s more … there were no unpleasant surprises in terms of cost,” concludes Strickland.

“Our customers are able to implement a SOA in less time and with less cost because of Cape Clear’s fundamental adherence to open standards and because it is completely infrastructure agnostic,” says Annrai O’Toole, CEO, Cape Clear Software. “This means that companies such as Alliance Trust can easily and quickly deploy a SOA without the complexity and overhead of surplus coding that many other ESB’s require,” added O’Toole.

About Alliance Trust
Alliance Trust is the brand name of Alliance Trust Savings Limited, a Dundee-based financial services company that is authorised and regulated by the FSA. The company and its subsidiaries administer more than £3.3bn of assets on behalf of around 39,000 customers (as at 31 January 2006).

Alliance Trust Savings Limited offers investment dealing, self-invested personal pensions and a choice of tax-efficient and other investment wrappers.

Alliance Trust Savings is one of the top ten providers of self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) in the UK by number of members.

Alliance Trust Savings Limited is wholly owned by Alliance Trust PLC, the largest generalist investment trust company listed on the London Stock Exchange and a FTSE-250 company.

For more information on Alliance Trust, visit: http://www.alliancetrust.co.uk

About Cape Clear Software
Cape Clear Software provides the fastest, simplest, and most proven way to implement a Service Oriented Architecture, delivering enterprise SOA projects in 20 per cent of the time and cost of alternative approaches. With over 200 customers, Cape Clear is the proven leader in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) software.

Cape Clear’s True ESB software is based completely on open standards, works with your existing infrastructure, and enables business users to flexibly align their business processes with their infrastructure. Founded in 1999, Cape Clear Software is a privately held firm with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices in Atlanta, San Mateo, Dublin, and London.

For more information on Cape Clear Software, visit: http://www.capeclear.comCape

Clear is a registered trademark of Cape Clear Software. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners.

Whether you need to perform a mail merge or create labels for CD’s and DVD’s, the Avery(r) Mac Label Expert is the essential desktop tool for all your labelling needs.

The quick and easy-to-use Avery(r) Mac Label Expert is an efficient and innovative software tool that can be downloaded directly to your Apple Mac, from www.avery.co.uk. Suitable for small or large businesses and homeworkers, the software guides you through a series of simple steps for formatting and printing onto all Avery printable products, including Addressing and Identification labels, Business Cards, IndexMakerTM Printable Dividers and CD and DVD labelling.

Stuart McIntyre, assistant product manager, Avery commented: “We are always looking at providing our customers with new and innovative ways to use our products. By creating free software for Mac users, we are building on the Mac solutions that we already provide today. I am sure this product will prove to be very popular.”

Avery(r) Mac Label Expert features include a brand new user interface, templates for all Avery printable products, support for both printer fonts and Macintosh fonts. Mac users can therefore, create fantastic printable projects direct from their AppleMac including mail merge from Excel, Word, ClarisWorks, FileMaker and AppleWorks.

By clicking on the Avery(r) Mac Label Expert, users can select their desired Avery product template, add their own text and graphics, type on the template manually and format the text. Not only that, you can preview your project and then print it out.

Avery(r) Mac Label Expert is available to download FREE from the Avery website by visiting www.avery.co.uk

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Here is the hottest Warcraft 3 player from Singapore. She looks good in a bikini too !

Mention female pro-gamer and the immediate generalization is a tomboyish girl with a baseball cap and baggy pants. True enough, thats what happens most of the time, until you bump into Cassandra “PpG” Ng who happens to be the best female Warcraft 3 player down south in Singapore.