Posted by harsh_tch Wednesday, December 23, 2009

How to make spare cash online

Louis Ramirez is dealnews' Features editor.

You don't have to be a celebrity blogger to make money online. From Amazon to Google, we'll show you how to earn some extra beer money by doing what you do best — surfing the interwebs.

Associated Content

Fancy yourself a wordsmith? With the help of Associated Content, loquacious writers can make some extra change by selling their daily musings online. The site accepts all types of media, from text to video. Topics are similarly diverse ranging from laptop reviews to dieting tips. Once your submission is accepted, it's either posted on the site or on one of Associated Content's partner sites. Not sure what to write about? The site posts daily "Calls for Content," letting writers know specific subjects that are needed.
Pay Scale: Associated Content pays about $1 to $30 per article. (Article length varies.) In addition, you can earn revenue from your most popular stories based on its page view count (you receive $1.50 for every thousand page views.)

Amazon Mechanical Turk

You may not surpass Jeff Bezos' salary, but if performing small tasks on an hourly basis is your idea of fun, you might like Amazon's Mechanical Turk. The site pays freelancers for performing "Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs), which require anything from writing translations to copy editing. You choose the HIT you want to work on and upon submitting and approving your work, the HIT requester deposits your pay into your Amazon Payments account. The HIT requesters are companies looking to fill their websites with unique content. For instance, at the time of this writing, FriendsEat.com was paying $4.51 for 20 short restaurant reviews. Write more than four sentences and the pay jumps to $4.55. Many of the HITs you'll find are monotonous, but they're relatively easy and there's a healthy mix of low- and high-paying HITs to be found.
Pay Scale: With HITs that pay from $0.01 to $7.50, Amazon Turk will buy you the least amount of beers.

Google AdSense

Want to make money off your blog? With Google AdSense, you can. This online ad service places targeted ads on your website and pays based on the number of visitors who click on the ads, or cost per thousand impressions (CPM). Since you're in control of your blog, you can write about whatever you want. Google in turn will try to match your content with the appropriate advertising. When someone clicks on one of the ads, you get a portion of the money that Google collects.
Pay Scale: Unfortunately, pay for this model varies greatly and is dependent on how much traffic your blog gets and the amount of money your advertiser is paying. While some people have reported making upwards of $1M a year, sites with low traffic can expect to earn around $100/year.

About.com Guide

Though it requires the most commitment, becoming an About.com Guide offers the most potential to earn cold, hard cash. The New York Times-owned site hires freelancer writers who are well-versed on specific topics. (Topics can range from digital cameras to scuba diving.) It's then up to the freelancer to maintain and update About.com's page on that topic. Rookie guides must publish four articles every month with gaps of no less than 14 days between articles. In addition, guides must update their blog one to three times a week. You can work as many hours as you wish, but your work is edited and could be subject to revisions.
Pay Scale: According to About.com, new guides average about $1,000/mo. for their first two years. As your content and page views grow, some guides can make up to $100,000 a year.

Conclusion
Keep in mind that, the amount of money you make on these sites is usually proportionate to the amount of time you're willing to spend. In other words, working at these sites won't turn you into the next Internet millionaire, but a few extra dollars in your pocket never hurt anyone.

EARN money online, GLOBALisation

TOSHIBA UNVEILS CELL POWERED REGZA

Posted by harsh_tch

Toshiba Unveils Cell-Powered REGZA 55-inch LCD TV

Toshiba has unveiled its first cell-powered LCD TV ‘Cell Regza 55X1′ for the Japanese market. This new 55-inch widescreen TV uses the same Cell Technology as found in the Sony PS3 for delivering outstanding picture quality. It also offers a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, 240Hz scanning, 1,250 cd/m2 brightness, 5,000,000 contrast ratio, an internet browser made by Opera Software, DLNA support, a 7-speaker sound bar, an SD card slot, HDMI and USB ports and a tuner box that includes a 3TB of storage space, with 2TB of that is dedicated to time-shift recording (recording up to 26 hours of programs for up to eight channels). The Cell Regza 55X1 will go on sale in Japan in December for unannounced price yet. [TCMagazine]

As Japan approaches the end of analogue broadcasting in 2011, the digital TV market has entered a period of diversifying customer needs.

“In order to meet demand for more vivid reproduction of high contrast, high definition images, simultaneous viewing and recording of multiple programs, along with access to broadband content,” as they say, Toshiba just unveiled newly developed CELL REGZA TV and the CELL Platform.

CELL REGZA 55X1 is the new flagship of the company's REGZA line-up and will be available in the Japanese market from the beginning of December.

The heart of CELL REGZA is Toshiba's CELL Platform - a combination of the high speed parallel processing of the Cell Broadband Engine, specially developed for demanding multimedia applications, and Toshiba's image-processing algorithms.

According to the company, the CELL Platform achieves an arithmetic processing capability approximately 143 times that of the current top-of-the-line REGZA TV, allowing it to support unrivaled image-enhancing capabilities.

It offers a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1, and supports this with ultra-high-speed processing and recording, enhanced navigation and seamless network interactivity.

In the new Toshiba’s TV, the eight-window multi-display is divided into 512 distinct areas, each with individually controlled lighting. Luminance is pushed to an 1250cd/m2, 2.5 times the level of typical TVs.

The CELL REGZA consists of a slim monitor and a tuner that also integrates the 3-terabyte hard disk drive. Two terabytes of capacity are dedicated to the "time-shift machine," which can simultaneously record up to approximately 26 hours of programming for up to eight channels of digital terrestrial broadcasts.

It combines the 120Hz scan rate of ClearScan 240 with its new Backlight Scanning technology, and now achieves 240Hz scanning. The new double backlight scanning function divides the display into 16, against eight for current REGZA models.

Toshiba states that optimum picture quality is achieved by automatic fine tuning of multiple control settings: 1024 steps in color temperature, a 128 scale dynamic gamma range, 100 brightness settings, 32 settings each for color saturation, color sharpness, and adjustment of super resolution, plus control of the LED backlighting.

CELL REGZA comes with the Opera-based browser with full HD support (e.g. enables displaying Youtube HD content), co-developed with Opera Software, and also supports broadband service, DNLA streaming and display of JPEG digital photographs.

Compact WORLD, LED Lighting, TELEVISION

Posted by harsh_tch

Privacy.net sues Microsoft, Cisco, Comcast and TRUSTe

The owner of Privacy.net and Network-Tools.com, Russ Smith, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, Cisco, Comcast and TRUSTe.

The lawsuit claims that Comcast, Microsoft, and Cisco collected information about Smith’s IP addresses and either put them on a “blacklist” or gave them a poor “Reputation Score.” Comcast even blocked his communication link with a mail server he operates outside the Comcast network. The suit claims that in order to collect this information in the first place Comcast, Cisco and Microsoft violated eavesdropping laws. The suit goes on to claim that Comcast, Microsoft, and Cisco failed to adhere to their privacy policies. When Smith tried to use the privacy policies of Comcast, Microsoft, and Cisco to correct the spammer accusations the companies balked. Comcast even told him it didn’t matter what the privacy policy said, he wasn’t getting the information. He filed complaints with the TRUSTe organization that verifies the privacy policies of Microsoft and Comcast but that did no good.

Previous lawsuits against these “blacklists” have been brought by commercial e-mailers against organizations such as Spamhaus. In this case the accused is not a commercial e-mail, not a spammer, and has no mailing lists of any sort. The accused has even made presentations at the Federal Trade Commission against spammers and testified at the first “Spam Summit” more than 10 years ago.

For more information see Lawsuit.Privacy.net

LAWSUITS, Punishments, RULES ARE NOT MEANT FOR BREAKING, Terrorism

Five Ways to Make Money via. Pets

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Five Ways to Make Money if You Love Pets

Posted by David G. Mitchell

QUITE HEALTHY BULL DOG (ACtiVE too) TALLEST FOG - 7 feet tall

Yesterday, I got a dog. We named him “Peter’s Lucky Biscuit” and he is adorable. That’s him in the photo to the left. Biscuit is a pure bread labradoodle. We had to get a pure breed because we needed a hypoallergenic breed that would be more likely to be compatible with our son’s allergies.

We love our son and he has always wanted a dog. Indeed, he did all of the research on hypoallergenic breeds and made a very compelling case for getting either a doodle, a Portuguese Water Dog or, my favorite, a basenji. We loved every aspect of the labradoodles that we met, except the price tag. We met with two breeders and both told us the same price — $2500!

The breeders we met had one thing in common. Dog breeding was a “second job.” In each case, both the husband and wife had day jobs and the dogs were their second source of income. Both breeders also involved their children and turned breeding into a family activity — one that pays really well.

The breeder from whom we purchased our Biscuit has dogs who have had litters in each of March, April and May. She has already sold all of the puppies from the April and May litters — fourteen puppies at $2500 each. Admittedly there are some overhead costs for food, toys, veterinarian bills and stud fees, but a huge portion of that $2500 per animal is profit.

Our breeder told us that she and her husband sat down with their two daughters six years ago and had a family meeting. They considered whether this is something that they wanted to do together. They unanimously agreed that they did. They purchased two breeding doodles and did a lot of research. They have not looked back since. The younger daughter, now 13, is in charge of photography and the breeder’s website. The elder daughter, now 17, does a lot of the care giving for the puppies and she must do a good job of it — she just bought a new Volvo convertible with cash that she earned caring for puppies.

I’ve learned a lot about animals this month or two, some of it unpleasant, but most of it wonderful, and I have learned that there are a lot of ways to turn a love of animals, or at least an interest in them, into ways to make money. Here are a few animal businesses that you can operate from your home:

Become a Breeder: Whether you breed cats or dogs, there is money to be earned in raising healthy, pure breed animals. If you own your own home, you can certainly earn more than enough to pay your annual mortgage with one litter per year. Raising puppies can be a lot of work but it can also be amazingly rewarding. Our breeder told us that the joy she gets from putting a puppy in a good home makes her feel wonderful for days, even though it is hard to see her “babies” leave her house.

Become a Groomer: In my community, there are several mobile pet groomers who will groom pets from a van in the owner’s driveway. She charges anywhere from $50 to $150 per hour depending on the services that are required. There are pet grooming schools in all 50 states. If you love animals and like to be out and about during the day, pet grooming is a great way to earn a living.

Become a Dog Walker: If you live in an urban area, many professionals do not have time to walk their dogs, especially on weekdays. Dog walkers can earn up to $30 per hour and sometimes even more. All you need is a means of traveling to the dogs and a way to advertise your services and you can set yourself up as a dog walker.

Become a Pet Sitter: When pet owners travel, they do not want to worry about their pets. Pet sitters will visit a pet regularly during the day, feed and water the animal, take the animal for walks, and generally look after the pet while the owner is unable to do so.

Become a Pet Chauffeur: Many pet owners, especially the elderly, are unable to take their pets to veterinary appointments or other appointments (and to be honest, I really cannot figure out what those “other” appointments might be). Pet chauffeurs are drivers who will take pets to those appointments so that the owner does not have to find a way to do so.

Posted by harsh_tch Monday, December 21, 2009

September 16th, 2009

Listen to this Green Air Minute:

SEED MONEY: INVESTING IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

by The Green A-Team

Sustainable agriculture investing gets serious with Wall Street money movers.

The business of feeding the world’s populations has fast become less about the quality of the produce shipped halfway around the world to your salad bowl and all about the quantity and speed at which the agricultural industry can deliver higher yields through soil damaging pest control and genetic mutations through biotechnology.

A new investment firm seeks to pair sustainable solutions with the resources necessary to fix our broken agricultural system.

Janine Yorio, Founder of NewSeed Advisors.

A lot of what we call sustainable also becomes economically necessary in the face of rising oil prices. So the day that we wake up and gas is at $5 again is that day that farmers and people [who] are actually involved in food production need to find alternatives to the petrochemicals that they use every single day to produce food.

According to Janine, the interest and the resources of the new wave of sustainable investors are big enough to counteract the old standards of short-term gains and turn-and-burn investing.

For more on NewSeed’s upcoming event and the full interview with Janine Yorio, click here.

Photo by rich_awn.

PROTEST FOR COP 15

Posted by harsh_tch Sunday, December 20, 2009

"ITS NOT WHAT YOU SEE ITS WHAT YOU NOT SEE, BUT STILL ANALYSE IN YOUR MIND, WHETHER ITS WORTH VIEWING OR NOT"

50,000 Climate Change Protestors March In London For COP15 (VIDEO)

Posted: 12- 7-09 12:05 PM

More than 50,000 people participated in The Wave on Saturday by marching through the streets of London to voice their concerns against climate change.

With COP15 now underway, these protesters, which were organized by Christian Aid and
the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, wanted to send a message to political leaders that a fair, ambitious, and binding deal should come out of the climate talks.

Check out this video of The Wave: