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I took the test at HowRichWillIBe.com today and according to them “I am going to be rich beyond my dreams, earning $14,700,097 in the next 10 years…”. I wish!!
But anyways, it’s a fun test. Who knows, maybe it’s actually predicting the future :-P
At the end of the test, you get the following image which you can put on your website or blog to let everyone know how rich you will be in 10 years. So, they know if they should be friends with you for the next 10 years or not ;)
14,700,097
How much money will you be worth?
There is this one cool website that office workers can use to read books and stories in their cubicles and fooling the boss into thinking that are actually working on a PowerPoint presentation. The website is ReadAtWork.com and it has been brought to the world wide web by the NZ Book Council, which is a non profit organization, aiming to encourage more people to read books.
When you go to the website, in your browser you will see that the homepage looks like the Start screen of Windows Xp except if you notice well, you will see it’s not “Windows” but “Widows”. Who knows, maybe they will come up with a Windows Vista version of the homepage soon ;)
On entering the website, it opens in fullscreen mode with the default Windows XP look and from there you can browse the folders to read the available books as PowerPoint slides. The “My Computer” and “Recycle Bin” icons are just there to make it look like a real desktop but have no real use(I think!).
To get back to your actual desktop and browser, just press “Escape” on the keyword.
This is for sure one of the coolest website around. Have fun bookworms ;)
If you scroll down to the bottom of this blog, you will notice something new that I added a few days ago. It’s right next to the MyBlogLog widget, in the last column. I like to call the “Tip Jar” and here is how it looks like:
The basic idea behind this is the same as those donation buttons you have seen on many sites, except that now, you get something in return too, which is a link in the widget for a period of time. There is also the option to show image links instead of text links. Once again, the links have the nofollow tag, so search enigines are happy too ;)
Why would someone donate or give tips to a site?
I used to think the same too, but many bloggers (including me, in some cases) spend a lot time doing research on a topic and share the information for free on their blogs. So if you loved the post and want to give something in return to the blogger, you might want to donate some money or tip the blogger for his efforts. And now, the tip jar makes it easier!
The tip jar is fun and easy to use and you have full control of the links you want to appear on the widget or not. So go ahead, get your own top spot list(or tip jar)!
- Author: Zub
- Filed under: Health
- Date: May 24,2008
We all know the heart as the hollow muscular organ of the body which pumps blood to the blood vessels. In computer terms, we might call it the “kernel”. But that’s not all that we should know about the heart, there is a lot more to it. At HeartLibrary.com, you can find a series of interactive videos to watch about this vital organ.
If you have been a patient/survivor of heart failure or any other heart related condition, you can also submit your own story on the site to have it published. Who knows, maybe someone will benefit a lot from your story.
The website covers a variety of topics, such as heat anatomy, heart attack, heart failure, heat block, and more. You must watch the videos, unless you don’t have a heart!
Do you use both Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch with friends and family? Do you want your latest tweets to show up on your Facebook profile?
Then use the Twitter application available on Facebook. You can now extend the “What Are You Doing” concept of Twitter to post tweets directly from your Facebook profile. It might make your life easier if you are always hanging out on Facebook, or to keep you Facebook friends updated about what you are doing.
Here is how the application looks like in your profile:
Yep, that’s a tweet about the last post I made on this blog :)
Summize is a conversational search engine for Twitter. What it actually does is, it searches across Twitter conversions to match the word or phrase you are searching. The results are displayed in realtime and the latest tweets(or microblog posts!) are shown at the top.
An interesting thing(which you don’t get to see on conventional search engines) happens when you are searching for a word which is likely to occur in most sentences, such as “the”. When you click search the first time, you get a set of results with the latest tweets showing at top and immediately after that if you click search again, you get a complete new set of results. This goes to show at what speed people are active on Twitter :-P
Another useful trick you can use with this search engine for Twitter is to find who may be sharing your blog posts in their conversations. Now, you are probably aware that Twitter automatically shorten your URLs using TinyURL. But what you might not know is that TinyURL always provides the same shortened URL for a blog post. So, what you can do is, go to TinyURL and get the shorten URL of your blog post and use it with Summize to find all the tweets that contains this URL. Smart, eh?
Special thanks to Digital Inspiration for posting about this!
Social networks and Web 2.0 sites are popping up like mushrooms these days. People are beginning to feel dizzy when they hear about yet another social or friends network on the Internet. That’s a bit how I felt when my friend told me about this new social network, but when I heard the words “…send unlimited global sms to your friends…”, I was sold. I had to check it out!
Wadja lets you use your mobile devices to socialise via emails, web messages and my favorite SMS… globally! It’s a one place for all communication. It is also a social network to make new friends and hangout with the old friends.
Like with most social networks, you can also add your existing friends from your emails accounts like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail in just a few clicks.
The feature that I like the most is no doubt the Free Global SMS, you can send sms to any phone in the world at no cost. That’s not all, you can save a history of the sms messages in your Wadja account.
The website is constant adding new services and improvements. The newest feature update is the account privacy settings so you get to have total control of who views your profile and deny access to others.
Some months back, bloggingyourdreams.com started a contest where contestants were asked to blog about one of their dearest dreams, whether it’s about buying or building a house, getting married, starting a new business or anything you want to have - ofcourse you gotta be realistic, if you dream to have wings and fly… well… ummm… no comments!!.
The winner would get $5000 (I think) to help towards fulfilling the dream that they submitted. I’m not sure if there is any contest running now, but it would be nice to see more sites like this in the future. I believe, anyone definitely must have a dream and most dreams, money plays an important role to get them fulfilled, so opportunities like this is what could give them the boost they need.
That’s not all, by blogging about the things you want to have or achieve the most, you also share it with the world. You will get support and advice from those who have achieved their dreams and the whole world is there to cheer you.
What are the top annoyances on social networks according to you?
I have been blogging a lot about a few of the many social networks out there. I used to NOT be involved too much in social networks, the only profile I had and updated once a while was on Hi5. Then recently, I got into the “tweeting” or “twittering” mania, so much that now my blog posts are automatically twittered on my page.
Then I had my Facebook account, I had been resisting the temptation to open an account, but I couldn’t resist it anymore. So anyways, I came across this interesting list of annoyances of social networks which is worth a read.
“It’s great to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues, but does the price have to be spam, zombie bites, and friend invitations from people you’ve never heard of?”
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I can say, from experience, when I was in Australia international distance calls were costing me a lot at first. At that time, although I did know about calling cards, I didn’t use them, thinking I would be talking only a few minutes so it won’t make much difference. When I did used them, I realized I don’t have to talk to the other side of the world for minutes, but instead talk for hours and it wouldn’t cost me a fortune. Since then, for all international calls, I use calling cards or phone cards.
GetMeCallingCards.com is a leading international phone and calling cards online retailer, providing high quality service at low rates. At this time, their calling cards can be used from about 150 countries. Yes, you can use them to call the U.S. from overseas as well. Just check the country list you wish to call from for more details.
You can easily search from their wide range of calling cards from the homepage. There is a form where you can specify the country you are calling to and from and click search to see all the available cards. You get your PIN numbers immediately after checkout by email.
If you haven’t used or purchase calling cards before, the website has all all the instructions and guidelines to get you started in no time. So, start saving on your international calls from today!
