Google Answers

Sorry Google again. You may know that Google offer a Paid Search Service called

http://answers.google.com but what most people know is that anyone can view the answers created by Google. Another resource worth mining,

Motivation for the Home Worker

More and more of us have to work from home. Seems to be a good idea, but it's surprisingly difficult to work or rather get-going without the buzz and peer-pressure of the office.

I've started my own Motivation website for this reason. It filters relevant articles from various Article Websites.

http://motivationtips.co.uk

Text Replacement Tools

Hi this is a repeat post., but I think these tools are so useful. When I need to type out my address. I type \xxa and my address is typed out automatically, similarly \xxe my email address (I've had to use a trick to display these keyboard macros here). I have another for an email signature. If you are a writer you can set them up to spit out standard paragraphs.

I use http://www.shortkeys.com/ they have a free version, but there are many others.

YOU NEED THIS TYPE OF UTILITY

See my other recommended utilities http://successtheory.com/tips/progtips.php

Article Sites

I've only just discovered article sites! These are places where people submit articles on every subject under the sun! They are great for research, and also great for those hungry for content for their websites.

http://ezinearticles.com/

Writing a knowledgeable Article which you distribute to the various Article Sites can bring your website lots of quality traffic; in fact it is all the rage. Watch this Space

ALexa Traffic Ranking

http://www.alexa.com/

Another amazing Website gives you your traffic ranking appearently my site www.rayninfo.co.uk is 561,005th busiest Website!!

Another useful tool is the Google Tool Bar which gives you a Traffic Ranking Gauge for each site you visit!

Google Tips

What if using Google efficiently became the number one life skill?

Here are my Google Tips

http://successtheory.com/tips/

eBay Sniper Programs

Just returned from having lost an ebay auction in the last few seconds. I really wanted the item, with 50 seconds to go I bid at £87 and put a maximum bid of £100. I was the winning bidder, then suddenly I was way outbid at £128. I had forseen this and had some browser windows setup ready to accept a bid, but a fumble and it was too late. I guess that my counter bidders were using some kind of automatic bidding software called a sniper program. I must investigate them, but I fear that I would have lost anyway, as I never would had the courage to set £150 as maximum.

A description of a particular Sniper Program

Auction Sniper is an eBay sniper that automates the process of placing your eBay bid in the closing seconds of any eBay bidding auction, dramatically increasing your chance of winning. We keep it simple: you tell us what you want to win, and we snipe eBay for you. Best of all, Auction Sniper is free to try.

Who Invented the Word Dude?

Quiz: the word quiz is said to have been invented by a Dublin theater manager in 1780, who made a bet that he could introduce a totally made up word into common usage within 24 hours.

Feedback: the shortest word that contains the letters ABCDEF War: in Sanskrit, 'war' means 'the desire for more cows'.

SWIMS: the longest word that reads the same when rotated 180-degrees.

Dude: invested by Oscar Wilde to describe someone wearing 'duds with attitude' ('duds' was slang for clothes).

Hijinks: the only word with three consecutive dotted letters.

RSS

I've been hearing about RSS Really Simple Syndication or (Rich Site Summary) for a while and trying to ignore it. But drat! if I want to get this blog better known I have to get an RSS feed setup. So I look at it, seems pretty horrid, but no blogger.com do it all for you. I check the RSS settings and find they are wrong, I correct them and viola my ATOM feed appears.

Look all of this up in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

The Brick Testament

Every now and again you come across a website which is so different/unusual

http://www.thebricktestament.com/