Glass sinks for the bathroom is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

So we’re buying a new home as you all know and I have some decisions to make on the remodeling job we are doing. The new house is in need of some minor repairs and a fresh coat of paint but we are taking the opportunity to spice things up some and we are looking for some unique ideas to make this a more personalized home for the family. It’s been 4 years since we actualy owned our own home and we were traveling overseas for 2 of those so the kids have not had a permanent place to call home for some time.

We got to looking for things to do in the kids bathroom and it made us realize we need to remodel both bathrooms because we are unhappy with the ugly sinks and fixtures. We saw some glass sinks used in a home on one of those tv design shows the wife loves and we thought that a glass sink in the boys bathroom would be a cool way to kick off some color and style in the new home. The kids bathroom is small and a glass sink would work best on a pedestal so we can cut down on the clutter and provide some open space for the boys to move around in.

After reading up on glass sinks I came to realize that there was a hygienic reason for having glass sinks as well and I am now going to replace the sinks in our bathroom as well because I want a glass too.

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Buy Houston Rodeo concert tickets online is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

Who does not love the rodeo? The rodeo is as much a part of America as baseball and hamburgers and a gift of Houston Rodeo concert tickets is one of the best ways to give the gift of enjoyment. I have been a fan of the rodeo since my first one at the tender young age of 11 and I can still remember how much fun it was to watch the animals and trainers perform. I enjoyed every thing from the calf roping and rope tricks to the barrel racing and cattle wranglers. I remember how effortless they made it seem but how powerful the experience was for a young man who had never seen anything so cool. Houston Rodeo concert tickets are the best way to introduce a young person to the great Houston rodeo which is one of the best in the area. After your first trip you’ll both be fans of the rodeo and have an entire new world to explore. The rodeo lifestyle is a grewat way for families to spend time together in a wholesome and exciting environment. Children will learn an appreciation for animal husbandry and the responsibility and commitment it takes to become a rodeo champion. If you live in the area I will suggest that you pick up some Houston Rodeo concert tickets and take the kids and family to the rode for some good clean fun.

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Revenue Program Review – PayPerPost.com is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

Ok, I’ve been with PayPerPost.com for over two years now and never written a review of their services. I have mentioned them in the past as m=part of my marketing efforts but it was only recently I decided to start writing more about my revenue programs.

As mentioned paid blogging is one of my favorite ways to generate some cash and PayPerPost.com has been a big part of that. They are the first paid blogging programs with their introduction causing quite a stir and controversy over the merits of paid blogging.

When I began with them it was actually quite amzing. I could easily generate an additional $100 per day in revuenue with 3 or 4 blog posts and that was what some people try to earn over all. It was sweet to say I could use an extra few bucks this week and I could sit down to do some writing and get paid big bucks for my time. I would take the time and create the best blog posts I could with well researched anchor text and deep links for everyone. I personally wrote some of my best articles because I was being paid to do so.

Today I logged in with the exact same blogs which have all lost a little bit of traffic in the past year. I have not done much for link building and website promotion on some of my blogs and even some have not been written to much in the past year. I would expect things to change some and maybe there would be a change in price for blog posts on my sites but what I saw this morning was downright depressing. I have a number of PR4 website still listed with them because I quit paid posts on my more popular blogs some time ago. A PR4 website is like bread and butter in the industry and a decent money maker for the efforts in most cases.

Today the best I could get from PayPerpost.com were some unrelated websites with a top price of $9 per post which is a far cry from the $35 these sites earned a year ago. I can only imagine that advertising dollars are drying up and the fierce competition in the blogging market has created a surplus in bloggers who will write just about anything for a buck or two.

PayPerPost.com has the best system for paid blogging and has been the most reliable revenue program for paid blogging but the volume and price per post has dropped dramatically and its just plain harder to make that extra $100.

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Meyerson Business Law offers advice on Pennsylvania litigation is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

If you seek information on Pennsylvania litigation then Meyerson Business Law is the litigation firm you need to assist you. They have substantial experience in litigation in Pennsylvania and this experience will do you good should you find the need to take someone to court.

It’s a sad thing but this country has gone nuts with litigation and if you are ill prepared for it then you may well find yourself left outside in the dark as the top professionals are working hard to win the case for their clients. Do you have a top attorney for your Pennsylvania litigation? If not then please consider Meyerson Business Law as your Pennsylvania law firm.

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Add me buttons for Facebook, Twitter and Technorati is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

These are not my buttons. They belong to Justin. I’m simply uploading them here so I can serve my own banners.

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Zune Domains For Sale By Owner is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

The Microsoft Zune mp3 player has had limited success in gaining market share from the Apple iPod but they have done well enough to secure the #2 position in the portable music player market and future growth seems assured by the fact Zune software will now be included in all Windows Mobile devices beginning with the upcoming release of version 6.5 of the Microsoft Mobile Operating System.

The Zune blogs and websites have carved themselves a market in the entertainment niche by providing relevant content related to music, movies and gaming. The Zune project has a 3 to 5 year business plan with Microsoft hoping to integrate the Zune service into their existing Xbox Live service in an effort to link the two together via the power of music and video games.

The convergence of music, movies and video games in personal handheld devices seems the goal of most tech companies including Apple and Sony but Microsoft has a distinct edge with their ever popular Xbox gaming consoles and the ubiquitous Windows Operating System. The Microsoft user base is so huge that by shifting just a percentage of their desktop users over to their mobile platform it creates a viable business model.

The Zune line of devices and software are assured continued growth for years to come with Microsoft continuing to build upon their new brand in hopes of gaining an edge on the numerous competitors in the market.

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Aggregate your social networks with Lifestream WordPress plugin is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

The social web has gotten out of control with most power users having upwards of 10 or more social profiles to manage. Not only do we have MySpace and Facebook but many web professionals have LinkedIn, Digg, Stumbleupon or Reddit accounts to manage. If you like pictures you probably have a Flickr account and maybe you use Picasa for web albums. If you listen to music you may have iLast.fm to go with your Zune card or maybe you’re a simple kind of person and you just have MSN or GMAIL as your contacts manager.

If you are reading this blog then odds are you have all of these and more to manage and bringing it all together in one place is kinda cool. The wordppress plugin Lifestream makes this happen and keeps all your social activity in one location with a few simple clicks. Your social feed can be used as an online resume with a history of everything you do online as a bit of job history for those of us who live and work online.

My Lifestream shows you that I spend much of my time online reading news sites and promoting stories from not only my own websites but the millions of other websites I read each day. I use my del.icio.us account to list my favorite urls and my Facebook account includes links to lots of this as well. I’m looking forward to see what new social networking opportunities my Facebook account brings to me once I start using the new Facebook Connect feature.

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Bridge your WordPress Blog with a Simple Machines Forum is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

I have a few websites built using WordPress as my CMS but there is one feature WordPress is lacking and that’s a decent forum for robust discussion on topics with features like file sharing and all the other wonderful toys bulletin boards have to offer. BBpress.org is weak at best and not even compliant with the latest version of WordPress.

I have been using Simple Machines Forum for my message boards for over 2 years now and it’s a wicked piece of software you can download for free and build a great website with. I love the admin features you find in SMF and I really like the packages feature that allows you to so easily add on features and even updates. Downloading new packages and adding a new feature to your forum has never been easier and the online template mods make site changes fast and easy. The ease of use and numerous features has allowed me to make some heavy modifications to my default forum installations.

One of my favorite mods is to combine my two favorite site building software applications using some modified software bridges to join them. The first is a WordPress plugin that merges the WordPress login and creates a new forum member for each blog user who to join. The combined accounts allow one login to post comments on the blog and topics in the forum. This plugin is the one I use to bridge my WordPress blog users and SMF forum members but its modified using some tips I got here in the SMF forums and it only works by using the SMF_WordPress package installed in your forum that you can download here.

This setup allows my members to use both sections of the site with one login but they do still have two profile pages. The bridge links select fields from the WordPress users page with the SMF members profile. The SMF profile has more options but with a little custom coding you can add these to your WordPress blog and create a very customized look.

This worked fine for me until I came to realize that what I really wanted was for each new blog post to have a forum topic for discussion of each article and to handle comments from the blog. I found a plugin for wordpress that does just that and now I am hoping to have it customized to do even more. The SMF Commenter takes each new post from your blog and creates a new topic for your forum so long as they are installed in the same local database. It creates a link back between the post and the topic and helps move traffic from both sides of the site. I’m hoping to show the discussion of each topic on the blog home page with some future modifications but for now I have to settle for a simple link between the two.

It is however really nice to have the automatic topic creation for each new post. This only works on posts made from within WordPress Admin. If I make a post using something like Performancing for Firefox then I have to save it as a draft and then manually post from within WordPress to get the plugin to create the topic but that’s good enough for the sites I have that need this.

If you have any other ideas on integrating WordPress and Simple Machines please make a comment and let me know.

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Google Flu Trends and the ever expanding power of GOOG is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

I don’t have a link to it but years back an SEO pro wrote an article about the power of Google. It was a Big Brother kinda thing where the GOOG has taken ever increasing control of our data and information usage and therefore control of our lives. It was wildly popular at the time and the inspiration for some great conversation on the ever increasing power of Google and the endless possibilities a company like them had in the future where it was obvious to many of us that the net would rule.

I’ve watched the company grow since I got serious about online business back in 2000. I actually applied for a job with them way back in 2002 I think it was. I tried to latch onto what I saw as the hottest company online. I failed to get a job with them but I have been a search marketer ever since. Now it seems everyone can see the size and reach of Google and pretty much the whole world is watching them. They’ve added a lot of new services and done some pretty cool things over the last few years. Services like Google Earth and Maps are wicked cool and they make the world a smaller place for all of us.

I think their newest service Google Flu Trends is the beginning of the new generation of web data and information sharing. I think Flu trends taps into the real power of Google with real time data mining and interpretation which they now use to determine trends in flu related searches and can use to predict an outbreak before the CDC just by search usage.

As the number one destination for online searches and a commanding 80% market share they are uniquely positioned to monitor the pulse of the web. The potential uses for this type of data mining are limited by the mind and imagination. Flu trends are the tip of the iceberg. I bet big money is on other trends such as fashion or technology but think of the political potential and it gets spooky.

Have you ever really though about how much they know about those of us with the Google Toolbar installed?

Google tool uses search terms to detect flu outbreaks – CNN.com

If you have a fever, headache and runny nose, you might go to Google and type the words “flu symptoms” to see whether you’ve come down with influenza.

Google knows that you might do something like that, and it also knows which U.S. state you’re in. Now, it’s putting that information together in a tool that Google says could detect flu outbreaks faster than traditional systems currently in use.

Google’s new public health initiative, Google Flu Trends, looks at the relative popularity of a slew of flu-related search terms to determine where in the U.S. flu outbreaks may be occurring.

“What’s exciting about Flu Trends is that it lets anybody — epidemiologists, health officials, moms with sick children — learn about the current flu activity level in their own state based on data that’s coming in this week,” said Jeremy Ginsberg, the lead engineer who developed the site.

The tool, which launched Tuesday, operates on the idea that there’s likely to be a flu outbreak in states where flu-related search terms are currently popular. Video Watch CNN.com’s Elizabeth Landau explain how Google Flu Trends works »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborated with Google on the project, helping validate and refine the model, and has provided flu tracking data over a five-year period, said Dr. Joseph Bresee, chief of the epidemiology and prevention branch in the CDC’s influenza division.

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Running an online business with Google Documents is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

I have run as much of my business online as I possibly can. I have been able to shift all of my accounts to direct deposit over the last year. It was pretty easy to do for everything except one or two of my accounts which still mail me a check based on invoices I had to mail each month.

These invoices and the checks were the last pieces of paper that I had to deal with and generate the most waste in my business besides the electricity it takes to power my electronics devices. I moved the invoices to Google Documents this month and I will continue to produce the in PDF format and email them.

Everything in my business has been digitized, this means I have no more paper copies of invoices, checks or anything else to deal with on these accounts. It also means I no longer have to produce said reports from a certain PC and I can now access the documents from anywhere at anytime.

I no longer have any paperwork to deal with in my business and this includes all state corporate documents, all banking transactions, all customer invoicing and billing even all of my business licensing is now done online. I’ll have some paperwork in taxes and a few other small things like receipts for business expenses I have to deal with but I no longer produce any paper waste and I can run everything from any computer with internet access.

Now all I need to do is make more money and my business will be perfect.

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