I’ve been involved with blog advertising for over a year now and I’m thankful to have been pretty successful with it. I’m working with quite a few different companies at the moment, one of which is Smorty.com. I’ve posted about 4-5 entries with them but this is only based on the fact that they’re a fairly new company. I like their system though, I wish I had the opportunity to post for more than one blog as I do for many other companies but I’m by no means turned off by them because they don’t have that option. Companies like Smorty work very hard in order to allow you to get paid for blogging. There are a lot of people who say that it’s considered ‘selling out’ but bloggers have been writing their opinions on products and other sites for many years, being paid for it really isn’t that wrong at all.

In total I’ve earned over $8000 blogging in the last year, considering it’s just writing a random entry here and there, naturally I’m going to bask in the glory of how I get paid to blog. Smorty is just one more company that will help you reach whatever financial goals you have for your site. There is never going to be another million dollar homepage but if you partner up with the right companies and services you can earn a six figure income just giving an opinion. How could anyone possibly have something bad to say about that?

I haven’t been doing too well lately. I don’t know if it’s the stress from all of the walking, the horrible bed that I’m sleeping on, or if it’s the fact that I’ve spent so much time sitting in uncomfortable chairs while I work all day, but I find myself being in more pain than usual. I’ve been searching every where for a pain reliever that doesn’t require me taking prescription drugs. There’s plenty of vicodin and percocet in the house but I get so tired and so sick after taking products like that, that I really have no choice but to take some aspirin and suck it up.

I found a new product, Nurofen Plus, that’s supposed to be a very strong pain reliever. It’s a dual action of ibuprofen and codeine. It’s powerful temporary relief for strong pain and/or inflammation associated with headache, tension headache, migraine headache, period pain, dental pain, back and neck pain, neuralgia, rheumatic and arthritic pain, muscular pain and sports pain.

So yea, it covers a lot of area’s but does it actually work? I honestly don’t know. While I believe that strong pain relievers are important – I’m not too sure about the $35 price tag attached to it. I also don’t know if this is even FDA approved and unfortunately I couldn’t find much information about it other than it’s made in New Zealand. It requires a bit more research for me to get myself into something like this…I’ll stick to Tylenol for now but guess it’d be worth trying for those who can’t get relief anywhere else.

It’s always interesting coming across new products. While I admit to not being an avid online video watcher, I do pay close attention to the ones that I do. I came across a FREE program today that you can save any video to your computer, phone or media devices. You can watch video’s on demand from around the globe while surfing the web. You can browser over 4 million videos from thousands of categories. You can watch these video’s while you surf the web with the “Float” option. They offer the latest in news, business, sports, weather and more. It is a streaming video player called LePlayer. It’s the most comprehensive video search tool out there, and it’s 100% FREE.

System requirements include:

Microsoft 98, ME, 2000, XP or NT 4.0
A 300MHz or higher processor.
128MB Ram
1024×768 resolutions
TCP/IP network connection

Based on my website stats, I know that 90% of my visitors have the minimum requirements for this program. I can find out what browser you’re on, what screen resolution you have, plus your version of windows and network connection. Based on these alone, you can download this program. It’s completely free and really makes your video surfing much easier. For those who are really into internet clips, this is almost definitely the script for you.

The world is coming up with new and interesting things every day. A few weeks ago I was at D’s house (BF’s aunt) and I noticed a really cool screen sitting next to her. I asked her what it was and she pulled out her digital camera memory card and slipped it into this machine. With a flick of the switch her images began popping up on the screen. I’d never seen anything like this before so I had to find out where she got it. It was a Christmas gift for her but she praised it with all she possibly could.

It’s called the digital photo frame. It’s actually pretty simple to use. You take the photos with your digital camera, you transfer the memory card out of your digital camera and plug it into the five-in-one card reader on the side of your digital picture frame and then use the remote control and you’ve got your own personal slide show.

It comes in a few different sizes. You can choose from a 7″, 8″, 9″ and 10″ frame. It’s a standard five-in-one card reader that supports CF, XD, MS, SD and MMCIt video cards. It supports JPEG, MP4, DivX, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MP3, WMA and WAV formats. So you don’t even have to worry about it only supporting images, you can view movie clips that have been taken with your digital camera, you can even play music in the background to give it a ‘slide show’ kind of a feel. The 7″ frame is priced around $100 but if you really do love digital photos than I’m sure you’d want to upgrade yourself to the 10″ frame that runs approximately $220. I’d say if you were really into taking pictures than that’s the one you’d go for.

You should head over to digitalframez.com and check it out. Seeing it in person is a whole lot cooler but considering how annoying it can be to change out picture frames, the ability to just plug your memory card in and have the photos alternate with the push of a button, just makes it worth the purchase.

Women spend BILLIONS of dollars a year on make-up, clothing, personal care and accessories. Knowing this, you can easily dream of owning a successful business selling even one new, hip and cool item. Running your own little store is always a great idea but sometimes that can take away from the quality of your work. You’d have to set hours, rent/purchase a location, possibly hire someone to help you out if the store gets busy. It’s quite a bit of a hassle. You won’t bring in enough money at first so bills will be tight…a series of things could go wrong…you’d really need to think hard. Thanks to the internet, however, you don’t really have to think at all. You can design your products, get some free or even cheap web hosting to publish your name and then setup shopping cart software and start selling your products.

When surfing the net you come across quite a few websites where you can register an account to run your own e commerce website for little to no money. The company handles everything for you. The script installation, support to help you figure out what you’re doing and many other factors to help make your time online the best it can possibly be.

One site I’ve come across is Ashop Commerce. They offer you a no-installation required store. You can accept credit cards online, there are thousands of features with their scripts and they’re all easy to use. You can start selling instantly and you can completely customize the store to match your existing website. The really cool thing is they offer a 10 day free trial so you can get a feel for the program before you even spend any of your own money. I’d say that’s the best route to take, don’t you?

So if you’re interested in getting your own business up and running but don’t want to spend a lot of money doing it, head on over to Ashop Commerce and create your own shopping cart for free and start selling your heart out!