Freitag, 18. Mai 2007

Real Player from Real.com

Real Player from Real.com - Consumer: Music Lovers

The purpose of Real Player is to provide a platform on which to play music and other audio and video media.

Pros: Real Player has been around the internet scene for many years and it just keeps getting better and better. Real Player is the best of all possible platforms on which to play downloaded music files. With the Live Pause and Perfect Play feature, a user has full control. He can fast forward, pause or rewind live video clips while they play.

Real Player can downloaded QuickTime, Windows Media or MPEG audio/video files and also play your DVDs, VCDs and store-bought or home-made CD-ROMS. It does everything well! The advanced CD burning capability allows you to normalize volume across all CD song tracks, set up cross-fades, and even take out the gaps between audio tracks. You can make your CD’s sound completely professional.

With the enormous variety of skins that are available you can dress up your Real Player and make it reflect your personality and you can change the skin as often as you would like.

Cons: Users can spend a great deal of time changing the skins.

Guarantee: There is no guarantee given on the website but there is customer support available.

Value for money: All of the Real.com products are very good values.

Samstag, 12. Mai 2007

The purpose of the Anti Spam Software is to filter email and eliminate Spam from inboxes.

The purpose of the Anti Spam Software is to filter email and eliminate Spam from inboxes.

Pros: Most email programs have some sort of filtering capability but not all of them and the ones that do don’t always have capabilities that are satisfactory. While it is true that the CAN SPAM Act that went into effect in 2002 has reduced much of the SPAM that is sent out everyday in America it hasn’t reduced the SPAM that is sent out everyday from other countries. There is still a LOT of SPAM out there and a lot of the SPAM ends up in our inboxes.

The Anti Spam Software program has the ability to not just eliminate some of the spam like most email programs, but rather the ability to eliminate every single piece of unwanted mail and SPAM. Private email addresses still get a lot of SPAM but business email addresses get a lot more than private email addresses do. All mail requires a little time. It takes time to separate the good from the bad and the wanted from the unwanted. The Anti Spam Software can solve the problem!

Cons: There are no specific cons associated with the Anti Spam Software except that many email programs offer free filtering.

Guarantee: There is no guarantee of satisfaction statement on the Anti Spam Software website.

Value for money: The Anti Spam Software is a fair value.

Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007

Gotomeeting 3.0 from www.gotomeeting.com

Gotomeeting 3.0 from www.gotomeeting.com - Consumer: Internet Marketers

The purpose of Gotomeeting is to provide a cost effective way to organize and attend online meetings between providers, customers and employees.

Pros: There is a free trial offered for the Gotomeeting program. If after trying the program for free, you are not duly impressed, you are under no obligation to subscribe to the service.

Online meetings can be set up easily and quickly. Meetings can happen immediately or be scheduled for a future time. The attendees at meetings do not have to be registered Gotomeeting users and there is no charge made for participation.

There is no training required for even the most novice user to be able to begin setting up meetings immediately. Users can present information, share documents and applications with colleagues across the country or just down the hall.

Attendees do not have to download software to be able to participate in online meetings held using the Gotomeeting program. Access is very easy for all and it is free.

This online meeting program is better than others that I have seen or used. There is also a webinar service as well as a Gotomeetingcorporate program available for those companies which need to be able to hold multiple meetings at the same time.

Cons: There are no ‘cons’ for the Gotomeeting program. It is an excellent service that meets or exceeds the advertising promises.

Guarantee: There is no guarantee but there is a free trial and monthly payments can be cancelled at any time.

Value for money: Gotomeeting is an excellent value. The service is priced much lower than comparable services.

Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007

Quality Web Design at Atomic Shops.com


The purpose of Quality Web Design is to get a website built by a professional web site designer at a fraction of the cost that one would normally expect to pay and then be able to do the maintenance and make changes as needed without having any knowledge of HTML.

Pros: Most websites are completed within two weeks. There are five pages included in the package.

The subscriber can furnish up to ten photos of his own making or choosing. There are also over 1000 images that are available to be used by the web design team.

The product catalog that can be included in the original website design can include up to five different products and more products can be easily added by the customer later.

Websites are built using host.title technology so they are very easy for the customer to update and expand after the initial 5 page website has been built.

Cons: Quality Web Design would not likely be of any value to those who are HTML proficient and have the ability to build and design their own websites but it would be very valuable to those who are not experienced in web design.

Guarantee: There is no guarantee. There is, however, a free trial that can be used to assess the quality and the acceptability of the work before any payment is made.

Value for money: Quality Web Design is an excellent value for the price that is charged. The same quality would cost as much as $5000 dollars if it were done by a web designer.

Montag, 23. April 2007

The Traffic Blazer SEO Tool

The purpose of Traffic Blazer SEO Tool is to promote an online business, increase online visibility and, thus, make more money.

Pros: There is a Traffic Blazer help system available that provides tips, guidance and detailed instructional tutorials on search engine optimization and the search engine industry that is a big help to new Internet marketers. Questions are answered that some new marketers don’t even know to ask.

The keyword and site optimization sections show new marketers the words and phrases that search engines search for. There is also a Robots.txt/Robots Meta tag generator that prevents incomplete or unwanted pages from being crawled and indexed by search engine spiders.

There is a website analysis tool that can help new Internet marketers discover their site’s strengths and weaknesses. Webpages can be analyzed for different sets of key words.

Submitting websites to search engines has been simplified. Websites can be submitted to up to 200 different search engines world wide.

Traffic blazer provides many reports that are more than helpful. Reports include link popularity, list checking, and keyword ranking.

Cons: There are no cons for this product and the price is very competitive with similar products that are available.

Guarantee: There is no guarantee specified but the service can be discontinued at any time. In addition there is an offer for a domain name registration for only $1.99 when this service is taken.

Value for money: Excellent value for the money. It would probably be advisable for new marketers to start with the regular Traffic Blazer service.

Sonntag, 15. April 2007

Step 5: Creating a Test Post

In order for the rest of the steps to work properly, you will need to have some content on your blog. Adding content will allow you to create a Yahoo RSS feed.

The content does not have to be relevant and is easy to add.

• Under “Title” add the word Test.
• There is no need to add anything to the “Link” field.
• In the body of the post, once again, add the word Test.

Then you click on the orange “Publish Post” button.

In the example above, if you clicked on “View Blog” you would see that you now have a blog with the URL http://kidney-stones.blogspot.com, a title of Kidney Stones, and one post titled “test.” That is all there is to creating your blog – so let’s move on to the important settings you must know to make this system work in the next post...

until then!

Samstag, 7. April 2007

Choosing a Template for Blogger Blogs

Blogger currently has 12 ready-made templates to choose from. It really does not matter which template you choose. Each one will allow you to blog and ping. In the following screen shot, “Son of Moto” has been picked.

After choosing your template, click on the orange “Continue” arrow. As long as you have followed these steps correctly, you will be taken to a screen that let’s you know that your blog has been created. Simply click on the orange “Start Posting” arrow.