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7 Free Useful eBooks That Every Blogger Should Read

After a long time of silence from my side (I was busy developing WordPress Themes for customers), I'm now back sharing some interesting stuff.

This is what I found this morning in my RSS reader. It's an article from makeuseof.com on some useful free eBooks that may be of interest for Bloggers.

7 Free Useful eBooks That Every Blogger Should Read

I checked all the links and found that all these books are really free and don't even required you to leave your e-mail address (except for one about Search Engine Optimization).

For all who don't want to give away their read e-mail address, here is an extra tip: http://spamgourmet.com/ is a free service where you can set up a fake-email that will redirect a specified number of emails to your real account and just trash all subsequent mails. It's a very good solution if you need a one-time email to sign up for a free book, since you'll never get spammed with follow-up mails.

11/29/2010 07:33:24, von Marian , 167 words, 3161 views   Categories: quick tips

How to create a safe password

That's an article that I have just found in my RSS feed. It may help all of you folks who find it hard to remember so many passwords for all your Web 2.0 and social services that you have accounts for.

10/20/2010 07:23:47, von Marian , 40 words, 3053 views   Categories: quick tips

Mechanical Turk (again) - Why can it only be used by Americans?

I must say that a service like Amazon's Mechanical Turk really fascinates me. I already wrote a blog article some days ago where I explain how it works. I'm not sure how Amazon is making money out of this. I think that they will keep a commission on the paid rewards that a requester pays out for the workers.

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07/23/2010 22:18:09, von Marian , 288 words, 5084 views   Categories: quick tips

Computer workers: relax your eyes

This is another article that I found today on livehacker (another website that I can recommend) where they write about a good method to avoid health problems if you are staring at your computer screen all day.

It's called the 20-20-20 rule and means that you should pause every 20 minutes, look at some object that is at least 20 feet away (I prefer a view out of the window) for 20 seconds.

Maybe it's not a high-tech news but I believe it's still important and I know I have to apply this rule to my working habits as well. The website also recommends software tools that can help you to find out when the next break is due (so you can even find some high-tech in this, can't you?)

07/21/2010 13:45:24, von Marian , 126 words, 5153 views   Categories: quick tips

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Stealing images now much harder, thanks to tineye

Did you ever experience this? One of your pictures, that you bought from an image agency or that you made by yourself will show up on other people's websites? If they just link directly to your image, you can find out by checking your web-server log-files. But what if somebody made a copy of it and maybe even changed it?

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07/20/2010 12:43:42, von Marian , 473 words, 2635 views   Categories: quick tips

Free Sound Effects

I found this link last week in my newsreader. It is a blog post from "Free Technology for Teachers" about a new site where you can download sound effects.

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07/19/2010 13:41:31, von Marian , 194 words, 2539 views   Categories: quick tips

Book Recommendations: Cory Doctorow

Today I want to recommend two books from one author: Cory Doctorow. Both are available as free download but you can get them as printed books on Amazon as well.

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07/18/2010 09:22:25, von Marian , 857 words, 3218 views   Categories: quick tips, Books

Scut Work 2.0: Amazon Mechanical Turk

Do you think, wages can be lower than what you have experienced by outsourcing work to foreign countries? I already have written an article on outsourcing work on the internet for project work, but could you imagine that people are willing to work for just one US-cent per several minutes of their working time?

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07/16/2010 12:59:48, von Marian , 1760 words, 7411 views   Categories: Articles, quick tips

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Ten Inspiring TED Talks for Startups

This one was just in my Google Reader RSS Feed this morning. You may already know the great videos that are offered from TED Conferences. You can find them also on youTube. Their programme is highly recommendable to everybody. It's a series of conference speeches from famous people coming from business, technology or other domains of knowledge like Seth Godin or Malcolm Gladwell. The only problem that you may have here is to find the right videos that you are interested in.

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07/14/2010 12:37:04, von Marian , 297 words, 4048 views   Categories: quick tips

How to micro-pay for blog posts you like

Some of you may have seen that I have a paypal button on my blog since a while (for several years to be honest) and I already received one donation from somebody who wanted to endorse my blogging effort with a dollar. After paypal had deducted their fees, I had about 50 cents left (the thought is what counts here).

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07/13/2010 12:45:07, von Marian , 585 words, 1246 views   Categories: Articles, quick tips