Hi Gang, Everyone have a nice Thanksgiving? This only applies to those of you living in the good old USA. I guess for those of you who live elsewhere it was just a regular day. That's funny isn't it? How in some parts of the world it's a holiday and others it's not? Sort of like time differences. It always freaks me out to think that some people are sleeping when I'm up and busy with my day and when I'm sleeping their doing their day thing. Maybe I think too much. Yes, I know I think too much. My mind never seems to want to stop even when I want it too. Have you ever been spoofed? I've been under attack by a email spoofer for over 6 months now and I gotta tell you I'm getting darn sick of it. If I could catch this guy (and I'm trying) I'd ring his neck. He sends out crap like for s*x and p0rn and then I get the bounces, which is how I know what he's up to. He puts my email address in his returns. This my friend is called spoofing. It's akin to Identity Theft and you can get in big trouble for it. That is if you get caught. What a pain in the as*** I really hate this guy. This is a lowlife scumbag at his finest. If any of you have ever had this happen to you and have some hints and tips I'm all ears. If you have filled out my demographic survey in the past or even if you haven't I need you to do it again. I had an issue and lost all of the survey info I had been collecting. Please go to Advanced Survey and type in this number 8243 in the "take a survey box" located on the right hand side. By doing so you'll be entered to w!in a free* ad in this ezine. Thanks in advance. jl of I-Cop has turned her ezine into a pay for publication for only 11.99 a year. It's really good stuff and jl pulls no punches If you're interested and if you're conducting business online you should be. Check it out at http://www.i-Cop.org/trade-journal.htm If you'd like to do something nice for Christmas make sure
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"Make Your Website Talk"
By http://MCPromotionsPress.com
Have you noticed the latest online craze? No, it's not how to make a million dollars overnight, although that idiotic idea is still floating around... It's adding voice to your website. "Ma Bell" meets the Internet, so to speak. If you spend any amount of time online I'm sure you've seen a number of sites employing this technology.
So who's behind this phenomenon and what's the benefit of adding voice to your website? I'm so glad you asked. In the cold, impersonal world of the Net, your voice adds a touch of warmth and personalization that can increase credibility, thus raising your conversion rate. Sound good? (No pun intended.) Of course it does.
So now that you're considering adding the sweet sound of your voice to your site, where might you want to use it? Depending on your website's content and theme, there are a variety of ways to incorporate your voice into it.
For example:
- You might place a welcome message on your front page,
summarizing your site's highlights, informing visitors of
what
they'll find, and thanking them for stopping by.
- If you have an "about us" page on your site,
you might
want to record a brief message to accompany your background
info. This will help people feel as if they're actually meeting
you.
- Since testimonials are a great enhancement to any site
imagine
if you actually added them in your customer's own voice. If
you
use one of the phone recording services you could give them
the number and they could easily record how they feel about
your products/services.
- If your site has been featured in an online interview or
radio show, imagine including this audio in our site. Just
think of it as your very own live press room.
One thing to consider is the quality of your voice. If it's not all that pleasant to listen to, you may want to employ the help of a friend, or you could hire a "professional" voice-over service. Do a search at Google and you'll find plenty of options. One such service is http://www.jennifervaughn.com/
So now that you're actually thinking of recording something and adding it to your site, how do you do it? There are many different ways, some more expensive then others. Let's examine some of your choices a little more closely.
1) MP3 Sound Stream: http://mp3soundstream.com/
Creates streaming audio from MP3 or Wav files.
Produces high quality output for only $39.95.
2) Audio Player Pro: http://www.audioplayerpro.com/
Starting at only $47.00. This produces a code that you
can paste onto your website that will enable the viewers'
default player.
3) Audio Generator: http://www.audiogenerator.com/
Streaming audio using just your browser. Easy to use,
you can phone in your message or use MP3 files. Excellent
sound quality. After recording your message paste some
code onto your site and a button appears with your audio.
$29.95 monthly.
4) SoundNails: http://www.soundnails.com/
This program converts several MP3 files into the
popular Flash format. The sounds can then be played
in streaming mode without the need of a player like
(Windows Media Player or Real Player) in a user-
friendly way. 30 day free trial is available, with
two versions offered ranging from $10.00 to $65.00.
5) Sonic Memo http://www.sonicmemo.com/
Includes a step-by-step tutorial. You'll have to create
your own MP3 files and upload them to your server.
If you record WAV files, you'll have to first convert
them to MP3 format.This software sells for $97.00.
6) Instant Audio: http://instantaudio.com/
Just record a message by phone and your website
or e-mail is instantly audio-enabled. To check their
sound quality call the phone number listed on the
site, leave a message, then hit the play button on
the site to listen. This service will cost you 29.95
a month.
Other Resources of Interest:
Free ebook that shows you how to add audio to your site
at absolutely no cost to you. The book is rebrandable if
you sign up for the affiliate program.
http://www.novasoft-inc.com/ebook.asp
Internet Audio Guy:
http://InternetAudioGuy.com
Some pretty good resources here on adding audio,
and if you subscribe to the ezine, you receive a 22
-page free report entitled "Web Pages with Sound
and Video."
Your site has been sending non-verbal messages for years;
now it's time to break free and let it send a message everyone
can hear. Adding audio to your website is not only easy to
do,
it can help you gain the trust of your site's visitors, thus
increasing
your conversion rate. So stop wasting your time and money,
and
start getting the salesyou may be missing.
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Browser Screen Resolution
What resolution is your site designed for? If you've
never checked to see what it looks like at different
resolutions you may be shocked at what you see when
you do. Fr*e online checker.
http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.html
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Web Tools
You'll find an assortment of webmaster tools here from
meta tags to link popularity and even robot tag generator.
Very helpful.
http://www.submitcorner.com/Tools/
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QuirksMode
"It contains more than 150 pages with CSS and
JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best
sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser
incompatibilities. It is free of charge and ads, and
largely free of copyrights"
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Recycle Bin
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If when deleting files you want to bypass the recycle
bin and send them straight to never never land just
hold down your Shift Key when you right click on a
file and hit delete.
This way you won't have to empty your recycle bin
as often.
Get a Free Custom Toolbar for Your Website
Not a scripted toolbar but a "Professional Grade"
toolbar
with features that you would normally pay $200 or more
for absolutely fr#e. Keep your visitors attention with
features that bring them back to your website again and
again. There is nothing like a toolbar to keep your
website sticky. Offer your visitors one-click access
to YOUR sites features. Link them to your members only
area, link them to your affiliate programs or newsletter.
Offer this as a giveaway to your website visitors.
This is a great viral marketing technique.
http://www.freecustomtoolbar.com/
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FreeCycle
"The Worldwide (!) Freecycle Network is open to all
cities and to all individuals who want to "recycle"
that special something rather than throw it away.
Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old
door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you're looking
to acquire something yourself! One constraint:
everything posted must be free."
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JibJab
If you want to send some fun flash online cards these
are great. You have to be a bit twisted to like em but
I sure did. The farting elves were my absolute fav.
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POCO Email Voyager
Poco EmailVoyager ("EmailVoyager") is a tiny mobile
device that allows you to access your email from any
internet-connected Windows computer. EmailVoyager is
a combination of a Add it to your keychain and where
ever you go as long as you have access to a computer
with a USB port you also have access to your email.
Pricing for this device starts at only 69.95 for 32MB
device but if you need more space you may want to look
at the 64, 128, or 256MB Model.
http://www.pocosystems.com/products/pev/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
"EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people -
lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries - working
to protect your digital rights. "
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where you can promote them all at no charge to you.
List your offerings, link them to your site and people
can even leave their comments on your offerings. You
do need to link back to this site in return for your
listing.
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PayPal Website Payments
"The 1-2-3 PayPal Website Payments Wizard for Microsoft
FrontPage is the quickest and easiest way to add eCommerce
to your business web site. Easily create payment buttons
and basic shopping cart functionality for your web site.
Create payment buttons and shopping cart functionality in
under an hour, and start accepting credit cards online
with PayPal immediately." Free to download.
http://www.auctionmessenger.net/paypal/index.asp
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Oriens Enhancer GOLD 2.6
A Full Featured advanced digital Image Editing and
Processing Environment with lots of filters, special
effects, artistic colorizing,functionalities, tools,
optimizers and utilities. Redefining the way images
are being edited, processed, enhanced,manipulated,
extracted, captured, converted, distributed and used
with relative ease hiding all sophistication under a
user friendly interface
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DLL Files
Ever gotten an error that you're missing a DLL file?
No it's not pickles your computer is craving but a
missing file it needs to run a certain program. Get
them all at DLL Files and be up and running again
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