Entrecard Contest!

I am hosting an Entrecard Contest starting today (4/26/08) and ending on Saturday May 10th. For those of you who don't know about Entrecard, it is an advertising site that can be used to promote your website. You can sign up for an account at their site: Entrecard.com. There are credits that you can earn and use for different purposes. If you enter my Entrecard Contest you will have two prizes to win. First place will get 500 ec and second place will get is 250 ec. I will transfer your prize to your Entrecard account if you win. The winners will be chosen at random. To enter this contest, there are 3 simple things to do. First you must leave a comment on a post of your liking, then you will have to sign up for Computer Concoctions blog newsletter. When you sign up for the newsletter you must verify your e-mail address to become an active subscriber. You will also get added benefits for doing this, such as exclusive content. Finally, the last thing you must do is, drop your card on my Entrecard widget.  Doing all of these things will result in you being entered in the contest. Winners will be chosen on Saturday May 10th at 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time. I will notify you by E-mail if you have won. So make sure to sign up for my blog newsletter. I will be posting the winners up on Computer Concoctions when the contest ends, so check back later to see who wins.

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The Ebay Starter Kit!

Have you ever wanted to make huge profit off of Ebay? Well now you can with the new Ebay Starter Kit! The Ebay Starter Kit is a helpful kit that will show you how to profit from Ebay! The Ebay Starter Kit comes with books, software, FREE downloads and much more! These resources will be given to you for a low price to help you SUCCEED in your online business. To receive a FREE E-book on this product, click this link: The Ebay Starter Kit. This E-book will explain the product in detail and provide links to it. You will also get tons of background information on Ebay and this new and amazing product! Check it out!

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Make Money With Youtube and Metacafe

If you like to create cartoons, movies, or just like Youtube or Metacafe, there is a way for you to make money online! You will be able to do it using Youtube or Metacafe. If you want to use Youtube, first make a channel and submit your video. Once you have done that, you can sign up for Youtube ads. When you sign up, you will need to make a Google ad sense account. This is how you will get paid for your ads. After this, you will need to select what type of ads you want and where they will be displayed. You can have an in video ad, which shows up 15 seconds into a video. The users will be able to click on that at when it pops up. Your ads can also be displayed next to the video screen. If you display ads on Youtube, they will get many views because of all of Youtube's traffic. More traffic equals more money! The other website that you can make money on, is Metacafe. To use Metacafe, you will need to create an account and submit a video. At the end of your video submission, it will ask if you want to submit your video to producer rewards. Select yes, and enter your information. After you submit your video, they will process it to see if it is eligible for the producer rewards program. If your video is accepted, you will make money for all of the views your video gets. Payments start after you get 20,000 views and after that, you will get $5 per 1000 views. This seems like a lot of views, but if your video is good enough, you will make money. There are different payment options for both websites, you can either have a check sent to you or money sent to your Pay Pal account. These very good websites to make money off of. If you decide to use Youtube, you will get more views and you won't have to wait until your video gets 20,000 views. You will probably have a better chance of making money on Youtube because of these reasons. But if you decide to use Metacafe, you can still make a lot of money if your video is good. With Metacafe, you will get bigger checks but less frequent payments.

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Free Computer Gear!!!

Hello, there are a few websites that I would like to point out. These websites are legit freebie sites that offer custom prize claims. The sites are: Prize Rebel and Gaming Lagoon. With these sites, you can complete offers for points, and each point is worth $1. When you have enough points for the item you want to buy, you can request a custom prize claim. If you use gaming lagoon, you can give them the link to the product you want and they will deliver it to you. You can use this for all of your computer gear, games, and anything else you want. If you use prize rebel, you need to pick something off of Amazon.com. These sites are completely legit because I have gotten prizes from them! I have gotten WII points cards from each site, and the points really worked! The offers each count for a different amount of points. Also there are offers that don't require a credit card number! Prize rebel and gaming lagoon approve your offers very quickly too. They also have fast shipping, between 4-5 days on average. There is another great feature that these sites have. Each day they give out free WII points, Xbox live cards, Microsoft points and many other free gifts. You just have to be the first one to use the card to get the points! Use the links provided to check these sites out!

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Apple V.S. PC, Operating Systems

When you buy either an Apple computer or a PC, you will have a different operating system (OS) on each. These two operating systems are good for different tasks. When you buy an Apple computer, you will get many cool programs like imovie, iphoto, garage band, and many more. You will be able to edit and make movies with imovie. Imovie has good special effects, music, and is easy to use.  You will be able to edit sound files, record, and mix different music, with garage band. If you have a lot of pictures, you can store them in iphoto. Iphoto makes your pictures easy to find and edit. Apple computers also have their own E-mail program, internet browser, and photo booth. These are very helpful programs used for editing and making media projects. Apple computers have a feature that lets you share your creations with other programs. If you choose to share, you will be able to convert your movie or creation into many different formats. You can convert it to ipod format, quick time, and many other programs or formats without installing any 3rd party software. There is also a program called dashboard, which has different widgets. These widgets have different features, such as showing the stocks or the weather. Now with Windows, you will notice its lack of features and programs. When you buy a windows computer, you will not have Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, or any other software. You will just have windows movie maker and windows media player. So since there are no programs with a PC you will have to go out and buy programs or buy them included with your PC. This will cost you extra! A good thing about PC's is that their operating system is very familiar to everyone. You will be able to get right on your computer and have fun. Where as when you get an Apple computer, you might have to learn a few things, but I don't think this will be a big deal. Windows has just started to incorporate widgets into there OS. Where do you think they got them from? Well Apple's OS has had them for a long time. Another thing in windows, that is really annoying is that when you set up your internet connection, you have to do a lot of work. If you are new to computers this can take a really long time. When you have an Apple computer, it sets up your internet connection immediately! This saves a lot of work for you. One very good thing about Windows is that most programs made for computers are for PC's. So most of the software out there is for PC's and not for Apple computers. These are just some of the high points and low points of these operating systems.

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Static IP and Dynamic IP

An IP addresses is an identification number for your computer given to you by your internet service provider(ISP). There are two types of IP addresses. One is static and one is dynamic. A static IP address is a permanent address and it never changes. There are only a certain amount of static IP addresses that an ISP gives out. When they run out of these addresses, they have a pool of other IP addresses that aren't static. When someone logs onto the internet the ISP picks a random IP address and gives it to that person. This IP address lasts only for a certain amount of time or for the time that they are online. This is called a Dynamic IP, and if you have this kind of IP address you will have a different address every time you log onto the internet.  A static IP address is good because you will always have the same IP address and you will always know which IP is yours. It is also good to have a static IP address, because if you want to become a host for an online game you will need a static IP. This is because your IP address will keep changing if it is dynamic. This is a problem because other people or players will not know which IP address to use to get into your server. If you want to check which type of IP address you have, click on start. Then click on "run" in the menu. Then a box will come up that asks what to run. Then type in: cmd. Then a black screen will come up, then you will need to type: ipconfig/all. After typing this, information will show up telling you your IP address. Now all you have to do is go on and off of the internet and check your IP address. If it changes you have a dynamic IP address. If your IP stays the same you have a static IP address.

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