Just stare at the center crosshair for a minute.

 A robot with a captcha tattoo.

We bought the most expensive lenses and we thought they required “less cleaning”. But we must have missed some instruction because these lenses are not easy to keep clean, and are quickly smudged. Even with the provided cleaning solution and special wipes, they are difficult to clean without leaving streaks.

Maybe what we got was something that makes them harder to scratch or something, but not easier to clean. However, we were given the impression we were getting easy to keep clean lenses. That is why we thought we were paying for the more expensive lenses. What ever the real issue is, the associate should have been more clear as to what we were actually getting in our lenses, and explained that the ones we were getting were not the easy to keep clean lenses. I love the frames, but wish I had the super cheap lenses out of my $9 eyebuydirect.com glasses.

(and if the lenses we received really are the “easy to clean” lenses, my suggestion is to shop elsewhere.

If you happen to be one of the 2.9% of the people in the USA still using IE 6, it is time to upgrade!!! Check out this chart, Internet Explorer 6 is not secure, not useful, not anything!

It is a bit humorous that Microsoft is having to start a campaign telling people to Stop using one of there products.

Advanced Web Ranking is another great piece of software made by the same people that make Advanced Installer. Advanced Web Ranking is a keyword research tool to help businesses and individuals use search data to improve their online marketing campaigns and web sites. As well as delivering critical information such as keyword analysis, keyword suggestions, search engine ranking, and results of your SEO efforts (such as google site ranking), Advanced Web Ranking allows marketers to determine what keywords attract the most visitors to their site.

Advanced Web Ranking provides a useful and inexpensive toolset for analysing search results for your web site, and it’s interface is complete with all of the features needed to make thorough assessments of your target keywords, although it is geared a little more towards the professional web developer than the average Internet user. There is almost no setup to get the software working on your web site, you simply install the software and begin telling it what keywords to watch for your website on a variety of search engines.

The software runs as a background process on your computer and will generate reports for you at whatever frequency you prescribe. It does require your computer remain on with an active Internet connection. I recommend installing it on a desktop computer that you can leave running. The software can be used to monitor unlimited sites and unlimited keywords, but the one limitation you could run into is bandwidth limitations with your ISP or API limits with the major search engines. But for all of these issues Advanced Web Ranking provides ways to split your bandwidth across multiple proxies and multiple API keys with the Search Engines. You can also run the software through proxies if you have access to external proxy servers. This can even enable you to get search results localized to another part of the world.

Advanced Web Ranking can help you enhance most aspects of online marketing — from selecting great keywords to optimising web site design. By acting on the information provided by the software, businesses of all sizes can attract more visitors, convert more prospects to customers, and improve the overall return on their marketing investment. Advanced Web Ranking is simple enough for businesses new to seo software to get started quickly, and sophisticated enough for the most advanced online marketers. All reports, charts and graphs are viewable directly through The installed software, and you can also generate reports in various formats and they can be personalized with the most important data for your particular needs — perfect for firing off important data to your marketing director or boss. Of course, you can also email reports. Advanced Web Ranking supports all of the major online search engines and hundreds of other smaller search sites.

For Pay Per Click advertisers, Advanced Web Ranking can also track and report your sure position in the ad results. Advanced Web Ranking runs on your same computers or servers, so it can support the traffic demands of any site, from those with a few visitors a week to many millions. Much as they have done with installers and link monitoring, Advanced Web Ranking has made SEO effectiveness tracking very easy. Free online support and updates are available for a term included in your purchase price (usually 12 months). You can’t really go wrong.
Link: Advanced Web Ranking

There are hundreds of SEO plugins for wordpress. Here are 5 you should know about:

All-in-One SEO Pack (does take some configuration to be effective)
Contextual Related Posts
SEO Smart Links
WP-DB-Backup (for those that don’t trust their shared hosting provider)
Google XML Sitemaps

So we used it for the first time this week.  A simple and small credit card swiper for the iPhone.  It is small device that plugs into an iPhone or iPad and allows you to use their iPhone app to swipe and receive credit cards.  If you run a boutique or sell produce on the corner, this is a quick and easy way to start taking credit cards.  The setup on their website: squareup.com is easy and free.  Even the swiper will be shipped to you for free. Your only cost is the 2.9% or so transaction fee.

Interesting how the social media and web 2.0 world evolves and changes.  Websites and services come and go.  12seconds.tv joins the list of great services that have shut their doors.   Other sites that have a paying user base have been shutting down their free service.  Ning can no longer be used without at least a minimal monthly fee.  And there are other blogging services that have started to drop their free blog services.

This whole world of free social sites and services could change in coming few years.  Facebook has recently started to say that they are a profitable company, and youtube hopes to be profitable by the end of the year, but twitter still isn’t making a net profit.

But one thing is for sure, the internet is a place where you can come up with very creative ways to make money.  Think about it, there are millions, even billions of dollars that are being made by companies and people simply by you using the internet.  You don’t even have to use your credit card, or even spend a penny.  Just by using the internet you are bound to be generating revenue for somebody.   You are supporting all of these online companies, whether you click on a sponsored search result, happen to view a sponsored tweet, see a short ad at the beginning of a youtube video, or even just update you facebook status.

Tiffanie has started using this search engine called swagbucks, basically it pays you for using it to search. So if you start searching with it instead of Google you can earn rewards. For example Tiffanie has already earned enough swagbucks to redeem a $20 gift card for amazon.com. Their search engine is a “meta” engine so you actually get results from a mixture of other search engines, but the results include the top google results most of the time. We both of started just using it instead of google, and sure it won’t be a lot of money, but an extra $20 for not doing anything more than we already do? Sure, why not. Check it out here

Thanks to e.ggtimer.com