I think we all knew that Tina Fey would be back as Sarah Palin this week, but we also got a surprise visit from Queen Latifah as Vice Presidential Debate moderator Gwen Ifil. Jason Sudeikis played a mean (as in funny) Joe Biden, but Tina once again stole the show with her dead-on Palin impersonation, and even gave a shout out to those “Joe-six packs” who are playing a drinking game. Ha! Long live Tina Fey!

INSIDER INFO - Fuel prices will take a MAJOR INCREASE on SATURDAY and THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND.  Prices will rise by as much as 19 CENTS on Saturday (July 12).

FILL UP and TOP OFF FRIDAY before 23:59

AVOID the HIGH PRICED WEEKEND FUEL.

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Jason

One thing you’ll notice when you visit this website is that this product if full of informational products including e-books and audios.  I have to admit that this may overwhelm some buyers at first but take your time and read through and listen to the information at a pace that suites you.

Additionally it contains a helpful career ducument helper which contains a fill in the blanks template which should get you ready to impress before you step foot in the door! Lets face it if you don’t get the call back or intial call there is no way you will get the job.

Since this is a quick review I’m going to wrap it up by saying if you are looking for a non-biased job interview product this might be just what you’re looking for!

Jason

Does my dog still bark - hell yes but maybe he is saying hey dude welcome home - or maybe like the site says he is showing dominance, that is until I’m in his face and then he shuts up :o) Forgot to mention he does this even when people are home!

Anyway part of having a blog is to give you cool online resources and this is one of them!

Jason

Source: http://www.dog-obedience-training-review.com/how-to-stop-your-dog-from-barking.html

I joined Traffic Kahuna less than a month ago and so far I’m happy with the program but it still needs to prove  itself before I will say I’m sticking with it for life.

What will turn most people off is the price tag – costs $150/month and secondly the inability to really profit from an affiliate program as they have opened only twice in the past year and quickly close the doors as the available slots quickly get filled. This aside here is my review of Traffic Kahuna.

Traffic Kahuna boasts the following:

• Dramatically Increase Your Website Traffic
• Boost Your Search Engine Rankings
• Tap into the FULL “Social Power” of Web 2.0

How it does this is through various methods and by harnessing the power of not only technology but the power that it’s users have to promote and be promoted – right now we will take a brief look at the tools: Blog Feeder, Article Feeder, Web2 Co-op, Link Exchange and  Bean Rocket.

Blog Feeder on Traffic Kahuna:

The TK Blog feeder is simple in concept – Search engines love blogs, People love blogs and Blogs are easy to post to.  To use this tool you will essentially set up articles that will be spun and the spins posted to blogs of your choice which relate to your niche. The set-up of the article takes the longest but by no means should take you more than 30 – 45 minutes per article.

Basic Spin concept:

Create two to three titles which can have spins inside of the title if you like.

Set your main content up to be spun by the system using [spin]text1|text2[/spin] within the text to replace words with your article so that you don’t run into duplicate content.

A  400 – 500 word article can have 3 text links which are represented by %LINK%, %LINK2 and %LINK3% and are entered by listing your URL tags and actual URL in a separate location in the Blog Feeder

 Once you have your article set-up you go to your tools and follow along the step-by-step process copying information into the system and required. Once you’ve entered all the required information you will see examples of what are articles will look like (again the system spins them you have to code the content which is pretty easy).

Once you’re happy with the spins you will go through a process of choosing the blogs that you want to post to. The number of blogs your articles will be submitted to depend on a number of things I would imagine but the more spins that you have the more blogs you should be able to post to. I’m not 100% on how it determines the number of blogs you can post to as my options have been between 21 and 30 blogs and my articles could probably be spun about 150+ times so this is just a guess on my part.

Finally after you have chosen the blogs you want to post to you get to choose a submission process – you can choose all at once or once every 6 hours – the age of your site should depend on what you choose. If you have a new site it is probably best to choose the drip system so the SE’s don’t take it as spam – if you have an established website I don’t see anything wrong with submitting them all at once as long as you aren’t slamming the net with 100’s of articles in the same day.

Blog Feeder only posts your content on other sites and doesn’t require an exchange so these are one way links.

Overall I really like the blog feeder once I figured it out, but this isn’t their most powerful tool IMHO (In My Honest Opinion).

Article Feeder on Traffic Kahuna:

The TK article feeder is much like the Blog Feeder when it comes to creating the article but requires that you set-up your own article website, which isn’t hard as TK provides all the files you need. The biggest difference between the Blog and Article Feeders are that the article feeder is like a 3 Way Link (3WL) set-up for articles.

If you’re not familiar with 3WL basically this is a strategy that links your website from another website,  your website will link to another who may link back to the one that linked you ;o) this means that if you link to a site they won’t link back to you and visa-versa.

The rules for the linking when it comes to the Article Feeder are more complex then that though. Not only does it look at sites it dives deeper into the IP addresses ect… this way it doesn’t look like a link farm – I was glad to see so much is put into the rules. You don’t have to worry about the rules though, TK does all of that for you, just know that TK is doing their best to make sure the 3WL’ed articles help your site and do not hurt it in the search engines.

Web2.0 Co-op on Traffic Kahuna:

This Co-op tools is one of the most powerful in my opionin that TK offers. It is simple but very effective and uses web2.0 websites like Digg, Del.icio.us, YouTube, Squidoo and about 50 others Web2.0 sites.

The concept is simple – you start by setting up your profile, inserting your user names and URL’s for various sites which you have registered for. It then uses this information to tell you which projects you can complete. The more sites you’re registered to, the more projects you can complete and in turn the more you can request to be done.

 The system works on credits – you cannot (at this time) buy credits, you earn credits by completing “jobs”. Jobs are as simple as “Digging a specific Digg on Digg.com” or more complex link “write an unique article” for someone. The harder the job the more credits you can earn. The fun part comes when you post a job.

Posting a job requires you to have credits and the job that you post will cost you more on the harder jobs and less on the easy ones. Using the examples above you can post a job to digg your digg.com digg for 1 credit or if you want someone to write you an unique article it may cost you 8 credits.

Once you post a job you can see which ones you have running and when someone completed your job you are given a message to approve, request clarification which send a message back to the person who completed your job with your comments or request that TK admins look at what the other person did and let them decided if it was done correctly.

This system is pretty simple on the user side. You complete jobs to earn credits and post jobs to get your sites promoted – very effective!

Link Exchange on Traffic Kahuna:

The link exchange uses the 3WL concept and is very easy!

To set-up the link exchange you enter some required information, create a page on your site and submit that page to the admins. Unlike some 3WL program you don’t need to upload anything on server but you are required to paste a PHP snippet on you link page and you must have a link to your link page on your main website. After that it is all automatic.

Like the other options within TK you decide how many links will be on your link page which is the number of 3WL you will have pointing back at you. You choose the topics which you want your link to be within and how many you want initially and over time.

Unfortunately I cannot compare this to other services because I haven’t used them but one thing I really like is you can have up to 6 unique links for every site. This is great because your one link will essentially have various content and you can even have your one links point to different pages on your site. I don’t know how well that is understood and if you have questions about that just ask and I will clarify.

Bean Rocket on Traffic Kahuna:

Bean Rocket is a blog that is hosted by the creator of TK and you create a blog page that resides on their server but has your content. Many of the same rules apply here as the others: No spam content or keyword stuffing, content must be unique, up to 3 links in each post and each post is approved.

Although this isn’t my favorite tool it is nice to have a link from a high PR website pointing to your blog posts.

In conclusion:

Before I wrap this up I have to say that so far I’m happy with the results that Traffic Kahuna has provided. TK offers video help on all of its products and customer support is great!

The amount of time that you will save with Traffic Kahuna is probably pretty substantial. I have come to respect the fact that the tying in all of these services on your own is not only requires a TON of time but also if you’re not a member you may not ever be able to harness this much power - ever!

Although this isn’t the cheapest service it is a very powerful tool package and a very exclusive membership club – if you get a chance I would say give it a try!

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Jason

P.S. Even if you have to wait to get into Traffic Kahuna you can harness some of it’s power by getting Comment Kahuna for FREE!

We've always been told that any traffic to our website is good. However, we should all know that the type of traffic that is the best, is the type of traffic that is targeted to our specific niche. Everything else should just be considered useless! What is the point of having someone come to your site, if they are going to instantly click on the back button?

After only a few seconds I’m happy with the update becuase I HAVE MY HOME BUTTON BACK!!!!

Other small things I’ve noticed in just a short amount of time:

The download manager has improved - not a whole lot but it is getting better, it would be nice not to have to install a add-on to improve it - so keep working on it Mozilla developers.

The updated zoom function is pretty nice - normally when you zoom into a page(IE is increase text size) the whole website gets larger, but now you can select zoom text only which keep the page the same size and just increases the font size of the text on the page.

Default tab settings are better - you can see the close button on each tab without having to select the actual tab - again this is getting better and hopefully I won’t need a plug-in to improve the tabs when FireFox 3 gets out of Beta testing.

From Mozilla:

Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.

More Secure

• One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you’re connected to. (Try it here!)
• Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!)
• New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!)
• New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!)
• Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
• Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
• Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
• Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
• Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
• Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.

 

Easier to Use

• Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
• Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
• New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
• Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
• Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
• Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
• Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
• Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
• Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
• Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
• Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in “word-by-word” mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
• Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
• Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
• [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
• [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
• [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with Linux: Firefox’s default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.

 

More Personal

• Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
• Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
• Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you’re looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you’re seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
• Smart Bookmarks Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart bookmarks folder on your bookmark toolbar.
• [Improved in Beta 5!] Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches. Create and restore full backups whenever you want.
• Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
• Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
• Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.

 

Improved Platform for Developers

• New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
• Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
• Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
• A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.

 

Improved Performance

• [Improved in Beta 5!] Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 5, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
• Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
• Reliability: A user’s bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.

Overall I’m happy with the progress although there is still has room for improvement but hey it is still a Beta!

Download FireFox 3 Beta 5 here: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/…..html
Release notes: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/……whatsnew

I read about FireFox 3 beta and how fast it was but DAMN it is very fast - much faster than 2.5 and lighter - uses much less RAM!!!

I’ve had it installed for 3 minutes and I had to write this so forgive me if it isn’t very detailed but here is my initial opinion:

Likes:
FAST (can’t say it enough)
The Favicon now double as a button to tell all about the website your visiting -COOL
You can install FF3 and it doesn’t overwrite 2.5 - nice when testing a beta lol

Undecided:
The location bar list (where you type in the URL) opens up and now you see the title and the URL - makes it HUGE!

Complaints:
Where the hell is my HOME BUTTON????

Well 3 minutes of playing and this is all I got lol - oh and one more thing you can download it now at
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

or learn more at
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Main_Page

Enjoy!

Anyone who has XP currently installed on their Asus Eee PC 4G knows it takes up a large amount of space so Asus apparently provides the users with an additional 4GB SDHC for good measure! So far it seems to be available only in black or white and the cost is ¥50,000 (or about $468).

US consumers should see this hit the shelves shortly - we hope! The only question I have left is why does Japan always get the cool toys before we do… no answer necessary!

Here is a brief overview of those “Red Flags” that should throw up a STOP sign or at-least APPROACH WITH CAUTION for you:

If the person states that they are in Africa or on another continent - Don’t take this wrong but many times when dealing with someone on a large transaction the inability to meet face to face or have a third party that can represent both parties where the laws are the same is often necessary and critical to you not being scammed.

If the end result is stating that after you have sent in your money then you will get what it is you are buying, renting ect. This is often the case when we buy online but hopefully you are buying from a knownl location that you can meet with or follow the same laws that you do.

A transaction that requires you to send money via wire transfer aka western union. Western Union states that you should only send money to people that you know - family etc or those that can personally trust.

Email clues:

- If the person is using a free account with the name of joe-bob@email.com but during your communications you find that the name they use is Jimmy Carter. This just doesn’t makes much sense as most people don’t set up accounts like this because an email is an identifiable item and most people realize this.

- If the person is stating that they represent a company but they use a free Email account - this is NOT the standard.

- Many spelling, grammatical errors in the e-mails - sounds like someone who is really trying to communicate with you but just cannot. Don’t get me wrong I have friends who are terrible when it comes to Emails but if I didn’t know them I obviously wouldn’t do business with them without a face to face either.

Website clues:

- After learning the website of their business, do a search via Google. Try and locate their business website. If your having trouble ask them what their business website is and if it is a large company you should be able to find a phone number and give them a call - see if that person works there.

- If they state they work for a company but they don’t have a web presence at all. This is especially true for medium to large sized companies however in todays’ environment even the smallest of businesses have a web presence - shoot even 16 year olds have myspace pages.

Although their are many other “Red Flags” out there the biggest one is

IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE - IT PROBABLY IS!

This is the basic ground work and as I find some real world examples I will do my best to post them in this Category.

If this helped you feel free to comment and add your two cents or other RED FLAGS that you know of!

Jason

PennDOT recommends the routes below for detours around the closure of I-95. Because of low bridges, large trucks are advised to avoid the shorter Aramingo Ave. detours and to take the Woodhaven Road/Roosevelt Boulevard detour.

I95 down for construction due to cracked pillar - est repair anywhere from 3 to 5 days - we will see though

SOURCE GRAPHIC:

My entry: Title: Filler-up!

VOTE FOR ME

Used only the source graphics and created the water from scratch. I thought this came out pretty good.

Would appreciate your votes!
Jason