A prolific travel writer can always consider starting his own travel site. If you know a country or a city inside out then you really can start your own site, work on drawing traffic and make money from ads. Not much money, maybe but something. And you get read.
There is a wonderful site that just launched with the youth sports community in mind. The site is http://YouthSportTravel.com , a collaboration of youth sports coaches and a major online travel brand. They offer arguably the best prices on hotel and motel rooms anywhere. For proof, I tested a number of locations with www.hotel.com, Expedia and Travelocity in comparison with YouthSportTravel and in each case; YouthSportTravel was equal to or cheaper than the competition. But this is not all th...
Etsy has about 400,000 active sellers each year. What's going to make your shop or items stand out amongst the others? Read more in this article about How to Make Money on Etsy http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/05/sell-handmade-crafts-on-etsy.html
Deviled eggs are the perfect dish to bring to a picnic or potluck - easy to make and fun to eat. All you need are half a dozen hard boiled eggs, Thousand Island dressing, mustard, salt, pepper and paprika to garnish. Make a quick and easy batch of deviled eggs.
Decorating With Entertainment in Mind Sure, when you're throwing a party it's easy to put up balloons and streamers, but it's easy to forget one of the most important things: memories. You know all that money you spent on entertainment? The clown? The magician? You're naturally going to want to snap some photos, but if you don't decorate properly, the photos will be bland. And that's just one of the potential problems.
In this video, we learn how to easily poach eggs. These are easy and require no fat to cook! First, get a skillet and head 1.5" of water with salt. After it starts to boil, reduce the heat, then carefully crack an egg into the water. Cook them for three to five minutes, or until the egg whites begin to thicken. Pick up cup with a spoon and allow excess water to drip off. You can also place onto a clean towel or paper towels to drain the water off of them as well. To finish, serve with your fa...
Avoid having to spend a lot of money on additional accessories for your American Girl doll. This video tutorial outlines the steps to make a juice box for your doll. You will need an empty juice box, unfold the tabs of the box, and then flatten the box out (so that it is no longer a box). Wash off both sides and scan this face down. On the computer, reduce the image size of your box and print it out. Wash the original straw and cut it to the size of your new box. Score this printout, which ma...
Sunday morning. Don't cook at home. Been there, done that. Use the heat of the engine. Bake your meat. Put those 8 cylinders to work. Gas prices across the country average out at $2 to $2.50 a gallon, so you might as well get your money's worth.
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold an easy paper heart Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own easy paper heart. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if it is going too slow. Very cool Japanese origami how-to video! Origami an easy heart Japanese style.
If you find that you constantly have CDs lying everywhere thanks to broken cases or you burning endless discs, you will need a cheap and compact solution. Let us show you how to knock up a quick and easy paper CD case. Make a quick and easy paper CD case.
Are you a closet film buff with a movie up your sleeve? Do you have a great film idea that's guaranteed to be a blockbuster? VideoJug presents the screenwriting basics to formatting the scenes in your film script like a pro, and giving those Hollywood screenwriters a run for their money. Format scenes in a film script.
The bend won’t be quite as sharp, but suitable bends can be made for many construction projects without using a brake. This video will show you how to do it, and hopefully save you some money! Bend sheet metal without a brake.
This video shows you how to replace the LCD Screen & Logic Board on your 4th Generation iPod. If you can pull it off, you'll save yourself a lot of money, just make sure to get the right tools in advance and go slowly! Replace the LCD screen & logic board on a 4th gen iPod.
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench begins a series called "Shake is Money" in which he will discuss how Final Cut Pro editors can quickly learn how to integrate Shake into their workflow for added flexibilty in the studio. In this first video in the series, Michael demonstrates how to use the 'Smooth Cam Node' in Shake. Use the Smooth Cam Node in Shake.
This quick and easy dish is a healthy and popular Mexican favorite. Children love it and it can also be made vegetarian just by omitting the chicken. Make quick and easy chicken and cheese quesadillas.
Car batteries are important to the functioning of your car. They often fuse with old age or bad treatment. This short video will show you how to change your car's battery in 12 easy steps. Change a car battery in 12 easy steps.
Thousands of cars are stolen each year. This video will give you all the information you need to avoid buying a stolen car. Don't spend your hard earned money on a car you won't be able to keep! Avoid buying a stolen car.
We'll show you how to make a fried egg, over easy, in this quick video. Fry an egg over easy.
Danish developer Playdead has made only one game, a little indie, side-scrolling, puzzle platformer called Limbo. It just happens to be far and away the best video game of that prominent genre (and perhaps the best indie game period) on the Xbox 360, and quite possibly for PlayStation 3 and PC, too. Critical and financial success has followed in droves, and today... Playdead has taken advantage of that success and indie-fied themselves even further by purchasing back the portion of the compan...
Crysis 2 is the current standard for high-quality graphics in video games. No other game looks so smooth, so colorful, so... ultra-real. German developer Crytek has built their reputation on PC game technology to the limit, and the CryENGINE 3 graphics engine they used to make Crysis 2 might be the most powerful tool for creating 3D video game graphics on Earth. As of yesterday, it's also free for anyone, yourself included, to download from Crytek's website here.
Youtube.com is one of the most visited websites in the world, and has been for years now. Ever since it's creation in 2005 people have been making videos for every purpose, including the infamous "How to Boil Water" video. But how can one make money from posting videos on Youtube? Well, it all comes back to Google Adsense. Yes, I know, nowadays it's hard to make money on the internet without using Google Adsense here and there, but Youtube is a great medium to attract people to ads that gener...
There are hundreds of websites that claim you can win cash or prizes by signing up and using their website. Sadly, most of these are scams but there are a couple out there that are legitimate. I have investigated many of these websites and tried them out personally, with many failures. The one that sticks out the most, for me and many other people, is beezag.com. Beezag is a website that hooks you up with companies that are currently offering cash or sweepstakes entries for prizes they are gi...
The joys of summer are many! If you, like me, live in a place where the summer is short, you’re going to want to maximize your fun in the sun by doing as many awesome things as possible before the sun goes back to wherever the hell it hibernates during the cold and dark times. The most important ingredients for fun in the sun are friends and…well…the sun, so you can do almost anything with a group of exciting creative people, but here are my favorite el cheapo activities for summer.
It's mid-January and some of you happy tax-paying citizens have already started receiving your W-4s and 1099s in the mail. But before you start filling out your 2010 Federal Tax Return, make sure you're hip to all the tax tricks in 2011. You could end up saving some money!
AMD vs. Intel processors - How to pick your ideal PC. Okay figuring out what computer you want is one step, but figuring it out what it's used for could save you money and achieve you much better performance. Every dollar saved could be used for something else in that computer to make it last longer, stronger, faster and better in general.
Valero and Tesoro are known as the biggest oil companies in California. They have spent large amounts of money on the Proposition 23 campaign, Valero with $4,050,000 and Tesoro with $1,525,000, in hopes of passing the Proposition, which would suspend the Assemmbly Bill 32, the Global Warming Act of 2006, until unemployment drops to 5.5% for 4 consequtive quarters. Valero's stand is that the California's Global Warming Act will only cause more lost jobs for California and therefore should not ...
Here is the official trailer for "Easy A"
Name your price for 5 indie games!http://www.wolfire.com/humble This event will run for a week and the money raised will go towards two charities. The Humble Indie bundle is a collection of five indie games where you can set your price! Want to buy the whole package (worth $80 retail) for $10, $5, $1, or even a penny? sure, go ahead, you can pay as much or as little as you want. Some have payed over a hundred for the bundle, but the average is around $7-$8 dollars.The games:
You're alone in the wilderness. Stranded. Hungry. Cold. What do you do? Naivety could be your downfall, but you don't need to be an Army Ranger to survive.
Ever since high school, I've been preparing my own taxes. Each year it gets more and more complicated, which results in me filing later and later, avoiding it until I have the time or just can't wait any longer. I even resorted to using TurboTax online to help do some of the grunt work for me these past couple years, but that hasn't stopped me from being lazy about it. I have yet to file my 2010 taxes, but I will very soon. Tomorrow, in fact—before TurboTax raises their prices.
If you're a meat lover or a foodie then you probably can't get enough of meatballs. Tender, meaty (duh), and bursting with flavor, they're like the meat version of a bag of chips: You eat one and you can't stop yourself from finishing them all.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is now one of the most important topics for website owners to understand. Anyone that depends on their website to bring them business needs to know the ins and outs of SEO in order to maximize their website’s potential. And if you want your website to have a high Google rank then SEO is essential.
I was browsing shutterstock when I came across the literal image of a "fat cat".
There are many websites that let you watch videos, but that don't let you download it for later viewing. Even if there is a download option, most of the time it requires you to pay some amount of money. Luckily for Mozilla Firefox users, there is a way to download the videos you stream for free.
A hacker from Anonymous broke off communication with an FBI agent posing as a Symanec employee after being offered $50,000 to not publish the Symantec pcAnywhere code online. And in a not surprising turn of events... the code was released today on peer-to-peer networks.
It's winter Time and you have a programmable thermostat. Put it to use! Learn the most efficient temperature settings that will save you money and keep your home comfortable during the winter months!
Having bills to pay is one of the worst parts of life, especially around the holidays. And if you're extremely unlucky, you might also have to pay some hefty medical bills. This can put a heavy damper on plans, wants and needs. What's worse? The people that you owe money to are pushy and always bother you to pay in a more timely fashion, or worse, pay bigger premiums.
This one goes perfectly with the 'Mosh Pit' achievement I posted about earlier today. To get the 'Monster Dance' achievement in Assassin's Creed: Revelations, you have to get a guard to incapacitate three civilians.
Making sure your home is working as energy efficient as possible is the first step in saving money on energy costs. Getting a Home Energy Audit will show you areas of you home that may need a little fixing or tweaking. Best of all, you can save hundreds to thousands of dollars a year with a Home Energy Audit!