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By: Subhash Bassi

Google Adsense is online advertising that you can place on your website to make money for you. It is free for you to use, easy to set up, and if you target your ads correctly, you can generate a nice income with very little work on your part.

How do you use Google Adsense? By selecting keywords that are relevant to the content on your website you can choose to display ads on your site that visitors are likely to find interesting and click on. You select the format you wish the ads to display in on your web pages. You then cut and paste some HTML code into your website so that the ads can be generated in the places you wish them to appear. It can take a few minutes to get up and running with Adsense, for more details visit to www.instant-adsense-dollars.com but a wise site operator will take the time to use the following tips to greatly improve their Adsense earnings.

Here are five sure-fire ways to improve your online advertising earnings.

1. Keep the ad layouts on your pages consistent. If you don't have a templated database driven website and you are creating each individual page on your site, make sure that you don't confuse your visitors by having ads of different sizes, in different places, for more details visit to www.adsense-income-exposed.comon different pages. Think how confused you would be if each time you clicked on a new page the menu had moved. Keep your layout consistent and your visitors will be familiar with your Adsense link placement, whether they overtly realize it or not.

2. Create a custom color palette for your ads. Web surfers are so used to advertising that the more blatant the ads are the more they are glossed over. By blending your online advertising into the layout of your site the less obvious it becomes. Make sure your Adsense ads have the same background color as the web pages they are on. Removing the border and making the link colors match those of your web copy will also help the ads to blend in even more.

3. Prominently place your ads. Don't stick your ads at the bottom of the page. Put them "above the fold" so that visitors don't have to scroll down to see them. If you have some long articles on your website break them up with some subtle, blended 468x60 Adsense banners and you will be surprised at how many more clicks you get.

4. Use the top format for Adsense earnings. An ad size that works very well for the majority of Adsense users is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This format has the tendency to result in a higher Click Through Rate (CTR.) The wider width of this ad, especially when it is added to the top left hand area of your web page, blends in so well that visitors often think that the links are part of your actual website and so they click on them more frequently.

5. Automate your Adsense code. Automate the insertion of your Adsense code into your webpages using Server Side Includes (SSI.) Ask your web design professional if your server supports SSI, as using this tip will be a real time saver - it removes the need to cut and paste Adsense code each time a web page is created.

With no cost on your part to use Adsense, it really is a great way to use online advertising to generate income for you. Sign up for a free account at with this Google service and start profiting from the good quality content you have on your website.

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By Alfred Adebare

The Wikipedia Encyclopedia describes open source as “practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's sources.” Before the label open source was coined, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept. In fact, earlier researchers used a process which is similar to open standards to develop telecommunication network protocols. Characterized by contemporary open source work, this collaborative process led to the birth of the Internet in 1969. Its application to software gained popularity with the emergence of the Internet. It is said that the open source label came out of a strategy session held at Palo Alto, California, in reaction to Netscape’s announcement that it planned to release the source code for its browser Navigator.

The politically correct version is that to clarify a potential confusion caused by the ambiguity of the word “free”, so that the perception of free software is not anti-commercial, the label open source (contributed by Chris Peterson) stuck. The official version is that it was to shed the confrontational attitude that had been associated with free software in the past and sell the idea on pragmatic, business case grounds to the commercial world. Whatever it may be, Netscape listened and released their code as open source under the name of Mozilla. That was the beginning of the contemporary open source movement, whose main champion today allegedly is the Open Source Initiative (“OSI”) which makes and continues to make a case for the open source software to the commercial world. Consequently, we have seen the application of the open source philosophy in other fields inlcuding biotechnology. Linus Torvalds, a finnish software engineer who initiated the development of the Linux kernel went as far as saying "the future is open source everything".

According to the OSI, the case for open source software is simple – free access to read, redistribute and modify the source code of a piece of software results in a rapid evolutionary process that produces better software. Advocates of open source argue that when programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.

However, evangelists of free software have been at pains to clarify that open source software is not synonymous with free software. The philosophy of the open source movement is based on practicality and not ethical considerations while free software is based on freedom, not price. Borrowing from Richard M. Stallman, “free software” and “open source” describe the same category of software, more or less, but say different things about the software, and about values. While the two are not synonymous, both have a common enemy – proprietary software.

Critics of open source say that open source fosters an ambiguity of a different kind, in that it confuses the mere availability of the source code with the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute it. But open source doesn't just mean access to the source code; the use of open-source software must comply with a number of criteria including as to re-distribution, depending on the license under which it is distributed. Different licenses require different criteria. For instance, under the GNU General Public License (GPL) published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for licensing free software, any work based on the program or any other derivative work must be licensed as a whole at no charge at all to all third parties under the terms of the GNU GPL, whereas an Apache License does not require derivative works to be open source. You can add your own copyright statement to modifications of a source code under Apache License and provide additional or different license terms and conditions for use, reproduction, or distribution of your modifications, or for any derivative works as a whole, provided your use, reproduction, and distribution of the work otherwise complies with conditions of the Apache License. Similarly, there is no requirement that any derivative work created under an Academic Free License (AFL) or a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) License, should be distributed at all, or for free if distributed. Further, any derivative work need not be free and one can charge for it as you would for proprietary software.

The subtle licensing criteria between open source generally and free software is further highlighted when you consider that some licenses are not compatible. For instance, programs/source code distributed under PHP License is not compatible with GNU GPL since GNU GPL is a copyleft license. Which raises a couple of licensing issues:

(1) Why are there different criteria under different licenses for open source software? Presently, there are about 54 licenses certified by OSI as open source – a tribute to OSI’s philosophy – which many now see as an unnecessary proliferation of licenses, an issue that forced OSI to admit that -

“OSI's approach on the development and distribution problems involved building as many different bridges as possible between developers and the corporate world. In doing this, we accepted a proliferation of new licenses. This is a problem in that although physical bridges between communities don't interfere with each other, licenses do. Interference between different open-source licenses is now perceived as a sufficiently serious problem that OSI has become as a victim of its own earlier success.”

To address the issue of proliferation, OSI plans to take all existing OSI approved licenses and group them into three tiers: (i) preferred, (ii) recommended but not preferred, and (iii) not recommended. This is likely to create more confusion. One would then ask why an OSI certified license would be OSI “not recommended” license. Would a ‘not recommended’ tag not be deemed as de-approval (though OSI says its not). It would be ‘preferable’ not to have certified such license as OSI approved in the first place.

(2) Why are some licenses not compatible with others? We may well appreciate that compatibility goes beyond the issue of license proliferation. For example, the FSF considers all versions of the Apache License incompatible with Version 2 of the GNU GPL. About version 2.0 of the Apache License, they say:

"The Apache Software License is incompatible with the GPL because it has a specific requirement that is not in the GPL: it has certain patent termination cases that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent termination cases are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)"

Apache Software Foundation (ASF), which publishes the Apache License, has adequately replied to FSF’s statement, stating that ASF does not share the same goals as FSF. For the time being, the controversy rages on. Compatibility is really a relationship issue; free software movement and the open source movement can be likened to two political camps within the free software community. While it can be argued that GNU GPL is not compatible with a number of licenses because the philosophy behind GNU GPL is freedom – which proponents of free software have cried themselves hoarse from the rooftops for decades now – GNU GPL itself publishes a list of free/open source software licenses that are GPL incompatible, distinguishing between non-copyleft and ‘not strong copyleft’. Even, copyleft licenses like xinetd have also not been spared and was held incompatible because it places extra restrictions on redistribution of modified versions that contradict the redistribution requirements in the GPL. Don’t they share the same goals? Yet the free software movement has complained that to be lumped together with open source software is restrictive for free software since open source software allegedly has a much weaker criterion than free software. Then one may ask, what is the criteria for determining compatibility with GNU GPL even for copyleft free software licenses? At least FSF is not intending to classify licenses in the same manner as OSI – for now.

(3) Don’t some of these licenses support a ‘one way’ street attitude described by John Udell in the Open Source Citizenship where developers are encouraged to take and not give back to the community. Or it could be akin to the situation described by Stallman where commercial developers invited to the “Open Source Developers Day” meeting in August 1998 said they intend to make only a part of their work free software (or open source) since the focus of their business is on developing proprietary add-ons (software or manuals) to sell to the users of the free software. According to Stallman, those developers requested that this should be regarded as legitimate, as part of the community, because some of the money is donated to free software development. Whichever way you look at it, it is a dangerous trend for the future of open source software.

The ideals and philosophy of open source is threatened by the ‘marriage of convenience’ of open source with the commercial world, which makes a strong case for the traditional free software movement. It is, perhaps, taking the adage ‘making a case to the commercial world’ too far. Eventually, there may such a blend of both the open source movement and the commercial world that we are not able to distinguish between the two. The enemy would have sneaked in unawares and made sport of all ideals and philosophies of the open source movement.

These are all valid concerns that the open source community needs to address. In closing I have a word of advise for the open source movement from my grandmother which I find appropriate – If you don’t know where you’re going, remember where you’re coming from.

Sources

1. Wikipedia Encyclopedia
2. Open Source Initiative
3. The Free Software Foundation
4. The Apache Software Foundation
5. Richard M. Stallman in “Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution”
6. John Udell “Open Source Citizenship”.

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Job searches can be one of the most frustrating things that you have to do in your life. After all you know what you are capable of and which jobs would be right for you but convincing other people is another task altogether.

The thing with job searches is that the right job is out there but once you have had a few knock backs, which is inevitable, it can really dent your confidence. Especially because getting it right has great potential impact on your life.

Get it right and you could be working in a job you love with a good salary. Get it wrong and it could be an entirely different story. Because of the importance of conducting a job search well it surprises me that it wasn't taught in school or that people don't invest more time into getting it right. Here are the things you need to be prepared for and a few tips for getting it right.

Write a good CV

Well this can be tricky. Mostly because it is a boring and time consuming process. But do not despair. Remember that you are selling yourself. So write about your achievements and make it look good. Employers get thousands of CVs throughout the years and you need to make yours slightly different to all the rest.

Perhaps you could write it on pink paper, include a picture or give it a border. Anything to make you more human will help your cause. After all you will only have applied or got an interview as a result of your qualifications so presuming you have the right ones you need to dazzle them with your personality.

Send it to as many people as possible

Presuming you have written a lovely CV that really shows the world how great you are you need to send it to as many of the Jobs that you like the look of as you can. Remember that loads of the jobs you might apply for may sound boring on the face of it but until you have been to the place and checked it out for yourself you don't know.

A boring looking administration job might turn out to be fun if the office has a good working atmosphere. So keep sending it out and don't be demoralised if you don't hear back from all of them - that's the way it goes! But also don't be afraid to check up on your applications. Employers like keen people!

Be positive and self assured in your interview

It is no good being apologetic about your achievements in an interview. Brag about the things you have achieved in life no matter how small you may think they are. Share as much about yourself as possible. Most employers do not want someone that gives stock answers to the questions they give you they want to hear something exciting and interesting about you. You will become part of the team so they will want someone that can get on with their work colleagues. They won't get that impression about you if you keep giving them monosyllabic answers.

Negotiate hard

They don't know that your desperate. You will regret it if you undercut yourself. On the flip side the employer is likely to value your abilities if you put a high price on them. That is to say ask for a lot of money and your employer will assume you are worth a lot of money.

Shaun Parker has been involved in the Jobs industry for many years and is fully aware of the pitfalls you may face when you conduct a job search.

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By Robert Michael

With the growing popularity of satellite technology I had to ask myself is satellite television really cheaper then cable television. To be quite honest I was rather skeptical before I sat down and did the math.

There have been a lot of promotions with satellite television providers and they have been offering free direct TV systems. So I began to wonder why anyone would just give a product like that away for free. It just seemed rather odd to me. So I sat down and did a comparison for myself to see if satellite television is really cheaper then cable. I was very surprised that in the long run you do save a lot of money and also receive more channels.

However be careful about local channels, they might not be available for free in your area so that is something to check out before ordering. They have packages that include your local channels, which was an issue in the past when people ordered satellite cable. They would get it then find out that they had to pay extra for their local channels which made no sense. I took a look at the list where local channels are available and it's pretty broad, so most people shouldn't worry.

However the free equipment is just basic equipment. There is nothing wrong with that, but people who are looking for DVR, HDTV, or combination should know they would have to pay for their equipment. Depending on what you want it will average anywhere from $100.00 to $700.00 plus tax and shipping charges. In the long run it will work its self out because this is your equipment. When you have DVR or HDTV DVR equipment through cable you pay an extra monthly amount for that equipment which adds up in the long run and isn't yours to keep if you cancel it. So even if you order the most expensive equipment it will have balanced its price out in a few years.

If you opt for the free equipment all you have to do is pay for shipping and handling which is pretty much the same cost you would pay for cable installation. There is a catch to signing up for the free satellite equipment offer. You must make a one-year commitment to the service. Which isn't bad for those who definitely know satellite will work in the area they live in. Sometimes when people live in wooded areas do have trouble receiving satellite signals. That is something I would check into before I agreed to any annual commitment.

No matter what satellite package you chose would either save anywhere from $15.00 to $40.00 a month. Even if you chose the highest premium package available which is equivalent to the highest cable premium package you will still receive more channels for your money.

I started off not believing it, but satellite television offers are really more cost friendly. Sit down and do the math for yourself.

About the Author: Robert Michael is a writer for Att Satellite which is an excellent place to find satellite links, resources and articles. For more information go to: http://www.attsatellite.com

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HDTV is high definition television and it can make a huge difference in your television viewing experience. Most consumers describe the HDTV experience as being closer to watching a movie in the theater than watching a standard television set in their living room. HDTV offers a digital picture with a higher resolution than normal television screens resulting in a clearer, crisper picture. It also offers the ability to watch wide-screen movies and programs without the annoying black bars that your regular television displays(you know, the ones your mom won't stop complaining about). It is the way the movie directors intended you to watch their films.

With your current regular color television, waves are scanned at 480i. This means that at any given time there are 480 lines of a picture being sent to your television screen by your service provider. Odd lines are displayed, followed by even lines. The change happens so quickly, the human eye believes you are seeing one big picture. With the introduction of HDTV, there are more lines transmitted (at either more than double interlaced or progressively) giving us a higher resolution and better quality picture. For an image to be HD it must have 720 lines at a minimum. HDTV is also fully digital and you won't need to worry about the analog to digital switchover in February of 2009. Upgrading now to an HDTV will give you years of entertainment(as long as there's something worth watching on TV, if not there are movie channels and reruns of Battlestar Galactica).

In order to enjoy the HDTV experience, you will need to introduce a few things to your home. To get started, you need:

1. A High Definition Television set with the smallest resolution a minimum of 720. If this isn't the case the TV is only "HD Compatible". That means it'll downgrade an HD signal to a normal signal and that's not what you want. High Definition television sets are available at most consumer electronic stores and online stores and they are becoming increasingly more affordable for the public. These sets are the first step in obtaining a clearer, picture that provides an experience similar to being at the football game, movie theater, boxing match, etc.
2. An HD source like satellite TV service, cable or antenna. Even with an HDTV, you may not notice any difference in normal channels. The channel must be broadcast in high definition in order to see the advanced quality in picture.
3. A way to receive the source signal (a satellite system is a great option)

Both satellite dish service and cable generally offer some HD channels, but satellite providers are able to offer more of these channels than your local cable company. Be aware that digital channels typically offered and promoted by cable companies are not the same as HD signals.

In addition to a better quality picture, you will also enjoy higher quality sound with HDTV. The digital audio sound provides even more of a movie theater-like experience in your home. It will sound like you're in the arena when you watch a sporting event and in a movie theater when the bullets fly during an action money. To provide the best in entertainment quality in your home, HDTV is the way of the future. As more channels are broadcast in HD format your television viewing experience will improve and get better and better over a time.

Satellite providers not only offer HD channels but their other channels are transmitted via a high quality digital signal. This results in a clearer picture than the analog signal offered by many cable companies.

Barry Boggs Jr is the webmaster for HD Digital Satellite [15], a website that is dedicated to helping consumers save money on satellite and cable TV services including HDTV.

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