The Next Window

The third season return of the Sci-Fi Channel’s dark, haunting remake of Battlestar Galactica is almost here.

There’s a big time jump between seasons, though.

The SciFi Channel is running a series of mini “webisodes” on their web site so that we can learn what’s happened between seasons and make the transition successfully.

That’s really an interesting development, since last season ended with an apparent cliff-hanger. I guess it wasn’t so much a “hang” as a “fall off” the cliff.

Sci-Fi channel has new episodes at www.scifi.com on Tuesdays and Thursdays, posted at noon Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The new season starts October 6th.

If you’ve missed any webisodes, don’t dismay. They’re all still available, but you’ll have to change the episode number in the URL by hand.

The first is http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/webisodes/01/
(well, they also have big links for them, but that’s too easy!).

Ever wonder where political candidates get your addresses? Or what they do with them?

I have received a couple pieces of political “spam” from one of our State’s politicos who is planning to run again for governor.

The name and email address in the “To” address, that he used for me, are what make this interesting.

I’ve long thought that political candidates got their mailing lists from their political parties offices, which would be ok assuming that we had provided those addresses to them.

I’ve also believed that they got them from voters registration and other public records.

Of course, those thoughts are about the physical addresses for real, put-your-hands-on it and it-costs-money-to-mail mail.

Now, though, one of our local gubernatorial candidates (unfortunately, the one for whom I would otherwise have voted), has sunk to a new low.

I’m getting unsolicited campaign email from Bobby Jindal. But, not on my regular email address that is fairly easy to obtain.

I’m getting emails on an email address at a domain name that I let my son use for spam control. In this case, he provided an email address to a web site about a computer game called Dante’s Awakening. Funny thing — I get a lot of spam on that address.

But, back to the case at hand…

While this political spam uses the email address that’s getting way too much commercial spam, his campaign workers took another step — one that was stupid.

They apparently matched the domain registration name to voter registration records.

That’s right, the “To:” name is my full name, complete with full middle name — which has never before been associated with that domain — and certainly was not the name provided to the Dante’s Awakening site, or all the other spam on that unique address would have that name, too.

Political candidates — be careful with your emails. Think twice about buying email address lists — even if the seller claims it is a “Safe List” — after all, the individuals did not agree to get spam from you.

Think again about deriving true names for the email “To:” fields.

Those of us who have domain names know exactly who you are — because we often register software and register at web sites with unique email addresses, just so we can see who is participating in spamming or selling our addresses.

By the way, I guess political spam must be exempted from the CAN-SPAM requirements, since this political spam had no provision for unsubscribing!

Thanks a lot, Bobby Jindal! Who’s running against you?

If you’re using Google’s Adwords pay-per-click ads to advertise products or services (or your web site!), there’s a great tool to help you in figuring out the right prices for your ads.

It’s AdwordAccelerator and I’m using it with my Adwords campaigns. It’s been closed to new memberships for a while, though.

This Wednesday, September 13th, they are opening the doors to allow 50 new members into AdwordAccelerator

Based on recent experience with its sister product AdsenseAccelerator, AdwordAccelerator should sell out on these memberships in a very few days (AdsenseAccelerator opened up for 75 mew members on a Friday and sold out on Monday).

I have found that Adwords is a very easy way to spend money on advertising. AdwordAccelerator helps me spend it more effectively!

AdwordAccelerator is a desktop program that runs on Windows and that has access to an online database of Adwords keywords, bids, and competing ads. Without signing up, you can watch the video tutorials on the website. You can also sign up for their free “AdWords Power User” tutorial.

AdwordAccelerator gives me a great keyword tool to find alternative keywords for your product — and to figure out which keywords are worth my time and money. I can see the numbers of clicks and prices for various keywords. Also, I can even see the ads from the competition and estimates of how much they’re paying per click.

Read my review of Adword Accelerator.

Then, if you’re advertising (or ready to advertise) with Google Adwords ads,
Sign Up Here.

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I’ve updated my review of WinClear, which is a Windows / Internet history privacy tool.

WinClear erases Windows and web browser temporary files, cookies, history, viewing history, and a lot more to clean your tracks.

Read my updated WinClear review

Or, try the free download and scan by WinClear.

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I recently checked out Abebooks.com to see how it worked.

Where over 80 million new, used, rare, out-of-print books are just a click away, online @ abebooks.com

You see, I had two goals –
1. To find a copy of a book that I had lost in 1977 because of a flood, and
2. To see it it was worthwhile as for affiliate sales.

On #2, maybe not, as the affiliate percentage is tiny.

On #1, though, it was fantastic. I typed in “Prologue to Analog” into the title field in the search box — and virtually instantly found a large number of copies at individual book sellers.

The descriptions and prices surprised me, too. Most vendors had good descriptions of the book and dust jacket quality and LOW prices. I ended up buying my copy for $1.99 plus about $4 in shipping.

Not bad! I plan to do business with them again — both buying books and via affiliate sales.

Need textbooks! Low prices, Fast Delivery at Abebooks.com

Do you blog? Do you want to blog?

Are you using Adsense pay-per-click ads to make money with your blog?

Adsense guru Joel Comm is launching a new Adsense product this Wednesday – July 5th – to help us make money.

To kick off his new product, he’s letting everyone download a free 32-page ebook about blogging with Adsense

Get it here

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You’ve got another short opportunity to sign up for AdsenseAccelerator, which I consider to be the best Google Adsense research tool!

AdsenseAccelerator’s membership doors have been closed to new members since May 25th.

But, they AdsenseAccelerator membership doors re-opened yesterday with a few available memberships.

There were 37 memberships available at noon yesterday — it was down to 22 last night — and they haven’t updated the web site yet. If you wait, they may all be gone.

Then, the will stop accepting new members again.

I got my membership and I’m glad I did. I’ve already seen the value of the changes I could make on existing sites. AdsenseAccelerator helped me refocus my articles on higher value keywords, just with a little bit of tweaking!

If you wait, you’ll miss it, and all you can do is hope for a waiting list!.

Sign up for AdsenseAccelerator now!

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I just placed another order for spices with Spice Barn.

I’ve ordered from them several times and been very happy each time. The dried spices have always been very fresh (as in "not old", they are dried) and flavorful. Spice Barn also has salts, peppers, popcorn seasonings, extracts & flavorings and spice jars.

Their smallest items are usually 2.5 ounce bottles (except Saffron, which is by the ounce). If I use the spice often, I usually order a pound — which is usually cheaper than a pint container.

This time, my order included gourmet black pepper, ground mustard, thyme and cilantro leaves.

There’s a new article at Terry’s Computer Tips about Windows Mobile 5, especially in comparison to Windows Mobile 3.

Walter�s New PDA, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Lov- uh, Live With Windows Mobile 5.0

If you’re thinking about a new PocketPC, check out this review of one user’s experiences “upgrading” from a Windows Mobile 3 Pocket PC to a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC.

HP iPAQ hx2495 Pocket PC (Electronics) Manufacturer:Hewlett Packard Released:

AdsenseAccelerator includes hugely powerful tools for generating keywords, more keywords, and recycling keywords for even more keyword phrases — and finding the real values of them for your Adsense ads!

AdsenseAccelerator is the first, if not the only, tool that shows me not just highest bid for keywords, but the depth of value.

By using AdsenseAccelerator, I can focus my pages on high-value keywords that have depth – not just one high bid and a bunch of 10 cent bids.

AdsenseAccelerator is preloaded with large number of high-value keywords, which it has already grouped by topic. Of course, you can use the other AdsenseAccelerator tools to massage these and generate lists of related keywords.

I can check the value — the bidding — on my choice of keywords, too.

Because of some changes at Google, they announced last week that they were going to sell 60 more memberships and then close the doors to new members. As I write this, there are only 18 memberships left!

They’re going fast — yesterday there were 26 memberships left. Now, only 18. If you put Adsense ads on your web site, you’ll regret not signing up for the AdsenseAccelerator service.

Service? That’s right. This is not a static, one-time list, nor is it a quarterly publication. AdsenseAccelerator is a service that accesses their database of keywords and values!

Is it useful for Yahoo Publisher Network and other PPC ad programs? Probably, but it focuses on Google’s Adsense/Adwords program.

If you use Adsense or if you advertise using Adwords,
Click here for AdsenseAccelerator before it’s too late.

AdsenseAccelerator Review
Keywords, Values and Depth of Value
Focus Your Site and Ads Effectively
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