Online Teen Freebies
Feb/100
The Internet is the best place where teens can find freebies, because most teenagers do not have credit cards. There are number of offers that just ask the e-mail address, and in exchange they can receive stuff like free MP3s, food, clothing, computer games, animation software, pet food and more.
It seems to have become the inseparable duet of computers and teenagers. Nowadays, it is not a surprise, because the new world of computers and the Internet is opened for all people and teenagers. From new software trials to various games, from emailing with friends to gaining some money online, from new cool impressive screensavers to new films and music, also to things that increase their experience on the web, are among the freebies. The teenagers know it all now.
No doubt that the freebies also play an important role, especially for teens. They spend many hours on the Internet. It would not be a genius in order to realize why teenagers spend a lot of time on the net. Something that teenagers would want is a click away in the form of freebies. To make a list of all the freebies online would be a bad idea, because it is innumerable. There is almost nothing left off the list. Today many teens are well acknowledged to the difficulty involved in saving money for buying stuff which they always want. The freebies are as a benefit for most of teens. Most of them are clever and they know where to search for what they want or need, without paying a single cent for the stuff.
If something does not interest teens then they have free stuff that will increase their computer experience such as free screensavers, mouse pads, free game, different films and music downloads, software, free e-book and cards, video phone, etc. The teenagers need access to the Internet in order to find these interesting freebies.
For teenagers who look for to learn something new on the Internet, the freebies provide every step. It is even fun! So, the parents of teenagers need not worry that their children spend so much time online, if they are learning something new. To encourage the teens in the right way is very necessary, but some freebies are not just the informative ones.
Unfortunately, some freebies are not so healthy for teenagers. These freebies must to be ignored by teens. It is for the teens who have access to. So, their parents could provide it in order to help their children and show a way in the right direction. It is simply a marketing strategy for many companies which provide the freebies. Thus keep it in mind before you believe every line of the promotional page online!
Looking for a place where you can get some free samples? Then make sure to visit this free samples site.
And some general tips – today the web technologies give you a truly unique chance to choose exactly what you want for the best price on the market. Funny, but most of the people don’t use this chance. In real practice it means that you must use all the tools of today to get the information that you need.
Search Google or other search engines. Visit social networks and check the accounts that are relevant to your topic. Go to the niche forums and join the discussion. All this will help you to build up a true vision of this market. Thus, giving you a real chance to make a wise and nicely balanced decision.
P.S. And also sign up to the RSS on this blog, because we will everything possible to keep this blog tuned up to the day with new publications about freebies and how to get the best of them.
Getting Free Stuff
Feb/100
There are a lot of coupon websites in the entire web which can save your money on almost any purchase which you can buy. The electronics, air travel, website registration, restaurants and the purchase of a new car have coupons which you can easily look for. Most people do not search the free products which they could get. Some of the free stuff is very simple, such as free wipes and stickers, but others are really good items such as a pet food or computer bag. It takes a bit of time in order to find all proposes.
First of all, you need a little effort to find free stuff than ones that have coupons. You also must be realistic because no one wants to give you a free computer or 7 days abroad, for example in London, just for your address or sign up, it sounds even funny. Can you really receive those types of freebies? More of all, you can receive free samples of products, free pet food, free software and other free stuff much easier. Most of them can be received by filling out a short survey or something as submitting your zip code and email account.
Another method for proposes of free stuff, which we can suggest that if you want more expensive free stuff, is to become a product tester. It is not for everybody. There is an application process, but it is a good way to receive and use free stuff without any payment, try the latest product and as a bonus and also as payment for your extensive testing, you can keep some of them. Sometimes you must post your short review online about this free stuff. So, you can receive all kinds of products by this way. If you like this process, begin from a review blog, most companies love the free press and if you can build good traffic, which can become your job and pay the bills from the website. Often when you have an established website with the best reputation, you can write to some company in order to get free products for testing and review and they will be glad to do it.
The last area to search a great free stuff is software. There is much free software that can be found to solve some job or project. It is not about pirated software which is illegal. Some odds are for most free stuff that you can find. Also there is no support if something will go wrong. The good side is that you do not pay any money for it, so if the software is not doing, then find another one, download it and go for it.
Looking for a place where you can get some free samples? Then make sure to visit this free samples site.
And some general tips – today the web technologies give you a truly unique chance to choose what you want for the best price on the market. Strange, but most of the people don’t use this opportunity. In real practice it means that you must use all the tools of today to get the information that you need.
Search Google or other search engines. Visit social networks and have a look on the accounts that are relevant to your topic. Go to the niche forums and join the discussion. All this will help you to create a true vision of this market. Thus, giving you a real chance to make a smart and nicely balanced decision.
And also sign up to the RSS feed on this blog, because we will everything possible to keep this blog tuned up to the day with new publications about freebies and how to get the best of them.
Freebie Scams
Feb/100
The Internet contains not only many different information, but also it is filled with some freebies. If you know where to look for, you can get some free things online. You will be surprised when see all free stuff which you can receive! The freebies are things like medicine and food samples, magazines, calendars, coupons, cards, e-books and so on.
Remember; be careful, because there are some scams! Some web sites will claim to give you a free expensive gift, but in order to get this gift, you will be required to sign up there and join some clubs. Also these sites which are proposing the free gifts for you, will receive a commission every time when you sign up on their sponsor’s offers.
There are many of simple ways to get freebies on the web, but be careful when filling out the requestretion. You can create an email address only for free stuff. Because so many companies show the samples of their items and promotional products.
There is an overlook of some of the free stuff, some really realistic freebies that you can get online:
1. Software. Not all software costs money, you can download a lot of freeware, which can include: pop-up blockers, anti-virus programs, web development tools, games, etc. But make sure that the site is legitimate!
2. Samples. You can receive: , soap, perfume, cosmetic, pet food, food, drinks, house items and so forth, from any company of the world. Many samples of products are just for promotional goals.
3. Coupons. Check out coupon sites and you will find prices on all brands. Some of them are sent via regular mail. Always check the expiration date!
4. Cards. You can create and print cards online; also some sites will allow you to send cards via email. If you want to congratulate somebody, you can get free cards at a number of websites. Some businesses will even print a copy and mail it to you.
5. Magazines and books. Sometimes you can receive free magazine subscriptions! But some of them are limited, some are proposed on a test basis, which means you will just get one or two issues for free. There are many book clubs that will keep to you the first two books for free, even if you canceled membership.
6. E-books. There are almost millions of e-books online, you can read non-fiction, fiction, how-to guides, etc. The majority of these e-books are available as freebies and some are offered as free informational items.
7. Ringtones and applications. There are thousands of free backgrounds, ringtones, apps, screen savers, games on the web. You can find some very good stuff for your mobile phone without having to pay a cent!
Looking for a place where you can get some free samples? Then make sure to visit this free samples site.
And some general tips – today the web technologies give you a truly unique chance to choose what you want at the best terms which are available on the market. Strange, but most of the people don’t use this chance. In real practice it means that you must use all the tools of today to get the info that you need.
Search Google and other search engines. Visit social networks and check the accounts that are relevant to your topic. Go to the niche forums and participate in the discussion. All this will help you to build up a true vision of this market. Thus, giving you a real opportunity to make a wise and nicely balanced decision.
P.S. And also sign up to the RSS feed on this blog, because we will do the best to keep updating this blog with new publications about freebies and how to get the best of them.
Review: aNobii for iPhone
Oct/090
aNobii.com is a cataloging and social networking website for booklovers. On aNobii you can catalog your book collection on a beautiful wooden shelf and meet people with similar reading tastes. aNobii has an international following with information on over 10 million books, including 200,000 book reviews spanning 15 languages.
aNobii has just released an iphone app, and we’ve had a chance to try it out. The bottom line: this is the best iPhone app for booklovers we’ve seen so far.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the features that set aNobii apart:
Confessions of a Spam-Catcher: How to Identify Spam
Jan/100
As part of my role as Lifehack’s manager, I am responsible for moderating the comments queue. Lifehack’s back-end has a “Pending” queue for comments that our spam-catching software thinks might be spam, a “Spam” queue for comments labeled “spam” either by the software or by me, and another queue for comments that have been approved, again either by the software or by me. As a general rule, I check that “Pending” queue several times a day, the “Approved” queue every day or so, and the “Spam” queue every week or so.
I’ve been doing this for two years, and I’ve gotten pretty proficient at figuring out what is and is not spam – a tough call to make sometimes, since spammers get more and more sophisticated in lock-step with those of us charged with blocking them. I present my “formula” here for two reasons: one, to give less experienced bloggers and webmasters an idea of how to catch spam on their own site, and two, to give commenters an idea of the kind of thing to avoid so their comments don’t get accidentally thrown in the “Spam” bin.
I should say, a big part of catching spam is a “feel” – intuiting that some comment just doesn’t feel right. I’m not sure I can capture exactly what goes into that feel. Andy Warhol once said that to recognize a great painting, first you have to look at a thousand paintings, and catching spam is a bit like that – the experience of having looked at thousands of spam messages cannot be easily encapsulated. But I’ll try as well as I can.
What is spam?
What makes a message spam is relative and subjective. In a sense, spam is like a weed – a weed is not any particular kind of plant, but a plant that isn’t wanted where it’s at. (See, for example, Wikipidia’s definition of Weed as “a plant that is considered by the user of the term to be a nuisance.”) For instance, Corn is delicious, but if it’s growing in your soybean field, it’s a weed. A message that, say, pimps a word processor might be perfectly welcome on a post that asks for product recommendations for writers, while on a post that just happens to mention writing, the same message could be considered spam.
Some messages are clearly spam; for example, anything delivered by a spambot programmed to leave its message wherever it can find an open form to submit through. But a message can be left by a living person, custom-written for the particular content it’s posted to, and still be spam. This list starts with the most obvious signs and moves to more vague and difficult-to-interpret signs. My guess is that a lot of people run into the ones further down the list because they post without thinking very clearly, so pay attention.
A comment is spam if it:
For example, a comment might say “I think your baby is really cute!” but the word “baby” links to a site selling baby clothes or even a Forex trading site or other scam.
This is obvious, right? Real people don’t post the same comment over and over on different posts, no matter how relevant. most likely it’s a spambot responding to multiple posts on your blog that contain similar keywords.
While there are a few situations in which a legitimate comment could contain several links, they’re fairly rare. As a general rule, the likelihood of a comment being spam increases directly with the number of links; anything over three and it’s virtually guaranteed to be spam.
A lot of spambots (or even live spammers) crawl the web looking for posts with certain keywords and then insert a generic message loosely related to the topic on the hopes that it will slip past any human reader who is likely to just skim through their comments. Unless a comment addresses something specific about your post, it’s likely to be spam.
Most spammers are fairly astute observers of basic human psychology – particularly our desire to believe good things about ourselves. So they butter us up, saying things like “Great post! In fact, I love this whole site – I’m definitely going to come back again and again!”.
A basic search engine optimization strategy is to get your website’s address associated with specific keywords, and search engines look closely at the text associated with a link to determine the usefulness of the website linked to. Real people aren’t trying to game search engines, and frankly, we want to be recognized for our contribution, so we use our actual name, or a username. If you can’t imagine replying to a person by the name in their “Name” field, you’re dealing with a spammer. (For example, here’s one taken from our spam queue: “Having a good vocabulary not only gives a framework for thought. It also allows you to be concise and precise to make communication better.” This is relevant to the post, and thoughtful, but it was left by an entity named “dining room table”. It’s spam.)
This is a tough call – sometimes I’ll see a thoughtful comment clearly written in direct response to the post it’s commenting on, under a real person’s name, and still mark it as spam because they link to a site whose legitimacy is questionable. Could be porn, WOW gold scams, Forex scams, get rich quick schemes, blogs with stolen content, or anything else that feels to me like someone left a comment more to get their link out than to add to the discussion.
This is a relatively sophisticated spam technique: pulling lines out of the post it’s responding to in order to make the language of the comment sound like real writing. Real people mark the quotes they’re commenting on (usually with quotation marks, but it could be by italicizing or bolding it, putting it in blockquotes, or some other means) and try to clearly separate their response form the post’s words.
Old posts tend to attract a lot of spam. Real people generally recognize that if a post is a year or so old, the conversation there is pretty much over. Spambots do not realize that. It still sometimes happens that someone comments on an ancient post, but the age of the post is a big red flag.
If the point of a comment is to engage in discussion with the author of the post and his or her readers, it doesn’t make much sense to comment in a language that you’re not sure the author knows.
I hate to stereotype an entire top-level domain like this. I’m sure there are Russians out there making thoughtful comments on blogs all the time. And yet I’ve never had a comment that wasn’t spam from a commentor with a .ru domain or email address.
This is experience talking – a lot of times you’ll see what appears to be a blog post in its own right in your moderation queue that starts off, at least, relevant, and is clearly written by a real person. This falls under the “Weed” heading – it might have been totally welcome except it’s out of place as a comment on your blog.
This is another “weed” situation: a comment on a post about, say, installing Windows 7 that asks for help with a specific problem. Unless the point of your site is to answer specific questions about computer problems, this comment is out of place. There are better and more likely places to get help than on your blog.
Sometimes a comment just feels wrong – it is a little too smarmy, maybe, or it’s a little too formal and stiff. You click through the link and it’s a legitimate-enough site, maybe a little sketchy, but you can totally construct a case where this comment was written by a real person with something to say. The question, though, isn’t what was the intention of the writer, but what is the effect on the conversation on your site. If a comment doesn’t seem to quite fit, you’re well within your rights to “spam it”.
Anyone else have advice for would-be spam-catchers? Or for commenters who might be finding their comments relegated to the spam-heaps of history? Leave a thoughtful, non-spammy comment below!
Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He can be reached though his freelancing site at DustinWax.com</a., where his various projects can be viewed. When he's not writing, he teaches anthropology and gender studies in Las Vegas, NV. He is the author of Don’t Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.
Follow him on Twitter: @dwax.
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