Friday, August 29, 2008

Watching movies/tv shows online

Instead of downloading a full episode of a television show or even a movie, why not watch it online instead? Depending on the speed of the connection, it might even take a shorter time.

Contrary to a few people's beliefs, there are many sites a person can visit to watch movies online. Hence, a person may wish to use a particular to crawl most of these sites at once. The search engine I recommend for this is nabolister.

Here are a list of sites I recommend for those who would like to watch movies or television shows online:

  • watch-movies.net - I love this site because it had a wide variety of movies which came out in 2007 and 2008, and by wide variety I don't mean genres alone. I mean low budget movies too that you might not find on any other site. Most of the movies work, and there is even a vote next to the links for each movies showing what percentage of people said it worked and what percentage said it didn't work, as well as comments to tell you whether the movie was a waste or not.
  • project free tv - Project free TV has both TV shows and movies even though the movie selection is quite small in that the number of movies falls short of the number of movies on the previous site. However, you might just find what you're looking for.
  • Quicksilverscreen - Unlike the sites watch-movies.net and project free tv you can watch older movies as well as a lot of the newer movies here; as well as tv shows. So for example, whether you want to watch the 1954 version of Animal Farm, or the more recent 2008 movie 10,000 B.C. it can be found on the site.
  • movierumor - Movierumor isn't an impressive site, but you can find a few of the latest and most popular movies on it.
  • flickpeek - Flickpeek has movies and TV shows; and like quicksilverscreen it has a wide range of films both old and new, some I haven't seen in ages. For example, there is the 1999 movie eXistenZ which I wasn't sure what it was about at that time, and then there are movies such as Vantage Point, PS I love you, Ghostbusters and many more.
  • tvlinksdb - It doesn't have a lot of movies, but it's a great site to search for some tv-shows that are hardest to find. Like nabolister, it crawls video sites.
  • tv-links.cc - This is a site similar to tvlinksdb. It doesn't have a lot of movies like some of the other sites I listed, but there are a wide range of television shows here listed, some, you might have difficulty finding on other sites.
  • megavideo - Here you can find some of the rarest tv-show episodes and video clips. There are even a few movies on the sites.
  • veoh - This is only available to people in a few geographical locations, but nevertheless, it works like megavideo.


Ther are many other sites which can be used to watch shows online, but it's up to you to look for them.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Making Money Online

There will always be a crowd wherever there is money to be given away; which is why "make money online" and "earn money online" are some of the most popular searches on the internet. Thousands of sites appear and disappear promising people they'll be swimming in riches by the end of the year if they only pay a "small" fee, install a bar to run while they search the net, or sometimes, even sign up for free.

Unfortunately though, there is no easy and immediate way to make money online. The majority of these sites which claim to help you get rich quickly, while you sit for a few hours or minutes per day at your computer are without a doubt money making scams.


Common Mistakes People keep Making


1. FREE ONLINE LOTTERIES DO NOT EXIST. Think about it. How will the lottery company be able to give you your million dollar prize if people aren't paying for the tickets? How is it profiting them? Another thing is, have you noticed everyone who plays these lotteries win millions of dollars the following day? Does this not sound like a scam to you?


2. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN EMAIL LOTTERY. This is one of the most common lottery scams from free email accounts such as MSN, Yahoo and Hotmail. Real businesses do NOT use a free email account, even if they give you a picture of a so-called sample of a check one of their participants had received. These scams usually ask for a sum of money and your personal information in order to claim your prize. Genuine lotteries do not ask you for money to claim your prize.

3. START YOUR OWN MEDICAL BILLING SERVICE AT HOME. You pay near to $1000 to start, but what you don't realise is that most clinics process their own bills.

4. PAID TO SURF DOESN'T WORK. The majority of these don't work in the sense that the amount of money you're paid usually is not worth the hours you spend on the internet. Some of these sites usually tell you to download a bar of some sort which sometimes ends up getting spyware on your computer.

5. TO MAKE MONEY FREE BUY THIS EBOOK. Some sites give testimonials and promise after promise that you will indeed make thousands of dollars by the end of the month. However, in order for you to know how this person ended up making $5,000 for the month completely free you have to buy the ebook. This is in itself a money making scheme since this person seduces you into buying a book which usually does not contain the secret to making money online, or you might not even get.

There are many many more money making scams online; but it's up to you to use your best judgment to determine which are genuine and which aren't. There is also doing a great deal of research before you participate or invest your money in anything.


Popular ways to make money online

1. Affiliate websites are one of the most popular ways to make money online. What you do is that you use your website to advertise the merchants' website and products. They might pay you by the amount of clicks they get on the links to their site, which they track using cookies. They might also pay you by the amount of leads to their site or sales which is usually greater than the paid to click.

The disadvantages with affiliate websites though are the fact that you have to find way to promote them effectively on the net so that you can earn enough money.

2. Getting paid to take surveys online is another popular way to make money online. How it works is that you fill in personal information which will determine which surveys you qualify for. A survey can sometimes pay up to $100.

However, the disadvantages of taking online surveys are that surveys usually take long to reach your email for one, and secondly, you might not qualify for a survey at all.

3. Another way to make money online is to write reviews for products. The disadvantage with this though is that the reviewing can be tedious and you don't earn a lot of money for each review you write.

4. Another easy way to make money online is by using pay per click ads such as Google Adsense, bidvertiser and so on. Just make sure to research the companies first before you sign up and put their ads on your site, and make sure that your sites are javascript enabled. Freewebs is not javascript enabled, so google adsense doesn't work well with freewebs websites.