If you need to add some cool image effects, nice looking forms or tables or web 2.0ish effects to your site then you should check out the following:

• AJAX Rain - a library of over 1100 AJAX scripts. If you need an image gallery, check this site first. Most are free if you give credit to the author or be nice and make a small donation.
• Freeajaxscripts.net - All the scripts listed here are free for non commercial use.
• Dynamic Drive DHTML code library - In addition to original DHTML scripts
  and components, they offer some AJAX scripts.
• Smashing Magazine - This site is a great resource in general for web designers. The link from here directs you to a post with some useful AJAX scripts.

I thought this quote was fitting for today’s economy:

“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”
Jefferson, Thomas

Happy Blogging!

Corel bought Jasc and Paint Shop Pro a few years back. I’m not sure that was a god thing. But they do offer a decent list of Paint Shop Pro tutorials for version 8, 9 and X.

If you do not own Paint Shop Pro, take a look at amazon, they usually offer good price.

I also found a 10% off coupon code “NOVEMBER” so 2 years cost $94 or about the price of a 500gb external hard drive

I hope Mozy works out better than Omnidrive, I paid for that service last year and now they are out of business, no contacting their customers about closing down and who knows what happened to my data.

If you’re like me and backing up data due to a hard drive crash. You did not back up for over a year and want more than one solution to backing up data or priceless pictures and video, have a look at Crashplan. Mozy seems ok so far but I imagine that retrieving the data would be a slow process as well. With the software from Crashplan you can automatically back up your data to an external hard drive connected to another computer on your network or even a friend’s house. I started using Crashplan before Time Machine was released for the MAC. I actually back up the data to 2 separate drives connected to 2 other PC’s on my network. Crashplan works on all operating systems so my Mac backs up files onto my Windows PC.

Since I’m so paranoid about data loss I do use Time Machine as well to do backups to an external drive bay I’ve had for years. About once a week I boot up the drive bay (It’s kind of loud) and use Time Machine to make a back up.

What have we learned here (probably not much, hahaha) is that extremely paranoid about crashing hard drives. If you want your data safe, use more than one backup solution. Sure you have to shell out a little cash but if you ever had a drive crash and use an “engineer” to try an extract the lost data, you could end up paying $1000 or more. I think the cheapest quote I received for extracting data from a bad drive was $650 and there is no guarantee they can extract the data from a crashed drive. A service like Mozy, Crashplan and an external drive will cost you about $200 to start with a recurring fee for Mozy.

I almost forgot, it never hurts to back up photos and video to DVD’s for safe keeping too!

Mozy Online Backup. 2GB Free or $4.95/mo for Unlimited Backup. It’s simple, automatic and secure!

Mozy is the only free, full-featured remote backup service.

Just released, the MozyPro for Mac beta for business
Backup unity in the workplace is now possible.

* Fully-integrated Admin Console for Mac users
* Server and network drive support
* 24×7 phone support
* Online access to 30-day file versioning
* Sleek and professional Mac styling

Or MozyHome for your Mac
* Download & Install the MozyHome client
* Select the files to back up
* Let MozyHome for Mac do the rest

If you have a website or blog that’s getting a decent amount of traffic each day then you should join shareasale.com. Join 1,000’s of other websites by promoting online merchants products or services and get paid a commission on each sale you generate. Shareasale has 1000’s of merchants to choose from and you will find ads to compliment your content.

Shareasale has a a great reputation. They do not allow malware or spyware to be placed in any links or ads. All sales are tracked through cookies and with shareasale you can be confident that you will be paid on time every month

If you’re a merchant looking to expand online sales, Shareasale can help you too! For a modest start up fee, roughly $650 you can recruit hundreds of potential affiliates to market your products. If you put some time into your affiliate program it can be very profitable for all parties involved.

shopster drop shipping services

If you wanted to dabble in selling online you may want to check out Shopster.com. Shopster provides drop shipping services for anyone who wants to pay a monthly fee for their service. Currently they drop ship over 1,000,000 products. Shopster does everything but promote your store. You can sell products on ebay too!

Don’t expect to get rich overnight. Shopster will provide you a template and building the site is very easy. But in order to really be successful you will have to spend many hours tweaking keywords and finding ways to get your store noticed.

Shopster does offer a free 7 day trial.