I have downloaded so many pieces of software and widgets that my partner despairs when he sees my crowded desktop.  But we are both fans of the latest download, a piece of budgeting software.  He has been worried for ages that I was not working to a business plan and so he was struck dumb when I started playing with my forward planning calculations.

I really hope that nobody in my family ever needs to go into drug rehab but sometimes you never can tell. As far as I can tell, there is no danger at present but if we ever needed advice I would make sure I contacted a centre that offers a 24 hour helpline, like Sunset Malibu. This is a well regarded treatment centre where individuals and families seeking refuge from the pain of alcoholism or drug abuse can find sanctuary.

Tracing your family tree is among the most popular hobbies - not my cup of tea, but each to their own. People who want to trace their family ancestry can now also make use of genetics by matching their genetic sequence against others in lab databases. This way you could find distant relatives anywhere according to DNA matches.   Be careful what you wish for ….

An efficient payroll system is essential to keep your staff happy at the end of each pay period. Payroll operates quietly enough until something goes wrong, but then veeything hits the fan. If you are looking for a new payroll software system do not forget to think about how the new system and the old one interact. The worst thing would be to fail to pay all those staff.

I am very good at daydreaming over my next trip away, surfing the internet to discover all the attractions of a destination and plan my wanderings. There is one less exciting element of holiday planning that you must always remember and that is travel insurance. Read more »

I have been trying to automate the display of my Adsense ads on wordpress ever since I set up the new Wordpress themes here over a month ago. I was getting fed up with the inconsitency of placing them manually, despite trying several widgets and plugins. Read more »

July starts on Sunday, it is hard to believe that the year is halfway through so I make no excuse for talking about holidays here. We have been booking our break and I cannot think how we would have got by without the help of online search sites.  If you are looking in the US, check out New Jersey bed and breakfast for some excellent small hotels near some perfect beaches.

Google AdWords can be an amazingly successful way of attracting customers and targeted visitors to a web page. But if you do not understand fully how the Adwords system operates your advertising budget could be swallowed up in displaying fruitless Adsense ads in the wrong places, attracting a few poor quality visitors if you are lucky. And many advertisers react to this poor ad performance by giving more and more cash to Google as a desperate last ditch effort to make their Adwords campaign succeed.

There is help at hand, though - ACS is a search engine optimization company who can help you make a success of your campaign. At the moment they are offering a beginner’s guide to ppc management that explains how pay per click advertising works. They can help you manage your campaign for a vastly better return on investment and they can show you how much you can actually save by calling in the professionals.

Printers are the kind of things that you really do not notice when they are working, but if they go wrong they can cause massive inconvenience.  When your printer cartridge runs out, for example, you can guarantee this will be the time when you need to print lots of copies and they are needed urgently.  At a time like this there are three qualities you will seek in a supplier: availability, low prices and fast shipping. You will easily find companies that offer same day toner cartridge despatch but usually this is at top prices.  Inkers are specialists and they have a lot of endearing qualities. A toll free customer service phone number,  an option to pay by Paypal,  and a cast iron thirty day guarantee on everything.  And one more thing - generic ink and toner cartridges, offering you huge savings on your printer consumables.  You can contact Inkers between 6am - 4pm (Pacific time) Monday to Friday on 800-848-7232.

The search engine sector is becoming extremely competitive and new entrants are offering specialised services to niche markets, which I think is well advised given the dominant position of the biggest engine. masterseek is a new business to business search engine, giving fast business searches.  It is offering all businesses a free listing in its launch period - definitely worth taking.

When we moved house recently we realised just what a crazy assortment of photo frames we possessed - all shapes and sizes, and some of the photos were starting to fade. This really got us thinking about decluttering and getting one or two digital frames instead. We switched to a digital camera three years ago and since then we have taken hundreds of photos, some of them were actually quite good as well.  But these gems are all hidden away in a laptop instead of being seen: with a digital photo frame we can display a selection of the best shots and show them off proudly.  You can display digital movie clips as well as stills, and decide how frequently the shot changes.   I remember only last year that Google gave a digital picture frame to the top Adsense publishers, and they seemed like a real luxury item.  Now you can get one for less than £40.

I have been missing a trend here - I always associate golf with middle aged people wearing ridiculous pullovers and shouting ‘fore’.  I was wrong - apparently golf is the new black. It is a great hobby for someone who wants lots of new toys to play with. At the Callaway golf site I saw some really tempting sets of woods, and I do not even play golf. They have some very nifty designs and I am starting to see the attraction of the game.

Good news for all Adsense publishers, you now have even more chances to earn when you make good use of your Adsense ad. placement - instead of two Adsense Link Units, you can now display three Adsense Link units on each web page or blog page. This is good news for you, the Adsense publisher, bringing you higher earnings from your Adsense website or blog. Make use of well-place and blended link units to bring you great returns. Among the best places to put a link unit is across the top navigation section on a web page, at the end of a blog posting and in the sidebar near your list of relevant links. Take the opportunity now to boost your Adsense earnings with Adsense Secrets, THE guide to making money with Google.

Do you know this interesting cactus-type plant? If you are trying to control your weight then the Hoodia Gordini plant could help you get the weight of and keep it of. This tough little plan survives some of the toughest arid conditions in Africa, where it has become a valuable crop to local farmers. Even I have heard of Hoodia products for weight loss, but until I visited the Hoodia Information website I was not aware that there are so many fake Hoodia products around. The Hoodia plant takes five years to recah maturity and production is strictly controlled. Now that Hoodia so popular, unscrupulous operators have tried to flood the market with products that do not contain p75, the active ingredient, nor pure Hoodia itself. Get all the facts on using Hoodia for weight loss and finding genuine Hoodia products before you do anything else.

Any internet marketer thinks about their page rank almost constantly and I have been reading some interesting thoughts by Titus Hoskins, ‘Is Google PageRank Still A Valid Marketing Tool?‘ Focusing in the Google Toolbar, which is the first thing I check when visiting a web page, he reflects that

‘many SEO experts worry too much over the exact PageRank or Value Google is giving to a page’

Of course page rank matters for many reasons and it is crucial in reaching to top of the esearch engine results pages for you targeted keyword phrase. Page rank also influences your progress towards that coveted position, since other webmasters are more likely to exchange links if you have Page Rank 5+.

I have the Google toolbar installed in my Firefox browser: He also recommends using the iWeb Page Rank Tool, try it and see what you think - I actually found the amount of data delivered was a bit confusing!

This is a well researched explanation of the importance of page rank to webmasters and bloggers, with a timely warning not to allow you ranking to take over your lif.