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A question people often ask me is, “What is the best way to start earning more using Adsense?”Of course, I use this to promote my blog, and point them to the articles about Adsense, and how to tune it. The next question that comes up, without any doubt is this: “What are the highest paying keywords?”.To help all people that are asking that very same keywords question, here is a list:

1. Structured settlements

2. Mesothelioma

3. Acne

4. Life Insurance

5. Death Insurance

6. Bextra

7. Asbestos

8. Car Insurance

9. Dental Plans

10. Private Jets

11. Debt Consolidation

12. Credit Cards

13. Rewards Cards

14. Equity Loans

15. Equity Line Credit

16. Loans

17. Mortgages

18. Pay Day Loans

19. Cash Advance

20. Bankruptcy

21. Reduce Debt

22. Refinance

23. Jet Charter

24. Vioxx

25. Wrongful death

26. Legal Advice

27. Taxes

28. Investing

29. Bonds

30. Online Trading

31. IRA Rollover

32. Refinance Quotes

33. Adult Education

34. Distance Learning

35. Alcohol Treatment

36. Rehab

37. Drug Rehab

38. Spyware

39. Cell Phone Plans

40. Calling Cards

41. VOIP

42. Weight Loss

43. Canadian Pharmacy

44. Depression

45. Spam Filter

46. Lasik

47. Facelift

48. Teeth Whitening

49. Annuity

50. Anti Virus Protection

51. Adult Diaper

52. Free Credit Report

53. Credit Score

54. Satellite

55. Anti Spam Software

56. Dedicated Hosting

57. Domain Name

58. Need Money

59. Bachelor Degree

60. Master Degree

61. Doctorate Degree

62. Work at Home

63. Quick Book

64. Extra Money

65. Eloan

66. Malpractice Lawyer

67. Lenox China

68. Cancer

69. Payperclick

70. Personal Injury Attorney

71. Lexington Law

72. Video Conferencing

73. Transfer Money

74. Windstar Cruise

75. Casinos Online

76. Term Life

77. Online Banking

78. Borrow Money

79. Low Interest Credit Cards

80. Personal Domain Name

81. Cellular Phone Rental

82. Internet Broker

83. Trans Union

84. Cheap Hosting

85. University Degrees Online

86. Online Marketing

87. Consolidate

88. Helpdesk Software

89. Web Host

90. Homeowner’s Insurance

91. Yellow Page Advertising

92. Travel Insurance

93. Register Domain

94. Credit Counseling

95. Email Hosting

96. Business Credit

97. Consumer Credit

98. Blue Cross

And: 99. Laptop Computer

Should you now start creating pages that contain the keyword Mesothelioma or Life Insurance a thousand times? No, not really, Google’s Adsense tends to check your page for relevance (Google’s Page Rank), and content. Good content means good ads, higher rankings, and more visitors, so more earnings.So, now go, and write a high quality article about Mesothelioma.

Although emailclients such as outlook and Apple’s Mail are packed with features, they lack on very useful option: being available everywhere…
Luckily, there are other solutions, in the form of webmail, however, most of them lack the powerful features of an offline mailclient.
However, Google’s Gmail is the exception that sets the rule, by delivering a collection of features that even some
of the well known emailclients do not offer. Below a list of useful features that you can use to tame your incoming emails in Gmail.

Labels

Instead of the well-known folder system, Gmail uses labels. Labels can be compared to tags or keywords that you
add to your mails. You need to make a small “switch” in your way of working and thinking to start working with
these labels, since your emails are not put in seperate folders, they are all in one place, but your view is
dependant on the labels your emails have. And since one email can have plenty of labels, this can be very handy.
Say, for instance, that a friend sent you an email with a joke, that you would like to post on your blog later on,
and, you want to reply to that friend to thank him for the great joke, but you do not have the time for that right now.
In normal emailclients, you would have to choose between folders where to put the email: friends, jokes, to reply,to
publish? In Gmail, you can add all these labels to your email, and you can find your email when you look at all your
joke-emails, or at all emails that you still have to reply to, or all mails that you still wanted to post on your blog.
For visibility, these labels can be colored too, so that in a glance, you can see all the mails in your inbox that
have the red label “ToDo” added to them.

Archive your emails

Keeping all your emails in your inbox just clutters things up, and makes sure you will overlook emails that are important.
If you have read an email, want to keep it for reference, but do not need it anymore anytime soon, add a label to it, and archive it.
If you need it again, you can use Google’s powerfull search function to find it, or you can find it via the label you added.
If you did not add a label it is not lost. Gmail keeps all your emails (that are not permanently deleted), and you can find it
labeled “all mail”. For your reference, your inbox is not really an inbox, you are just looking at all the emails that
have the label “Inbox” to it, which Gmail automatically adds to all incoming emails.

Filter your emails

Just as with the regular emailclients, Gmail can automatically filter your incomming emails, based on specific
characteristics, such as the From:, To:, Subject: and content. This way, you can easily label incomming messages
from mailinglists, and even archive them for later reading (at work, when you have nothing better to do ;-)). You
can add “stars” for emails that are important to you (or have any other meaning), or mark emails as read and
archive them as soon as they’re coming in. Which can come in very handy when your boss is emailing you outside
of your working hours! (”Nope, never seen that email…” will never again require you to lie )
To add filters, you can go to Gmail’s Settings screen, click on Filters to set the search criteria,
preview the results to check if it behaves as you expected, and configure what should happen to your email.
Or you can take the short route by first opening an example of the type of message you want to filter, clicking
on the Reply menu in the message’s right-hand corner, and selecting Filter Messages Like This.

Search your emails

Where is that email again that had that one part in it? You-know-who sent it around christmas I think…
Spend some time to get to know Gmail’s searching features. After all, Gmail is a product from the people who
learned the world to search!
By using specific email operators in the search enging on your Gmail, you can easily find the email you need. An example:
You need to find the email from Rebecca in which she says she likes your hair. Type from:Rebecca subject:hair in the search box.
Or try subject:”Capoueira moves” has:attachment to find back that movie of those great capoueira moves.
The quotation marks tell Gmail that the grouped words must appear next to eachother.
Using these techniques, you can easily build more complex queries: to find all messages from whatever.com,  except
those sent by Bill,you can type from:whatever.com AND -from:Bill@whatever.com.
You can find a full list of all operators you can use on this page:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190

Of course there are plenty more things you can do using Gmail to manage your email, but that is for another article later this week my dear readers. So I hope you enjoyed this one, bookmark it everywhere, and come back for more later on!

Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, who was the featured speaker at a Newhouse School event in San Francisco, said that “The goal of the company [Google] is not to monetize everything, the goal of the company is to change the world, monetization is a way to pay for that.”

He replied this on the question if Google is actually only into “searching”, and using all else to earn more money.

Schmidt also said that “We think an independent Yahoo is better for competition, for innovation and so forth,” with regards to Microsoft trying to take over Google. When asked about the partnership that Google suggested to Yahoo, Schmidt answered that this would be very structured, and never even would come close to anything breaking the anti-trust laws.

I guess there is a whole lot more we can expect from Google in the coming years… Looks promising to me!

 A question that I am often asked is: How can I remove one or more items from my recent search list when typing in the Google search box?

Well, it is not that hard in fact: use the arrow keys to select the item you wish to delete, and press delete

Works in the latest browsers… If it doesn’t work for you, then go to the settings of your browser, and delete the history.

So, you want to get your own website online, but you do not want to pay heaps of money to have a Pro Website Designer create it for you from the ground up to your needs? So you need to do it yourself… But, your graphical strengths are about the same as the strength of a pancake?

Well, here’s a solution for ya!

Download a nice template, change it to your needs, and add your own content…

Now you say: “What? I can just download templates of websites for free???”

And the answer is easy: “Yes, you can”.

Take a look at sites such as these:

• http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com
• http://www.freewebtemplates.com
• http://templatenavigator.com

You really can’t find anything there you say? Or your HTML knowledge is not thorough enough to change these templates?

Then find yourself someone to help you with the job! And you know what? Let them bid against eachother, to earn your work!

Post your request at websites such as www.rentacoder.com or www.getafreelancer.com and get a professional to do the work for you.

And when all that is finished? Get your site online, and throw some Adsense on it, and you can start earning money.

Tags: Webmaster, Website Design

Days I’ve been searching after a decent, small, simple tutorial, to help me take the first steps into the World Of Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML).
None did I find… Therefor, I decided to write this small jumpstart Ajax Tutorial Thingy.
Feel free to try it, comment on it, and spread it…

First… what the heck is AJAX? Well, it is a Football team in The Netherlands, Amsterdam. if you were looking for them, and landed here, Google’s got you fooled
Is it coffee too, like JAVA is? No, not really, but let me explain: AJAX is a set of technologies (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) that allow you to make a call to an http server
(most often a RSS feed or a webpage), grab the content and show that in your existing page.
Great you say… PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl,… all can do THAT!
You are sooooo right!!!
But none can do that without reloading the page. Indeed, no refresh of your page needed. Consequence: services like email and such do not need to reload the whole shebang whenever
you click something, which makes the whole experience faster, and better for well… your bandwidth counter

Let’s see what this AJAX stuff looks like in real life:

function loadurl(dest) {

try {
//XMLHttpRequest is for Mozilla and the likes. IE uses ActiveX. Using an if then on the object works best, better then checking which browser it is.
xmlhttp = window.XMLHttpRequest?new XMLHttpRequest(): new ActiveXObject(”Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
} catch (e) {
// This is where you get in to if your browser does not support AJAX. write a friendly errormessage here to tell the user to upgrade to the latest Firefox
}

// the object xmlhttp triggers an event on every status change. These events are then handled by the triggered() function.
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = triggered;

// open is the function that will actually open your file on the server.
xmlhttp.open(”GET”, dest);

// send() well, sends the request. if this is a POST request you need
// the post variables: send(”fname=john&lname=doe)
// Mozilla can deal with send(); however
// IE needs to see a value here, so better to use send(null); in case of get (and thus no variables to send).
xmlhttp.send(null);
}

function triggered() {
// if the readyState code is 4 (Completed)
// and http status is 200 (OK), our request was succesful, and we can get the response from: responseText indeed
// other readyState codes that can be usefull are::
// 0=Uninitialised 1=Loading 2=Loaded 3=Interactive
if ((xmlhttp.readyState == 4) && (xmlhttp.status == 200)) {
// xmlhttp.responseText object holds the response for you to cherish, cuddle, and use in your code.
document.getElementById(”output”).innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}

This piece of code needs to be placed between the html tags.
in the html body you need to call the function, and place the result in a way like this:
<p id=”AjaxOutput” onclick=”loadurl(’/whatever.txt’)>click here to load the whateverfile right here!</p>
This whateverfile can be any text file, but also any script that returns an output, making this technologie very usefull!
do note that the destination url has to be in the same domain as the html file, or a security error can occur, depending on your security settings.
To see all that is possible with AJAX, check out Google’s automated searchbox-completion, gmail, yahoo mail, …
The list is endless, the sky is not even the limit…

Tags: AJAX, howto, tutorial, webdesign, webprogramming

Basics:

Alt+Left Arrow: Takes you Back to the last page
Alt+Right Arrow: Takes you Forward to the next page
Escape (Esc): Stops the page from loading any further
F5 or Ctrl+F5 : Refresh the page (Ctrl+F5 reloads without using the cache! Always handy to test out some stuff)
Alt+Home: Go straight to your Homepage
Alt+D: Gives the focus to the Address Bar
Ctrl+Enter: Adds “www.” and “.com” to whatever you’ve put int he addressbar
Spacebar / Shift+Spacebar: Scroll down/up in the web page
Alt+F4: Closes the window, any window, this works throughout the whole of MS Windows.
You will still have to get up and go over to your wall to close your house’s windows though… (wouldn’t you wish there were keyboard shortcuts like that? )
Ctrl+D: Immediately add this site to your favorites. Really, it works great, don’t believe me? Try it out right NOW!, Press Ctrl+D

Working with the Tabs:

Ctrl+Click: Opens a link in a new tab in the background, Ctrl+Shift+Click does the same, but in the foreground.
Ctrl+T: Opens you a new tab in the foreground
Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab: To switch between the different tabs, forward, or backwards
Ctrl+W: Closes the current tab (or the window if there are no more tabs)
Ctrl+n (n can be 1-8): Jumps you to the n’th tab
Ctrl+9: Takes you to the last tab, no mather the how many-ienth-’n it is.
Ctrl+Alt+F4: Closes all other tabs

Others:

Ctrl+(+)/(-)/0: Zooms in (+) or out (-), with steps of 10%, or goes back to 100% view (0)
Ctrl+E: takes you to the toolbar Search Box, Alt+Enter opens the result in a new tab, and Ctrl+Down Arrow lets you choose the search engine in your toolbar search box.
Ctr+I: Opens your Favorites Center to the Favorites, Ctrl+H opens it with the History, and Ctrl-J opens it with your RSS Feeds.

Mouse Shortcuts:

Middle mouse button: Opens a link in a background tab
Middle mouse button on a tab: Close the tab
Double click on empty tab band space: Opens up a new tab for you
Ctrl+Mouse wheel Up/Down: Zooms the page in/out in steps of 10%

Tags: browser, Internet, internet explorer, keyboard, shortcuts

(note: for Mac users, Ctrl can be replaced by the Command key (Apple sign))

1: Alt + D: Brings you straight to the address bar of your Firefox browser. This can come in VERY handy when you want to try out the next keyboard shortcut below

2: Ctrl-Enter: Auto complete the address in the address bar with .com
Shift-Enter: Auto complete the address with .net
Ctrl-Shift-Enter: Auto complete the address with .org
Lesson learned? Next time you want to come to http://www.icantinternet.org , you type icantinternet in the address bar, and use Ctr-Shift-Enter to autocomplete and come hither.
Right? Wrong You make sure you add our blog to your bookmarks, or even better, share this article (and others), using the social bookmark button below!

3: Ctrl+T: Opens up a new tab in your browser, which is great, since you can check something out on a new tab, and you do not have to close http://www.icantinternet.org in this tab!
Did you know that you can easily right-click on links, and select ‘open in new tab’ to, well, open the link in a new tab? Very usefull to open pages that you want to read later on. Especially since your current tab
stays selected, and not the new tab.
Ctrl+Shift+T: Almost the same functionality as Ctrl-T (who would’ve thought???), BUT, one VERY handy extra! This shortcut opens the last closed tab again. Meaning, you were reading on http://www.icantinternet.org,
and while checking your http://www.gmail.com on another tab, you accidently closed http://www.icantinternet.org, you can open it again easily, and continue reading as if nothing happened…
Another, but not as fast and easy, way to do this is via the menu History-> Recently closed tabs.

4: Alt+Enter: You do know the function of Enter while you are typing in the address bar right? For those who don’t, well, if you start typing, auto completion will look through the site you’ve already visited,
and will try to match (typing www.ican will make Firefox show all pages you’ve visited starting with www.ican) Then you can select from the list where you want to go to, and press Enter to go there.
Now, Alt+Enter will do the same, but will open this webpage in a new tab in your browser.

5: The Delete Key? Delete Internet??? No, not really, but perhaps it may seem like it for you The delete key deletes entries from the auto completion. To use it, you just start typing, and select the one you
want. Then, instead of pressing enter, you press the delete key. And poof, that entry is gone with the bit-wind.

6: Ctrl+Tab: Ctrl-Tab is the Alt+Tab or Command+Tab from Windows or Mac OSX. But, instead of switching between the open programs, it switches between the open tabs.

7: Ctrl+[1,2….9]: An even shorter way to go from tab to tab, instead of going through the list of tabs using Ctrl+Tab, just use Ctrl+’nr of the tab’ to go there.

8: PageDown, PageUp, or Space, Shift+Space: These shortcuts allow scrolling of the page you’re vieuwing in your Firefox browser. If you’re not sure which combination does what, just give it a try…

I know how to add a Google Search Box to my website, but how can I add the Image Search from Google?
Easy!
Let’s take a look at a standard search url from Google:
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=rubarber&btnG=Google+search
Now, let’s strip that one down to right the bare essential:
http://www.google.com/search?q=rubarber
The extra info in the string tells Google which website you come from (source=ig -> iGoogle), what language you speak (hl=en), and what the button says (btnG=Google+zoeken)

Now… If you try an image search on Google, and translate to a “bare essentials url” as we did above, we get:
http://images.google.com/images?q=rubarber
So, to get Google’s Image Search result page, with the results that your website’s visitor is looking for, you actually only need one (1) thing in a form: a textfield, with the name ‘q’, which contains the keywords for which your visitor wants to search images.
Putting this all together in nice and clean HTML this results into this:

< form method="get" action="http://images.google.com/images" >
< input type="text" name="q" / >
< input type="submit" value="Search Google Images" / >
< /form >

Or looking like this:

Now, if you don’t want the result page from Google’s images to open instead of your own website, add the optional attribute target=”_NEW” to the form tag, making it

This way, your results will be shown in a brand new browserwindow. Your users will be able to look at the found images, and still continue surfing at your website.
Give it a try!

Tags: Google, Webdevelopment, Webmaster

I guess I am not telling you anything new when I say that the internet as we know it slowing down. Although more and more people are using broadband to connect to the internet, and even though the computers and servers are getting faster and faster, the overal internet is slowing down. The reason for this? Simple, the amount of users on the internet is ever increasing. And with the arrival of broadband, more and more people leave their computers switched on, and online all day and all night, with several apps running at the same time. Video, large pictures and music are the largest part of the data being up and downloaded.

This shouldn’t be any problem at all, but,… Our current internet is built around the current telephonenetwork. The cabling that is used for telephone, is not suited for pumping the massive amounts of data over it as is being done now.
However, rescue is on its way my friends! And it is coming in the name of LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The LHC is a new particle accelerator, developed by CERN in Genève (Switserland), which is going to be used to investigate the creation of the universe, Higgs Bosons, dark matter and dark energie , gravity, and many other things.
Needless to say, this LHC. requires alot of data. To say it in a number, on a yearly basis, the data it requires would barely fit 56 million cdroms.
To be able to deal with this issue, CERN has started the development of “The Grid”, a new computernetwork, based on optic fibre and state-of-the-art routing centra. At this moment, it has 55.000 servers available, but soon that will be 200.000 servers. At that moment (this summer, around the time the first tests with the LHC will start), the network will allow speeds of up to 1Gb/sec (yes, you are reading that right, One Gigabyte per Second), or, in numbers again, transfer the whole ouvre of the Rolling Stones in approx 2 seconds.

I do suppose we might need an upgrade to our Wifi networks before we can reach that speed on our laptops if you try to read on www.icantinternet.org (or The Babeside when the wife ain’t watchin’) while sipping a Bacardi in the summersun.