One of my friends recently asked a question about making money from his blog by selling advertising space. He asked, “How many hits per month would justify selling advertising on my website?” Unfortunately, since I didn’t have actual web analytics data and only his website address to go by, I could only give him an idea or approximation of what he could charge based on what I knew about his blog already. Determining if a website is worth advertising on, cannot simply be based on the number of hits, visitors …

Apple iPad unveiled! Just moments ago, I read on Engadget that Apple finally launched its new Apple iPad. Some say the Apple iPad is going to do for Apple what the iPod did – so I think its quite fitting the iPad shares the same number of characters in the name.
Apple iPad models & prices:
Wifi Models:
16GB – $499
32GB – $599
64GB – $699
Wifi + 3G Models:
16GB – $629
32GB – $729
63GB – $829

The TED 5000 Home Energy Monitor has 8 different configurations and depending on how many panels, sub-panels your home has and if you want to record the net of solar/wind generation/production or record solar/wind generation/production separately will determine which model you should buy. If you want to learn about home energy monitoring systems like the TED 5000 or its predecessor, The Energy Detective TED 1001, its important understand the differences between each model in order to choose the right TED 5000 model that will work properly with your home. Read …

Here’s something I came across last November after I found out that a couple of my older websites using outdated versions of wordpress got hacked; its called the Wordpress Security Whitepaper. Its completely, free, translated in several languages (english, simplified chinese and italian). Before I continue writing any further, I just want to give full credit to Blog Security (link at the bottom of this post).

The Wordpress Security Whitepaper (pdf) has been a work in progress since 2007 and has been such a tremendous help to the wordpress blogging community, …

Im sure I typed in “adsense.google.com”, entered my username and password only to be redirected to Google Scholar? Its a pretty far stretch to “scholar.google.com” – I even had trouble typing the word “Scholar”. Whatever just happened, its pretty amazing what you can do when you control the redirects on a domain name, eh?
Anyways, I guess Google may be trying to promote Visit Google Scholar!