Telstra  have recently provided free access to Facebook to all users of their mobile network.

If your mobile phone is equipped with a web browser, you can access the Facebook site from your mobile by going to 0.facebook.com (that’s zero dot facebook dot com)

(don’t put www in front of it – it doesn’t work)

When successfully connected, you should see “Free Access by Telstra” at the top of the screen.

This free access will give you access to a text only version of facebook, which is fine for making  and reading posts.

If you want to view pictures, you’ll have to use the normal version of facebook, which is not free. Data charges will apply.

I wouldn’t normally use Facebook while I’m out and about, but it’s come in handy a couple of times over the last week.

Hi,

I’ve just signed up for RapBank, which is a new affiliate sales network similar to Clickbank, paydotcom, etc.

There’s about 600 products to sell at the moment, and more are being added all the time. This is just coming out of Beta, and I reckon it will be HUGE, because it’s superior to any other affiliate network that I’ve seen.

You can join for free and start selling their products immediately.
(And be paid immediately through Paypal)
You can also list your own products for sale.

Paid members get extra benefits.
At the moment it’s $27 per month, but this will increase to around $60 per month on 1st April when this comes out of Beta.
(that’s in about 10 hours – so check it out NOW if you are even slightly interested. )

Rapbank. Check it out now.

This operation has been set up really well.
I’m impressed, and have put my money where my mouth is by signing up for paid membership myself.

cheers,
Eric G.

Keeping track of all the passwords you use for the many internet sites you visit is a real problem.

For the past few years, I’ve used RoboForm – which is regarded as the best password manager and form filler available.

I recently stopped using it. Here’s why.

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Internet Marketing is a generic term that means selling goods and services on the internet.

There are dozens of different methods of doing this, but all of them boil down to having knowledge of a base level set of internet related skills. So you either learn them yourself, or pay someone else to do them.

Many people have asked me to teach them the required skills, but this is just not cost effective. So I’ve been looking around for an inexpensive, comprehensive course to recommend to you. I’ve please to announce that I’ve finally found one.

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You are at an important meeting or lecture.

And you’re jotting down notes to remind you of what is being said.

Now imagine that three months  later, what was said at that meeting become of vital importance to you.

So you just go back to the notes you made, touch your pen onto the notes you made, and you immediately hear the actual words that were being spoken while you were making the notes.

Magic? – Pretty much!. but that’s just one example of what you can do with the Livescribe “Pulse” Smartpen.

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I’ve been using the free Photo management program “Picasa”   for the management of my photos for ages.

It’s the best application I’ve used for removing red eye, sending pics by email, making albums, etc. etc.

The latest version, 3.5 now adds many new features like geotagging and face recognition.

I LOVE face recognition. Picasa scans your hard drive for photos, and presents you with the faces. You then start putting names to the faces, and google will start building albums of the photos where a particular face appears.

As you provide feedback on the selections it makes, it gets more and more accurate with its identification.

After the process finishes, you can click on someones name, and see all the photos in which that person appears. You can then export these to a folder, make a slideshow and upload it to YouTube, or perform various other tasks with them.

If you are already using Picasa – grab the upgrade.

If you’ve never used it before, download it and prepare to have all your photo management problems solved.

Download it free from www.Picasa.com

Cheers, Eric G.

You can have a fully operational website like this within a few hours.  Free.

A common stumbling block for small businesses is the creation of a new website. Or the updating of an old website.

I’ve seen people waiting  for months while a friend or relative “builds them a site”.  Or  spend thousands of dollars on a custom, hand built site  where every change has to be done by the developer for a fee. Wouldn’t it be great to update and change it yourself. Anytime you like

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I subscribe to lots of newsletters, and just skim through most of them.
However, I always read through these 3 newsletters as soon as I receive them.
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Giveaway of the Day provides you with a free daily software program that is available to download and install within 24 hours of its release. .
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LO,
Pretty well anything can be promoted successfully on the internet if you are creative about it.

Even if it’s unsexy and boring.

Exhibit 1: Blendtec
Consider the problem faced by Tom Dickson, founder of Blendtec.
He makes home blenders. Hardly an exciting item.
Here’s what he did to promote blender sales for his ailing company.
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