Archive for April 2006

Last Week in the Business Opportunities Weblog Network
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:

Bank of America Earmarks $10 Million for Entrepreneurs
Problems During Business Start-up Can Mean Success Later
Most Americans Dream of Starting Business
eBay drop off kiosks
eBay Store Help
KFC [...]

Mike Schinkel:
I just learned that Microsoft has decided to make the Visual Studio Express tools free forever. This to me shows Microsoft’s acknowledgment that people are not willing to invest their time learning a product that they will eventually have to pay more for then they have funds available or earmarked, especially young people. I [...]

New York Times:
Recent Windows and Mac computers (and some Linux systems) can operate with multiple monitors; with my computer’s Windows XP operating system, it took only a few keystrokes and mouse movements to set things up. Once I saw how it improved my productivity, I was an instant convert.
…adding an extra monitor will give your [...]

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around
the network:

Buying and Selling Safety on eBay
Every Franchising Obstacle Presents an
Opportunity to Improve Your Position
MLM Company Rankings
The Happy Gardener Opportunity
How To Avoid Home Business Failure
How to Get Your Boss to let you Work [...]

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:

Worst eBayer Ever
Krispy Kreme In Talks To Sell Franchise Stake
The Buzz about 1 Step System
The Dangers Of Buy and Selling Used Computers As A Home Based Business
Small Is Beautiful — and Lucrative

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Lifehacker:
Web site Jajah lets you make VoIP-cheap phone calls from your land line.
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You can give Jajah a free 5 minute try at their website. This is a really cool idea, especially for those of you who would like to try out VoIP prices but don’t have the hardware to make a phonecall from your computer.

Engadget:
it turns out the company is announcing one new product, teasing about another, and providing some more info about a deal we checked out earlier.
The new product is the Maxtor Shared Storage II, a NAS for home and office users, offering RAID storage, gigabit Ethernet and up to 1TB of space.
Read the rest…

CNN Money:
If you look at this office, there isn’t much paper in it. On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
The [...]

Instructables:
Learn how to build your own gateway firewall using FreeBSD and old PC parts. The firewall will consist of the PF firewall, Snort IDS, various IPS applications, Squid proxy, and some intuitive web interfaces for auditing. The cost of this project should be between free and $200 depending on your resourcefulness. I built [...]

If you’ve been hesitating on getting the new intel based MacBook Pro, here’s another reason to make the leap… You can now dual boot both Windows XP and OS X.
Apple has released their public beta of Boot Camp:
Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data… Boot Camp will burn [...]