As it said by many probloggers that one should always have different sources of online income, rather than just one source of income.Affiliate Marketing has become one of the most preferred.

The important thing I noticed of PJN was the professional look of the admin panel and the range of different ways to promote like Banner ads, Link ads, Advanced Links.

Pepperjam Network are having this killer promotional campaign with “Increased Publisher Payouts”, throughout the month of July.There are 3 ways of making money by this promotional campaign.

1. Increased Commission Payout : For the entire month of July the Pepperjam Network Publisher Referral Program will pay publishers (aka, affiliates) a flat $7 for every new publisher referral. That’s a 40% increase from our baseline payout!

2.$10 New Publisher Sign-Up Bonus - To assist you with recruiting new publishers to Pepperjam Network we are going to allow you to provide them with a $10 Sign-Up Bonus. This means that any new publisher that you refer will be eligible for a $10 bonus just for signing-up for Pepperjam Network.

3.Blogger Incentive Program : This is more of a Pay-per-Post, incentive program where any PJN publisher / blogger will receive $10 for each post you make (up to 5 per month) that promotes Pepperjam Network or any Pepperjam Network tool.You can use your PJN Referral Program affiliate links and make even more money every time you post about Pepperjam Network!

Pepperjam Network pays out every two weeks via direct deposit, PayPal, or paper check. The minimum payment is $25 which is also good.

Make the most of this promotion this July, so why wait get started

1. Register Here for Pepperjam Network. and get $ 10
2. Tell them that you’re going to make a blog post about them and get approval for the “Pay Per Post” scheme and publish your article - Get another $10
3. Promote this campaign using banners and text links and earn more.

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If you have just started a new blog/web-site and plan to make some money out of it.Here’s a list of few companies with which you can start with.

Google Adsense : Easy to apply with a high availability of ads for many different types of niches.This is contextual based advertising system and the minimum payout is $100.

Google Adsense : Homepage

TTZ media : This network is Cost-Per-Click (CPC) model, ideal for technology and shopping related sites. TTZ Media provides product based ads that are trigger by keywords. A reader need only click on the banner and visit the advertiser in order for the site to make money. The reader does not have to purchase the product from the advertiser.

TTZ Media : Homepage || Signup Here

Kontera’s ContentLinks : This service reads through your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it.ContentLinks are contextually relevant ads and information units dynamically linked to keywords on a publisher’s web page. The keyword is linked to the most relevant ad from their database.

If you want to try out Kontera’s ContentLinks, you can try it out using johnchows readers offer.If you subscribe through JohnChow site, you will get 100% revenue share for the entire month of july and also no minimum traffic is required to get the 100% deal.

Kontera ContentLinks : HomePage

Adbrite : Using this service you can monetize your site in 6 different formats like Text ads ,Banners ,Full page ads ,Inline ads ,InVideo ,BritePic.Your minimum check amount is $100.00 by default, but you may change it to any value equal to or greater than $5.00.which can a bit attractive for starters.

Adbite : HomePage

WidgetBucks : If you have a gadets/products related niche blog, then this can be really a good option, but this network has CPC shopping widgets but is limited only for a few countries, and rest of the countries have a CPM ads.In case if your blog has more of US and Canadian traffic this could be a good one to try, but if you have sites that does not get this sort of traffic you only get the CPM ads.

WidgetBucks : HomePage

Bidvertiser : Bidvertiser, a CPC ad network, with a minimum payout of $10.It is non contextual and you can select which ads will be displayed on your site.It also has an option for monetizing your feeds.

Bidvertiser : Homepage

Affilate Marketing Options

1. Commision Junction : Using this network you can promote products and services of different companies, and you are paid commission based on the actions of the user, for ex: the user buys a product your promoting on your site, your paid some commission based on the products.You get different types of ads like banner ads, link ads for promoting the products.Commission Junction : Homepage
2. Google Affiliate Network ( earlier it was Double Click ) Launched just a day back.

If you monetize your blog/site with any network or tried one mentioned above do share your experiences with us.

Tool 1. Fast Stone Capture - This is a portable app that can do more than just sceenshot capturing which can capture images and saves then in 8 formats.

Features :

Slimline sidebar file browser provides full shell operations.Screenshot Captor : HomePageTool 3 : Snippy : Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy.The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard.

Snippy — HomePage | Size : 84 KB

Widows OS Option –

Method 1 : If you are using Windows OS then pressing “Print Screen Button” will copy the image of the full screen into to clipboard which can be pasted ( Ctrl + V ) in MS Paint.

Method 2 : If you want to take the screenshot of only the active window then select the Active Window and then press “Alt+ Print Screen Button “

FireFox Plugins For taking Screenshots :

1. ScreenGarb — Plugin for taking screenshots of web pages
2. FireShot

Do share with us which tool you use to take screenshots for your posts and suggest a new tool that you feel can be part of this list.

You can see that I have recently changed my theme and also included a Featured Post Section, It took a lot of time for me to get it working coz of my little knowledge in PHP but with some trial and error I was able get it working.

I’ll show you how to get your featured Post section in your blog.So lets get started

STEP 1 : Create a Category “Featured” for your blog.

STEP 2 : Create a file “featured.php” in the theme folder.

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query(’category_name=Featured&showposts=1′);
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

<div id=”feature”>
<img src=”replace with featured post image.jpg“></img>
<h2 class=”post-title”>
<a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</h2>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php edit_post_link(__(’Edit’), ”, ‘ | ‘); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link(__(’No Comments’), __(’1 Comment’), __(’% Comments’)); ?> | <a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php _e(’Read full story »’); ?></a>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

STEP 3 : Open ” index.php ”

Generally the first line would be the get_header(), if you want your Featured Post Section be right after the header , place this line right after that

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/welcome.php’); ?>

STEP 4 : Find this line

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>

in the same index.php and place this next line right after the above line

<?php if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>

This does not allow the post to repeat itself in the regular posts below the featured posts thereby eliminating duplicates.

STEP 5: A bit of CSS , add this in your style.css

#feature{
width: 800px;
height: 132px;
float: left;
padding:20px 20px 20px 20px;
font-size:12px;
line-height:16px;
}

#feature img {

float: right; margin: 3px 5px 10px 0; backgroundr:#FFFFFF;

}

Hope this helps you get the Featured Posts up and running in your blog.

Another thing is that for the excerpt to be clean you need to explicitly  give an excerpt to the Excerpt Block in your Wordpress Advanced Options in the  Write Post Admin . The excerpt that you give in the excerpt is displayed on the Homepage.

NOTE : For the Featured post to work you need at least 1 post in your Featured Category.

Memory Consumptions problems of Firefox are really a big problem, Amit has asked me to share a few tricks to keep the memory low while using FireFox, here are a few tricks to keep your memory consumption low while using FireFox. FireFox 3.0 RC 3 released few days backs and the final version is scheduled for release this coming Tuesday.

All the following tweaks can be achieved by typing in about:config in the Firefox address bar and entering part of the bolded parameter into the filter field.

Browser.cache.memory.capacity - To reduce memory consumption reduce the amount of RAM that is assigned to Firefox.

1. Controls the maximum amount of memory to use for caching decoded images and chrome (application user interface elements).
2. This determines if and how much system ram Firefox will use to cache itself. The element does not exist and has to be created. The default value is set to automatic which means that Firefox uses a certain amount of RAM by default. (values for Firefox 2.x)

• 32 MB of RAM -> 2 MB

• 64 MB of RAM -> 4 MB

• 128 MB of RAM -> 6 MB

• 256 MB of RAM -> 10 MB

• 512 MB of RAM -> 14 MB

• 1024 MB of RAM -> 18 MB

• 2048 MB of RAM -> 24 MB

• 4096+ MB of RAM > 32+MB

It is also possible to turn this feature of by assigning the value 0 to it. This can greatly decrease the performance of Firefox and is not advised at all.

Browser.sessionhistory.max_entries

1. Reduce the amount of websites that are stored this way to reduce the memory consumption. It does not make a huge difference for most surfing habits to reduce the figure to 5 or 10.

Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers

1. Automatically determine the maximum amount of pages to store in memory based on the total amount of RAM.
2. If you have 64 MB of Ram 1 page is stored in memory, 2 for 128 MB, 3 for 256 MB, 5 for 512 and 8 for everything higher than that figure.
3. If you never navigate using the Back and Forward buttons in Firefox you can set this value to 0 to disable the feature.
4. Otherwise reduce the amount of pages stored in memory to make this feature use less memory.

config.trim_on_minimize

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

Using FireFox in SafeMode

You can also try starting FireFox in SafeMode, which disables all extensions and themes and loads Firefox with the default template. If this method uses continuously less memory a theme or extension is most likely responsible for the high memory consumption.To run Firefox in safe-mode simply add the following parameter during startup “-safe-mode”.

Using Portable Version Of RC

If you use RC versions of FireFox, I suggest you use portable version of the RC version which can be downloaded from PortableApps.

If you are using the RC 3, wait for the Firefox 3.0 which is schedule to release this Tuesday June 17 2008 or download the portable version from PortableApps.

Windows clipboard has limited functionality, you can utmost have only 1 piece of data in the clipboard.When ever you copy a new piece of data the old data gets overwritten.Here’s a collection of 5 tools for improving the clipboard functionality.

1. Clip Magic : Has features such as PastePicker, better search/replace facility, additional browser support, improved backup facility, more rules options and hierarchical categories.Clip Magic — Download
2. Clip Diary : Starts on windows startup, and will record everything copied on the clipboard into the its database. Clipdiary can log clipboard history and record data in several formats: plain text, RTF (Rich Text Format) and bitmap images (BMP). So, besides saving parts of text, you can easily make series of screenshots, and Clipdiary will save them for you.Download Clip Diary
3. ClipX : ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager, it can be recalled via a hotkey and supports both bitmap and text clipboards. It can be used to manage and increase the features of your regular windows clipborad.As, already said it can be used to copy any type of text, image or file in windows.Press the secondary paste hotkey followed by the number of the item in the clipboard history which you want to paste for faster pasting from clipboard.Download ClipX
4. Ditto : An extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, custom formats, and many more.It also has a portable version, which can be handy while you are in the move.Download Ditto
5. Clipboard Magic : This clipboard extender can dramatically enhance your productivity when cutting and pasting text or when filling in repetitive web forms.Has unlimited clipboard capabilities.Download Clipboard Magic