Can your iPhone 3G pop the popcorn?

This video shows the power of cellphone radiation. Four handsets are pointed at some popcorn kernels. The phones are then called simultaneously and... Hilarity ensues.
I'm sure that somebody, somewhere will believe what they see and use it as further evidence for the War on Radio Frequencies. We're more interested in just how this trick was really done. How do these guys get the popcorn to pop? A heater under the table?

Make money by creating proxy servers

Proxy sites are the sites which allow users to browse the internet anonymously. Anonymizing is just one reason why people use proxies. Nowadays, in schools, colleges, offices, many social networking websites like Orkut, Bebo, Myspace are banned. These proxy sites are used to unblock these blocked sites. Hence the proxy servers are in a great demand. Thousands of searches like Myspace proxies, Myspace unblocker, etc. are made on search engines these days.

Proxy server scripts are mostly coded in PHP; so they are called PHP proxy servers and freely available on the internet. One of the popular places where you can find these scripts are : http://www.glype.com and http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-proxy

To monitor proxy sites, there are proxy topsites. These are as good as web-proxy search engines. Submitting a proxy site to around 50 topsites will send you around 300-400 unique visitors. Just imagine what would happen if you had AdSense code on your homepage.

If you would like to own a proxy, you have to purchase a hosting package. I would recommend you going for http://www.techentrance.com/ as they provide hosting specially for proxies. Then you have to download a proxy script, install it on your server, and you have a proxy server up and running.

As far as the money making part is concerned, just add your AdSense code on the homepage and a CPM based code on proxified pages.

How Whopperfreakout video made $25,000 in a month

I am sure you have seen the ad on whopperfreakout.com that shows how people would react if Burger King stopped selling Whoppers. This site drew 250,000 unique visitors in December and has had over 1.5 million video views since being posted. Assuming a page eCPM of $100 or 10 cents per view, this site has made approximately $25,000 in a month.

This means for every 1000 page views, whopperfreakout.com made over $100, or 10 cents per view. How much would your blog be making if you made $100 for every 1000 page views ?

Here is the ad in case you haven't seen it before

Tips To Maximize Your AdBrite Income

1. Never start your pricing too high. It is better to error on the low side and get advertisers hooked, because then they will be willing to pay higher prices for your inventory when the pricing increases.

2. Make sure your placement is worth buying, the popular sellers in the marketplace tend to be sites with the most premium inventory.

3. Spend some time tagging your site and giving proper demographic information.

4. In your site description provide ideas of advertisers that you think might convert well. You know your audience best.

5. AdBrite is more successful if you sell a FEW premium placements as opposed to just MANY backfill placements.

6. Hard code all placements because of the concreteness of "your ad here". Putting AdBrite in rotation doesn't perform as well.

7. Allow a ramping period. AdBrite is a tool to help sell your own inventory, and think of it as a virtual salesperson for you. Any salesperson needs some time to gain traction. Just like an auction, the beginning price is never the final price.

8. Entice advertisers with specials. You have full control to set pricing so make occasional specials to entice advertisers.

9. Enable AdBrite's auto pricing which will raise automatically as inventory sells, and lower itself as vacant inventory sits unsold.

Father's Day '08 Logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile

Happy Father's Day fathers! In any event, I hope all the fathers out there have a wonderful day. Here are logos from the search engines to celebrate the day. Logos come from all the major search engines including Google and Yahoo but not Live Search, we also have logos from Ask.com, Dogpile, Cre8asite Forums. Here they are:

Google:

Yahoo:

Dogpile:

Ask.com

Cre8asite Forums:

FREE Month of Amazon Prime Membership

Amazon Prime, in case you don’t know, is a premium service where you get free 2nd-day shipping on most items with no minimum, even if you’re just spending $5. Very convenient. The normal cost for turning Amazon into your impulse-buying superstore is $79 per year (not available to Alaska, Hawaii, P.O. boxes, APO/FPO and U.S. territories).

This might be old, but it appears that if you are signing up for a new account with a new e-mail address, you will be offered a 1 month free trial right now. You’ll need to supply a credit card number, but you can set it so you don’t have to remember to cancel if you take the following steps:

1. Click on Your Account.
2. If you’re not there yet, scroll down
3. Click on Subscriptions Management > Manage Your Amazon Prime Membership.
4. Look for green text.
5. Click on the Do Not Upgrade button and you won’t automatically be charged $79 anymore. You’ll still get the entire 1st month of free Amazon Prime shipping.

Final Note to update AdSense to Google Login

Google has issued warning to link your Google AdSense account to a Google account. Google is now making it official. A reader says that he received an email saying that he will have to do it soon or else. His reason for not doing it beforehand is that it wasn't broken and it's just kind of pointless for Google to fix what ain't broke.

Meanwhile, in our previously mentioned blog, a few updates and clarifications have been made. First, Ashley from Google says that once your account is migrated, you will have to use that Google email address to log into your AdSense account. Second, she says that if you have another Google account that is not a login for your AdSense account, it can be deleted without disabling access to the AdSense account (but it will disable access to other services associated with that login).

Of note: one member is having difficulty performing the actual merge. Maybe it will still be a few weeks while Google irons out the technical problems with this. The discussion related to this technical issue is at Google Groups and additional forum discussion can be posted as comments to this post.