Linda Roeder's Blog
Posted by Linda Roeder
I've been selling on eBay for years. I even tried selling books one summer. I'd go out to yard sales and buy up the types of books that sell well. Then I'd take them home and list them all on eBay. Made a few bucks doing it too. The trick was knowing which books would go for real money and which wouldn't.
I buy things from eBay all the time, all kinds of things. I've gotten pretty good at finding bargains on eBay. I've bought electronics, clothes, books, music and many other things from eBay. I guess I've been lucky because I've never had a bad experience with anything I've bought online.
Selling on eBay is a fun way to sell things. The downside is that you have to get to the post office and get the item shipped right away if you want to keep your user feedback up. This is important to me, my user feedback is 100% and I'd like to keep it that way.
There are some things you need to know before you start selling on eBay though. eBay has some rules and several different ways to sell items. You need to know what they are, what they mean, and how to use these rules to your advantage.
If you want to learn to sell on eBay, here's your chance. This short tutorial will teach you how you to can take all the items you want to get rid of and sell them on eBay. If you're a newbie to eBay you may want to start with my intro to eBay first.
Posted by Linda Roeder
I get tons of questions about how to add photos to MySpace, so I thought I would write up this short guide about how you can add your photos to your MySpace profile. Not only to your profile though, also to your MySpace blog and when you send comments to your friends.
Photos are a great thing. You've heard the saying, "One photo is worth a thousand words". It's true. Especially on the Net. People love to see photos. They want to know who they're reading about. They want to know all about that person's life. Some people won't even look at a blog, or other personal Web page, unless it has photos.
On MySpace photos are even more important. MySpace is for socializing and meeting people. Would you want to meet a person in real life, but not be able to see what they look like. You'd think there was something wrong with them. After all why would they hide their face if they're not on the most wanted list or something?
If you're serious about meeting people online then you need to add photos. Add photos to your MySpace profile, add photos to your blog entries and occasionally add photos to your MySpace comments. Adding MySpace photos will make you seem more like a real person and also make you seem friendly, like someone I want to get to know.
With this tutorial you can add MySpace photos to your MySpace profile, your MySpace blog and even when you send comments to your friends. It only takes a couple minutes to learn and to add.
Posted by Linda Roeder
Uploading this news screensaver to my computer, I was pleasantly surprised with how well it worked and how easy it is to use. The backgrounds are beautiful and the text is clear and easy to use. So I quickly added my own RSS feeds to see how it worked. Adding the feeds was surprisingly easy too.
Once I had some of my favorite news and blog feeds entered into the screensaver I set the screensaver to go off in one minute so I could read my feeds. Setting up the feeds was easy too. Just a matter of copy and paste. You can add any news feed or blog feed you want to this screensaver.
The screensaver has beautiful backgrounds with scenes from nature like waterfalls and sunsets. At the top right of the screen are the news feeds for you to read. There's a few lines from each feed. They change about every 30 seconds or so. The title is bigger so you can see what the feed is about before you read it. On the bottom left of the screen you'll see some other titles. These are the next few feeds that you'll read.
As I walk past my computer, doing daily tasks, I can look over and read something from one of my news or blog feeds. Each time I walk past something new is showing. If I just want to sit and relax I can grab a cup of tea and just sit reading the screensaver.
Posted by Linda Roeder
Internet Explorer calls them favorites. Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox call them bookmarks. Either way, they are the Web sites that you like and want to save for later. They are the things you like to do online. Make it easier for you to find them when you need them.
Save time by keeping your favorites and bookmarks neatly files away for use later. When you're folders are organized you're able to surf the Net more efficiently, saving time that you could use to engage in more rewarding pursuits. The days are way to short to be wasting time trying to find a Web site you've already found, and then didn't file away.
My life is way to hectic to be looking for Web pages I know I saved, somewhere. That's why I organize them right from the start. If I find a Web page that I'm going to want to look at again sometime, I file it away right away. I create folders and sub-folders and everything goes into something.
If you want to save time in your busy life, you should consider reading through these organizing tips so you can learn to file away all your favorite Web pages too. Both of these tutorials are very simple and only take a few minutes.
Posted by Linda Roeder
Internet slang has been around as long as there have been a way to chat, and that's a long time. I remember many years ago, when I first started on the Net, having to learn some of the most common Internet slang. I participated in message board and chat rooms a lot back then. I even hosted a few.
Social networking sites, and blogs as we know them, weren't around yet. There were personal Web sites, but if you wanted to meet people, that's not where you did it. You want to the message boards and the chat rooms. First you chose a site about something you were interested and then you joined their chat rooms and chatted with other people with the same interests.
Even back then people were using Internet slang to save time while they were typing. Chat room windows were often small, so if you wanted to fit everything in, and not have the chat move so fast you can't read it all, then you used Internet slang to shorten the reading time.
Internet slang makes swearing at people fun. It's also very useful when trying to add a tone to your voice or an emotion to your sentences. There are a lot of Internet slang terms, more are created all the time. Some are specific only to chat, or forums, or email, or text messaging. Some can be used in any Internet medium. Learn your Internet slang so you'll look more intelligent next time you chat.
