Using Royalty Free Music On Your Website

If you’re worried about using music on your website, YouTube video or even your local theater production, then royalty free music is the way to go.

It’s designed to be bought once and used as often as you want, in as many ways as you want, without having to pay a single cent more to the person who wrote the music.

There are many different styles of royalty free music plus you can get those special sound effects as well. Sound effects are perfect whether you want a thunderstorm or the soothing sound of ocean waves.

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How To Password Protect A USB Drive

USB flash drives are portable so the need to password protect a USB drive is high. Which makes them easy to keep with you but unfortunately also makes them east to mislay.Password protect a USB drive

The solution to password protect a USB drive depends on what you need to do and how much of the drives contents you need to protect.

If you only want to protect a handful of files on your USB flash drive then it’s probably simplest to save them with a password. Programs like Word and Excel make it fairly easy to do this. Before saving your file, go to the Tools menu. Choose Options and then click on the Security tab. You’ll be given the option to enter a password to open the file. Although the box only asks you to enter the password once, you’ll be asked to type it in again before you can exit from the Options dialog box. But once you’ve done that, you’re on your own. So make sure you can remember the password otherwise you’ll have to resort to a program to recover passwords before you can open it again!
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Visual Basic 6 Round Error

I just hit an interesting error in VB6 today – it’s best described as a Visual Basic 6 round error.

I was trying to calculate a distance between two points. No problem there except I didn’t want to put something on a page that said “48.723569” miles. That would look dumb.

No problem, I thought, I’ll format the output using VB’s format command, giving the number string as “#####0.0”.

But for certain numbers, format in VB 6 kept giving me the answer 0.0. Not exactly what I was looking for…

No problem, I’ll use Round instead.

Same error. Some calculations worked, others got rounded to zero regardless… Continue reading →

Autoresponder Comparison

Before I start this autoresponder comparison, here’s a quick overview:

An autoresponder is an automatic email system. You can use it to follow up with customers who have expressed an interest in whatever it is you are offering. Or you can use it to send out a pre-written newsletter at intervals determined by you. Or you can use it to send a news broadcast to your contacts.

At its simplest, an autoresponder is a service for sending out emails without you having to remember to do it. You can split up your lists, so that people who contacted you about, say, weight loss don’t get sent messages about growing vegetables or whatever.

The better services also allow you to put in rules so that when a potential customer turns into a buyer, the list they are subscribed to is changed. So instead of getting messages asking them to buy a product, they get messages on how to get the most from it.

So which autoresponder should you use?

That’s what this autoresponder comparison is here to help with…

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What is Squidoo and How It Can Help Affiliate Sales

What is Squidoo?

Squidoo is a simple way to boost your affiliate sales.

It lets you create as many one page websites as you like. Each one is focused on a single topic – Squidoo call the web pages you create a “lens” because of this focus.

You are then free to do near enough whatever you like on your lens, including adding affiliate links into it. Continue reading →

Clickbank Affiliate Programs

Clickbank is probably the place most affiliates start and there’s certainly a wide choice of Clickbank affiliate programs.

You join once and can then promote any of the thousands of different programs they offer and treat yourself to a healthy slice of the profit every time you make a sale.

A typical commission at Clickbank is at least 50% of the retail price and can often go as high as 75%, which means you get at least as much as the person who produced the product in return for introducing a sale. Continue reading →