Why you shouldn't care if your site looks good in Internet Explorer 6 or not

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/XvSj9)
Oh yes, I said it, good old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Don't you just love that this obsolete browser is not only still around but that people are still actually using it? Fortunately, I do have some good news for you about why you really shouldn't care whether or not Internet Explorer 6 renders your site properly or not.

Even though the crappy browser is still being used, it's not being used by individuals per say, but by Government and other networked entities that still use the old Windows framework to keep all their systems networked.

The reason why this is good is because Government and private employees are not supposed to be browsing websites unrelated to getting their work done anyway. This means the likely hood of your website even being seen by this small percentage of people is pretty slim to begin with.

Even individuals of third world Countries aren't using Internet Explorer 6 anymore. It's so easy for individuals to upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer, but like I said before, it' not so easy for a Government entity that is still using the old Windows network to get so easily upgraded.

A large majority of us hate Internet Explorer 6 and the entire series of Internet Explorer browsers in general because of their strict conformance rules on w3c css and such anyway. One of my biggest pet peeves about Internet Explorer in general, even though it's still the super power when it comes to Internet browsers, is the fact that they still haven't conformed with the border-radius css rule that automatically rounds all corners to make your site look really cool without images.

Anyway, back to my point. I would only focus your efforts on making sure your sites work in the latest and greatest browsers and totally forget about Internet Explorer 6 all together. It's just not worth the time for the low amount of traffic you'll get from that particular browser.

Freddie Hubbard with Jazz Messengers on A La Mode

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If you haven't heard this energetic Freddie Hubbard trumpet solo yet you're in for a real treat. Freddie Hubbard plays a lot of good minor Jazz licks in this solo with a few good licks that are definitely worth learning. I also like how Freddie Hubbard really gets into his solos and takes the mouthpiece off his lips to break his solos up a little bit.

Apparently this video was taken back in 1984 with the Art Blakey Jazz Messengers in Tokyo Japan. The tune is A La Mode.

Is PeopleString the latest social network fad or is it here to last?

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/7pidZ)
If you are a member of a lot of Safelists as I am, you've probably been hearing and seeing a whole lot of news about People String lately. A kind of new social network medium that allows you free ways to earn as well as connect with other people online. In my opinion People String isn't much to brag about, but since it's free to join, it's worth signing up and giving it a try. This is just my opinion though.

At the current moment People String does have one upgrade option for your membership. It's $200.00 and looks like a big rip off to me. You get an e-mail account that you can get for free elsewhere and you can earn off of other paid referrals. Totally looks stupid and I would never upgrade my account and ask you to do the same as me. That $200.00 would be a complete waste of money as there are more profitable ventures out there to take advantage of.

I signed up about a week ago and got a 3 cent sign up bonus.  I don't know why I got the sign up bonus, but none the less I did. I've heard some people claim that they've gotten sign up bonuses of up to $1.50. That didn't happen for me, but could happen to you. People String doesn't promote a sign up bonus on their marketing pages, so I don't know why I got the bonus to begin with. But I'll take what I can get, you know what I'm saying?

As far as I can see People String works kind of like FaceBook as you can grow your network and chat with friends of yours. You can set up a lengthy profile, which I probably won't because I would rather build my FaceBook network than People Strings because FaceBook isn't based off earning money and has already established a good name for themselves.

People String is supposed to give you paid e-mails and like I said, I've been a member now for over a week and have yet to receive any paid e-mails in my inbox. So, at the current moment I've earned 3 cents and that's it.

So to get to the answer to the title of this blog post.

Is PeopleString the latest social network fad, or is it here to stay?

The answer is simple to me. It's a fad, you're hearing all about it now because it's new, but later on, a few months later you won't be hearing about it all too much because there are a whole lot of people out there that are too smart to upgrade their account for an outrageous $200.00. That's the bottom line, it's over priced and you can get more by promoting your FaceBook profile than you could promoting People String earning pennies for all your hard work.

**Disclaimer - An affiliate link is used in this post.

How to stop affiliates from scamming your affiliate program

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/GNmsu)
You know, it's funny, before I owned my own affiliate program I was always concerned about the affiliate program being a scam. Now I'm finding out through trial and error that there sure are a lot of the affiliates out there that will do anything and everything in their abilities to scam affiliate programs. It's kind of ironic, isn't though?

How do they scam affiliate programs?

Well, the easiest way for them to do so is by owning multiple e-mail addresses and knowing how to manipulate IP addresses so it looks like they are signing up a new unique individual each time when they really are the same person. It's usually someone who doesn't have a real stake in the affiliate program with nothing to lose.

Don't believe me? Here is an example affiliate program scammer I recently caught signing up multiple accounts in my affiliate program under multiple affiliates.

You'll notice how similar the e-mail addresses are and also the IP addresses a very similar. This is a sign of an affiliate scammer in your mist.



Let me quickly go over some affiliate program essentials that you should have to protect yourself against fraudulent sign ups online.

• A confirmation link in initial sign up e-mail to confirm affiliate accounts so they don't use someone else's e-mail address.


• Require the affiliate to manually log into their account before they are approved.


• Manually approve all affiliates so you can check for any fraudulent activity.


• Make sure your affiliate program checks for unique IP addresses


• Look for similar names when someone signs up, could be a sign of the same user signing up multiple times.


• Make sure your affiliate program can quickly and easily manage and check through all affiliate sign ups for duplicates because sometimes you'll miss some.


• Affiliates that sign up with weird names that don't make sense like (bat man, super man, spider man) these are probably scammers.


• Building a relationship with your top producers is a good idea because these are the ones most likely to sign up the most fraudulent sign ups at times.


• Requiring your affiliate program to accept e-mails as user names is a good idea because that way only one unique e-mail address per affiliate can be used.


• Make sure the terms and conditions of your affiliate program note that fraudulent sign ups will be deleted and that all affiliate sign ups are approved according to your terms that the affiliates must follow in order to be accepted.

Your affiliate program might not need all these safety credentials if you don't offer any incentives for affiliates signing up, but if you do, then it is a smart idea to protect your affiliate program from scamming affiliates.

I use Post Affiliate Pro 4 to manage my affiliate program. Don't worry, I don't have a Post Affiliate Pro affiliate link to promote them. I am a real customer of them and they are who I use. I chose them because I knew designing my own affiliate program from scratch would take forever and that I would have a whole bunch of security loop holes I would have to learn the hard way without them.

After discovering how many affiliate scammers there really are out there, I am proud to say I really did make the right decision to go with a professional service. Otherwise my affiliate program would probably be out of business by now with all the fake sign ups I would've had to have paid by now.

Enjoy Bingo? Then you'll like these free deposit bonuses

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/11/enjoy-bingo-then-youll-like-these-free-deposit-bonuses/)
I'm not really big into gambling online or playing any kind of Casino stuff, but I ran into a couple of online bingo sites that will give you a sign up bonus just for joining. On top of the free sign up bonus, you'll also have the ability to get a percentage of your initial deposit back.

If you're into gambling online, this is for you. If you're like me on the other hand, you're probably going to want to just take advantage of the free affiliate programs these two gaming sites have to offer. You will have the ability to earn up to 50% of what your referred customers spend on the gambling sites along with an option to do CPA earnings only. Nothing too complicated, but I thought I should at least let you know.

Let's start off with 123 Bingo Online. You'll get a $25.00 sign up bonus just for joining and can earn up to a huge 1,000% return on your first deposit. I think that sounds kind of outrageous in my opinion. Like I said before, I'm not into gambling online, so I don't know how legit these two site really are. Make sure to do your due diligence before putting any money into them.

The next gambling bingo bonus site is Bingo Flash. With Bingo Flash you'll get a $20.00 sign up bonus just for joining and up to 250% return on your first deposit with them. I know it is a whole lot less compared to 123 Bingo Online, but you're probably going to lose all that money to gambling anyway.

Sign up with both of these gambling bingo bonus sites and make at a minimum, $45.00 of free money you can gamble away online.

Signupandmakemoney now has best, OK, and worse categories for sign up bonus sites

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/q24fv)
Thanks to a member of Signupandmakemoney named Arslan, the site now has best, OK, and worse categories set up for all the sign up bonus lists and all other main lists of the site.

Arslan contacted me with a recommended site I should add to Signupandmakemoney, but on top of that, he recommended I should categorize all the sign up bonus sites in best, scam, not so good, etc... He recommended I use a scale from 1-5.

After taking some time to think of the best way to categorize all the sign up bonus sites and other sites listed at Sign Up and Make Money, I came to the final conclusion that the best way to categorize everything would be to put all the sites into sites that I think are the best to sign up on, then sites that are OK to sign up on and still have potential, to finally including sites that I think are the worst to sign up on and you'll probably make the least amount of money with.

Of course these are all my hard headed opinions. If you are the owner of one of these sites or have been paid multiple times by one of these sites and can vouch for them that they are indeed in the wrong category, please contact me right away and I will reconsider where I listed the site.

I most definitely am probably wrong on a lot of the categories I chose for sites. That is why I would love the opinions of others as whether or not the sites have paid you, or even worse, if the sites haven't paid you and have been prolonging payment to you for some time now. It would be really nice to know this information.

I really want Signupandmakemoney.com to be the best resource for sign up bonus sites online now and forever. The only way this can be accomplished is through a community effort. All your opinions are greatly appreciated and can also be submitted at the sign up bonus forum as well.

An arpeggio exercise that will develop your augmented triads

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I know this arpeggio exercise doesn't look like much. But if you practice it enough and get it down in 12 keys both up and down the augmented triad, it will help you develop your use of the augmented triad within in your own improvised Jazz solos. This post falls within the whole tone category because augmented triads are part of the whole tone scale.

You'll be able to play the augmented triad starting on any note within your Jazz solo. As we all know, augmented triads sound great and make good use of leading your solo into the next chord change.



Here is a sound sample/demonstration on trumpet:

How to work on this exercise to learn it in 12 keys:

As you can see in the above example, you simply start on the raised 5th of whatever triad you are starting on. It doesn't matter which note you start on, because you'll want to get used to starting off the exercise on different notes to develop your overall technique. If you look closely, there are only 4 augmented arpeggios you are working on. They just start on different notes as you go through the exercise.

From there, you'll see that the exercise simply alternates up and down in half steps. You can change it up a little bit and do whole steps if you get tired of half steps, it's entirely up to you.

If you decide to learn the exercise in half steps like I prefer, then all you have to do is go up a half step from G# to A and do the same exercise up a half step all over again. Now you'll hit all 12 keys and have alternated both up and down for every key.

Now when you take your next Jazz solo, or play your next Aebersold, you'll want to attempt to bust an augmented arpeggio out somewhere. Preferably over a V7 chord go to a I chord. It works in as many places as your imagination can conjure up.