It’s really been too long since I updated this blog! A few topics have been swarming around in my head, though not really relevant to what I’ve been talking about on this blog…. On the other hand, I suppose a few might be able to fit.

A few topics I’ve been contemplating:

• True Success
• Which Life?
• Family or Finance
• The Successful Mindset
• Easy, or Hard?

… Just to name a few.

I’ll make some posts on these over the next week or two… I’d love to hear some feedback on these posts too!

This one made me laugh….

You’ve pretty likely heard of stumbleupon. It’s a great social bookmarking tool that helps you stumble across cool webpages. If you haven’t signed up Go Ahead And Do It.

Now, down to Business. These are some things that I really want to remind people of when using StumbleUpon.

1. There is a thumbs up, and a thumbs down.

Ok, I’m all for giving somebody a thumbs up, but I’m also all for giving them a thumbs down. If you don’t like what you see, tell stumbleupon so! This can also help to keep other people from seeing it… if it’s really garbage, don’t let SU get cluttered!

2. Report sites.

In the tools menu there’s a little option called “Report Last Stumble“. Use it. “Last Stumble” means your most recent stumble. If you happen to hit the “Stumble!” button before reporting, just go to the review page of the site and there’s a flagging option down in the sidebar.

3. Tag and review.

There’s two options in your toolbar that you probably don’t use a lot of. Tag and review are made for if you really really liked the page, or if you thought it should have a bit more broad of reach or whatever. You can leave negative reviews, and sometimes these can be helpful, so go ahead and do so. If you think the site deserves more reach, give it extra tags! It’ll reach more people that way.

4. StumbleThru

There’s a little icon up there with a couple of arrows that you can use to stumble through certain websites. If you’re in the mood for video, but don’t want to use their Stumble Video function, here’s an option! There’s YouTube and Metacafe in there.

5. Channels

There’s a menu on your toolbar that, right now probably says “All” on it. This is a really handy feature actually; it lets you stumble within certain interests. So basically, if you’re in the mood for canoeing, you can just stumble through that.

6. Groups

This has nothing to do with the toolbar really, but groups are a great way to interact with people. Basically like StumbleUpon’s version of forums.

(Thanks Karl!)Bonus Tip: Search

If you click that “All” tab again, you’ll notice there’s a “Search…” option. Use that for stumbling withing specific tags; It’s a handy alternative to the stumble categories.

Alright, that’s everything. Now, go out and enjoy your stumbleupon experience!

Just a quick intro here, then on to the downloads.

Here’s the downloads I’ve been collecting for you. They’re all hand-picked and should be useful for you (They certainly were for me!). Go ahead and download them and use them. They all come with Master Resale Rights, or give away rights, so you can either sell them or give them away. Take a look inside to get the full details on the rights to them (don’t want to bore you here!).

That’s all I’ve really got to say about them, so, without further delay, I introduce you to your downloads.

(PDF) 89 Delicious Coffee Recipes
I LOVE coffee! And not only that but I also love trying it different ways. So, here’s a gift to you. Try a few and see how you like them.

(PDF) 7 Ways To Get More For Your Money In The New Economy
Really practical guide on how to get a bargain. If you want to save on your latest grocery bill, start with this guide!

(EXE) Instant Blog Traffic
A Step-By-Step Video guide on how to get traffic. I’ve always loved Louis Allport’s video’s, and this is a really great one for bloggers.

(PDF) Encyclopedia Of Online Advertising 1 and 2
With a rating from 1 to 5, These two guides spell out what works and what doesn’t. It describes what pitfalls to watch out for too.

If you’re having trouble downloading, just go Here and you should be able to download them there.

Hi there…

This is a real “Uncategorized” Post. I’m just going to yammer on a little and see how you’re doing

How are you? Hope you’re doing as great as I am. It’s been an interesting week for me so that’s why my posts have been a little bit spaced Really sorry about that though… I’ve been feeling about as uncreative as it gets towards blogs posts. On the other hand, I’ve been doing a lot of php scripting to make up for it

Stay tuned for a few days, because I’m going to be posting some Free downloads for you to use at your pleasure Just a few resources that have helped me along the way. You’ll be able to download them, read them, use them, sell them and (if you decide they’re not for you) delete them. So, keep watching.

And to conclude the post, Have a great day! There never was a better day to live than the one you’re in.

-Zech

ok, this is basically a tutorial. I’m just going to demonstrate how easy it is to get this “Web 2.0″ style.

This is the gimp, but it shouldn’t be much harder in photoshop(heck, I bet you could do it in paint if you wanted to!)

ok, so let’s make a new image.

Then we’ll fill it with whatever background color we want (I’ll use black because it matches my theme)

Now we’ll add some text just for effect.

Now comes the web 2.0 part. There’s a few different styles, so I’ll go through them right quick.

Make a new layer. Layers > New Layer make the height half the height of the image.

Now here’s the styles you can do:

Quick And Easy
Gradient
Curved

As you can see, all of the buttons simply require lowering the opacity to create an illusion of depth.

Yep, that’s everything!

Comment if you want

-Zech

Here’s a quick post about a kind of interesting editor I found. I’m not quite sure why I like it, but it just hit me as a really cool resource

http://htmledit.squarefree.com/

“The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.”
–Mark Caine

Wait a minute… that’s what I do!

Success quotes always range from one to the next. One says you have to take risks, the other says you have to be smart. One says you have to focus on one project, and another says you have to have multiple projects going! What is the secret to success?

Let’s just think for a minute. Success can happen to some of the most focused or scatter-brained… So it must not really have anything to do with it! Then it can also happen to the risk taker, and the conservative. There must be something different that applies to success.

From all of the information I’ve gathered, and all of the sources I’ve seen, there’s just a few ingredients to success.

You need to be persistent, you need to be open minded and willing to learn and implement, you need to be patient, and you need to be bold.

Otherwise, there’s more that I can’t think of.

Comment with your thoughts.

-Zech

There’s a lot of different techniques out there for doing math calculations… other than the one’s we use. I just found this one and thought it was one of the most ineresting I’d found… really quick too.

This is pretty interesting… Might be kind of cool if you could just mount one of these in front of you like a book