The money generated by blogs typically comes from three sources: Ad revenue from affiliate marketing, ad banners, and pay-per-click advertisers. Sales of services such as webinars or speaking engagements. Sales of products like ebooks or some other tangible item you have developed. Advertising Revenue Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing is currently the most popular revenue source among bloggers, but there are several forms of advertising. According to Daniel Sharkov of Reviewz ‘N’ Tips, “Affiliate marketing is whenever you promote some sort of product or a service and in exchange you are paid a percentage of its price once you make a sale....

To hide long and complicated Web addresses, you can mask the address with one that is shorter and more attractive. This feature can also be useful when you have multiple websites on the same Web space or you’re using free hosting services, but don’t want your visitors to know that. Website address masking means you can provide your customers and friends a short URL that will direct them to a third-party website without them realizing that they left yours....

Partitioning a Mac hard drive means to split the hard drive into two or more separate drives. A partitioned hard drive can be handy for running two operating systems on one Mac, like running Mac OS X on one and Windows on another. However, it also means the overall size of both hard drives will be smaller. In order to restore the hard drives to their original singular form you have to merge them together....

Toolbars are rows of icons that run across the top or side of programs in the Windows operating system. For example, your Web browser toolbar has your “Refresh” and “Back” buttons, among others. Minimizing toolbars must occur within the main program window, but often is accomplished in one of a few similar ways, no matter what program you’re actually using. Writer Bio

While Windows users can access 7z files by using the format’s native decompression utility 7-Zip, the program lacks an official Mac release. Apple aficionados need not despair, however: The 7z format can be opened by a bevy of compression apps on OS X, most of which are free. In addition to decompressing these files, these apps can also compress files on your Mac into a 7z file, as well as opening other archive formats....

Files with the extension “docx” are a new format for the Microsoft Word documents that has been designed to improve the file size reduction. The latest Microsoft Word was released as a part Microsoft Office 2007 and is popular word-processing software for creating, editing and printing documents. Microsoft Word versions prior to Office 2007 cannot open “docx” format files. Writer Bio

Making a three-way call using a Virgin Mobile phone is helpful if you need to have a quick business meeting or share information that you must relay to multiple friends simultaneously. Thanks to the easy-to-understand plans and phones offered by Virgin Mobile, the process to establish a three-way call is similar on all phones, and it is also similar to the process used on traditional landline phones. Once a three-way call is started, it can be ended by whoever initiated it, simply by hanging up the phone....

Windows 7 comes equipped with the Windows Media Player application. Windows Media Player is used to play a variety of music and video files. Although you will need a DVD player installed in your computer to play a DVD movie, most modern systems come equipped with them as a standard feature. Windows Media Player will automatically play DVDs on your computer’s monitor.

To play PS2, or any console, on a laptop, you must have an emulator. An emulator is computer software mimics the video game console and allows the user to play various games of that console through roms, which is a backup file of the game, or by using the actual game CDs and putting them into the CD drive. Writer Bio

If you want to play VHS tapes from the United Kingdom on tape players in the United States, first you must know that the analog video format in the U.S. is different than that in the UK. The U.S. uses the NTSC standard, while the UK uses the PAL standard. VHS tapes that were recorded in the PAL format will not play on standard VHS players in U.S. unless the video signal is converted....

Number porting is regulated by the FCC and gives you the freedom to keep your wireless number even if you switch service providers. Moving from AT&T Wireless to T-Mobile can be accomplished in a few easy steps. T-Mobile will need some basic account information from you to initiate and complete the port. Your AT&T phone is not compatible with T-Mobile service unless it has been unlocked, so in most cases you will need a new phone....

Updated July 21, 2017 Look at how many available presets are found on your radio. Each model has a different number of available presets. For example, the Sportster and Starmate often have 30 preset stations while older models have 20 or fewer. Plan out the preset stations that you want to add to the radio. Before you set the stations get an idea in your head of what stations that you want set for quick access....

Handwritten notes are special, but it is both time-consuming and tiring to address note cards to a large number of people. This task may be even less exciting to those who are unable to write with fanciful fonts. Fortunately, it is possible to print note cards on a computer with a text editing program, such as Notepad. Notepad includes templates that you can select for your note cards. It also contains decorative fonts that you can use to address the cards....

Toshiba external hard drives provide a convenient way to carry large amounts of data for use anywhere on any computer. Similar to a flash drive, a Toshiba external drive can be plugged in to the USB port of a computer to access and transfer the data it contains. You can store any digital file including images, music, videos, spreadsheets or anything else. Though this is convenient, it can pose a security threat....

Reblog Icon Log in to your Tumblr Dashboard, and then locate the post to reblog in your timeline. Click the “Reblog” icon in the bottom of the post. The Reblog form opens. Type your additional content in the text blox, and then click the “Reblog Post” button to publish the post. Permalink Reblog Log in to your Tumblr Dashboard, and then locate the post to reblog in your timeline. Click the “Share” icon in the bottom toolbar in the post to open the Share menu....

Flat-screens have been dominating the TV marketplace for several years now. As a result, companies and individuals are constantly coming up with new ways to display them. The traditional TV stand gave way to wall mounting, and now some people are choosing to recess the panel inside the wall. The result is a sleek modern look that makes the display appear to be part of the wall itself. This is also a great way to display a flat panel in an environment where you’re trying to conserve space....

Writing on the computer would be quicker if it could understand and record spoken words. Nuance Incorporated has created software under the brand name “Dragon” designed specifically for speech-to-text conversion. Speech recognition software allows spoken words to be written into a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, and takes a quarter of the time compared to typing. Tips Writer Bio

Your wireless Internet password is the encrypted security pass phrase that was set up when you installed your wireless router. Your router allows you to access the Internet. If you have access to more than one wireless network, you may need to remember multiple passwords. If you happen to forget one password, you have two options: reset your password or locate the current password. Windows 7 allows you to view the security characters of all your wireless network passwords....

Updated September 15, 2017 Launch the Keychain Access program. On the Mac’s main hard drive, double-click the “Applications” folder, then the “Utilities” folder, then the “Keychain Access” icon. Click on “Passwords” in the left column of the Keychain Access program’s main screen. Click the “Name” column at the top left of the Keychain Access program’s main screen. This will alphabetize the list of names. Scroll down the list until you come to “Excel....

Innovera toner cartridges can be good replacements for name brand cartridges but when that cartridge reaches the end of its useful life, you should not simply toss it out with the trash. The powder used in toner cartridges can be harmful if it enters the environment, so taking the time to recycle the cartridge is important. As a printer owner, you have a number of options for recycling your used Innovera toner cartridge....