Giving and Getting
Here's a painless way to make more money for the causes that matter to you: GoodSearch.

Say it's founders: "GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. It's a simple and compelling concept. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it’s powered by Yahoo!, you get proven search results. The money GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers — the users and the organizations do not spend a dime!"

To use GoodSearch, go to the website (www.goodsearch.com). On the home page, select the charity or charities that are important to you from a list of thousands of participating organizations. Now, every time you use GoodSearch, and are exposed to advertisers messages, 50% of the revenue generated by GoodSearch will be shared among the participating charities, schools, and non-profit organizations - including yours.

GoodSearch suggests that a modestly supported organization (with 100 supporters) could net about $750/year, all the way up to a massively supported organization (with 10,000 supporters) at $75K/year.

To prevent abuse of the system, GoodSearch says, "Fraudulent searching includes, but is not limited to, repeated manual clicks, the use of use of robots or other automated query tools, etc. This will result in the user being blocked from the site and/or the charity being de-listed.

While not expressly prohibited, searches to URL’s (i.e., search terms ending in .com, .org, .net, .edu) as well as searches to sites for which the URL is well known such as HotMail, ESPN, MySpace, Facebook, GMail, AOL, etc. will not count toward a nonprofit’s total searches and revenue."

In other words, if you abuse the system, you hurt your charity.

The site uses the Yahoo! search engine to conduct its searches, and it costs you nothing to give it a try.

Deadlinks
I'm a bookmarker. When I find a site I like for whatever (usually temporary) reason, I bookmark it. Soon, I have a lot of bookmarks. Then I organize them into folders. Soon, I have a lot of folders. Then, I have no idea what's there any more and never go back to most of those sites - and many of my bookmarks will simply get old and die.

Here's a good way to check on your bookmarks or favorites, quickly and easily.

AM-DeadLink detects dead and duplicate links on your Internet browser bookmarks or favorites list. This freeware application works on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server and supports Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, and Firefox. You can even double check AM-DeadLink's results with the application's internal preview feature.

AM-Deadlink can check the following resources::
  • Internet Explorer Favorites
  • Firefox bookmarks
  • Opera bookmarks
  • Mozilla and Netscape bookmarks
  • URLs from tab delimited text files
  • URLs from comma separated text files
The download (from http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm) is quick and easy, and using the software couldn't be more simple. Select the browser whose bookmarks you wish to check, (you might have to select the bookmark file), and click on the green check mark in the tool bar. It's that simple. Now, delete or update the erroneous bookmarks. The program will check redirects and OK them for you.



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