Yahoo 360

I'm sure that most of you have heard of Yahoo. It is a very popular search engine website. But did you know that you can have your own free webpage on Yahoo? Here is mine:

My Yahoo 360 Page

If you take a good look at my Yahoo page you will see that you can add a lot of stuff to it. Like MySpace.com, it lets you have a blog too. You can also create and add an avatar likeness of yourself to add to your site.

I have to confess that I don't know all of the options that you can add to your Yahoo 360 page because there are a lot of them!

So if you're looking for (yet another) place to have your own website for free then you should check out Yahoo 360!

Widgets!

My brother has told me that his latest discovery online is widgets! What are widgets? They are these little boxes of programs and/or information that you can put on your website or or your desktop. I have a few of them on my blog here. For example I have a Twitter widget box that lets you see an update on what I'm doing. I also have a little widget box on my blog that tells you the current weather conditions in my area which is the Philadelphia area.

Of course these aren't the only kind of widgets out there. There are many, many more of them! You can add a clock to your website or desktop, you can add interesting facts and information about almost any type of subject.

Google has a whole lot of widgets that you can choose from! And if you want to find more widgets all you have to do is use one of the popular search engines (like Google or Yahoo).

Basically having a widget means that you add some programming code to your website or blog. Each should have their own instructions on how you can add them to your desktop or website.

Want To Check Your Lottery Numbers Online?

I was checking my lottery ticket numbers online

(I only got 2 numbers by the way )

But just in case you want to check your Pennsylvania lottery ticket numbers (to see if you are the next millionaire
here is the link:

Pennsylvania Lottery Website

Good Luck!

Terragen

This little picture I made with a graphics program called Terragen. I think its short for terrain generator. This program is a free download from here. This free 3D program helps you to create landscapes and scenery. Since I did this picture in a rush you can see even with that you can create some gorgeous scenery pictures.

Like I said before this is a free 3D program that you can download from the link above.

With this program you can create different kinds of terrain and even give them preset materials like grass and snow and you can also create your own materials. You can also change the look of the clouds and the atmosphere - for example you can make your scene look hazy, misty or even have a "sunset" appearance added to it.

So there you have it! Another free download courtesy of the Internet!

Bryce 3D

The above picture is from a 3D program called Bryce. I was telling my brother about this 3D program because I was able to download it for free (minus the complicated registration process). As you can see in the picture above you can make landscapes, ocean terrains and 3D objects! Now I just made this picture on the sly because I wanted to show my brother what the Bryce 3D program can do. The sky, the ground and even the foilage are all things that you can change!

When I finished installing this program I played with it for hours! I had an older version that I still keep but in this new version are trees that you can manipulate into different 3D models. The editor that is included with this program is something to behold! I can make grass that looks like stuff other than grass, I can give it different colors, different depths..................

Since Bryce is a great 3D program you can bet that it is kind of expensive and the reason I got the free download is because they are hoping that I like the program enough to buy the Bryce 6 program which costs over $100.

Need Help With Your Adsense Page?

I have just started a new website because of all the people asking about Google's Adsense program.

Adsense Help

I have just started this page but since there are so many people having so many problems with Adsense, this page will surely grow in no time!

My Other Blog!

My other blog is at MySpace.com

http://blog.myspace.com/sister2brother

Things are getting a little bit complicated so I'm going to use this blog for talking about things on the Internet - including websites and free downloads and such and the MySpace blog I'll use as a personal blog.

Well, we'll see how this works out.........................

MySpace - Part 2

I posted previously about Myspace.com. Here is a link to that post:

Previous Post About Myspace

Since then I have created my own Myspace page:

My MySpace Page!

I was watching Nightline and they were doing a story about MySpace. Two guys thought it up and then it became this global phenomanon(sp?). MySpace is in over 14 different countries and in a number of different languages. The two guys sold it for $600 Million Dollars! and from the Nightline story they are still working there.

The main thrust of the story was about how popular MySpace is. It started out as a social networking place and then the music bands got in on it to promote their music. Soon filmakers both new and experienced jumped in on the bandwagon and even the movie "Pirates of the Carribean" had a MySpace Page! The number of Myspace members has grown to 175 Million people! Now the politicians are getting in on the act by having their own MySpace page.

MySpace means exactly that - you get to have your space on the Internet. You get to have your own webpage and the best thing about it is that it is free! If you go and take a look at my MySpace page it will give you an idea as to what kind of page you can make. Some of them are very sophisticated but there's also a website where you can pick a layout and make it your own. Once you finished your page you can look around at other people's pages and ask them to be your "friend" and they will be added to your list of friends on your MySpace page.

Now you may wonder why would you want a MySpace page and the reason why most people have one is because it's fun. You get to have your own webpage (and blog), put on it almost anything you like including music and video clips - all told it's just like having your own space on the Internet!

So if you're looking for a site where you can make your own webpage for free (plus have a free blog) then a good place for you to start would be with

MySpace"

Twitter.com

Just found another interesting website called Twitter.com. Basically what it is a website where you can post what you're doing and when you're doing it. That way you can let people know what you are doing and when you are doing it. Besides updating what you're doing to the website you can also update it via your cellphone and/or your IM service. I haven't tried that yet as I just found out about the website and just posted one message.

It does fit in with the original intention that I had for this blog which was to let my brother know what I was doing and what was going on here in Philadelphia.

So far I see that a lot of people are using this site to let others know about what they are doing. Of course some people are using it for other things other than what the site was intended for but a lot of the people are posting their updates.

I know it may seem like a novelty kind of thing but I thought it was pretty interesting and let's see how long I can keep this up.

It is a pretty good idea for being able to keep track of another person.

8/28/08 Update! - Twitter Suspended Accounts!

It is quite possible that you might get your Twitter.com account suspended! I got an email saying that someone was "following" me on Twitter and when I went to check out their Twitter.com page the site said that the account was suspended! Here is an excerpt from the Twitter.com site:

"A Twitter account may be suspended for a variety of reasons. The most common of which is automated mass following or other types of spammy behavior."

You can find out more about this by clicking here.

8/6/08 Update! - If you belong to Twitter.com then you should definitely ead this blog post about a kind of spam-related link targeted towards Twitter users!

It seems that there are links provided in some Twitter messages that if you click on them will lead you to an adult-related site that you have to pay for in order to look at the adult pictures!

So Be Careful Out There!

Like My Blog?

I like my blog. I have a lot of fun posting to my blog. And since I started it with the purpose of letting my brother know how things were going in my neck of the woods, I'm sort of having fun posting to my blog. Of course I'm not alone. There are probably hundreds of thousands of people that have a blog. A lot of people use their blog just like an offline version of a regular diary. Some have a more serious theme to their blog. I believe the whole blogging thing started as just another fun thing to do on the Internet. But then businesses started having blogs and now the current thing seems to be about people making money with their blogs. So I guess that it really should be a surprise that now the law is getting involved! Here is a link to an article called:

12 US Laws That Every Blogger Should Know

I believe that everybody that has a blog should read this article!