Getting Donations For Your Blog (or Website).

This isn't exactly a freebie but it is a nice idea if you are so inclined!

Do you want to be able to accept donations on your website or blog? Well then all you have to do is sign up for a Paypal account at Paypal.com.

You will need to have a bank account - hopefully one that provides you with a debit card - otherwise you will need a credit card.

Once you have been accepted and are part of Paypal you can then get your html coding for adding a donation button. You copy and paste that html coding on your site where you want it to appear.

Once a visitor to your site decides to donate, they will click your donation button and donate either a set amount of money (specified by you) or they can donate any amount that they want! Once they have made the donation it will show up (almost instantly) in your Paypal account! Then you can have that amount transfered to your bank account or you can sign up for Paypal's debit card account where you will be able to use the money as soon as it shows up in your Paypal account.

*Please note that there will be a fee for money that is posted to your Paypal account!

Playlist.com

Just found another great website that offers something great!

With Playlist.com you can select songs and add them to your own customized playlist.

As far as I know this service is totally free.

Since I have just joined this service today I just have one song on my playlist - so far! I was thinking about having "silly" songs on my playlist because of all the flak that I am getting because of my BX Error Code Blog

Here is my current playlist:

You can find out more about Playlist.com by clicking the link below:

About Project Playlist

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Astrology Writer 1

I do have quite an interest in astrology and I found this program available as a free demo download.

Unfortunately I haven't had much success at being able to use this program. The version that I have seems to work in the DOS format and while that isn't too big of a problem, I still can't seem to be able to operate this program.

People have given this astrology program some very good reviews while others have said that the program is quite confusing to operate - and at this point I intend to agree with the later!



Update! - October 4, 2009

Well I have been looking around trying to find out a solution to the problem that I am having with this astrology program and so far it looks as though that since I have only downloaded a demo version of the program, it only shows what a chart will look like and its not possible to make a chart of your own in the demo version - darn!

Icons?

I am on the hunt for icons!

I have this program that lets me change the icons on my folders in my directory. (I would recommend it here but the program does have some problems associated with it).

I also have another program called Icon Viewer that lets me view the different icons that I have on my computer so that I can decide which one I want to associate a folder with. (I got it from one of the toy stores in a "discount" bin.)

But I find that I would like to have more and different icons so that I can have a lot to choose from when I want to associate them with different folders. I have gone to Download.com to find different icons but I'd like to actually see the icons so I can decide whether or not I want to download them.

So I'm on the hunt for some icons!

MicroSoft Comic Chat!

I LOVE this little chat program by Microsoft! Even though some people consider this chat program outdated there are still some that still use it today - including me!

Here is a link to a site that has the program and a list of related resources that are related to this chat program.

Neopets - It Used To Be One Of My Favorite Sites But......

I'm having problems with the Neopets site.

Just in case you don't know about it, the Neopets site is where you can create your own virtual pet. You have to keep an eye on them and feed them. You purchase food with your Neopet earnings and one of the ways that I used to earn Neopet money was to play some of the games where I would earn neopoints.

One of my favorite games was "Carnival Of Terror"

But for the past few days I haven't been able to play the game because every time I try to load it it takes forever! Plus I'm getting some kind of ads that is using all of my computer's cpm. Then my browser just freezes and I have to reload it.

So I'm not able to play the game.

9/26/08 Update!

By using a different browser, I'm now able to get back to playing my favorite Neopets game which is "Carnival Of Terror".

Plant Studio!

*I should preface this blog entry by saying that I'm not including pictures from the website because I don't want to infringe on their copyrighted material

Plant Studio is another 3D program that is specifically for creating plants. Here is a sample picture that I made today using this program. You can download this program for creating plants by clicking here.

The program comes with a sampling of plants already made but what is fun is that you can create plants from scratch. There are a series of questions the program will ask you about how you want your plant to look and then it will generate a plant for you. You can work with this plant or you can "breed" it and that will give you a lot of different versions of the plant and you can decide on which one you would like to work on.

After you finish constructing your plant you can then export it as a .dxf file and load it into your other 3D programs.

People have been creating a lot of interesting-looking plants with this program. But it's not just limited to plants. Shrubs, grasses and other-like objects have been created using this program too.

So have fun with it!

Scrabble

Like playing the game Scrabble? I do! Here is a link to a website that is offering a computer version of the Scrabble game that you can download in various languages.

I am honoring the website owner's request to link to his site and not directly link to the Scrabble game download link.

Have Fun!

A Free Objects Conversion Program To Download!

As you can probably tell from this blog I am a great fan of 3d!

I have several 3d programs that I have found online that do a whole as far as creating 3d graphics are concerned. However I did face a problem recently because I wanted to put one 3d model into another 3d program but I couldn't because the 2nd 3d program wouldn't except the .dxf format. I needed to convert my .dxf model to an .obj model.

There is a model conversion program that lets me do just that! It's called Crossroads and you can find out more information about this program by clicking here.

I tried out the program yesterday and it works just great!

Now I have to get to work on creating some stunning 3d artwork!

Sometimes it just doesn't work out...................

You can find free icons all over the internet and that was what I was looking for today! But for some reason I have just been having problems with the Internet tonight! There must be a lot of people on the internet or my connection must just be so slowwwwwwwwwww now!

I'm pretty sure that I'm also just trying to hard. For some reason I just HAD to have some new icons! But for right now it just is not "taking".

I'm sure I'll be able to find an abundance of them later - when I'm not trying so hard!

Programs that are only good for 30 days

I was looking for an alarm program so that I could post reminders to myself and those reminders would have a alarm that popped up on my computer screen. I found such a program on an old disk of mine that originally I got in one of those discounted prices bins at one of the stores.

I found the program on the disk and installed it. It seemed perfect. However subsequently I noticed that the program would only be good for 30 days. Now I don't have anything again such programs EXCEPT they should say that they are these types of programs - I believe the correct term is trialware.

If I would have known that this wasn't a freeware program then I certainly would not have installed it. Now I have to find another program like this - but not trialware or a demo program!

Feedreader

If you are a fan of blogs and have quite a few of them that you visit regularly then you might be interested in this free download called Feedreader. I currently have it but right now I am downloading the most recent current version of this program.

How this programs works is that if you find a blog that you like and want to know when new posts are added you can subscribe to the blog's feed (if they have one) by taking the url address of the blog's feed and pasting it to your Feedreader program. That way when you open the program it will automatically looked for updated content on the blogs that you have added.

Paint Shop Pro - Free Download?

While viewing one of the usenet newsgroups I saw that someone posted about free downloads of the current Paint Shop Pro graphics editing program. The latest version of Paint Shop Pro is over 130 MB's in size!

Unfortunately the person that posted this did not include a link to where the Paint Shop Program could be downloaded for free!

Free Download A Day Site

Free Download A Day

I just found out out this site today. It was included in one of my emails. I have just glanced over the site and haven't had a chance to really look at it but it seems to have a nice number of freely downloaded programs.

I also notice that they have a lot of free download programs for linux users as well.

The Internet Movie Database?

The Internet Movie Database (or IMDB for short) is a website that has a wealth of information about movies. You can find out almost anything about almost any movie from this website.

However I am a little disappointed because while the site has message boards and also gives you the option of adding your own synopsis and plotlines you must first "authenticate" your account by either giving them your credit card nomber or giving them your cellphone number - which I think is just too much to ask just to be able to have the priviledge of being able to post your opinions, etc.

Hover - Microsoft Game

Hover is a racing-type game that came with my Windows95 package. However I found out that you can still download this game and play it on almost all of the subsequent Windows operating systems. Here is a link to a site where you can find out more about this game and download it for free as well.

Hover Site

The game is available as a free download.

Google Earth

* There is a rule that Google images can't be posted to a site that has adsense on it so I'm putting a general picture of a globe here just to give you a general idea

Google Earth is a great website - or is it program? I didn't mention it before because I thought that one had to have a high-speed connection in order to use the program. But I found out from this discussion board that you can use a dial-up modem with Google Earth. Now some people say that they don't mind if it takes some time to actually use Google Earth because of their slower dial-up connection and some have been just too frustrated to continue to use it with their dial-up modem. But the general advice is to try it and see.

What is Google Earth? Google Earth is a free downloaded program that lets you "see the earth" - for lack of a better explanation. You can view the globe, view various locations and see maps of areas all around the world including your own neighborhood.

There is also a message board where people can post, ask and answer questions.

Once you start getting good at using the program you can make your own maps to send to others that have Google Earth installed so that they can see YOUR map(s). It even gets to be more fun because people have been making much more complicated maps that include everything from layers to overlays.

You can find download and find out more about Google Earth and the minimum system requirements that you have to have to install it by clicking the link below:

Download Google Earth

Would You Like To Share Your 3D Objects With The World? (And Earn Some Money Too?)

ShareCG is a site that will let you upload your own-created 3d objects so that you can share them with the world and let others be able to download your 3d objects! It doesn't cost you anything to sign up plus you get paid according to the number of times your 3d object page is viewed. You have to have a Paypal account in order to get paid

Free Astrology Program

Here is a link to a free astrology program called Astrolog

To see what kind of charts the program will make for you, you can see an example of Astrolog's chart by going to Rose's Astrology Page

My Blog Was Locked Over The Labor Day Weekend!

My blog was locked over the Labor Day Weekend but I'm glad to report that it is back now!

I also started a new blog called Philadelphia Native Blog. Originally this blog was supposed to be about me and the places and things I enjoyed in Philadelphia but somehow this blog turned into a blog talking about the free things that I have found on the internet.

So I started a new blog that will hopefully stay on the topic of Philadelphia and related stuff.

If not I'll just branch out and create another blog - LOL!