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How To Pick Out a Good Domain Name And Where To Buy It

Are you interested in buying a new domain name? Great! But I bet you are concerned about what exactly is a good domain name!

A good domain name is easy to remember, easy to spell, brandable, reflects your nice/idea, and is fairly short. So picking out one it’s not the easiest thing to do. You should also think ahead, will your domain name suit you in the future as well?

Where To Start
There are several tools to help you out when you want help to pick out a domain name. At first, think about some keywords that can describe your website. If you only can think of one, maybe Thesaurus can help you on the way with similar and related words.

Domain Name Suggestions
When you have a couple of words to play with you can use tools like Bust A Name, PC Names and Nameboy. They are name generators and will come up with several domain names for you if you give them some keywords.
You can also go to JustDropped to check out domain names that has been recently deleted and available to anyone.

Where To Buy
There are many companies that offers domain name registrations. Be sure to compare them before you buy, not everyone offers the same features and the prices can vary a lot.
Some examples are: GoDaddy (if you are considering them, make sure you search for GoDaddy coupons as well before you buy, you can save a lot more with a coupon!), NameNova (that’s where I buy mine) and Namecheap.

I hope this helped you to get you started!

Thoughts Aside

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Rotate Your Avatar!

Have you ever wondered that some users avatars on forums changes each time the page reloads? Then you are not the only one. And no these users aren’t sitting by their control panel changing it all the time. They are using a PHP script to do it.

Bubs just posted her little PHP Avatar Rotation Script (there are many others out there) so if you want a rotating avatar, head over and read her instructions. Notice that it only works for forums that allow off-site avatars and if you have your own server to upload your PHP file on.

How to find out your TLA affiliate link

If you are a member of Text Link Ads you might want to put up a button or a text link with your affiliate link. But unfortunately TLA’s own JavaScript affiliate code doesn’t work everywhere. It didn’t work for me in WordPress.

So what I did was that I created a new HTML file, copied and pasted the affiliate code from TLA and then saved it on my computer. Then I opened the HTML file in a browser (Firefox), I right clicked the link and chose "Copy link location" (in Internet Explorer you can right click and then choose "Copy Shortcut"), and then I was ready to paste the real URL anywhere I wanted it to be.

But remember, the reason TLA use the JavaScript code is because to protect it from the almighty Google, since you can get slapped by them for selling links on your website.

Ashop Commerce - What is it?

If you want to start a shop online one of the first things you need to do is to find a shopping cart software. I don’t think you will succeed and have your business to grow if you don’t find shopping cart script or payment solution.

Ashop Commerce is a world-class provider that offers a shopping cart software that it easy for everyone to handle. You don’t have to know any programming to set it up or style it. You don’t have to worry about hosting since they can include that in your package too.
A great thing is that they offer a free online test drive and also a 10 Day Free trial of their shopping cart solution so you can test all it’s neat features.

They got 4 different plans, from Light for $39.95 a month (that can be good for a small business) to Ashop Plus for $189.95 a month for big businesses.

I think Ashop Commerce is the ultimate ecommerce solution for people that want to succeed with their online shop.

6 Favorite Gmail Scripts and Tools

Even if I kind of have a hate/love relationship with Google, I just can’t let go of Gmail. It’s the best free email service I have ever tried. And what makes Gmail even better are all those Greasemonkey scripts and tools for Firefox that makes the Gmail experience delicious. Here are my 5 favorite Gmail scripts and tools:

• Better Gmail 2 - A compilation of the best Greasemonkey enhancements for the NEW Gmail interface, compiled into one extension. If you are still using the old interface you might want to try Better Gmail 1.
• Gmail Manager - Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, etc. Quite useful if you have several Gmail accounts.
• Gmail Google Calendar sidebar - Adds a sidebar to Gmail that displays your upcoming events/appointments from Google Calendar. Useful for me since I add all my advertising expiration dates to the calendar so it’s good to see them instantly.
• Gmail Multiple Signatures - Inserts signature above any quoted messages and also applies different signatures for writing Gmail messages when different From: address is chosen. Since I have several websites and different emails for each, this is a huge time saver!
• Send To Gmail - With one click, you can back up any file you want from your computer to your Gmail account.
• GMail Real Estate - Don’t like the ads, navigation bar or the header? With this you can disable 3 of them.

Do you have any favorites?