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From time-to-time, I will be writing about genuine website where you can make money online. You can browse those articles by clicking on the Category section called “make money”

Today, I am going to tell about a site that pays for reading emails. There are ‘n’ number of scam sites that say that they pay for reading emails, but they don’t. I have tried a lot, but it is the only site where I got the payment. It is Hits4Pay. You will get two to five mails per day and they pay 2 cents per mail. Minimum payout is a bit high, $25, but it is easy to reach if you have referral down line. Whenever there are new mails, they will inform you through the mail. So, while checking your mails, you can open it in another window and browse through all the mails making money for you.

It took six month for me to reach the $25 without a single referral. If you can spend time on promoting it, you can easily get referrals and they pay 1 cent for every mail that your referral reads.

Click here to register and get a $10 sign-up bonus, so you need to make only $15 to get your first cheque. It accepts Indians. You can choose to get the payment through the cheque or Paypal.

Here is a payment screenshot:

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I have just come across the news that iPhone in India will also be available through the Airtel. Few days ago, news has come that iPhone will be launched through the Vodafone network and I was a bit sad because here in AP, Vodafone network is not as good as Airtel. Most of the time, I hear the “network busy” or “user not reachable” voices when I try to call the Vodafone users. Airtel is planning to release it around Deepavali. I also heard that Airtel is going to release it before the Vodafone. If Airtel allows its old subscribers to change over to the new iPhone, I am thinking to take one. Otherwise, I have to wait till it is available in the market with the option to use any GSM SIM.

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If you are using Wordpress for your blog, you might have already come across the name “Kaushal Sheth” when searching for free Wordpress templates. Have you noticed the recent theme, Tick Tock Green, from him? I like it and looks very nice. You can also hire him if you need a custom theme.

I have com across a recent post by him on web hosting and seen that KS has rated Host Monster, Host Gator, and Yahoo Host as the best hosts. I have never used these web hosts. I have been using Dream Host for the last two-and-a-half years and I am happy with their service. I think one cannot expect 100% uptime from a shared hosting seller and I see 1-10 mins downtime with Dream Host once in a quarter or so. I see that lot of hosting companies guaranteeing 99.5% to 99.9% uptime and never 100%.

If you are using above hosts, just let me know how they are working for you and have you noticed any downtime with them. Already KS has given #1 rating to Host Monster.

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Today, I am going to share my favorite “bookmarked” Wordpress themes that look like CMS/Magazine. I wanted to make a post with all my favorite themes and came with this post.

My favorite theme maker is Justin. He has more number of magazine-style themes to his credit than any other theme maker and I often visit his blog to see if he has released any new. He is so kind and releases premium Wordpress themes for free.

If somebody asks me to select the top one from my list, I would select Mimbo by Darren. He also has a list of good tutorials to customize the Wordpress.

1. Mimbo by Darren Hoyt | Demo | Theme Info & Download

2. Options by Justin Tadlock | Demo | Theme Info & Download

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Here is a list of bookmarking sites with high pagerank, which I got at DigitalPoint forums. Submitting your site link to these sites can give you boost in your pagerank in next Google’s pagerank update.

http://www.furl.net/ - Another PR 8 bookmarking site also free
http://www.backflip.com/dir_start.ihtml - PR 7 book marking site
http://www.blinklist.com/ - PR 5 book marking and its free
http://www.blogmemes.net/ - PR 5 and it’s free
http://jots.com/- PR 6 a directory like bookmarking service and it’s free
http://www.linkroll.com/ - PR 6
http://www.looklater.com/ - PR 5
http://ma.gnolia.com/ - PR 5
http://www.maple.nu/ - PR 4
http://www.markaboo.com/ - PR 3
http://www.rawsugar.com/search/ - PR 6
http://www.shadows.com/ - PR 7
http://simpy.com/ - PR 4
http://www.spurl.net/ - PR 6
http://wink.com/ - PR 6
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ - A PR 7 bookmarking service with good reputation
http://www.kaboodle.com/ - PR 7 nice bookmarking site
http://www.clipmarks.com/ - PR 4

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These days, I have been experimenting with making money from Internet and found success with few. So, I will let you know one by one. Already, I have posted one offer - Ziddu.

This post is about making money from your blog. Recently, I have tried Smorty, a new blog advertising service, which pays for reviewing the products/services/websites of advertisers. Smorty paid within a week after I wrote a review.

What are the requirements?
If you have an active three months or older blog and it is indexed in Google and Yahoo, you can sign-up with Smorty. Once you are approved, you can log into your account and accept the offers from a list of offers available. They will also mail you whenever new campaigns are added. Being a PR4 blog with an Alexa Rank of 15L, I have got offers up to $16.

How much I can make?
The minimum pay per review is $6 and if you have a good Smorty score, you can get offers up to $100 per post. Smorty score will be calculated based on numerous factors like Google PR, Alexa rank, number of completed reviews, and approval/decline ratio of completed tasks. Smorty pays only through PayPal at this time, so you will need to have one to get the payment.

Smorty is one of the best services to get paid for blogging. I highly recommend it.

Read the program FAQs and Rules before signing up.

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Ziddu is a new and rapid growing file sharing site, which pays you to share upload and share files. With its decent interface and great features, soon it will become competitor for other file sharing sites. Some of the features that attracted me are:

• No obtrusive ads
• Clean and intuitive user interface
• Parallel downloads with no waiting tickets
• Ability to create photo albums, audio and video libraries
• Decent speed.  You can check it by downloading sample files: Regseeker (0.5 MB) | Wallpaper (1.6 MB)

Ziddu pays $1 for every 1000 downloads. In some forums, I have seen that files are downloaded more than 20k times due to its huge user base. So, they can easily earn $20 per file. Once you reach the minimum payout of $10, you will be paid through Paypal.

It is great to know that Ziddu has been developed by the Hyderabad-based Northgate Technologies.

So, today onwards share files only on Ziddu – Upload, share, and earn.

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This week I have updated my Real Player to the latest Real Player v.11 and I am very impressed with it’s glossy look and amazing features. One of the interesting features is downloading the streaming videos on the web with one click.

In my previous posts, I explained about various tricks to download videos from YouTube, LiveLeak etc using Greasemonkey scripts. You might have also seen that there are lot of sites that help you to download the streaming videos into your system.

Now forget about all these tricks and sites, and install Real Player Version 11, which is available on the Real Player’s website here (Free Version). Get it, install it, and restart your system. Now, whenever you mouse over on a streaming content, you will see a link to download it with Real Player download manager. Without installing any script or software, now you can download videos from MySpace, Metacafe, Blip.tv, YouTube, Google Video, and almost all video streaming websites.

It has inbuilt download manager that shows you the progress of downloading and also lets you pause and resume the downloads.

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