Sites That Pay You To Blog(Part 3)

The list continues

• BlogverTise

  Once approved, your blog goes into the assignment queue. The blogsvertise administrator then assigns writing tasks for what our advertisers want you to mention in your blog.

• BOTW Media

 If you are an experienced writer and/or an avid blogger, can write passionately about a topic, and enjoys working as part of a group, you may be a good candidate for a BOTW Media author.

• Creative Weblogging

   Anyone can start using CREAMaid by inserting a CREAMaid Conversation widget inside her post. (more info) Your post will most likely be selected as long as you abide by these rules. Once selected, your post will be syndicated to all the participating posts through their embedded Conversation widgets. When your post is selected, you will be able to instantly collect a royalty

for your contribution.

• DayTipper

  If you have a tip that is insightful, helpful, and original, we will publish it and pay you $3 (US). You write the content. We share it with the world.

• Digital Journal

  Unlike most websites where bloggers post for free (and the company takes in all the ad revenue), DigitalJournal.com shares a portion of its advertising revenue with all Citizen Journalists. With an always-growing cash pool, every single Citizen Journalist gets a chance to compete for a share of the cash pot. The more you contribute, the more you earn.

Sites That pay You To Blog(Part 2)

The list continues

• 451Press

451 Press is always looking for bright, talented writers who want to have their voices heard. We are looking for writers with unique voices to contribute to our growing network of blogs. The blogs cover a wide range of topics. If you have a passion for a subject then we just might have a place for you.

• Be A Guide

  All About.com Guides are freelancers who work online and set their own schedules, giving them the flexibility to log on from anywhere in the world whenever they have the time. With no timesheets to fill out and no timecards to punch, working for About.com gives you the flexibility to write when you want, even if you have a full-time day job.

• BlogBurner

  

• BloggerWave

  We’ve got advertisers that would like you to write about their products or services. So you do. In your blog. And get paid!

• Blogitive

  Once you are approved to the Blogitive system, you are given access to opportunities from companies to post about their news releases. You are paid per posting.

Sites That Pay You To Blog(Part 1)

If you are looking to earn a few bucks by blogging,here is a list of sites

• Sponsored Reviews

     

       Earn cash by writing honest reviews about our advertiser’s products and services. Write reviews in your own tone and style, and gear them to your audience’s interest.

• Link Post

 Access to thousands of advertisers hungry for reviews. A variety of payment options. Receive payouts monthly by check, PayPal, direct deposit, or Wire. Automated advertising management. An easy way to sell paid blog posts.

• Review Me

     Get paid $20 – $200 to review products and services on your site. You control what you review.

• Shvoong

   The more abstracts you post at Shvoong, the more chances to attract readers. Create link to your abstract elsewhere(on blogs, forums, your personal homepage, or other sites). Spread the word by joining our “Invite a friend” and/or “Affiliates” programs, and earn bonuses equivalent to the invite members’ royalties, upto $100 for every new writer.

• Smorty

  Get paid for blogging. Write your opinion about peoples products, services and websites on your blog. Get paid weekly.

Oppo Find 5 With A Full HD 5-inch Screen Leaks

The Oppo Find 5 has a 5-inch screen of FullHD resolution with a narrow 3mm bezel. It runs on 1.5Ghz Qualcomm's APQ8064 quad-core chipset with 2GB RAM. The aluminum unibody has a thickness of merely 6.9mm and the 12MP camera with a Sony backlit sensor allegedly doesn't bulge at all.
The phone is powered by a mighty 2500 mAh battery and also comes wityh jellybean preinstalled.

Oppo Find 5

The Oppo Find 5 will be available in 16GB and 32GB versions, priced at 3000 Chinese yuan (about US$475) and 3300 Chinese yuan (about US$520) respectively. Those are unsubsidized prices, but the Oppo Find 5 is reportedly coming with support for GSM and UMTS (with HSPA) networks, so it's compatible with China Unicom's network. This is also good news if you are planning to get one imported to Europe or America, as there are plenty of carriers to support those standards there.

Google Gets Its First $14B Quarter

Google

Google's Q3 results came out earlier than planned and since they didn’t meet Wall Street's expectations, the company's shares dipped and trading of the stock had to be suspended temporarily. Google's shares ended the day 8% down.

While not what analysts expected, Google's third quarter wasn’t that bad. The search giant had its first $14 billion revenue quarter (a 45% increase year over year), helped by revenue from Motorola.

Net income was $2.18 billion, down from the $2.73 billion of last year's third quarter. Google's ads saw a 33% increase in paid clicks, but the price of those clicks was 15% lower than in Q3 2011. The reason behind the drop is the increasing share of mobile ads, which are cheaper.

Anyway, Motorola had a rough quarter. Its revenue was $2.58 billion, but it posted an operating loss of $527 million ($505 million of which was lost by the mobile phone department).

You can get more details on Google's financial performance from their full press release.

RSS App Review-QooRSS

RSS

RSS (Rich Site Summary)  is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.







Well there are various rss feed apps on the Symbian platform and today I am going to review the QooRSS app.


QooRSS' main function is to provide an RSS widget on the Symbian homescreen. It also has a fully usable application too where you can browse feeds and their contents, and tweak settings.

The QooRSS app is definitely stylish,no doubt about that.The most obvious feature is its semi-transparent background with selectable wallpapers to sit behind. On first launch, the tiny fonts gave cause for concern, but a quick trip into settings to change from small to large soon fixed that problem.

Fonts

Looks Stylish

       


















The tabs mentioned above are, in order: Feeds, Posts, and Content. Given contemporary user interface conventions, one would be forgiven for trying to move from the feed list to viewing a single feed, and then to a single post, by tapping on individual items. Not so in the case of QooRSS. Instead, one has to select the item of interest, then tap the next tab along at the top of the screen. Not only is this counter intuitive, but it requires more interaction with the touch screen. Not so good for me.

The main menu from the feeds list view allows you to add, remove and reorder feeds. When it comes to adding feeds, you can either manually enter a URL or import multiple feeds from a file. The Nokia Store page for QooRSS states that the application can import feeds from both OPML and HTML files. However, QooRSS completely failed to import anything from the files that I tested with it, leaving me to enter URLs manually. More score markdowns here. Even more markdowns to the score come from how QooRSS handles scrolling, Dragging across text selects it, and so scrolling is done by dragging a scroll bar which is -wait for it -  invisble!



The widget itself shows the title of the feed you've put at the top of the feeds list (in the application) plus the three most recent stories. There's also an RSS icon on the left, which reloads your feeds when tapped.

This app looks outdated really and since this is a paid app( you can get it at the Nokia Store for £1.00.)it really doesnt satisfy me.Besides, anyone with a Symbian device should now have the scrolling RSS widget, either via the Homescreen Widgets application update, or firmware updates to Belle Refresh or Belle Feature Pack 2.

Does Nokia Battery Monitor 3.1 Allow Compatibility With 3.8V Batteries?

Nokia

Nokia Battery Monitor has been something of a staple of the Symbian world in the last couple of years, providing a large-fonted, colourful guide to the state of your smartphone's battery. However, with new batteries coming along with slightly higher nominal voltages (quoted at '3.8V' rather than '3.7V'), the existing utility was demonstrably inaccurate. Version 3.1, now available, seems to behave better on the Nokia 808.

Firstly, note that battery voltages are never as easy to pin down as you might think, varying by temperature and load. They also vary according to the state of charge, typically starting at over 4V when full charged, quickly dropping to the nominal voltage (around 3.7V) and then dropping only slightly until they get to the last ten percent of so of charge, at which point the voltage starts to drop more quickly.
So when a battery is quoted at '3.8V', it just means that the chemistry has been improved slightly in such a way that the majority of the cell's discharge is at around 3.8V rather than '3.7V'. The maximum and minimum voltages will still be widely spaced and the voltage is never constant.
The result is that estimating the actual battery capacity remaining is something of a black art.
And isn't helped when the utility has the characteristics of yesterday's '3.7V' cells hard coded in, with the result that I'd charge my Nokia 808 and would be able to use it for a full hour while the charge was consistently shown as '100%'. This new version 3.1 of Nokia Battery Monitor seems to start decrementing the charge level sooner, though it's still not perfect
To illustrate the issues involved in the estimation of charge remaining, I did some tests over a full discharge cycle with my Nokia 808 PureView (with the BV-4D '3.8V' cell in place) and noted the percent values reported by both Nokia Battery Monitor and the voltage reported by the utilityPhoNetInfo: