I just purchased a new PC last night. After months and months of my current PC crashing and becoming as slow as a slug, my wife and I finally decided it was time to move on. I decided on the HP - Pavilion Desktop. I got it from Best Buy.

My old computer was a total piece of crap. It’s pushing four years old. It’s a Medion with a 3.0 ghz Pentium IV processor and 512 RAM.

For $569, I got a load PC that is very past. Sure there are plenty of computers on the market that are faster, stronger, and more powerful… but one of our biggest factors in determining which PC to buy was price. I would rather spend $569 now and be able to buy another top of the line PC in 2-3 years. If we had spent $1500+ on a PC now, in order to justify the price we’d have to keep it forever (like the one I’m currently getting rid of).

So here are some of the specs of my new PC, for all of them, click here:
# Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor E5200
Featuring an 800MHz frontside bus, 2MB shared L2 cache and 2.5GHz processor speed.
# 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM - expandable to 8 GB
For multitasking power, expandable to 8GB.
# SuperMulti DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support
# 500GB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm)
# Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 graphics
# Front-panel 15-in-1 media reader
# Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP1)

The only downside of this PC is the graphics card it comes with. I’ll probably upgrade that for Christmas. I also love that it comes with several empty PCI slots, some of the other HP models didn’t.

So for the next day or so I’ll be backing everything up on my current PC before I install and set up the new one. I can’t wait to load it up and actually run multiple programs at the same time.

Do you enjoy making money online? Do you value every dollar you make because you worked so hard to get it? You put in hours and hours of time to build your website, then one day at the end of the month you get a check from Google (or whoever) and feel rewarded for all your hard work. Maybe your check is for $1,000. Now, how would you feel if someone (ie: the government) told you to share some of your monthly earnings with someone who didn’t earn as much as you.  Maybe this person slacked off. Maybe he didn’t build as many backlinks. Maybe he used an autofeeder instead of writing his own unique content like you. Whatever the case may be, now the government wants to take some of your hard earned dollars and put it in the hands of someone who didn’t earn it. Doesn’t sound very fair does it?

Well folks, this situation isn’t some bizzaro scenario I just made up. This is what your world as an American will look like with Barrack Obama as your President. When having a conversation with Joe the Plumber, Obama said: “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance at success, too… And I think that when we spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Hello Socialism! IS that the “Change” we need in America? Spreading the wealth around? Barrack wants to destroy US Capitalism, something our forefathers fought so hard to establish. Capitalism is what makes America great. It’s what gives you the ability to make money online from websites, keep every penny you earn, and spend it how you see fit (with no government mandates).

You want a list of socialist countries? How about China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, and the old USSR. Does The United States of America look like it belongs in that list? Well Barrack Obama seems to think so.

“Spreading the wealth around” is NOT good for anyone, except maybe those few lazy people who just don’t give a damn and are always looking for handouts. If you value your online earnings and are proud of your achievements and hard work, then I ask you to not vote for a socialist Barrack Obama this November 4.

I ask you to vote for a man who still believes in Capitalism and the foundations that built this great country. Vote John McCain.

A week or so ago, I purchased a Nikon D40 SLR camera. My wife and I were sick of the quality of our little point and shoot digital camera, so we wanted to invest in a digital SLR. The D40 is the best entry level SLR on the market and we were able to get the camera plus a ton of accessories for only $475.

Now we are able to snap photos rapidly instead of having to wait 10 seconds for the camera to load after every picture.

I’ve only got to play with it for a little bit, but I highly recommend this camera to anyone looking for an SLR.

We’re coming up on the 1 year anniversary of my two myspace sites getting severely penalized by Google. It happened at the end of October 2007. I’ve called the it the day I was murdered by Google. Getting penalized caused a massive hit to my monthly earnings, and even a year later now I still haven’t come close to what I used to be making. But I’ve learn to live without it.

I’m wondering though… do you think Google sets specific time limits on penalties? Is there a possibility that one the one year anniversary my penalty will be lifted?

I’m not holding my breath… and anyways, the whole myspace craze is over now. Check out this Google Trends graph of the search term “myspace layouts”. You can see in early 2007 the myspace craze started to peak. Anyone who was making serious cash from resource sites should have sold out then. Of course there was no way to predict it would top out so soon.

I’ll be sure to keep everyone updated on the status of my sites in the coming weeks.

So I’m walking through Barnes & Noble while my wife is looking for books for her classroom and I happened to walk by a book called Problogger by Darren Rowse. Now all of us know who he is and have been to his blog, but I had no idea he wrote a book. He’s probably mentioned it on his blog, but I only visit there like once a month so I hadn’t seen it.

So here it is, oddly enough it was in the Apple section of the isle.

I’m using the wordpress app to post this as I’m standing in the store. The same app I use for www.iPicEveryday.com

I created a new website yesterday (rather quickly too). It is for iPhone Photos and can be found at www.iPicEveryday.com.

I’ve seen one or two other websites like this, but they weren’t that active. I got the idea from a thread over at the MacRumors forum. Every day people post a picture they’ve taken with their iPhone in the forum thread. I took that concept and made a website/blog out of it.

Everyday, or sometimes several times a day, I am going to post pictures I take with my iPhone. Sometimes I’ll take pictures of random stuff, animals, people, sports, nature, etc… pretty much anything I find interesting. With each picture I’ll write a couple of sentences about the photo that way search engines will like it better.

The best thing about this site is I do all my work on it directly from my iPhone. Thanks to the iPhone Wordpress App, I can take pictures with my iPhone camera and post them to this blog directly from my phone in under a minute. I can create the page titles, add the tags, categories and even set the publish timestamp. Without the Wordpress App, I wouldn’t be able to do this site. I can now take a picture from anywhere and upload it to iPicEveryday.com without ever going to my website.

I don’t know if this site will get a large daily following, but I’m hoping by using long tail keywords in my page titles that I’ll be able to rank for some unusual things. Some people may return daily if they find my life in pictures interesting.

The only negative I’ve seen thus far is the image file names that are created when using the iPhone Camera and Wordpress App. I can’t change the picture file names to anything I want (like mycat.jpg). Instead, file names are automatically created as something like this: “p-640-480-71d46162-d497-4cb5-bd6d-7a510c4d149e.jpeg”. That file name looks terrible and won’t help with SEO. Luckily I can add alt tags with the App though. I could go in and manually change all the image file names using and FTP program and then editing all the posts in wordpress, but that defeats the whole purpose of having this website where I can post anytime/anywhere.

I am looking for other contributers. So if you have an iPhone and take a lot of pictures let me know and I’ll set you up an account.