Free Toolsday 9/2 – Entrecard Toolbar
Tuesday
Sep 2, 2008
I’ve already talked long ago of how awesome I think Entrecard is. Any free traffic source is great, let alone a free advertising medium as well. A couple weeks ago, they got even more awesome in my eyes with the launch of their Entrecard Toolbar.
Similar to what SiteHoppin’ was offering, Entrecard has taken it upon themselves to offer a tool to allow EC users to jump from blog to blog within different categories to see what else is out there – and efficiently drop your EC card to receive credits. I really enjoy being able to use the “Next Ten Sites” button within the toolbar to have 10 tabs open up in Firefox and be able to wander through them as I desire.
Yes, it’s great for effectively dropping ECs, but I’ve always said that I actually LIKE going around to different blogs and checking out their content, site design, what ads they’re running, etc. So this serves that purpose as well.
This is a screen shot of my toolbar right now – I just went and spent all my saved EC’s on ads so I’m starting from scratch. It doesn’t take up a lot of room at all, and offers you different choices of category to browse within and different ways to order the results: Most popular, Newest, Cheapest, Most expensive, Most advertised, and Random. The final benefit – and best – is that while you’re surfing these blogs the toolbar updates to tell you how many ECs an ad on that site costs, if you already have an advert in the queue for that site, and allows you to purchase adverts by clicking on the button that shows the price. You can also add the blog to your favorites site by clicking on the heart.
The only downside to the toolbar is that it’s a toolbar. Sounds weird, I know, but what I mean is that I have two other toolbars and I can’t toggle this one on or off like the StumbleUpon toolbar to save screen space. This isn’t a problem for me, but currently the toolbar only runs on Firefox 3 as an add-on, so anyone still using Internet Explorer to switching over to Google’s new browser Chrome will have to do things the old fashion way! This is the first release of the toolbar with a second beta release out now, so hopefully in future releases they’ll address the browser compatibility issue.
Firefox Fail
Monday
Jul 21, 2008
Has anyone else been having this issue? All day I’ve been typing url’s into the address bar of my browser (Firefox 3) and hitting the “Enter” key like usual only to have nothing happen. I’ve clicked the green arrow in the right side of the address bar to “Go” and again, nothing happens. It’s as if the icon isn’t even a hyperlink. I hover the mouse over and pause to see the arrow change to a darker shade of green and click…nothing.
Not even the auto fill is working to use in the address bar. Yet, the Google Search bar is working just fine, so I’ve been browsing through Google all day.
So, anyone else experienced this? Is it a sudden glitch between Windows 2000 Pro and Firefox 3 not playing nicely? It’s worked since FF3 came out… so why the bummer now?
If you know, share! Please?
Cribbed Content for June 20th
Friday
Jun 20, 2008
Tomorrow is officially the first day of Summer. I know here in the SF Bay Area we’re definitely feeling it – yesterday it reached over 100 I was told and my handy Weatherbug extension is telling me it’s 86.2°F outside right now – makes me very glad I’m in this nice air conditioned office. Definitely one advantage to NOT working at home with no AC on a day like this!
- My blog has tied for the top review from April/May at Joy O’Hare’s Blog Reviews site. Congrats to my fellow top reviews!
- DailyBlogTips.com has posted The Bloggers Glossary. Good timing for glossaries I guess!
- Firefox 3 Download Count is over 8 Million, and it hasn’t even been available for a week yet. I downloaded and installed it and I’m loving how fast it is… I just wish some of my beloved plugins would have geared up for the change (ahem I’m talking to you del.icio.us!)
- ABestWeb blew up on Tuesday about the formation of the PMA… a lot of vitriol and I haven’t even had a chance to finish reading the whole thing & weigh in. So go beat me to the punch!
