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Thursday, September 10th, 2009New eBay Policy
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009It has come to our attention, and has been confirmed, that eBay has a new policy whereby they may add your photos to a ‘catalog’ for other users to use in their listings (but will attribute the photos to you with a link to your user page).
PC-Mole thinks this policy will ultimately hurt eBay, depending on which photos they choose to share. If they take ‘home taken’ photos, then people may assume that the photos are of the actual item they are bidding on, and be dissapointed when the item arrives. However, if eBay is judicious in which photos they decide to open up to other eBay-ers, the policy will actually make eBay easier to use, providing photos for those who either don’t have a camera, or are just too lazy to upload their own photos.
eBay mentioned this policy change briefly in an email on July 27th. The new policy officially goes into effect on August 31st. The small notice is a little unfortunate, but PC-Mole still thinks eBay is cool, “We forgive you eBay!”. If you aren’t a professional photographer who sells his/her photos, you don’t need to be concerned. You’ll even get a little free advertising! However, if you want to keep your photos to yourself, here’s how to opt-out of the new program:
1. Log into your eBay account and go to ‘My eBay‘ via the ‘My eBay’ tab in the upper-right corner of the page.
2. Move your mouse cursor over to the account button, but don’t click it. A menu of options appears.
3. Click the ‘Site Preferences’ option.
Move your mouse cursor over the 'Account' button, then click 'Site Preferences'
4. You’ll see a list of settings. Find the one that says ‘Share your photos’ and click the corresponding ‘Show’ button on the right side of the page.
5. You should now see the text ‘Consider photos I upload in the listing process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product offerings. 
Yes’ in the ‘Share your photos’ box.
6. If there is a ‘No’ where the ‘Yes’ should be in the
text, then you’re good to go, and eBay won’t share your photos with others; if not, proceed to step 7
7. Click the ‘Edit’ button directly under the ‘Show’ button you clicked earlier (it should be on the right side of the page).
8. Check the little box with your mouse, and then click ‘Submit’.
You’re done!
An Accurate Weather Source Available 24-7
Thursday, August 6th, 2009If you’re tired of listening to an outdated weather source forecasting rainy and 60 while you’re looking out the window at sunny and 80, it may be time to check out weather.gov, the National Weather Service’s weather forecast
Enter your city/state or zip code to get detailed weather information for your area
site. Weather.gov has a history of being more accurate than most forecasts, and provides more details than broadcasted weather such as TV and radio updates. You can find the current, and forecasted temperature, precipitation type, chance percentage, humidity, barometric pressure, and more at weather.gov. Just enter your zip code or city and state and you’ll get results tailored to your specific location, as well as local weather alerts and warnings.
Weather.gov's weather forcast shows thumbnails representing an overview of the next few days so you can tell at a glance.
Free Tool to Convert iTunes Music to More Compatible MP3
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Magic M4a to Mp3 Converter's simple interface allows for a quick transition from m4a to mp3
Apple’s program ‘iTunes’ is a tool for managing music on your computer. Every day, thousands of people download songs and podcasts from the iTunes Music Store, available only from the iTunes Program. iTunes is provided free with iPods and is also freely available on Apple’s website. There is only one hitch to the low-priced variety of music on iTunes, and that is compatibility. When you download a music file on iTunes, it downloads in the Mpeg-4 (.m4a) format. This poses a problem to everyone who wants to use iTunes music on a non-Apple mp3 player. However, thanks to the ‘Magic M4a to Mp3 Converter’ you can now easily make an mp3 copy of all of your iTunes music in one fell swoop. To convert all of your iTunes files: First, download and install the converter using the link at the end of the article. Second, run the program and click on the ‘add folder’ button and choose your ‘My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music’ folder, and then it will find all of your iTunes music automatically from there. Third, select the ‘Mp3′ option near the ‘Convert’ button. Fourth, in the ‘Save target as’ field, click ‘Change’ and choose a folder to put all of the new mp3 files in (remember, you get to keep your old music, the converter will make a new mp3 file for every m4a file you add). It’s a good idea to keep all of your music folders under the ‘My Music’ folder (or just ‘Music’ if you have Windows Vista), that way, Windows Media Player will be able to find your music. Fifth, click that big ‘Convert’ button and watch the fun. Depending on the size of your music collection, the conversion process may take a while. After it’s done, you can put the new mp3 files on any mp3 player (including iPods), and run them in any music program.
If you want to add your new music to Windows Media Player, then open it and click on the ‘Library’ button near the top, and click ‘Add to Library’ and then click ‘Ok’.
You can download iTunes here
You can download the ‘Magic M4a to Mp3 Converter’ here or you can download it from Cnet
Swoopo and Bid Cactus Introduce Revolutionary Auction Sites
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Is it gambling?
An Iphone on Swoopo Approaches Crunch Time
No.
Is it like EBay?
No.
Is it a scam?
No.
What is it?
It’s Swoopo (Bid Cactus is the same concept as Swoopo, only different prices and items).
It’s a new format of auction where the average item sells brand new, strait from the manufacturer for an average of 60% less than it’s retail value. Instead of having users sell items on Swoopo, Swoopo sells it’s items much like a retailer: straight from the manufacturer. Swoopo auctions off all of it’s items starting at $0.00. How is this possible? Well, it’s not a scam, but there is a hitch. The key question is: “How does swoopo afford to pay 60% percent for everyone’s electronics wants?” To bid on swoopo, you must purchase virtual bid tickets in packs of 30 to 500 at 75 cents apiece. Placing a bid on an item will raise the bid by 15 cents and add 15 seconds to the auction time. Even while buying bids at 75 cents apiece, people can still save a killing, in many cases over 50% of retail price.
Using simple math, you can figure out how much Swoopo can make selling an item: let’s take an 8 GB Ipod Touch (retail $229). Let’s say that the bidding ended at $53 (an actual ipod sale on swoopo). Divide the sale price by 15 cents to find out how many bids were placed on the Ipod and you get about 350. Then multiply 350 (the number of bids placed on the item) by .75 (the cost of each bid) to find out how much swoopo took in on bids. The result: $262. Wait a minute, we aren’t finished; we still need to add on the $53 that swoopo got from the sale price of the item. Our total is $315. Swoopo gave away a $292 ipod and took in $315 for a profit of at bare minimum $86 (remember, these guys are probably Apple dealers, so they probably buy Ipods at a wholesale price). Swoopo also offer’s what are called ‘penny auctions’. This means that your bids only up the bid by 1 cent, so the prices don’t go as high, so the winners win more, and the losers lose more. The entire swoopo site is automated, so it could probably be run with less than 10 full time employees. The overall profits must be staggering. Basically, the way Swoopo works is the losers pay for the winner to get a discounted item. So if you do decide to go and buy a cheap item on Swoopo, just be absolutely sure you don’t lose.
