After a few years of mobile blogging, I didn’t know that its possible to get paid to blog. I still consider myself a newbie since I’ve just started into real blogging last quarter of last year. There are still many things to learn and much better if you earn while you learn.
It is better for new bloggers like me to start blogging with Smorty. Smorty is a service connecting advertisers with bloggers. There are a lot of advertisers that needs honest opinions and blog advertising to their products. We as bloggers that are also consumers or should I say costumers evaluate the products and blog about it. That’s how easy it is. Smorty had opened another door of opportunity to get paid for blogging.
Four years ago, I was an active member of a girl forum. Most of the topics were mostly women’s talk, one thread caught my attention. It was Harry Potter’s comparison between the movie & the book. They’ve said, book version was far better than the movie. I want to disagree but I haven’t read any book of Harry Potter series. I want to have a copy but I cant afford it at that time. Then I searched for an alternative option, I saw a link on that forum, one of the member share her pdf copy of HP books. I’ve download them and researched on how can I have them read on my mobile phone, I was using Nokia 3650 at that time.
Since I’m into blogging already, I asked almost all of the co-bloggers for help. Sad to say, nobody got the answers. Buying a PDA was neither an option. There must be a solution! hehehe… I saw a thread at the “for sale” section of that forum. She’s selling ebooks as sideline, ebooks at 10php each in different formats. Order a minimum of 10 ebooks @ 10php (promo). Regular price was 50php per ebook. Have to try them first if its possible so I’ve ordered ebooks in pdb format. Why pdb? Because buyers order ebooks for their pc or pda. *.pdf for pc and *.pdb for pda.
After I’ve received the files through email, I saved them on my email’s briefcase, went to my cousin’s internet shop. I don’t have my own PC at that time. He have this bluetooth service on his shop, my suggestion actually. Anyway, he sent the files to my cellphone via bluetooth. Then I searched for a mobile application that reads pdb files. I saw handybook reader, installed it and used it for my purchased ebooks. And that’s how my mobile ebook reading hobby started.
Need to transfer your contacts from one mobile phone to another? Most of the time, I’ve encountered people saying that they’ve accidentally deleted an important contact or in some way they’ve lost their contacts. It made me wonder, they’re using a 3G phone or maybe a symbian 60 phone and yet they haven’t heard of this mobile application.
We cannot use mobile as a form of communication if we don’t have contacts on our phone book, right? Just like our mobile files, we also need to back them up. Contacts are more important than our files, copying them on our sim card wasn’t enough. Sim cards have limited memory.
This application wasn’t new to me, I’ve been using this mobile application for a long time and haven’t found any application better than this one. Backup Contacts v1.10 is a freeware and long time available in the market.
Import All – retrieve contacts from your backup file Export All – back up your entire contacts to a file Import Sel - retrieve a selected contact Export Sel – back up a selected contact Receiv File – receive file via bluetooth Send File – send backup file via bluetoothHow to back up contacts:
Open Bkup Contacts, click “export All”
Choose “to Local File”, choose the drive or directory you want the file to be saved. I save them both on memory card and phone memory.
Type the filename, click ok.
If you open your file manager or FExplorer, you already have your backup named as “yourchosenbackupname.vcf”
Download: Backup Contacts v1.10
Compatible Devices:
Nokia N-Gage QD, Nokia N-Gage, 3230, 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 7610, 7650, N70 and other nokia s60 phones.
Good thing that woobie informed me of this tag, I almost forgot that I still have unaswered tags left from my old blog. I’m sorry guys, I always keep my promise, I’ll answer them one by one soon. Also, please edit your tags linking to my new domain.
The rules:
The person tagged must copy the word and paste the definitions of the word contributed previously by the people who did the meme. Link backs would be nice, but not necessary.
The person tagged must then add her own definition in this format ‘yourname.com’s definition’ and place your link. Being creative with the acronym is encouraged.
Answer the following questions.
tag 5 other people to do the meme.
Questions
1. Do you know what your blog is really about, and you can write a one-sentence promotional material for it in a flash? If yes, write it here. If no, skip this.
2. Do you join social networks to promote your blog? If yes, do you hope to find friends in these social networks and in the process get regular readers of your blog? If no, skip this.
3. Do you or do you plan to join ranking sites that put your blog in competition with others for popularity? If yes, do you or do you plan to monitor your stats regularly? If no, skip this.
4. Do you tweak your blog often in accordance with the tips you get from blogging guides and gurus? If yes, list the bloggers you visit often to obtain these tips. If no, skip this.
5. Do you think of your next post even if you have just written a new one? If yes, list your inspirations for posting, and/or some routines that you go through before posting. If no, skip this.
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Blego (evilwoobie.com’s definition) – n. an acronym of “blog ego”, which pertains to a blogger’s sense of self in the blogosphere.
Blego (ebooktechie.com’s definition) – n. bloggers’ blogging ego
1. Do you know what your blog is really about, and you can write a one-sentence promotional material for it in a flash? – Ebooktechie is about the technicalities of the next generation of bookworms.
2. Do you join social networks to promote your blog? If yes, do you hope to find friends in these social networks and in the process get regular readers of your blog? – Social networks purpose is to gain more friends and readers. My answer is.. I do.. I did and always hope.
3. Do you or do you plan to join ranking sites that put your blog in competition with others for popularity? If yes, do you or do you plan to monitor your stats regularly? – With my new domain on this site, I guess I have to work on with my new entries first before joining… yes, I do have plan and always monitor my stat.
4. Do you tweak your blog often in accordance with the tips you get from blogging guides and gurus? If yes, list the bloggers you visit often to obtain these tips. – I always go with the flow… tweak my blog sometimes but stay to my blog’s basic topic which is mobile ebook. I always visit courtneytuttle, johnchow and macuha.
5. Do you think of your next post even if you have just written a new one? If yes, list your inspirations for posting, and/or some routines that you go through before posting. -Yes. I always list topics on my phone wherever, whenever I want… sometimes wap browse a bit to have an idea depends on my mood.
Globe Telecoms was having a technical problem with their system for a past few days until now in different locations. There were times that I can’t check my account balance and I have no outgoing SMS and call. I’ve experienced these for the past two-three days. Yesterday was the worst… I’ve sent a group message to my colleagues without using unlitxt service around 8:30am. I had to load again my prepaid sim for another batch of group SMS, I’ve received my load but I don’t have any successful outgoings call and text until this morning. Such a hassle because I have to insert to my phone a smart sim to make a group SMS. Whew!
Anyway, when I got home, I was about to complain using a landline. Would you believe, Globe hotline cannot be reached? I don’t know if that was the first time I can’t reach the hotline, all I know was, that was the first time they have serious system maintenance.
The good news to some Globe prepaid subscribers without load yesterday was they have their unlimited free call to any local network and roaming numbers. I shouldn’t have complain in the first place. As of the moment, they are still receiving tons of complains but the technical team are doing their best to solve the technical problems.
