Mon.thly
April 16, 2008
Mon.thly is an interesting new website. It’s a easy tool to help you keep track of your menstrual cycles.
Each time you start a new period, login and add the date to your Mon.thly account. After a few months, it will be able to predict given you past history when your next cycle will start. It will also act a a record of your menstrual cycles that can be hand for your medical reasons, or for your records. You can also set it to send you a reminder of your next estimated start date.
Mon.thly’s interface is super simple and discrete. A handy free tool if you like or need to chart your menstrual cycles.
Top 50 Australian Women Bloggers Updated
November 21, 2007
The list was updated yesterday, didn’t get a chance to post about it till now.
A few new blogs added this week..Hoyden about town, My new shiny shoes and Reason you will hate me.
A big thanks to everyone who has been emailing about their blogs, or people they know. Don’t stop! I’m going to put a bit of a Australian Women bloggers directory together so we can show of ALL the girls, not just those with the magic numbers. I hope to get a rough draft up next week.
So if your an Aussie Woman blogger, no matter how big or small your blog is leave a comment or email me so we can let everyone else know about it.
Fighting hunger with word power
November 14, 2007
Free Rice is a online vocabulary game that will help you learn as well as help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
Since it’s 7 October launch, Free Rice has donated over 1.5 billion grains of rice which is enough to feed 75 000 people for one day.
The idea is simple, for every word you get right, Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program and you get a harder word, wrong, and you will get an easier word. The program is funded by advertisers that are displayed on the site, who pay for the donated rice.
Approx 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations.
It just takes a few minutes out of each day, the more you play FreeRice and the more you learn, the more rice is donated to feed hungry people around the world. Challenge yourself, family and friends..who can get the highest level?
Attention Bargain hunters
November 2, 2007
Who doesn’t like grabbing a bargain, and saving some money. Especially at this time of year, when it seems like our wallets are constantly haemorrhaging money.
I love getting junk mail, all the fab catalogues could nearly be the best part of Christmas for me. Pouring over all the nifty things, and checking out who has what for how much. What’s even better, these days you can read them on most of them online.
Catalogue Central provides the most up-to-date retail catalogues online so there is no need to ever miss a sale. View all your favourite store catalogues online, their site makes browsing or searching easier than ever. As an added bonus, when you sign up you go into the draw to win $3000.
Another great site for finding a bargain is OzBargain. Here you can share specials and bargains with other shoppers. There are some really fantastic specials coming through here, and you get usually hear about the sales and special offers earlier. If you get in and share some bargains that you find, you have the chance to win one of two $20 prizes each week.
Top 50 Australian Women Bloggers updated
October 31, 2007
The list has was painfully updated last night (no thanks to Optus!) Please bare with me while the bugs are still ironed out in my processes, I’ll apologise in advance.
We have a few new sites coming into the list..
We’ve had a huge response during the week, a huge thank you to everyone who posted about the list during the week, letting others know about it. We have had lots of people letting us know about their blogs, or ones that they know of.
Quite a few people have been asking exactly how it works, so I will give you a brief run down.
Any Australian living here, or abroad is welcome to submit a blog to the list. Also, anyone who is living currently living and blogging in Australia, a temporary Aussie.
The ranking is an average of your technorati ranking and Alexa AU ranking. You must have both of these ranks to be considered for the list.
To find your Technorati ranking visit technorati.com/blogs/yourdomain.com.au you should sign up and claim your blog if you have not already done so.
For your Alexa ranking just visit www.alexa.com and search for your blog URL. This will bring up your profile, visit the traffic details section to find your rankings. Your Au ranking you will find by scrolling right to the bottom. Unfortunately, if you do not have an Alexa AU ranking of your own (not the default blogger or blogspot rankings) we cannot calculate your blog.
I hope that has cleared up some of your questions, feel free to contact me or comment here if you have any more, or more sites to suggest.
Top 50 Australian Women’s Blogs
October 24, 2007
We Aussies are a proud and patriotic bunch aren’t we? I just love that no matter where you are we seem to manage to form a special friendship and community, like with our blogging. Our lists and groups where everyones a mate. Meg has done a fantastic job of helping to bringing us all together.
With All for Women, connecting Australian Women has always been my main aim. Helping and promoting fantastic Aussie Women is just a part of that.
There are some amazingly talented Australian Women bloggers out there, and I feel so lucky to call some of them friends, and love meeting new ones. I wanted a way that I could let everyone else out there know about them too. So with the help from the top list guru Meg the Top 50 Australian Women’s Blogs was born.
We are going to start out with 50, and see how we go from there. There are so many fabulous ladies there, I’m really proud to be among them, and showing them off. I am sure there are blogs that I have missed, so please send them through. If you have any suggestions or criticisms, let me know too.
I made a button to use on my own sites, but you are more than welcome to use them as well.
Backup your precious memories and files
October 17, 2007
These days the humble home PC is much more than just for entertainment. It contains so much important data, family photos, work or study documents, music collections and much more.
Yet how many of us actually backup and safe keep our data on a regular basis? We put it off till later, but never seem to get around to it. You could lose it all in an instant, and usually without warning. What about all your photos if you haven’t backed them up!
CD/DVD’s
These are the most common method of backing up. They are cheap and easy, and can be a great way to safe keep your files, as long as you actually remember that is. If you take good care of the discs, and store them properly they can last up to 40yrs. Try to buy a good quality disc. Make sure that you check to make sure your files have been saved properly after you have burnt them.
While this is a good method of saving your important data, it isn’t going to protect your files in the unfortunate event of a fire, flood or theft. It’s a good idea to store copies of your important discs in another location.
External Hard drive
External hard drives are a handy tool to back up your files and make them portable. They are a little more expensive, and can suffer the same risks as your internal hard drive like virus or disk failure.
Online Backups
I have been trialing this method myself over the last few weeks. Even after multiple drive failures and data lose, I have yet to learn my lesson. I always mean to get around to it, but never do.
Mozy automatically backs up your files and stores them in a secure, remote location. Mozy has a free option for personal users which allows you to backup up to 2gig of data. Or for $4.95 a month you can backup unlimited data.
Using it is super easy. You download a small application to your computer (it works on Windows and is in Beta for Mac) and it will take care of it for you. Your able to select which folders and files you wish to back up or you can choose to save everything. The application sits in your toolbar and will detect and save any changes you make to your files. If you have a drive failure, or loose data restoring your files is just as easy.
This is a great option for those that are a little lazy and forgetful. You will need a high speed broadband connection.
Now, you have no excuse for loosing your important files. Get into the habit now for making regular backups. Remember not everything is 100% fool proof so it can be best to try a few options to back up your really important data like your family snaps.
Dog days of summer bloggy giveaway
July 24, 2007
Over at Rocks in my dryer this week they are having the Dog days of summer giveaway. You should see this thing, it is
freakin’ huge! Last I looked there were 320 different giveaways listed with some really great prizes. maybe the summer festivities can warm us poor southerns.
You don’t have to be a blogger to join in the fun, just visit the giveaways on the lists and see what is on offer. Be sure to check out each bloggers give away instructions, all their rules will be different.
Don’t think because you are outside the US you can’t enter, there will be bloggers from all over the world and many have said they are happy to have international entrants. So just check out the details before you enter.
Maybe your a blogger, and have a prize to giveaway, you could add yours to the humongous list too. Get in quick though, the linky closes soon.
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