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You don’t have to act your age. And you definitely don’t have to look it: After all, 50 is the new 30. (Hello, have you seen Madonna lately?)

But when it comes to nutrition, eating the best foods for your age is the secret to conquering the changes going on in your body—and to fueling up for the challenges in your life. That’s why we created this guide to what you need most, and why, when you’re in your 30s, 40s, and 50s.

Top needs for the 30s
You’re balancing work, babies, fitness, and friends. If there were a medal for multitasking, you’d get the gold.














Top needs for the 40s
Your job, your kids, your aging parents—they all need you more than ever now. Plus, those long walks no longer keep pesky pounds off.

Must haves: Fiber, potassium, calcium, and nutrient-rich, low-cal foods. Your metabolism slows down. What’s more, cholesterol levels and blood pressure can go up as you get closer to menopause, which sets you up for a greater risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Go for fiber (shoot for at least 25 grams daily) and foods rich in potassium (aim for 4,700 milligrams per day) like whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. They’ll help you feel full on fewer calories, and they’re also packed with disease-fighting phytochemicals. Calcium is still important as ever, so keep getting your 1,000 mg per day.

Best foods to eat now: 40s

• Fill up on three servings of whole grains (whole wheat, brown rice, oats, rye, and corn) daily. Two cups of popcorn or 1/2 cup of oatmeal equals a serving. Shop for foods that have the Whole Grain Stamp for at least a half-serving of whole grains.
• Get at least 2 cups of fruit and 2 1/2 cups of veggies every day, too. Go for strawberries, bananas, and peas.
• Cut back on sodium; aim for less than 2,300 milligrams a day and limit processed foods to keep blood pressure in check. Keep bones strong with bok choy, broccoli, and calcium-fortified soy milk.

Must haves: Iron, folic acid, and calcium. You need 18 milligrams of iron each day to help you steer clear of anemia and to boost your immune system. Trying to get pregnant? Folic acid is key: Getting 400 micrograms daily will help prevent neural tube defects like spina bifida. Calcium is essential for keeping those bones strong; you start losing bone mass after 35. Women 19 to 50 need 1,000 mg per day, but more than half of us don’t get it.

Best foods to eat now: 30s

• Get fortified with vitamin-packed cereals like Total, which has 100% of your iron and folic acid requirements in one bowl.
• Lean beef, pork, and beans are also iron-rich. Eat enough folic acid–rich foods like oranges, asparagus, and leafy green veggies.
• Bone up with low-fat dairy picks—milk, cheese, yogurt, and cottage cheese will all give you a calcium boost.

While we noted earlier today that preparations are moving full speed ahead for a debut of the white iPhone 4 within the next day or two and shipments making their way to retail stores, some retailers have jumped the gun and begun selling units to customers. Once such case popped up late last week in the UK through Vodafone, although the carrier apparently quickly clamped down on the rogue sale. But with more shipments now on location at retail stores, the premature sales are likely to occur with greater frequency.


One MacRumors reader wrote in today to say that he had just purchased a white iPhone 4 through a Mobistar retail shop in Antwerp, Belgium. According to the reader, the white iPhones are already available for general sale to all customers.


As in other recent photos, the final version of the white iPhone 4 carries a redesigned proximity sensor area on the front panel, utilizing a relatively large, lozenge-shaped area above the earpiece as opposed to the grille of small holes seen in early designs.


Update: iSpazio reports that yet another white iPhone 4 has been sold to a customer in Italy.

Update 2: The customer in Belgium has sent us another photo showing the "About" screen of the new white iPhone 4, revealing that the units are shipping with iOS 4.3.1 Build 8G4, the same build of iOS 4.3.1 released to GSM iPhone 4 users in late March. Apple has, however, since released iOS 4.3.2 for existing devices.

The white iPhone 4 is coming! The white iPhone 4 is coming!

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Love to eat? No worries!

Your idea of a good time after a bad day is a scoop of dulce de leche ice cream piled high atop a fudge brownie. You’re digging in because each creamy mouthful makes you feel inexplicably happy. Is that really so bad?

Surprisingly, emotional eating doesn’t have to be a problem, says Michelle May, MD, author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat. "Trying to talk yourself out of getting a mood boost from food only sets you up for a bigger overeating problem—like bingeing," she says. You can comfort yourself with food and stay thin with these simple ground rules.




Why we snack our way happy

"We’re hardwired to eat for emotional reasons," Dr. May says. "From the moment you’re born and your mother holds you close to feed you, there’s an emotional connection between being fed and being loved. That’s why it’s counterproductive to say to people, ‘Just don’t do it.’"

The treats we crave most are packed with powerful natural chemicals that bring on pleasure. Chocolate, for example, contains serotonin and another happy-making neurotransmitter, anandamide. And once that double-fudge brownie makes its way to your stomach, your body responds with a rush of endorphins, giving you a kind of snacker’s high.






Emo-eat only what you love

Before you crack open the Ben & Jerry’s, though, do what Dr. May calls the "Four-Really Test": Ask yourself if you really, really, really, really want it. "Reach for something you don’t really want, and you’re likely to eat more of it because it isn’t satisfying," she says.

That’s the danger of answering a craving with a lighter version of what you want or with something else altogether. Not only does it defeat the purpose of giving yourself a gooey treat, but it sets you up for a pig-out. "If I’m not hungry, but I need a little pleasure in my life, isn’t it ridiculous to eat a rice cake?" Dr. May asks. "Not only do I not need that fuel, but it’s not even going to give me the pleasure."







Make it blow your mind

Step away from that laptop, TV, or iPad, so you can focus fully on the treat you want to eat. Here’s why: If you don’t take a moment to enjoy everything about it, "then the real reason you’re eating it won’t be served," Dr. May explains, and you’ll be more likely to give in to other high-calorie foods—not to mention more of them.











   Don’t eat it on an empty stomach

"If you’ve had a good meal with protein, vegetables, and a healthy fat, your dessert has a better chance of being emotionally satisfying," says Julia Ross, director of the Recovery System Clinic in Mill Valley, California, and author of The Diet Cure. "But a lot of women skip meals to save calories and go straight to dessert, so their blood sugar spikes, then crashes, and they end up going back for seconds and thirds."

Going back for another and another also puts you scary-close to emotional eating’s danger zone: overeating. "There’s no harm in meeting any need with food—unless it becomes chronic or extreme," Ross says.






 Bag the guilt

It’ll strip the pleasure right out of your splurge. "Nobody should feel guilty if they use food to celebrate or feel comfort," Ross says. Besides, hating yourself for loving that chocolate shake will only make you need another (high-calorie) mood boost. It comes down to this: When you eat to feel good, let yourself feel good. Then move on.

SeaWorld will stop giving out plastic bags at its theme-park gift stores in San Diego on June 18 in hopes of cutting plastic pollution in the ocean.

Company officials said the move could save more than 1 million plastic bags from being used. They will offer customers paper and reusable sacks.

The shift away from plastic coincides with the opening of SeaWorld's Turtle Reef attraction, which emphasizes ecological aspects of the species. Plastic bags can be a major problem for some types of sea turtles, especially leatherbacks, that mistake them for jellyfish.

Turtle Reef will feature more than 60 threatened and endangered hawksbill and green sea turtles, including some that hatched at the marine-life park in 2009. One aquarium at the Turtle Reef gift shop will have floating bags and another will have jellyfish to provide a visual display of how similar they can look in the water.

“I think it’s important that our guests can learn that they too can play a role in keeping trash and pollution out of the sea turtles’ ocean environment,” said Thad Dirksen, SeaWorld’s curator of fishes.

Environmental groups have raised alarms in recent years about the effect of large amounts of floating plastics on the ocean environment.

Some stores have started charging for plastic bags to make customers think twice about using them. Efforts to get plastic carryout bags banned statewide have failed, but California does require supermarkets to offer plastic bag recycling.

In 2009, the latest year for statewide data, just 3 percent of the plastic carryout bags were recycled. That left more than 51,000 tons of them to collect in landfills, beaches and parking lots.

Although it might be hard to understand why people buy bunnies just because it’s spring—they do. But often spring time bunny purchases result in bunnies available for adoptions come winter time, or even years later when having a bunny for its ten-year life span hadn’t previously been considered.

Chocolate bunnies on the other hand are never a bad idea to buy--especially around Easter when they are readily available in all varieties of chocolate.

Here are 10 reasons to buy a chocolate bunny and not a real bunny this Easter:

1. If you decide you don’t like the chocolate bunny, you can buy another brand.

2. Real bunnies chew everything. With a chocolate bunny—you’re the only one doing the chewing.

3. Friends are much less likely to have an allergic reaction to your chocolate bunny.

4. A real bunny is much pricier than a chocolate bunny. In fact you can buy a carton of chocolate bunnies for the cost of one real bunny.

5. When you buy a chocolate bunny you don’t need to buy anything else, unlike a real bunny. Well, maybe just some jellybeans.


6. Real bunnies' eyes can see behind them without turning their heads. A chocolate bunnies eyes can be bitten off and eaten.

7. Real bunnies eat and poop at the same time. Sorry, you didn’t really need to know that.

8. Real bunnies can become pregnant again one hour after of giving birth. Fortunately (or unfortunately) chocolate bunnies don’t reproduce.

9. A real bunny doesn’t like it when you trim its toenails. Chocolate bunnies don’t usually mind.

10. You can bite off a chocolate bunny’s ears. Not a good idea with a real bunny.

(PS Apparently 76% of people bite off the ears first!? Random fact.)

Based on systematic studies, the medical residents has advance to the close that over the final fifty years, there has been an enlarge in the number of people who experience a few form of mental illness. There are many schools of think that indentify assorted causes inclusive governmental highlight related with the gait of today’s life type in horse opera countries. Others blame on this complaint in segment to the regular headlines motorcycle high lighting disastrous headlines stories continuously. Though assorted causes is to enlarge in clinical depression, bipolar disorder, violent behavior problems and other forms of mental sickness are hotly debated, one area of consent in the medical residents revolves around diet
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Is fish oil the innate cure?


Over the final half century, the lessen in Omega 3 oily acids has coincided with the enlarge of processed dishes high in jam-packed fats. This has caused the proportion of omega 6 to Omega 3 to apropos imbalanced. Omega 6 comes from soy and corn primarily. This rotund money coming in may be attributed to the enlarge in the rate of depression according to Dr. Joseph Hibbein of the National Institutes of Health. Other information supports the close that rates of depression are descend in countries that have a sufficient aloft assimilation rate of dishes abounding in Omega 3 fish oil.


The purpose of anti depressants


The purpose of anti depressants and the side belongings related with the use of a few popularly prescribed mood enhancing drug has drawn a few critique from those that believe that a diet abounding in Omega 3 fish oil is an all innate way to kindle the correct working of the restless system. Omega 3 fish oil contains the oily acids eicosapentaenoic poison (EPA) and docosahexaenoic poison (DHA). These specific oily acids are deemed necessary for offset nutritive health and are found insufficient in patients suffering from clinical depression.


What about rotund shortening medications?


While shortening bad cholesterol with the use of statin drug is a eminent goal, there is indication that using this way of shortening (LDL) levels in the blood may in fact result in aloft occurrence of liver damage, but moreover increased levels of Omega 6 whilst preventing competent levels of Omega 3. The indication shows that high levels of fish oil will help to descend cholesterol of course without causing promising damage to your liver. At the same time, with aloft levels of Omega 3 intake, the body will take the correct dose of necessary oily acids to help concurrently free-for-all depression and other mental disorders.


The indication seems clear, with the stepping up number of patients suffering from mental disorders, it’s critical to safeguard you and your family by supplementing a strong life type with the add-on of dishes abounding in Omega 3 fish oil. Study after investigate indicates that several health afflictions inclusive mental sickness can at least be checked

HBO did not go small in making "Game of Thrones," its first series in the fantasy genre.

For starters, there's the source material: "A Game of Thrones," a 700-plus-page novel by George R.R. Martin that's the shortest in his "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Production on the show's 10 episodes ran for seven months in Northern Ireland and Malta. There are 17 actors listed in the opening credits, and at least that many more have good-sized roles in the series. The marketing has been nearly ubiquitous in recent weeks.

So does it all add up to something you'll want to watch when it premieres at 9 p.m. ET Sunday (April 17)? In two words: Hell yes. "Game of Thrones" is a grown-up fantasy tale that is less about magic and mysticism than it is about power, political gamesmanship and the consequences of both. It's stunningly rendered and very well-acted, and though the first few episodes have a tendency toward telling rather than showing, the pace rarely feels slack.

Caveat time: I wasn't familiar with Martin's work prior to the series. I started reading "A Game of Thrones" before watching, then stopped after I saw the first two episodes -- not out of lack of interest (quite the contrary), but because I found myself tracking how faithful the TV series was to the novel (quite faithful, for as far as I read) rather than really paying attention to what was on screen. I wanted to evaluate the series as its own work.

As adapted by executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, "Game of Thrones" follows the numerous power-hungry and amoral figures (along with a few decent ones) surrounding the Iron Throne, the seat of power in Westeros. It's currently occupied by King Robert Baratheon (a lusty Mark Addy), who took power in a rebellion some years before in which the previous king was killed by Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who happens to be the twin brother of Robert's wife, Queen Cersei (Lena Headey).

As the series opens, Robert travels to the remote northern citadel of Winterfell to ask his hold friend Eddard "Ned" Stark (Sean Bean) to be the Hand of the King -- his closest adviser. Robert doesn't really trust anyone else at the court, and with good reason; his wife is already looking forward to the day when their son Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) takes the throne, others around him -- notably Petyr Baelish, also known as Littlefinger ("The Wire's" Aidan Gillen) -- have their own agendas, and, well, Jaime killed the last king.

Ned is more than a little reluctant to leave his home; he fought alongside Robert in the rebellion but would rather leave the power struggles to others. Duty-bound, though, he accepts and travels to the capital city, King's Landing, with daughters Sansa (Sophie Turner) and Arya (Maisie Williams, who's wonderfully feisty) while his wife, Catelyn (Michelle Fairley) and sons Robb (Richard Madden) and Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) stay at Winterfell.

That's the primary story, but the show also spends significant time in two other locales. Ned's illegitimate son, Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) leaves to join the forsaken men who guard the Wall, a massive, miles-long barrier separating the north of Westeros from a frozen wilderness beyond that's home to "wildlings" (barbaric men) and, as seen in the opening scenes of the premiere, maybe something more sinister. He's accompanied on the early part of his journey by Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), the dwarf brother of Cersei and Jaime, who's an outcast in his own way but also possibly the smartest (and definitely the funniest) character in the series.


 Across the sea, Viserys Targaryen (Harry Lloyd), the exiled son of the murdered previous king, is scheming to reclaim the throne via his sister Daenerys (Emilia Clarke), whom he marries off to a warlord, Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa), in exchange for the promise of an army to take back to Westeros. Clarke, in her first major role, creates one of the most compelling arcs in "Game of Thrones" as Daenerys grows from a scared and lonely girl to a young woman who's becoming increasingly aware of and confident in her own strength.

Got all that?

It's a lot to absorb, and people who come to the show without knowledge of Martin's books will probably feel a bit lost in the first couple episodes. (In this aspect, "Game of Thrones" has a lot in common with previous HBO shows "The Wire" and "Deadwood.") The first couple episodes also have the characters delivering a lot of expository dialogue, which is a necessary evil in almost any show but here sometimes tips the talk-vs.-action scale in the wrong direction.

As the characters' motives and allegiances become clearer, though, "Game of Thrones" develops into what's often gripping television. Bean's "reluctant gunslinger" (as exec producer Weiss describes him), Dinklage's charming schemer, Clarke's growing force and several more performances -- including almost uniformly good work from the child actors in the cast -- ground the show's story firmly in reality. The show's production team also does a fantastic job at creating the world of Westeros, with location shooting enhanced greatly by excellent visual effects work.

"Game of Thrones" drops you into a fully realized world, and once you get your bearings, you'll want to stay there.
 

Have six go-to foods


Peek into Bethenny Frankel’s kitchen, and you’ll always find six skinny staples that can be turned into quickie combos: bagged salad, tomatoes, turkey bacon, whole-wheat pasta, organic tomato sauce, and veggie burgers.









 Befriend the freezer

There’s no quicker fresh meal than stir-fry, Marissa Lippert, RD, says—as long as you stock lean protein (like chicken breast strips, shrimp, tofu, and lean flank steak) in the freezer. Just let it defrost in the fridge while you’re at work, then toss in some fresh or frozen veggies when you get home.

And when you can find a little extra time on the weekend, make a huge batch of ground turkey meatballs or veggie chili and freeze in individually portioned containers.




Cook one, eat twice

Got leftovers? You’re halfway to a fresh, fast dinner, Bethenny says: "I improvise all the time." Put turkey on top of a salad, chop up boiled eggs to make egg salad—lower the fat by leaving out the yolks, using just 1 teaspoon of mayo, and pumping up the flavor with capers—or use yesterday’s broccoli in a light frittata.

Having easy access to MRI scans may be a bad thing for people with new-onset lower back pain, according to U.S. researchers.

The analysis of 1998-2005 Medicare data found that patients with new pain in their lower back were more likely to have surgery if they were treated in an area that had a higher-than-average concentration of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines.

The researchers projected that if all Medicare patients with new-onset lower back pain lived in areas with the least MRI availability in 2004, there would have been 5.4 percent fewer lower back MRIs and 9 percent fewer back surgeries.

The study authors also found that two-thirds of MRI scans that may have resulted from increased MRI availability took place within the first month of onset of back pain. However, clinical guidelines recommend delaying an MRI scan until four weeks after onset, during which time most people with low back pain show improvement.

“Not only are patients in high-availability areas getting more MRIs, but they are getting them earlier,” study first author Jacqueline Baras, a Stanford University medical student, said in a university news release.

While this may sound good, it’s actually a cause for concern. Previous research found that increased surgery rates don’t improve outcomes for patients with new-onset low back pain.

“The worry is that many people will not benefit from surgery, so heading in this direction is concerning,” senior author Laurence Baker, a professor of health research and policy, said in the release.

“It is important that policymakers recognize that infrastructure matters, and that the number of MRI machines in any particular area may affect the volume and quality of health care that patients receive,” Baras said.

A hormone called ghrelin enhances the nose’s ability to sniff out food, researchers report.

It was already known that ghrelin promotes hunger and fat storage. The new study suggests that the hormone may increase the ability to use smell to detect food and link that input with the body’s natural regulation of metabolism and body weight, said University of Cincinnati scientists.




The study, which included experiments with humans and rats, appears in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. It was led by Dr. Jenny Tong and Dr. Matthias Tschop, both of the university’s endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism division.

“Smell is an integral part of feeding, and mammals frequently rely on smell to locate food and discriminate among food sources. Sniffing is the first stage of the smell process and can enhance odor detection and discrimination,” Tong said in a university news release.

“Other studies have shown that hunger can enhance odor detection and sniffing in animals,” Tschop added in the release. “Since ghrelin is a hunger-inducing stomach hormone that is secreted when the stomach is empty, this hormone pathway may also be responsible for the hunger-induced enhancement of sniffing and odor detection.”

I'd like to share a few tips on writing articles for an SEO. Article writing isn't as difficult as it seems. All you have to do is be focused and not get carried away while writing. Some people go off the topic while writing. The whole point of writing is to draw a good amount of online traffic towards the website concerned. In recent times work from home India has drawn a lot of attention to article writing. So let us not waste any more time and look at a few tips that will help us write those wonderful and good quality articles.

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FRIDAY, April 15, 2011 Almost half of the meat and poultry sold at U.S. supermarkets and grocery stores contains a type of bacteria that is potentially harmful to humans, a new study estimates.

Researchers tested 136 packages of chicken, turkey, pork, and ground beef purchased at 26 grocery stores in five cities around the country, and found that 47 percent contained Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), a common cause of infection in people.

What’s more, roughly half of the contaminated samples contained strains of the bacteria that were resistant to at least three antibiotics, such as penicillin and tetracycline. Some strains were resistant to a half dozen or more.

Although the high contamination rates may sound alarming, the threat these bacteria pose to humans is still unclear.

“We know that nearly half of our food supply’s meat and poultry are contaminated with S. aureus, and more than half of those are multidrug resistant,” says Lance B. Price, PhD, the senior author of the study, which was published Friday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. “What we don’t know [is] how often these transfer to people. We need more studies to quantify the public health impact.”

S. aureus, and drug-resistant strains in particular, can cause serious infections and even death in humans. However, simple precautions including cooking meat thoroughly, washing hands after handling meat, and keeping raw meat separate from other foods to prevent cross-contamination are believed to neutralize the risk of infection, according to experts not involved in the research.

“Numerous studies of this type done in other countries…have generally come up with the same findings, that multidrug-resistant S. aureus are present in a variety of animal meats,” says Pascal James Imperato, MD, the dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY–Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn. “But, so far, no one has been able to draw a connection between the presence of those bacteria in meats and human illness.”

Multidrug-resistant bacteria strains are “always a concern for humans,” says M. Gabriela Bowden, PhD, a bacteria expert and assistant professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center, in Houston. “But if you follow the hygiene rules that you would follow for Salmonella or E. coli, there shouldn’t be a problem.”

Search engine optimization specialists will probably advise you about the effective tools to make your optimization easier. Fortunately, the internet houses thousands of tools that will solve your website problem areas. The following are specific tools and SEO specialists commonly used and visited by many webmasters.

Google Analytics - This is an easy-to-use solution that analyzes a website traffic data. It is a free tool that tracks site activities such as page views, hits, pages viewed per visit, bounce rates and average time spent in the website. This tool covers three SEO elements: search traffic, keywords and content performance.

Alexa - This utilizes toolbars that are installed on internet users' browsers. It has been well-accepted by many webmasters for years already due to its ability to measure the popularity of a website. Alexa could only promise accuracy for the top 100,000 sites.

KeyComplete - This is a tool that determines the keywords of competitors through their PPC campaigns. The good thing about KeyComplete is that is an online tool with a lot of useful features.

SEOmoz - SEOmoz has a great deal of effective SEO tools that opens a pathway for users to obtain information from their competitors and receive reports from big search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Alexa. The tools also feature site error detection, traffic tracking and keyword research.

Widexl - Widel has a link popularity tool that helps webmasters locate pages that are linked to their site. It also has a meta tag analyzer tool that examines the meta tags, keyword density, page load time and others. The Search Engine Saturation, another Widexl tool, checks the linking to websites on six search engines, thus, allowing comparison among competitors.

SEO Logs - SEO Logs has several free tools for SEO. Web Page SEO Optimizer and Keyword Difficulty Check are On-Page SEO tools that analyze webpages for keywords optimization. Keyword Difficulty Check measures the level of difficulty of a keyword to rank in search engines. SEO Logs also includes Google tools that detects faked Pagerank and produces PR value results. Other tools are the Backlinks Analyzer Tool, HTTP Headers and Status Check Tool, Domain Age Check, Alexa Rank Comparison and AdSense Profit Calculator.

Link Diagnosis - It is one of the popular link analysis tools available in the internet. It allows website owners to examine link competition by providing the main details about competitors' links. Results will report the anchor text, PageRanks and others. Link Diagnosis runs only through Firefox.

IWEBTOOL - This website has several tools that basically cover most areas in SEO. It has Google PageRank Prediction which "predicts" ranking in Google; Link Popularity which counts the links of a domain on search engines; Website Speed Test which measures the time of site loading and many more.

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Micro-Tasks

Micro-tasking has been around for years, but only now has technology caught up to the demand. Services like Amazon's Mechanical Turk allow websites and business owners to post small jobs that are better done by humans than machines. Jobs pay anywhere from a couple of cents to hundreds of dollars for services like clicking a link, transcribing a video, or answering simple questions.

Freelance Writing

Every website needs a writer, and you may be surprised how many of your favorite sites actually outsource their content creation. You can utilize your writing skills by joining a freelance connect website to find recurring work, or you can be a real entrepreneur and submit your articles to any number of popular pay-per-view or pay-per-use directories.

Answering Questions

An interesting alternative to taking surveys is to answer questions for people instead of corporations. Popular text-message search engines like ChaCha and KGB are actually powered by real people - reading, researching, and answering questions. You can make money online and learn while you do so! These programs pay pennies, but the extra cash in your pocket will quickly add up as you realize how much fun these services can be!

Taking Surveys

Many people who want to make money online have already tried the survey route and usually quit extremely disappointed. You cannot make much money doing these market research projects, but you can earn free product samples including food, clothing, gadgets, and home accessories.

Stock Photography

Are you skilled with a camera? Have you ever wanted to become a photographer but lack the equipment or expertise? Consider uploading your works to stock photography websites and enjoy the royalties. Almost every website needs visual content, but there are only so many photographers in existence. Make money online while improving the appearance of the Internet! Your vacation photos and funny cat pictures can finally be put to good (and profitable) use!

Everything In Between

Fiverr is a hip new website that allows users to upload and complete tasks for cash. Every listing is worth five dollars, and you can advertise your services no matter how silly: fortune telling, making short video reviews, making jewelry, writing tiny articles, or anything else that you can think of that's worth five bucks. Both buyers and sellers are protected from fraud under Fiverr's well-enforced policies.

Next time you see an advertisement for a fraudulent "get rich quick" scheme, forget about it and remember that small efforts DO pay off. The Internet is more than just a source for entertainment: it's a bustling marketplace with more than enough room for anybody with dedication and skills to make money online.