Today, we start Day 2 of our “3 Day Money” series. I have a series of FIVE videos for Day 2 (keep in mind that these videos will be released later as part of another project). These FIVE videos, together, outline a broad strategy for setting up an online business, bringing in traffic to your online business, and converting that traffic into money in...

Being in the Internet business, I obviously use the Internet. A LOT. This means I use my share of web-based applications and websites. What I have done is listed out the ten that I use practically on a daily basis. I gave my list of top Windows applications. I then gave my list of the top Mac OS X freebies. There are not as many web-based ones simply because I...

Here at PCMech, I have given full reviews to both the Flip Video Ultra and the Flip Video Mino. I’m a big fan of this little camera and, as a blogger, I use my Mino several times per week for videos that I do for this site as well as for David Risley dot com. I gave my Ultra to my wife and she has been using it to make videos for her own blog. She decided...

Everybody likes free software. And that includes Mac users. I mean, face it. Mac users already spend a tidy sum of money on our Macs. We don’t have to fork over a bunch of dough for software, too. Do we? In this compilation, I have gathered a list of my top picks for free software for Mac OS X. NOTE: Windows Users, I just published my top 65 list of free...

Twitter has turned into a phenomenon on the Internet. I have been using Twitter for some time, but I very rarely visit the actual website. That’s because I use a Twitter client to interface with the site. As a heavy user of Twitter, I chose TweetDeck as my chosen Twitter client. Based on Adobe AIR, Tweetdeck is an awesome client and, in this video, I show...

Everybody likes free software. Today, it is getting to the point where you can completely use your computer without paying a nickel for software. If you use Linux, everything is free. But, even if you use Windows or Mac, you can still almost completely stock up your machine with software without paying anything at all. In this compilation, I have gathered a...

As many of you probably have noticed, our premium PCMech University program is comprised of two main themes: becoming a power user of technology and putting the Internet to use to generate an income and put money in our pocket. But, you might be asking yourself: Is the idea of making money on the Internet really a possibility? Is this something that a lucky few...

It is the end of an era. PC Magazine was founded in 1982. It brought the then brand new world of PC enthusiasm to the masses. A lot of computer users subscribed to the magazine, including myself. I am still a print subscriber to the magazine and enjoy it. Well, all good things come to and end. PC Magazine will be printing it’s last print version of the...

The Iphone is just cool. Calling it a phone is almost a disservice because what it really is is a full mobile computing platform. And in that vein, it can also be a mobile GAMING platform. Now, I’m not a big gamer (my regular readers know that). But, I did spend a little time playing around in the App Store looking for some decent free games for the...

Every now and then, a little fad shows up on the Internet. It lasts a day or two, raises eyebrows around the world, then quickly fades. It happened again, and this time it involved a bunch of online mothers taking offense to an ad by Motrin. How did it progress?Not so well for Motrin. As of the writing of this post, this is what I get when I view the Motrin...

In my last specific demonstration on finding a market and finding something to sell, I’ll show you how you can use Google to check out your market. This is a search engine (of course) which means they’ve pretty much got the Internet covered. Also, their Adwords program means people are paying Google to reach different markets. As an observer, there...

In this video of our series on “3 Day Money”, I’ll give you a walkthrough on how you can use the Clickbank marketplace to do market research and discover products you can sell. It is also a great way to check out your potential competition. [hidepost=1] [flv:http://pcmech.s3.amazonaws.com/3daymoney/Clickbank.flv 576...

In the last video, I outlined several different ways to find a market to sell to and get ideas on what you could sell to them. In this and the next few videos, I wanted to specifically show you how to use some of these different resources. In this video, we’ll look at how you can use Amazon.com to gauge your potential market. All of this leads up to one...

I don’t know about you, but when I wake up in the morning to the sound of my phone ringing, I’m not a happy guy. And when the called ID shows some toll free number or an “unavailable”, it is worse. That’s because it is a 95% chance of being a telemarketing call. It is the equivalent of phone spam. I never subscribed to receive...

Chances are if you are a reader of this site, you are into computers. Also, chances are that you eventually upgrade your computers and then have to figure out what to do with the old one. Recycling is an option, but have you ever thought about exactly what happens to your hardware after you drop it off for recycling? You should. Stephen B., one of our PCMech...