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Next Idea – A central hub for posting odd jobs and finding those jobs – Cash in hand

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:45:02 +0000

So I have had a new idea to have a central hub for posting odd jobs and finding those jobs – and Cash in hand is the site for it. The concept is pretty simple: Have a website where people can post for a nominal fee odd jobs they need done around the house and people can than view the jobs and contact the person to do the job.

The idea is more about people who are just wanting to earn a little bit more cash when needed by doing odd jobs, not a site for people to find under the table work as the tax office might consider that illegal.

Please share your thoughts.

Toolnames.com ? .COM Domain Name Generator

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:06:50 +0000

Coming up with a new domain name is usually quite difficult. You?ve got to come up with something catchy, memorable, and preferably short. Tool Names.com is a domain name generator with a difference. It uses a thesaurus to find related words to your site so you get a greater choice in choosing a domain prefect for your site. This domain name generator only produces .com top level domains. Try a few different combinations and see what you can come up with.

via Toolnames.com ? .COM Domain Name Generator.

All my sites are Powered by WordPress

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:16:35 +0000

So tonight I am sitting back thinking about all of my sites. In the past four to six months I have gone from not having a single site and struggling to use Wordpress to having a wide portfolio and releasing my first WordPress Mu site. WordPress IMHO is the best tool for any developer. Making sitewide changes could not be easier, and with exec-PHP making the flexible front-end for you web app could not be easier. This is why I now use WordPress for all my sites.

So just to take a bit of stock my sites are:

http://www.jobfeedr.com – this little treasure is now using Wordpress as the CMS. The site is wonderful, it gets job feeds from a number of different sites and posts them to other channels. Soon the ability to add ads manually will be made aviliable.
http://www.rsstotwitter.com – RSS to Twitter is a tool that takes RSS feeds and posts them to Twitter. The difference is the ease of it compared to the other ones which require OpenID. RSS to Twitter just needs to improve it’s page rank. RSS to Twitter also uses WordPress as the CMS.
http://www.toolnames.com and http://www.CreateMy.com.au – Toolnames was the orginal site which went through several stages, first it was a site to call someone a tool, then it became a toolname generator, this proved to be popular and then came the dot com dot au version of toolnames known as createmy.com.au. Both Toolnames and CreateMy have recently had WordPress added as a CMS.
http://www.whyitwas.com – My first ever WordPress site. This little ripper has been my one site where I have used WordPress as a blog.

There is some domains I have but there isn’t a site up for them yet.

Post to Twitter from your site using PHP

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:07:03 +0000

Twitter

You want to post something to you Twitter account? For instance you might want your followers to know when your site has been used and what the result was e.g. you site might want to announce each time someone signs up for your service.

The answer is real easy, use cURL and PHP to update your profile. For RSS to Twitter we use the below script.

PHP to Twitter Script

To use the below script call the postToTwitter function with a 140 charter message (if it is over that Twitter will truncate it for you), the user-name (or email) you want to use and the password.