This will be a very short and quick post that I am going to do because I don’t want you to miss this cool offer. 1and1 the domain registrar will be giving away a free .com domain registration. Click on the banner below and get the domain for yourself NOW.

I don’t care what you do with it, remember its a free domain. Go list it on a forum and sell it. That is the easiest money you will make. BUY IT NOW.

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Enjoy

Now comes the crucial part: I will not be writing about your product. YOU WILL.

The posts will be published as is, without any changes, so make it good. Remember images in the post helps explain alot.

One user can submit upto two products, sites, or blogs.

Now the terms are simple:

You must be a subscriber to Balkhis RSS Feeds via EMAIL

You cannot use affiliate links in this post!

When you write these posts for balkhis, you understand that these will not be reposted anywhere else on the web. If this review is posted somewhere else, then I will remove it from Balkhis. So basically I am saying is make it unique. At least make an effort.

Tip: If you have a blog, highlight some of your best articles in the post. Give Balkhis readers a reason for visiting your site.

This contest was open to all publishers that joined under my referral. A mandatory part in this contest was to be a Market Leverage Affiliate. Only one person followed that direction in this contest. So technically there was only one legal winner. But due to the generosity of our sponsor, we will be giving away both prizes away.

First Winner: CD16072 (Asus)

Second Winner: Deanna of WinwithDeanna (deanna@j******.com) [Have Not Contact Us Yet]

So Deanna if you see this post, please contact me with your details. If she does not contact, a substitute winner will NOT be announced.

I would like to thank all of my contest members who tried, and I would strongly recommend anyone who has not joined Market Leverage yet to JOIN Market Leverage, this link will let you join under a publisher who came from Balkhis which means you will be able to compete in our future contests and have a leverage over others.

Special Thanks to Amanda Roberts of Balkhis for helping organizing and maintaining this contest.

Sincere Gratitude for Market Leverage Staff and Mike Jenkins and most specifically Dina Riccobono for helping me launching this contest.

This contest is only for those users who have signed up with Market Leverage under my referral.

So signing up to Market Leverage with my referral is a mandatory step that you need to do.

If you are already a user with Market Leverage, and you did not join under my referral, then you are not qualified to enter this contest.

*These are the terms that both I and Market Leverage agreed upon when starting this contest, so they must be followed in order for this contest to go smoothly.

The first of our two prizes will is a brand new white ASUS PC, much like the one you see below, and the second of our two prizes is a brand new blue iPod Nano.

So what do you need to do you may ask? Well the winners of this contest will be chosen by random draw. Now, to better your chances of winning it is in your best interest to accumulate as many entries into the contest as possible, and you can gain entries by doing the following:

Subscribing to Balkhis’ RSS Feed you can gain 15 entries. This is the mandatory part of the contest, so if you want that ASUS, make sure you subscribe!

This step below is mandatory.

Signing up for Market Leverage will give you 15 entries into the contest. This is one of the simplest ways to earn lots of entries, so if you have yet to sign up, make sure you join Market Leverage.

Now, if you generate $1 with Market leverage, you will get one additional entry. Now this can only be used one, but, if you generate $100 with Market Leverage, you will get an additional 15 entries into the contest. So go out there and make some money!

Another easy way to get entries into the contest is to simply blog about this about this contest with a link back to this post. You can get 10 additional entries for your post.

Now if you have heard of this little thing called Twitter, you can make a killing with Twitter Entries.

A twitter post about Market Leverage (for those with 100 or more followers) will net you two entries, and this can be done daily for the twenty-four days the contest will run for a total of 48 entries!

If you follow @MLTV on Twitter, you can get one entry, and following @MarketLeverage will give you yet another entry to the contest.

And finally, you can gain 5 points for EACH PERSON you refer to participating in the contest. This can be done as many times as you like, just make sure that the people you refer comment that you referred them.

Well there you have it, it is as easy as that! The contest will run from now until March 22nd.

Now this contest is only open to new and current Market Leverage publishers who were referred to Market Leverage by Balkhis, and if you won a previous contest, than please sit this one out.

This contest will be operated in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations, and the contest will be run fairly with the winner chosen by random drawing.

This contest is not associated with, either directly or indirectly to: (i) alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, or any illegal substance; (ii) pornography, adult content or sexually suggestive or explicit content; (iii) expletives or inappropriate language; (iv) racism or racial hate; (v) gambling or lotteries; (vi) firearms or fireworks; (vii) any product or service that is illegal for a minor to purchase, obtain or possess; (viii) any group, political party issue, public policy position, organization or individual. So keep this in mind when you blog about the contest.

This template is special for directory owners because it contains category Icon mod, so category on the homepage will have unique icons. This mod is right now a paid one by another vendor, but I am offering it for free in this template.

All you have to do is get the category id number, and rename the icons to those numbers, and you can also add “.png” icons 48 x 48px size with more categories as you go. To find quality Icons, refer to my post Icon Pack for Webmasters.

Note for directory owners: When you install the template, It won’t work in the beginning because Category IDs are different in each database, so you will have to rename the icons or add icons. For those who doesn’t want this mod, I will add a version without the mod also, so for those who doesn’t want to go through the updating of the mod they can just download the other version.

WordPress version is like normal. I have added some extra widget ready sidebars. If you don’t know how to use it than visit my post about how to create and use extra sidebars.

Preview of the template

Live Demo for PHP Link Directory

Live Demo for WordPress

Download this template now:

PHP Link Direcctory Version with Icons

PHP Link Direcctory Version without Icons

WordPress Template

TOS: You must leave the footer links intact to use any templates available for download at Balkhis.

This deal basically lets you register one free domain at Register.com

Now I haven’t register a domain yet from them so can’t review the service, and I will probably not register any either because I already have too many sitting in my account and if I register another one, it will just go to waste, so I will let this offer be useful to those who are really interested.

It has becoming really hard to get sponsors for themes mostly because I don’t like posting my themes in public because there are not many serious bidders. If you want to get your link in the footer of my future templates contact me please.

Lets get back to this theme….

Preview of the theme

Live Demo for phpLD 3.3

Live Demo for WordPress

Download it now

WordPress

phpLD 3.3

Logo file is attatched in the folder. Terms to use this template is that the footer link must remain intact. I will file DMCA for those who violate the term.

I have ordered everything except for a cheque book because I already have one from my bank account. All you have to pay is Shipping.

This is one of the best opportunities you will get to promote your business offline at a fraction of price. They are also offering huge discounts once you finish your order on alot of their products.

250 Free Business Cards

You have to choose one of the predesigned templates and there are 42 of them available. The back side of the card will contain Vista Prints link which you can easily remove by paying $2 for having a blank backside, or $5 to get your own text (which I did) because if it is my business card I dont want to have someone else’s link on it, and I don’t mind paying $5 for adding a little of my own text because it is an affordable price.

Free Rubber Stamp – You ever wanted to just stamp your address on the letter rather than keep writing it over and over? This is a free rubber stamp that comes with an extra black ink. This was one of the cool thing that I liked in their free promotion.

100 Free Postcards

They have their own pre-designed templates which you can use to write a description of your product and such and send these post cards out to your friends and families. Vista Print also offer mailing service which I didn’t bother with, but you can certainly go with it if you need to send the post cards to the people in your area. You can also use these as the little brochure I talked about in my Local Advertising post.

Free Custom Hat – I didn’t see this when I ordered my other supplies, but I found it when I was looking later, this looks very cool because there are tons of premade templates, and there are two colors available.

Free Sticky Notes

This I found were cool but they only offer one set I believe. You can write sticky notes to people and it will have your Website’s name and url, so people will know about your website.

Free T-Shirt – One free T-shirt with a pregenerated logo from their company. It is something nice to have not too special but it is free.

25 Magnets for your Business – This $12.99 value is completely free for you. Now you can also give out free magnets with your contact information for people so they can put it on their refrigerator and will never have to look for your contact information again.

140 free Return Labels – As I mentioned above with the small rubber stamp. This is something similar, but much more prettier. You can get 140 colored labels with your name and return address, and won’t have to write your return address on the envelopes again. A great way to brand your business.

10 Free Notecards – Now this is what I like alot. Through this you can get 10 folded notecards, flat notecards, notecards with your own logo etc. These make a great gift for those people who you want to thank in your business. Especially when sending a business gift these cards are very helpful.

Car Door Magnet – Free Car Door Magnet for your Car door. Just put it on your car and advertise as you drive to places. This looks cool to me, another thing that I will be ordering in my second batch.

Free Wallet Check – You can customize your wallet check with 6 designs with Vista Print. The check book will contain 25 free checks.

Just an Advice for those who bothered reading this entire post, don’t order these individually… Order in bulk and save on shipping because ordering each individual will cost you $10 each, and ordering all together will cost somewhere around $15 and depending on how much more services you add.

I seriously recommend that you guys get these freebies because this is a great opportunity and not many things you will get in life which are free

Enjoy

These converters come in handy because you might be away from a house and if you are a student in college and couldnot open your presentation or some file due to technical difficulties use these handy converters to help yourself out in hard times.

Here i have collected a list of some very useful online converters which i hope you will all like and appreciate. Some of them are webmaster related while others are just general use.

Image Converters

As a web designer i use them alot, and i recommend one of these to alot of my clients. I will start this list of with the converter for favicon as i have been getting a few queries about that.

• • Auto Favicon from Images – Make your life easy by converting the image directly to favicon.
  • ConvertIcon – Converts .png to .ICO, and .ICO to .png
  • Image to Text – Converts Images to text using Matrix, HTML, or ASCII.

A few days back i bought this database which was horribly coded, and it was in excel format. Not just that it had ridiculous characters in there. It was a pain to convert that excel file to mysql. Well now that i have that figured out and the script is running and will be out soon in my new project Here are some Excel Converters

• • Convert MS Excel file to CSV
  • CSV to HTML – Converts CSV to HTML in seconds.

I know there have been alot of problems with editing pdf forms. Atleast my teachers have these issues alot. So i told her to buy Adobe Writer if she needs it that bad. She said that is too expensive. I found this converter that converts PDF to MS Word, but below there are few more.

• • Multiextension-PDF – The best one i found so far for pdf. This One lets you convert the pdf file to numerous extensions from MS Documents to Plain text and images, and the files are sent securely to your email.
  • HTML to PDF – Converts html into pdf which comes in handy often.

Even though the great feedburner does this for all i thought i should just give two more option for those who don’t want to use feedburner to convert rss feeds to javascript.

• • RSS to Javascript – Converts RSS Feeds to Javascripts.
  • RSS to Image – Converts the rss feeds into an image.

Now i will post some random converters that are html related, i didnt know what to categorize them under.

• • Html to CSS – This one converts html to css and vice versa.
  • Html to … – converts html to java, php, perl

I have been keeping my favorite one to the last so if you bother to read this post till the end you won’t miss the best one of all time.

Zamzar – Zamzar is a file converter that converts many formats from images, documents, music, video, other. Convert anything you want there upto 100mb, so enjoy.

Hopefully i gave you guys a good list to play around with in your free time.