AGLOCO Pays You to Surf the Web

If you want to earn money online, check out AGLOCO. This is a new service that will pay you to surf the internet. Cool, right?

Basically, you just display a "viewbar" of ads at the bottom of your browser while surfing. Advertisers pay AGLOCO to show up in the viewbar. You get paid to be shown ads.

The coolest part is that you also get paid for referring people to the service. Plus, you get paid for their referrals, and so on.

If you're curious, go check it out. The viewbar is still in beta, but you can start building your network now. If you want to help me out, here's my referral link.

Alcoholism Treatment Center

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If you are looking for an alcoholism treatment center, Stone Hawk might be a good choice. They have an extensive alcoholism treatment program and a comprehensive website with lots of information.

The facility itself is located in south central Michigan, and boasts a +76% success rate for drug rehabilitation. It's even on a lake stocked with fish; the perfect place to have a serene start to a brand new life.

There are actually two different programs at two separate facilities. One is a 3-6 month program, while the other is only 28 days. These are intended to cater to the specific individual needs of each person. Very cool.

Whole Foods Was Full of Holes

I made my first solo trip to Whole Foods today. I've been a couple times before, but with other people. Today I embarked on my first trip alone.

I set out to buy two simple things: Illy coffee and nutritional yeast. I knew Whole Foods carried both of these things. It should've been in & out.

I looked around for the nutritional yeast and wasn't finding it. That's my own problem, so I asked for some help. An associate took me to the bulk bins where we discovered that they were out of exactly what I needed. But she ended up finding a big can in another section of the store. I only need 1/2 cup, and the can was 16 oz. for $12.99.

So then I went to get coffee. I found the coffee section with ease, and then I found the Illy shelf pretty quickly. But then I saw a starkly empty spot right where my kind should've been. Poop!

In the end, I wasn't impressed with Whole Foods. In fact, I will probably never go there again. They donate money to Planned Parenthood, so I'm definitely not a supporter there. But I'm never happy when a store is out of the 1 or 2 things I go to buy.

Great Site for Free Images

Do you do any web design work? If you're a blogger, you might design your own templates. Perhaps you design websites for other people.

Whatever the reason for designing, you'll need images. That's where Bittbox helps out.

This is a great site full of image-related goodies. The coolest part is that they're free, along with advice and tips on how to do vector-based web design. Very cool stuff.

Honestly, these freebies are so cool that I'm thinking of redesigning some of my blogs.

Get a Keyboard Cover to Preserve Your Investment

I've been using my spiffy Inspiron E1405 for several weeks now. I LOVE this machine. To protect my investment, I purchased a keyboard cover for it.

If you haven't thought of a keyboard cover, you're overlooking an important piece of equipment. Here are just a few benefits:

• safeguard your keyboard from liquids and crumbs
• prevent keyboard marks on your screen
• make keyboard cleanup a snap

Before I bought my cover, I was worried that it would interfere with my typing or be a nuisance. However, I've been using it for about a week now with great success. It took about a day to get used to it. Now I'm typing at my usual speed, and I don't even really notice the cover any longer. The only thing I really notice now is a quieter keyboard. Nifty, right?

View a DVD for Free!

I'm definitely a fan of free things. That's why I love redbox.

Surely you've seen the big red machines in grocery stores, drug stores, and some McDonald's locations. They vend DVDs. You can get just about any new release for $1 per day.

Pick your title, swipe a credit card, and get your DVD. Keep it as long as you want and then return it to any redbox. That's handy, right?

So how are they free? Promo codes! Redbox gives out promo codes good for a day's rental when you enter your email address on their website. Thanks to awesome community sites like Inside Redbox, we can ALL benefit from these codes. Users input their codes, along with their success or failure and location. Then it's a piece of cake to view the latest valid promo codes for your region.

I think I might go "rent" a movie this afternoon. You can't beat a free DVD.

Awesome Headphones - Shure E2c

I'm the proud owner of a pair of Shure E2c sound isolating earphones. You might laugh when I tell you that I paid $108.24 for these puppies ($99.99 + tax), but they're worth every penny.

Instead of the cheapo Apple earbuds that came with my iPod, I use my Shure earphones all the time. Since they isolate sound, I don't have to crank the volume over ambient noise around me. Instead, the Shure earphones literally block out the sound.

Sound isolating headphones work kind-of like an earplug with a headphone attached. Even without music playing, you can't hear much of anything that's going on around you. This means that you only have to turn your volume up a little bit to hear the music. This saves your hearing from unneeded stress.

Be sure not to confuse these earphones with the type that use an electronic device to neutralize sound. Those type produce a whitenoisey sound that tries to deaden ambient noise. It never makes sense to battle noise with ... more noise!

Unfortunately, my earphones have a short in the cord. Sound in the right ear is fuzzy and it comes in and out. Luckily, I discovered that Shure has a 2-year warranty on these puppies. With any luck, I'll have a fixed pair in my hands in a couple weeks. That's a great investment in my book!