Get rich on the internet

Sometimes you receive a message with the same subject of the one I used for this post. But most of the time it can't be true. If you want to get rich on the internet you must have something special. Off course there are always people that have a great idea. Let's take Google, Facebook and Twitter as 3 examples. As a normal user that can't be possible.

But you can always make a small amount of money without investing lots of time. Since a few years I have made myself a member of programs that pay you to read mails and a few days ago I have requested my first pay-out for two of them. Let's hope they pay me quick. It's not much but it's something and every single cent is a cent on your bank account.

This is actually the first time I will get paid for reading e-mails. If you don't take those for getting a job in mind. Because that's worth a lot more if you just think about it.

I also like to fill in surveys and there's a program that has paid me out twice or more. It's really great that this is possible. You just help someone by filling in a survey and you receive something in exchange.

The bad thing is that you aren't paid for any unwanted mail message you receive in your mailbox. Otherwise I would already have received lots of money. If I could receive just one cent a message, I would make a dollar a day some days. But for that we just have to keep on dreaming. Maybe one day we will get paid for that. But it would be much better to receive none of those messages.

Get rich on the internet, keep on dreaming dude.

Do you need a numeric keyboard?

Apple released some new Macs today. But it also launched a new keyboard. It looks like the wireless keyboard but includes some USB-ports too. It's nice for people that don't like a big keyboard. But I wouldn't buy it because I can't live with the idea that I don't have a numeric keyboard. I always use those keys when I need to type in numbers. I also like all the other buttons that are available near those numeric keys.

But when you configure your Mac order on the Apple store website you can choose to buy the old version at no additional price. An option I would use if I was in the need of a new computer.

The web is changing - part 1

It's a little bit strange to say but since I started using the internet 9 years ago in 2000 when I won my first modem in school some things have really changed the internet.

When I got that modem I also got my first account with an ISP. It was bundled with the modem and part of my prize. I could also choose for a gift card to buy a CD but I decided to take the modem. And I'm happy I did it.

At that time it was the time of free internet. You didn't have to pay for your connection to the internet on a monthly base. You only had to pay the telephone bill. I still have this subscription but since we have cable internet I haven't been using it for many years. I only use the subscription to receive my e-mails.

That takes me to a second thing that has changed over the years. In 2000 I didn't use webmail but I used Outlook Express because it made it possible to read your mail when you where offline. But since I started using Gmail a couple of years ago I stopped using offline mail programs for most of my mail messages. Webmail has taken a new step. They have bigger accounts, almost no ads, better search and you can visit them from every single place that is connected to the internet. I even read my mails on my mobile phone since last summer.

And because sometimes you need a new computer, you also need to transfer you e-mail too. And I must say that when I moved from Outlook Express to Thunderbird I've lost some of them. After some time I noticed that I had a few blank messages. But it was too late to recover them because the other computer didn't had them stored anymore.

More of this in The web is changing - part 2.

Welcome to ANTSYB

Hello everyone and welcome to this new blog named ANTSYB. What does ANTSYB stand for? Well it simply means always nice to see you back.

Why this name? Because I hope that you will visit my blog very much because it is always nice to see people back from time to time.

What can I expect to see here? At this time I'm not very sure of that. But I think this will be my very own personal blog. It's always possible that other people will join this blog too in the future. But the answer to that question is only known by the future itself.

Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly? I also don't know this yet. But I will try to update it as much as possible.

Is this your first blog? No, I have been blogging for many years but it wasn't very big. I hope that ANTSYB can bring a big change in my blogging experience.