Accept PayPal Payments Without Creating a Button

With the explosion of Websites like Twitter and FaceBook, opportunities to sell products and services have also increased. You may be able to add a link, but you can't stick a paypal button in your Twitter feed,. So you link to a salespage where you've created, copied and pasted a paypal button. Is there an easier way? Funny you should ask...

PayItLink requires you to enter a minimum of information; your paypal email address, the product or service name/id and a price, with sixteen different currencies to choose from.

There's other times when a link could be more appropriate. Maybe you're selling access to an exclusive coaching club and you only want your payment details to go to certain qualified leads or you're making a special subscriber only offer, you outline the details in an email and insert a link that is directed straight to paypal.

Having entered your details, as above, just press Create a Pay It Link and you're presented with a link...

Go ahead and test it out, here's what ours looked like:

The only downside we can see, is you can't (at least not at the moment), insert re-direct instructions for a download, but as we've seen, this method is probably most useful for using on a small scale, which often requires a personal touch anyway.

Are there any other drawbacks you can see with PayItLink, or other useful applications for the service? Do you use PayItLink? Let us know about your experiences and comments below.

Check out PayItLink

Crop Pictures with a Free Online Tool

Cut My Pic is a very simple online tool that does what it says on the tin... 



Simple interface, simple instructions, simple operation.

To start, upload your pic...



We're going to cut my portrait, ready for christmas, lol.


 

 As you can see once uploaded, just drag the outline to cover the part of the picture you want to 'cut out' or keep.

There's only a couple of options to add effects to your pic - round the corners and add a drop shadow.

 
Now preview your cropped image.

Ok? Click Done. 

Download or use the provided form to send by email.

Okay, so CutMyPic has very limited application, but if you're short on processing power, it beats firing up photoshop just for a quick fix.

Check Out CutMyPic

What's The Quickest Way to Create Rss Feed Icons for your Website or Blog?

Encouraging readers to subscribe to your Rss Feed with an attractive icon is an established and successful practice.

Feed Icon 2.0, owned by sitefeed.com couldn't be simpler to use in three quick steps, summed up as "No Knowledge, No Skill, No Hassle".

Step One: Insert the URL of your Website

Step Two: Hit 'Generate Icon'

Steph Three: Copy and paste the resulting html code to your website or blog.

As you can see Feed Icon 2.0 gives you a choice of three buttons and automatically generates code for all three, just pick the one that suits your site best.

Hitting 'about feed' takes your subscribers to a clean-looking page, where they can choose which feed reader they prefer, with one-click subscription, or  select a drag-and-drop button for desktop readers. Note: if auto-discovery detects two or more supported feeds, all options will be displayed.

The generated page displays your website title at the top, followed by your tagline/ description.

FeedIcon 2.0 is free for both personal and commercial use, so no danger of getting into hot water there. Your website will be checked for updates at least once a day and the content of your personalized page updated accordingly.

There's an option to download and further personalize your generated subscription page. However, the website's terms state '...please do not modify the footer part to show the page was originally generated by FeedIcon 2.0' Well that's fair enough, no problems there...

The terms go on to state... 'please be advised that the feed items included in the downloaded page may not be updated. Basically, we do not support for the off-line use of the generated page'. - So not much point then?

But it's a free service, easy for almost anyone to use and the generated personalized page will be perfectly fine for most people.

Check Out FeedIcon 2.0

Learn Free - Webinar Resources

WebinarHero is a new startup that aims to 'provide you with the tools to find, create and promote world class webinars',

With the advancement of online video coupled with faster broadband speeds, webinars are increasingly  the tool of choice for internet marketing campaigns. I mean, what other boxes are there to tick when you have audio, visual, interactivity..?  It's so much quicker to put together an audio visual presentation than to maybe, write a report, send emails, answer emails, and so on.

So what can WebinarHero do for you?

WebinarHero lists upcoming webinars and online events, many of which are free to attend, although we noticed some didn't have a cost listed.

Search the site using a traditional search box, through a tag cloud, by category or by date. When we searched, we found two events listed for today. 'Introduction to Computer Forensic Investigation' and 'Vector Illustration Trickery'. Click on an event you're interested in and a full page of details are shown, including a link to the webinar, the cost (if any), whether registration is required and some, but not all, give further details of content.

If you're a marketer who creates webcasts, you can list your webinar for no cost and reap the rewards of some extra promotion.

Although the site isn't hugely busy just yet, we think WebinarHero could be built into a valuable resource, for both webcasters and students alike - but it should be noted here, we haven't actually attended any of the listed webinars, if you do let us know about it in comments below.

Speed Up Firefox in One Click

There's no doubt Mozilla's FireFox provides a fast browsing experience. However, over time firefox can become slugish. Database fragmentation is partly to blame, although firefox's infamous 'memory leaks' don't help matters.

Enter... SpeedyFox. A simple utility (not an addon), that safely compacts profile databases, without any loss of data..

SpeedyFox is a tiny download (0.3Mb) and it's free. Currently only available for Windows Pcs, but a Mac version is soon to be added to the website.

Promising to increase start-up by three times, SpeedyFox can transform a cranky old installation of firefox into 'feeling like a new-installation',  assuring to handle browsing history and cookie operations with greater acceleration too.

Download SpeedyFox, and click to execute.

Choose your profile, shut down firefox and click 'Speed Up My Firefox!' The whole process takes only seconds.

Now restart firefox and enjoy the increased pace.

We've noticed a healthy difference to our browser.

Let us know what you think, by leaving a comment below.