“Life Hacker” is one of the most visited blogs around the net. It receives 5.7 million monthly visitors among which 68% are 18-34 years old and 79 % male. Huge number of poeple visiting this blog proves that the stuff provided here is quite popular among blog readers and equally useful too.

Lifehacker, the software and productivity guide, is a blog that covers tips and tricks for streamlining your life with computers. It points out software downloads, web sites, do-it-yourself projects, howto’s, tutorials, shortcuts and tips for going beyond the default settings and getting things done in the most clever, unexpected and efficient ways. Think of Lifehacker as self-help for power users.

It digs deep into the technoweb to publish totally life-altering tips and tricks for managing your life. Its readers are avid consumers of software programs, hardware gadgets, and “life hacks” that make their days more efficient, whether at work or at home.

Lifehackeris an award-winning, daily blog that features tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help you get things done smarter and more efficiently. It launched in January 2005.

It publishes over 20 tips per day.
- The Lifehacker editorial team develops an exclusive line of productivity software applications called Lifehacker Code, which is free to download and try.

Achievements:
- It is ranked as one of the top-linked blogs on the internet according to Technorati.
- In 2006 Wired Magazine named Lifehacker Best Blog in their annual Rave Awards ceremony.
- Lifehacker’s also been mentioned in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, O, The Oprah Magazine and PC Magazine as well as other mainstream press outlets.

When we are on vacations and travel places, cell phone, sms are the only way to be contacted with our friends or family members. But what about having a personal travel blog, where you can send your travel pictures, write your travel experiences and share it with the world?
It is absolutely FREE.

Now only you can create your blog, but you can read other blogs about “travel” at TravelPod.
It lets you chart your trips on a map. You may share unlimited photos and videos at the site.
More about the “Travel pod”:

- This week this site has been updated with 37,742 travel experiences from 152 countries.- It was created in 1997 being the first web site to offer travel blog hosting on the web.
- Read all time best 100 travel blogs

What you can do at TravelPod?
As a guest, you can use TravelPod to search other public travel blogs and use the public forums but to really use TravelPod to its fullest all you have to do is register your own account. Members can:

- create multiple travel blogs,
- keep an address book of their friends and family to notify them when you place a new entry,
- upload photos,
- share travel stories with friends and family, using private travel blogs, or the world using public ones.
What you get at TravelPod?

FREE membership
• Upload unlimited photos
• Unlimited personal travel maps
• E-mail notify up to 500 friends and family of updates
• Your travel blogs will never expire
• Upload unlimited MP3s and videos
• Use your mobile phone to update your blog
• Unlimited travel blogs
• Allow your guests to comment on your posts
• Spell checker
• Integration with Rabble mobile
• Collect donations from your guests
• Go Ad-free and make your blog private with our enhanced membership.
- Their forum has 155027 registered members with a total of 40343 posts.

- create a free account and start reading other blogs or create your own one.

There are number of blogs, which provide you money making information with your own blog or site.
etienneteo is one of the blogs, with rich content and valuable information about blogging and money making.
Blogger: Etienne Teo is a young 24 years old blogger, from Singapore.

How he started this blog?

In his own words:
“I have been experimenting on money making opportunities since Jan 2007 when i set my eyes on eBay as a source of fun money making experiences and i got serious when i started my money blog in early Feb 2007. I started to gain interest in expanding my experiment by setting up a blog which i intend to share my money making journey.
My Vision is to make more and more money and reach my dream five figures monthly earning and commit my life to internet marketing.”

What this blog offers?
It allows web surfers to learn what are the ways they can use to monetize their own website and blog.

* 56 resourceful blogging tips and tools

* 101 Tips I Learned From Blogging

* Read 537 Great Resources That Creates Your Professional Web 2.0 Blog>

* Top Posts for Etienne Teo

There is a lot of FREE stuff at the world wide web, but often there is some advertising or banners included with the offers. Yes there are many genuine resources which offer absolutely free stuff, but you have to search a lot for those links.

“Easy poll.com” provides free counter for web sites or blogs. And the positive side of the free offer is that there is no banner or visible advertising.
What you get with this offer?
- Information about your unique visitors, web site hits, keywords, visitor’s computer address, address of the page from which the visit was mads and more.

Site also provides these tools:
- Notifier,
- clock and date for your blog
and more to come tools.

Site is comparatively new, and many options would be offered gradually. You can get counter for your site or blog by submitting your site/blog address, entering counter start value, and this simple process takes few minutes. But to get professional stats for your site, you need to sign up for free counters advance.

No!,——
this is not an origami site, but a different kind of site. Paper Forest is a blog which I wished to find a long ago, while searching for origami projects.

I am an enthusiast of crafts, and making crafts with trash or recycled material is my favourite hobby.

Blog doesn’t only provide you with a lot of other site links but there are number of paper projects you may try to make yourself.
I am still amazed by watching a wide collection of paper crafts at this blog. There are also links to other sites/blogs or resources relating to the same topic.

About the blogger: “Jaime Zollars” is a painter and when she isn’t painting, she constructs mechanical paper toys or writes about them at blog.
More about her at her :Jaime Zollars blog

Her work, paintings, paper toys, paper craft is amazing. And I am really inspired how she could offer tons of her projects FREE at her blogs? (Every project has details which can be easily followed)

This is another online money making offer for bloggers. “Buy Blog Reviews.com”  is in online advertising business since 2000. But as they believe in quality of service, they might be among top advertising companies soon.

To my experiance these kind of sites are playing a good role of Get Paid Blogging
by providing opportunities to the bloggers. Mostly they pay the bloggers on time and bloggers are also satisfied that they get some money for some of their hard work.

Advertisers are preferring Blog Advertising method because they not only get their site or product reviews, but it is a cheap way of getting quality traffic and search engine ranking.
Rules: Get your blog registered FREE and wait until 48 hours. After approval you would get the approval e-mail at your inbox.

Payment: Many get paid to review sites pay after one month, but BuyBlogReviews is paying you every 15 days.
They also use PayPal payment system. They are currently charging 30% from each review. So bloggers get 70%which is the highest pay as compare to other get paid to write sites. They are also paying a good percentage for their affiliates, which is 15%.

Posts relating to the topic:
* Make money by writing reviews at your blog

* Making money writing reviews

Most of the bloggers are making money from their blogs, either from google adsense or placing ad links at their blogs.
A good opportunity of earning money online may be writing reviews at your blogs. I consider it a legitimate way of earning because there are a lot of “get paid to review” site, which are contacted with advertisers and at the same time they register bloggers who want to make money from their blogs. bloggerwave
is one of the “get paid to write” sites, and pays at the end of every month for their postings.
Their lowest offer for writing review is $1, but I could see a list of top 10 bloggers (who wrote reviews) and the highest earning was $1033, while lowest was $330.
For more information, go to their FAQ section.

Newspaper reading is a favourite and daily based task which is more important than any other chore, after getting up from the bed in the morning. And the bloggers, who are serious about their blogging career need to have awareness about blogsphere. Blog Herald is a news daily for bloggers.

It is the olders and first blog dedicated to provide fresh news of the blogspher to the bloggers and still remains the authority, as it not only provides you the recent news, but there are quality posts about blogging like as:
* Improving Your Blog: Why Blog?
* Tutorial
page takes you to some useful posts about blogging.

* Professional blogging page has many amazing posts about blogging.

Site not only provides you with blogging and new posts, but you may get link to blogging jobs. You can search at archive link to read more posts.

More about “Blog Herald”
Founded in March 2003, by Duncan Riley.