Many of us spend quite a bit of our days searching the web either using Google, Yahoo or some other search engine.  These search engines make billions of dollars every year through advertising in your search results.  Why not do something so that you can benefit too?  Scour.com is a search engine that will return results from Google, Yahoo and MSN.  I am sure that in the future they will expand what engines they include in the results.  The best part is there is a points reward system for your searching.  The more points you earn the more money you can make.  While it takes a while to build up the points to get a reward why not take the time since you do searching anyway?

So how do you earn points and just how many points does it take to get a reward?  Well everytime you run a search you will earn 1 point.  If you rate a search result positive or negative you will earn 2 points.  You can earn 3 points by leaving a comment about a particular result that you found to be good or bad.  The more points you rack up the better so the more active you are on Scour.com the better.  Now it does take 6,500 points just to get a $25 gift card but what other search engine would give you this?

Another good thing is that for every person you invite you earn 25% of the points they earn as well.  You will both collect points.  The more people you invite the faster your points will build up.  Be sure to go over to Scour.com and check out what they have to offer.  They have a nice UI which shows the rankings of the results on Google, Yahoo and MSN so you can always see where the results rank with the engines.  Since I always use Google I think I will be using Scour.com from now on.  I get the same results and can even be rewarded for doing my searches.  Why didn’t Google start this themselves?

A reporter apparently felt brave while being around a group of people waiting for their new iPhone 3G in Burbank. He started making comments about whether or not these people have seen a woman naked and was asking if they preferred humans or gadgets. He got just what he deserved when he asked these questions to one guy in line who was not afraid to tell him to go somewhere else. You can see the entire thing in the video below.

If you are in the market to buy some new mac software your first stop should be MacMix. The reason I say this should be your first stop is because of the pricing structure. They offer discounts up to 75% off 12 or more applications.

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If you have not already read my review on Coda you should do that now before you read this one. This review is based on what I personally feel are drawbacks in the application. I have been using Coda for the last few days pretty heavily for work. I feel that I have given it a good chance to prove itself as the tool of choice for development. In my last review I went over a lot of the good features that Coda has to offer, in this post however I will go over what I find to be drawbacks in the application.

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As you may or may not know I have recently been getting into Mac Development. I have been going through the new Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Ed.) by Aaron Hillegass. It is an extremely useful book and I believe it is also used as the textbook for the Cocoa Bootcamp course they hold at the Big Nerd Ranch. I have wanted to take this course however the costs of the course are out of my reach. I have been going through the book at a slow pace trying to understand everything it has to offer. I have asked questions on forums, IRC chat and mailing lists to answer things that I could not figure out.

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Last night I was looking at my Netflix Queue of movies when I noticed that there was an advertisment at the top stating that Fathers Day was June 15 why not send them a nice gift. The issue is that it is now July 11th. How did this one slip past those developers?? I guess they have no date checking clause on showing that message.

A while back I took a look at Coda but it was so early in development it really did not interest me. I was always stuck on using my IDE (Zend Studio) for my everyday development. Today I downloaded Coda again to take a look at what it has to offer now.

I started using Coda about an hour ago for my work. I have been looking at all aspects of it and find it to be quite a nice tool and it almost replaces my other IDE. I do not do a lot of debugging in the IDE so losing that feature does not really worry me.

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In the past I have always done my own SEO stuff for my site. It has always been a pain in the rear and takes quite a bit of time submitting to directories and search engines. The other day I found SEO Consultant which seems to offer quite a balance of services that you would require for SEO optimization.

I would never use a service like this for my own blog however I do have a project planned for the future that I would use their services for. They are not the cheapest guys I have seen around but witht he services they include you are getting a lot for your money. They charge a retainer of $2000 for 10 hours per month of services. This equates to $200 per hour. Boy am I in the wrong business.

If you want your site to rank in the top of the search engines or to improve your page rank SEO Consultant is the way to go. Once I get my project off the ground or funding for it I plan to contract a company like this. You cannot just expect to start a site and have everyone just know about it without any marketing or search engine optimization.