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I found a security breach on eBay that needs to be made public. This hole has already been abused to scam me out of money. Scammers are probably already using it. eBay should be accountable for not making it harder to rip people off.

Here's the hole: 1) Sell something on eBay. Make it something expensive like an iPhone. 2) Get a shipping label somehow. You can use usps.com if you want. You need to show that you have shipped the item. 3) Don't actually ship the item but hold on to it. 4) Wait until the person files a complaint with PayPal. 5) Once they file a complaint, ship them ANYTHING with the label you printed earlier. A blank piece of paper would be perfect. 6) Once the item is delivered, give the tracking numbers to PayPal. They will see an item has been delivered and will close the dispute. 7) Don't worry, PayPal only allows one dispute to be filed per item bought. YOU ARE NOW IN THE CLEAR WITH YOUR SCAM! When the person leaves negative feedback, just reply that PayPal resolved in your favor. Just say the people are whiney.

There you go, obviously this information is to be used for good for your protection, not evil. My hope is that eBay will change their ways.

I stumbled across a way to get free ringtones on my iPhone today. I have a jailbroken, unlocked iPhone running firmware version 1.1.3. I am using iTunes 7.4.2.4. I discovered a way to get ringtones on the phone that survived the syncing process. Here's how:

1) Create a ringtone. Here's how in a nutshell: Use audacity to edit a 30 second section of your favorite legal mp3. Create a ringtone mp3 by exporting it out of audacity. Import the mp3 into iTunes. Once imported into iTunes go to preferences/advanced/importing in iTunes select AAC as your preferred method of importing. Go back out to the music view in iTunes. Find the ringtone you just made. Right click on it and select "convert to aac." No go to windows explorer and find your new ringtone, which will be a M4P file, ie "ringtone.m4p". Change the "p" to an "r" so now the file is "ringtone.m4r". "m4r" is the ringtone extension.

2) Upload the ringtone to your iPhone. Here's how in a nutshell: Make sure your iPhone is jailbroken and has Open SSH installed. Use winSCP to connect to the phone. Navigate the iphone window of winSCP to /private/var/Ringtones directory. It may be a different directory for you because I used BossTools to move my ringtones to the other partition. Now just use winSCP to upload the ringtone.

3) Restart your iPhone.

4) No go into settings/sounds and select your ringtone.

That's it! You're done!

Welcome to the January 16, 2008 edition of best of web 2.0.

presents Hey sex can wait but blogging can't posted at seo Online marketing blog.

presents Photoshop bended button tutorial posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog.

Dan-O presents How to Make Real Life Money in the Second Life Virtual World posted at Danogo.com - Discover. Inspiring . Media,
saying, "People are making millions of real dollars in the virtual real
estate business. Are you missing out on the next Web gold rush?"

Kevin Fleming presents Live Satellite TV on Your PC Review - Watch TV on Your Computer posted at Satellite TV Guru.

Cassanova presents Graphic solutions for web developers. posted at SEO is always welcome !.

desinet1 presents Get a Free Backlink from This Blog posted at Web Tools and Tips,
saying, "I am starting my own way to build some crucial backlinks,
which should appear to be natural and organic to Google. They will be
helping both your blog, as well as mine.
Just, send me the URL(s) to which you want a backlink, alongwith the
keyword(s) of your choice for every URL. I will accommodate it within
my next few posts."

presents Web 2 0 ribbons photoshop tutorial posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog.

Joel Libava presents Attn: Global Franchise Concepts! posted at The Franchise King Blog, saying, "These guys have a really cool geo-location concept, with a great looking site.I interview them here.
Joel Libava
the Franchise King Blog"

Dan-O presents Mega Online Comic Manual: Create, Share and Profit from Webcomics posted at Danogo.com - Discover. Inspiring . Media, saying, "How to make money and have fun creating webcomics and publishing them on the Web."

digisam presents 20 Tools per creare i vostri siti Web 2.0 posted at DGA Web Design - Seo, Motori di Ricerca, Web design, Adsense, Wordpress Themes, Tutorial....

Robby Weinberg presents Click Heat posted at Wildwobby, saying, "My review on open source 'Click Heat' software I found."

Jon Hughes presents Easy as Pie - Unobtrusive JavaScript posted at Notes from Phazm,
saying, "This article outlines the easiest way to unobtrusify your
JavaScript. Jon Hughes also goes into some information about Best
Practices."

Jay M presents Business Plan Basics II posted at 4 entrepreneur, saying, "How to write a winning business plan for your new web 2.0 start-up company"

Everything Else

presents 0tutor.com: Web-2.0-Stylish-Photo-Stripe-of-Britney-Spears posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog.

Gley Yahya presents How to Start an eBay Business posted at Work At Home Start Up Guide,
saying, "Few years ago I was considered as a power seller on Ebay (I
stopped working on eBay. Reason I stopped work, due to bad events). My
secret to being a Power Seller was “Building Trust in The First Place”.
To help you start an ebay business and reach the same level as quick as
possible, I've developed a step-by-step guide you can use to learn how
to start an ebay business the right way and become part of… The "Best"
Of eBay Power Sellers – The Ones Who Actually Make Big Money on eBay!"

presents Free smooth Vector graphic collection posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog.

lamib presents Digg needs improvement posted at llamas are missing in bangladesh.

mike-cellphoneguru presents Four Facilities offered With the Nokia 2135 posted at Cell Phone Guru, saying, "The cell phone giant, Nokia, seems to have something for everybody."

isabella mori presents 4 reasons why we like lists posted at change therapy, saying, "as bloggers, we're always told to write lists. what is it about lists that we like so much?"

xicom presents Spammers: the internet’s biggest virus posted at 11xi85 [dot] com, saying, "Article on spam and how it is affecting the internet as a whole."

John Crenshaw presents “He Tells Me To Burn Things” posted at Dominate Your Life, saying, "How do you distinguish good advice from bad, how do you know when someone is just telling you to “burn things?”"

presents 0tutor.com: Glowing-christmas-heart-tutorial posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog.

Charles H. Green presents Digital and Analogue Social Networks and Pharma posted at Trust Matters,
saying, "A certain kind of "customer-centricity" is not collaborative.
It is customer-centric in the way a vulture is
customer-centric—laser-focused on its prey."

John Crenshaw presents Mindless Zombies Attack Will Smith, And I’m Not Talking About His New Movie posted at Dominate Your Life,
saying, "You may or may not have heard of the recent comments Will
Smith made about Adolf Hitler in an interview with The Daily Record in
the U.K., in which he said, “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me
do the most evil thing I can do today. I think he woke up in the
morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he
thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.”"

Tali presents How Do Small Blogs Make It Big? - The Story of Search for Blogging posted at The Marketer Review, saying, "How do you grow your small blog? A case study."

Scott Allen presents Top 10 New LinkedIn Features 2007 posted at Linked Intelligence,
saying, "LinkedIn's developers were busy in 2007, but they rarely
formally announce new features. Here's my pick of the most useful
capabilities they added last year."

Chris Harris presents Data or Algorithms? – New venture outsourcing blog posted at New venture outsourcing blog,
saying, "Coming from the data mining and machine learning field, a few
friends of mine have been kicking around the idea of whether data or
analysis is a more valuable asset. Obviously the two have a symbiotic
relationship to be valuable together. If you can have both you’ll take
it, but what if you had to choose?"

Swollen Pickles presents What’s wrong with this ad? posted at Swollen Pickles,
saying, "Entrecard has provided me with hours of entertainment since I
joined up. I’ve checked out a lot of new site, and found some
interesting stuff. In case you aren’t familiar with it, Entrecard
allows you to create your own 125 x 125 pixel ad which you can place on
other sites using the Entrecard widget. It’s all free, and seems to be
taking off quite well.
As you can imagine, the ‘create your own ad’ concept has seen the
creation of a mixed bag of ads. Some are professional looking, some are
crap, some are quirky and some are even a little disturbing. Take the
following for example."

Cindy King presents Prepare For International Markets posted at Get International Clients.

presents 0tutor.com: All the free RSS icons you will ever need posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog.

Helpful Hints

Sutocu presents 5 Ways to Reward Your Community posted at Your Website Profit, saying, "Web 2.0 is mostly about creating communities, and is you don't reward yours, you'll lose is quick."

Isabella J Mori presents Blogging Privacy Strategy posted at Alphablogs, saying, "Just how transparent about your personal life do you want to be on your blog? This post offers some strategies."

Sutocu presents Choosing a Web Host posted at Your Website Profit.

xicom presents What’s with the social bookmarking phenomenon? posted at 11xi85 [dot] com.

Mitesh presents New Age Marketing posted at Invent Creativity.

Akemi presents Blogging Tips for the Technologically Challenged posted at Gratitude Magic,
saying, "Maybe an oddball in your carnival, but I believe there are
many people who would need this kind of info. Thank you for hosting!"

Kenton Newby presents Google Analytics Goodness…Can You Believe This is Free? posted at KentonNewby.com.

Don Morrison presents Still Cherry Picking Your Leads? posted at Discount Shopping Card, saying, "Merry Christmas!"

desinet1 presents How to get Backlinks with DoFollow Blogs posted at Web Tools and Tips,
saying, "Yet another popular method of getting backlinks to your blog
is by commenting on blogs, which have rel=”nofollow” attribute removed
from their comments section. There are lots and lots of them, and this
method is an easy one to get some crucial backlinks to your blog.
But, how to find good dofollow blogs"

Tali presents Merry Christmas to The Marketer Review Readers- StomperNet Going Natural 2.0 posted at The Marketer Review, saying, "Find out where the best, freshest, free SEO information is at!"

andrew784 presents Top 7 Mistakes to Avoid as A Blogger posted at Personal Hack,
saying, "Anywhere from Big time wasters to useless bad blogging habits.
Are you spending a lot of time on SEO, on social networks like digg
& reddit, always trying to write the perfect post, sharing the good
in your blog posts but leaving out the bad, or constantly checking your
blog's stats? If so this post is for you."

Praveen presents The Key to Online Business: Do Something Small posted at My Simple Trading System.

Ed Rivis presents Beware of SEO experts. posted at Ed Rivis.

The Latest

Aseem Kishore presents Rent out stuff online including electronics, clothing, cars, etc using Zilok posted at Online Tech Tips,
saying, "Have you wished recently that you could rent out something
instead of buying it? Renting out stuff makes sense actually, for
example, looking for a power tool to chop down a tree in your backyard,
but don’t want to buy one since you only need it for a day?"

Craig Andrews presents Just Released! Blogging For Profit And Fun posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, "Please visit my blog at www.craigsandrews.com for "Real Internet Business Solutions" and more!
Thank you, Craig Andrews"

Robert Tatum presents 5 Reasons Why You Should Bookmark Madconomist.com posted at The Information Junkie,
saying, "Madconomist.com is a site that should be bookmarked for its
humor in dealsing with numbers and data in everyday life."

xicom presents What really set “web 2.0″ apart from “web 1.0″? posted at 11xi85 [dot] com.

mike-cellphoneguru presents 6 Reasons Why an Apple is the Ultimate Temptation all contained in the i-Mate 8150! posted at Cell Phone Guru, saying, "Little communication tool well supports WiFi technology and the omnipresent ‘Bluetooth’ technology as well."

Vero Pepperrell presents Reviewing the iPhone, one month on posted at Taptology - Taptu's Mobile Chemistry Blog,
saying, "The iPhone's been out in the UK for about a month, so I wrote
a post declaring what 5 assumptions I'd made before picking it up and
giving up my Nokia N95, and reviewing whether I was right or wrong."

Startup Earth presents 5 Things that will Kill your Startup in 2008 posted at Startup Earth.

Craig Andrews presents Holiday Special! posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, "Set-Up, Install, And Make Money With Your Own WordPress Blog. www.bloggingforprofitandfun.com

Real Internet Business Strategies Providing More Profits, Less Work, And True Freedom. www.craigsandrews.com"

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Welcome to the November 19, 2007 edition of best of web 2.0.

presents 0tutor.com: Glossy-Orange-web-2-button posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog, saying, "How to make a stylish and glossy orange web 2.0 button adobe with photoshop tutorial"

tokyor presents FlyakiteOSX, transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP to Mac OS X(Free) posted at sharemicrosoft.com, saying, "A lot of freeware download"

tokyor presents WinMerge, Visual differencing and merging of text files freeware posted at sharemicrosoft.com.

Cassanova presents XHTML/CSS newbies paradise tutorial posted at SEO is always welcome !, saying, "best tutorial ever !!"

Everything Else

presents Expired domain names a delicate business posted at seo Online marketing blog.

Oliver Muoto presents The ?Killer App? Myth and the Rise of ?Next Big Thing? posted at vFlyer Blog, saying, "My take on killer apps"

Helpful Hints

Craig Andrews presents Make Money Blogging posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, "Please visit my blog for "Real Internet Business Solutions" and more!
Thank you, Craig Andrews"

Jay Deragon presents Feeding the Free Factors posted at A Relationship Economy..... With WHom & What, saying, "The rules of The Relationship Economy are driven by the theory that free will inevitably illuminate all kinds of beneficial attributes that were never visible before. “Free” has long been a taboo price point. Perhaps because it has been forbidden, many low-hanging commercial fruit are waiting to be plucked by giving the free serious consideration.

What say you?"

Luke Houghton presents 6 ways to write a list posted at Luke Houghton, saying, "Web readers are notoriously short with their time. Why not write information that can be read quickly and easily in a list format? Lists are very popular on social bookmarking sites."

Gley Yahya presents How to Use Article Marketing the Right Way posted at Work At Home Start Up Guide, saying, "There are may free methods you can use to promote your website, blog or product. But article marketing is the most powerful way of all! It can benefit your business in many ways that no other marketing is able to accomplish."

Chris Harris presents When should your small business outsource? posted at New venture outsourcing blog.

Ruchir presents Breathe Life into Your Posts & Make Them Look Beautiful posted at TechnoMoney.

The Latest

Jay Deragon presents Business Uses of Social Technologies posted at A Relationship Economy..... With WHom & What, saying, "While their use is still largely limited to less-than-mission-critical purposes, online social networking services are becoming more popular for business purposes.

Much of the current emphasis seems to focus on limited application to businesses systemically rather approaches seem to be limited to “silos” of thinking related to recruitment and branding.

Businesses may be missing a larger picture of value yet to be tapped and maybe even yet to be envisioned."

Yves Bourgeois presents Next Generation of Social Networking posted at SocialNetSavvy, saying, "Yesterday, I attended an event sponsored by the WebGuild in the Silicon Valley, at Google HQ. The main topics were 1- Growing trends in social networking, 2- What are the key ingredients to a successful social network? 3- What is the best way to monetize advertising within social networks? 4- What characterizes Web 3.0? 5- When will we see Mobile 2.0?"

Alex Schoenfeldt presents posted at Advice Network Founders Blog, saying, "Our contests gives you a chance to win a MacBook, and it promotes your business too. Your article will be a good inbound link, and if you blog about this, let me know and I will link to you from my blog too.

Starting today, Advice Network, will be running an ‘article writing contest’, and we’d like to offer you and your readers an invitation-only chance to enter. If you could post about the contest, I’d really appreciate it. Let me know and I will link back to your from my blog (www.advicenetowork.com/blog ) right away.

We are looking for professionals and enthusiasts to write advice articles for the average person in three main categories, real estate, weddings, and running a business.

The winner of the best advice article will receive a new MacBook laptop. And just for entering, they’ll receive a 4-month vendor listing on AdviceNetwork.com, absolutely free. There is no fee to enter the contest, and we don’t require anyone to purchase a vendor listing.

To enter the contest, click here

If you want to learn more about Advice Network, click here

Thanks again. We are excited to hear from you and your blog readers.

Regards,
Alex Schoenfeldt"

Fred presents Jango: Putting Social Into Internet Radio posted at Newest on the Net, saying, "Here is a review of a cool new social Internet Radio site."

Jay Deragon presents The New Order of Business posted at A Relationship Economy..... With WHom & What, saying, "As businesses enter the social web having a clear path and objectives will be critical. Here is an outline on "how to" and the planning process."

Kenney Jacob presents Web 2.0 | Disruptive Technologies posted at Disruptive Technologies.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Looking For A Place To Live? 7 Ways RottenNeighbor.com Can Help…. Maybe. posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "A real estate mashup."

Marco Richter presents Top Blogs - MarcoRichter.net posted at MarcoRichter.net.

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When Ubuntu Linux is loaded on many laptops, the sound does not work initially. This is true for the Gateway MX7118. So what's up? Well, it's pretty simple. Linux is sending the sound to an external speaker. The problem is that you don't have an external speaker. So here is how to fix the issue.

1) Double click on the speaker icon in the System Tray to bring up the mixer.

2) Go into preferences and make sure that "External Amplifier" is selected to show on the mixer.

3) When you go back to the mixer, you will have a new tab "Switches." Select that tab.

4) Uncheck the only box on that tab. It's the box marked external amplifier.

5) Close mixer. Your sound will now work!

For more info, go to ubuntuforums.com