Hi guys, usually I don’t talk about others stuff than making money on my blog, but I really wanted to share this.

I’m working with 2 monitors on my computer. If you don’t work on two screens yet, you should. Even if it’s using an old monitor as a second screen, it boosts your productivity. More than 2 monitors is for ego, but really 2 screens is a plus.

If you didn’t realize it yet, everytime you switch from what you’re working on to some other application, you’re losing your focus for some minutes when you switch back to your work, and along the day, sum up all the minutes, it’s a huge loss of time.

With 2 monitors, you can have your main screen with your work, and the other screen can gather all the secondary applications (e.g. email, chat,web browser, skype, p2p apps…). So when you switch from your work to something else, you lose less focus. And sometimes it’s good to be able to watch two things at the same time. Like reading a tutorial on a website on one screen, and doing the actions on the other screen.

An extra note, I’m following the GTD method to boost my productivity, have a look at it, it’s really great. Also when I’m really busy, I even don’t let my email client run in the background, I start it only three times a day, answer urgent mails, then close it. That prevents me from losing time on not-so-critical emails conversations.

My computer runs on a dual core processor. And I was considering getting a quad core, as my dual core is not powerful enough for all my apps running. If I list the minimum number of apps I get running simultaneously during the day I have : local web server, local database server, Firefox with 10+ tabs open, internet explorer, database client, FTP client, Mail client, Notepad++, Eclipse, XML editor, Regex Editor, Winamp, emule, muTorrent, pidgin, skype, tor+vidalia, antivirus, and multiple explorer windows.

I had another problem, it was synchronization with my laptop. A farmer can’t spend a day without taking care of his animals. When you have multiple websites, it’s the same, except that your websites are your animals. So I always need to be able to go anywhere with my work even if I leave for a week.

Then I eventually stumbled upon a fantastic tool to share computer, called Synergy.

With it you can share your computer keyboard and mouse with another computer. It’s really straightforward. You’re on your master computer, where you type and navigate with the mouse, then you just go to the edge of your screen and the mouse go to the other computer screen. At this point you can do any action on the other computer without switching mouse or keyboard.

And this is when I realized I didn’t even need some newer computer. Now I work on my laptop, so I can go mobile anytime I want without the hassle of synchronizing. And on my desktop I have all secondary apps either in portable version or installed on my desktop.

The portable apps are mail client, for instance, everything I really need to be able to share, they’re running from an external drive than I can take with me and plug anywhere I want.

The apps on the desktop are more p2p, mp3, etc. These are the ones I can let at home for a couple of days and not miss them.

So if you have a slow computer and you want to boost your productivity, instead of buying a brand new machine, get one extra old computer with screen (ask to family or friends, I’m sure there is one in someone’s attic). Install synergy, and share the load between the two machines. Not only working on two screens will make you able to do some tasks much faster, but you also won’t need to spend some money on a new machine, while many “old” machines are powerful enough for most of your tasks.

And I recommend that you install Linux on one of the machines. Whether or not you intend to program and do technical stuffs, it’s a great experience to work on the unix system.

Ok, last note, I’m going away for three weeks of holidays… One week enjoying the fine food and wine in the south of France, then one week surfing on the atlantic coast. Last week will be with my family, then I’ll come back to work!

I still have a great post to share with you. It’s a full description of a money making project I can’t do because of lack of time, so instead of letting it rot away, I prefer to share it with you… In case I have the time to write it before my holidays you’ll get it otherwise I write to you in august!

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Ok, so you want to make a profitable website?

And you are still stuck with no idea?

You wish you could go back 3 years ago with your current knowledge, and be able to build the killer website that will make money?

But whatever idea you have, it has already been done and you have no chance to compete with websites that were made years ago.

Here’s a tip.

In case you didn’t know, it is possible to create an exe application from HTML. (Sorry I don’t have the software name in mind and I’m not at home now to find it).

So here’s what you do :

- Pick a popular website idea… e.g. a videos website, a games cheats database, a myspace layouts collection.

- Find the most visited websites for the idea you’ve chosen . Get help from Alexa and Compete (I use Firefox’s free extension called SearchStatus, it displays the Pagerank, Alexa and Compete values for every website you visit). Then copycat what seems to be working, and also steal the best ideas about ads placements.

- Make the page that you will transform into an exe file. This page can simply redirect immediately to your website homepage. Or it can be a custom page if you don’t need a redirection to your whole website.

- Create an exe from this page.

- Create a small installer script, that will create an executable to install your program on the user computer. I like NSIS, a free script-based installer maker written by the guys who made winamp. But you can pick anyone you want.

- And finally submit your final installer to shareware repositories. Give it a name which is composed of keywords.

Let’s say you have made a blog where you post some funny videos from youtube. Call your file “Daily funny videos”, with a description such as “A program that brings you daily doses of funny videos”.

And that’s it, because you put it on the shareware websites, when someone is looking for “funny videos”, he will get all the results of the shareware sites (because they rank high in the SERP) pointing to your exe. And the guy who gets your exe will go to your website. You pass over all the other people who’ve made the same kind of site. And another advantage, it’s better than a bookmark, once the guy has the exe installed on his computer, he’s more likely to come back to your site, rather than having a bookmark lost in dozains of others.

So here you go, just start to list all the “old” ideas of money websites, and see which one you want to implement, and take advantage of the easy instant and free traffic that this method brings.

And an extra tip, what I recommend is to be creative, so instead of creating another myspace layouts website, I’d rather write some online software on the website, and make an exe out of it. You can even steal it if you don’t know how to program.

For instance, you search for an online javascript-based Mortgage estimator. You save the page, edit the HTML to keep only the javascript function and parts of the HTML, you write a new layout around. And you put some Mortgage affiliates links to get commissions! Make an exe from it and you’ve got your Mortgage estimator software to distribute…

Think of all high paying sponsors and try to do a google search on “online calculator” + niche name from the sponsor. You’ll find plenty of ideas.

Go to work now!

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