All of us know that Alexa rankings are flawed, because it’s mostly based on people who use their Alexa toolbar. But for those of us who use advertising systems such as PayPerPost, ReviewMe and Text Link Ads; Alexa ranking is crucial because it’s an important factor that determines how much we are being paid. The better is the Alexa ranking, the more we are being paid!

The sad thing is that the Alexa toolbar is currently only available for IE users. The folks at Alexa do not have immediate plans to develop an Alexa toolbar for the Firefox browser. Instead, they suggested a couple of alternative toolbars that incorporates Alexa:

• About This Site. Gina Trapani at scribbling.net built a handy plugin.
• SEO Toolbar. The Rankquest SEO Toolbar provides you quick access to many SEO tools including the Alexa Traffic Rank.

These two toolbars look pretty good to me although I do not use them for more than a day on my machine. The other alternative which stays in my Firefox browser is SearchStatus, a neat little plugin for Firefox which takes less than a minute to install. Once the plugin is installed, it displays the Google and Alexa rankings for each site you visit in the status area of the browser. The cool thing is that it also reports visits back to Alexa and thus helps to improve the Alexa ranking of the site!

If you like Firefox, you will like this Search Status plugin. Get it now!

Any idea what your favorite search engine will look like in the year 2048? The below might give you an idea. And I guess the pornography radio button should be the most clicked one.

Take the picture above as inspiration.

There are probably one hundred different ways to transfer files from one computer to another.

You can use mediums to transfer the files. For example, burn the files from the source computer onto a CD/DVD, or copy them onto a USB drive or an external hard disk and then transfer it to the destination computer. Did I mention you can also use a floppy disk as the transfer medium?

If the above methods do not sound too good to you, then another option would be to use USB cable. USB cables are cheap and readily available in any IT store. But, make sure you get the USB to USB type, not those that comes with your digital camera, or your MP4 player.

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Still remember Apple TV? Have you got yourself this latest entertainment gadget, put it beside your home theatre and LCD TV?

At the moment, Apple TV plays movies, TV shows, music, photos, and podcasts only. But come mid-June, Apple TV will provide the link-up to YouTube’s hugh video catalogue. Basically, you will be able to search and play YouTube videos on your big screen! Isn’t that awesome?!

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Auction giant eBay has recently acquired StumbleUpon, a San Francisco company that helps users discover and shre sites that fit their specific interests, for US$75 million.

StumbleUpon has approximately 2.4 million users, and is growing quite rapidly.

Bill Cobb, the President of eBay North America has the following to say;

Our intent is to support the growth and evolution of this community-based business, and StumbleUpon will run as a separate business unit within eBay Inc. Although there are no definite plans to share at this time, as the site evolves, we’ll be exploring the possibilities for synergies between StumbleUpon and eBay marketplaces, Skype, and PayPal.

eBay Senior Director Michael Buhr will serve as general manager of StumbleUpon effective immediately. StumbleUpon’s current founders and management team will remain in their respective positions and will work hand in hand with Buhr to enhance the StumbleUpon services.

By the way, have you tried the StumbleUpon Toolbar? Download it for free today and give it a shoot. It’s cool I assure you.