Everyday Ideas, QD Ideas

From the beginning of our blogging network we have refused to sell or exchange links.

Other than our subscription to yahoo’s directory (which has subsequently expired) we have never purchased a place in a web directory.

Any recommended links in our sidebars or in our blogs are honest and sincere. We do not attempt to gain compensation for outgoing links. We do not receive payment when we review hardware or software.

Today, I have even placed this information on our advertising information page.

Recently, Google has been increasingly punishing web sites that participate in link selling or exchanging. Many large websites have been effected and punished. We hope as these sites correct their mistakes that google lifts any penalties on their content.

However, we are proud that we are succeeding without the purchase, manipulation, or selling of pagerank.

A link here will always be an honest, genuine recommendation.

Tech-Recipes has a long history of revenue sharing with our community. For example, most of our recipe authors get the majority of the advertising profits from their submitted content. Everybody who has submits a tutorial that is validated by our editors gets either an amazon gift certificate or tech swag. We also have given away hardware and software to our authors in the past.

Recently one of our past tech-recipes authors, Risherz, requested our help. He needed a MacBook for his school work. Although it has been a while since he posted here, his tutorials have helped a lot of people. We felt that he deserved a little love.

We purchased and shipped him Apple’s latest and greatest MacBook Pro.

So Risherz now has a MBP and ShamansTears has a Zune and a Nokia Internet Tablet.

If you are a tutorial blogger and need some new gear, please drop us an email or buzz me on AIM: drdavak.

The Susan G. Komen Foundation is a powerful force against breast cancer. As part of a previous web project, we had the opportunity to raise money for this wonderful organization.

Personally, I have dealt with the Komen foundation in academia previously. They are a strong sponsor of UNC’s Get Real and Heel program. This project is using prescriptive exercise therapy to combat the side effects of breast cancer and its treatments. Although I am still listed in the project directory, unfortunately my new job has limited my personal involvement with the project. However, one of the project head, Claudio Battaglini, is a good friend of mine. He runs several exercise-related cancer projects for UNC and is always looking for new patients to help through the process. Please contact him if you are in the triangle area and are interested in cancer-related exercise therapies or research studies.

QD Ideas, the parent company behind tech-recipes, has raised over $600 to help in the fight against breast cancer. We also have purchased getrealandheel.com and redirected it to the UNC project page to protect it from spammers. Considering we are in the shoe-strings, bootstrapping phase of our company, we are proud that we are able to contribute in this battle against breast cancer.

Today, we have released a test version of our little FeedMake tool for public testing.

FeedMake simply attempts to solve the problem of keyword searching through multiple blog search engines. Instead of creating custom searches on the multiple blog search sites, this site will create the search feeds for you.

1. Input Your Search Term.
2. Subscribe to the Feeds in Your Feed Aggregator.
3. Enjoy.

Please leave comments here regarding questions, bugs, or feature requests.

QD Ideas, LLC is the two-man company behind the tech-recipes network of sites.  Information regarding the company and her other future projects will be posted here.