For those into online gambling, you are spoilt for choice. Apparently there are currently almost 3,000 online casinos to choose from.

A staggering number, but which online casino is the best?

Those making their first foray, and even seasoned campaigners, would do well to have a shortlist of sites to check out before settling on one. In other words, it’s a timesaver.

pro360.com reviews these and so far has done so for hundreds of them. Important factors determining your final selection such as game experience, trust score and bonuses offered for online poker, craps, slots and roulette are examined in detail.

According to pro360.com, the best online casino overall is fulltiltpoker.com, with a maximum bonus of USD600, an Editor Rating of 9.5 and Player Rating of 8.

Having said that, not all players are the same - each has their own preferences in things like features, bonus structures and even graphics. Therefore it’s worth reading as much reviews as possible.

As an additional incentive, there is the casino signup bonus on every review page, whose amount are usually bigger than what the online casions offer directly.

iConnectHere is a company offering Voice Over IP (VoIP) services, specifically Internet Phone Service.

VoIP technology is maturing, and providers like IConnectHereare lining up to take advantage of its capabilities. VoIP devices come in two: purely software, like what Skype is offering, and all-in-one phone-router-modem devices.

They claim to offer the lowest cost call rates, high quality Broadband Phone services and great customer service.

They one of the founders and innovators of internet telephony, as they have been a VoIP player for more than 10 years.

They offer a USD30 bonus for new signups.

Ashop Commerce is a US based company offering a total solution for you to begin selling online. Their products include hosted shopping cart software.

There are of course many other companies offering similar services, so Ashop Commerce listed several ways in which they stand out from the rest:

Firstly, some of the other vendors offer “shop in a box” facilities. Ashop claims that you have to bear in mind that there could be hidden costs in things like upgrades, security, support, hosting, bugs, feature upgrades, advice, gateway fees as well as the software purchase. The whole thing can end up costing you more than you expected, as well as being not beginner-friendly to set up.

Secondly, vendors offer development of web stores from scratch. However this entails time and money: both precious commodities. There are also monthly fees which can turn out to be similar in amount to Ashop’s fees.

Lastly, Ashop claims that they are specialists in online shopping cart software development, and that most other companies can only give you a portion, and an inferior one at that, of what Ashop can do. In fact, most shopping cart providers are in reality, companies that simply resell existing ecommerce software, not one that they developed themselves.

Ashop’s software can do the whole range: stock control, customer relations, search engine promotions, sales reports and invoicing.

That, as well as the following:
- free technical support services by e-mail, web chat and phone
- fully customizable design. This is done from the web-based administration panel
- free upgrades as technology improves
- free SSL security
- search engine optimization
- affordable monthly payments. The cost starts at less than USD40 per month.

Perhaps the best is this: you can sign up for a full-function 10 day free trial, without even the need to give out your credit card details.

IBackup is an online storage and backup service provider.

The online backup feature has enterprise-class protection with superior performance at low cost. This feature is ideal for the general consumer, but it is also robust enough for global corporations.

One of the features of IBackup’s online storage is the ability for you to see your online data as a mapped drive or a folder on your computer. That means distance does not make procedures different - you deal with your data the same way: the usual operations: drag-n-drop and explorer user interface.

Other online storage services might have this same feature, but IBackup claims that it offers much higher levels of performance and security, hence higher levels of productivity. In fact, in many cases, IBackup’s desktop applications outperform its rivals by 30 to 50 percent.

Other features of their online storage service include Snapshots, Sharing, Collaboration, Sub-Accounts, WebFolders and Mobile Access.

Rates start at USD99.50 per year for 5GB storage.

DialAFlight is a United Kingdom-based travel company offering flight, hotel, even car hire reservation and travel ideas to destinations worldwide.

Their website is a good place to start exploring your options for holidays overseas.

Currently focusing on weekend breaks, they have quite a lot of cities to choose from, with something for everyone: sightseeing, shopping, kids-friendly, nightlife, culture, beach. The cities include world renowned Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Venice, Prague, Vienna and Nice. Personally, I’ve been to all of them save Barcelona and I must say the experiences were unforgettable.

Different from a guided tour, DialAFlight would organise the flights and accomodation - you are free to choose where to eat, and what to see and do. Hence, you can also call these short breaks as city breaks!

They also offer many other holiday offers including beach and spa holidays.

To book, DialAFlight requires you to call and discuss your plans with one of their UK-based travel consultants. Verbal discussion via phone will ensure that you’d be absolutely sure that you get exactly the holiday that you had in mind.

On 11th September Josh Lim of Advertlets announced an opportunity to earn an extra RM20 (SGD10 if you are in Singapore) for its members.

This opportunity is only open to:

- existing and active (code up for at least a month already) Advertlets members, limited to 100 bloggers from Malaysia and Singapore (read: hurry!!)

- those who have not received any Advertlets cheque yet.

So what do you need to do?

Write a post about Advertlets. Josh gave no specific format to buzz on, and you can write in either English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin, Singlish (English as it is commonly spoken in Singapore) or Romanized Hokkien.

More details at the Advertlets blog post.

Deadline is 30th September 2007, but I have a feeling the 100 places will run out much earlier. So be quick!

For quite a number of people, the holiday season is definitely not something to look forward to; in fact, it is something to be dreaded. I’ve even read a newsreport where this guy went down to the basement, food stocks in hand, before everyone got caught up in all the merry-making, and only emerged, in quiet bliss well after the 12 days of Christmas is over.

There are at least 3 major events coming up that’s sure going to put a dent in your bank account: Halloween next month, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas.

This is where CouponChief, that one stop online coupon deal and discount resource could come in handy.

Online shopping is wonderful for getting those items which might be a hard to find in Malaysia.

My musician brother would be pleased to get AC/DC’s Family Jewels DVD from Amazon and at the same time get a free CSI:Miami download.

As for myself, I’m going to check out some of Dell’s coupons.

Utilising the coupons are a breeze: you just key in the specified promo codes in the relevant boxes and that’s it.

HotelReservations.com offers the complete range of vacation planning online: hotels, motels, resorts, flights, cars, vacation rentals and vacation packages. You’d only need this one website to have a complete trip plan.

Services are currently offered for 15 countries, a mixture of top North America and European destinations: the United States, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

Appropriately, the site is browsable in several languages, namely English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.

I tried several of the features at Hotel Reservations dot com and here’s a summary of some that I liked.

For the hotel reservation feature, they have a feature to enable you to list hotels located near famous landmarks. For example, for the city of London I could pick the hotel of my choice located near Harrods. The hotel compare function allows you to shortlist hotels to assist you in making up you mind.

They even have a comprehensive destination guide that enables you to find out details about your destination and hence plan you trip in advance. It contains recommendations on attractions, restaurants, hotels, even up-to-date weather forecasts, health tips and much more for thousands of destinations, even those not listed in the 15 countries!

For those seeking special-interest holidays, the site offers options as wide ranging as family-oriented, beach hotels, gambling, golf and spa holidays. So yes, you can bring along your Cobra golf set if you want.

US customers are offered road trips, where you can find a destination by specifying driving time from your current location. Indeed this is a great idea for a great weekend trip on wheels!

The prices offered is also competitive with prevailing market rates. They also offer big discounts on world wide destinations.

Of course, if you are more comfortable with the telephone they can be contacted at 1-800-893-4086.

According to its own description, advertlets.com is an Asian blog / weblog advertising network. It offers targeted and unintrusive advertising for all 3 parties involved in the game: the online advertisers, the blogger community, and of course the readers.

The reasons why I signed up with advertlets of course includes its monetizing potential. Then of course I’d like to support local netpreneurs. As far as I know, there’s another Malaysian company offering a similar service, but I think Advertlets is better, at least speed-wise. After installing the other one on my other site, it slowed down the site so much that I removed it.

I also like Advertlet’s ability to enable me to make my own polls - as far as I know, Advertlets is unique in this respect. In addition, one can also rotate the ads being shown, and even tell the advertiser what you think of their ad or product right there and then.

Compared to other online advertising companies, for sure Advertlets will be able to cater to local products better. From experience, quite often other products advertised via the other services, including payperpost.com are only for certain countries (i.e. not applicable to Malaysians). Hence, the advertisements will be more focused to local needs - therefore benefiting all parties: the advertiser and the viewers.

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