Waiting for Forever

Who decides what is normal? A unique love story about friendship and a view of the world from different perspectives, WAITING FOR FOREVER explores the connections people make in the face of life's changes. Best friends while they were growing up, Emma (Rachel Bilson) and Will (Tom Sturridge) lost touch a long time ago—as far as she knows. To Will, Emma never stopped being the most important person in his life. Believing them to be forever linked, he goes wherever she goes. Will doesn’t have a home, a car, or a “real” job. He survives on his talent as a juggler and entertainer—talents honed through years of showing off for Emma. When her father gets sick, Emma returns to their hometown, trying to leave behind her complicated love life and failing career as a TV actress. As its characters face love, death and their own preconceptions.                      

Best Adsense Alternative

Adbrite powers the world’s most trusted and transparent marketplace for digital advertising. Serving over 253 million impressions a day on over 116,097 sites, AdBrite is The Internet’s Ad Marketplace®. AdBrite has created a completely transparent and effective advertising exchange focused on maximizing ROI for advertisers and publisher yield through best in class targeting and optimization technology. AdBrite’s auction-driven pricing, real-time bidding and API functionality, combined with a self-service account management interface, gives our customers unparalleled access to campaign information and total control.

With my experience, I would say Adbrite is the best alternative to Google Adsense. Also Google Adsense and Adbrite can both go hand in hand to yield you better profits. The key differentiation of Google Adsense and Adbrite are as follows :

1. Registration

Google Adsense has an stringent approval system to begin with.You need at least 7 days or more to get approved. Adbrite, approves your account instantly! You can signup for Adbrite and start displaying the ads on your site within few minutes.

2. Customer Support

No doubt, Adbrite have a better costumer support than Google Adsense. Google Adsense is based on community support, which is not as efficient and user friendly as of dedicated support staff of Adbrite.

3. Ads

Google Adsense is more contextual. The quality of Google Adsense goes unmatched. While Adbrite is also quite good enough(may not be as contextual as Google Adsense). Adbrite is not contextual like Adsense, so the click through rate is a bit low.

4. Flexibility

With Google adsense you can not sell Ad space in your site, but with Adbrite you can create your own Price and Packages. With Adbrite you have more flexibility over your ad. With Adbrite the seller has a great advantage showing what the site provides. As unique visitors, Page views, Origin of traffic, Average cost per click (eCPC), Site Category, Alexa rank, Repurchase rate, Conversion Score, AdBrite since, What CPC can I expect?, Ad zone description, and much more.

5. Payment

Google Adsense has the minimum payout amount of 100$ while Adbrite has a low minimum payout amount of  5$. Google Adsense pays in has option to pay in various currencies (like Indian Rupees) and pays out every month.  AdBrite issues payments in US Dollars, two months (net-60) after you accrue them.

6. Popularity

Google Adsense wins hands on. Adbrite is surely next to it.

7. Ads Format

Google Adsense have a lot of ads format. In addition to text and banner ads, AdBrite offers advanced options like Full Page Ad, BritePic, and Inline ads. These formats will allow you to show high-value ads without losing site real estate—and the multimedia formats let you take advantage of the photos and video clips on your site. Bottom line, you’ll earn more than with the standard options provided by most ad networks.. Adbrite also allows you to display ads of other networks(say Google Adsense) beating a specified cpm.

8. Performance

Google Adsense is much better when it comes to performance. Initially Google will start displaying the ads in not more than 10 minutes while Adbrite takes more than 24hours.The load times of Google Adsense are found to be better.

9. ToS

Google Adsense is known for its strict TOS. Google Adsense, the great disadvantage can be some publisher are banned without real reason.  On the other hand Adbrite is not that strict about its TOS.  I have not heard an event of account banned by Adbrite till date.

10. Other

• Google Adsense will not allow to modify the ad code to suit your needs. While adbrite you can play around with the ad code as you wish !

• You can use Google Adsense and Adbrite both together, on the same site without any problem.

So, to start with here are a few steps to maximize your Adbrite earnings.

1. Un-check the auto-approve of ads, and don’t approve ads below 10 cents.
2. Give a nice description of your website, remember most of the advertisers you will catch from the Adbrite market place.
3. Get the big rectangles, as that is the best performing ads for any network.
4. Put up as many tags as you can, in the keywords field. Use the dictionary if you run out of keywords.
5. Make the color of the ads text and background same as rest of your website.
6. If the ads are a banner, only approve the really high CPC ads, like 50 cents or more, and for CPM ads banner, choose max you can

Symbian vs. Android

While Android and Symbian have been making headlines since their release, the war between them has already been waged. The makers, namely, Google and Nokia have been trying hard to beat each other in terms of performance. While Android is relatively older, Symbian is also trying hard to keep up with the former. With both providing amazing gaming experience, it is for the gamers to determine the best choice. However the following discussion under the head will help you have a rough idea about the specialties of both.
Open / Close OS :
In the competition going on in the mobile platforms of Open Source, developers preferably have two major choices: Android and Symbian. It has an integrated browser that in based on WebKit engine of open source. The former is an open source but with a closed development (relatively). Symbian is out and out an open source, once it comes around the corner, to release its full source code.
Feature / Tools Exclusive to OS:
Android’s bunch of features includes Application Framework that allows users to reuse components, Dalvik Virtual Machine, Optimized graphics for full 2D and 3D support. With media support for video, still images, common audio, and other complicated formats, its multimedia performance is also very high. It sports features like accelerometer, compass and GPS. For storage of structured data, SQLite, is just ideal. Further core applications like SMS program, maps, calendar, email client, contacts, Java programming, etc are highly optimized in Android. However, Android does have a very poor support for Web games, which makes it quite unusable for playing online.
Symbian, on the other hand supports C++ programming effectively. It is because of its high Java support, that gaming has its ultimate experience here. More for online games, that takes time to buffer and run on other mobile, this one has smooth running as a PC. With its wide compatibility with device, it is also a good choice, especially for gamers. But, Symbian OS is not equally good in terms of downloading gaming. Nonetheless, in all the other aspects it is quite competent.
Usability :
Depending on the user’s choice, both are easy to operate with non-complex interface. Users can use either of them depending on their need. While both provide smooth uninterrupted gaming experience, the Symbian one is more prescribed for online gaming. However, both the operating systems have refined playing in touch screens in mobiles.
Telco Network:
Android has made its handsets a Wi-Fi hotspot. With a support to wireless Internet, this operating system can run Web on your handset even when you do not have a network connection in your phone. You can simply get a wireless connection from some other device to serve the purpose.
Symbian does not have an integrated network accelerator, for smoother and clearer video calling, but you can download one and use to speed up the connection for uninterrupted networking.
Handset/ hardware differences:
The hardware interface of Android includes an autofocus camera, callback on camera error, etc. and interface for supplying image data from captured picture, delivering copies of preview, geomagnetic field, sensor and other exciting features that facilitate the usage.
Handsets like Nokia N8, powered by Symbian OS have been reported with issues with opening large web pages.
Internet and Email
Android 2.0 now includes the Firefox Mobile Web Browser, which provides faster and stable browsing experience. Symbian browser can download only one file at one time, however there is now support for multi window browsing though the Symbian web browser.
Applications
with Android operating system, the users can access thousands of applications, which is essential for the smart phones. Being an open source platform with relatively closed development, Android offers several applications. However, being an out-n-out open source OS Symbian offers huge range of third party apps.
Multimedia
Both Android and Symbian based mobile phones support good multimedia features. The media players can play diverse music and video files, while there are high mega pixel cameras as well. However, the images appear better on the Android based touch screen phones.
Conclusion
Android is much advanced and provides more value to the end users. Symbian needs updates its features.

Best android phones 2011

1. Acer Stream

Laptop powerhouse Acer has announced the launch of the Android 2.1 driven smartphone, the Acer Stream, in the second week of August 2010. This new Android phone is a high-end multimedia device with a 3.7-inch AMOLED display and 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video capture. It will have 1 GHz Qualcomm snapdragon processor and 2GB of internal flash storage. Completing the Acer’s package is its pre installed social networking app and built in Wi-Fi. This Android device will also sport an FM radio and Dolby Digital surround sound.
Check out our Acer Stream preview for more.

2. Dell Thunder

Targeted at an audience of affluent professionals and creative explorers, this upcoming high-end Android smartphone is a feast for your eyes. The Dell Thunder will feature 4.1 inch 800 x 480 pixel WVGA OLED touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera, HSPDA 3.5 Wi-Fi connectivity, 1GHz snapdragon processor and an integrated Hulu app. The marketing pitch for this new Android phone mentions that it will allow creating and editing of high-end content. This handsome looking Android device will hit the markets in 2011.

3. Dell Smoke

Featuring Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’, Dell’s latest smartphone, the Smoke, is packed with a bunch of fancy UI and form factor features. The Dell Smoke will have a 2.8 inch QVGA screen, 5 megapixel auto focus camera, 800MHz processor, 512 MB RAM, and 256 MB internal memory (expandable up to 32GB). With full flash support, Exchange and ActiveSync and 14.4 Mbps HSDPA speed, the Dell Smoke certainly looks to compete with business phones like BlackBerry by Q2 2011.

4. Dell Flash

The Dell Flash will run Android 2.2 Froyo on a Qualcomm 800 MHz MSH 7230 processor. Paired with 3.5-inch WVGA LCD display, 5-megapixel auto focus camera, HSPA+ connectivity, TV out and 512 MB RAM, the Flash is Dell’s entry-level model for the smartphone market. This new Android phone is likely to appear in the market by Q1 2011.

5. Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

Sony Ericsson is expected to debut the Xperia X8 in the third quarter of 2010. This Android driven mid-range smartphone will have a 3 inch, HVGA touch screen and a 600 MHz processor. The Xperia X8 is also equipped with an FM radio, 3.5mm handset jack, 128 MB of internal memory, audio video player and YouTube app. The X8 also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with geotagging and direct Facebook picture upload function.
You can learn more about this budget offering in our Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 preview.

6. Samsung i9200 Galaxy S2

Expected to be released in early 2011, the Samsung i9200 Galaxy S2 will run Android with a 2GHz processor. With 4.3 inch 1280 x 720 pixel super AMOLED 2 display, no smartphone planning to release in the near future can claim a display that good. It will also feature an 8-megapixel camera with HD video capture, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB of built in flash memory, Bluetooth 3.0, 3.5mm audio jack, gyroscope, accelerometer, proximity and ambient light sensors.

7. Samsung Galaxy Q

The Samsung Galaxy Q is considered to be an upgraded version of the Samsung Galaxy S with a physical keyboard. This new Android device will be powered by a 1GHz hummingbird processor, 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, 3 inch 720 x 480 super AMOLED screen, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, Android 2.2 and 16 GB of internal memory (expandable up to 32 GB). Samsung plans to compete with the BlackBerry with its Galaxy Q series device. Unfortunately, as of yet, there is no indication on how this device will look.
You can learn more about it though, check out our Samsung Galaxy Q preview.

8. Motorola Droid 2

The highly anticipated Motorola Droid 2 is expected to launch in the second week of August 2010. The exciting features that this new Android phone is packed with include - a wonderfully designed keypad, Wi-Fi tethering support, 1 GHz OMAP processor, 5 megapixel camera, 8 GB of internal memory and Android 2.1. The Motorola Droid 2 is expected to be upgraded with Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ in the future.
Check out our Motorola Droid 2 preview for more.

9. HTC Vision

The HTC Vision will have a 3.7 inch 480 x 800 pixel display and will sport a 1 GHz processor. This high-end QWERTY slider phone is rumored to have a 5 to 8-megapixel auto focus camera and will run on Android 2.1. The rumors suggest that the device may be called G1 Blaze and is likely to arrive in the markets by October this year.

10. HTC Desire HD

A fresh set of rumors are suggesting that the HTC Desire HD is actually the so-called HTC Ace. The phone will include a 4.3-inch WVGA screen, 1 GHz Qualcomm processor, Android 2.2 OS, 4GB of internal memory, 8 megapixel camera with 720 pixel video capture, auto flash 10 support and an automatic face tracking application. Unfortunately, the images of this ‘unibody aluminum design’ device have not surfaced but there is a plenty of time for them to leak before its October release.
In the meantime you can check out the original HTC Desire review.