TURN YOUR WINDOWS XP TO VISTA

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Most Windows XP users love the cool, sexy look of vista but wouldn’t sacrifice the simplicity and ease of use of XP for it. VISTA TRANSFORMATION PACK 9.0.1 give you the solution! Retain your Windows XP functionality and get all the great look of Windows Vista.

VISTA TRANSFORMATION PACK 9.0.1

Vista Transformation Pac will give to your Windows XP system the new and cool look of Microsoft’s future operating system: Windows Vista. The pack changes most of the system icons, skins and toolbars and also adds new enhancements to your desktop such as a dock bar or a different system tray clock. It is free and does a great job of giving machine a look similar to Vista.

It does have un-installation options in case you decide you want to get rid of it, so there really isn’t anything to lose. However, when you install the software it has to overwrite some system files (it modifies things like the boot screen) so Windows will prompt you stating that your system files have been changed. It will ask whether you want to change them back or leave them, so just leave them if you want the system to function properly.

Features of “Vista Transformation Pack”:
 

• Boot screen
• Welcome Screen / Logon Screen
• New msstyles files (visual styles)
• New desktop and file icons
• New toolbar icons
• Progress Dialogs
• Sounds scheme
• System Tray icons
• New Wallpapers
• Windows Media Player Skins

Changes in Version 9.0.1

-Added ViSplore in unsafe applications list (It’s first beta version after all)

-Added restrcting applications don’t meet the requirements from startup list (But not from installation so you can set it manually still)

-Added restrcting to set unsafe applications in Personalization page (Welcome Center only)

-Fixed Windows XP Service Pack 3 compatibilities (Even non-RTM version can apply so make sure you use official build 5512)

-Fixed “Do not show this welcome screen after restart” option bug that always keep program in startup instead

-Updated Vista Rainbar’s launcher for constant waiting cursor activity issue

-Updated Vistalize basic desktop theme components to apply font and toolbar in Personalization

-Updated VisualTooltip default configuration to set area space in bottom from 30 to 0

-Updated WinFlip’s configuration for higher reliablity and compatibilities with ViStart

Size: 26.85MB

License: Freeware
Requirements: Windows 2003, XP
Homepage: http://www.windowsxlive.net

Looking For Quick Easy Jobs Online?

Let me guess: You’re probably a jobless dude like me trying to make some money off the internet or you feel you are not making enough from your present job, right? The simple fact is that there are jobs all over the internet but finding them can quite be difficult if you don’t know the right place to turn.

No matter what job skill you have, somebody is desperately looking for someone like you to hire. Now there’s an online job market someone introduced me to that I think might interest you. There are several jobs available, ranging from serious ones to silly ones you’ll even be paid for. From logo designing, html encoding, forum posting, posting comments on blogs, article writing, phone related stuffs, just name it! It doesn’t even matter if you have no job skill, you will always find a way to make a little money there.

Payment is usually by paypal, alertpay and wire transfer. Th only thing you have to do is, register an account, complete your profile and bid on projects. It’s as easy as that!

There are so many professionals there so it might be a little competitive but you’ll definitely get a job there as long as you place bids on projects.

So you want to make some money online? It’s just a second away. Follow the link below and check yourself.

The RSS feed below lists the last 5 jobs posted

Project Name	Bids	Average bid	Job Type	Started	Ends
There are no open projects currently

How to Avoid HYIP Scams

We all love to make money online but there are risks also. High Yield Investment Program (HYIP) is one of the fastest way to make money online but sadly, it’s also one of the fastest way to lose money online. 

Quite a lot of people have asked me to give them a High Yield Investment Program site thay pays well but I simply can’t. It wouldn’t speak well of me giving you a site that pays you today and turns out tomorrow to be a big scam. It’s rather better showing you how to know the real ones from the fakes but the difference might just be too hard to tell at times.

However, there are basic things to look out for when investing in a HYIP site:

1. You must be aware that a new program might turn out to be a scam as there are no testimonies yet. This doesn’t imply that all new high yield investment programs are unreliable, I’m only trying to say that older ones with a good record are always better.

2. Take time to run some little research on the site you’re about to invest on. You should take your time to check whois record for the domain, when it’s about to expire and so on.

3. Don’t be too greedy! Investing in HYIP that promises 500% interest in ten days is most likely to be a scam. Try to use the power of your mind to discern what is real from a purely fake scheme to get a big chunk out of your hard earned money.

4. Diversification – the concept of spreading the money over a number of different investments or investment programs in order to reduce risk. It’s the idea that one shouldn’t put all of your eggs in one basket. Diversification is a good way to reduce your risk exposure to the market.

 

5. The most important rule is to always monitor your HYIP. There are several sites that does thin on the interent where scam HYIP programs are reported and blacklisted. You also get to know the status of your HYIP whether they are paying or not and how log they’ve been in business. Such HYIP monitors include:

-hyip.com
-hyipexplorer.com
-hyipdata.com
-hyiprogram.com
-hyipmonitor.com

There are other hyip monitors as well where you can get fairly accurate ststistics about the HYIP you’re investing into.

6. The last rule is to follow your instincts, if you know you’ve got a good one.

Invest wisely!

Paid Surveys – Are They All Scams?

I used to hunt the internet for survey sites looking where to sign up and make easy money online. I would spend hours taking surveys, struggling to qualify, lying about what I have and what I don’t just to get paid. Some pay, some don’t and some make you go through hell before giving you a cent. It got to a stage that I totally got tired and decided to ditch those survey thingy and face google adsense alone.

Survey sites tell you how will earn money from sitting back on your couch filling out surveys. However they fail to mention the small but important details like qualifying for surveys, filling them out immediately and most importantly, the fact that many don’t offer cash prizes.

 

At this point I don’t want you to get it all wrong. I’ve got paid by one or two survey sites through paypal but it takes a whole lot of commitment to get anything out of online paid surveys. There are certainly reputable survey sites that pay decently but I just stopped paid surveys due to time constraints. I’m not here to discourage you, it’s just to give you my honest view and buttress the fact that you should be careful with paid surveys.

Now, talking of paid survey sites where you are asked to pay a certain amount of money before getting a particular survey, based on my own experience and research online, a huge number of them are scams because they are charging you for information that you can easily find yourself for free if you just take the time to search a little on the internet.

Typically survey takers only generate $30.00-$300.00 a month and that is only after signing up with over 40 different survey programs. The $300.00 a month survey takers have been at it for a long time and qualify for many different types of surveys, and panels.

There are qualified programs on the internet that do teach methods and are not very expensive, but surveys is one that is being exploited by many.

There are surveys that you do not want to sign up for that are commonly on the paid lists. These types of surveys are not really free. They often require you to purchase an item or sign up for a membership before you can get rewarded for taking the survey, or before you are even allowed to take the survey. My best advice. Stay away from these types of survey programs.

Legitimate free paid survey companies never ask for a credit card or ask you to complete an offer before you can receive your earnings. Some free paid survey lists do include offer sites and do result in their users getting email offerings.

I’ll definitely explain steps to follow before signing up for any online survey in one of my next posts.

Make Money Online With Hostgator Affiliate Program

Hostgator has turned out to be one of the most successful webhosting company over the years with so many features hard to find on other webhosts. Hostgator was established in the year 2002 with its headquater in Houston, Texas but it’s service has touched almost every continent with clients in over 200 countries. Last time I checked their statistics, they’re hosting over five million domains! They have a reasonably cheap but reliable webhosting service, my web forum is hosted with them and I haven’t experienced a major downtime since. All their hosting plans comes with unlimited bandwidth and disk space.

Hostgator has an affiliate program of which I’ve been a beneficiary and I thought posting this easy way to make money online isn’t such a bad idea. With hostgator affiliate program, the only thing you need to do is to refer clients and get paid. You don’t even need to have a hosting account before you’re qualified to open an affiliate account. Depending on how many clients you can refer to them, you can make over $2000 in just one month. There’s no minimum payout as you’re paid whatever you earn every month and membership is absolutely free.

Based on how many hosting accounts sold through your affiliate link, you can earn between $50 to $125 per sign up. The details are shown in the table below:

1-5 per month	—————	$50 /signup
6-10 per month	—————	$75 /signup
11-20 per month	—————	$100 /signup
21+ per month	—————	$125 /signup

How Do I Sign Up To make Money Online With Hostgator?

Signing up is easy and there’s nothing needed except a couple of personal details and your email address. You need to verify your email and your account is activated. Like I said earlier, you don’t need to have a hosting account before you can sign up. Click here to sign up.

How Do I promote My Affiliate Link?

Promoting your affiliate link is easy whether you have a website or not. If you own a blog, you can use one of the banners provided here. It’s even easier if you’re a webmaster as you can make some extra money off your clients. You only need to buy their hosting account through your affiliate link. You can as well promote your affiliate link through web forums with having webhosting as an area of interest though spamming isn’t advised. You can as well promote your affiliate link through facebook advert though I don’t think this is in line with their terms of service. Making money with hostgator is made quite easy, click here to sign up.

How To Cheat On google Adsense

Are you a new adsense publisher who thinks the earning is too low? Looking for tricks to increase your adsense earnings? Maybe some black hat stuff to generate fake clicks or some dubious ways to make google pay you more dollars? Well, I guess you’ll definitely have a rethink by the time you’ve gone through this piece.

There’s one thing you must know before you start thinking of ways to cheat google – they know already you will try to cheat and they are prepared for you! I never advise people to venture into any kind of dubious adsense revenue boosting scheme as they backfire in most cases.

 

The most advisable thing to do is to work on your traffic to increase your income. That is the simple and basic fact. Getting huge traffic to your site is the main key to high google adsense revenue but trying to cheat on google might get your account banned and losing every penny you’ve earned. Sad, uh? Well, It happens and I’ve seen a couple of friends get into trouble with google for trying to play smart.

There are some basic rules you must adhere to though if you do not want your account banned:

1. Never click on your own ads no matter how tempting it looks. Trying to hide yourself with anonymizers probably won’t fool google’s system.

2. Never tell people to click on your ads
 

3. Try as much as possible not to check your adsense account on every computer you can lay your hands on.
 

4. Never write anything like “click here” or “click me” anywhere near your advert.
 

5. Makes sure your contents is in compliance with google’s terms of service. Nothing like hacking, pornography, copyright materials, weapon or ammunition, excessive use of vulgar languages, etc. should be found on your site.
 

6. Do not put more than the allowed number of ad units per page. At present, you can have up to 3 link units, 3 ad units and 2 adsense search box on a single page.
 

7. You should have a privacy policy page disclosing to your visitors about google’s dart cookies.

Google adsense is not a get-rich-quick scheme. You have to work on your contents and traffic in order to generate some reasonable income. If your primary aim for starting a blog is to make money, you will be disappointed in the first few months and abandon the whole dream. It takes some patience and hard work to reach your desired earning level.

There are still more, these are only the little I can remember for now. And like I always tell people, make sure you read through their boring terms of service just to be on the safe side. And for reference, you may run through this quick guide.

Alternative Ways To Make Money With Your Blog Apart From Google Adsense

Lots of people got their google adsense account suspended in the last couple of weeks due to reasons best known to google and google alone. Most of these people claimed they did nothing wrong and stuck to the rules and just wondered why google went on a banning spree without taking anyone’s feeling into consideration. Taking a closer look, I found out most of these suspended accounts were opened in the last two to three months and some through fixya. Most of these people got an email saying they their adsense account had to be disabled so as to protect advertisers and this type of email is often related to click fraud. Some of these people haven’t even earned any reasonable amount yet and I know a couple of the victims who couldn’t have done anything of such. That actually got me wondering what actually went wrong. It’s not surprising though because I got my google admob suspended about two months ago despite sticking to the rules for two whole years. The main reason behind that was because Google Admob was moving over to Google Adsense for mobile and many publishers like me got their accounts suspended without a valid reason.

It’s even more baffling that some of those who got their account suspended re-applied using the same email and same blog and got re-enrolled into the adsense program. This raises the question whether most of those suspended account happened by mistake or something.

Google adsense is one of the easiest way to monetize your blog but it’s definitely not the only way. There are alternatives to google adsense to make money from your blog.

1. Using alternative advertisers:

There are many other advertising companies out there like google adsense. The simple truth is just that I don’t think they pay as much as google adsense does. These other advertisers too also offer contexual ads like google adsense and you might want to try them out. Some of the top rated include:

i. Bidvertiser
ii. Chitika
iii. Adbrite
iv. Clicksor
v. Kontera
vi. Infolinks
vii. Pocket Cents
viii. Exit juction
ix. Dynamic oxygen
x. Adbull

Some of these are also as good as google adsense and you can get a even more detailed information about each of them here.

2. Selling Advertising Spaces On Your Blog:

You might not realize it but some of your visitors are actually in love with your site and wouldn’t mind advertising their product with you. Selling advertising spaces on your blog is one of the easiest way to convert your traffic to dollars without doing much. All you need to do is to let your visitors know you sell advertising spaces and you will get good offers especially if you command a reasonable amount of traffic and you’ve already worked on your page rank. Create an advertising page and let create awareness by making advertising banners visible in good positions.

3. Affiliate Marketing Programs

With affiliate programs, you can make even more than you can ever make from google adsense but this depends largely on the category of vistors you get. An affiliate program such as the hostgator affilitate program can fetch you up to $2000 in a month. There are other affiliate programs you can use on your blog. If you’re on blogger, click on the monetize tab and sign up for an amazon associate account. With this, you can receive a commision for every product sold on your site.

4. Selling E-books

I’m pretty sure you have a clear idea on what you blog about, right? Have you ever thought that gathering your ideas into a .pdf file can be a major source of income? Most of your blog visitors believe in you and that’s the reason they comment on your posts, subscribe to your rss feed and share your articles. Offering them a comprehensive e-book for some amount can be just another way to make money from your blog.
5. Sponsored Posts

I was surprised the first day I got an email from someone asking me to write a blog post about their product and I would be compensated. I actually didn’t know writing a sponsored post could be a way to monetize my blog until that day. I wrote the post since it fell into my blog’s niche and had some dollars flowing into my paypal account. Writing sponsored post can be another major way to monetize your blog traffic and you should create awareness about this. Let your visitors know you can write for them but you have have developed your writing skills to a certain level before getting this kind of offer. Your traffic too must be reasonably too.  

 6. Donations

If you’re having a site that dishes out free information that’s extremely helpful, a couple of your visitors might be willing to donate some money to you through paypal. Although most people wouldn’t do this, I still believe one or two people would deem it fit to reward your for your hard work.  

7. Consultation And Other Related Services

Depending on your niche, you can offer consultation to your visitors. This can be personal but you have to make it clear that you can be consulted personally to solve their problems for a fee. I guess you can see a Hire Me link at the header of this blog.

8. Selling Your Blog

As a last option, you can sell your blog.

There are other ways to make money from your blog and each of the list there can be expanded. Google adsense is still the easiest and in case your account got suspended, there are ways to get back in the program. This will discussed in one of my future posts.

How to Make Money Online Through Web Hosting

Are you looking for ways to earn extra cash online? How about trying web hosting venture? This is one of the most popular ways that will help you earn cash in the net today. Many people are searching for reliable host that will help them set up and host their sites for a very reasonable price. Read on and understand the tips on how to make money online through web hosting.

Internet sites had become the primary crucial method of communication in the world today. Via internet sites you are able to deliver emails obviously then distribute them throughout the world without limitations as well as make your shopping easier and faster from online shops. This fact makes website hosting as the great way for making money through web. Creating profit from an internet hosting service is a good way for you to enhance your way of life. If you’re additionally thinking about this kind venture then you can certainly check the shared methods below:

 - Purchase a web hosting package and then resell it on higher price: by means of increasing the sell value, it is possible to instantly make money. This may appear challenging but you just need to get sufficient quantity of knowledge to provide this kind of service. Once you got big space in addition to bandwidth then you can most likely put it to use in whatever way you wanted. It is a lot more like leasing out space and bandwidth for others hence rendering it a tiny profit from the actual renting that they are requiring for you to pay.

 - Take good care of your customers: you need to be accountable all the times once you have your own personal web hosting client. This really is to show that you are trustworthy and dependable enough.

- Check the number of domains or perhaps sites you really can afford to web host – this is actually vital, you have to determine how numerous web sites it is possible to host before you close deals with customers. It’s pretty easy to understand what consumers need on their site. Nevertheless, you ought to be mindful enough and be sure that you can gratify all of your clients.

- Whenever possible, you should know the budget of your client — to one to make sure that they are able to pay you with reasonable amount that will suit your services. Always keep in mind there are consumers who’re taking advantage in hosting companies even if you are extremely reliable to them with regards to payment.

It is important that you learn all the twists and turns in web hosting. There are lots of great opportunities which you can surely get from web hosting however for you to gain and achieve

Ten Great Tips to Affiliate Marketing Success

Marketing is a field where you have to struggle a lot to gain success. Affiliate marketing is a technique to promote others business or products on your website. It is fixed with the links and code to promote the products. Here are some tips stated to affiliate the proper marketing success.

1. Recognise your Audience: It is the most successful method to know the needs and the requirements of the readers. Give preference to those who are visiting your website. You just need to know about what the readers are looking for. Make sure that the products you are providing cater to their needs and make all the things clear to the readers who are visiting your site.

2. Try efficient ways: If your affiliate program doesn’t works then try different efficient programs to engage the readers. There are different affiliate programs which offer different products, services and payment structures. Check out with different vendors for the different affiliate programs and go for the one which carters to your needs.

3. Be Honest: As many would be visiting your website, provide them with quality products and better services. This not only helps your website popularity but also gives a good customer flow. Be honest about the products your website advertises.

4. Be Translucent: Disclose you affiliations to the readers always, as when they read they will come to know about the product. This will escalate your liability. In the marketing the trust and honesty is the best way to increase traffic to your website.

5. Choose carefully: Know the marketing strategies thoroughly and choose carefully the ones which you want to utilise for your website. Display some products on the website to understand the readers better. Try and use various graphics and text animations to show your products and make them effective.

6. Effective Content: Update your website with new content regularly as this provides the viewer’s with fresh and new ideas which they search for. Content is the king and also it should be relevant to the product. There are many websites providing the related articles.

7. Research on demands: A proper research on the product you publicise is a must as this provides you with better chances of promoting its sales. List out all the specifications and the features of the merchandise as this simplifies the viewer’s job.

8. Stay Updated: Always stay updated with the new techniques and methods to affiliate marketing as it an economical field. Make use of the new trends and new graphics to promote your products. If you fall short of money in the promotions then you can opt for same day cash loans.

9. Choose your Traders: Always select the trustworthy traders as everything depends upon them.. You need to get the quality products and go for the best reputed in the market. You should also check out the selling prices of the products.

10. Have patience: It is important to have patience in the affiliate marketing as you have to work hard and produce good results and you need to wait for the internet survey and readers result which is the fruit of your success. Once you take a step in the field of marketing then go ahead to gain profits and built up your website.

The above mentioned are few tips to affiliate your marketing. With proper planning and execution you can achieve the desired affects.

7 Reasons Why Blackberry Sucks and You Shouldn’t Buy One

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I haven’t been able to write a blog post in the last couple of days because I’ve been stuck with my mobile phone but today, I was forced to launch the WordPress application on my iPhone and address this outrageous hype about Blackberry. First, I should let you know that Blackberry sucks and by far, it’s the worst smartphone I’ve ever operated. Wait…did I even say smartphone? To me, it’s just a smart toy I know you’ll want to bite my head off right now if you’re a blackberry freak but who cares?

It’s a fact that for some people, Blackberry does what they need to do but if you need a proper smartphone, don’t go near Blackberry. Trying to get it because your friends own it is foolishness.

If you’re using a Blackberry phone and think you’re on top of the world, you need to see what iOS, Android and Symbian Belle has to offer and I swear you’ll want to smack your silly BB phone against the wall. I said Blackberry sucks and you shouldn’t buy one. I’m not talking out of ignorance, I’ll give you valid reasons.

1. Justin Trudeau, a Top Canadian Politician, Confirms BB Sucks

RIM (Reasearch in Motion) is the Canadian company that manufactures Blackberry (in case you didn’t know) but lately, they’ve had lots to deal with including this tweet from a top Canadian politician:

Ok, now I officially hate this Blackberry. Stupid ineffective touch screen mislaunching tweets. Plus I can’t multitask, apparently.

That’s a confirmation on how ineffective Blackberry is at being a good Smartphone. He said his BB couldn’t multitask but I assume that’s a personal experience. BB can do multitasking but whatever got the man tweet that got to be pretty annoying.

2. Limited Applications and Games

If you’re the type that love messing around with all sort of applications, you’ll regret buying a Blackberry device. It’s obvious app developers are not interested in  developing for Blackberry OS. Their app world sucks big time. I run Adobe Photoshop Express on my iPhone and there are tons of applications on iTunes store, Google Play and Ovi that you’ll never find on Blackberry, not in the next 50 years.

Wait, does blackberry support HD games? I run Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 on my iPhone with full commentary and stunning graphics.

3. You can’t even Customize the Stupid Thing

Well, I’m a geek and I love doing whatever I like with my device. I use a Symbian phone and iPhone, both hacked and jailbroken respectively. I can customize my device, do whatever I like with the OS but with a Blackberry phone, this is impossible.

4. The User Interface is Ugly

You user interface isn’t modern to me but Blackberry users believe “it’s Blackberry” so it has to be that way. I think you need to wake up!

5. Blackberry Messenger? Facebook Chat has More Users!

The only thing Blackberry has that you can’t find on other phones is their Blackberry messenger. But wait, those using Blackberry messenger don’t use Facebook chat? BBM is not enough reason to but a Blackberry phone, I can still contact my friends on Facebook chat that’s even more widely used, with or without my mobile phone around.

Think about it, only a fraction of your friends are on Blackberry messenger, almost everyone of them use Facebook chat.

6. The Web Browser is so Ineffective

With the Safari browser on my iPhone, I can open every single web page on the internet without any problem, displaying the page exactly as it would look like on my notebook. The other day I was using a friend’s Blackberry, it sucked even more than I imagined! Last time I checked, Symbian Anna and Android supports flash!

7. The Design Sucks Big Time

You can’t compare my sleek, elegant iPhone with any Blackberry device in market. Blackberry isn’t attractive one bit and there are better looking touch based devices running Android OS and Symbian. The qwerty keypad is rather too small for me (hey, I’ve got big fingers lol ), the virtual keyboard on iOS is a lot better if you ask me.

The future belongs to touch based devices and it seems RIM is trying to catch up on that, copying Apple, Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers. They failed at that!

The touchscreen doesn’t work right. I have to constantly turn off my phone, take the battery out, wait a minute, put the battery back in, and restart my phone just to get it to half way work!!! Even after I do that it still doesn’t work right!!!!

That’s a Blackberry user lamenting at it’s effectiveness. You shouldn’t buy a blackberry phone if you need a real smartphone. Blackberry is nothing but a toy to me and the operating system is nothing to write home about. You can scream all you want, I’m just saying my mind here and if you feel the way I do, please share this blog post on Facebook and hit the +1 button! Tell your friend Blackberry sucks!

BlackBerry: Dead or Alive?

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Once the king of smartphones in the U.S, BlackBerry makers Research in Motion (RIM) have been on a steady decline since the release of the first Apple iPhone back in 2007. Having already lost market share to Apple, RIM then had to contend with Google and their range of Android phones, which quickly became the dominant force in the world of smartphones, eclipsing even Apple.

In March of this year, BlackBerry handsets had a market share of just 12.3 percent and, for the first time in seven years, actually lost money. So are we looking at the end of BlackBerry? Are they dead or can they hang in there? Well, it seems like RIM might have something up their sleeves that can keep them alive…

BlackBerry 10

 

At their recent BlackBerry World conference held in Florida, Research in Motion unveiled the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, the platform they hope can spring them back into the big time. BlackBerry 10 is far removed from previous operating systems and is actually pretty darn good.

RIM seems to have wiped the slate clean with BB 10 and produced an OS with much emphasis on user-friendliness. Impressive features included an adaptive touchscreen keyboard (that’s right, RIM are going to be producing more phones without physical keyboards) that offers gesture based typing for easier communication and that can adjust to your typing style. The new interface also allows you to swipe apps and separate screens with apps, vastly improving the user-experience and preventing you from having to navigate back to the home screen to enter another app.

There is also a new camera present which allows you to adjust and edit photos on the fly by capturing a few frames before you press the shutter button. Of course, what we have seen far on BlackBerry 10 is only a limited amount, but first impression count for a lot and it looks good.

Physical Keyboards

The inclusion of a physical keyboard has always been a unique selling point for BlackBerry and still attracts a lot of people. For this reason, RIM has said that it plans to continue releasing traditional physical keyboard devices on the BB 10 platform, alongside their touchscreen smartphones and tablets. A wise move you feel.

Suggestions are that RIM is also planning to put BB 10 into cars which would give them another market. The reason for this is that BlackBerry 10 is QNX-based software. QNX is a company that manufactures industrial grade operating systems for cars; they also happen to be a company owned by RIM.

Overcoming the rivals

It’s probably fair to say that BlackBerry has now fallen too far behind Android and Apple to ever become a serious threat in terms of reclaiming a large share of the market. After all, Apple is a very famous brand, and a huge number of people buy their products only because it’s prestigious. As for Android phones, they’re very competitive thanks to their low prices – even the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S3 is going to cost about $700 SIM-free, and the contract versions’ monthly fees are also rather affordable. RIM’s high-end BlackBerry phones will most likely have almost the same price, which will seriously affect its sales – many buyers can prefer the famous Samsung flagship.

BlackBerry may also have competition from Windows Phone which is set for an upgrade from Windows Phone 7 to 8 this year. That will coincide with the releaseof Microsoft’s Windows 8 desktop operating system which is expected to integrate with Windows Phones. You suspect that Windows Phone will prove to be main rival of BB 10, although Blackberry’s know-how when it comes to smartphones, along with a loyal following, may give them the edge.

Another thing that needs to change is the BlackBerry App World which is going to need a big overhaul to have any hope of competing with Google’s Play Store, Apple’s App Store and even Windows Phone Marketplace.

Conclusion

The biggest reason for people abandoning BlackBerry in recent years has been the lack of innovation. The competition has been constantly churning out phones that are better, sexier, faster, and with better features and functionality. As it stands BlackBerry are on life support as smartphone manufacturer, however, the release of Blackberry 10 may be just coming at the right time, allowing RIM to fight another day.