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New Year, New Site Features

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Happy New Year! Returning users of sharenotes.com will have noticed that the site was relaunched with a new look and feel brand new for 2010. What you may not have noticed is that we improved not only how the site looks, but also how it works. We’ve revamped the site to allow you to really take hold of the power of college lecture note sharing. Create custom urls for your content, build points through referrals, improved search-ability, highest commission return on a note sharing site, direct payments and more.

Now when you sign up for sharenotes.com you can create a customized url specific to you and your notes. This way you can market your notes and direct link fellow students to your content. Whether you share your notes for a profit or out of the kindness of your heart, it’s never been easier to find, share, link and market your quality lecture notes.

You can accelerate your credits by referring your fellow students to sharenotes.com. Your referrals will be directly linked to your profile which in turn will earn you credits. Credits that you can cash in for great prizes, that’s our way of thanking our users for their loyalty.

Many people use sharenotes.com as a tool to bolster their existing lecture notes and study materials. We’ve increased our search functionality so that it’s easier to find the specific notes you need. Don’t waste all day looking for study materials, in just a couple of clicks you’ll be downloading the material you are looking for.

For those of you looking to make some money through sharing your quality lecture notes, we’ve improved the way we offer our payouts. In the past we’ve used online payment portals which take a portion of your transaction above and beyond the commissions of sharenotes.com. Now we offer direct payments through our site. You share your notes and set your prices all transactions will be tracked and accrued through your profile. Cash in your accrued balance anytime, day or night and a check will be generated and send out right away. Because sharenotes.com takes the smallest commission of any note sharing, you make a full 90% profit on every transaction.

sharenotes.com is not just about notes. We’re also a useful resource for college students to inform themselves about campuses throughout North America. We have information (tuition, location, campus, students etc…) on every college in the US and Canada. Prepping for school, looking to transfer or just curious about your own school? We’ve got the information you are looking for.

We hope you’ll like the changes we’ve made. If you have comments about our new look and features, please feel free to leave your comments below and let us know how we’re doing. We want sharenotes.com to be a place where students come together to share knowledge, keep current on college related news, pocket some extra income and ultimately help each other graduate. We’re constantly running new contests and promotions as a way to say thanks to all our loyal users. Most of you know about our now famous iPod giveaways, well we’ve raised the stakes and are currently giving away 5 Macbook Air laptops. First Mp3 players, now computers? Who knows where we’ll take it next? Click Hereto view and home page and learn how you might win a Macbook Air

New Bladeless Fan By Dyson

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

You tech and engineering students on sharenotes.com will really appreciate this post, it should be right up your alley. To build the better mouse trap has long been the motto of anyone seeking to improve technology ever since the act of invention began. And the proverbial “mousetrap” is everywhere. We concentrate on the most obvious thing like the ipod, the newest in a long line of portable music devices starting back with the “walkman”. However items in need of an upgrade are literally everywhere.

Take James Dyson’s newest invention for instance, the blade-less fan. The Air Multiplier as he calls it. It’s one of those “oh yeah!” kind of things where you don’t really feel that the fan MUST be improved, but when it comes along, it’s a welcome surprise. After his successful re-thinking of the standard vacuum cleaner, aptly named “Dyson”, he has moved on to how we cool ourselves.

I’m going to link you to a youtube video showing the device here so you can see it, however if you can imagine a very large ring (approx 16″ diamater) sitting on a pedestal base, that’s what it looks like. It’s very spartan and dare I say pretty? The Mac of fans if you will.

How it works (and I am grossly over simplifying things here) is by using an impeller in the base (think of a jet engine’s fan) that pulls air in, that sucks in the air and spits it out in a small opening along the back edge of the ring. The key according to Dyson is the shape of the surface of the ring that the air passes over. It works much like a wing of a plane, by curving and causing the air to move faster along it’s surface than it would be propelled simply by the machine. This not only accelerates the air, but it also creates an area of low pressure that forces the air coming through to want to fill that space causing the airflow to further accelerate.

What you are left with is a smooth and even flow of air (unlike traditional fans that chop the air with it’s blades) that can be finely tuned with the flow control knob. Set it to Oscillate and relax. The benefits of his design are many, the smooth controlled air aside, it’s beautiful, easy to clean, easy to store and completely safe especially around children with no accessible moving parts, much less chopping blades. The drawback as you might expect is the cost. It’s going to cost about $300… for a fan (check it out here. Sadly it will most likely be cost prohibitive initially for a great many of us (me included!).

While all this is very interesting, I decided to blog about it because the sharenotes.com users are studying a myriad of fields, and some of you are aspiring Engineers. The fact of the matter is, we’re always in need of some ingenuity and advancement. Whatever your specialty or field of study remember to keep an open mind and allow your creativity to flourish the better mouse trap is always going to be out there, somewhere.




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