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Easiest place to find a Wii 2007-08-20 12:22:24 I wasn’t able to find a Wii
for 3 months straight, but just yesterday I checked in Target because a friend said they found one there, and behold, they had Wii’s in stock! So right now I’m enjoying my Wii and the simple yet addictive “Wii Sports“, and I’m so glad I finally have it. [...]
Google also to compete with iTunes? 2007-08-17 18:03:13 According to http://www.last100.com Google
and Universal Music Group have created “GBox” in which users can search for a song on Google and then using Google’s text ads they will show a link to that song on GBox where you can buy the song DRM free. Over at G4’s “Attack of the Show’s” “The Loop segment” [...]
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Random Links Part 2 2007-08-17 10:22:50 Well considering the fact that Random
Links Part 1 has risen to the spot as #1 post on my blog in less than a day, I’ve decided to continue with it for a while. Here is a second round of useful links that might help you find new websites you’ll like. If you feel that [...]
Random Links Part 1 2007-08-16 11:14:29 Starting today I’m going to start doing “random links” posts that include links to some of the better websites that will to help you find certain things such as song lyrics or torrents, free yet very good software and even articles on how to increase your Vista’s activation deadline. Click read more to read… [...]
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Great Greasemonkey Scripts Part 1 2007-08-16 10:06:53 Here’s another new segment on my blog. This one is for when I find any good Greasemonkey
scripts that i feel i should share. If you don’t own Firefox, and need the script for Internet Explorer you should try either Trixie or Turnabout.
Find Wide Images in your blog/site - Find images that are too wide [...]
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, Scripts
Increase Site/Blog Traffic with Feedburner 2007-08-15 20:52:31 This is being written as a response to a comment i received.
“Great entry, but not sure exactly what services you are using with Feedburner I’ve been using their services for a while and I’ve noticed no increase in traffic or anything unless I wanted to pay.”
You can also see my success story of how Feedburner [...]
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Feedburner gives Instant Results! 2007-08-15 15:02:34 Only yesterday i subscribed for Feedburner’s services. Its main service is to create an RSS feed for your blog or website. But the other services it provides Feedburner gives involves promoting your site or blog on other websites that get a lot of traffic to help increase traffic at your site. Best of all, [...]
Platypus! A Partner to Greasemonkey 2007-08-15 10:21:21 A few days ago i posted an article on Greasemonkey
and its features, but i also mentioned you needed to know javascript, and frankly without a good knowledge of javascript you can’t do much. But now there’s a solution. (Well, actually there has been but I’m posting it right now) Platypus is another Firefox add-on, [...]
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The Ansem Retorts & Ctrl+Alt+Del 2007-08-15 09:05:19 For those that have nothing better to do and want to just sit back a home and spend quality time with your computer while laughing at the same time, i bring you the “Ansem Retorts”. They’re basically comic strips online created by a really messed up person, but nevertheless their strangeness makes it really funny. [...]
Random Good add-ons for browsers. 2007-08-14 18:06:10 Here are some free yet good add-ons or plug-ins you can install for you web browser. Please note that they don’t work for every browser or every version of certain browsers
and may have different features. But they may in the near future so you should check their site every month or so. (Click on [...]
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Speed up your Windows Vista PC Easily 2007-08-23 17:47:37 Owning a Vista
laptop, I know how annoying it is when it starts slowing down to the point where my dad’s old Windows
98 is twice as fast. So I decided to write a short tutorial on tips to speed up your Vista PC. First of all, open your Start Menu, find the “Computer” link, [...]
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, Easily
Jobs at Youtube 2007-08-23 14:27:39 Well I guess now I know why YouTube was under maintenance, they were re-doing some of the pages, but the good news is, now they’re giving away jobs to people in these places:
CA - Mountain View
CA - San Bruno
CA - San Bruno or Los Angeles
CA - Santa Monica
CA - YouTube HQ [...]
WiTv, the best upcoming video company? 2007-08-23 13:43:54 Now I know I talked about how Joost seems to be doing pretty good and may even be good for replacing Youtube, but just recently I found out about a new product called WiTV. As far as I know there is no official website yet, but this program has plenty of new features such as [...]
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, company
Joost, a Youtube for your desktop? 2007-08-22 16:26:00 Myself, as someone who likes to be up to date with any new progresses in technology, also like trying out Betas of projects in progress. If you spend all day on your computer, I’m sure you would too. Now I’m certain that whoever is reading this would also know of Youtube, with all of its [...]
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This is an example of what Joost lets you do. 2007-08-22 16:06:45 So right now I’m watching a Green Day video called Brainstew/Jaded (Its two songs in one video). There music is pretty good, I definitely recommend giving them a listen.
More Information about the program.
Title : Green Day - Brain Stew/Jaded
Description : Green Day - Brain Stew/Jaded
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How to create your own game! 2007-08-21 16:24:30 I found a handy post over gameproducer.net on resources both for beginners and advanced game makers that will help you learn more about and at the same time create
games . I’ve recently begun exploring this matter myself, and if I ever do create a game I’ll be sure to post it here. Anyway, [...]
My newest Project, MV Labs 2007-08-21 15:16:09 Well, I’m happy to announce that I’ve started a project called “MV Labs”, which is basically where I’ll post anything that I’ve created by using some extensions such as Platypus. I’ll be posting more projects of mine whenever I can, but in the meanwhile check out what I already have posted. If you have any [...]
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Make Your Websites Stand Out with Great Javascripts 2007-08-27 17:45:09 These days becoming a good website maker is starting to take its place as a great stay at home job. Except it can be very complicated and frustrating at times, and these days to make sure you get a good job, you have to make sure your designs stand out. Now among the 6 billion [...]
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, Stand
, Great
Stop unneccessary programs from running at start-up 2007-08-24 11:41:59 Just another quick tip to help speed up your computer at start-up. Open “Run”, which should be in your start menu. If you’re using Vista and never enabled it, right-click on your start menu and select “Properties” and while you’re under the “Start Menu” tab click Customize. Near the end of the list you’ll see [...]
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New Algorithm lets you resize pics without loss of clarity, etc. 2007-08-24 11:20:12 I found a really interesting article here about an algorithm that lets you perfectly resize pictures by getting rid of parts that the algorithm finds unnecessary. But fear not, you can also choose yourself which parts you find unnecessary or definitely necessary. Two scientists at the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, located in [...]
Update: Speed up your Vista PCs performance easily! 2007-08-28 20:40:51 Here’s a little update to “Speed
up your Windows Vista
PC Easily”. You can also increase your PCs performance by creating a bigger or getting rid of your paging file. To read an article on what you should do with the paging file, click here. To be able to edit the page file’s size with [...]
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Wii the most enviroment friendly console? 2007-08-28 16:24:05 Just an update to a post i wrote a short while ago, someone had measured how much electricity his house’s appliances used up, and found that the Wii
was one of the most energy efficient consoles.
Attaching a device that measures electricity use to various gadgets around his Silicon Valley home, Takahashi found that the [...]
Google Phone Software to be released??!! 2007-08-28 16:04:09 I’ve said it time and time again to my friends and family, if Google
ever releases its own OS (Operating System),I’m gonna be the guy that gets on the line to be one of the first buyers. I’m a big fan of Google’s software, especially Picasa, and others like Gmail and Adsense. So as soon [...]
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, released
, Google Phone
Quick Blog Update 2007-09-22 14:19:11 If you used the categories menu, don’t worry about Books as well as several other categories not being there, I moved them to the “Random” category since they weren’t a part of my blog’s mainstream.
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, Update
Get Invites to every Beta! 2007-09-15 18:25:22 I recently got an invite to Yahoo’s Mash, and I’m currently trying out all of its features. So far it seems a lot like Facebook, but is fully customizable by CSS. If you want to try it, then you should go check out “InviteShare“, where you can get sign up to get free invitations to [...]
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Wordpress Comment Ninja Finally Released! 2007-09-14 20:05:44 So the “WordpressCommentNinja
” Greasemonkey script has finally been released. It was definitely worth the wait. In case you don’t know what Greasemonkey is read an older post of mine. Now you can easily comment back to any of your site’s commenter’s from your Comment Panel, and Comment Ninja gives you the option of [...]
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Win amazing toolbar icons just by commenting! 2007-09-14 17:11:52 I’m a sucker for great looking graphics, so I’m really hoping to win this contest. Its a contest to win an entire set of 264 (great looking) icons, and you can enter simply by commenting. You get two more entries if you also write a post linking back to their contest’s page.
View the Website Here [...]
My Halo 3 Song 2007-09-06 19:53:29 This is a song I wrote as a joke that is in tune to “Wake me up when September ends” the live version by Green Day. I don’t have anything against gamers or people who like the Halo games, I actually enjoy Halo myself a bit. I just wrote it mainly to show in general [...]
Random Links 3 2007-09-02 18:23:52 Sorry about the recent lack of updates on pretty much anything since I’ve been rather busy, but I’m back with another round of completely random but useful links (except for the daily stupid link I always feature here). This round includes links on how to make smoke grenades, paper wallets in two minutes, clean up [...]
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