Archive for the Tag: Internet
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I Want An iPhone
The iPhone comes out this Friday, the 29th. I was at the MacWorld Expo keynote in January when Steve Jobs announced the revolutionary phone/iPod/Internet device and I was very excited to see it. I’ve thought about it quite a bit because my current Verizon contract isn’t up until February, so if I did get one, I’d have to pay nearly $200 to cancel my contract. What to do? (...)
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claimID
claimID.com is a neat service for keeping track of online info and sites. My claimID. (via Alex) (...)
OpenDNS Preferences
I’ve been using OpenDNS for months now and it’s great. Today they launched My Account, which gives more control and eventually stats. (...)
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Free DNS from OpenDNS
I’m testing out OpenDNS here at work on my main computer. I’ll try out any service to replace something on our network. In testing the past couple of minutes some web pages seem to load faster and some slower. I’ll also be setting it up at home to see how it performs. Time will tell. (via Matt) (...)
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No WWW
I posted a couple of months ago about dropping the www from URLs and have been a supporter of it for much longer. All of my sites have been www free for as long as I can remember. The www.xxxx.com URLs will redirect to the one without www. If you’re using WordPress and have been afraid to try out the .htaccess method Matt released the no-www plugin last month. (...)
Address Bar Removal
Why in the world do web browsers give an option to turn off the address/location bar? (...)
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Websites as Graphs
Kind of cool to view your website as a graph of colored, connected dots representing the various HTML entities. Make your own at Websites as graphs. (via) (...)
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Blinksale
Two weeks ago I wrote over at NICKED Up about using Blinksale for invoicing, but wanted to make mention of it here as well where I think I have a few more readers. Let me tell you…Blinksale kicks ass! The easiest way to send invoices online. (...)
Drop the WWW
Isn’t it time everyone drop the www? Or at least stop requiring it for your site to work. All of my sites work if you type in www.domain.com or simply domain.com. In fact, if you type in the www, I have the .htaccess files set to send a redirect. Try it out…you won’t get to any of my pages and still have the www showing in the address bar. I never type out www. (...)
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Interesting Site Ideas
Some of the ideas people come up with to make money from web sites is always interesting to me. Some of my favorite off the wall ideas in the past year or two were Save Toby and Million Dollar Homepage. My friend Jere recently sent me a link to Husband on Strike and I happened to surf back to the site today. The guy has already been on Geraldo Rivera and Dr. (...)
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Feeding Readers With a Feed Reader
I’ve been using FeedLounge as my feed reading service since I was accepted into their alpha (or was it beta) phase months ago. It’s a great service and I was happy with it. When they came out of alpha and beta tests I was given 2 free months of service. That went by and I couldn’t access my account anymore, so I paid the $5 for another month. (...)
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ESPN Insider
Does anyone really pay for an ESPN Insider subscription? More and more articles and features are being flagged with the little IN icon at ESPN.com and it’s pissing me off. As if I don’t pay enough to get their stations on cable, they want me to pay to read their web site now. I refuse. (...)
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Hamachi
I had first ready about Hamachi a few months ago on Bryan’s site and finally got around to trying it out this weekend. It’s one slick piece of software. Much easier than setting up a VPN and all that junk. With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. (...)
Performancing Metrics
Performancing came out with a free public beta of a blog tracking service earlier this week, called Performancing Metrics. I haven’t used it a very much yet, but it looks very promising. Most statistics services and packages are bloated with useless data. PM gives bloggers access to the data they’ll need most often and it works great. (...)
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Sending Large Files
YouSendIt is an online service which allows you to send large files (up to 1 GB) to other people. No need to worry about email size restrictions or have a special FTP account. This will come in handy at work the next time I get a call about sharing a large file. They even have a version for secure transfers. (...)
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Launching NICKED Up
I just launched NICKED Up, which will be a type of “home base” for the network of blogs that I run. For full details visit the first post at the new site, titled This is NICKED Up. I’ve closed comments on this post at MDV in order to keep all comments over there. (...)
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Poker Chip Tricks Store
Poker Chip Tricks has opened an online store. (...)
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Golden Ticket
I received the Golden Ticket in my Inbox just a few minutes ago. Check out Nick Momrik on WordPress.com. (...)
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Rate The Stuff
Mo launched Rate The Stuff earlier this week. It’ll be interesting to see how the Yahoo ads do on the new site because each page will be so specific to a product. Early on, the ads are very focused, so my guess is that it’ll be a hit. Will RTS be able to survive with so many other review sites out there from the big blog networks? Time will tell. (...)
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nofollow is BAD for the Internet
If you run a WordPress site, I highly suggest installing the Dofollow plugin. If you don’t, you’re hurting the legimate commenters on your site. (...)
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Keep Me Signed In Damnit!
I wouldn’t expect something like this from eBay, but their checkbox doesn’t work worth a shit. I’m prompted to enter my username and password at both eBay and Half more times than I care to count. (...)
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Gmail and IE Disagree
Accessing Gmail with IE has been pretty slow lately. It appears as if Google hates Internet Exploder just as much as the rest of us. (...)
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Cheap Web Hosting
Get web hosting from DreamHost for less than $10 for the first year. Simply use promotion code 777 when you order. I’ve been told that the promotion is over, so I’ve setup a new code. Use promotion code MDV2 and receive discounts on any hosting package through DreamHost. This applies to their “Crazy Domain Insane” package and you must choose to sign-up for a year. (...)
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Feeding Frenzy
I was invited to be an alpha user for FeedLounge and so far I’m impressed. (...)
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Top 20
MDV has cracked the top 20 when Googling for “Nick” at #18! (...)
List Services
Like Lists? Try out 43 Things, 43 Places, and All Consuming. (...)
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FeedMap
FeedMap = Blogs + Maps (...)
Don’t Click It
What would you do in a world without clicking? Seems rather annoying to me. (...)
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Blogs Of The Day
BOTD is “quite possibly the most gratuitous popularity contest on the Internet.” It’s also a sweet plugin for WordPress. (...)
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Not To Blame
CD sale drops cannot be blamed on P2P. (...)
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Yahoo! is using Google Ads
I just clicked a Google Ad on a friend’s web site and was sent to Yahoo! Autos. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em I guess. (...)
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Copyscape
Find copies of your page on the Web with Copyscape. (...)
WP-Cache
When Poker Chip Tricks was Farked this weekend I installed WP-Cache to speed up my WordPress install. It’s easy to install and works great. Might not be a bad idea for anyone that thinks their site might be Farked or Slashdotted. (...)
Ping Pong Tips
Mo has launched another WordPress powered site. This time it’s Ping Pong Tips. (...)
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Poker Chip Tricks on Fark
Poker Chip Tricks has been posted about at Fark.com. Lot of traffic today! (...)
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Tennis Tips
Mo has launched Tennis Tips, another great display of WordPress. (...)
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Targetpoint
Targetpoint looks like another Google AdSense clone. (...)
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Yahoo!+Google=?
YaGoohoo!gle, try quickly saying that 3 times. (...)
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Growing Gmail
Growing Gmail. (...)
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Google Ad Links
Google adds Ad Links to AdSense. View samples. (...)
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Firefox on Steroids
As if Firefox wasn’t fast enough, you can make it run even quicker. (...)
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Using Flickr
Over the past two days I’ve uploaded 572 photos to my new Flickr account. I didn’t do any compression of the files when uploading, but still only managed to use 69% of my upload capacity for this month. I’m really impressed by the service that Flickr offers. For more information and links to all of my photos, visit the photos page. (...)
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A Service to Replace all Others
Yesterday I discussed my struggles to find a service for links and feeds. Today I found one. My Yahoo! Not only can I store all of my links/bookmarks and keep track of feeds, but there’s a ton of other information. In your My Yahoo! account you can create several different pages. I’ve created a total of four pages so far. My first page is called Main and has just a ton of information. (...)
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Pluck This
I justed tested out Pluck, a service which manages your links and feeds. They have a really nice piece of software that integrates with IE for reading feeds and managing everything, but it’s only for IE. Their web interface blows. Pluck shows promise, but until they can come up with something for Firefox, I don’t see them moving forward. (...)
Flickr
I just signed up for a free Flickr account. After I mess around with the service maybe I’ll pay for a real account and move all of my photos over there. (...)
Urban Dictionary
“Define your world” at Urban Dictionary. They even have images to illustrate some of the definitions. I like the one for stfu. (...)
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WordPress Fights Spam
As I mentioned on Friday, I had deactivated my spam prevention plugins. It’s been about 60 hours, but all of spam fighting techniques that are built into WordPress are working extremely well. One thing I noticed however was pingbacks automatically being approved. I had trackbacks moderated by a plugin I wrote, but otherwise they would have been approved also. (...)
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Answers.com
Answers.com boasts “The best definitions and explanations for over 1 million topics.” It’s different from Google and I know I’ll get some use out of it. (...)
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Save Toby
Now here’s a way to make some easy money from a few suckers. Threaten to kill a cute little bunny named Toby. The guy running this site is going to kill Toby on June 30th, 2005 if he doesn’t get $50,000 in donations and merchandise purchases. Amazingly, he’s already took in over $14,000! After all, he’s only asking for $1 from each person. (...)
Google Speak
Google speaks your language, whatever that may be. Some very cool tools for translating text or an entire web page. (...)
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Google Maps
Google is unreal. Check out Google Maps when you get the chance. (...)
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Trackback Spammers Are Back
The trackback spammers are back in full force. When I checked my email this morning I had over 180 and it’s continuing through the morning at a rate of several per minute. Talk about a pain in the ass! Don’t they realize that their info isn’t every getting onto the site. It’s getting flagged and caught in the moderation queue. Keep it up jackasses! (...)
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Go Daddy’s Super Bowl Story
One of the leaders in domain sales, Go Daddy, will air a 30 second commercial during the Super Bowl at the cost of $2.4 million. Recently Go Daddy’s CEO blogged about it. (...)
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Read Feeds
Do you use a feed reader/service to keep track of blogs that you read? Currently I just jump on my sites and check the link list to see which sites have recently updated…pretty dumb way of doing it. I know there are countless sites out there that will store your blogroll and let you see which ones have updated recently. I want to know which are the best, so speak up… (...)
bbPress
I just installed bbPress to give it a test drive. When I read that it’s supposed to be simple, I guess I was thinking WordPress simple. Think Notepad simple. The forum software is nowhere near being ready for use on a site. Now, I totally understand that the project just started development 2 weeks ago and is being built from the ground up. (...)
Matt > Bill
Matthew Mullenweg is like the Bill Gates of Internet software. But then again, maybe he’s not. All of Matt’s software is Open Source (free to use, free to modify). Oh, and his software works. Did I mention he listens to his users? Or how about the fact that he answers every single one of his email messages? So I take that back…he’s not like Gates at all. (...)
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FBI Tracking
The FBI is now able to see every click you make on the Internet. Just be careful. (...)
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WordPress Plugins: Trackback And Pingback Moderation
These two plugins basically do the same thing, but I wanted to keep them seperate. When you turn one on, it will automatically place either all NEW trackbacks or all NEW pingbacks (depending on the plugin) into the comment moderation queue. It’s meant as a simple way to keep the spammers from getting these onto your site without you first approving them. (...)
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Trackback Spam
Now that I’ve gotten a handle on the comment spam taking over my blogs, I’m getting hit through other means. Trackbacks! I found a few hooks in the WP code that I can plug into, so tonight I plan to whip up a few plugins so that pingbacks and trackbacks can automatically be put into the moderation queue. At least that’s what I hope to accomplish. (...)
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Little Light Bulbs In My Head
I always get some great little ideas about something I could make a short post about on the site, but then forget by the time I get back to a computer. It’s times like those that I wish I paid for Internet access on my phone. I wonder if I could use the text messaging feature to send a message to an email account that WP would automatically check. (...)
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Don’t Be A Stranger
The Strangerhood is the latest series from the crew at Rooster Teeth Productions, who are known for Red Vs Blue. The Strangerhood is along the same lines as Red Vs Blue, but uses the Sims 2 video game. Pretty funny stuff. (...)
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Firefox 1.0
Firefox 1.0 is due to be released tomorrow. Not quite sure why they’d release it on the same day as Halo 2 though. Come to think of it, tomorrow should be a national sick day holiday! (...)
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New Yahoo!
Yahoo! has released a new design on their front page. I think I like it. Seems a lot “cleaner” to me. (...)
Blog Explosion
Blog Explosion: Explode your blog traffic! Seems like the latest thing in blogging… Will it survive? I doubt it! If it brings a few people to the site and they end up coming back because they like what they see, then I guess it’s worth it. (...)
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Vote No On Proposal Link Exchange
Since launching the Poker Chip Tricks site, I’ve been getting numerous requests to exchange links. I’ve even gotten a few for this site recently. My answer is always the same, “I don’t do link exchanges.” I think link exchanges polute the web. I will never link to a site just because they link to one of mine. (...)
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Every page is editable by users and everything is cross-linked. A wealth of information is just a click away. (...)
Stock Photo Exchange
A free stock photo exchange. I think I’ll be using this! (...)
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Google’s Gears
Is Google broken? I’ve been snooping around the Internet today looking up things about Google and their ranking system. Why? Because the new poker chip tricks site still isn’t anywhere near the first few pages of results when doing a search for “poker chip tricks”. In fact, you don’t get a result for my new site until #261!! Searching on Yahoo! (...)
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Without Internet
Every couple of weeks I get a reminder of what life was like without the Internet. It’s one of the many perks for working at SVSU. (...)
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Pick Your Colors
Online colorpicker allows you to choose colors and see right away how they would look in a sample layout. (...)
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Web Tools
I’m testing out a stat tracking site called Data Archiving Services. Simply put one line of javascript in your webpage and then log into their site to view the stats. The same company also has a site called Visual Speller which will highlight spelling mistakes in any web site. (...)
Browse Google Style
Will the future have a web browser made by Google? (...)
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Get Firefox!
Get Firefox and spread the word! The best browser in the world is quickly becoming one of the most popular. (...)
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Online Marriage Proposal
I wonder if anyone has ever proposed to their woman online. Picture it like this…you have a blog, which your girlfriend checks every few days. You decide to post your marriage proposal on the web for her to read. A few days later, she checks your site and SURPRISE! I’m sure it’s already been done or will be done soon enough. Not very romantic though. (...)
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File Sharing
Mark has created an easy way to quickly share a file with someone. (...)
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The Real Photo Matt
For the past few weeks this is all I see when visiting most of the single post pages at Photo Matt using FireFox 0.9.2. I’m curious to read some of the comments on his posts (and comment myself), but can’t unless I switch over to another browser. (...)
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Lately…
I’ve had quite a few things going on. Somehow, things all happen at once. Today I did a little work on my new dedicated server, but I still need to wait for a few domains to transfer over to 1&1, where I’ve decided to keep all the domain registrations. (...)
PokerChipTricks.com
The announcement you’ve all been waiting for…I’ve purchased pokerchiptricks.com! Over the next few weeks I’ll be designing an all new site and moving my poker chip tricks tutorials. I also have quite a few new tricks to add. Big things are planned and I’m pretty excited about it. (...)
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MtDewVirus.net
I now own mtdewvirus.net. (...)
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MtDewVirus.org
I now own mtdewvirus.org. (...)
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NickMomrik.com
I now own nickmomrik.com. (...)
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Hosting Options
A few days ago I posted about needing dedicated server hosting and ever since I’ve been doing research. There is so much to compare. So many opinions. The decision is overwhelming. Right now I’m looking at a dedicated server from Server Matrix and paying Fast Server Management to manage the server for me. (...)
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Dedicated Server Hosting
Does anyone know of a good company to get a dedicated server to host my sites? I have some new projects in the works and shared hosting just won’t cut it anymore. 1&1 has some good pricing on dedicated servers, but I have a free account through them and I hate their Control Panel and the fact that I need they use different usernames for everything. (...)
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Legal MP3 Downloads?
Download music at the affordable price of $0.01/MB. Is it too good to be true? (...)
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PHP Sharing
Share your PHP code. Useful for quickly pasting some PHP code up to a site in order for someone else to troubleshoot a problem. Credit to: GoodSnake (...)
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More Gmail Invites
Yes, I have more Gmail invites. 4 to be exact. I had 6, but gave one to my brother and one to my buddy Case. The first 4 people to comment on this post will get the invites. All you have to do is say how you would up at my site. I don’t care if it was Google, link from another site, etc. Just say how. Nothing too hard. (...)
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Google Search
Google Adsense came out with a new feature called WebSearch today. You can now search the web or my entire site from the sidebar. Try it out for yourself…it’s pretty sweet. I’ve wanted a search feature for my site (instead of just the weblog search available through WP) for quite some time and this is perfect. (...)
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Mozilla FireFox 0.9
Get your copy of the world’s greatest browser while it’s HOT! Mozilla FireFox 0.9 (...)
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Gmail Giveaway
I’ve been given 3 more Gmail invites so I’ve decided to have a contest. Take a picture that somehow involves an animal or animals. Creativity is a must! Hint: I hate cats, so don’t use them! You may enter as many photos as you want, but are only allowed to win one Gmail invite. I’ll pick what I think are the best 3 2 photos. (...)
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Gmail Invites
After logging into my Gmail account today I noticed a link to Invite Friends. Turned out that I had been given 3 invitations. They went to Deacon Blue, Mo, and another co-worker, Doug. Unfortunately I don’t have any left (so don’t ask), but if I get more invitations I’ll likely have some type of contest to give them away. (...)
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Top 10 May 2004 Searches
At the end of each month (I’ve decided this is the last month I am posting this), I post a list of the top 10 keyword combinations (searches) that visitors have used in a search engine to get to my site. It’s not a popularity list, because “poker chip tricks” and every possible way to search for that would dominate my top 10. (...)
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Gmail Swap
Still looking for a Gmail account? Maybe you can trade something for one… (...)
3D CSS Box Model
A nice diagram that shows how CSS padding, border, margin, background-color, and background-image are stacked. (...)
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What I Look For In A Blog
How does a site make it into my Weblogs I Read link list? Friends This is the easiest way because I’m definitely going to read up on what my friends have to say. At the same time though, my friends can’t have a garbage site and expect me to visit often. Design You must have a good design. I don’t want to see 20 different colors of text. (...)
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Scamming the Scammer
An Ebay scammer gets beat at his own game. (...)
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Aplus.Net Web Hosting
Aplus.Net recently upgraded their web hosting plans and they did one hell of a job. The Solo XR plan had previously been rated #1 by CNET and now the plan is even better! I’ve been paying for the Pro plan because I needed PHP and MySQL, which are now both included in the Solo XR. I’ve already made a request to downgrade my plan since Pro is $19.95/month and Solo XR is $9.95. (...)
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Gmail Me
Gmail accounts are going for anywhere between $50-250 on Ebay. Check it out for yourself. Since they are not available to the public I know a lot of people want to see what the new email service is all about, but come on. Do you really need to pay for an account that will soon be free? If anyone has an extra invitation, I wouldn’t mind a Gmail account of my own. (...)
What’s In A Post Title?
The title of a post can be very important. A good title may catch a visitor’s eye and spark their interest to read the post. That reader may like what they read and become a regular visitor. A title relating to the post will rank highly with search engines because the post title is used as the page title and as an H1 HTML tag. (...)
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Top 10 April 2004 Searches
At the end of each month, I post a list of the top 10 keyword combinations (searches) that visitors have used in a search engine to get to my site. It’s not a popularity list, because “poker chip tricks” and every possible way to search for that would dominate my top 10. These are the funniest, weirdest, or craziest searches that have resulted in a visit to my site. (...)
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The Digital Pimpress
The Digital Pimpress has been MIA for 2 months now. I used to read her blog daily for several reasons: She kept it real…all the time. She wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. She’s smart and knew what she was talking about. She’s a very good looking geek. Her site was always interesting and worth reading. She was sick and all of the sudden disappeared. (...)
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MtDewVirus Screen Name For AIM
Does anyone know where it is? Either I signed up for it a long time ago and forgot which email account I used, or someone else took it so that I couldn’t have it. I’ve had AOL send the password several times over the past few years, but I never get an email in any of the accounts I use. (...)
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Pentrix
Very cool tricks done with a pen… Pentrix (...)
Internet Stalker
I now have an online stalker! Some guy just starts talking to me today on MSN Messenger (I’ll keep his screenname private) after he found my web site. Seemed like a nice guy interested in poker, but then starting asking me personal questions. (...)
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Top 10 March 2004 Searches
At the end of each month, I post a list of the top 10 keyword combinations (searches) that visitors have used in a search engine to get to my site. It’s not a popularity list, because “poker chip tricks” and every possible way to search for that would dominate my top 10. These are the funniest, weirdest, or craziest searches that have resulted in a visit to my site. (...)
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Top 10 February 2004 Searches
At the end of each month, I plan to give a list of the top 10 keyword combinations (searches) that visitors have used in a search engine to get to my site. It’s not a popularity list, because “poker chip tricks” and every possible way to search for that would dominate my top 10. These are the funniest, weirdest, or craziest searches that have resulted in a visit to my site. (...)
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Site Changes
Over the past few days you may have noticed a few changes to the site. I removed the Shout Outs from the sidebar. I was the only one ever shouting so I figured it wouldn’t be missed. With them gone, the pages should load a little (fraction of a second) quicker. The other change is that I added a little hack next to the date/time of a post. (...)
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Internetting
I’m catching up on my Internetting. Lindsay Lawes (...)
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Too Geek Or Not Too Geek
Rands has an interesting blog and has made a couple of posts on what he calls Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder or N.A.D.D. Read the first post and then the second post. It is quite interesting. I have N.A.D.D. and I think most geeks do, or need to, in order to be productive. It’s just what we do. (...)
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Bookmarks And Favorites
For the purpose of this post, BF = bookmark/favorite. Most people use BFs in their browser to make it easy for them to browse their favorite websites with a single click. They also store the sites so that they don’t have to remember the lengthy addresses some sites have. Whoever invented them made it very easy for the rest of us. I use the Internet all the time for everything. (...)
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Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla has released a new preview of their next generation browser. Version 0.7 was called Firebird and 0.8 is now called Firefox. I use it as my main browser. If you are a web developer, the Web Developer and EditCSS extensions are must haves. Some of the other extensions I use are CuteMenus and Tabbrowser. Try it out, I’m sure you’ll love it! (...)
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Technology Rules…
…my life. There is no question about it. I do all of my banking and pay most of my bills online. I store all phone numbers in my cell phone. Any addresses I need to remember are stored in my email address book. I schedule all of my appointments on the calendar in my email system. Everyone’s birthday is stored in this calendar as well. (...)
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Orkut
I’ve joined a social networking site called Orkut (thanks for the invite Matt). It’s a way to keep in touch with friends, meet new people, find dates, share ideas, and other things. You may have heard of sites such Friendster or Tribe.net, which are along the same lines. From what I’ve read, Orkut is supposed to improve on all of these other sites. (...)
Custom Error Pages
I’ve had custom error pages on my site since it started, but today I added an awesome feature. It was great that the user was getting an error page with the same look and feel as my site, but I wasn’t getting any information from it. (...)
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TFS Statistics
I just finished installing TFS Statistics on my web site. The configuration was a breeze and the instructions were top notch for the installation. From their website: TFS is a Web statistics package written in PHP. (...)
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Instant Messengers
Instant messenger (IM) programs have had a large impact on communication. It is a form of instant communication like talking on the phone or in-person. We can send a message and get an immediate response from someone else. We can hold conversations (or chats) with several people at once, which we cannot do on the phone or in-person. The most popular IMs are AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, and ICQ. (...)
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Enjoying My Break
I’ve been enjoying my holiday break a great deal. At the same time, I miss being back in Saginaw at my apartment, but this is a nice little get-away. I’ve been sleeping in until at least 10 every morning and I didn’t even leave the house yesterday. The big project yesterday was to get a page up with poker chip tricks tutorial, and so far the page is getting a lot of attention. (...)
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What Next?
When I started redesigning the site a little over a month ago, I had a plan (which changed several times) mapped out. That plan has now been completed and I have the basic pages up and running that I wanted to. So now what? For the past week or so I’ve basically only been tweaking a few things here and there. I haven’t really added any new pages. I don’t know what to do next. (...)
Missing From Google
Lately my site has been appearing and disappearing from Google, so I decided to try and find out why. Instead of trying to put the answer in my own words, I’ll just give a link to it. Go over here. (...)
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Hamoudy’s Weblog
My friend Mohamad now has a weblog running at his site. You can access his weblog with the link in the weblog links section on the right side of this page. I’ve been helping him get his site setup and getting some of the things running with his hosting company. It feels good to help someone out and see the fruits of my (and his) labor. (...)
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Free Web Hosting
I don’t know how they are doing it, but a company called 1&1 is offereing a special promotion giving out 3 years of web hosting for free to those who sign up. I have signed up and moved my momrik.com domain over to their site. Everything is all setup and I’m able to access my site already. (...)
