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List Of Plugins Used On This Site - Sept 08
As most of you have probably noticed, I’ve been mega-busy over the last couple of months thanks to a combination of my day job, health issues, moving home and recently getting engaged and trying to plan a wedding. I had to put a lot of things on hold, but I think I’ve managed to get [...]
20Sep2008 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedBawls For Bloggers
Quick, what do Bloggers and Fitness freaks have in common? Give up? They tend to drink lots and lots of java. Yep, especially those bloggers raking $10,000+ in Adsense. Their income is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of their entries. That means bloggers have to stay late and remain focused. Hence the coffee [...]
20Sep2008 | Joseph Plazo | 3 comments | Continued
Avast Land Lubber - It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day Arrr!
It’s the International Talk Like a Pirate Day today. So if you are into pirate talk, this is the day for ye matey.
Of course all the major social media sites are jumping on the bandwagon including Facebook in pirate talk, select English (Pirate) and you can see how many of ye Mateys are on board [...]
Shock Your Morning
So you spent all night blogging and now you just can’t haul yourself off the bed. The world’s spinning slower than molasses. Your teener just downed the last cup of java. . You need jolt. A big one. Short of sticking your thumb in the wall outlet, what can you do?
Why, wear your coffee of [...]
Universal Remote Roundup, Part 1
It isn’t just gearheads who have lots of av equipment anymore. Everyone that sees high definition and hears multichannel sound wants to know what they need to do to have that experience in their home. More and more equipment is ending up in mass market users’ homes as people chase better sound and image. One [...]
17Sep2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | Continued
New Microsoft Ads Are Hilarious And Creates A Buzz
Microsoft’s latest ads are hilarious! I admit they are a bit strange and really don’t have much of a story or message. It could remind you about a certain sitcom featuring a certain actor with a certain last name.
The $300 millon ad campaign features Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld as opposite to “Hi I’m Mac [...]
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 2
I loved scary movies as a child, and I love them as an adult, for reasons both same and different. Horror captures some communal subconscious memory we’re all connected to. It’s about adrenalin, mystery, and trying to find something out about something that is unknowable.
10Sep2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | ContinuedUgly Sites Make Loads of Adsense Income
If you’re a blogger living off Adsense, chances are you’ve tweaked everything from ad colors, placements and sizes. You experimented with heatmaps, placed icons next to ads and even bought Joel Comm’s overpriced adsense books. But yet, your ads just don’t seem to reap the revenues you lust for.
I share your pain. My idea of [...]
How To Tame The Annoying Vista UAC
Users of Windows Vista go nuts when the screen goes dark during the appearance of the User Account Control window . I personally find it vexing. M$ calls it the “Secure Desktop”, but it can drive you insane after the upteenth instance. Here’s how to tame it.
(Note that this will make your system less [...]
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 1
Being a console gamer, I missed the text based pc horror games of the 80s. (I also never found the Alone in the Dark series scary, for all of you who are going to reference that game as the genesis of fear on the videogame console.) Despite the fact that a couple 16 bit titles [...]
3Sep2008 | Michael Lankton | 2 comments | Continued



