I must say with Netflix and All the Possibilities, I will stick with my Roku even more. I recommend the Roku to all my friends and family and you should check it out yourself!!
Video Podcasters can Now Put there episodes on a Roku for Free!
As you know people are utilizing the the fact that Televisions are becoming more and more useful with getting your products out their. I say that because if you have more ways to get your podcast out the more chances more people will find it. Also. This is going tobe a simple tutorial for those who my be looking for a free way to make your podcast more readily available to the TV folks.
Download the Video file
If you know anything about podcasting you will need to download the video file for the purpose of uploading it to Dyyno. If your are Ustream.tv Broadcaster, the easiest and quickest way to get your files you want to upload to Dyyno is to go into your Ustream.tv Dashboard, Then clicking on “Manage Your Shows” > “Your Videos” > “Edit Video“. If you are unsure about where the edit link is. You will see a small wrench right by the play button, that is what you will need to use to edit the video. Clicking on that will take you into a new screen their you will see a way to either Upload to Youtube or Download FLV. If upload you video to the Youtube you can use Clipnabber to download the video to your computer.
Convert the file to an MP4
This might sound easy but can take several minutes to an hour depending on the size of the file. Dyyno requires that the file be an MP4 so, you can download a free .FLV Converter Called Koyote Free FLV converter. The only thing i don’t like about this program is that it tries to install several different toolbars and you have to tell them not to install them. Other than that the program does pretty good in converting the files to several different formats. Once converted, then you will need to follow this last step.
Upload MP4 File to Dyyno
Using the Dyyno broadcaster you will need to upload the file. In order to upload the file you will need to click on the Upload button on the Dynno Broadcaster. Once you selected and uploaded the video you would then just need to go to Video manager on Dyyno to allow the video to be put into the On demand slot. If you haven’t created your account yet for Dyyno this would be the time to do it. You will not need to password protect the channel, so that your podcast community can easily view your videos. You are only allowed 1gb of space for the free version, so if you want more you need to talk to Dyyno for more flexibility.
Phillidelphia requires bloggers to pay for a License!!
Having been one of the few who doesn’t need to worry about this just yet. I figured I would talk about this and how this will impact every blogger out there. You’re probably thinking this won’t do anything in my neck of the US or for that matter the country. Now I have read several stories about how this might be earning just a few dollars in Philadelphia will need to pay $300 for a Business License. Some of the main concerns for me are obvious in my eye, but you probably don’t see it just yet. So I will go through some of the more problematic in my eyes.
Every City Will start requiring this?
You’ve heard me right, soon every city in the US will probably jump on this band wagon and claim they should be getting some of this internet money. So the problem with this is, those who are just trying to start to make money online will either make or break the blog in question. We can have so much problems with this because of those sites that are new to the business of blogging and will not know how to make money in the first place. I was the same way when I first started blogging, I wanted to make money but didn’t know how to do it. I started to experiment with my blog posts and finally I made a little money here and little money there. I didn’t start making any good money until I learned to review and recommend. That is how I started making any good affiliate sales but what about the new guy who doesn’t know how to monetize their blog?? Will they have to pay for something that never worked in the first place?
Business Plans Change for the blogger!
Yea that is right, the Business of making money online will forever change, it will no longer be a free page. I will have to pay for Hosting, Domains, Domain Privacy, advertising, and then having to pay yearly for a so called business. All this will make it just that harder for anyone to make any money online. I am sure they will start adding even more taxes as we get into even more of a recession. I don’t know if I will like that but I will fight it every step of the way. I am going to contact my Local Government and tell them I don’t like this and that they should make sure it doesn’t happen to other City’s and states.
I was reading how Gail Garner over at Growmaps.com wants to have a white list and black list they could use. I might not be an expert on spam, but I can see there might be some problems with this idea.
Let’s start off with what I know!
We all get spam in our in box every day, and sometimes more than 3x a day. That isn’t unusual. The problem is that spammers are constantly trying to get your to read their emails. They of course want to convey something to you weather it be free Ipods, or buy Viagra. Spam to me is like a dinner meal, I love it because it just fascinates me on how they will do anything to for profit. That being said, I got a spam email with the title being “Your wife photos attached” and it had a zip file called bagman.zip(See photo). As you can see the spammer has two reasons to doing this. One is the husband is curious about what the wife’s photo is being sent to the husband. The problem with this that no matter how well your marriage is there is always going to be a residual amount of doubt and that comes into play here. The Spammer wants the married males to open this up because they want to sell you Viagra. I’ve already spoke about why you should not buy from online pharmacies, so I won’t go into that part.
What does this have to do with the topic?
Does anyone know about (or have the ability to correct) a WordPress plugin that can be used to whitelist our regular readers and blacklist obvious spam? Specifically, we need to be able to blacklist:
Specific URLs (because spammers leave 100s of comments and that is the one field they have to make accurate or their spam is useless)
Commonly used spam phrases – We need to block specific PHRASES and NOT the words within the phrases.
Now we know Windows isn’t secure and we also Wordpress isn’t 100% secure either. Now that being said, we also have seenwhere hackers have taken over wordpress sites by either a Trojan or just by Phishing. Now I can see where hackers would find a way onto your site just to add there URL onto the whitelist. Depending on how well your protect your WordPress site, that can be quite difficult to avoid. We also have to guess that inorder to use this whitelist we would need it to communicate with other sites and build upon what others have submitted. I don’t know if that would be a wise idea or not but I do see how if enough websites are compromised then yes the spammer could easily add his url to the mix and make it just that much harder for the blog owners to know what is spam and what isn’t.
What is Spam?
There are varying degrees of what spam is. Some have quantified it into anything that looks like and advertisement. I personally think this is a gray area and no one person can say for sure, but I do know what Wikipedia says:
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, television advertising and file sharing network spam.
I don’t know what we can do about spam but I do want to encourage people to think out side the box. If you create a plugin then you will know just how hard it is to keep it update and why you should in the first place. Spammers will always use an non-updated plugin to their advantage and thus we will always be updating your plugins.
I don’t know what Gail has in mind for her blog but I think my setup for comments are working out quite nicely. There are always going to be people who want to exploit something from you an you always have to ask your question “what do they want to exploit? and why?”.
If you can answer that question then you are far better off than most people.
The Cricket EC1705 modem is a feature-rich modem in a compact size and light weight. It connects your laptop or desktop computer to the Cricket high-speed wireless network. You can send and receive text messages, and use it in all Cricket Broadband coverage areas. The USB extension cable offers additional flexibility to connect to different USB locations in your PC. The Cricket EC1705 modem offers you convenience, speed and power, all of which you’re sure to appreciate.
Supported operating systems:
Windows Vista (SP1) or higher
Windows XP (SP2) or higher
Windows 2000 (SP4)
Mac OS X (10.4.11+) and (10.5+)
To install the modem and the software, these minimum system resources are required:
Port: Type A USB port
Processor: 300MHz or faster
Memory: 512 MB
Free disk space: 30 MB
Screen Resolution: 800×600, 256 colors
This was released this week, the EC1705 Datacard, is EVDO capable and will be using the Tri-band. I haven’t had a chance to test this modem out but it does look kinda cool! If you have this leave a message about how you like it!! I’d love to test this out but right now I can’t afford it, maybe later on this year!!
I spent the weekend installing a few subdomains, by installing WordPress 3 Multisite Network. I will admit this isn’t for those who are new to WordPress but I did learn a lot from the experience. Now before you go start to install a Multisite, you should understand that when WordPress creates more sites these are virtual spaces on a virtual server. In other words there is no real directory for these sites or sub-directory. So you will have to consider about how you will insert the htacess code for each domain. This is where it get tricky. After you’ve set up your domains or sub-domains you will have a Super Admin Panel. What I failed to realize is that for some strange reason my main domain lost the [WWW] from my domain.
How did I fix all my Links to the New Domain Format??
I must admit I was glad to find a Tutorial on how to search and replace in a SQL database. The Author is Lorelle VanFossen and he talks about how to do search and replace anything in content posts. With this tutorial I was able to go through my whole blog and remove any [www] reference from any and all my content. I must agree with the him on this point, before you even consider using this you should make a complete backup of your SQL Database. The nice thing about this is that since my images were broke because of the [www] reference, no one could see any images. So I use that tutorial on all my sites that had the [www] reference and any post broken was fixed. If your unsure, I would have an expert do this stuff for you. That way you know it is done right. Now if your are wanting to update the databases for each site you will need to understand that after you get done installing the new sites each database will have a number like “wp_#_posts” and so on, so if you will need to know this so you know which blog you want to. Whiich it starts of with “wp_posts” for your main site and any extra multisites start off with one and goes up.
Why Can’t I cloak my links??
Basically now since you have more than one site and those sites are virtual there is no way for you to physically edit those htacess websites. I even tried to use WP Htacess Control plugin to see if I could get it to work that way, but that didn’t work. I even emailed the author of the Link Cloaking Pluging, and he said:
The free version of the cloaker plugin doesn’t support Multi Site installs. This is because it relies on .htaccess modification, and its .htaccess rules are no suited for multisite. The paid version should work, however.
I really can’t complain about this because I know he/she wants to make money just like the rest of us struggling blogger, but I believe that if you are going to offer it for free, you should support it for all WordPress platforms. So I knew there was a way to still use that link cloaking plug-in. Although she is right it relies heavily on that .htaccess. I knew there had to be a work around and I found it on WPMU Development Blog, there they showed you how to use this plugin to cloak all your links.
You will need to edit it to your website but once you have and install it on your main Htaccess site, the one where th wordpress is installed in. I will tell you have a 2 other domains, so I had to edit and install it 3 times on my htaccess to get it to work fully. You will need to:
Settings > Link Cloaking
If your like me and installed Subdomains then you will need to change each link prefix to something different so it can know which website it came from. I suggest you use go1 and use numbers just like I did. I am unsure if you will need to do this for your sites that have “/blog1” and “/blog2” and so on. You will probably have to do this if your are using these as sub-directories but one way you will know for sure is to test it out. You will need to edit the htacess with the new link and the site you are using that link. For example, I am using the Prefix [go2] with my http://cheap-electronics.tech-linkblog.com and I put those two into the code. I used [go1] for my http://myshows.tech-linkblog.com and copied the whole code again and edited accordingly. So I have three different “# Link Cloaker Plugin BEGIN” and three different “# Link Cloaker Plugin ENDS” for each website that I either made or have control over. After all this, I am rather pleased that I have found this information. I do hope I have helped others with this little problem and ask that if I helped you to consider buying something from Amazon to show your support. If you have any questions please feel free to email me, I will be happy to try to answer them.
Have a Good Monday, See you Wednesday!!
*Update*
The [WWW] is back and has been fixed, that problem was a DNS cache problem with Godaddy, that has been fixed and now you should be able to visit my site the regular way. I will not worry about adding the [www] back into content posts because they will still be found by WordPress.
I got an Email claiming to be a USA Pharmacy but yet the website looked like it was in Canadian Pharmacy. I have talked about these types of websites in the past and http://medicou.com is one of those that I could tell of the top of my head. The Phone Number from the website alone has several other websites with the same exact look and feel. As you can see the domains associated with this phone number are:
I wouldn’t trust anything from these domains because how easy they are to set up those websites. I even read about the certificates being revoked on the Spamhause website. I already also talked about why you shouldn\’t buy from unreliable sources. I recommend you buy from your local pharmacy and not these websites. Just a friendly reminder to always do research before you buy anything from sites that you have never heard of. Always buy from sites such as Amazon.Com or Other sites that are widely known about. Please remember to be safe online when it comes to your credit card information.
With the need to find the best deals out there, I’ve decided to help those who might be looking for Cheap Unlocked Cell Phones, or just looking for Cheap Electronics! These are sites that where you can keep watch for a nice phone for really cheap or some other electronics that you might want to find cheaply. I even created a Site to find DVD’s that I enjoy cheaply. Mostly these are shows that I like to watch and want others to watch them also. So I wanted to encourage all my readers to check them out and decide for yourself if they are worth your time.
Why did I do this? You might ask!
Well I will tell you that I did this to help promote stuff that Business men and women alike might need for their home business. That was my primary reason for creating the Cheap Unlocked Cell phones website because if I can avoid paying for contracts that makes sure I don’t spend money where I don’t have it. I then thought about what shows or movies I like and wanted to help other discover them and see them also. I will in the future create a Video on Demand website but that is later one down the road. Mainly this website will be what ever I enjoy to watch from movies to shows and much more.
If your looking to keep track of all these sites, I have added them to my Toolbar and there you can keep up to date on any new posts and check out the ones that you might like to read more about. If you want to keep track using your RSS reader then here they are:
I hope you enjoy these sites and encourage others to check them out. I have worked hard on these sites and hope you will bookmark them and come back from time to time!!
The Sanyo ZIO by Kyocera is a sleek and stylish smartphone. With a 3.5”WVGA touch-screen, wifi capability, 3G Real Web Browsin, the ZIO is a smartphone with brains as well as beauty. Cricket’s first Android smartphone also includes great features like a 3.2MP camera/camcorder, MP3 player/microSD slot, virtual QWERTY keyboard, and more! The ZIO is a fully featured Android smartphone with access to tens of thousands of cool apps on the Android market as well as great Google apps like YouTube, Gmail, Google Search and more.
This Phone comes with a $55 Android Zio Plan, a Little cheaper than the Blackberry Plan by $5. It is after all a little cheaper than the Blackberry!!
Over the past few months, We have heard about Hulu Plus and how Everyone wants to be able to watch Hulu on your Television Cheaply. Now it is possible with the use of Dyyno a new company that has joined forces with Roku to be able to Stream anything to the Roku with very little experience or training.
What is Dyyno??
I am unsure how to describe them but I will quote from Crunchbase Profile:
Dyyno provides the breakthrough online video distribution platform that allows anyone to instantly share live video and rich media with an audience ranging from small groups to massive numbers of viewers. Dyyno’s reliable and brandable online video platform enables individuals, small and medium businesses (SMBs), communities, and large businesses to instantly share video and multimedia without IT involvement and for 10 times less cost than traditional solutions. Founded in 2007 and backed by Artiman Ventures and Startup Capital Ventures, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has a world-class technical team with video and networking expertise in Stanford P2P multicast.
As you can read, this company allows you share your desktop or video’s instantly with others without any understanding about the mechanics behind the scenes. I expect this company to become widely used in the next coming months or years. You have a Video Podcast and you want people who don’t have computers to be able to watch, this would be one way to share your video for others who might not have the time to sit down and watch on the computer. Want to teach a wide variety of people around the world, without having them on line at a certain this would become the next way to teach people without needing to worry about schedules. They can watch on their own time, when it is convenient for them.
What is needed to watch Hulu on my Television with the Roku Box??
Very Simple, You would download a program called “Dyynosetup.exe” from their main website and install on it on your computer. Something to consider before doing this though are:
Connection Speed (Bandwidth) — I have tried this with my cable broadband(3 mb up/7mb down) and it is very choppy. So it would work better with Fiber optic broadband. You see you have to have 2 streams downloading and one stream uploading to be view the video on the Roku. If you have this then you will have no problems. I haven’t tried to record it then watch it on Roku, that would only require one stream to view the video. This might be the way I would have to do it to watch it on the Roku. I also Suggest you have a wired connection to receive the best possible speed on both upstream and downstream.
Speed of the Computer – Since you will be decoding and encoding the video, you will need a fast system. I would recommend something with dual or quad cores and at least 1.7 mhz for each core. This also will help keep the video smooth when you are wanting to use this service. Although this shouldn’t be a problem because most people have really fast systems, this could be an issue for slower systems and the video on the Roku.
Make the Channel Private – Keeping the channel private by having a password will greatly decrease the chances someone complains to the Hulu about this and keep you from any lawsuits. If someone guesses the password this can be bad also, so make sure to create a password no one could possibly guess to protect yourself from lawsuits. Unless your a Podcaster then I would recommend you make it available to the public.
After all this all you would need to use this is the program and to sign up with Dyyno. You will see just how easy this program is to broadcast anything and everything to the Roku. I want to test out other ideas and see how well they work. If you want to try out Dyyno, Just use your Roku box to find this little channel store. Once done you will then add your account to the Dyyno Channel. Usually it will be (http://www.dyyno.com/[username]). All you will need to do is search for the [username] and add that to your favorites. That’s it. You will now be able to stream to your Roku!!
*Anything talked about is not intended to encourage or force people to use this product. This is a how to and in such should be used in accordance with Laws in your country. If you feel like this is illegal in your country then the best practice is don’t do it. Remember that we still have copyrighted videos and such, and each case should be considered before making public. You use this at your own risk, and you can not hold me responsible for anything incurred to you. *
Epix, the pay TV channel launched last October by Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., will make the movies, including new releases, available to Netflix 90 days after they premiere on premium pay TV and subscription on-demand. Epix holds subscription pay TV rights to new releases and movies from its partners’ libraries.
I have a Roku and this means that Netflix will be a bigger part of watching movies and shows on my Roku. I can bet that this will also include Star Trek (2009), Iron Man, GI Joe : The Rise of Cobra, Indiana Jones and other Science Fiction shows or movies in the future. Right now, you can view what is currently available to watch from the Epix website.
Some of the ways you can watch this on your TV are : Xbox 360, PS3, Roku, Wii, Tivo, Some Blue Ray Players, and much more. You can find out the full list from the Netflix Website. As you can see this will greatly get more people to sign up to Netflix to watch more movies and shows streaming to their Televisions Sets and enjoy the movie or show instantly. Netflix is to start offering Movies and such from Epix on September 1, 2010. I can’t wait to see the movies they start offering on Wednesday but that is three weeks away. I will most like upgrade my Roku play to the High Definition version in the coming year just so I can see all those action packed scenes that Paramount and Lionsgate are so wildly known for. If you don’t have Netflix or way to watch it on your Television, I would suggest you get ready for this great little upgrade and watch all those movies you always wanted to watch on your couch without having to wait for the DVD.
House M.D. — This is almost like a murder detective mystery but backwards. House has to solve medical problems before they die. He has to keep them alive until him and his team can figure out what is causing the patient to die. Most of the episodes none of the patient dies but their are circumstances where they must kill off the patient. I guess you win some and loose some!! House does have flaws like the rest of us but that is why we like him because he reminds us of ourselves. My Overall SeriesRating:
Monk — This series is great Comedy and comes from USA Network and Monk has to to figure out how someone died. It actually has quite a bit of comedy and that also makes for a good series. Monk gets booted from the Police force and is forced to work on his own. He also has almost every Phobia and is extremely obsessive-compulsive, which makes for a fun and enjoyable series where you see him where he has to deal with solving a murder. This series you can laugh when he does something strange or just smile because you probably know someone just like him in one way or another. The writers knew how to make a comedy out of a detective mystery but also make it suspenseful at the same time. My Overall SeriesRating:
Psych — Two ordinary people with extraordinary observations, is the best I can describe this. Gus and Shawn is hired by the police after he cons them into thinking he has psychic powers that help solve crimes. I simply like this series because how well the writers make Gus and shaw work together they have this Yen and Yang thing going sometimes but that is what makes it so interesting to watch. They get into all sorts of trouble to help solve these cases and yet that is what makes it funny. My Overall SeriesRating:
Knight Rider — Mike has a Mission with KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) car, who is determined to help solve cases and having to deal with bad guys left and right. He used to be a Police Officer and now he has to do it with the help of his car. I actually love the action and suspense, not much comedy but when they created this series. In the time of making this series the technology did look futuristic but that has change. You can watch the newer series but it was only done for a season Knight Rider – (2008). I did start to like the newer series because of the morphing ability of KITT but they cancelled that show after the first season. Sad to know that it only lasted one season. My Overall series Rating:
The A-Team — The A-Team are prisoners of War for a crime they didn’t commit and now are on the run from the Military Police. They help the small the guys from the bad guys and have to figure out who and where these bad guys are located sometimes. This is an 80′s series but yet I love the action and adventure, and sometimes just the comedy that comes with this series. This series was good for being well rounded for all types of audiences and I for one loved to watch how they did it sometimes. They have to make use of ordinary things to use to fight the bad guys, that is also sometimes the really interesting part of the series. That was something that is remembered for all time, having an A-Team Moment!! My Overall series Rating:
These are the shows that I like to watch from time to time and I can’t wait for House M.D. to start back up this fall. If you have one that you like feel free to comment on it and tell people why. I’d love to hear which ones you like and don’t like. I hope you found some other shows you might want to watch, these are after all my favorite shows. This post was done to have fun and let people find out my interests.
So I signed up forHulu Plus and only put down that I had a Roku Box!! So I thought that when I actually got the Invite that it would actually have the Roku box as a way to watch Hulu on the TV. I signed up and nope it isn’t still available on the Roku but if you are looking to watch this on your Tv you can watch them on:
As you can tell they are going to expand where you can watch Hulu on your TV in the coming months more easily. If they are going to expand and you have these types of equipment. It seems that if they can get past the IP problems with Roku and Tivo. Although with Roku you can have click able Advertisement which would greatly improve the likely hood of knowing what advertisements and can tell who views the advertisements. This would greatly way to bring more advertisers to Hulu because they could see who is viewing the video Advertisements. If your looking for a cheap way to watch Hulu on your Television set, you can always check out How to Watch Internet TV on Your TV: the Cheap Way!!. I will look around the Hulu Plus and get back but right now, it isn’t that good of service unless you have these devices to be able to use the Hulu Plus.
Now before I start, I didn’t write anything about Season 2, Episode 8 “The Hankover” because that episode wasn’t as good as I wanted it. It was all about there best man party for Dyvia but that wasn’t anywhere as good as this episode. So Let’s begin with how well they developed the relationship between Evan and the girl who hired him. This relationship is becoming more and more interesting but I did like it. They bring the Girls mom and dad into this episode, looking like they are making this become a long term relationship but unknown as to the out come. We also see Hank and Dr. Emily develop an interesting relationship, and I am not liking where this relationship is going. There was a Macgyver’ish episode where Hank has to make one oxygen tank and use it for two people. Other than that, I actually like how they developed this episode and can’t wait to see what develops in the coming season.
It’s the Tenth Doctor’s final journey – but his psychotic nemesis the Master has been reborn, on Christmas Eve. With both determined to cheat death, the battle ranges from the wastelands of London to the mysterious Immortality Gate. Meanwhile, the alien race Ood warn of an even greater danger approaching, as a terrible shadow falls across the entire Universe.
Original air date: December 26, 2009
Runtime: 1 hour
My Thoughts:
I was wondering how we got the new Doctor this season, and went back to find out how the Old Doctor died and what he did. This is set of 4 episodes that you can watch online, Although Itunes has a few more episodes and behind the scenes stuff. You can watch the four episodes on the Roku without a problem by using Amazon Video on Demand:
As you can see we get to watch all those episodes and find out even more about the Doctor. We also get to see the old cast from previous seasons in the End of Time Part 1 and 2. You get to see him remember the good old days, but I really liked how they made him look and feel human, because he in a sense did not want to DIE and yet it was going to happen due to the prophecy. You will enjoy these 4 episodes because they show you just how important he is being a Timelord. I still like the new Doctor Who but it was good to see what happened to have the new doctor and how the old doctor died. I really liked these episodes and wished we would see more of that Theive in “Planet of the Dead” as being a companion. I kind of wished they would have had her on the series because she and the Doctor worked really well together. I would tell you to watch these episodes but I am sure You will, so I won’t tell you to!
A wealthy widow’s young date is murdered, pitting Shawn and Gus against a dirty rotten scoundrel they are convinced trained the victim to be a con artist.
I really can’t say to much about this episode but what I can is that you will be surprised on the ending. I like the idea of the premise about the show and I even loved the comedy. I Watched this one and could help wonder who was the actual killer in this episode until the last final 10 mins of the show we don’t really know. The Comedy was great the acting was even better and I must say that I since Shawns dad(Corbin Bernsen) started being in a more active role this has become even better series. I loved how they spaced out the comedy is this episode and how we get to see how Gus(Dulé Hill) tries to get a women which is definitely the wrong women for him. In order to understand this episode you must watch it!!
I have been hesitant to include the forms to subscribe through email but that was due to the bots. I have recently started to add an email form subscription on the side the blog. You can subscribe to:
Subscribe to All Posts by Email — This is good for Everything from Guest Posts, My Posts, and Amazon’s(Bot) posts about Anything Amazon.
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As you c an see that I split these into groups to help those who are interested in one or all. You can subscribe to anyone you might want to read. And there are many benefits for subscribing. You don’t need to watch for your a Tweet, Facebook or Any other social stream that you might of found this blog from.
What are the Benefits?
Some of the useful benefits for subscribing are you get an email each morning at a set time around 7am in the morning. You will not receive any more emails from my site until the next day. So you will at least keep up to date on what is going on with my blog. You can unsubscribe at any time and you will not receive any more emails from my blog. Never miss a blog post again by subscribing through email.
The BlackBerry Curve 8530 is a smartphone that also doubles as a messaging machine. With the world-famous BlackBerry email service and the ergonomic QWERTY keyboard customers can email, text message, and IM all day long. Cricket’s first BlackBerry smartphone also includes great features like 3G Real Web Browsing, a 2MP camera/camcorder, MP3 player/microSD slot, wifi capability, and more! The Curve 8530 is a full-featured BlackBerry with access to thousands of cool apps in BlackBerry App World and IM/Chat capability with BlackBerry Messager.
Checked the Cricket Wireless Website and it will be put in the 60$ a month Plan when you buy this phone. It will also start shipping August 6, 2010. You should order this now so you can make sure you get it!!!
This is Definitely a great little phone from what I could tell around the net!!
This is so I can discuss and give people my input of how I am doing. To make sure people can see what I am earning. This is my attempt to discuss just what people are buying and what people are more interested in. I will discuss which Cell phones people are buying each month. I will also discuss about my other affiliates when I get a commission each month.
What Have I earned?
Now to talk about all the places I have earned money for July 2010:
In Total i made $ 228.46, In July. With the Help of Wp Robot, I have made more money than I would alone! I do know that people who are coming to this site are searching for Unlocked Cell Phones and other such products from Amazon. As you can see people are clicking my affiliate links and buying stuff from Amazon. I would like to say “Thank you for you support“. With your help I have been keeping me above the red line with my website and my Jobless situation. This will help with expenses and such and hopefully in the coming months I will get more earnings in the coming month.
There were some other orders from Amazon so that wasn’t just all of the orders but the ones that I thought people would like to know what was most popular for July 2010. I have to Admit the Unlocked LG EnV2 does look sweet for a phone, maybe later I will buy one and try it out!!
Although Most of the earnings are from Wp Robot, although I have posted some stuff that I am getting from Amazon and Cricket Wireless, I have started to earn money from my posts from Pysch, Doctor Who, and Royal Pains Shows that I would recommend to my friends and family. As you can see, I have been busy with posting what I think people would either like to read about or watch online through Amazon and Itunes. I hope you enjoyed my analysis about my earnings for July, and hope you consider leaving a comment about this analysis of my earnings and tell me what you think. You are more than welcomed to tell me you hate it, liked it, or just didn’t care for it, all comments are welcomed!!
As many of you know I simply love Science Fiction shows and movies. This weekend I intend to sit down and try to start watching Babylon 5 all the way through. This will be a marathon for me, but I thought people would like to know you can watch these online through your Roku Box and Netflix Accounts right nows. You can also watch these on the Tivo if you have Netflix Subscription!! Since I don’t have the URL’s for the netflix I will show you where else you can you view these:
Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on the Babylon 5 space station: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262. With its prominent use of planned story arcs, the series was often described as a “novel for television”.
I must admit when J. Michael Straczynski created this series he made it so you can watch each episode independently of each other but also create it where you could actually think of this as a novel for TV. Let me break it down so you can understand it just a little more, Each season has a season story arch but also a series story arch. For instance the first season we have character development along with understanding all the races. Season two has a season story arch about the impending fight with earth and series story arch of fighting with a new powerful enemy that is on the rise. I won’t spoil it for you but I simply love being able to watch these on my Television set without having to sit at my computer to watch these. I know with all the episodes available to watch on the Roku that I probably won’t get through but One or two seasons this weekend but I will continue next weekend to watch the rest of the series.
This was an Excellent episode. We got to see how Shawn(James Roday) and Gus( Dulé Hill) spoof Science Fiction characters. I was laughing so much doing the episode because of what they did. This episode requires you to think out of the box and this a good episode when it comes to how they have been producing the show of late. Everything is going UP and UP. More Laughs more comedy and more mystery. If anything this is a good episode just to sit back and laugh and also see them solve a case. This is an episode you must see because of all the Nerdy humor and a nerd coming out of the closet(Literally!!). You will laugh, you will have all those good feelings at the end of the episode, it is almost guaranteed.
As Many of you know Cricket Wireless a couple months ago had a Leak of information about products coming soon. I wanted to tell you what I have heard. I have heard that it might be a Double Launch on Both the:
We are Either supposed to have a press release on both of these on Aug 11, 2010 or We have one launch Aug 11, 2010 and the other one August 15th. I have something is going on for Cricket Wireless on the 15th and I think that is when both the phones are going to be released to the Public. As you can see there already have people wanting to pre-order for both the phones. So I am inclined to think they are going to release both at the same time on Aug 11, 2010 or Aug 15, 2010.
Has Anyone Heard about this? Leave a comment and start a discussion about what you heard!!
With there being so many different ways to rid you self from comment spam. I figured I would suggest some ways to help reduce your spam. On Growmaps Post about Akismet, We were discussing some ways to help reduce spam in her comment moderation and I wanted to post about what I use to help reduce the bots from posting. Anyone can do this because of all the problems we are having with Akismet, I have disabled that on my blog and I haven’t looked back yet.
Having been working to minimize my spam intake. I have talked about about some email spam problems in the past. Although there are many reasons why you get spam, the main reason is for someone trying to make money from something they want you to buy or even install!!
As you can see that image I have up shows you the type of spam I get and you probably like me asking yourself why are they trying to leave those comments. I think I know but this is to help those who might want to get rid of some of the most common comment spam.
Bad Behavior Plugin — I am using this plugin with conjunction with my Project Honey Pot to help harvest those bad guys. This little plugin works in conjunction with Project Honey Pot to determine if it is posting same comments from the same IP. You will need http:BL API Key to get Bad Behavior to talk to each other.
Project Honey Pot — You should understand, there are more than the API KEY. I installed a few Honeypots on my server to help other content management systems administrators help collect data of possible comment spammers. This helps others who are trying to fight spam see if there are other sites that this IP is commenting on!! The more who sign up and install their own honeypots the better off the community is in the long run.
WP-Recaptcha — Now this works with logins and Comments to help reduce the amount of possible bots. Although it is somewhat harder for comments to be written by a true person. This helps reduce bots but won’t reduce them to much. You should also protect your Wp-admin subdirectory by using this to help detour scripts from dictionary attacking your password.
WP-BAN – This is proactive solution from just sitting back and doing nothing. Here you can watch spam and figure out which IP’s are making the most comment spams and prevent them from even accessing your website. This is great because this will alert the user who has an infected system that can’t access your site and to email the admin. I haven’t had one of the banned IPS to send me email yet. So either they don’t want to get on my blog or they are just bots.
Comment Spamtrap — This is almost like Project Honey Pot but instead these are hidden to all real users and bots who fill in these forms are reading from HTML and not from the screen. If you fill in all the forms then you will be consider a spammer. So it automatically deletes them or marks them as spam. These are the one that I use to help detour spam bots.
You have to understand in order to fight spam you have to find more than one way to block spam. I will not be going back to Akismet because I feel I fight back with spam and figure block the ones that I know are spam commenter. You got to give your comments almost a firewall for bots to get past to get to post comments but there are no guarantees that this will work on all blogs but I do think it is working well with me because of the spam I haven’t gotten in the past few months. I hope this blog post has helped you and if you know a blogger who is having problems with spam send them to this page.
As you can see this referrer spam is really malevolent, because of how many times it tries to hit my webpage. It is on different IPS but they wanted to make sure I know about http://dentistinbrooklyn.org and the Address:
Thanks to one of the referrers, if you look closely you will see one for Google Maps and that Brings here:
Best Dentist In Brooklyn
718-544-4545 (866) 690-2935
9644 brooklyn st
Brooklyn, NY 11234
As you can see this company paid some other company to ADVERTISE For them without thinking of the consequences of the questionable company can bring your business to it’s Knees. I don’t say this lightly just by talking about this company and how it is doing business by doing a Refferrer Spam makes the company look bad in my eyes and probably gives you a bad taste in your mouth. When people spam, it makes me wonder just how trustworthy they are. I wouldn’t recommend this company to anyone and you shouldn’t either!! If your looking for a Good trustworthy Dentist, I would recommend checking the Christian Blue Pages and looking their!!
The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars, as this series of Doctor Who concludes with an episode written by Steven Moffat.
This being the Season Finale for Doctor Who has been nothing but a fun journey into the world of the Doctor. When we last left Doctor who in “The Pandorica Opens” , he was being placed in the Pandorica but You have to wonder what will happen to him now? Will he get out, or what will happen the Universe? Will we see River Song(Alex Kingston)? “Spoilers!!!” I won’t talk about her because when you see this episode you will understand so much more about her and what will happen. This was an excellent season finale and I encourage people to buy the full season and watch from beginning to ending. You’ll not want to do anything but watch what happens and how it happens. Season 6 is scheduled to start up sometime in 2011. I simply can’t wait to start watching it. We will see old friends and new enemies that much I can predict.
When the purveyor of a popular Hamptons food truck seems quickly corrupted by his success, Hank puts together his odd behavior, and pinpoints the cause of his symptoms.
The Series for this season has been nothing but extraordinary. This episode has been nothing but character development for the series. We find that there might be a different path that Divya Katdare (Reshma Shetty) might be going in the future. We also see Hank(Mark Feuerstein) learn a valuable lesson and a possible partnership with someone close to him for the chance to help even more people than ever before. I liked how they have given Divya Katdare out of a possible planned marriage in the coming episodes and we might just see this change for several people including Evan R. Lawson(Paulo Costanzo). He is after all my favorite actor since we both have the same first name!! I think this is a great episode for those who want to see conflict, and resultion over character development in more ways than one. Will we See one character fall for another in the coming episodes but only time will tell!!
Nokia E72 Unlocked Phone with GPS and Free Voice Navigation -- U.S. Version with Full Warranty (Zodium Black)
As you know I created a Unlocked Cell phone Category so as to see which ones I would want to buy. I wanted to be able to go do any carrier and not have to buy a new phone and also keep track of new unlocked phones. So here is what I have found out last month:
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Unlocked Phone with Touchscreen–U.S. Version with Warranty (Black)Rating: — Yes this is another Nokia phone but as you can tell these all have several things in common. I could tell you about this one but as you can see this has most of the others but this is another good phone for those who are looking for phone that can go from one one carrier to another.
As you can see they all have some good ratings for having been unlocked phones. I thought people would like to know which ones are most viewed posts, so you know which ones are highly looked at and checked out.
When a woman is found dead with a bottle of pills that are lab trial samples, Lassiter and Gus, who are taking the same tap class, team up to dance their way to catching a murderer.
I enjoyed this episode immensely, I love how they introduce a new chapter in the series with Carlton Lassiter(Timothy Omundson) starts to tap dance. We get to see them mix this up a little by have the intro episode being taken a little longer than expected but thatwas good also. We also got to see them Mix up the group but later see them coming together to solve the mystery. I was laughing at the end and you will to. They do know how to make me laugh and that is good!! They are definitely going “Over the Radar” now. I better not spoil it for you but I did like this episode and you will too!!
Having been developing my Toolbar, I have come to realize just how important it is to making my blog a success. Now your probably wondering “How can a Toolbar help my Business??” I will explain it in a few parts and why you should create your own toolbar.
Make it easier for your Customers to find your website!
Now it isn’t saying much but if you were to have my Toolbar, You would see that clicking Tech-Linkblog Icon on the left side would bring you directly to my site. This is a great way to advertise your website and get people to come back to your site time and time again. I go to customers homes and repair their computer, while their I ask if I could install my Toolbar so they can easily keep up to date on anything I blog about. The reason is simple, it creates a following for my customers if they want to see what I am blogging about and it also is great income tool.
Make Money every time someone uses your Toolbar.
This is one of the ways I can keep it cheap for my customers because they will often times click on one of my many Toolbar Applications and either buy something or play a games and I will earn a commission from them doing this. Conduit has several toolbar applications that you can install to earn money. I also created my own applications for Amazon and those Security Minded people who don’t want to search the web for free stuff! These are two excellent tools to have for your customers because the Security application helps the customer find free Firewalls and Free Virus Scanners to help get rid of those nasty viruses.
Great Twitter Tools and RSS reader Tools.
The Toolbar also lets me integrated RSS feeds and Also Twitter for your readers or customers. Creating a great experience for your readers will ultimately bring them back to your site and encourage to tell people about your toolbar. I have several sites that I think my readers should check out in the RSS feeds. I even included the Growmaps.com RSS to the Toolbar. So My Readers and I can keep up to date on any new posts from guests or from my site. You can also send tweets to me or to anyone you want without going to Twitter directly. Another great way to bring Social Media to your Site and Toolbar.
Push out Alerts to your Toolbar community!
With my toolbar, I can alert my users of a new post on another from me. Like this posts, I can tell me community that I have made it easy for you to translate webpages. If there is anything that you need to let your community know right away, this is a great way to send those alerts out. It also makes the community members feel special because they get the update before my blog if any. As you can tell, you can be more personal with your community. You also can have a Chat option for your users to chat with you online without having to install any new software or download any new programs. I have that on my Toolbar to be able to have them ask questions or just to chat about current events.
No Viruses or Spyware
Lastly, if you are one of those who concerned with Viruses, spyware, or Adware you can be rest assured that Conduit’s Privacy Policy guarantees that won’t be the case. I’ve been using my Toolbar for over 4 months without a problem from my Antivirus Software including AVG, SuperAntiSpyware, and PcTools. So I know that it isn’t going to tell you that my toolbar or other toolbar’s have a virus. It doesn’t slow down my system at all after installing the toolbar. I must say it makes easier to get to Amazon and other such sites.
Why Wait, Go create your own or Install mine!
If you want to go create your own then why wait. If you would like to see what all I did, by all means install My Toolbar yourself and see just how easy it is and what you can accomplish with mine. If you like it so well, I ask that you tell your friends and family about the toolbar and encourage them to install the Tech-linkblog Toolbar. If you created your own, you are more than welcome to create a comment and give out your link so people can check yours out. This is a great resource for blogs to integrate with blogging and you should consider doing this for your blog or company.
Mythology and the modern world collide in this epic quest for justice by Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman), your basic below-average, misfit student whose family life is a mess and who’s misunderstood by everyone except his best friend, Grover (Brandon T. Jackson). A voice warns that everything is about to change as Percy enters the New Roman and Greek Art Gallery on a school field trip, and, indeed, it does. Percy’s substitute teacher morphs into a mythical beast and tries to attack him, and it’s revealed that Percy is the son of Poseidon, and a true demigod. Percy also discovers that Grover is really a satyr–half-human, half-goat–and his sworn protector, and that one of his teachers is a centaur–half-horse, half-man–who’s more committed to Percy’s education than he could ever have imagined. On top of it all, Percy is the prime suspect in the recent theft of Zeus’s lightning bolt and is being hunted by the gods. Following these shocking revelations, Percy is taken to a special training camp to learn to control and use his exceptional powers, and in the process, his mother is imprisoned by Hades. Against all advice, Percy, his protector Grover, and Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), daughter of Athena, leave camp to rescue Percy’s mother from the underworld. Their quest is extremely dangerous and puts them squarely in the path of Medusa (Uma Thurman), with her venomous hair and gaze that turns people to stone. The three also battle a five-headed, fire-breathing beast and visit a Las Vegas casino patrons never leave, and finally they find themselves deep in the underworld, at the mercy of the unpredictable Persephone, wife of Hades. Somehow, Percy must both convince the gods he did not steal Zeus’s lightning and prevent a war of the gods that could potentially destroy the entire world. Based on the books by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is an exciting action film rich with ancient mythology, yet set squarely in the 21st century. Enriched by strong special effects and some potently disturbing images, it is a powerful story about family, trust, determination, and love. (Ages 11 and older) –Tami Horiuchi
Synopsis:
Modern and mythical worlds collide in this thunderous fantasy-adventure starring Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McKidd and Uma Thurman as you’ve never seen them before! Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager…he’s just learned he’s the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus’ lightning bolt – the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt and prevent a war amongst the gods that could destroy our world!
I actually like this movie, but I must say I loved some of the ways the writers used the metonymic adages through out the move. One of my most interesting ones is the “Pen” that Percy has through out the movie. There are many aspects of the movie that is talked about from the Hydra, to even Medusa. Each one of them is part of ancient mythology and it is somewhat educational, not saying that it will teach anything but I thought it had some education points in the movie. Now this doesn’t go over well with the younger audience, my daughter would watch this but my youngest boy just wanted to play. So you should consider 9 plus of age will probably watch this more better than the younger ages. I did like the CGI that was used. I would definitely buy this movie later own this year when I get a the money. It was a pleasure to watch and I am sure you will like this movie!!!
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. I did start to like the newer series because of the morphing ability of KITT but they cancelled that show after the first season. Sad to know that it only lasted one season. My Overall series Rating: 
” because that episode wasn’t as good as I wanted it. It was all about there best man party for Dyvia but that wasn’t anywhere as good as this episode. So Let’s begin with how well they developed the relationship between Evan and the girl who hired him. This relationship is becoming more and more interesting but I did like it. They bring the Girls mom and dad into this episode, looking like they are making this become a long term relationship but unknown as to the out come. We also see Hank and Dr. Emily develop an interesting relationship, and I am not liking where this relationship is going. There was a Macgyver’ish episode where Hank has to make one oxygen tank and use it for two people. Other than that, I actually like how they developed this episode and can’t wait to see what develops in the coming season.
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