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Community for Developers/Domainers!

I made a community for web developers and domainers! DevelopCrew.com Features: - Interact with other developers/Domains - Chatroom - Your own Blog - Message and much more! If you would like to see this community grow please go on the website and sign up and be apart of a fast growing community! Continue

Added by cody on August 29, 2009 at 5:20am — No Comments

iPhone/iPod Touch Texting App Scam!

I was searching the app store today and noticed a selection of apps that allow you to text for free. I thought this to good to be true so I read the reviews and tried the free versions, I even bought a cheap one just to make sure...... SCAM! They dont work, sure the interface is their but most of them have a cheap looking design because they dont care what it looks like, since it doesnt work anyway. Dont bother with apps like this, total crap. For frequent updates follow me on… Continue

Added by cody on August 14, 2009 at 5:36am — No Comments

RIP NetDisaster!

For all of you who didnt know NetDisaster.com was a website where everyone could go and destroy any website they desired but now you cant because its been removed. You can read the owners final thoughts on the NetDisaters home page, I really loved using this website it was a fun way to waste some free time. Hopefully in the future the developer will bring it back up. But until then RIP Net disaster. Follow me on twitter:… Continue

Added by cody on August 14, 2009 at 3:32am — No Comments

Domains Sold – PortFolio Cleaned!

The domain market has been slow the past couple of months, well lets face it most markets have. But I managed to sell some off my crap domains, I think the price in which I sold them all was cheap but they were taking up space and had to go. I got $100 AUD (Australian currency) which is about $84 USD (American Dollar) These are the domains I sold: AmbitiousTeens.com – Domain FreePictureHosting.org – PR 1 website CssCode.info – Domain PcBuild.info – Domain ProgramTutorials.info/.org – Domains… Continue

Added by cody on August 14, 2009 at 2:34am — 3 Comments

Pocket God iPhone App

I just bought a game, I dont usually buy iPhone games because for some reason they get boring really fast. But anyway I bought Pocket God and I got to say its unusually addictive. Basically in the game you are god off a small island and you decide what happens, its fun. The graphics are cartoony but decent quality and I didnt notice any frame drop or bugs. It didnt crash either which is a plus. I recommend checking this game out. Follow me on Twitter:… Continue

Added by cody on August 13, 2009 at 11:32pm — No Comments

iPhone…… My Precious!

I use my iPhone every day, its weird every other mobile I have owned before the iPhone ive used for 1 month tops then I got bored off it and sold it or threw it away. But not with the iPhone 3G i’ve had mine for about a year now and I still use it daily! Their is just so much you can do on the iPhone that no other phone can do/do well. Follow me on Twitter: Click Here Visit my blog: click… Continue

Added by cody on August 13, 2009 at 11:15pm — No Comments

eBay: Dealing With Customer Tips

Since my main business is eBay, I have to deal with customer comments/questions on a daily bases. I am going to share with you some basic tips to help you deal with customers.

Since feedback is very important on eBay you have to do what ever you can to keep it high (98-100%), everything contributes to your end users experience, you should always try to go that extra mile for your customers, every "little" thing counts.

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Added by cody on April 27, 2009 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

To many twitter followers?

When I first started "tweeting", I wanted as many followers as possible so, I started following people by the hundreds. It worked yes 80% of the people I followed, followed me back. The problem was that they didn't follow me for my content, they followed me because I followed them. The way I use twitter is so my followers stay in touch with my latest blog posts, now when you think about it logically the people that ended up following (the majority) didn't click my twitter links to blog posts

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Added by cody on April 22, 2009 at 5:14am — 4 Comments

Google tests new captcha

If you have signed up for an account on any site on the net, you’ve no doubt used a captcha. Captcha's are designed to stop bots from signing up for spam purposes. Google has developed a new innovative method to stop computers pretending they are humans by orienting images in different positions, and requiring the human to pick out the upright image.

The idea behind this is that people can tell when an image is up or down. Captcha's are usually obscured or distorted text. This

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Added by cody on April 19, 2009 at 3:13am — No Comments

PirateBay Server On Display

The server from The PirateBay (a popular file sharing website) was taken from a police raid last year, the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology purchased it for $240 USD from a member of the Privacy Bureau.

"This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items," curator Nils Olander told AFP.

"And it is a part of our mission as a museum not to avoid complicated questions," he said.

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Added by cody on April 18, 2009 at 2:41am — No Comments

YouTube Annoys Me!

I clicked to watch a video on YouTube, anyway to my amazement an ad right beside the video started to play and make noises, I thought to myself "How the hell am I meant to watch this video in peace with these stupid ads!"

I wish they would clean up their act and find some other less annoying way of making money. Don't get me wrong I am for YouTube but its the little things like this that really annoy me.

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Added by cody on April 18, 2009 at 2:35am — 2 Comments

HuluTube: Google Destroys YouTube!

With youtubes new changes they are kicking independent video makers to the curb in favor of companies like Disney. With these new changes youtube as you know it will be relegated to a small button on their page called videos.

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Added by cody on April 17, 2009 at 5:37am — 2 Comments

Owners of The Pirate Bay Sentenced to jail!

The four owners of The Pirate Bay (TPB) were sentenced to jail in a Sweden Court, over the landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also forced to pay 30m kronor (3.55704 million U.S. dollars) in todays terms. The verdict was posted on Twitter before it was released to the popular, but don't worry The PirateBay will still be operational!

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Added by cody on April 17, 2009 at 5:26am — 7 Comments

Interview: Trevor - Online Music Composer

Interview details:

Interviewee: Trevor
Age: 20
Occupation: Online Music Composer
Location: UK

Interview:

[ME] What exactly do you compose?

[Trevor] I compose anything from electronica, to classical inspired orchestrated pieces for RPGs.

[ME] Do you only compose for the RPG genre?

[Trevor] no, I've composed music for a few arcade games, rts games, and anything that I

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Added by cody on April 17, 2009 at 3:08am — No Comments

iWork Pirated Virus!

ZDNet reports about Symantec has discovered evidence of an all-Mac based botnet that is responsible in a DOS attack. The botnet has been dubbed "iBot".Users received an iBot when they downloaded pirated copies of iWork and Photoshop CS4 that were infected. This is described as the "first real attempt to create a Mac botnet", the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes. Original Article Follow me on Twitter:… Continue

Added by cody on April 17, 2009 at 2:57am — No Comments

YouTube loosing $1.65M a Day!

The average visitor is roughly costing YouTube one - two dollars, a new research has been conducted that shows YouTube loosing up to $1.65M per day. After Google bought YouTube its failed to uphold the costs to run the video sharing site. YouTube is expected to host 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009.

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Added by cody on April 14, 2009 at 4:34pm — 9 Comments

Mozilla Dropping Firefox Support For Older Windows Versions

Mozilla is considering stopping support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP without Service Pack 3 when the new Firefox 3.5 is released in 2010, it was discussed about on their forum by developers and Mozilla executives, this includes Firefox's director. Mozilla is currently working on Gecko 1.9.1, Gecko is the engine that powers Firefox 3.5. Mozilla hopes to release Firefox at some point in the second quarter.

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Added by cody on April 14, 2009 at 4:33pm — 9 Comments

Request: Tips for buying a domain?

John writes:

I am looking to buy a domain for my computer business, but I' am finding it hard to get a good domain for my website. Any tips?

Hey John,

Ill give you some basic tips to help you choose the "right domain"

These are not in any order.

Always try and get the .COM domain, of course unless you want a certain area extension (.co.uk for example).

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Added by cody on April 12, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Google and Skype PWned!

Research has been conducted that showed Google voice and Skype can both be hacked, people are able to listen into your conversations and/or make calls of their own IF:

Google
Because their is no password needed
To listen into Google voice, they would need your phone number

Skype
Because no password is required
The user would have to visit a malicious website within 30 minutes of being logged into Skype

Google patched the bugs that enabled such attacks.

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Added by cody on April 12, 2009 at 6:05pm — 3 Comments

Evil Twitter Trojans!

Kaspersky Lab reported that a few twitter profiles link to viruses, the link will take you to a video which then will bring up a popup window stating that you need to update your Adobe flash player. In most cases the profiles that contain these harmful links most likely wont have any followers or tweets, make sure to keep your eyes out! In reality, this is a Trojan downloader that proceeds to download 10 banker Trojans onto the infected machine, all of which are disguised as MP3 files. We first… Continue

Added by cody on April 12, 2009 at 12:48am — 2 Comments