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It’s Hard To Be an Expert On Something You Don’t Care About
Many whitehat strategies require that you create unique, quality content. This doesn’t come naturally to most people when they know next to nothing about the niche they’re moving in, or just aren’t interested in it.
On the other hand, mixing RSS feeds and using [...]

I’ve broken my right arm. I fell out of a tree. Yes, really. I’m a strange person.
Since typing with the left hand is ridiculously slow, there probably won’t be any updates on this site for 3-4 weeks. I’ll check my email/blog comments/etc regularly, but I can’t promise a reply.
Oh well.

Have you noticed the bit of the subheading up there on this page that says “(and some magic)”? It’s a kind of disclaimer; it gives me the justification to post just about any crazy rant I want. Unfortunately I don’t do that very often, if ever. It’s all programming and tutorials on this blog. Well, [...]

Sometimes it is necessary to verify that a page really contains a specific link. This is usually done when checking for a reciprocal link in link exchange scripts.

Sometimes I just feel like killing something, and I’m not the only one. So what do people do when they want to do something and don’t know how? They google it! Here’s a list of most popular killing-related search queries people type in Google. I used Wordtracker’s free tool to find the keywords and GTrends [...]

This is not about dolphins, monkeys, cats or dogs. It’s not even about all the infrastructure that makes up the Internet – routers, servers, communication lines. This is just an unusual observation made by checking some publicly available statistics.
Consider this :

The average Internet user sends 4.9 emails every day. This is the global aggregate; the [...]

Free PDF to Word converters are hard to come by – in fact, until recently there was absolutely no way to do this conversion without either buying an expensive propiertary tool. Today I discovered a great online tool that will convert any PDF file to a Microsoft Word document, and it’s completely free.

Some time ago I created a WordPress plugin that can cloak affiliate links automatically. Today I’m releasing a new version, with all-new feature(s)!
The main improvement I’ve implemented is “static link cloaking”. The previous version of the plugin could only cloak links that you’ve actually used in a post, which is inconvenient if you want to [...]

If you’re familiar with this years Thirty Day Challenge, you’ll have heard about the awesome “GTrends” technique that can help you find promising keyword phrases (& niche markets) to make some money of. Typically it goes something like this :

Get an idea.
Go to Wordtracker’s GTrends tool and type in a phrase that describes the [...]

Yesterday I installed a fresh copy of WordPress on a subdomain of this site. I used Fantastico’s autoinstall feature, so I got the WP 2.2.2 version. I left the visual editor enabled because I was feeling lazy. Today was writing a post using that new WP install and noticed that some lines where wrapping at [...]

A suspicious occurence – I got and e-mail today, with a (tracked & cloaked) link to a video tutorial about how to unzip files (note: the author keeps changing his permalink structure, so the link may stop working whenever). The weird thing was not the arrival of the e-mail – it’s was from a newsletter [...]

Just a quick note – there’s the 24th generation of images up at Living Image Project – go and vote! I realized there was no way to be notified when a new generation is created, so from now on I’ll post a notice on this blog whenever that happens. By the way, I’m still unsure [...]

Everything you need to know about what DAA files are, how to open a DAA file, how to convert DAA files to other formats and even how to play them as if they were normal CD or DVD disks. Useful if you got a copy (image file) of a DVD movie or game and don’t know what DVD software to use to open it.

I’ve decided to discuss free WinZip alternatives and .zip software in general. While WinZip is by far the most popular program for handling Zip files, it is only one of many. In fact, if all you need is something to open .zip files and you don’t need the additional “features” of WinZip (like FTP uploading or DVD burning which can both be handled by other software), you can easily make do with free Zip software and might be better off for that.

If you haven’t heard, the Thirty Day Challenge was a huge “event” happening throughout August 2007; the basic idea – how to make your first $10 online without spending anything. By the way, I’m truly sorry for not posting about it earlier – for some inexplicable reason I kept delaying. Maybe the topic just seemed [...]