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July 4th Fireworks

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

My 11 year old son snapped these pics, to my amazement they came out rather interesting. Kinda reminds me of those light graffiti you see on the commercials. You really can’t tell these are fireworks, but I do love the abstract effect…the best part is we had no idea it would turn out like this.

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Become a Succesful Affiliate Marketer

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

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You have to have two things in order to be successful with affiliate marketing, and those two things are patience, and determination. When you put those two together, there is no stopping you or what you can do with your affiliate marketing business.

Affiliate marketing is something that takes work. You can not just set up your site and let it go. You have to work on it consistently to see a good amount of revenue come from it. However, make sure that you are doing everything that you can to get it seen. Use the best free tools that there are available to you, and pay for the ones that really work.

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What Can Mixx Learn From the Digg Revolt?

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

No DiggAnd the drama over at the Digg community continues… It seems a good majority of “Top Diggers” are very upset with Digg’s latest algorithm which now requires a Digg vote of around 200 for a story to make the front page. This comes as a slap in the face for veteran Diggers who have worked so hard in making Digg a powerhouse social media site. And it’s not just the algorithm change that upset the power diggers, here’s a list of some of the complaints:

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Freelance or Full Time Job?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

dead.jpgI love doing freelance work, providing that the client is very easy to work with, but for the most part my experience with doing freelance work has been exceptional. What I enjoy the most is not having to meet a deadline on a constant basis, and you are pretty much in control of all the work you do. Being able to work from the comfort of your own home is a definite plus, not to mention the gas money you’ll be saving.

But is freelance work better than having a 9-5 job? I’ve been fortunate enough to have been able to do both for the last 3 years and although I reap the many benefits of doing freelance work, I’d have to say that having a full time job is still the choice for me. Yes a 9-5 at times can be monotonous, but I also enjoy interacting with other people, I enjoy the thought of going to work not knowing what the day has in store for me.

I guess the best part of having a 9-5 job is knowing you’ll have work to do tomorrow, as opposed to freelance work, where you’ll have 3 projects lined up at the same time and nothing for the next 3 months! I know there are many of you just like me, who are able to balance a full time job and freelance work on your own spare time. What tips might you be able to give to anyone who wants to enjoy the best of both worlds?

Send me your thoughts and I’d like to know which do you prefer.

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iPhone Unlock Firmware 1.1.1

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Unlocking the iPhone has never been so easy, this method only requires that you have a Wi Fi connection..so let’s get to it!

1 - Turn on the iPhone, wait until you get to the activation screen, slide the slider to get to the keypad.
2 - On the keypad type the following: *#307# tap the call button, the phone will start vibrating, while it’s vibrating tap the backspace to erase the characters you just typed in, now type 0 and tap call again.
3 - The phone will call itself, tap Answer, tap the hold button, and tap decline and this should take you to the Contact list.
4 - Create a contact, name it whatever you want but add the following urls in the url section of the contact:
prefs://1F
http://jailbreakme.com
5 - Click done and your contact will then be saved. Now click on the url named: prefs://1F, this will take you to your iPhone’s settings.
6 - Tap Wi Fi and select your Wi Fi network, type in your WEP password. Once you’re connected you should see the Wi Fi symbol on the status bar up at the top of the screen.
7 - Push the HOME button to get back to the activation screen, slide once again to get to the keypad.
8 - This time press 0 and tap call, if the call fails, repeat Step 2 from above. If it doesn’t fail, the phone should vibrate again, tap answer. Now tap hold, and then tap decline, you should be able to get back to your contact.
9 - Tap contact and this time we will tap on the other url: http://jailbreakme.com – scroll all the way down and tap Install AppSnapp.
10 - Safari will crash and take you back to the activation screen, this is normal. Wait about 2 minutes and reboot the iphone completely by holding the power button down and sliding it off.
11 - Once you are rebooted, you should end up with a jailbroken iPhone. If you still end up at the activation screen, repeat all the steps above, I had to perform this method twice on mine.

Keep in mind that this will only jailbreak the iPhone and not unlock it. To unlock the phone you will need to install AnySim which can be found from the Installer app on the iPhone home page.

5 T-Shirts You Must Own

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Well this year is slowly coming to an end and what a year it was! It’s been a crazy roller-coaster ride from the internet all the way to the news media and all the way across the nation. You can bet your money that 2008 will be just as crazy.

Here’s some 2007 moments printed on t-shirts, I wonder who has the balls to wear these in public???

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iPhone Winner Announcement

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Here is the lucky winner of my iPhone giveaway. His name is Daniel Davis and he is with White Light Underground in Houston,TX. I basically wrote the participant’s names on a piece of paper, put it in a haloween pale, and had my baby daughter draw out a name. She actually grabbed 4 names but she ended up putting Daniel’s name in her mouth and attempted to eat it. So I decided that this person will be the lucky winner.

Congratulations again to Daniel Davis, he is now a proud owner of an unlocked Apple iPhone, you can check out his site at www.whitelightu.com.

iPhone Winner - Daniel Davis

Ruby on Rails Resources

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Ruby on Rails has quickly became the most sought after programming language in the last couple years. Here’s a list of resources for RoR.

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Ruby on Rails - An open-source web framework that favors convention over configuration.

Locomotive - A Ruby on Rails development tool for Mac OS X.

Instant Rails - Instant rails is a runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache and MySQL that’s all set to run with no installer.

Why’s Poignant - Need a little humor learning Ruby? Then you definitely have to check out this site.

Hobo - Hobo is a Rails extension package. It consists of a templating mechanism, ajax rendering, and more.

Aptana RadRails - Development environment for Ruby on Rails applications.

FiveRuns - An affordable and intuitive enterprise application platform.

Nitro - Ruby and JavaScript web application framework for easily creating Web 2.0 applications.

Top 12 Ruby on Rails tutorials

30 very helpful Ruby on Rails tutorials

5 Rules in Website Design

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

A truly great website design consists of easy navigation, clear presentation of information, user friendliness, and most importantly great contents. If a designer can incorporate these elements seamlessly, they can achieve an excellent design each time.

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Stop spamming my blog!

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Lately my blog has been getting a good amount of spam and it’s really annoying having to delete these non-sense posts one by one. I found this simple captcha plugin online, it seems to work for now, I guess I’d have to wait and see how effective this plugin really is. If your blog is being constantly hammered by spammers, you might want to try this plugin out.

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