Archive for the ‘Online Goodies’ Category
| 15 Nov 2008 |
Coolest WordPress Blog Competition |
I just found out about the competition(hopefully not too late[it's 15th November - 9PM here]) so i decided to put up this post about it.
The contest is held by WPWebhost and basically there will be 3 prizes awarded for the 3 coolest WordPress blogs.The value of the prizes reaches more than 2000$(USD) Who wouldn’t want that?
To enter each participant must write a blog post about the contest and get at least 5 legit comments(shouldn’t be too hard with so many friends online on YM! now).
That’s about it. I’ve seen lots of submissions so far, and some people submitted their blogs where they are using free themes. I’m not sure if they will be included in the top 20, but hopefully I will be!
If you dropped by feel free to leave a comment.
Thanks!
| 30 Oct 2008 |
Special Hosting Promo at BlueHost |
This autumn you can get Premium quality hosting for the lowest price: $4.95 which is a special promo for this period. If you do a bit of maths the price for 12 months is ONLY $59,4 which is an outstanding price for the great quality services + a free domain.
Think of it this way: if you were to sepparately buy a domain for $10 that would mean $10 less in your pocket. The $59,4 includes a free domain registered for 1 year(over which you have total control) and lots of great extras like:
Site Promotion Package
Free eCommerce/Cart
Free Blog, Forum, Board
Top Notch 24/7 Support
$25 Free Yahoo Credits
$50 Free Google Credits
Also the plan includes Unlimited Disk space and Unlimited Bandwidth(yes, yes i know that unlimited doesn’t exist, but it represents a value more than enough than what you need.
Either way you look at it, this deal is a steal, so take advantage of it while it lasts!
| 28 Oct 2008 |
A cool Feature suggestion for Gmail |
Even though the creation of the new Gmail emoticons was a great move of the Gmail team, they also implemented dumb features like Gmail Goggles. In my oppinion the Gmail team should consider feature suggestions made in the Gmail Labs Groups . I checked out numerous threads, most of them being old with great ideas which could have been implemented.
This is the main reason i’m doing the feature suggestion here on my blog and not at the groups where i would most probably waste 3-4minutes of my time writing a feature suggestion. The chances that a guy from the Gmail team will read it are almost null,but here even if the chances are also small at least you guys can read my idea.
The idea
So, the basic idea is to allow people who are using Gmail on Google Apps to access their email accounts using the login form over at Gmail.com.
For me the partnerpage is really annoying and that i have to direct the users who have email accounts at a site of mine to that page. Wouldn’t it be easier if people using G Apps could log in dirextly from Gmail?
In my opinion this would be a feature which would be highly appreciated by website owners who provide email accounts to their users/customers. Simple and effective.
| 4 Oct 2008 |
Choose from 16 Yahoo! Messenger online status indicators |
I had to build an email subscription manager for my colleagues at college, and because here Yahoo! messenger is so popular i decided to put an online indicator. I was amazed to see that the guys at yahoo made new online/offline indicators, the total number of indicators being 16.
To tell you the truth the indicators are really funky and i really like them because they are creative and attract attention. Unfortunately yesterday i used a classic online indicator, because that was what fit the best.
To insert a online indicator into your website/blog you have to use the following code:
<a href=”ymsgr:sendIM?YOUR ID HERE“><img border=”0″ src=”http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YOUR ID HERE&m=g&t=NUMBER FROM 0 to 16“/>
Check out a few of the status indicators:
Choose the one you like and add it to your website. Happy Instant messaging!
| 3 Sep 2008 |
Namecheap September Coupon |
The September coupon just appeared. It provides 0.88$ OFF on new domain registration (doesn’t work for renewals)
The coupon code is: BACK2SCHOOL
The coupon will reduce the price of a newly registered domain from 9.29$ to 8.41$.
Also, when buying a new domain or renewing/transfering a domain you can get a FREE PositiveSSL Certificate(Limited offer)
| 23 Aug 2008 |
Animation taken to a whole new level |
Okay, so after watching the i was dazzled,amazed,shocked,pwned, phew…the sensation is unexplainable. At first I thought that was a real human being, just after i got to the effects overlay part.
The video was made by Image Metrics Animation Studio , go ahead, vsiit the website and press the big “Play” button and get amazed once again. Dang that’s some cutting edge animation and the most important part that got my attention is that only a camera and a sofware is required to adapt the facial movements to the virtual character.
Image Metrics’s client base speaks for itself: From EA Games to ATI and Capcom, they’ve worked with lots of Large companies.
As you know in the new Need For Speed (NFS Undercover) the role of the federal agent Chase Linh will be played Maggie Q. Nfs Undercover will be launched in Europe this november(as usually in every year). Hopefully this version of NFS will be more enjoyable than its predecessor Pro Street.
I wonder…were the animation scenes (movie scenes) made by Image Metrics?
Check out the Need For Speed: Undercover trailer:
| 7 Jul 2008 |
Templates.com – One of the best premium and free templates & resources site |
Taking a quick look at the logo you can notice that templates.com combines fun with professionalism. Maybe this is why i like it more than TemplateMonster. Template Monster focuses way too much on seriosity and always jumps directly to the point, while Templates captures its customers by using fun elements in its design.
Templates.com has a great variety of products you can choose from, starting from templates to 3D Models they got ‘em all.
Purchasing goes on a credit basis, 1 credit = 1$, this means that if a template costs 66 Credits than the price in $ is 66 USD.
Templates.com offers full customization of any template to make it fit your website like a glove. Sure it costs some extra $, but you know that you have a perfectly working template personalized just for you, and which will most likely attract new customers. By this way your template won’t be “just an ordinary theme”, it will be YOUR template.
Okay, remember that the title of the post says: “Templates.com – One of the best premium and free templates & resources site” . I always like to leave the best to the end(it’s like when you eat, you leave desert last, and not eat it before the soup).
Templates.com has lots of premium freebies which can be downloaded at no cost, just by registering an account after which you can go ahead and start downloading Free 3D Models , Free Web templates , Free Wallpapers , Free Illustrations .
There’s a reason why i bolded the Free Web templates link. Although they only have 3 free templates the quality of them compensates the quantity. Trust me, you will find that high-quality templates on very few websites on the web.
Simply add the free items to your cart and proceed to checkout. After checking out your downloades will be activated within seconds and you can instantly download them from your Account Download panel.
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I noticed that many of the free resources have lots of views and few downloads, for example a very high-quality free template has like 1900 views and 87 downloads. using some basic maths we can calculate that only 4.57% of those who viewed the template also downloaded it. Maybe they are afraid of registering an account or i don’t know what, but here’s my advice: don’t make the same mistake!
| 1 Jul 2008 |
Benq DC C640 Digicam Contest Winner announced! |
Do you know what day is it today? It’s prize give away day!
Although the digicam’s box got a bit dusty the camera is in excellent shape, and with the warranty seal intat on it of course(the warranty applies world wide, because it’s offered by the producer(BENQ) and you will get all reciepts and legally signed stuff that i got from the store with it)
A total Number of 1771 IDs were gathered and they were all entered in the draw, but there can be only one winner which is gh0ul_1@[email hidden].com
I’ve sent him a mail about 5 minutes ago, and as soon as he replies i will edit my post with more details on him.
Here’s an actual print screen of the draw:
His ID number is 155, for some reason most of the IDs in the top 25 were IDs with digits between 0 and 180, most of the 1000+ IDs got to the middle of the randomly ordered list.
I would like to thank everyone for participating, and keep heads up because in about 3 weeks when i get back home from Greece(i’m leaving on the 11th) a new contest will start! 
| 31 May 2008 |
Winning a BENQ DC C640 Digicam was never so easy! |
That’s right! You can win a BENQ DC C640 Digicam just like mine in such a simple way!
Before i jump to the point, i want to tell you how i can give it away, and other gadgets as well in the upcoming months: A friend of mine is working at a consumer electronics retailer, and they have the promotion to their employees that they can buy gadgets and items that are sold w/o commission prices and extra fees. So basically he can buy gadgets a lot cheaper that the raft price. This means that every month i will be buying a gadget from him and giving it away to a randomly picked user who will get a number for each entry(the numbers will be shuffled using www.random.org). This means the more numbers you have the higher your chances to win are.
This month i decided to give away a shiny new BENQ DC C640 Digicam which has lots and lots and lots of cool features, and i own one for more than half year and i’m VERY VERY pleased with it. BENQ DC C640 has a retail price of ~120$.
The camera is in perfect shape, in matter of fact i took some pictures with it:
Shipping will be supported by me, and is available almost to all the world. Those of you who live in Africa – sorry guys, i can’t send you the digicam there, shipping alone costs 40$.
How to gain entries?
There are several ways to gain entries:
1) Subscribe to my feed using your email address – 5 entries:
2) Post 4 comments on my blog – 1 entry:
You may post 1comments/day. Well you can post as many as you like, but only 1 will be counted every day. Spam comments will be deleted. You can start by commenting this post (!!! Make sure you use the same email address)
3) Write a blog-post about the contest – 10 entries:
It’s simple. Write a blog-post about this contest(at least 100 words) and link to it. This will get you 10 entries in the contest.(make sure you email me your email address and the location of the post)
4) Stumble/Digg this post – 1 entry
Stumble my post, review it after which digg this post. This will get you 1 entry.(email me your email address and your digg/stumbleupon username).
5) Technorati Favorite my blog - 1 entry
Add my blog to your technorati favorites and gain one extra entry to the competition! (email me your email address and your technorati username).
These are the ways you can gain more entries, if i get a new idea on how to gain more entries i will update this post(mail me your idea, and if it’s used you will get 2 entries).
My email address is tom@thaslayer.com , just in case you missed it in the sidebar.
The contest will end on 30th June, and the winner will be announced on 1st of July. There’s no second place! Winner takes it all!
Good luck to everyone!
Update #1 – 4th June 2008 – In 4 days more than 50 readers have entered the contest representing 286 unique IDs. To get the 5 credits for subscribing to my feed you need to confirm your subscription
Update #2 – 8th June 2008 – You can win 30 extra entries if you mail me your prognostication regarding the number of ID’s in the end.
Update #3 – 20th June 2008 – More than 1500unique IDs are in the competition, hopefully by 30th June 6PM GMT 2000IDS will be entered in the draw!
Update #3 – 1st July 2008 – Winner Announced!
| 7 Apr 2008 |
I’m offering Free hosting for bloggers! |
I learn new stuff from lots and lots of people every day, so i decided to give something back to bloggers.
What i’m offering is FREE hosting for your blog on a managed server with the following specs:
- CPU Intel Pentium 4 Dual Core with 4mb L1 cache.
- 2GB(2000MB) RAM
- Linux Operating System
- Latest Build of cPanel
- Apache version 2.2.6 (Unix)
- MySQL version5.0.45-community
- PHP version 5.2.4
- Perl version 5.8.8
The hosting’s features:
- 2 Addon Domains
- 2 Parked Domains
- 3 MySQL Databases
- Webspace (MB): 100 MB
- Bandwidth (MB): 2000 MB
- Email Accounts: 5
- FTP Accounts: 5
- Subdomains: 5
Extras:
- Webmail, POP3
- FTP & Online file Manager
- HTML Editor
- Fantastico : 1 click script installation
- CGI: Guestbook, Counter, Clock, Countdown, FormMail
- Hotlinking protection
- Detailed statistics(Awstats and Webalizer)
- Custom error pages, Cron joburi, .htaccess, .htpasswd(password protect directories)
Absolutely NO ADS!
How can you afford it?
I wanted to offer free hosting for users on my Romanian Webmaster community, but stuff didn’t work out, and the hosting is paid for 6 more months and it’s better to give it away to be used than to stay there for 6 more months.
Any guarantees?
I can guarantee that the hosting will be up for AT LEAST 6 more months. If problems occur i’m not a really nice guy when it comes to arguing.
Also in the past 2 months the host had 64 minutes downtime.
Cool! How to get the hosting?
You can get hosted by posting a comment to this post using the following pattern:
Your Name:
Domain Name:
Niche of your blog:
Also when submitting the comment in the e-mail field use the email address you want associated with your hosting account.
- If you are satisfied with the service feel free to link back to me by adding a link to your BlogRoll
- Share your thoughts by commenting my posts
Your account will be reviewed in a matter of 12 hours, and you will receive an email with your log-in and other details related to your hosting account.
