Dec 2006

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What do Scion Xbs do to people?

27 Dec 06 Filed in:Scion |cars

Butt ugly Scion boxes that never get past their virgin brown stage are unpleasant enough as it is. But then, along comes a custom color job guaranteed to achieve a truly stomach-wrenching heave-ho effect from two miles.

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Scion fuel inefficiency

27 Dec 06 Filed in:Scion |cars

Over at the Scion forums there is a hot debate raging over gas mileage - 30mpg is supposedly one of many appealing aspects of Xb box ownership, and some just aren't getting anywhere close. Driving too fast, maybe?

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How big is your ego?

26 Dec 06 Filed in:Software

Do you walk into a room and people automatically turn to look at you and gasp in awe? Or do you have to let off a howitzer and violate the dog before anyone even notices your dismal presence?

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MS Word + Spanish=bloaty screwed up web

26 Dec 06 Filed in:Software

Concise English speakers can keep a joke simple. Verbose Spaniards will spend two hours tarting up the same basic ideas with superficial pomp and circumstance. That is the difference between English and Spanish.

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Smart Filter doing free speech a world of good!

26 Dec 06 Filed in:Software

Powerful filtering software is being used to target on-line political dissidents around the world.

Tunisia, like other countries such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and until recently Iran, uses commercial filtering software called SmartFilter , which is produced by the U.S. company Secure Computing... This software is configured to block pre-defined categories of content – content classified by SmartFilter – including at least four SmartFilter categories: Anonymizers, Nudity, Pornography, and Sexual Materials. ICE

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Tofu, Tofu, why for art thou?

25 Dec 06 Filed in:Software

How refreshing when you come across an application that does exactly what it says on the box. 3 cheers to the marketers for iCal. Then there are programs occupying the middle ground with titles that only hint at what is inside the box - no cheers to iPhoto, till you turn it on. At the extreme end of the scale, there are names that resemble curved balls from the left field. Tofu. I said, what?

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Tributes to MyBlogLog bloggers

25 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

The Pisstakers have been going a few months now, and after faffing around looking for sites and forums full of like-minded souls, we recently signed up to MyBlogLog. It was divine intervention, finding a star that shines bright in the dark on-line directory-laden skies. We have seen the light, learning the true meaning of a blogging community.

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Zwinky Zwinky Zwinky!

24 Dec 06 Filed in:Zwinky

Not a unit of currency, nor a candy bar, this is the new word in avatars, those pointless badges that you see in forums alongside usernames. Needless to say, the latest social network avatar idea will be all the rage for about three weeks, till the next must-have feature spams us into submission. Still not sure what the hell we are talking about? Get with the program.

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Goodbye from The Pisstakers - Lottery win

23 Dec 06 Filed in:Websites

And the winner is: 5,12,15,25,34 Mega Ball = 43

Huh, but, but... Oh well, we're back blogging again. And we quote, with the most bitter and twisted look on our faces ever - "YOU WANKER, LG, we thought we were out of this hamster wheel existence if we followed your advice! After buying all those tickets, now we haven't even got a dime to invest in short cuts to build up this blog.

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iPhone sounds like a con job!

23 Dec 06 Filed in:Phones

The original ad came from Looprumors, but the advert sounded so loopy to us that we had to add an addendum.

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Shortest day short blog post

21 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

When the Insanely Inane blog was up and running, its last post was entitled, Six word stories. If you read it with two voices, so to speak, it is quite clever.

Story 1: happy at last

Gave up drinking?
No.
Then?
Wife.

The blogger must have been in an even greater hurry, though, when he registered his site. Hit the link and check out the domain name!

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Phrazr- to infinity and beyond

21 Dec 06 Filed in:Websites

Firstly, congratulations to the Mac screensaver for capturing this pesky little scroll mid unfurl, or was it on its way back down? Either way, these are the words that Phrazr profess to immortalize for John Wilson from Washington for $5. My $5 says that everyone bar presidents will be forgotten within 3 generations. Thanks to Webby's world for the idea

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Scion haters end up loving 'em

20 Dec 06 Filed in:Scion

We are beginning to worry now because it seems like real fanatics of the Scion Xb were as repulsed or amazed as we were by the boxy gimpy Toyota wannabe.

I loved the ax and wondered who the hell would ever buy that (Xb) box and look 3 years I finally had the money and now I'm driving that ugly box that no one would ever drive lol

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Will Jesus forgive this webdesigner?

19 Dec 06 Filed in:Web design

There's a lot more color where this banner came from.

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Pisstakers have been "Snarfed"!

19 Dec 06 Filed in:Websites

I found a wierd link in Technorati related to our blog. After some digging, it appears that the content of one of our features about Jackass brain splats of the week was scraped up by some Bit Torrent software called, Snarf-It!

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The Pisstakers are worth over $10k!!!

19 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

My blog is worth $10,726.26.
How much is your blog worth?

If our feet weren't so firmly planted in the real world, this latest news would signal our last post before getting completely shedded, rat-assed, piss-faced, blotto and tanked over Christmas.

Yes indeedy, lordy lord, according to an algorithm used by AOL-Weblog, Technorati and the bloke who has this ready reckoner on his site? this is how far we have come in 4 months of writing and tweaking, reading and applying, living and loving... Not being greedy, but I hope they also accounted for the $750 attributed to our spiking Swiki too!

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It does what it says on the tin.

19 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

Is this advert true? If you subscribe to the idea that it has to be true, because it says so on the tin, then go for it . And there is only one way to prove it either way and that is to get down to the business of monetizing your website. With one new competitor every 8 seconds, don't get distracted.

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Tips to cut haemmoraging printer ink bills!

18 Dec 06 Filed in:Printers

Admit it, you hate spending out on printer cartridges, but admit it, too, you were suckered into buying a cheapo inkjet printer, and thought, "It's a bargain, it'll be economical with ink. How expensive can ink be?" The answer to that afterthought is - bills for ink will be many times the original value of the printer, it is how manufacturers make money, der!

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Vodka.com sells for $3m...

18 Dec 06 Filed in:Websites

The world record sale of a domain name to a Russian vodka conglomerate raised some eyebrows. Although the people currently owning beer.com, martini.org and whisky.jp were probably thinking big bucks lie ahead, the former vodka.com owner is hoping he doesn't go the way of others who have irked powerful Russians. He was last seen drinking heavily en route to Hamburg via London. (World record spotted on WallStreetFighter)

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Wondir answers delivered direct to your email

17 Dec 06 Filed in:Wondir

Wondir is a lightweight free-for-all competitor to Yahoo Answers. They obviously have a better formula than Google's recently defunct Q&A, but the rate of reply to any question under the sun is too fast to make the website usable. One second the question is there, the next it is on page 3. But now get the answers of choice sent to your email. The Wondir reader is here.

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Dave Barnes, still the best website ever!

16 Dec 06 Filed in:Websites

Dave Barnes has moved to another spot. Still the best ever website, just relocated for the New Year

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AGLOCO Viewer bar pays you to surf internet

15 Dec 06 Filed in:Websites

Pre-selling is common practice nowadays, presumably so companies can guage demand ahead of time and produce accordingly. It sounds like the good folks at Agloco are doing the same, promoting a great new way to earn money: paid to surf via a View bar. It sounds interesting except:

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Upside/downside of downloads

14 Dec 06 Filed in:Software

If you use the internet you are bound to click on links to pictures, programs and pr0n. Well, maybe not the latter. But either way, there is a tremendous amount of trafffic heading down your tubes into your computer. At last count there was 466MB of disk images, zip files and pictures in my downloads folder. What was I thinking? Just the top 10 would keep me busy for a week. (This is a bit too Mac for some people, maybe.)

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It's our net, and theirs too!

13 Dec 06 Filed in:Internet

The threat to freedom of speech and unfair competition on the internet is very real. Them baby bells and not so baby Internet Providers are eyeing up lots of monopolistic options to make an extra buck. A Net Neutrality bill forbidding any entity from assuming unfair control of their tubes and pipes is required. But have you noticed the ads. Where are the toothless users, the badly dressed surfers, teenagers, old folk without a clue beyond Hotmail? If it is "Our" net, include everyone in the battle.

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HP scanner software delinquency! The proof.

13 Dec 06 Filed in:Scanners

How hard can it be to follow some simple instructions to make a scanner software program work? According to HP, once you have deleted any troublesome little HP files on your hard drive, you are ready to re-load the same software that isn't working now! A
must read for anyone with a computer!

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Scion Something for nothing

13 Dec 06 Filed in:Scion

There are a couple of perennial too good to be true deals doing the rounds on the internet: free iPods and free cars. There are plenty of lesser prizes to be had too, plus lots of bricks-and-mortar opportunities for a dealio. It is surprising (or maybe, not!) just how far some people will go for a freebie or bargain.

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Vuescan beats HP scan software out of doors

12 Dec 06 Filed in:Scanners

How hard can it be to produce a few lines of code to make every aspect of an all-in-one HP gizmo play friendly with a computer? It isn't so much hard as bloody impossible for them nitwits at one of the so-say top computer companies in the world. In fact on the question of worldwide scanner woes, just leave it to one guy

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The video they tried to ban!!!

11 Dec 06 Filed in:Websites

The controversial exposé of a dodgy navigation sidebar´video in a money-from-home website has moved to a new home

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"How to make money" blogs - the way ahead.

10 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

We have all heard of Adsense, affiliate programs, blogrolls, directories, link exchanges or social networking. There are thousands of experts out there with the latest hot tips on applying those concepts so you can get rich from digital content. But who can you trust?

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Web design Sitepoint forum thread conflict

10 Dec 06 Filed in:Web design

I am a nice person and a helpful guy, but found myself embroiled in a scandal after being nice and helpful. This post is a bit dull to begin with, but does warm up a bit!

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Mobile phone reviews by Steve Punter

10 Dec 06 Filed in:Phones

If I were to say I only reviewed the phones I had bought or had been loaned to me by friends, I think there would be 4 on my list and none of them would be of interest - apart from the $10 a month I pay to use a fancy Sony Ericsson with more buttons and functions than I know what to do with. Not so with Steve Punter!

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My Music inc is legit, is it?

09 Dec 06 Filed in:Web design

Would you give your credit card number to this person's affiliate? 12 billion files to choose from; unlimited downloads on a subscription basis. Doesn't this all add up to paid piracy? Sorry, paid P2P? Or do they have digital watermarking and such like to prevent illegal copying, and in fact, of the 12 billion files, you only get to choose from 3 legal ones?

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What to do on a PC in 10 minutes?

08 Dec 06 Filed in:Software

In this rapid-fire world we live in, time is of the essence. So, what can you achieve on a PC when you next have 10 minutes to spare?

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Focus on: nafcom.com

08 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

This has moved to our new blogger review section!

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Bloggers getting jailed

08 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

If you insulted the name of your president or leader, would you worry about being imprisoned? In a free world, ideally not, and how many more prisons would they need anyway, to house all the cheeky bloggers out there! It isn't so easy-going in China, Iran and similar controlling nations where 49 bloggers, and a further 90 normal journos and photographers peek through bars every morning, if they are lucky.

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Short on fashion ideas? Heeeere's Zwinky!

08 Dec 06 Filed in:Zwinky

The wonders of pop-under ads, this avatar-creating all-in-one toolbar of fun was found on my desktop by mistake. Once I had got over being tricked by Zwinky, I would like to thank them for the delightful ideas on how to dress for any occasion.

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Italian orange is the new black in web design.

07 Dec 06 Filed in:Web design

Just when you thought web design graphics couldn't get any easier, along comes Michelangelo and the Italian School of Art to show off a new slice and dice approach to web design. For Mac-heads high on Rapidweaver, the future is bright, the future is orange. and the Bonsai web design branch has excelled with this theme too

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Traffic jams explained

07 Dec 06 Filed in:Travel

If you are like us non-scientific types, you thought traffic stopped for a good reason. Accident, posy sports car driver, obstacle, indecisive old person? Nah. This guy, William Beatty, blows the lid on the main cause of jams and slow downs.

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Sports cars, Scions, same thing!

06 Dec 06 Filed in:Scion

Which bloke doesn't enjoy ogling a good sports car like Lambourghini or ferrari, if only to see how seriously the driver takes themself? Alongside that healthy interest, however, we also have an ongoing love-hate relationship with Scions. They too are kings of the road, as long as it isn't on my road!

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Movers and shakers in November online sales

06 Dec 06 Filed in:Shopping

These statistics from Compete are presumably like all other stats and can tell several different stories at once. If you are into selling gadgets, then it was a nifty 19th to 23rd of November, as long as your name isn't Dell, and, if you sell building products, you hope Wal-Mart are going to go mad and build more stores from their on-line profits.

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Mobile blogging - is this really the future?

06 Dec 06 Filed in:Blogging

Not wishing to dump on new ways for people to do business but is the following idea on the Microsofty Mobile website really practical for real estate agents? Until the phone comes as part of a time travel package, the "come down and see it now concept" sounds totally unrealistic.

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Microsoft v Apple - yawn yawn

05 Dec 06 Filed in:Software

Computer heads are readying themselves for two upcoming battles supreme: Microsoft versus current Windows XP users and Microsoft Vista v Mac Leopard. They amount to the same thing really. Has Vista got what it takes to prise users away from boring XP, and is Vista strong enough to halt a gradual migration over to Mac's sexy and bombproof OS X?

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Nasa to build moon station - a solution to certain issues?

05 Dec 06 Filed in:Travel

The Bulgarian news agency, Novinite, reports NASA's plans for a station on the south pole of the moon. The space race is now on in earnest - a race perhaps for space to set up camps for undesirables, such as illegal immigrants, Guantánamo prisoners, retired politicians?

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Flaffle may baffle people used to Google search

03 Dec 06 Filed in:Internet

Imagine doing a search for tree (as an example) and you only get relevant results from web sites linking to Flaffle. Crazy concept, asking webmasters to manually link only their best pages to the search engine? Surely the best way, the Google way, is to let robots gather as much mud as possible to throw at the wall and hope something sticks in searches? Flaffle is fresh, minimalist, and keeps searches relevant, and free of trickery. Try and Flaffle it!

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Mix up the tone of on-line presentations

03 Dec 06 Filed in:Web design

Listening to some Google advertising bumf about the nuts and bolts usage of Adwords and Adsense, we picked up on a nifty presentation technique. YOU alternate THE tone OF each SECTION of the EXPLANATION, presumably, so you don't get DRAWN INTO A mONOTONE comfort zone. I guess it is too UNCOMFORTABLE as a techniqUE for the written word though?Thanks Google

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Google will bail Youtube out - on December 11th!

02 Dec 06 Filed in:Internet

Today, on December 2nd 2006 we had a peek into the future. Scheduled for release on December 11th, this Businessweek article states that Google are joining the settlement trail, reportedly offering media companies hundreds of millions of dollars in order to bail newly acquired Youtube out of their copyright-infringeing donkey do.

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Slash, burn and jingle in the tech world

01 Dec 06 Filed in:Phones

This article on the theme of asymmetric competition was inspired by Redeye Venture Capitalist. The name suggests they spend a lot of time in front of a screen looking for the next big thing. Could they have found it in the form of a free phone directory assistance service from Jingle.com?

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