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I stumbled upon this from the site FFFFound.com {sweet site btw} – “KAZE TO DESKTOP” IS A SCREENSAVER WHICH MOVES ACCORDING TO THE CURRENT WIND (=KAZE) CONDITIONS OF YOUR CITY.
Sounded interesting… and the video looked cool. Check it out:
So after installing it I came up with this screenshot of my desktop:
Looks pretty damn cool… so I created a flickr group if you happen to decide to take a screenshot of your desktop and want to share it: Kaze Desktop Screenshots
Let me know what you think and upload a screenshot if you test it out.
View their page to download it. There is a free trial. It only works with windows.
Car-building legend Boyd Coddington, also of the reality tv show “American Hot Rod” has died today. He was 63.
Anyone remotely familiar with hot rods knows who Boyd Coddington is and surely will be sad to see he has passed away. I can’t believe it myself. I regularly catch “American Hot Rod” on tv here in Norway when I can. It’s always cool to see what they are working on.
Boyd has built some of the sweetest hot rods in existence and is world renowned for his custom hot rods. Some of which you can see below. He will be greatly missed. You can read more about his passing here.
Well the first month of 2008 is almost over… how are you holding up to your New Years Resolutions?
My resolutions for 2008 are:
Well I’m proud to say that I haven’t had a smoke or a cup of coffee since New Years. Kinda nuts when I used to almost live on coffee and cigarettes. I owe it all to juicing daily. Seriously. I’ve traded in smoking and drinking coffee for drinking fresh juice multiple times a day. I have a lot more energy and feel healthier then I have in a long time.
I’m no stranger to juicing. I got the itch a few years ago after reading about living healthy and seeing Jay Kordich’s Juiceman Juicer infomercials. You know the old dude with 
crazy eyebrows… I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials. Anyway I juiced for awhile but it didn’t stick because well it’s kinda a pain in the ass. You need tons of stuff to juice and it takes awhile with the prep and clean up.
This Xmas though I decided to get another juicer and start again. Now that I have time during the day it’s not so much a pain and it has really helped me to stop smoking. I wake up and juice an entire pineapple, two oranges and two apples. It is so much better then starting the day off with a few cups of coffee and cigarettes. Healthier too!
Then during the rest of the day I drink usually a few glasses of carrot and apple juice. Vegetables are better to drink then juice because of their nutrients but fruit juice tastes a whole lot better. I have Jay Kordich’s “The Power of Juicing” book which lists a ton of great recipes. Basically you can juice anything except bananas and mangos because they are too soft to go through the juicer.
Anyway, if you’re a smoker and want to quit try juicing and keep occupied. I find that it helps to chew on something,, gum, sunflower/pumpkin seeds – if you’re craving nicotine maybe try some chewing tobacco. I know that’s not a whole lot better but if it can help you go another day without smoking then its a good thing. Just try not to get addicted to that.
So I’m pretty proud of myself for going this long… the longest I haven’t smoked in probably years.
Now I just need to work on the going to the gym and making more money part so I can travel more. 
Amazon.com has some good juicers available such as Jay’s Juiceman series of juicers as well as Jack Lalane’s model. Do a quick search by clicking Juiceman below.
Juiceman
If you’re holding up to your New Years resolutions let me know! I’d love to hear about them.
The top classmate search websites listed. If you’ve ever wondered how your old classmates are doing then here’s the list you can use to find them. Classmates.com is I believe the most popular site for finding old classmates. It was a site I was on about 5 years ago but since lost my login info. I have no idea what it is and most likely don’t even have access to my old email anymore. I believe it’s free to sign up but the last time I was on it they were pushing hard for you to pay to upgrade your service so you could (I think) view more info or maybe post more info. I don’t really remember. It’s been so long. And I’ve had no reason to rejoin. I still talk to my friends who were true friends back then.
Anyway, if you are in search of an old classmate I’d try on free sites first such as myspace or facebook.com. That’s if you remember their names. Classmates offers listings of schools where you can just join your old school and graduating year so you’ll automatically see who’s signed up that was in your class. Very convenient. If you do remember your friends names, which I guess you should if they were really your friends then you should definitely try facebook and myspace first. If you are desperate to find them them you can always try the whitepages online. The other sites listed will help you as well.
Tired of surfing the web in the same ol’ fashion? Have a few extra megs or ram laying around you’re not using? Why not check out Space Time. A 3D browser that’s actually kinda cool.
You can surf the web, eBay, Yahoo/Google/Flickr images in a 3D fashion with more to come with Space Time. I guess they are working on a version that also searches Myspace, Youtube, Amazon.com etc in 3d. Note that the Flickr search brings up the entire webpage not just the photo you search for while searching Space Time.
The eBay search is pretty cool as you can browse through auction listings while getting a glimpse of the auction photo. Most eBay photos aren’t what they seem though. Most eBay photos are generic, ie. the same picture of ipod as every other seller has.
The regular web search is kinda cool too in that you can easily compare websites designs across multiple sites in a flipbook type fashion. It’s super easy to browse but you have to double click on the images to view the actual site. That part seemed kinda awkward but I still think it’s a cool idea. It’s a break from the regular way we search and view the web.
ReCAPTCHA – A great idea to make entering all those CAPTCHA codes usefull.
Now, I hate the idea of CAPTCHA in general. Having to enter cyptic codes to verify you’re a human is a not the best idea that has come around. I can’t tell you how annoying it is to have to enter CAPTCHA codes when you’re logged into Blogger and want to post a new post. I’ve logged in,, I think that’s enough to verify I’m a human. But obviously bots can log in too. Anyway, they are annoying and waste useful time.
ReCaptcha takes all those codes you enter on every form and helps solve words that can’t be deciphered via OCR to help complete digitization of real books. If that’s not a good enough explanation visit Recapture.
I don’t use CAPTCHA codes on this blog just because I hate them but if you do maybe consider using Recapture. They have a wordpress plugin you can use if you do use CAPTCHA’s on your comment forms.
They’re Slogan is “Stop Spam, Read Books” – it’s so great.
Are you tired of being paid per click from your adsense ads? It seems too simple to just place targeted adsense ads and direct people away from you site for pennies, maybe nickels in return. Isn’t it better to display seemingly untargeted product ads that require a user to click, sign up and fulfill an action like winning an eBay auction? It’s a far better idea right? Not!
I’m not sure if it’s just the market reach Shoemoney already has with his blog but he’s been pushing Auction Ads like crazy. Just earlier today I received an email from John Reese promoting Auction Ads even further with his company income.com. John calls Auction Ads “The Next Google Adsense”. He is offering people who sign up (through his affiliate link I presume) $5 free. This first made me think, why is John Reese of all people promoting Auction Ads? At first I thought, maybe Shoemoney paid him 20k, but then I realized John is probably marketing through his affiliate link in hopes to gather a hefty amount of people under him because Auction Ads works on a 2 tier system. Anyone you refer will be placed under you and so on. My surprise is that he has that much faith in auction ads that he is giving away $5 free to everyone who signs up.
Now Shoemoney has a great reason for setting up Auction Ads,, he wants to be eBay’s #1 affiliate. Everyone that signs up for Auction Ads is essentially under him so he makes even more by you signing up. It’s a great idea but what about the service? What are you exactly getting by signing up for Auction Ads? Well, Auction Ads can offer you a higher percentage from each sale because I believe essentially you are promoting eBay through Shoemoney’s affiliate link, ie. you refer a sign up and because your using his ID then you’re able to receive his commission because he is already in some of the top tiers if not the highest already. Right now they are offering you 100% of the commission but later down the road say 6 months as mentioned on a broadcast of Rush Hour on webmaster radio Shoe will begin collecting %’s of each of your referrals. A brokers free is fine since they are making it easier for you to make money. How much money I don’t know but the ads don’t impress me one bit.
After visiting Shoe’s blog and surfing through to one of the blogs he reads I actually found someone promoting eBay auctions via Auction Ads. I took the screenshot to your left so you can see just in case he changes his site (or takes them down cause he isn’t making any money). They look absolutely horrible in my opinion. What’s with the resized (misshaped) images? What readers of cpa-affiliates.com would see those ads, click on them and win an ebay auction? To me his blog isn’t the right place for those types of ads. They are better off on a crappy price comparison site, or MFA. I know you can customize the colors of your Auction Ads like you can adsense but I’m not sure about the photos. Those images being resized like that kills me. They look bad.
So did you sign up yet? Are you going to clutter up your site even more with ugly auction listings? I don’t think I’ll be signing up.
This is a “Free” unpaid review of Auction Ads!
Read my Update on AuctionAds
I just realized it’s been almost 2 months since I last posted! I’ve been really busy with my new job as “Stay at Home Dad” or SAHD for short. My wife recently went back to work and now I get to watch my 1 year old daughter all day while she is at work. I’ve been working from home for myself for the last few years so I’m used to being at home but watching kids is something I’m new to. Let me tell ya, it’s lots of work! My daughter is walking now and boy does she go. I find myself running after her every 5 minutes so to say the least I’m not getting much work done.
I’ve been mostly surfing the net and reading blogs. I’ve learned a lot in the last month just surfing around. It’s something I don’t usually have time to do so it’s good to get out on the world wide web and wander around. I have all these new ideas now and will be hopefully tracking my progress here on this blog.
Oh,, and I accidentally stumbled upon a site showing a movie called “The Secret” which totally surprised me and kept me busy the last 24 hours. It was embedded on a site from Yahoo Video so I went over to see if I could download it to save it for later and I couldn’t find it. I did however see a bunch of short clips from Oprah’s show so I thought, Wow, this must be big. I dug a little deeper and found it on a torrent site. I couldn’t help myself to download it right away. It downloaded fast and I started watching late last night, or early this morning however you see it. Let me tell you,, The Secret is so profound and moving and I ordered 2 copies from Amazon.com (one for my mom which I recommend you do if you haven’t seen it. It is life changing and truly motivational. I haven’t read the book but the Movie is superb with great people talking in it including Joe Vitale – He actually has a clip of him talking on his homepage. Anyway, here’s a plot synapsis:
The Secret is a feature length movie presentation which reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries… This is The Secret to everything – the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted. All the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret. The world’s leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it… Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein.
I actually have the movie playing in the background right now and plan to watch it again and again. I also plan to tell others about it like I’m doing now. Just found the first 20 minutes of “The Secret” on youtube… Enjoy
Go get it at Amazon.com
Every time I get on myspace to log on or reply or do anything it has errors. It is so frustrating. I’m thinking that a site that makes 25 million a month could afford more servers or programmers or whatever they need so their site works, but I am way wrong. It’s been like this for awhile too. Nothing they have added in the past months has made my experience any better. I’ve never added myspace videos or used their IM service or what have you. Why would I use their video service when youtube is much easier and more familiar? Why hasn’t google started a Gspace site to rival them? Orkut doesn’t count, it’s a bad name and isn’t easy to spell or something you want to tell your friends about. It looks ugly from the start. It’s not a site you want to join, atleast for me.
Myspace seems like it’s totally out of control. They seem to be building more features onto a site that doesn’t work. It needs a total overhaul from the ground up. I’m sure that won’t happen any time soon. It would cut into their monthly ad revenue. I’ve said this for awhile, but Myspace’s time has come and gone.
An online tool to help you find new colors for your next design. Easily find complimentary colors for your design that are pleasing to the eye with this new color tool. It seems to work pretty well and is free to use. Genopal also offers a desktop version that I guess offers more. I haven’t tried it yet but might think about it once I try it on my next design. Give it a try and see if you can come up with anything good. I’ve been playing with it for a few minutes and like it so far. Plus what designer doesn’t like to play with colors?
Godaddy had Orange County Chopper build them a sweet chopper recently. If you haven’t seen the show American Chopper then it might be something to check out if you like bikes/choppers. It’s a pretty good show and is always entertaining to watch if you are into building/customizing bikes or just like them. They do amazing work and build totally customized choppers for big companies all over the US. Each episode of their show they are building a new bike for some big company. Anyway check out Godaddy’s Chopper: 
I definetely like the style of the bike, but the colors,, yikes! I know it’s for promotional purposes only but damn. The colors are horrible. There’s a video here to check out as well as some more photos of the bike.
I wonder what Google’s Chopper would look like if they had one built?
Update: Not that this is related in any way but check out this chopper if you haven’t seen it already. It has hubless wheels! This thing looks sick!
It’s called The Hubless Monster… what do you think?
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