Archive for April, 2008

Jinx profits from social networking/marketing

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Many companies have been trying to capitalize on Web 2.0 concepts such as social networking but few have had much success as of yet with this fairly new idea in online marketing. The problem, I believe, is that many companies have trouble relating to their target demographic and providing them ...

Strip Generator lets you make your own comic strips

Monday, April 21st, 2008

For those with a good sense of humor but no artistic ability, Strip Generator offers a free and easy way to create your own comic strips using clip art. The site isn't the only comic strip generator on the web, but it is one of the easier to use ...

Will your newspaper someday be delivered on e-paper?

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Apr. 17 - Long predicted to replace traditional book or newspaper pulp, e-paper is not yet printing money, but tech firms hope its popularity may eventually mimic the real thing. Japanese companies already use electrophoretic display, or EPD, for everything from watches and mobile phones to e-readers, with limited color, lower ...

Free Comic Book Day May 3

Monday, April 14th, 2008

For the last 7 years now, comic book shops around the country have been celebrating an annual event called Free Comic Book Day. If you go to a participating comic book store on that day, you'll receive at least one (but probably several) free comic books. This year ...

Wii Fit parody

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Even though I think Wii Fit is a cool idea and look forward to trying it out, I still appreciate the humor in this parody video from Sarcastic Gamer.

Wii Fit gets gamers off their butt

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I'm looking forward to Wii Fit, although it's something I'm more likely to use in the winter rather than the summer, when the weather is nice enough that I can actually get some exercise outdoors. I lost 25-30 pounds last year on another physical video game, Dance Dance Revolution, ...

Affordable custom poster frames do exist

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I collect movie posters, lithographs, and art prints related to comic books and popular science fiction shows.  The most expensive part of this hobby isn't the posters and prints themselves but the custom frames needed for the odd sizes of many of these posters.  If you go to a framing ...

Wordpress 2.5 image upload issue

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Like tens of thousands of other blogs on the web, this site is run on the Wordpress blogging platform. Today I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, which seemed to work great, as I use Firefox. It turns out, however, that others who I installed Wordpress for are having issues with ...

MyGame.com

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Have you ever wanted to create your own time-wasting flash game like the ones you see plastered all over the web? Well, now, even if you don't have any programming skills, you can upload a few photos and create your own mini-game in minutes. Then you can e-mail ...

I Has a Hot Dog

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

From the minds behind I Can Haz Cheezburger? comes I Has a Hot Dog, a site dedicated to silly picture of dogs. This is a time wasting site if ever there was one. Subscribe to their daily photo e-mail list if you need a morning pick-me-up every day ...