Earth friendly shopping bags are here

February 5, 2008 | 7 Responses

Hey! You like breathing air right? Lets make sure our kids and their kids get to do the same by cutting down on emissions together.

You can start by picking up a green friendly shopping bag like the one we just had pressed up for you (shameless isn’t it?). For just under $15.00, you can tote around our original dismembered logo while running your errands.

The money you spend on this and other great products from our selection at our shop will help to pay our hosting bills and improve our service to you from this and other blogs in our network.

MBL Widgets and why you have to comment to show your face around here

January 31, 2008 | 4 Responses

I mentioned before that I am not a fan of the MyBlogLog reader community widget. As you can see, although my community continues to grow, I still haven’t taken a shining to using the widget. The reason for this is simple, people don’t actually have to read your blog to get their profile linked. I’ve even auto-joined communities just by passing over the same link more than once without even being aware of it. This means that my picture, and therefore my profile and therefore my website, has been linked on websites I’ve never so much as skimmed. Is that fair? No, not really. But if the website’s owner wants to give it away like that, who am I to stop him?

I am still a fan and avid user of MyBlogLog and chose to implement the community on my website in a different manner. MyAvatars is a plugin that displays the commenter’s Gravatar or their MBL avatar next to their comment. I found this was more of an everybody wins approach to using display pictures because they still get their profile linked and I, in return, get a comment.

After all, wasn’t that the original intention of having a blog as opposed to just a collection of articles? Getting comments? Many of us choose to reward our commenters with a top commentators list (much like the one I have). Well would it make sense if all somebody had to do was load my page to get onto the top comments list? Ofcoarse it wouldn’t. So, to me, it just makes good sense for someone to have to comment in order to get their picture on this website.

The word on webfetti

January 31, 2008 | 4 Responses

A liitle while ago, I made a sponsored post on this website about something called Webfetti. For one reason or another, it generated a huge amount of traffic. This lead me to look at what some people thought of the toolbar and how it was working for them.

Although it seems to have generated a serious amount of buzz, it doesn’t all seem to be positive. As a matter of fact, most of the incoming visitors were looking to uninstall webfetti.

As you might have guessed, I didn’t test the software myself. I didn’t really see a need to as I have no problem customizing my profiles manually. For others it isn’t that simple. I would definitely recommend doing a little research before installing software to customize your myspace. There are hundreds of online Myspace profile editors that will do it for you. As I mentioned in the other post, most of these sites will try to nab a backlink out of you for supplying the code to edit your profile. If this is the case, I have a quickfix for you below.

How to uninstall WebFetti

Some programs provide an uninstall; The ones that don’t can be uninstalled by going to:
Start Menu>
Control Panel>
Add/Remove Programs>
Wait for the program list to load and select the one to remove.

Then hopefully most of the program is removed, but the registry can sometimes contain leftovers.
Start>
All Programs>
Accessories>
System Tools>
Restore>

Restore to as recent a date as possible before you installed the program causing the problems. You may still need to reset some of your IE or Firefox options as this is a toolbar (and they ARE usually naughty like that).

Another option is to run REGEDIT and look for anything suspicious that starts when Windows starts.

Removing Links from your recently edited profile

Most Myspace profile editors will supply you with a large and confusing code. It will usually start with a tag that looks like this:< style type= “text/css” >< /style >
This is the part you need to keep your profile looking as it did in the editor. In order to remove the the link to the profile editor website, all you have to do is find the tag that looks like this: < a href=”http://www.pimpmyprofile.com” > Of coarse the text in between the quotations is going to be whatever site you got the script from, but you get the idea. What you need to do is highlight from the beginning tag < a href=”sitename” > to the end tag, which will look like < /a >. It may be a capitol or lowercase a, but these are anchor tags, which are what makes links.

So now you have a safer way to edit your profiles, without installing any spyware or malware carrying toolbars. A good place to start is with Thomas’ Myspace Editor. Very simple to use and can be found with a simple Google search.

Happy Halloween, here’s some eye candy

October 30, 2007 | 6 Responses

Ladies and Skeletons, Boys and Ghouls..

I hope everyone has their costume picked out because the stores are probably out of stock by now. I’m going as a ninja because its’ a “when all else fails” kind of costume. All I need is a black rag to wear around my face and some black clothing. I didn’t plan ahead.

Today I thought I would share with you some frightfully good treats and some devilish tricks.

If you’re in a similar predicament, you should check out 9 fun last minute halloween costumes on Inventor Spot.

If you haven’t yet carved your pumpkin, here is a post from Slashfilm that features Cinematic Pumpin Carvings.

When you’re out with your camera on Halloween, there aren’t always the best lighting conditions. To capture the best photos of your friends’ costume or Halloween decorations, have a look at Halloween Photography tips over at Digital Photography School.

If when Halloween is over you are still thirsty for more, you would be very happy to visit AlwaysHalloween, where its always Halloween.

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