Tim Freeman's Blog

The Best Skyrim Forum

2012-01-17T17:01:00.001-05:00

I have just made a community forum for Skyrim! Its goal is to the best place for Skyrim information, chat, quest help, and overall BEST PLACE to talk about Skyrim!

You can check it by going to www.Skyrim-Forums.org now!

I hope you join to make it even better for anyone! As a matter of fact, register now and start posting today!

Facebook Fake Hacking

2012-01-11T12:27:00.000-05:00

I see this happening a lot lately. Why do people think they are cool by doing this? For one, you are not even hacking anything. The person ether - A. Left their Facebook open on their computer or B. Has their email and password saved to their browser of choice.

I don't even know why they call it hacking? It has nothing to do with hacking. It is called unauthorized use. As a matter of fact. If you do this. You are in breach of terms. Check it for yourself. https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms Check Section 3 sub-paragraph 5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.

Although Facebook does not really enforce this term. I see it happening all the time. It gets annoying because so many people are doing it and claiming they hacked it! When in fact, a large amount of Facebook users do get hacked or phished every day! Is it worth reporting, not really. I doubt Facebook would even take action against it.

Hopefully the fad of doing it will stop on its own. I get tired of seeing people do it to a friend's profile, I don't want to unsubscribe them from my updates though. A majority of the time they post regular things. So I guess I will just have to bare with it for now. At least until it dies out or Facebook finally takes actions and deletes accounts because of it.

Oh wait, they wouldn't do that. They would lose out on all that advertisement money that user generates from pageloads.

Apple Beating PC In Sales - Really?

2012-01-03T09:58:00.001-05:00

I have been a PC fan for a long time. I even worked for a company that did Apple Care support for Apple. When working on a iMac all day and then coming home to my PC. Which runs Windows 7 64bit. It got kind of annoying. Most of the people who called in didn't even know how to do basic things like. Ejecting the CD from the disk drive, just because there was not a button for it on the framing. The button is on the keyboard if you didn't know.

Apple is rich, I read an article about how they have more money then the USA government. Anyways, I still like to think differently about the sales. Yes Apple makes a ton of money from sales. Yet they offer more products. In addition, how do they base the sales of PC that run Windows? Do they take the sales of the main makers of them. Such as Dell, HP, Gateway. If they do, I think the sales chart is wrong. They are not adding into the equation that you can build your own PC from the ground up. Ordering parts and operating systems from sites such as Tigerdirect.com and Newegg.com. Which wouldn't even show on the OEM sales charts.

I have a lot of friends that are into computers. Hardly any of them own an Apple PC. They might own a iphone or an ipod. Yet when it comes to basic computing and gaming. They choose PC. For instance, not a lot of games are playable on the Mac OS. Heck a lot of programs are not even made for Mac OS.

With that being said. Is Apple really the industry leader for Personal Computers? In my view of things. NO! I did a Google search for Mac vs Pc facts. I found this blog that broke the numbers down on which Operating System is more popular, statistically. The author says "Statistics show that Microsoft Windows has approximately 91% of the market share, while the Apple Mac OS has around 5% of the market share. The other 4% is owned by other operating systems such as Linux.". With that bit of info, it almost proves my point.

The author of the article went on to say this. (Note that I just copy and pasted, yet am giving full credit to those who deserve it)." Kelly Ford, the marketing and content head for Hunch, conducted an extremely helpful report that talks about “Mac people & PC people”. The report focused on their personalities from 3 perspectives: aesthetic preferences, media choices, and personality traits.
The key findings in the report were as follows:

Mac People are more likely to see the existing world in a light of “sameness” and thus express a desire to be perceived as different and unique. This is consistently reflected in their aesthetic choices such as bold colors, “retro” designs, one-of-a-kind clothing and highly stylized art.

PC People are more likely to see the world as “different enough already” and appreciate “being in tune with those around them.” This is reflected in their subtler, “mainstream modern” (neither retro nor extremely contemporary) design choices and their practical choices in clothing, footwear, and cars that favor getting the job done rather than making an overt design statement.

Media choices and preferences vary greatly between the two groups, with Mac People trending toward more independent films, specialized comedians and design-centric magazines, and PC People trending toward more mainstream alternatives as well as sports.

From a personality perspective, Mac People are more likely to describe themselves as “verbal”, “conceptual”, and “risk takers”, with PC People countering that they are “numbers oriented”, “factual” and “steady, hard workers”.".

Seems to me like PC is better for my stance in life. Mac may seem popular, but it is only popular to certain people, who are all pretty much the same in most areas of their lives. So to end this...PC ROCKS! Go Windows and keep making the work different!

Hashtags on Facebook

2012-01-02T16:57:00.000-05:00

Recently I have seen tons of my friends using hashtags on Facebook. The bad part is, it isn't a cross platform thing with Twitter. They just say something as a status then #hashtag a phrase. It wouldn't bother me so much if they it was posted from their twitter, but most of the time it is posted from mobile or directly from Facebook. Here is a sample of what I am talking about.

I kept my name open, yet preserved the identities of everyone else. It must be the new thing to do. I don't quite understand why they use it like that. It used to just be *lovin life*, or something along those lines. It just bothers me that people are using technology wrong.

Not to say something out of place, but I notice that only certain people do this the most. I noticed the most used group of people (in my opinion) are African Americans, then 2nd comes in as the white people who want to be gangster/thugs...So I am not just saying that one group does it, but it seems like the genre of people are doing it. Maybe they was never taught how to properly use hashtags?

What do you think?

Americans Take Your Country Back

2011-12-29T09:37:00.001-05:00

Americans need to wake up and realize that it will only get better if we make it better. We need to stop letting companies ruin this country. As a veteran of the Iraq War, this deeply disturbs me. I don't want to see my country fall apart. I defended it because I want to raise a family here and I love my country. Yet with the way the economy has been since my return in August of 2007. It has been a constant struggle. The U.S. seems like it has hit rock bottom, much like most of the friends I had before I left. Yet at least they can say their rock bottom was caused by the prescription pill epidemic. The only excuse America has is. Obama. Everyone blames him, yet in reality. It is our own faults.

We bailed out the banks while we were at war. Big companies pay off politicians to pass laws that let them benefit from something negative upon the country, company and persons who work for them. Bankers were bailed out, then gave themselves bonuses. Politicians receive money and make tons of money from the taxpayers, yet they complain and can't seem to come to an agreement on taxes. Which effects the general population more then it would them. Yet they will only pass something that will let them line their pockets with gold. It is a reverse Robin Hood. Take from the poor and give to the rich.

If in fact politicians were truly there to help the American people. They wouldn't have bailed out the banks for not doing their jobs and scamming the markets. It seems like the more crooked and corrupt you are in America, the more you can benefit from it. I try to live a pretty honest life. Yet I am poor. Should I do the wrong thing? It seems like it. Hey if bankers and politicians can do it, why can't I? Oh wait. I forgot. I'm not rich already or I don't hold a position of power to turn the tides in my favor.

Americans have forgot the essence of this country. For the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE. Yet where are you people? Well to be honest, a lot of people showed up for the OWLs movement. We tried! Yet until Americans are directly effected, we will not stand up. Sadly I will say this...I don't want to but I am. We are lazy and do not care about the welfare of our countrymen.

We need to stop worrying about making a profit from something and start worrying about how to save humanity. Someone would rather make a dollar, then to help someone who is starving. To me this is sad. No I can't fix the problem myself, but at least I have the balls to stand up for what I believe is wrong and right.

It is wrong that the government allowed Police to break the laws, yet when citizens break the laws we get thrown in jails. We have the right to do these things, it says it in the Constitution and in the Amendments. Yet when we practice these, they come up with a loophole of how to stop us from doing it.

It is now or never America. Wake up, take our country back. These greedy politicians are not going to go down easy. I don't mean take up arms and rebel against your country. I mean take it down legally using laws already in place. Use the system the way it is designed and reclaim control!

5 Reasons to Play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2011-12-27T04:51:00.000-05:00

I have been playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for about a week now. Yes I know I am a bit late, but I have it right? Anyways what got me interested in this game aside from the pure hype of it, was the fact that I had previously played The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. As a fan of this game, I was very tempted to play the newer version of the series. Yet I was skeptical at first because of all the bugs and glitches from the previous version. As I sat down and started to play it, I noticed that getting the game was a great decision.

1. The game mechanic are much better. Upon playing for some time I noticed that you can't just run around and jump and sprint and gain a skill increase. Unlike its older brother, this was an issue for me. As it made the feel of the game seem a bit unreal. Yes I am sure in real life if you run around jumping, you will get better at it. Yet for game physics it would allow you to feel God-like. Jumping 15 feet in the air is not realistic, and for a game like Skyrim, you want it to be as realistic as possible. Even though it is a fantasy genre game.

2. The graphics are improved. I don't really have to show you to be able to tell, but I will. The fact of the matter is. Oblivion came out in 2003 and then Skyrim came out in 2011. Here is a visual of the character evolution from the two.


Picture found on Gamingbolt.com

3. Freedom to do anything you want. Well almost anything. The game is so open and so is the world. You be any type of character you. It has its limits just like any game does. Yet it doesn't force you to follow the story line if you wander off. In fact you can play the game without doing much of the storyline. It is up to you to complete it. You can always just follow your own path that attunes to your play style. The game doesn't block you off with an invisible wall that forces you to follow the story. This I like. A lot of games will make you follow the story. Yet with Skyrim, there are so many side quests and other things to do in the game. You could play for hours on end and not complete any of it.

4. Dual Wielding. Ah yes, who doesn't like to dual wield? Well magic caster normally don't like it, or do they? In Skyrim even as a magic caster you can dual wield spells. How freaking cool is that! This was something I always wanted in Oblivion. A lot of the times I just dodged the attacks anyways. With dual wielding you can take advantage of the extra weapons damage modifiers. When dual wielding spells it also allows you to use an overcharge ability that also has a modifier to it!

5. Skyrim has the ability to keep you engaged in play for what some say "hundreds of hours". The storyline, side quests, training of skills, exploration, and so on. Skyrim leaves little behind for almost any player. From what I read online, the fastest time someone has completed the game was in between 2-3 hours. For a game of this magnitude, if you completed it that fast, you skipped most of the fun parts. Rushed through quests, didn't read anything, and basically had the concept of how to beat it to begin with. You should play a game of this caliber to its fullest potential.

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2011-06-18T16:51:00.000-04:00

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A New Month Turns a New Rank

2011-06-01T20:00:00.001-04:00

I found a new tool that allowed me to check all of my Alexa and Google Page Ranks. Upon checking all of my domains, I was really surprised and grateful that I have seen positive results since my last checks. Some of my sites didn't fair as well as I had hoped for. Yet I wont let that get me down. Instead I will be happy that my main domain had risen so rapidly. Hopefully this is a sign, and increased visitors will come this month. (Fingers crossed)

GangsofWar.com - My main domain and my favorite so far.

Before: 28,384,237
Now: 13,344,920
Difference: 15,039,017

Not bad If I don't say so myself. I went up 15 million ranks. That is with one month down. Lets see how far we can take it.

WhereCanIFind.tk - My mobile news blog.

Before: 15,774,793
Now: 15,990,412
Difference: -245,619

It went down!! Oh No! That is not what I wanted. I guess I will have to work on meta tags. I looked and I did not have any for this domain. This makes me ponder though. How much traffic would I obtain if I have had some niched keywords added to the meta tags.

TopMafiaSites.tk - Gaming Top Site.

Before: Nothing
Now: 16,781,829
Difference: Now Ranked

Since there was no data to go on from the previous month and with such a dramatic jump in rankings. This makes me wonder as to get a domain changed. Obtain a gTLD. Instead of having sites in the name. I will be looking for something like Game Top Site .com. Something of those sorts. I am sure that I will have to throw some time into finding the perfect .com domain for this niche. I have seen the ranks of other top sites and they are very good. If I can grow this one, Move the domain, and work on the layout and design. Then get some great traffic. I am sure that this website will take off.

Multple Alexa and Google Page Rank Checker

2011-06-01T19:39:00.003-04:00

I found this nifty place where you can check all of your domains Alexa and Google Page Rank at once. Well at least up to 12 different domains at once. This really would have came in handy during my last post. Although it is not hard to manually check all of my domains one at a time, this tool really helped to increase the speed of the process. I do not own 12 domains (yet). I only own 4 of them. Anyways I will show you the results I had gotten for my websites.

You can find this tool over at DomainToolShed.com

Progress At Last

2011-05-29T23:34:00.001-04:00

Tim Freeman's Blog - A General Blog - No Data
Gangs of War - Mafia Game - 28,384,237
Where Can I Find - Mobile News Blog - 15,774,793
Abandoned PC Games - Abandoned PC Games - No Data
Top Mafia Sites - MMORPG Topsite - No Data

Not the best. I am content though for the moment. Gangs of War has been having the most visitors so far. It is also one of the newer ones of my domains. I am happy that it made it into Alexa though. I had been looking around on various domain worth websites. Trying to gain an insight as to what GoW has as far as SEO. Then it appeared after only around 11 days. Not bad. I have another site that is just a little bit older and for some reason it is in Alexa already.

Gow doesn't seem to have many backlinks according to the domain worth websites. I can't figure out why. I can sometimes find them with them, other times they all show up as none. I know I have some out there. I have went and did some backlink building. Nothing major, but at least around 10 sites or so .

I know I use GoW in my signatures around forums. That helps to gain backlinks. The more I chat in the forum, the stronger that backlink gets. I hope. Seems like right now I am chasing a dream with GoW. I am trying really hard to make it work. So far I keep seeing results so there is no need for me to give up yet.

Today I worked on APCG. I added roughly around 9 new games. I still need to meet my quota I set for myself of having 50 games by the end of the month. To be honest I can do it in the two days I have left. I have a cookout tomorrow to go to, but when I get back from it I could pull off at least 15 new games in an hour and a half or less. Do the same thing again tomorrow and I will surpass my monthly goal. I have not been putting as much effort into APCG as much as I should. This is why.

I added statcounter to APCG so that I can get some demographics of my site. Upon doing that I did get some good info. I noticed that I was already on the front page of Google with this site, for various keywords as well. This came as a shock to me. As there are more reputable sites out there with a .com domain. APCG is #3... I repeat...#3 for the keyword of "abandoned games".

So 2 thumbs up to APCG! Now I just have to finish what I started with this site. If it makes any revenue, I will turn it into a .com. With a better name of course. As well as add some new features. Lets not get ahead of ourselves though. I did the same search using Google Chrome and couldn't even find APCG. Funny huh?

Here is what statcounter is telling me though. I seem to be getting a lot of good spots on these keywords.

So like I said. I am just going to keep posting abandoned games. It is going to work or it is not. I hope it does though.

A Muse Myself - A Ramble

2011-05-28T05:04:00.000-04:00

No, I am not talking about amusing myself. I am talking about a muse. The thought of being able to have a lot of ideas, yet not being able to use any for yourself. Everyone has this feature in some sort. Normally people are only good at a few main talents. Yet I always found out I could do just about anything I wanted. I always had ideas to save the world, or an idea for an easy way to fix a situation. It didn't really benefit me when coming up with these nifty ideas. It simple made life better for everyone who it was involved with.

As I said of finding myself talented. I can do anything it seems, Except excel in one said category. I have always been pretty gifted with technology. Yet I can't seem to bust onto the scene doing what I want. I can make a small presence. Yet not make a home run.

Yet not to frown. Keep trying. Keep pushing and try harder to make it all better. That is what it is all about. I keep pushing myself, I have learned many new things over the weeks. Improving in many areas. Is that what life is about when you feel like no matter the task you can complete it?

Once you complete it, it brings joy to you. You have achieved a goal. Now will the same action bring the same joy each time. Or does it lose the value behind working hard to obtain the reward it gives. Life brings upon us funny tricks like this. Some goals can be repeated and it is the same, other fail. Which brings on us a new thirst for a new goal.

A rotating cycle of feeding for knowledge. No wonder the smartest people of the world was sought out to be so crazy. They led a life with a constant thirst. Much like a vampire

Ways to Make Money from Being Online

2011-05-24T18:27:00.001-04:00

The best method I can think of is making some sort of digit product to sell. This can be many things such as

1. Multiplayer Online Game. Players can buy in game items, upgrades, or special perks. There are many genres at which to choose from. It seems the biggest thing in the market today is Mafia, Army, Ninjas, and Zombies. If you enjoy playing the game you will get enjoyment out of it yourself. Along with being able to be online for you users of the game for support. The best way to get new members for free is to make listing on topsites and MMORPG sites. The more the better. Have your users vote on it to make it more popular and bring in even more people. Also have a referral system set in place so that your users can invite their friends, earning something for the referral is a plus to get them to do it. Ad some adsense and let it go. The best adsense method I can think of it PPM. You will not get as many CPC adsense revenue with a game like this.

2. eBooks. Anyone can write them, even you. If you have an eBook that you can sell, you would be surprised at the money people will spend or to be honest about it. Think micro. How many people will spend $5.00 for a digital eBook that is there as soon as they pay. Compared to a $50.00 Book bought in a store, better yet another eBook in the same topic, just selling it for cheap. If you can make 25 micro sales at $5.00, compared to the one sale of $50.00. You would actually be making more money with the micro sales.

3. Web design company . Even if you do not know how to make websites. No problem. There is a simple solution to this. All that is needed for this is some start up capital and a little time and effort on your part. I have read a recent eBook that told of this little venture.

Get simple website that looks professional enough to pass for a good web designing company. Create contact information. All the good stuff that a web designing company would need to have on a website.
Once you receive your first offer. Charge around $500.00.
Find a freelance programmer for hire. Offer them $125.00-$200.00 to make the website for you. Remember that there is always someone out there willing to work for as little on the dollar as they can. Some people do not even work for a dollar and hour if they chose not to. Although you want to be careful as to whom you choose. Make sure they person has a reputable status within the community at which you had found them.
Receive the website from the freelancer
When happy - Make payment
Deliver the website to the customer.
Collect payment.

Cost was in the range of $125-$200 = -X -X + $500 = $300-$375. That would mean you would make around 300 to 375 Dollars for basically nothing. If you can get a client base and build up to where you do a just a handful of these jobs a month, you can be making some serious money.

PTC services. Paid To Click is an online business model that draws online traffic from people aiming to earn money from home. Find a site that will pay you to view advertisements, or click on things, even complete registrations and surveys. A great site that I use and have been using for some time now is.

Now see what I just did there. I advertised my referral link. If you sign up using my referral I will earn: 20% of what my referrals earn. Each new member that I refer will also earn me 4 points when they complete their first offer over 50¢! Please keep in mind when referring members that they only have offers for US, UK, and CA members. Any members that are referred outside of these countries have no earning abilities, therefore they will earn me no commission. Not a bad deal if I don't say so myself. You can do the same thing I just did. Refer someone to use a site or product. You earn affiliate money from them. As well as being able to make some extra change along the way by completing offers yourself. There are many PTC sites out there, so you should be able to find one that suits you.

Packing A Lot of Information

2011-05-22T18:35:00.000-04:00

I was just sitting here thinking about the amount of web design stuff that I have self taught myself.

Html
PHP
Javascript
CSS
Adobe Fireworks 8
Adobe Dreamweaver 8
Paint Shop Pro 8
SEO
Google Page Ranks
Backlinks
Metadata
and much more....

It is kinda crazy once I think about it. I have dedicated so much of my time to learning this stuff. I try to make it all work. Yet it seems like the www already has everything you can think of. If not someone else will make it!

Mafia This Mafia That

2011-05-22T14:37:00.001-04:00

As of lately I have been staying pretty busy. I have managed to make another site. Top Mafia Sites - Mafia MMORGP Topsite. I wanted to get into this industry for a few reasons. First. I own a mafia game. So why not make a site that can help promote it as well as driving traffic to my competitors and maybe earning some cash from them as well. It seemed like a good idea to me. Not many top-sites specialize in mafia games.

It feels like some of my sites related to the mafia genre are working like a mafia themselves. A small ring of sites connected in one way or another. By mafia genre or by game genre. The list is as follows.

If I can get page ranks with any of these sites. It will help the site that is backlinked as well. At least, that is the plan. They are all related sites. They have to deal with a game or something mafia. Of course talking about it all here doesn't hurt. I don't know if this blog has a pagerank or not. I don't really check on it since it is just a free blog from blogger.com. It is not even a top level domain. I guess if it really started pouring in hits for some reason. Then I guess I would start keeping track of it and doing more SEO. Until then I will just post periodically about things in my life.

Until next time!

Update May 7

2011-05-07T13:22:00.001-04:00

April and May have been a good month for ole Tim Freeman. I ended up getting a job so it has taken out time on my writing. Not a bad thing, I see it as a good thing. I am making solid money now instead of relying on small pocket change income from my endeavors around the internet. Already got a raise and working on another one because I am in the process of being promoted.

Not bad huh?

Along with getting the job the good news just continues to pour in for me. My game Gangs of War has taken off some. Adding new features and gaining new players. Also where I have been messing with it so much my PHP and HTML skills have improved. The code is coming easier in my head then normal. Guess it is where I have my game face on this time. Abandoned PC Games is slowly getting better. I still need to work on getting more content.

Everything else is just falling into place now. Time is all that I need now and I have plenty of it. I can fill my head with more ideas then I can implement. I need to hire me a coder or something to add the big updates to the game, but I must wait until the game is actually making an income, pay for itself, and also me throwing in some money out of pocket. This will allow for new and much better features then I can program myself.

I currently have Monday and Tuesdays off, so I take that time to do the updates on my sites. This Monday and Tuesday I will be solely working on Gangs of War. I might take the time and add a couple games to Abandoned PC Games if I get bored of working on my game. It keeps me from getting zoned out in code and lets my eyes get a rest from reading it all. Posting on APCG is easier then working with code on GoW.

LG 900G/GW300 Tips and Tricks

2011-05-03T11:10:00.005-04:00

I recently purchased LG's 900g. I got an amazing deal on it at Wal-mart for $29.99. Upon searching around the internet for information on this phone, I found that it was hard to obtain this information. Most sites didn't offer answers to my questions. There was a forum where they listed all the technical information, with users asking questions. Some of them were answered but not some of the important ones.

For starters let me say that this phone is NOT a smartphone even though it has the ability to multitask and LG says it is. The first thing you will want to know about this phone is. Most applications are not signed, therefore every time you application accesses the internet it will warn you that it is an untrusted application and if you want to continue or not. This came as a big burden to me, as most apps are not signed. Making it nearly impossible to use the application.

The default web browser is crappy. It will not load most web pages because of a memory limit. The first thing you should do is go get Opera Mini. It is a better web browser and will load most pages even with the memory limits of the default browser. No you can not change your default browser. This phone is pretty well locked down.

I noticed someone asking how to delete more then one message at a time. This is how you do this. Menu > Messages > Inbox/Outbox/Drafts/Sent Items > Options > Mark/Unmark > Delete . If you want to delete all of them, just select Mark All > Delete.

The LG 900G is capable of MP3 playback, yet you cannot use the MP3 on your MiroSD card as a ringtone. The file size will say it is to large. The work around for this is simple. Go to Myxer, sign up for a free account and find the ringtone you want for free. It will send it to your phone and you can then set it as the ringtone.

If you have a MicroSD slot on your pc there is no need to buy a cord to connect it to your pc to transfer files. Even if you do not, you should have a usb slot and can buy an MicroSD to SD adapter along with a SD to USB adapter for cheaper then you can find a cord for.

That is all for now. I just got the phone so if I find any more helpful insight I will surely write another article about it!

Motivation to Improve

2011-04-22T02:09:00.000-04:00

When launching 2 websites at the same time. It really helps to motivate you to keep on doing what you are doing. Just seeing 3 members sign up for your website and talking some with them can inspire you to great heights. It makes you feel like you have something worth their time. Which might not mean a lot to some people, but to a web designer it means a lot.

Targeting your audience is a hard thing to do sometimes. Especially if you don't know where to market that niche at. As with my other site. I think I will just keep posting and letting search engines do its own thing. Maybe I will use my Google webmaster tools and help it out some. Seeing if I cant get better indexing in the next week or so.

Indexing into Google is easier with Gangs of War. As a game I already know where to market that site.The key is topsites! I have been doing it on and off for some time now. I am hoping this one kicks off to a better start then the previous two. Though they did not make it. I still have hope that I can make one of them work well for me.

Abandoned PC Games will be a free service site. No charging, though I think after some time I might have to add in advertisements. Depending on how many daily hits it starts to receive over the next month. Hopefully to help with hosting costs. As long as it takes off that is. If it doesn't do well in the first 3 months, I may just have to take it down.

X10 From Free Hosting to Premium Hosting

2011-04-21T13:33:00.000-04:00

I have been using X10 free hosting services for roughly around 3 years. I use it for all kinds of reasons, but mostly for testing purposes. Since it is not a full featured web host, because it is a free service. Certain things may not be possible to do on the free services. For layouts or just seeing if you code works correctly. Seeing how an image looks on the web or any testing purposes that I need, have been fulfilled because of this great free hosting!

I recently needed to run one minute crons for a project I was launching, yet the free service didn't allow for one minute crons. I searched the web in search for a host that will let me do a cron this fast. I couldn't find one anywhere that would fit in my budget and still had one minute crons. I got bored and looked around X10's forum and found out they offer one minute crons to my surprise. So I caved in and bought the premium hosting. I'm a broke guy with some Paypal money laying around in my account. So paying anything higher then one month was out of the question although I was not will to spend over $8.00 for that one month also.

They offered a month to month plan, which is great for people with not so much money on start up. I ended up paying $6.95 for a month. Which left me 1 dollar left in my budget! I could have gotten a Dedicated IP Address with the extra dollar. Who knows, maybe next month?

The features that I get with this very cost effective web hosting are great. I can host an unlimited amount of domains and have all the emails I need for them. This will allow me to run multiple sites with just one simple login. So far I have had very little almost next to no problems at all with this hosting so far! I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a cheap month to month host.

14 Games Added to AbandonedPCGames.tk

2011-04-21T11:37:00.000-04:00

Abandoned PC Games or APCG is what I have been calling it to myself. Has posted 14 games on their forums. They are also looking for some volunteers to help them write reviews for the games. It is a new forum, so any help would be appreciated. If you can volunteer you time to help post games it would be very welcomed.

As I said before I think a forum is a good way to do this type of site. It is working well so far, so no need to change it right now. If things start better, as in getting more and more hits. I might change the site over to a CMS which is more along the lines of what the site is. This would allow better presentation of the games and reviews.

Better Blog Over the Years

2011-04-20T00:00:00.000-04:00

As I look back on my blog I noticed a few things that have changed since I started back in 2009. I noticed how things slowly got better, but never really took off. Which is fine for me. This isn't one of those micro niche blogs where you find great info or anything. This is just an all around blog of my life. Along with some tricks and tips along the way. Who knows, I might start adding tips. On to the things that have changed.

Quality : The quality of my content has been better. I have been putting more stuff out this year then I did in 2009, while only pumping out 21 articles that year. 2010 I was AWOL. I was nowhere to be found writing that year. I had a bad year. Tons of things happened to me that left me with no word for paper. 2011 Has already been a hit, pumping out 27 articles already, with tons of time to go. I have also pumped out 18 articles for Assoctiated Content/!YCN. Those are my more strict articles. They require more because I actually get paid for them.

Labels : When you first start a blog you have no labels at all, unless you pre-load some or add a bunch in. Over time you start to add in more and more, soon you have a whole bunch that you use a lot of the times because you talk about that topic often. Although this happens in the reversal because there are topics that you do not work with often.

Layout : After working with the blogger controls for a few years you get more talented with what you can do with it. Knowledge of HTML/CSS doesn't hurt ether. I started off with the bad theme. Now it all matches and looks pretty clean.

Last but not least - Actually one of my biggest improvements is : Widgets. They have helped the site pull together by making it being able to be sociable, have stats, connect my twitter account, and much more.

New Project - Abandoned PC Games

2011-04-19T23:31:00.002-04:00

I will be starting a forum. This forum will be for abandoned DOS and PC games. Basically Abandonware. Which is not technically legal, but not illegal ether. I will be basing my game choices from a trusted site that I get the from now. Which seems to be getting mega amounts of traffic. I want in on that action as well.

The only way I will keep the forum alive is if it starts getting traffic. That means I want the site to maybe make $3.00 USD a month for hosting costs, with in the next 3 months. I want to break into the top 10 million on Alexa with this website. The domain name is a top level .tk for now. I will try to get a .com for it as soon as I have the income. The name of the website is Abandoned PC Games. You can visit it by clicking the link. Fresh phpBB install, as you can see.

I think that a forum was easiest to go with. I have some experience with them now. Plus it is in the language I am best with at the moment. PHP. Soon I will link the site from here in my link section, but right now I want to get a theme going and all the threads started. Wish me luck!

Launch of Gangs of War

2011-04-19T23:07:00.000-04:00

I launched my new MMORPG/MMO on the 15 this month. I started a contest and the winner will receive $10.00 USD via Paypal. Go check out Gangs of War. Now and join! New users will receive a donation pack 1. Hurry while time lasts. Offer runs out at the end of this month.

Lexington Kentucky - Spring Is Finally Here

2011-04-07T13:05:00.000-04:00

Spring finally seems like it is here...Finally. With !Yahoo reporting the current weather as 65F. The wind doesn't seem as strong as it has been the past few days. The sun is out and shining, that is a plus sign. Not a ton of clouds at the moment. Spring sure seems like it is off to a late start. Does this mean winter will come later this year or will it come early? With all the things going on to the Earth. Natural and human disasters, along with global warming and overpopulation, no wonder "Mother Earth" doesn't know how to act.

Today would be a good day to do some of that spring cleaning. Open the windows and air your house out! Turn off your heating and air conditioners and enjoy the nice breeze! Don't feel like cleaning? Don't worry I am not forcing you, but how about you at least go outside and do something today? Take the kids out to the park or maybe just go for a walk/jog. We had a rough winter with tons of snowy days. So it is time to make up for it.

Hope everyone is enjoying this nice weather as much as I am.

Everyday Public Relations vs Social Networking

2011-04-06T10:21:00.001-04:00

Most people are not concerned with PR, their status in life does not require them to have a huge interest in public relations. Then along came social networking, where you put you image and life on the internet. Your friends can check on your status, see photos of your kids, or even remember old college pictures. This can discrediting to some depending on the nature.

Depending on who you allow to see you info, along with being able to have a private profile. Social networking sites have tried to keep up with the trends over the years. Although they have thwarted many attempts of phishing for info, it still goes on today.

A teacher could get fired for an old college picture with to much of her breast showing or drinking perhaps. Just because she had a picture on her profile on a social networking site from her college days. You have to be careful of the media you allow yourself to put on the internet. If not it could land you in a rough position one day.

I myself had tons of photos that are not the most professional. Yet it defines who I am. It is a moment captured in my life, regardless of the act at hand. Unless it is of a violent or criminal act. I would consider porn because in some instances it could have a positive affect on the outcome.

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2011-04-05T13:37:00.001-04:00

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