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Skateboard Shopping Carts

Vincent — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:52:42 +0000

Fast Lane – The Shopping Carts is a Volkswagen commercial for the new Polo GT. Besides the fun and fast factor, using these trolleys will probably reduce the time spent on checking out and purchasing stuff you don’t need. Just love the faces of the surprised shoppers.

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Algadon Medieval / Fantasy Online Game

Vincent — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:06:02 +0000

Algadon is a web based RPG game, setting in the medieval land of Algadon. Though just being a text based game, its feature list is not any less than other full fledged MMORPG game. There are 15 races to choose from when you get started–namely dragon, orc, elf, dwarf, mage, mystic warrior, elemental forest princess, archer, sorcerer, sorceress, assassin, barbarian, realm defender, knight, and merchant.

For premium members, there are some additional character classes, i.e. mage, mystic warrior and warrior angel. After registering an account and selecting your character class, you can start exploring the game by exploring the land, perform quests, battle monsters and other ferocious beasts, fight other players, place a bounty on another player, and attempt elite missions.

As you gain enough gold in the game, you can upgrade your gears by purchasing weapons, armors, food and potions (food recovers health points while potion recovers energy).

To improve game play and expedite training, players can opt to join a clan. As you goes higher level in the game, more quests, weapons, armors and other items will be made available to you.

Algadon is also available on both iPhone and Android. Just download the app and you will be able to carry on your journey wherever you physically are.

A totally different version of Algadon is available on MySpace (here), with entirely different goals and challenges.

Pluzit: Bookmark & Sharing Service

Vincent — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:55:53 +0000

Pluzit, which was founded in 2009, is relatively new in the “Bookmark and Share” arena. It provides free bookmark buttons to webmasters and bloggers for their visitors to easily share their web content on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, bookmarking sites like Delicious and also sharing it via other direct means like the good old email.

The good about it is it provides a choice of about 260 different destination for your visitors to engage with your content, ranging from widely used ones to those almost unheard of. This way you can be pretty sure that your visitor’s favorite bookmarking and sharing sites are all covered.

The look and feel of the buttons are painfully similar to those of its rival, AddThis, which came several years earlier. It doesn’t have to be though. Pluzit allows you to customize your button extensively, making it possible to match its look and feel to that of your website or blog.

Whenever someone uses the button, Pluzit will take note of it and reflect it in the statistics provided for free for registered users. This way you can easily have an idea how well your content are being circulated around the web, and most importantly, knows what your readers love.

Adding a Pluzit button on your website or blog is a no-brainer. The only annoying thing is you must register yourself an account before you can have the code. After you’ve got the code, the next thing to do is as easy as copy and paste.

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To those who do not have a blog or a website, but is active on bookmarking and sharing website, you can consider using Pluzit’s browser plugin, which is available for both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. After installing, you can use the Pluzit button which will sit on your browser on any website, whether or not the webmaster installed Pluzit’s code on the website.

This is a sponsored review.

InkWarehouse.co.uk Review

Vincent — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:32:25 +0000

This is a sponsored review. The following article is written based on the information available on the sponsor’s website. I have no tried the service myself.

InkWarehouse.co.uk is an online store based in the United Kingdom, selling compatible ink cartridges for major printer brands.

On the newly designed homepage, locating your printer’s ink cartridge is made easy. Simply click on your printer’s brand, then locate your printer’s model and all compatible cartridges will be listed, along with the price.

Among the available products are:

Brother Ink, Canon Ink, Dell Ink, Epson Ink, HP Ink, Kodak Ink, Lexmark Ink, Samsung Ink, Brother Toner, Canon Toner, HP Toner, Samsung Toner, Photo Paper

Depending on the number of cartridge you are ordering, the price differs. Obviously, the more you buy, the cheaper it gets. The black HP Ink Cartridge is selling for £13.95 if you’re purchasing just one, or £12.95 each if you’re purchasing two, and £12.50 if you purchase more than 5.

VAT is included in all prices. If you are staying in United Kingdom, the price you see is the price you will be paying, with no extra cost, since they are offering free UK delivery. For international buyers, international postage starts from £1.50 and the delivery takes 3 to 5 days depending on the country.

Order before 4.00PM Monday to Friday and expect same day delivery for in stock items. This means that your goods will reach you 24 to 48 hours after you place your order.

All of the products are covered by the 30 days ‘No Quibble’ Guarantee. Use the coupon code “inkwarehouse” for 10% discount.

It’s almost no brainer why compatible ink cartridge sellers are mushrooming these days. I myself have never buy any original ink cartridge from my printer’s manufacturer. They are so expensive you can get a new printer (which are dirt cheap these days) at the same price everytime your printer runs out of ink. Reminds me of this comic strip.

20GB in 1980 VS 32GB in 2010

Vincent — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:05:43 +0000

A 20GB (eight 2.5GB) storage in year 1980 is 648000% to 758400% more expensive and 440000000% more heavy than a 32GB storage in year 2010. Fast forward 30 years and I suppose the comparison would instead be 20TB in 2010 vs 32TB in 2040?

Past and Present

Vincent — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:12:08 +0000

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Don’t Touch Me, Don’t Touch Me

Vincent — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:17:39 +0000

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Google Empire Overview

Vincent — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:29:48 +0000

An overview of the entire Google empire. Just how much Google products are powering your life, your work, your entertainment, your business, your communication, your internet, your everything.

Here’s the list of Google products that I actively use:

What’s yours?

United Airlines A Victim of Twitter Phishing Attack

Vincent — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:41:32 +0000

Seems like even United Airlines has fallen pray to the recent “This you????” phishing attack going on Twitter. United Airlines should really get someone with higher awareness to handle their Twitter account.

Hey, i’ve been having sex and longer with this here ~link~

Detecting a phishing website is as easy as having a look at the domain name of the website, there is no reason to fall prey unless the employee is really incompetent.

As we talk, United Airlines had remove the malicious tweet and posted a clarification. They are sure embarrassed being associated to male enhancement pills.

We’re sure you know that tweet wasn’t ours. Our Twitter account was hacked. Problem resolved. Sorry about that.

Learn more about the phishing attack here. (via)

Fail Videos 2010 Compilation

Vincent — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:06:57 +0000

The video uploader titled this as “Best Fails of 2010″. Some of the videos are old, but definitely worth lol-ing.