Todays nerdgasm is the ever fun, ever cheap Woot.com. “Woot!” (yes, the name has an exclamation point – i know… they’re insane) has is the purveyor of absolutely rediculous deals. There have been $16 one GB name brand MP3 players. I bought a 250 GB hard drive for $50 in 2006 (that’s half price what you’ll get it for now, and it’s almost 2008 folks)! Companion sites sellout.woot and wine.woot also have amazing deals.
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Nerdgasm #3: Woot.com
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Nerdgasm #2: World of Warcraft tools
Sunday, September 9th, 2007I’ve been playing way, way too much World of Warcraft lately – so this weeks Nerdgasm is a well thought out and put together site I have logged quite a few hours on lately. Allakhazam.com’s world of warcraft tools are totally free, and when combined with a map mod eliminate the time you spend completing quests to the absolute minimum. Every quest in the game is searchable by name, and most quests have helpful comments as well as location coordinates (called “loc’s”) in the game listed. I recommend that anyone who hates searching entire zones to figure out how to do quests use Allakhazam.com’s world of warcraft tools and the MetaMap plugin.
Both tools are completely free to use. I’ve recently used these two tools to complete every single quest in Hellfire Peninsula and Zangarmarsh, each in only a few hours of play time and had an absolute blast doing it.
Nerdgasm #1: VAST PS2 Mod chip
Monday, August 20th, 2007This is the first in the “Nerdgasm” series. This is a series about things that make my life easier as a developer, hacker, or nerd.
This week, i’m posting about the new VAST PS2 mod chip/memory card. One of my favorite sites, MAXCONSOLE, just attained and released details on it…
Create the next Youtube clone
Monday, August 20th, 2007Howtoforge.com posted a great article yesterday on creating a Youtube-like streaming video site using Debian linux running lighttpd as the web server and FlowPlayer to play the flash-encoded videos…
Finally – updates to iswapyou.com!!
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I completed a lot of updates that were in the works on iswapyou.com today. The site search was updated to make it easier to use – instead of having multiple options on it, it now searches and gives results for everything. I changed it on the advice of a few usability experts.
Googlejacking, two years later
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007I submitted a story to 2600 magazine in the summer of 2005 about a shady technique for getting pageviews called “Googlejacking”. The story was accepted, and I received a few issues of the mag, a shirt, and a bit of internet fame in the coming months.
For those of you who don’t have an IV needle in to the internet like I do, googlejacking is a technique using either a HTML 302 redirect or a META REFRESH to redirect from one page to another. When you performed the redirect from your site to a target site, YOUR REDIRECT LINK (for example, “http://www.iswapyou.com/redirect.php?www.cnn.com”) would be published by google, msn live search, Ask Jeeve’s, or any other search engines spiders instead of the destination link. If you find out that this is happening you can then steal all of the search engine traffic from your redirections destination (!), as described in the article.
Cracking YouTube, part 3
Monday, June 11th, 2007Response to my previous two posts about Cracking YouTube has been amazing . Thanks to everyone in the community for the amazingly intelligent discussion that this has spawned, and for all of the high quality responses/comments to the original posts! Keep it up guys, it helps me tremendously and allows me to write more interesting articles like this.
No one has contacted me yet indicating that the technique in part 2 should NOT work by pointing out a hole in the logic. This makes sense, because…
Cracking YouTube, part 2
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007YouTube closed the browser refresh hack… mostly, but not quite. If you take the code i posted before and add the SwitchProxy firefox plugin to switch your IP, you can still rack up a ton of views. SwitchProxy has a setting to automatically switch the proxy you are using – you can…
Integrating phpBB in to a community site – part 1
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007PhpBB is definitely one of my favorite open source projects ever. Because its open sourced with the GPL, a huge modding community has emerged full of people molding the forum software in to what they want it to be. Its pretty common for people to add on their own stuff, like spam filters or ways to post YouTube videos…
Blogging, Podcasting and Invisible Communities
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Ryan, a friend of mine and co-designer of iswapyou, has a new podcast called Ichiraku Ramen. It’s a Naruto podcast, and a total nerdgasm of one at that…
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