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Best Free Webmaster Tools & Wordpress Resources

// February 22nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Geeks, Headline, I recommend, SEO, Social Network, The Best of.., Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, google, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Webmaster Tools

• Websiteoutlook.com - is the perfect place to evaluate any website. When choosing to buy or sell a website having the proper information about your investment can be crucial to your success. Websiteoutlook is dedicated to finding all pertinent information that may pertain to your personal interest. And it’s FREE!
• Google Webmaster Tools - Probably one of the best free tool sites for webmaster. It is Google after all. Free website analytics and tutorials.
• scrubtheweb.com – ScrubTheWeb.com™ has been helping Website owners and search engine optimization services worldwide achieve top search engine rankings since 1996! Offers FREE tools such as Meta Tag Builder, Meta Tag Analyzer, Easy Submit and SEO tips and tutorials.
• Page Rank Tool - Find out how your site ranks.
• iwebtool.com – Free webmaster services including SEO, Search Engines, Domain Checkups, HTML and Other many useful tools.
• Keyword Generator – Need keywords for your meta tags? Use this free tool and also try the keyword Suggestion Tool.
• Copyright Generator – free online tool will generate a copyright notice that will automatically update when the year changes! No more having to change the date manually.
• Viewstep.com - offer thousands of webmaster resources and webmaster tools for webmasters and developers. Resources include articles, seo tools, design tools, domain tools and other webmaster resources and many more to improve your web site.
•  Bandwidth Speed Test – tests your Internet connection speed.
• Search Engine Position Tool - will check your site’s position on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AltaVista. Just enter the search terms you would like to use, and the URL of the site you wish to check, and click “Submit.”

Articles and Resources on Search Engine Optimization – better understand the complex world of SEO and its often obscure corners.

Free WordPress Themes

• Wpdesigner – Has a nice collection of free WordPress themes, mostly designed by Small Potato himself. Occasionally he also announces quality WordPress themes designed by others.
• WpSnap – Quality over quantity. Unlike a lot of other free WordPress theme showcases out there, Wpsnap has only features high-quality handpicked themes.
• Design Disease – Not a huge selection, but what they have is high quality.
• Free WP Themes – This site has all of the templates from freecsstemplates.org ported into WordPress.
• WordPress.net – Can’t forget the official WordPress theme viewer.
• Brian Gardner – A nice collection of very popular free WordPress themes. Also the designer of the popular Revolution Theme.
• ThemeShaper – Home of the popular Thematic and Launchpad WordPress themes
• plaintxt.org – If you’re into minimalistic design, this is the place to get WordPress themes.
• WP Theme Designer – Some very nice magazine-style WordPress themes, designed by ChiQ Montes.

WordPress Galleries

• We Love WP – A showcase of the best designed WordPress sites. This stuff really shows all the amazing possibilities one can accomplish with WordPress.
• LoopPress – Another WordPress gallery. Maybe I’m a little biased, but they must have good taste.
• Gallerific – Yet another web design gallery, with a category for WordPress powered sites.

Other WordPress Sites

• How To Spot-Er – Has an amazing collection of WordPress guides and tutorials
• JaypeeOnline – This isn’t specifically a WordPress-related blog, but it does feature lots of blogging news, WordPress theme reviews, and a lot of other useful information.
• Weblog Tools Collection – One of the top WordPress-related blogs around. They announce any new noteworthy theme or plugin releases for WordPress, along with any other news regarding WordPress.
• WP Themes Gallery – A great WordPress-related blog and home of the famous “Top 40″ WordPress blog list.
• WordPress Modder – A useful resource with articles and videos on modding your WordPress blogs.
• Hack WordPress – Lots of great tips on modifying your WordPress blogs along with other news about the latest WordPress themes and plugins.
• WPThemesPlugin – Another great WordPress resource site featuring the latest themes, plugins, and WordPress news.
• WPZOOM – A new WordPress blog featuring themes, plugins, tips, and more.
• WP Candy – Another WordPress-related site, highlighting some of the best themes, plugins, and WordPress-powered sites.
• WP Project – A site offering free WordPress tutorials and tips, along with other WordPress articles and news.

One Bored Gamer Girl – Star Wars 2008

// August 20th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, I recommend, Ibdreamy, Ipod, PS3, Pictures, Videos, Xbox

I’m so bored with the video game selection that’s out right now. I’ve either played it or I don’t want to play it. My all time favorite games are Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Silent Hill , Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, MassEffect (wallpaper), Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion…etc.

Basically think of any good fantasy-based, role-playing adventure game and I’ve played it. Has anyone played Dark Sector yet? I’m just curious if it’s any good..I haven’t heard much about it yet but it’s one of the last games at Blockbuster for PS3 that I haven’t rented yet..they have a crappy selection but their actually getting a tad better lately. Lame thing is they got rid of all their older games so if I wanted to rent Silent Hill 2 or SSX Tricky..I couldn’t..Blockbuster won’t carry older games anymore.
Anyway, there are a few games that are coming out soon that I’m excited about..

Upcoming Games

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Publisher: LucasArts Developer: Krome Studios Release: Sept. 16, 2008 Genre: Action Platform: PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP, iPod, iPhone Graphics: HQ Wallpaper Trailers @ Gametrailers.com Photo Gallery

Silent Hill: Homecoming Publisher: Konami Developer: The Collective Release: Sept. 30, 2008 Genre: Adventure Platform: PS3, Xbox 360, PC Trailers @ Gametrailers.com (more videos) Graphics: Screenshots Photo Gallery

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Published by: Square Enix Developed by: Square Enix Release Date: Dec. 31, 2009 Genre: Action RPG Platform: PS3 Trailer: Trailer – gametrailers.com Graphics: HQ screenshots page (beautiful) Final Fantasy Versus XIII Screenshots Final Fantasy VII PS3 techdemo

More – Trailers Fable 2 Trailer BioShock 2 HQ Images

Silent Hill: Homecoming marks the sixth story in the Silent Hill mythos, and introduces a new protagonist to the mysterious town.The story follows Alex Shepherd, returning to his hometown of Shepherd’s Glen to investigate the sudden disappearance of his brother and the strange occurrences taking place around town. Shepherd unravels a tale that takes him from his boyhood home to the fog-shrouded streets of Silent Hill, facing the darkest horrors of his soul to find his missing brother.

OMG! Creepy as hell! The sound effects in Silent Hill have always creeped me out big time. I can’t play in the dark. Download Trailer to your iPod

Ping Services List

// May 24th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress, web tools, webmaster

Technorati Tags: ping services,blogging tools,WordPress,WordPress Tools,traffic,SEO tools,SEO,bloggers,helpful tools,web tools

This post is mainly for my Wordpress site but I know some of my LJ friends have WordPress blogs and some who also use programs that allow them to add pinging services to Live Journal..like Windows Live Writer which I just started using myself.

What is blog pinging service?
The Blog Pinging services inform blog directories and search engines online whenever your blog has been updated and this helps more people discover your blog and increases your traffic.
Below I’ve listed some pinging services that you can add to your Blog.

How to add a list of ping services to your blog?

go to your wordpress dashboard >> click on the Settings Tab >> Go to writing sub tab >> scroll down the page and you will find “Update Services” section at the bottom of the page >> paste urls into the box >> click save

If you use Windows Live Writer:  Go to Tools >>Options >>Ping Services>>click OK

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

What is a Diva Geek?

// May 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Geeks

Lazy Saturday Poll: Am I a Geek or Not?

Asking myself that same question is basically how I came up with the domain name for this blog “DivaGeek“.

What is a diva geek anyway you might ask yourself..well let me explain..When your a girl it can be a little hard to be 100% geek 100% of the time because being a girl drives us to do girly things that true geeks wouldn’t get caught dead doing like going purse shopping, wearing pink lip gloss and if your a true Diva going to brunch and doing pilates.

I personally don’t do pilates or go to brunch but that’s just because I’m lazy and I eat breakfast… I do however LOVE pink lipgloss.

What I’m getting at is when your a girl in technology sometimes you just can’t fit into the mold of geek..we can’t help it if we’re a little diva and a little geek. I like to say I’m 25% diva and 75% geek or visa versa depending on my mood.

Button Maker Banners – Geeky Link Banners I made at Blog Flux

// May 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Design, For Geeks, Funny, Geeks, Graphics, Update, Useful, web tools, webdesign

I made all of these using the Button Maker at Blog Flux

Feel free to take one of mine or make your own. These are already hosted and yes, you can direct link them. Let me know which ones you use..just curious which ones you guys liked or found useful. Visit my Live Journal – Ibdreamy

My Favorite Geek Sites

// April 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, DNS, Design, Email, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Useful, web tools, webdesign

Here is a short list of my favorite geek themed websites that I use and recommend.

• Open Source Living
  http://osliving.com/
  Open Source Living is a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS) spanning all major platforms, inclusive of small to large scale projects. It aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to corporate, closed source software.
• OpenOffice.org
  http://www.openoffice.org/
  OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. FREE!! easy to learn, and if you’re already using another office software package, you’ll take to OpenOffice.org 2 straight away.
• TechRepublic
  http://techrepublic.com.com/
  A Resource for IT Professionals TechRepublic provides real world advice on how to make technology work in business. Through a combination of articles, forums, and multimedia
• mail2web.com
  http://mail2web.com/
  Pick Up Your Email From any computer, anywhere in the world. No need to register! Free!

More after the jump

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Errors Installing Windows Service Pack 1? Problems with Vista’s Event Log Viewer? A FIX!

// April 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Errors, For Geeks, Freeware, Microsoft, Useful, Windows

I run Vista on my computer at home and about 3 months after I bought it some of the Windows services stopped working out of the blue namely the Windows Event Log Viewer. Not having it hasn’t really caused me problems yet and I assumed the only way to fix it was to reinstall Vista..

So..I just ignored it.

Until a couple days ago when I was prompted to install the new Windows Service Pack 1 the installation failed and it returned Error Code 800706B5 on SP1.

So, I was forced to figure out how to fix the issue and I found a work around that worked like a charm. I finally got the Event Log Viewer running and I successfully installed the service pack.

I think what happens when you try to install the update is it trys to write to the system event file, finds that it’s non-operational, and then quits. That’s just a guess, though.

According to the forums it was discovered that the the issue has to do with permissions that have been configured incorrectly at some point. The evil lies within this folder… C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup and so you if you either delete it or rename the folder and reboot it will automatically re-create the folder and your issue will be fixed.  First I tried to rename the RtBackup folder but all I got was permission denied errors so I downloaded a client called Unlocker which worked. Some claime you can rename the folder in Safe Mode with UAC off. I already had UAC disabled; I just used the Unlocker application and I didn’t even try it in Safe Mode.

I’m such the tech rebel.. I know..

Download link: Unlocker

More detailed instructions on how to do it after the cut…..>

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Blogging..my rock star life..

// April 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Alice in Chains, Celebrity, Demri Parrot, Ibdreamy, Layne Staley, Music, Personal Pictures, Personal Posts, Pictures, Rest in Peace, Update, friends

I hardly blog anymore …for a long time I blogged about everything I did, saw, heard and felt..but lately I feel like I don’t have anything remotely interesting to say. Wow that sucks.

My life is pretty boring now. I go to work, I come home and I take care of my family. We do things together of course but nothing that people would want to read about. I’m sure my trip to the park or whatever is not something the general public could give two cents about. I know this because I don’t want to read other peoples posts about their boring ass crap either.

Lately I just post stuff that I’ve found online that I think is cool, funny or that I think might be useful to people.

I don’t have a rock star lifestyle but I’m no Auntie M either..I’ve had my fair share of the rock star lifestyle. In the early 90’s I was living in Seattle and I dated one of the guys in Alice in Chains, Mike Starr.

I spent most of my 20’s hanging around people in the music industry and/or people trying to get into the music industry. I’m the farthest thing from a groupie so don’t even go there. I just happen to live in Seattle at the time it was popping off like crazy and I happen to meet some of the people who were in the middle of it all. I was close friends with Layne Staley and his girlfriend Demri for years.

Demri passed away at 27 when her abusive lifestyle.. god she was so beautiful and talented…and I cried again 6 years later when Layne passed away from his broken heart and spirit.

My life is completely different now that I’ve had my kids and all that I have left from my rock star lifestyle is a Platinum album that’s framed and hanging on my wall. It was presented to me by Alice in Chains and has my name on it which is pretty bad ass. It’s one of my prized possessions and a nice reminder of the good times.

My son is turning 11 this month so it’s been years since I was hanging out backstage except for maybe backstage at my kids Winter Recital. My life has gone in such radically different directions since then.

I have 3 beautiful kids and an awesome man and we’re both concentrated on our careers and trying to make it or at least not be broke. We want more from life then we have now and we know the only way to get there is to work hard.

I recently started a new job doing tech support for an email hosting company and I really like it so far it’s a great young company that seems to have their game going on. I just moved over there after working a year at a well known web-hosting company doing tech support for them. It was great learning experience, I learned more in a year then I ever thought possible.

So..for now I’m just working hard trying to buy that dream house. I don’t regret giving up my rockstar lifestyle for the Mommy track. Memories are still good.

Demri Lara Parrot

Layne Staley

Mike Starr

Microsoft Threatens Hostile Takeover if Yahoo Does Not Agree to Buyout in Three Weeks

// April 10th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Geeks, Microsoft, News

Microsoft CEO gives Yahoo board deadline for deal
April 5, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. has set a three-week deadline for Yahoo Inc to accept its current $31 a share cash and stock offer or Microsoft will take its case to Yahoo shareholders, Microsoft said on Saturday.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a letter dated April 5 and addressed to Yahoo’s board of directors that “now is the time” to negotiate final terms of a deal, one which would mark the biggest takeover yet in the high-tech industry.

“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors,” Ballmer writes.

If the Yahoo board does not agree to the bid Microsoft has threatened to launch a hostile bid, creating an “undesirable impact on the value of your company”. Microsoft may also attempt to get its own candidates onto the Yahoo board at the AGM.

“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors…” said the letter.

Sources: ap.google.com
Eric Auchard in San Francisco and Daisuke Wakabayashi in Seattle

News Corp. May Join Yahoo Bid With Microsoft

News Corp. is in talks with Microsoft over a joint bid for Yahoo. Meanwhile, Yahoo and AOL are in advanced talks about combining their Web operations, a deal that could thwart Microsoft’s effort. Yahoo also said it will carry ads from Google, which could lead to a broader partnership. Resource: nytimes.com – 8 hrs ago – Full story

April 9, 2008 4:57 pm
Yahoo to test Google search ads
Yahoo will test displaying Google search ads in a small number of its search engine queries, a move likely to be interpreted as the latest in a series of Yahoo maneuvers to resist Microsoft’s acquisition attempt.

Hacker Super Bowl – PWN 2 OWN – Mac goes down in two minutes

// April 10th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Abuse, Apple, For Geeks, Geeks, Microsoft, News, Videos, WTF, Windows

Most Mac users today live in a fantasy land. Mac’s can’t get Hacked? DOH! Read on my Mac friends…you’ve been pwned!

It’s the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first?
That’s what organizers of the CanSecWest security conference hope to discover this week as they give show attendees a shot at hacking into the three laptops they’ve put on display here in Vancouver.
The catch? They have to use a brand-new “zero day” attack that nobody has seen before. The prize is $20,000, plus you get to keep the laptop.
Show organizers are calling the contest PWN 2 OWN. It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.

He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.

Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810 and the MacBook as prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system, using a previously undisclosed “0day” attack.

Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants were only allowed to attack the computers over the network, but on Thursday the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organizers using the computers to do things like visit Web sites or open e-mail messages.

The MacBook was the only system to be hacked by Thursday, however, the word on the show floor is that the Linux and Vista systems will meet with some serious challenges on Friday.

Miller, a former National Security Agency employee best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple’s iPhone last year, didn’t take much time. Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest’s organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on.

• Read the rest…

• Also read: Hacker Super Bowl pits Mac OS vs. Linux, Vista

• MacBook Air hacked in security contest

Vista Falls on the Last Day

The Vista laptop fell on the last day of the conference.

Since it was the third day of the contest, which saw a MacBook Air get hacked on Thursday, the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative relaxed the rules even further. On the first day of the contest, only the operating system could be targeted, but on the second day that was expanded to include standard applications. An undisclosed Safari flaw led to the MacBook Air’s downfall.
But on Friday, hackers could target any “popular” piece of application software that you might find on a system. The Fujitsu laptop, running Vista Ultimate, was compromised by a previously undiscovered flaw in Adobe’s Flash software.

More….

Read: Adobe already knew of Flash flaw that allowed Vista attack By Emil Protalinski | Published: April 05, 2008

Catch-All Email Addresses and Email Spoofing

// March 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // Abuse, DNS, Domain Names, Email, For Geeks, Hosting, Useful, Web Hosting, web tools

Email spoofing may occur in different forms, but all have a similar result: a user receives email that appears to have originated from one source when it actually was sent from another source. Email spoofing is often an attempt to trick the user into making a damaging statement or releasing sensitive information (such as passwords).

Examples of spoofed email that could affect the security of your site include:

• email claiming to be from a system administrator requesting users to change their passwords to a specified string and threatening to suspend their account if they do not do this
• email claiming to be from a person in authority requesting users to send them a copy of a password file or other sensitive information

Using a Catch-All Email Address and Spoofing
One thing I recommend is that you do not use a catch-all email address for your domain name. Creating a catch-all email address, means anything@yourdomain.com will be forwarded to you; it doesn’t have to be an actual email address it just has to be sent to @yourdomain.com and any email that cannot find a valid recipient and would therefore bounce under normal circumstance gets successfully delivered without returning an error message to the original sender which sounds great but it also gives spammers a wide open door to attack you and use your domain name to send spam.
If you want to use a catch all email address then you should add a SPF record to your DNS that identifies the mail servers that are allowed to send email representing your domain name. Any receiving server that supports SPF/SenderID will check for the SPF record and reject the e-mail that didn’t come from a permitted mail server.
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record will certainly help the spoofing situation (you can read more about how this works here but keep in mind this is not completely foolproof yet because it also requires the receiving organization supports SPF or SenderID and unfortunately SPF is still not supported by everyone.

If you don’t directly manage your DNS record (most don’t) or you don’t know what any of this means, the quickest way to a solution is to call the tech support department of your Internet Service Provider or email hosting provider. Tell them about the problem you’re having, that you think it might have something to do with SPF, and let them help you.

Forms of Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting – registering a domain name using a trademarked name or company name that is not yours with the goal to make money off the company name, personal name or trademark. Sad thing is not all companies or people have a trademark so a cybersquatter can easily register a domain name using their name and then force them to buy it from them in order to use it. There are laws to protect people from cybersquatter but it is a very expensive to fight. (see more info on Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy )

Typosquatting - registering a domain name that is a close to the spelling of or a common misspelling of a trademarked brand name or a well known name. For example: Gooogle.com

Domain tasting is when someone registers domain name(s) and then keeps only the ones that have economic value. If they find that the domain name does not make them money then they have the domain name refunded using the five day “grace period”. Domain tasting should not be confused with domain kiting.

Domain kiting is the process of deleting a domain name during the five-day grace period and then immediately re-registering it for another five-day period. This process is repeated any number of times with the end result of having the domain registered without ever actually paying for it.

Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as user names, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy website. eBay, PayPal and online banks are common targets. You’ll usually find phishing links sent out in an email or an instant message that will direct users to enter details at a website that “looks” like eBay for example. Always type the domain name you want to visit directly into your address bar. Never click on a link to a site where you plan on entering your personal information unless your 100% sure it’s legit and you can never be 100% sure so just type it in. It’s easy to hide where the link your clicking on is actually going and it’s also very easy to design websites that look and act exactly like your banks site or ebays site. Be safe!

Christina Aguilera and Baby Max

// March 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Kids, Celebrity Pictures, Christina Aguilera, Update

Christina Aguilera and her new Baby Max are so sweet and she looks great..go check out the new images!

Lost Odyssey

// February 14th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, Xbox

• Title: Lost Odyssey™
• Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
• Developer: Mistwalker and feelplus Inc.
• Format: DVD for the Xbox 360™ video game system
• ESRB Rating: Rated “T” for Teen
• Availability: February 12, 2008 (North America)
• Price: $59.99 (U.S.) (ERP)

Lost Odyssey: When the Father of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, started Mistwalker studio with backing from Microsoft, the RPG-starved Xbox masses began to salivate. So far, Mistwalker has given us the disappointing Blue Dragon. But there’s a chance at salvation with the more traditional Lost Odyssey, the game arrived in North America on February 12. Ten hours in and one disc (of four) down, there’s reason to hold out hope for Mistwalker’s latest

Gamer Comments posted on IGN:
So far, so AWESOME!
Underrated – that’s what I think of when I see the scores the big video game websites have given Lost Odyssey so far. From the moment I powered it up, this game screamed EPIC. With beautiful… Full Review

Old-school Mechanics with a Fresh Coat of Paint
Lost Odyssey has been labeled a “Final Fantasy” game since it was first conceived. For better or worse, that’s fairly accurate. Throw in some chocobos and Bahamut and you’d have a Final Fantasy game… Full Review
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My boyfriend bought me Lost Odyssey tonight for Valentines day. I’ve had a deposit on it for a month. I’m so excited to play it because I’ve been waiting for a new RPG and if it is anything like Final Fantasy (my favorite games) then I’ll be one happy gamer girl. I bought the PS3 recently in hopes that they would come out with more RPG’s which is kind of ironic now that Lost Odyssey came out only on Xbox 360. I’m so sick of playing all the first person shooter games that flood the Xbox 360 game list.
*crosses fingers*
Ok, I’m gonna go open it up and pop it in. I hope it’s as good as I think it’s gonna be.

Submit to gametaggr!

Geek and Gamer Tattoo Pictures

// February 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, Pictures

Tattooed Geeks

Submit to gametaggr!

I have a large collection of geek and gamer tattoo pictures that I’ve found online. Mostly at bmeink.com and bmezine.com. I have them all saved in my Fotki Gallery.

I personally only have two small tattoos but my boyfriend has 9 of them and his are not small. Mostly on his legs. His best friend is a professional tattoo artist so he gets his work done for free which doesn’t help because when Roy gets a random idea for a tattoo.. there’s not that normal amount of time to actually think it through and lately it seems like it’s been a weekly thing.. soon I might just have to do an intervention and check him into tattoo addiction treatment.
He also has his ears stretch which I tell him is cool now but when he’s 90 that’s not going too look so hot anymore. *)

I plan on getting another tattoo though and I’ve been thinking about getting either some kind of anime or pinup girl. Not sure yet. I also love stars. I want something simple. Black and white. I really like writing for some reason..I even like the bar code tat but it’s become a little too trendy for me. I’ve been looking around online for ideas and that’s kinda how I ended up with a whole gallery of gamer tats. I can’t believe how popular Mario bro’s is for the geek…yeah I get it… the game is a classic but I think it’s kinda getting played out..check out the gallery..

A few of the pictures from the gallery

Click 4 Geeky Tattoo Gallery…

Free DNS Managment at Zoneedit.com

// February 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // Domain Names, For Geeks, Geeks, Hosting, Useful, Web Hosting, web tools

Do you need a free DNS Management? Try Zoneedit.com I see some people at work who pay up to $50 bucks a year for the same service. So if you need to create DNS records for your website like an MX record or a Cname record that is the place to go.

It’s great for people who are trying to host a website on their computer or if your hosting company doesn’t offer email or if you have your email hosted on your own server.

You can create an MX record pointing to the mail server and an A record pointing to your IP address and then just point your domain name servers to Zoneedit.com.

If you have any questions about setting up your DNS Managment… feel free to ask me.

Here is what they offer…

• Managed DNS Service – Did your registrar sell you a domain name, then leave you without any DNS? ZoneEdit.com provides DNS, with an easy front end. Just type in a domain name and an IP address on a web page, then browse to the domain you’ve created, instantly!
• Secondary Name Service – ZoneEdit’s high-speed managed network is located across the US/Europe. Adding more DNS servers to your domain results in reliability and speed.
• WebForward™ – Do you have a web site with a complicated address? Would you like to have a “www.___.com”? Use our pathed WebForward™ service, and visitors will get transferred automatically!
• MailForward™ – Easily forward mail@yourdomain.com to other email addresses using MailForward. You can set up a ‘default’ email for every domain as well.
• Free starter web page – No place to park your domain while you develop it? Park it here!
• Branded Site – Get your own nameservers and your own control panel to complement your firm’s existing website. Give your clients secure access to only their own domains, and they’ll save you time and money by editing their own DNS entries.
• Our Network – All of our servers are colocated at top-tier NOCs, with redundant fiber connectivity, diesel backup and climate-controlled environments. Click here for more info.
• Dynamic DNS – Full free dynamic DNS support allowing cable modem, dsl, and dial up users to run web sites on your home pc.
• Failover & Load Balancing – monitoring, failover and load balancing services for web servers
• Backup Mail Service – Want to run your own mail server, but you’re afraid of missing important e-mails? Our optional “Store and Forward” service will accept e-mails for you while your mail server is down or unavailable, and redeliver them when you’re back up!