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Selling another site via Flippa

July 28, 2009 in Internet Stuff with 2 Comments

I am selling another website via Flippa (formerly SitePoint marketplace). Although it costs $19 for a basic listing and much more to give it exposure, it is by far the best place to list a website or domain for sale and you get a much better response than listing a site on a forum.

I am selling my Twitter blog Time To Tweet. In my last sale I chose 2-3 weeks as the end date and used a buy it now. This time I decided to end the auction within 4 days, remove the buy it now and pay an extra $30 to display the blog for sale on the home page. Within a few hours it has already had 4 or 5 bids so I shouldn’t have any problems selling it.

I am also selling Mixa.org, a great little 4 letter domain name which I picked up in an expiring domain auction last year. I’m sure it would prove to be a great domain name for a music related website. I have a dozen or so 3 or 4 letter domains so it will be interesting to see if Flippa attracts domain traders as well as website traders.

New Modern Warfare 2 Video Out

July 28, 2009 in Films, TV, Games & Music with Comments Off

Really looking forward to Modern Warfare 2. The last call of duty game was ok. I downloaded all the additional maps for it but I just never got into it, it just isn’t a patch on COD4, which is probably the best game released for the PS3 or 360 to date in my opinion.

Although, I’m not happy with them charging more for it than other new releases. Tis the nature of the world I guess!

London Baby!

July 24, 2009 in Personal with 3 Comments

Well I’m off for a much needed break to London for the weekend with 8 friends. It’s my birthday this weekend (turning 30…eeeek!) but the other reason we are going down is to see Celtic play in the Wembley Cup, a friendly tournament which includes Tottenham, Champions League winners FC Barcelona and Egyptian champions Al Ahly. We play Al Ahly tonight and Tottenham on Sunday.

Getting the 8am train down to London (yeah I know I’m up early!) shortly, which in itself should be a good laugh. I’m bringing my poker set and my mate Andy is bringing a cool box and more importantly, a slab of beer to go in it.

Staying in Kings Cross til Monday. This will be my 5th time to London yet I’ve still never been in or around the city centre (I’ve stayed in Shepherds Bush, Luton, Woolwich and Fulham). So it will good to see some more of London, at the very least I’ll get to see the new Wembley Stadium.

Will be meeting up with some friends who stay down London as well. All in all it should be a great trip.

Hope you all have a good weekend. I will be enjoying the last few days of my 20s and embracing the responsibility and maturity which gentlemen acquire when they reach their 30s….yeah right!

Found this pic on Cracked.com and thought I would share it with you all

Tattoo Locations

July 23, 2009 in Random with Comments Off

Don't fight it, just party!

Don’t fight it, just party!

July 23, 2009 in Random with Comments Off

Work Developments Within The Last Week

July 21, 2009 in Internet Stuff with Comments Off

I have been doing a lot of planning and research the last few weeks into what I will be doing workwise over the next few months. The first thing I did was decide to get rid of any sites which take up my time but aren’t part of my long time strategy.

Therefore I sold ProTycoon.com, a blog I purchased last year but never really updated, a few days ago. Thankfully, I managed to recoup what I paid for it.

I am also planning on selling Time To Tweet in a day or so too, a Twitter related blog which I started a few months ago. I’ve managed to build up close to 10,000 Twitter followers for the sites associated Twitter account, which should help with the sale of the site.

Selling up sites which take up my time allow me to spend more time on my main blog Blogging Tips. Today saw the release of my first e-book through Blogging Tips: ‘Basic HTML : An Introduction to HTML for Bloggers‘. It’s a 63 page book which covers the basics of HTML, something which I think most bloggers need to learn the basics of. It should prove to be a useful resource for readers and a good traffic source for the site for years to come. I plan on writing more guides and e-books for the site over the next few months.

Another site I hope to develop more is Blog Themes Club, a WordPress theme store which I recently launched with my associate Sarah Anderson. I am planning on putting all my energy into both of these sites over the next few months, not least because they complement each other. I think it will be a long time before Blogging Tips makes a good income from advertising, certainly not the level of income I want to generate. However, the site should prove to be a great place to sell blogging related products directly on the site or indirectly through a sister site.

Lastly, by selling these sites I hope it allows me to post on this blog more often. Though, no doubt the posts will continue to be random!

Kevin

Bruno

July 12, 2009 in Films, TV, Games & Music with 1 Comment

I went to see Sacha Cohen Barons latest film Bruno tonight. As expected, there were a lot of outrageous scenes that made you squirm.

It is very similar to Borat in many ways. It’s shot in the same way, has a similar story about going to America (Los Angeles) and once again he uses his character to expose the ignorance, bigotry and stupidity of some people.

If you liked Borat I would recommend seeing it. It’s probably not as good but it’s still worth watching. If the naked fight scene in Borat made you feel uncomfortable then I wouldn’t advise seeing Bruno as there are lots of, shall I say, gay scenes!

Anyone else got round to seeing this film yet?

Kev

An Incredibly Easy Way To Remote Control A Computer

July 10, 2009 in Operating Systems & Browsers with 5 Comments

I have been struggling to remote control my larger computer with my smaller 10.2″ laptop. My main laptop uses Vista and my smaller one uses XP and there seems to be difficult connecting the two.

I’ll be honest with you. The main reason I want to do this is because of laziness. I have my main laptop connected up to my 32″ LCD television so I can stream clips/movies etc from it. I occasionally stick a film on and then lie in my bed browsing the web with my small netbook but it gets annoying to constantly get up and change things on my main laptop. Hence the need for remote control!

I found that there are alternatives available. The first one I came across was called RealVNC but I couldn’t get it to work right away so I kept looking. I then came across a script called Team Viewer.

Team Viewer is a fantastic script which easily lets you control another laptop or pc. Both parties need to download and install the script and then you just need to enter the id and password of the computer you want to control. That’s it. It has some extra features too like file transfers and the ability to switch between two monitors (which is handy as I extend my laptop to my television). Best thing about it is it’s free.

If you are looking to remote control a friends pc I would recommend trying msn messenger, it works very well. However, if you want to control another laptop/pc you own, I recommend using Team Viewer as it works well and is incredibly easy to use.

Link : Team Viewer

How You Recover Closed Tabs In Google Chrome

July 10, 2009 in Operating Systems & Browsers with Comments Off

I’ve started to use browse the web with Google Chrome a lot, particularly with my netbook. It’s really fast and the bookmark and tabs system works very well. I recommend downloading it if you haven’t already.

If you are using it, you will appreciate these tips on how to recover closed tabs. Enjoy