Ok, it’s time for another exciting contest! Recently C. Nedrow won a Self Stirring Mug, but now we’re going to crank it up a few notches and give away a BOX FULL OF CASH! The winner will receive $100 - 100 $1 bills shipped to you in a box. Or, if you prefer we can send you a payment of $100 to your PayPal account.
How to Enter:
To enter, you will need to follow @sweepstakes on Twitter. This takes only a few seconds to do. Quick sign up and then click on the “follow’ button on the @sweepstakes page.
Bonus/Alternate Entry:
1 bonus entry can be earned if you link to this contest or video. Blog about it, post in your favorite forum or even Twitter it. Enter by September 30, 2008 for a chance to win. Good luck!
P.S. If ShoeMoney blogs about this, I will add an additional $100 stuffed inside a shoe to the prize! I promise it will be a new shoe.
P.P.S. If John Chow blogs about this, I will add one extra dollar to the box. Sorry man, I couldn’t resist.
The lucky winner is comment #288, Carolyn Nedrow. Congratulations!
If you missed out and didn’t win, we will probably have another stirring mug contest soon. Until then, you can leave a comment below and receive $5 off the price of a stirring mug from StirringMug.com.
I’ve heard a number of times about iPhones crashing left and right and knew in the back of my head it was only a matter of time for this to happen to me. Well, today my number was drawn and my iPhone crashed while installing an app which tracked your location via the GPS thingy and plots your course. If my iMac wasn’t bogged down trying to restore my iPhone, I might be able to find out what app it was. I’ll find out in the next day or two if I’m lucky. The restore process takes forever!
My screwup is the application was still in the process of installing and I got impatient and decided to check my email. That’s when I got the black screen of death. The white apple logo and a black background was all I could get, no matter how many times I rebooted. I finally decided to restore by pressing the home button while plugging the iPhone into the USB port. Then the restore process started.
The restore process finished (I thought) but when I went to iTunes and it wanted to restore again. Hopefully, Apple will get some of these glitches fixed sooner than later. This has cost me at least 6 hours so far in lost iPhone time. I wonder if I will be able to get all the apps I purchased back onto my iPhone?
I have finished week two of the One Hundred Push Ups program and kind of struggled this week. I screwed up and didn’t do my push ups on schedule, but… I did technically finish week 2. I was in the second column as I was in week 1, and in the end did 46 total pushups on day 3.
I’m not satisified with how I did this week, so I’m going to backtrack a little bit. At the start of week 3 it is recommend you repeat the week you struggled with if you feel like you’re falling behind. I’ve decided since I’m off schedule that I’m going to do week 1 this week and next week start fresh with week 3.
Not too much to add here except I notice that the first set of push ups seem to be the hardest. When you get warmed up with the first set the others aren’t quite as painful.
What about you? Where are you and how are you doing with your 100 pushups challenge?
If you grew up in the 80’s you probably remember playing popular text adventure games such as Zork on your computer. I was in this category and enjoyed staying up into the wee hours of the morning solving puzzles and making maps to try to finish each game that Infocom could crank out. Only thing is I never finished every game they made…but it is on my to do list.
Now, a free application called Frotz allows you to play many popular text adventure games on your iPhone or iPod Touch!
After you download and install Frotz, it comes loaded with several free text adventure games that you probably have never heard of. So…. how do you get the really cool games like Planetfall on your iPhone? Simple - use a file transfer program to upload .z5 or files from your computer to your iPhone or iPod touch. The first one I have tried with success is called FileMagnet. This will only work on a Mac though and you need to download an uploader to use on your desktop or laptop Mac. You can download the FileMagnet uploader here. FileMagnet can be purchased for $4.99.
If you are using a PC with Windows XP or Vista, you can use an app called DataCase. I haven’t bought this one yet, but the great thing about this is it doesn’t require a seperate application - when you activate the DataCase application, a drive will show up on your Mac or PC. From there, you can drag and drop files to and from your iPhone or iPod Touch. UPDATE: Ok, I just bought DataCase and it looks pretty cool.
Only thing is for some reason Frotz doesn’t seem to find the .z5 files automatically like it does with FileMagnet. Anyone out there know how to get it to work?
Also, you might be wondering where you can find text adventure game files. You can get the files if you purchase the games… and a good place to do this is on eBay:
You can also do a little Googling around and maybe you’ll stumble across something.
Some games you might want to play include: Planetfall, Zork, Stationfall, Enchanter, Infidel, Suspended, Deadline, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and many more. Here’s a fairly complete list of all Infocom games. Be careful, your sword is turning blue.
Earlier I wrote an article titled How to Make Money Buying and Selling Domain Names. I’d like to expand on that a little bit with an article I recently found on Forbes called Flipping For Domains. The story tells how Steven McDonald, a teenage kid from Connecticut started flipping domains in September 2007. He started with the domain qsd.com he bought for $620. He turned around and sold that name for $12,000. After that he simply repeated the process and now is over a quarter of a million dollars richer.
Am I the only one here that feels stupid?
Well, this is the kick in the pants I needed to get focused on this. I have some 89 domain names, and a bunch of them I’ve been thinking about selling. No more thinking… time to start flipping! I’ve had some success with this in the past, so I’m going to seriously consider putting a large portion of my time into this.
I’ve just listed EarthMall.com for $10,000 on Sedo.com. Anyone care to buy?
I’m going to make a complete list of places where YOU can buy domain names and try to cash in as well. Subscribe to my blog feed and stay tuned!
Back in the good ol’ days before Oprah and mainstream media discovered YouTube, there was a guy who called himself The Watchman and self proclaimed to “defend the creators of original content against injustice from other users in the YouTube comments section.” Personally, I thought he was one of the funniest guys on YouTube. I wonder… will The Watchman ever return?
I’m going to send him a quick email after this blog post and encourage him to do another video. Maybe if enough people beg, he will return and do another video. Visit The Watchman55 YouTube channel and send him an email if you want to do the same.
If you have trouble falling asleep or taking a satisfying nap, take a look at aSleep for the iPhone and iPod Touch. aSleep is a simple white noise/sound generator that you can turn on at night or when you want to close your eyes and imagine your somewhere else for awhile.
It has a timer that can automatically shut the sounds off after a specified amount of time. Currently sounds include Rain, Wind, Beach, Forest, Relax and Meditation. Personally, I think Rain is the best…although I’d like to see some thunder mixed occasionally.
It appears almost everyone is watching The 2008 Summer XXIX Olympics in Beijing, China and you might be wondering how long do the Olympics last? I did a quick search and found that it runs from August 8 to August 24, 2008
The opening ceremony was absolutely stunning. If you didn’t watch them, you might be able to see some of the highlights on YouTube. Here’s a complete chart showing the full schedule, competition results and more. Check here to see who won the gold, silver or bronze.
Well, I just finished week 1 of the One Hundred Push Ups challenge and am amazed at how quickly your body is able to do more consecutive push ups….without cheating. I can’t say it is fun doing push ups, but the thing I love most about this program is how you can do it anywhere. Do it at home or while traveling on the road or vacation.
As long as you can find a space big enough to do push ups, you can do this program. I’m at a hotel right now and finished the final day of week one. With other excercise routines, it’s easy to screw up your momentum when you can’t find a gym to go to.
Two things I think help make push ups easier include doing three or four deep breaths before each set and placing the end of your feet against the wall. Placing your feet against the wall might be a form of cheating, but it’s better than doing them on your knees. Let’s call it a compromise.
It’s hard to imagine being at the end of week 6 and doing 100 consecutive push ups… but I guess I’ll find out in about 5 weeks. I’ll be pretty impressed if it works. See ya next week!
