Category Archives: kOM-PUT-ER

This is more for my own reference than anything. Say you see a flog on the intertubes and want to rip it and stick up for affiliate links. How to do it quickly on Linux? I used to use wget but it sucked. httrack is much better. httrack “http://www.techcrunh.com/” -N1 -O “/home/techcrunch_rip/public_html” +techcrunch.com/* +crunchgear.com/* -v […]

I was looking for an iPhone app a while ago to search Irish business phonenumbers and couldn’t find one, so wrote one myself. And while I was waiting for Apple to approve my app, a different phonebook app was released with better user interface! BUT it just searches the goldenpages website so you need a […]

Diggbar just release which is a URL shortening service as well with full, do-follow links. Wonder how long it lasts.

Update 24/11/2010: This is now being sold on it’s own site. www.php-fbads-manager.com Sick of waiting for the facebook ads API? Download my PHP one today. Features include: Create ads from PHP script loop. You can modify any paramaters you want and submit 100s of ads an hour but that will prob get your account banned […]

Said I may as well attend one of these conferences and try to ‘network’ a bit in the ‘aul Internet marketing world. Or it could be just an excuse for tax deductible trip to Vegas 🙂 The conference is on January 11th (Sunday) to January 13th (Tuesday) but I’m flying in the previous Friday, check […]

I’m not a fan of most Apple stuff, they’re overpriced and the hardware they use is cheap. They do make sexy looking stuff though, I’ll give em that. And they seem to get away with anything and still have their fanboy faggots drooling over them (I’ve experienced this species IRL in their herds at the […]

Looks like so called blackhat (is the term even relevant anymore?) expert quadzilla is organising a party at Oktoberfest along with other ‘experts’ where they’ll be divulging their top ‘secrets’. All for the low price tag of 5 grand. Of course, ‘If you can’t afford the cover charge then this gathering is not for you.’ […]

Cushy little number at Mahalo, you get paid to play GTA4

I don’t know what’s happening at Microsoft, are they losing all the good programmers to ‘cooler’ companies or something because everything they’ve brought out in the last while has been crap. Installed the new Office and they completely changed the interface for Word and Excel to make it simpler. i.e. for fucking idiots who couldn’t […]

A leaked PDF from Google setting out guidelines for ‘quality raters’ when they’re doing handjobs on spam is doing the rounds on the Interweb. An interesting 43 page read albeit with no real bombshells. Had to laugh though when they were describing thin affiliates around page 35: Recognizing thin affiliates Clicking on a “More Information” […]