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I recently revisited Red Interactive and found some new characters in the sourcecode of the flash file. I thought I would share them with you here.

“nay nay give me some hay” = “ed”

“dead men tell no tales” = “nub”

“jiminy cricket!” = “hopper”

“the last straw” = “cameljoe”

“surley you jest” = “jester”

“rumpelstiltskin is my name” = “unclesam”

“may i please have some blueberry pie?” = “gordon”

“i shot a man in reno” = “jailbird”

“i dreamt i was a butterfly” = “sun”

NEW CODES!

“happy halloween” = “skely”

“the funk of forty thousand years” = “skeletor”

“trick or treat” = “shakspeare”

“smell my feet” = “minuteman”

“baby got back” = “fatback”

“nay nay i never got any hay” = “dropdeaded”

SpeedTest.net is a cool way to test your internet connection speed online. Simply select a server to test and speed test does all the work in an awesome Flash based web application. Speed Test features a speedometer to show you the speed and is a very cool way to do an internet speed test. I highly recommend it, Speed Test is simple to use and just plain cool.

Link: http://www.speedtest.net

Browsercam.com offers a “not-free” service to check how your site preforms on different platforms using different browsers. This is possible using several machines running different operating systems which accept VNC connections. After signing up for service you can use VNC to control virtually any operating system + browser configuration you can think of. This is a great tool for developers to use to ensure usability across different systems and a wide variety of users. The internet today is far more advanced than it was 10 years ago. The internet of today demands your site to comply with your users personal preference in operating system and browser configuration of their machine. Sites that fail to do so typically fail tremendously when deployed by severing revenue from unsupported machine configuration. As a web designer, I find this tool to be very interesting and am pondering it’s use. In the past I have just installed various browsers, ran several operating systems on one machine, or used a friends machine with a different browser and operating system. This can be a lot of work depending on your hardware configuration and access to multiple machines. I recommend at least checking out Browser.com is this sounds like something you could use.

Browsercam.com

Google AdSense banned me from participation in their program last summer. The resons to me are not clear but there seems to be a number of other people in the same boat. Appearntly I was banned for “fraudulent clicks” which translates into the same IP or computer system clicking on ads published by an AdSense account.

If you create an AdSense account at a public WiFi spot or a public network and someone else accesses your ads from the same network then you may appear to be generating “fradulent clicks” to Google and it wont be long until they ban you even if you did not intentionally click your ad’s. So what can someone do once they are banned from use of Google AdSense. Well according to Google they will not reinstate any previously banned accounts. Well I am banned and I plan to try and get unbanned from the program. I will be posting about it here to keep anyone interested up to date on my progress.

Google’s adress
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001

I plan to call them this week and see what I can find out. If any of my readers have encountered this problem and have any insight on how to correct this issue please feel free to send it to tips@timmatheson.com

If you are a gambler and frequent the local casinos or take an occasional trip to Las Vegas you may be missing out on the big pay out. (more…)

Have you ever been told you favor a celebrity? Well now myheritage.com has an online tool that will take a 100 X 100 pixels or greater photo of you and compare it against celebrity photos to find your twin. I wasn’t too impressed with some of the results this widget came up with but hey it’s a neat idea.

Using the tool requires registration and they try to trick you into filling out a survey just click “no thanks” at the page where they ask for your SSN (crazy talk these days) and your on your way to finding your famous twin or so they say.Link

Tiggers love bouncing, we all know that. Well apparently they also love boxing as this video shows Tigger connecting with a left hook to a 14 year old boys face. The teen went to the hospital and the Tigger was suspended. The plush bully has yet to apologize to the boy or his family.

Lately posts have been few and far between. I just had to take some time off and enjoy life for a while, work on projects, catch up at work and so on. However I am back in action and turning the “Blogger Warp Speed” on to catch up. Any ideas for posts let me know me AT timmatheson DOT COM.

Tim Matheson