Stubbs

"Why do so many people rent movies from Blockbuster instead of checking them out from the library?"

No doubt because the stock they hold is woefully out of date and even then they don't carry the blockbusters. Library budgets just don't stretch to holding the same stock that Blockbuster can afford.

Maybe I'm lucky, but I work in the center of town, where there is a large library, and we also have one local to where I live.

I'm not sure what the state and number of libraries is like in other countries, but here in the UK they are very well stocked and quite numerous.

I've heard of this before, and my first comment was "Why can't I just go to the library?"

More known for their wise-ass lists, Cracked tries to offer some solutions to the Internet's Troll problem.

I hope the UK pays half as much interest in the next General Election as there has been over the US election.

Unfortunately I don't believe we have any candidates half as compelling at Obama.

Regardless of the politics, this cool hack takes the election results and describes how you could hook them up to a DMX controller to change the lighting depending on how things are going.

This is the final article of 6, but it's the one that has links to the other 5 ...

I have written a 3rd party billing application like this, for the domestic service industry, and the major hurdle you will have to get over is that merchant account issuers won't give you an account.

They get one whiff of "3rd party processing" or "payment service provider" and their fraud alarms go off. Certainly in the UK they (Major banks & Paypal) will not issue me with a merchant account, and the reason they cite is that it's too big a fraud risk. I can see how it would be an easy way to launder money.

If you manage to overcome this problem, I'd love to hear about it :-)

A series of events all organised around the web in August have been dubbed the First Leeds Web Festival.

The photos in this article are simply stunning.

At the risk of missing the joke, couldn't you just cut it?

If you're feeling frisky, you can make your own :

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/usbkey

If you were one of the first people in the world to own an iPhone3g, would you take it to bits?

Sorry you thought it was spam Tichy, I thought it was interesting, glad you like my other stuff though ...

:(

More than once during my search, I wished there was something like this, even to the point where I made a note to think about it as a project for the future!

Bustaname has worked for me in the past too, but in this case, I was looking for a soccer related domain, and most of the useful domains that contain the word soccer are taken, my domain required a bit of lateral thinking, which is where the wordlists came in.

Seems to be covered in error messages.

The process of trying to get hold of the recently expired domains seems even more frustrating than trying to find a new domain in the first place.

You definatly don't want to be slide tackling on an astroturf pitch :)

I found a domain in the end www.whos-playing.com (DNS changes trickling through now)

It's the name I wanted all along, but without the hyphen, I got so fed up of looking, I decided to take whatever hit the search engines dish out for using them (if any).

This mentality is very similar to that of the record industry, and look where it's got them!

Personally speaking, I can't wait to get my hands on one! I want to write an app that helps me record my food & exercise, I find it hard to remember later on, but the iPhone is a perfect device to help do it there and then.

"be willing to seek out help from people more creative than yourself", well I made a start by asking you guys :-)

The way I try and do it is write down the main subject, then words related to that subject and then feed those into something like bust-a-name or wordmaker.

However I'm fiding that this method produces less and less results, not helped by the fact my latest project is based in a popular area (Soccer)

My reference for this kind of stuff is http://w3schools.com , a bit light on examples, but a good reference if you just need to know the syntax.

I'm currently writing one.

My business is struggling to get a merchant account because it's basically a 3rd party processing app, which most banks wont touch with a barge pole.

The business plan will be used to illustrate what the business is, how we expect it to make money and how we expect to try and grow the business. Using that we can hopefully either convince a bank that we're not the fraud risk they assume we are, or attract an investor to give the company more respectability..

Our local pound shop sells cloths designed for drying glasses after you've washed them, however I find they're great for cleaning my screens, LCD or otherwise.

Just wipe the screen with a damp (not dripping wet) cloth, then dry with the glass cloth, simple as that.

I also use the same cloth (there were two in the packet) for cleaning my camera lenses & specs as well.

Well worth the pound I spent on it.

In the UK it's worth contacting your local Chamber of Commerce to see if they have a local BusinessLink. Sheffield Enterprise Network Trust Asc. have so far paid all my legal fees for writing the T&C's & other documents.

They can also provide financial help in other areas too, merket research, branding and general business guidence, all the stuff someone with a tech background might struggle with.

There are limitations to what their funding will cover, and they don't require any equity in return.