Archive for February, 2009

Searching for expensive domain names?

Rhetorical question, I know :-), but it looks like even there is an international financial crisis, people are interested in expensive domain names.

TechCrunch published a list of very expensive domains after the recent purchase of toys.com domain name by Faculty Lounge with $1,15M in an auction organized as a result of
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Bill Gates releases mosquitoes at tech conference

Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft and a renowned philanthropist, let loose a swarm of mosquitoes at a technology conference in California to highlight the dangers of malaria.

‘Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,’ the Microsoft founder yelled at a well-heeled crowd at a technology conference in California.

’I brought some,’ he added. ‘Here, I’ll let them roam around – there is no reason only poor people should be infected.’

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Google Analytics hack - Reduce the bounce rate of your blog

Google Analytics, like any other online service that you might use to measure your website’s traffic and demographics, is not free of bugs.

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The NameCheap commercial contest

Think you can create a better commercial than our competitors? Well here’s your chance to let your creative juices flow and win some prizes to boot if yours is chosen. We’ll also feature the winning commercials on our site! We’ll select the top five into a final round and have our users select the final winners!
source The NameCheap commercial contest

So I played a little with Adobe Premiere Pro and this is it! Ta-daaaaaa:

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Hotmail “vacation response” hack still lives

An hour ago I have announced all en1813.com users that the game is alive again. :-)

As spanish internet users are in love with Hotmail accounts, I could see that the old Hotmail “vacation response” hack still lives. In 2007 and again in 2008, Hotmail users reported something that they believed that is a big hole in Hotmail security as many spammers took control of the “vacation reply”.

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You’re insulting my intelligence

This blog is kind of new on the internet. I started it couple of months ago using a sub-domain of downloadwin.com but I’m writing an article once in 2-3 days.Yeah, I know. This will not stand me out from the crowd, as John Chow advised us to do, but I’m trying to make faster steps and share more things here.

Anyway, RW. There are no more than 200 pages indexed in Google. There are 55 articles with 47 comments. There are no drafts :-) (unusual, if you ask me!) and some functions are not working properly (showing trackbacks, showing article views, etc.).

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Skype 4.0 for Windows is now available for download


We’ve built this brand new Skype so you can have the conversations that make a difference to you, every day. It’s easy to use, plus step-by-step guides help you get started.

Give your partner a goodnight kiss when they’re working away from home. Check in with your family wherever you’re travelling to let them know you’re safe and well. Pick up your weekly call to your mom and this time, remember to ask for her knockout cheesecake recipe.

Download Skype 4.0 for Windows!

Why should I use cuil.com?

Couple of days ago, a human error blocked the entire Google Search Engine for 55 minutes. Some of the blogs I read from time to time wrote about the fact that Cuil.com may be used instead of Google.

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Results for downloadwin.com are online poker, weather tracker, blackjack cassino and others, related to those 3. Where is the relevance of this search engine?