Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Infolinks – it’s time to believe the hype

Friday, December 12th, 2008

I’ll be honest, when I first read about Infolinks in various forums, I was more than a little sceptical. Whenever a new advertising program kicks off, it’s not unusual for discussion boards to become flooded with people spouting off about the overwhelming success they are having with the next big thing, no doubt in the [...]

The 10 weirdest Hollywood sex scenes

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Proving once again that a top 10 list is one of the most valuable commodities on the web, celebrity/entertainment/gossip site ‘The Vine’ has posted it’s list of the 10 weirdest Hollywood sex scenes.
Isn’t that a link you just can’t help but click on?
In case you just want the summary version, here’s the list of films [...]

Customizing Infolinks to get the best return on your site

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

As I covered yesterday, Infolinks appear to be a decent alternative to Kontera. The only problem is, their dashboard is a little light on for information, and makes it easy for people to miss some of the more useful information that they have on customizing Infolinks to get the most out of them on your [...]

Zebra pimp goldfish shoes

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

What do you buy the pimp that’s got everything? Simple. Pimped out goldsfish bowl shoes.
These little beauties can be picked up on eBay right now for a song, and feature plus looking zebra skin finish, complete with goldfish in the high chunky heal. The super long life goldfish will ensure that you can hit the [...]

Swollen Pickles enters the World of Warcraft

Friday, November 21st, 2008

It’s official. I’m a grade ‘A’ nerd. In some peoples eyes, I will have hit rock bottom. I have now played World of Warcraft. How’d this happen? Well, I’ve been curious for some time, so having a bit of spare time up my sleeve, I went and bought a copy from JB HiFi. In the [...]

Save on GoDaddy domain name registration with these Coupon Codes

Friday, November 14th, 2008

If you are looking to pick up a domain name or two on the cheap here are a couple of coupon offers currently running with www.GoDaddy.com.
GoDaddy is the company I’ve used to buy all my domain names now, and I’ve found them very reliable, and when you redeem coupon offers like the ones below, quite [...]

Cool free Photoshop brush downloads

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

If you dabble in Photoshop and you’re anything like me, then you’ll always be on the lookout for some cool Photoshop brushes and gradients. Being a bit of a tight ass, my favorite Photoshop brushes are the free ones. I’m sure I’m not the only one that likes free stuff so here are a few [...]

Amazon release ‘Deal of the Day’ widget

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

The Amazon affiliate program now lets you create your own ‘Deal of the Day’ widget, that’ll showcase one of their… take a guess… that’s right, deals of the day. It updates itself, so it’s one of those set and forget kind of things. Perfect for a lazy person.
There are a few different options and [...]

Some interesting statistics for October 2008

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Do numbers turn you on? Well here are some interesting statistics for SwollenPickles.com for the month of October 2008. I thought I’d share, because you don’t always see people sharing information like this.
In October, 698 pages were viewed a total of 34,919 times.
Firefox surpassed IE as the browser of choice for readers of the pickle. [...]

Why I’ve lost faith in Google

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

If you’re reading this, I’m sure you’ve probably stumbled across countless other blog posts by people complaining that Google has slapped their blog with a Page Rank penalty. I’m also sure you’ve read countless rants on the increasingly irrelevant position Page Rank occupies in the world wide web. I’m not really sure that is actually [...]

ProjectWonderful experiment conclusions

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I’m not sure that anyone out there actually cares, but a week ago I extended my ProjectWonderful experiment to try and figure out how to get the most out of my ad block and find the optimum pricing level. During the first week of the experiment I set the opening bid at $0.00 to see [...]