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Jinxed it! Giants Website Prematurely Reveals Super Bowl Winner

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How to fix Samsung 46 LCD HDTV with a dead/black screen

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Open Source Life Streaming

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Noise in Samsung HLP5063WX/XAA

Here's question from a pained Samsung HLP5063WX DLP television owner, Dwight asks... "I have a Samsung DLP TV model No. HLP5063WX/XAA. About six weeks ago it started to hum for a few minutes during warmup, but would get quiet after a minute or two. Now, it makes an obvious fan rubbing sound for a few minutes before quieting down. ...
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Samsung DLP HL-P5063W Color Wheel User Feedback

If you're an owner of a Samsung DLP HL-P5063W and are having problems with your color wheel, you're not alone. For detailed information on replacing your own color wheel, see this post: How to Replace your Samsung color wheel. Be sure to check out the information from other users below from this sampling of the comments that I've...
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Color Wheel in Samsung HLS5086

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Samsung Optical Engine vs. DMD Board

A common issue with Samsung DLPs is a scrambled picture. Many people complain about a reverse negative image, which is usually the DMD board. A reader asks... I recently had an issue with my Samsung HLN617WX/XAA DLP. After watching HD channels the screen would scramble, but color and sound remained. I called Samsung and they...
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Getting Ahead of the Advertising Tax

Just when you thought it was safe, the Advertising Tax legislation came back out of nowhere a few weeks ago and appeared as line items in the state budgets for North Carolina, California, and other states. Both budgets are still pending, but this didn't stop Amazon from making good on their threat to drop all of their associates in North...
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Affiliate Networks Allow Plugins to Overwrite Links, Pope is Still Catholic

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Hey Cuz!

My vanity google search on "jangro" turned up a really strange result this morning. My last name is unique. There aren't that many of us because the name mutated from the name Gingras only about 5 generations ago right here in Massachusetts. I've studied the genealogy of my name back to the late 17th century when they came from France to...
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Coda 1.5 is Available. Wish I Could Use It.

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Trying out Virtual Private Servers

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When Idiots Attack

As I mentioned in the podcast I did on friday, the Geekcast.fm crew, as well as myself and a few others acquired a new "fan" last week. A person acting anonymously under the pseudonym of "Marky Zarc" posted a blog on blogspot, entitled lorenfeldman.blogspot.com including posts that not only made fun of us, but said some pretty hurtful...
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Reader Question: lost color on my TV

I own a 46" Samsung DLP tv model #HLP4663WX/XAA. I've had the TV about 3 years and it's worked fine. About 3 weeks ago, the TV lamp went and I replaced it without any problems. Now, for the last several days, I've noticed that I have lost the color blue in my picture. Skies, swimming pools, and even the TV menu are a bright green color now...
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Reader Question: New lamp, still no picture

I have a samsung hlp5063wx/xaa Everybody, almost has told to replace the lamp. I did,still nothing. My question is, if the color wheel quits, will this keep the lamp from working. It was whining for a few months. Thanks for any help Bob
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Evaluating Blog Comment Systems

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CashAddOn - What's Wrong with Incentive Publisher Browser Plugins

There's a new incentive shopping browser plugin on the scene, called CashAddOn. CashAddOn is a Cash Back shopping portal. Their model is that they have a FireFox plugin that, when installed, gives you indication in the browser status bar if you're receiving cash-back commissions on a purchase from the current website. A small blue minus...
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Website Performance Tools: How I Installed Memcached

We should all be lucky enough to have performance problems due to heavy website traffic. "Plan for success" is one of my favorite cliches, and in that spirit, I'm trying to get/stay ahead of the curve on a website that's growing in popularity, BUMPzee. It not so much BUMPzee's popularity put it in jeopardy of performance issues, it's...
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A Well Known Affiliate Marketing Pro Spamming?

I was reviewing refererers to jangro.com in my web server logs and of course an Amazon.com url would catch my eye: http://www.amazon.com/ exec/obidos/ASIN/0789725258/ XXXXXXXXXXXXX-20/103-5085788-0070201 I checked it out and this link goes to Shawn Collin's book, Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants. My first reaction was, cool,...
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The End of Affiliate Marketing XXXIV

I guess this wouldn't be a blog about affiliate marketing that's worth it's salt if I didn't mention the recent buzz going on about buzz marketing, the FTCs comments on full-disclosure, and how it all relates to affiliate marketers. The Washington Post ran a story earlier this week. I won't rehash it except to say that an industry watchdog...
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Samsung DLP - How to Replace Fan #2

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eBay Announces their own affiliate infrastructure

Today, Ebay announced the launch of their new affiliate linking infrastructure, called Project Rover. According to the Ebay email: Project Rover has been designed to work seamlessly with the Commission Junction interface, increase the effectiveness of our affiliate’s marketing campaigns, and will be rolled out to all...
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Fixing OS X Cursor Movement Keystrokes

I've been using a Macintosh Powerbook G4 for going on 4 years now. I don't miss Windows for a second. I'm not even dying to get a new Intel Mac so I can run Windows (though I am dying to get one for the performance improvements). There are a few things that annoy me about OS X, however. The first being how difficult it is to manage...
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Dedicated Server Stuff to Keep in Mind #344

Over the years, I've accumulated way more hosting accounts than I can keep track of, including four dedicated servers. It's easy to lose track of things as we move onto new projects and the old ones just hum along. I had a catastrophe this morning caused by poorly configured server. If you're on a shared host, this likely cannot happen...
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How To Replace the Color Wheel in Your Samsung DLP Television and Save $400

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CJ Javascript Links First Looks

As promised, CJ has launched their Link Management Initiative on June 23 (a bit early for them, still the 22nd on the west coast). Here's what a basic link code looks like. <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.dpbolvw.net/placeholder-1299? TARGET=_top&MOUSEOVER=N"></script> My first...
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New JavaScript Link Types at Commission Junction

Commission Junction Announced this morning that they're fundamentally changing their linking technology from static HTML links to JavaScript links. Phase I of the Link Management Initiative involves a cutover to the default link type being this new JavaScript link. What's a JavaScript link? Some other providers use JavaScript links. ...
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afsrc=1 Frequently Asked Questions (unofficial)

I've been meaning to write an explanation of the afsrc=1 parameter for a long time. I've been collecting questions and it's remained half-written for several months. I saw a reference to it recently and thought I'd wrap it up. I was directly involved in the creation of this, but am no longer at Be Free / Commission Junction, so I guess you...
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