Archive for category: internet

Need a yuletide favour

24 December, 2009 (23:02) | Humour, internet | By: Shepy

Ok,
So a friend of mine has made a joke site for a mutual friend of ours, as his joke Christmas present.
I’m trying to link farm a bit and get this site to the top of the google rankings.
The help i am looking for, is if you could edit your signatures on forums or provide a [...]

Welcome to the new server

19 September, 2009 (00:21) | Site Info, internet | By: Shepy

If you are seeing this post, then you have arrived at the new server.  There have been a few changes, the biggest of which is a complete overhaul of the picture gallery.  Any links directly into the old gallery may not work, but will instead direct to the first page of the blog, and this [...]

It’s your choice.

15 September, 2009 (01:13) | Rant, internet, news | By: Shepy

Ok, so in the past hour or so I have taken a wee bit of flak from people on twitter, facebook etc.  Why? Because I made a few jokes about Patrick Swayze dying. Those jokes were:
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All i have to say on the matter of Patrick Swayze being dead is that it has to be a [...]

Multi monitor Youtube full screen solution

11 July, 2009 (20:51) | Computers, internet | By: Shepy

If you use a multi-monitor setup, then you likely already know the pain that is trying to have a Youtube video running full screen on one screen while you work, and the clicking in to any other application only for the youtube video to drop back to normal size.
Now I understand that this is an [...]

DesignQuotes.co.uk are fucknuggets

16 April, 2009 (16:02) | Humour, Rant, internet | By: Shepy

So i just received the following spam:
—Begin Quote—
Good Afternoon A
I’ve just visited your website shepy.co.uk and wondered if you are considering getting any brochures/printed material designed?
We specialize in sourcing local Design agencies to help clients reduce design costs and save time in locating a good design agency.
If you would like a free quote or chat [...]

Trying to win a free Drobo

28 March, 2009 (13:16) | Computers, internet | By: Shepy

So, there is a competition at the moment to win a free Drobo (portable drive, essentailly) and all you have to do is have a link to their page on your page, so i thought why not, thats got to be worth a post, so here goes:
http://mydl.me/2009/03/want-to-win-a-free-drobo/
Ad just for good measure:
http://mydl.me
Obviously its just to create [...]

TweepMe Data Extraction

17 March, 2009 (18:39) | Computers, Twitter, internet, news | By: Shepy

So i was intrigued after writing my last post about TweepMe just exactly what someone would be letting themselves in for if they did sign up to the service, what accounts they could expect to see updates from etc.
Well, curiosity got the better of me so I threw some code together to scrape their pages [...]

Tweepme, actually, no dont!

17 March, 2009 (15:24) | Rant, Twitter, internet, news | By: Shepy

So there is a huge buzz going about at the moment regarding http://www.tweepme.com – and the premise is basically this:
You sign up on the page, using your twitter username and password. Your account auto follows every other TweepMe user over a period of time, as does theirs meaning that everyone ends up following everyone.
So basically, [...]

Top Ten Tools to Twitter

2 March, 2009 (17:56) | Computers, Twitter, Windows, internet | By: Shepy

Twitter can be an extremely valuable and useful resource, and also very fun, but only if used to its full potential. If you are new to twitter, and only just starting to get to grips with the service then you might wonder what all the fuss is about, I know I did when I [...]

Firefox Extensions

25 February, 2009 (17:10) | Computers, internet | By: Shepy

I’d class myself as a fairly heavy internet user (addict you say? psssht!), and as such i like to have my firefox seriously beefed up with various extensions to make everything run exactly how i want it, so i thought i would put a quick post together to share them with you.

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