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New 2008 Nissan Versa SL

LyleC — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:25:20 +0000

With our Honda leases expiring, and needing to make a decision, my wife and I decided to trade in one of our Honda Civics for a 2008 Nissan Versa SL Hatchback. After reading some cool forums, I found a few modifications to the stock versa that will really make it look slick. The first I’ll be trying is the grill mesh to keep rocks from damaging the radiator.

I’ll keep this blog updated with stories and pictures of the various mods.

Obama Man

LyleC — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:51:06 +0000

MJ/Schnitt had a very funny parody produced about Barack Obama called “Obama Man Can.” Its a parody of “Candy Man” with an emphasis on the obama-rama going on in this country right now. I think he wrote it to point out the media’s lack of scrutiny for the candidate and how “Obama can do anything.. he makes manure taste good.” It’s very catchy.

Youtube link

Update to Poor Man Bans

LyleC — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:37:54 +0000

I posted earlier last month about my blatant copy of Guy Patterson’s Poor Man BANS using Wordpress, and some RSS feed plugins. He reported after his first month that he made around $97 his first month in Ebay commissions. Well here’s the scoop for mine:

I started Internet Coin Show on January 23rd. As of February 29th, I made $25.20. While this amount isn’t $100, it did pay for the domain for 2 years + hosting for the next 5 or 6 months. All in all, I’d say that its a success. I think the reward is proportional to the amount of effort, and I simply didn’t put a whole lot of effort into optimizing the site or niche. I am getting 8-10 referrals from google organic searches every day. Steadily, as google indexes more and more of my pages (currently 3420), I think I’ll get more hits. I also need to change the 404 page to include some items similar to the one that was removed.

GPS Hack for Motorola Q9c (Sprint)

LyleC — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:12:50 +0000

Well, in my search for a phone with decent GPS support, I’ve found the Motorola Q9c. For a change, Sprint has released a phone with an actual GPS receiver in the phone. Most of the phones they claim to have GPS are actually using aGPS. The “a” stands for “assisted” which requires the cell towers to triangulate the receiver’s position and report the location to the phone. The difference with the Q9c is that it is able to report its GPS data through the COM port to applications like Google Maps or Windows Live Search.

While this is great news, it can be a little slow. And the people at Sprint probably figured since the phone can retrieve its GPS data from sattelites, it didn’t need to provide aGPS support (which uses processing power at the cell tower). StarmanDX at sprintusers.com posted a great guide on how to enable aGPS on the Motorola Q9c. By enabling aGPS, the devices is much faster at getting a position lock.

Preliminaries

One caveat: you need your MSL, which stands for “Master Subsidy Lock” and is a 6 digit code to program your phone. Remember when you called Sprint to activate your phone and they had your program in your number in that “special menu”? To get there you had to enter your MSL. Some of us tricksters now know to write that down for future use. But you probably haven’t done this, so here’s the trick: you need to call Sprint and get it. It’s technically not a big deal and are supposed to give it to you if you ask, after all it is your phone not theirs. So here are some things to say to the Sprint CSRs or better yet, try Tech Support:

Just ask, sometimes they give it. Worked for me!
Say you took your phone to a Sprint store and they need your MSL to reprogram part of the phone
Tell them that you are trying to change your user name within the settings on your phone and the phone is requiring the MSL code
Say you are developing application for the phone

Yeah, it’s a wee bit of a white lie, but it’s worth it. Now once you have that number, store it somewhere safe and remember to do this for all your WM devices in the future, you may never know when you need it.One other note before the actual hack: you have to trust the settings are saved. If you go back into this menu, it’ll all be erased, but once entered it’ll stay. So have faith that they stuck.And now for the trick and thanks again to StarmanDX!

Enable aGPS Sprint assistance servers for Moto Q Q9c

Dial ##073887*
Hit Send/Green Key
Enter your MSL
Hit H (GPS Settings)
Enter 68.28.31.49 for the IP address
Enter 5017 for the port number
Save/Exit

(ps Nope, I do not know how to do this for AT&T Q9h’s or Verizon’s Q9ms. Sorry, Sprint only!)

(from VMexperts)

My attempt at a poor man’s BANS

LyleC — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:26:37 +0000

This is my first post on my new blog. I’d like to spend it talking a little bit about my new site. It takes the idea of the popular BANS (Build-a-niche-store) software and uses Wordpress + various addons to replicate it. The site, which I’ve called “Internet Coin Show” is my first attempt at BANS.The idea was taken from Guy Patterson at Nullamatix.com.

In a nutshell, it involves taking various RSS feeds from eBay (with my CJ.com affiliate ID placed) and using an addon to automatically populate posts in wordpress to various categories based on new posts to the RSS feed.In the 3 weeks it’s been active, internetcoinshow.info is already indexed by google and is receiving organic visitors. The visitors are searching for various terms and keyworks related to coin/bullion collecting. The cool thing is that since the eBay auction titles are already chock-full-o-keywords, keyword optimization is very easy.

Guy’s BANS seems to have produced him already $100 for its first month in existence, strictly from affiliate earnings at Commission Junction. I’ll post more about internetcoinshow.info in the next few weeks.