Net Sieve

Relax a little, will you? Get on your computer and kill something.

Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive). The game is meant to bring death match back to the basics, with fast paced action, perfect weapon balancing, and very excessive battles.

Version 2 of Nexuiz includes a single-player campaign with completely new advanced bot AI, five new maps, new particle effect system, weapon changes, and complete precompiled bumpmapping with GLSL shaders. The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since then it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times, and the game is still being updated and developed, currently at version 2.4 and new releases being developed.

Download Nexuiz freeware.

Decent web directories that you can submit your sites to are getting pretty rare. Either they want a couple hundred dollars for each submission or what they have to offer for free is worthless. Sometimes listing your links at these sites can actually be harmful to your rankings instead of helpful. If you’re looking for a free web directory, you should look at Dirmania.

DirMania is a business web directory that provides free website advertising. The site has a PR 3, if you care about that kind of stuff and offers a direct link to your small or medium sized business/website. The directory is organized by categories and is very search engine friendly. Your listing can go live in less than 24 hours if you meet the listing requirements. (Not hard to do if you don’t try keyword stuffing or other lame 2002 tricks.) Be sure and provide a good, human friendly description of your site with appropriate keywords and a catchy title and you’re in.

The submission form has all the instructions and advice you need to determine if your submission is quality or not. Think common sense. Make sure you are submitting your link in the most relevant category to its content and make sure that the content is offering something useful to the visitor. It is, isn’t it? Then you’re good – otherwise, anything that is submitted to a blatantly wrong category or is nothing but spam will be removed from the directory.

Play by the rules and scoop up some link love. We all need it.

Here’s an easy-peasy way to create a favicon from any perfectly square (for example 100 pixels x 100 pixels) image on your computer. Yes, even your sweet mug. Wait – you don’t know what a favicon is? No shame, read on:

A favicon (short for “favorites icon” and also known as a page icon), is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage that is displayed in the browser address bar next to a site’s URL.

So obviously you must have one. Go here now –> FaviconGenerator and create t your heart’s content.

Another post for the environment – yeah!

When you think of recycling HDPE (High Density Polyethylene – but you knew that), you probably think of all the plastic that you can you can throw into your recycle bin. But that’s not all there is to it. Some HDPE, such as Virgin HDPE Granules is repurposed before it even gets used. Virgin HDPE comes from scrap plastics left over from the production of many different items. This plastic is called virgin because it was never used or abused and doesn’t have the colors or wear and tear (including possible contaminants) of plastics recycled after their lifetime of service. This is pure, clean plastic that takes color well and can be used for any type of production.

That’s not to suggest that your dutifully recycled HDPE isn’t useful or good – it’s still excellent for many uses – so don’t stop recycling it. It’s just nice to know that a recycled motor oil container won’t be holding your Diet Coke tomorrow. At least I think it’s nice to know. What it will be is possibly a grocery bag or outer packaging material or … well, there are too many to list. So now you know. Just because your recycled plastic may not be “virgin” any longer, it’s still a good time.

Spring always reminds me of the need to care for the Earth – while we still recognize it. Here’s a free download that can help you in your efforts to diminish your carbon footprint. If you have one.

Calculate your carbon footprint with this easy to use calculator software. Enter in data to figure CO2 generated from activities including transportation, energy, trash or waste, recreation, purchasing habits, food, and more. Lear n where you can go green by calculating your carbon footprint and then focusing on areas where you can make the most positive impact on the environment. The software gives you CO2 footprint details from each category. For transportation you can enter in up to 6 different cars and their respective fuel efficiency, airline travel, bus travel, and rail travel.

To figure your energy use and carbon footprint, you can enter in your location, number of people in your house, as well as energy use from fuel oil, natural gas, and electricity. Also included are indirect carbon footprint categories like recreation habits, purchasing habits, waste, recycling participation, food, and more. Different units are available so you can calculate your carbon footprint in metric units or English. You can also print out a summary of your carbon footprint results.

Enjoy.

You don’t need to have 20 kids or 200 friends and family to figure out that buying birthday cards can get real pricey real fast. And time consuming. Well, forget that because “all life all online” is just getting better and better.

What I’m talking about today is CardsDirect’s online birthday cards. They offer a great assortment of cards (not just birthdays) at prices that are better than most store prices without the hassle of slumping out and picking a card from a disarrayed rack. Plus you can personalize the cards right online. You can even bulk up and save time and money by planning ahead and having your cards ready.

If you’re a mom, you know what a time saver this is just for birthday cards. But think about all the thank you cards you’d like to send (or knew you should have sent but didn’t have the time to get one). Mothers – for some reason – are expected to remember every holiday or otherwise important day and be there with the appropriate sentiment. What are you Super Mom now? Well, you can be with CardsDirect.

Here’s a sample card that’s one of my favorites:

OK, now you’ve saved time, made those special people happy, remembered to pick the kids up from wherever … wouldn’t some fresh-baked bread be nice?

Need to up the position of your sites? Why do I ask these questions? Of course you do. Hop on the backlink bandwagon and boost yourself up, baby.

Simply use this Backlink Tools page, which has “links to the best Backlink Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher. The following Backlink Tools links are selected from the top SEO tool web sites. These Backlink Tools links are the best of the best.”

You heard it.

Tired of finding out you don’t have the correct codec for whatever application you’re trying to run? Goes without saying. Here’s relief in a free package: Windows Essentials Codec Pack

Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of the most essential Audio and Video DirectShow Codecs and Filters for Windows, that enables you to play and view almost all music and video files downloaded from the Internet. It adds support for (S)VCDs and XCDs as well as 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, UMX and many other formats. Essentials Codec Pack also includes Windows Media Player Classic. An integrated auto-update can automatically check for updated codecs.

Gets 5 Stars from 5 reviews. No adware or spyware. Sweet. Download your essentials at Snapfiles.

Everything online – all the time. That’s our goal.

Here’s another opportunity to take care of your finances without stepping foot outside your house: SecureLoanConsolidation.com is an online resources for people looking for debt relief solutions. You can get all the information you need on loans right there – whether you’re searching for debt consolidation, payday and/or cash advance loans, home loans and mortgage refinancing, or if you’re just feeling the crunch of tax time.

You can even search out state-specific resources like Texas loans or city-specific like Austin loans. Could it get any easier?

I don’t think so.

… or lack of actually. No one is gonna fight over this one, especially not the Big Softie. According to techcrunch.com:

Flash Lite for mobile phones might not be good enough for Steve Jobs, but Microsoft is less picky. It is licensing Flash Lite for Windows Mobile. This is an acknowledgment of two things: there are a lot of developers and existing Websites out there that work with Flash, and the mobile version of Microsoft’s own competing Silverlight software is nowhere near ready to be deployed.