The reason I’m writing this guide is that I just hit 40 with my Fire Mage. I was so excited to get my mount. I had saved up 9 gold (I spend as a get, so saving up that much is unheard of for me) and ran off to buy my mount. Then I was hit in the face with the realization that in addition to my 9g, I had to spend ten times that in order to USE the mount I was buying. That sucks!

Luckily my mage had recently taken on mining as a profession. “Mining?” you ask. Yes, Mining. It’s a money making profession. On a good day, a stack of 20 copper (lowest level mined item) sells for around 2g.

Even if you’re not a miner, play the ore game. My experience has shown me that the cost of ore in the Auction House fluctuates a LOT. One day you can buy a stack of 20 copper ore for 50s, the next it costs 2g. So buy as much as you can on a cheap day and sell it on a high day. When buying, people don’t want to wait for a good day. They want their ore now, and they don’t mind paying gold for it.

There’s always that one guy that goes into the AH, sees items selling high and sells his own collection of that item for half the price and makes a killing because people buy his and not the rest. Take advantage of this if you’re selling your own at full price. Buy him out and sell his own copper for full price. It’s cut throat, but it works. Even if you’re not selling, buy him out and do the same.

My mage’s other profession is enchanting. Now THERE’S a money-making profession. You can make a good bit of money enchanting or people, but at a low level your noob enchants aren’t of much use to anyone but noobs who aren’t going to pay much for your services. So stick to disenchanting. Disenchant stuff and sell the D/E items in full stacks. I once made a small fortune in selling d/e items with my Pally.

Anyone playing WoW can find me on the Khadgar server playing as-

Palleaon (43 mage)
Porkins (43 pally)
EwokOverlord (22 priest)
Ig (11 rogue)

All alliance.

I did the obvious thing and visited my favorite place to download stuff. No, not ThePirateBay. The well-named Download.com. In my early days of broadband, I spent a lot of time here downloading everything I could. Did I really need to download 6 different media converters? NO! But dammit, I had broadband and I wanted to test that puppy out. Now Download.com would provide for me once more. I quickly found a nifty free program called GoodSync that easily lets you sync any number of folders with eachother.

As it stands, I’ve got my entire Jeremy folder synced with my Vista-Ubuntu HDD (150GB). I know it’s probably way more complicated to do it this way than to just keep files stored on that HDD, but this way is a lot cooler.

note- for any who is wondering, I originally had Ubuntu accessing the C Drive, but as soon as I logged into Vista and back into Ubuntu again, I couldn’t access it anymore. Vista is a greedy little bitch, ain’t it?

Hello! My name is Jeremy Duenas and I live on the internet. My daily activities often include runs to the store (Newegg.com), getting an education (Wikipdeia.com), and of course the occasional run to the dump (myspace.com) to see everyone’s worthless crap. From sun up to sun down I bravely explore the internet. I’ve seen the worst it has to offer (2girls1cup) and the best (digg.com). It is during these explorations that I discover some amazing websites that are updated daily with original content. These are truly my favorite websites. It is for you, a fellow explorer of the web, that I compile this list of Five Websites You Should Check Out Everyday. Please note that this list isn’t in any specific order.

1. Cyanide & Happiness (http://www.explosm.net/comics)
Somewhere between Twisted and Genius lies C&H. It’s not one of those deep comics that make you think (like xkcd occasionally), but the humor is so brilliant that you can’t help instantly regard all involved as geniuses. If, for some odd reason, you get sick of the usual C&H comics, just wait a few weeks. Every once in a while there’s fan week where people send in their own comics. For the more twisted, there’s Depression Week. Where every comic is guaranteed to put you on the edge of normality and emoness.

2. Isotown (http://www.isotown.net/index.php)
It started off as the telling of a tale of a small pixel man named Iso Ian, but it has since turned into a telling of the life of a small city named Isotown. On top of just being really cool, this webcomic is also pretty funny.
Even fans of Dinosaur Comics will find something to laugh at (there’s a dinosaur comics-isotown crossover).

3. Photoshop Disasters (http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/)
I was shown this in my Web Design II class and I instantly fell in love with it. Everyday this guy posts horrible uses of photoshop (some are submitted) and basically trashes whatever idiot thought that disaster was a good idea. My favorites are the ones where someone forgets to get rid of a watermark before they use the image.

4. Craptions (http://www.cracked.com/craptions/)
In a world of nice photographs and even nicer captions there is one website that defies the norm. Craptions is just what it sounds like: a website with captions for crappy pictures (or crappy captions, take your pick). There’s not much more to it than that. So check it out.

5. APOD (http://apod.nasa.gov/)
This might not be as funny as the first four on this list, but APOD is probably my favorite. APOD stands for Astronomy Picture of the Day. And everyday there’s a new astronomy picture posted for people to enjoy. Most recently there’s been a lot of pics from the Mars rover.

Want to piss someone off? Next time you’re at their house, open up notepad on their computer and type the following:

text1=msgbox(”Click yes to undo”,52,”!”)
text1=msgbox(”Are you sure you don’t want to undo?”,52,”!”)
text1=msgbox(”Well whatever. It’s your computer.”,52,”!”)

Now hit Ctrl+S (save) and change the Save As Type from .txt to All Files. Now name the file popup.vbs and hit save. Feel free to open the file to test it out. All it does is pop up a warning box (to edit the text that displays, change the text in the code. The ‘!’ part is the title, not some weird bit of code).

Now click/drag or cut/past the vbs file into some directory your friend won’t stumble onto. Try the Program Files folder or something. Now right click on the icon and click Send to… -> Desktop (Create Shortcut).

Now click the start button and under All Programs should be a folder called startup. Open it up and put the shortcut to your vbs file into it. Whenever you friend turns on their computer, the warning box(es) will pop up.

I recently got sick of using an FTP program every time I wanted to upload files to my site. So I searched around for solutions (thinking I could ftp via some hidden Windows program) until I found out that you can FTP via Windows Explorer. Not Internet Explorer, but Windows Explorer.

Connecting

To start your connection, open up My Documents (or any folder on Windows you want). In the address bar, type in the ftp address to your site (Example- ftp.sitename.net). After a few seconds, a box will pop up telling you that you cannot connect. Close the box and right click inside of the folder you were just trying to connect through. Select “Login As” and type in your log in information. Click connect and -poof- you’re connected to your site via ftp via windows explorer.

Make Future Connecting Easy

Close out that window (or keep it open if you’d like) and open up your start menu. On the right side of the menu, under My Computer should be My Network Places; click that. On the left, click “Add a Network Place” . Go through the wizard until you can choose between MSN Communities and Choose Another Network Connection. Select the latter and click next. Now type in your ftp address and hit next one more time (make sure to type ftp:// before your ftp address). Unclick Login Anonymously and type in your login name. Name the connection and hit finish. You will now be able to instantly connect to your site via My Network Places. For extra ease, place a shortcut to the connection on your desktop or quick launch bar.

Use With Portable Harddrive

This is very simple. Either install directly onto the harddrive or go onto your C Drive and copy and paste your World of Warcraft folder onto the drive. It’s that simple. You can now use world of warcraft on any computer you want (assuming it has the required specs).

Use With an iPod

If you’ve already set up your iPod to be used a harddrive, go back to Use With Portable Harddrive and follow those instructions. If you haven’t, keep reading. Please note that this is done with iTunes 7 on Windows XP, so if you’re running OS X, it might be slightly different.
Plug your iPod into your computer and open up iTunes (if it doesn’t automatically open). iTunes should display information on your iPod. If it doesn’t, select your iPod under “Devices” on the left side of the program. Under Options, you should see a small list of options. Check Enable Disk Use. Now go back up to Use With Portable Harddrive and follow those instructions (or click here).

Playing the Game

To play the game, all you have to do is open up your harddrive and open up Wow.exe (or whatever the OS X or linux equivelant is). It’s that simple.

All you need is a USB flashdrive. I use a 1gig LG flash drive, but something as small as 128mb will do. First of all, go to Portable Apps and download the Portable App installer. Install the program onto your flashdrive (it’ll take a while to do this, so go watch 2girls1cup or something :D). Once that’s done, you’ll want to start up the portable version of Firefox. This is where a majority of your survival kit will be going.

If you don’t already have one, head over to google and sign up for an account. With this account you’ll have access to Google mail (gmail), Calendar, docs, and many others. With this account, you get 6GB of online storage. And the best way to use that storage is a little Firefox plugin called GSpace. With GSpace, you can upload/download any file you want via Firefox. That means that if you’re finishing up a class and you’ve got some homework you need to finish up, you can upload the word doc, the images, the audio files, or whatever you need to Google and head home, download/complete the assignment and reupload for download at school. Now you might be saying that you can easily do this with a flash drive. This is true. But if you’re a graphic or web design major (I’m web major), you’ll have MASSIVE files that will very quickly fill up your flashdrive. But with Google + GSpace, you can fill up your 6GB with endless amounts of stuff.

This next one is setting your homepage to http://igoogle.com.  Here you can find little widgets and dock them on the page. Personally, I’ve got Calendar, Gmail, and a few others docked so I can easily view my schedule, email, etc. Also remember to trick out your Firefox. Even though its portable, this version of Firefox can use plugins and themes just like the full version. The only difference is that Firefox auto-clears the browsing history when you remove the flashdrive (this reduces the amount of space needed to store Firefox).

Lastly, make use of the programs on Portable Apps.  There are a ton of smaller versions of popular programs that you can use. There’s graphics editors, text editors, IM clients, and more. Also, you can easily add your own programs that will show up on the Portable Apps menu on the computer. I’ve got some GBA/SNES emulators on mine, alone with a few smaller games (Conquest, Crayon Physics, etc.).

5. IE Tab
Any web designer will tell you that one of the biggest parts of web design is getting your work to function properly in Internet Explorer. Well IE Tab lets you do that without every leaving Firefox. IE Tab will open up our file exactly like it would look in the version of IE you have installed in a convenient tab.
[IE Tab download]

4. Console²
You know how in IE when someones screwed up their javascript it lets you know theres an error at the bottom of the screen? Then you know that other than letting you know, it isn’t good for much else. Console² set out to help you debug your javascript, css, and more from the comfort of Firefox.
[Console² download]

3. SeoQuake
Assuming you’re a web designer with a website, you probably like to know how your little slice of the internet compares to the other slices. SeoQuake is the end all beat all of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools, providing Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Google/Yahoo/LIVE search index, and a ton more.
[SeoQuake download]

2. ColorZilla
Imagine this: You’re browsing around and find a color on a website that you really like. And you really want to use it in a design of your own. So you take a screenshot, paste it into photoshop or whatever, and use the eyedropper to snag the RGB, Hex, etc. That’s a bit much, don’t you think? With ColorZilla, there’s a built in color eyedropper tool that lets you snag the color of anything on a page. Additionally, you can set it to automatically copy the color so you can easily paste it into your code or graphic editor.
[ColorZilla download]

1. Web Developer Toolbar
This is the greatest asset to a web designer that uses Firefox. Its features are, but certainly not limited to, CSS editing, viewing IDs and classes, table hierarchy, and quickly validating a page. It’s definitely a must have. To really grasp the greatness of this plugin, you’ve got to download it and try it out yourself.
[Web Developer Toolbar download]