I’ll keep this short and sweet.
Get free Positive SSL and free Whois Guard with every domain name you register!
With the added bonus of the cheapest rates about, you can’t complain!

I have used many different domain companies over the years I’ve been into programming and to be honest they are all pretty much the same apart from price. Some provide bad support, but as a whole there all equal.

So getting free stuff included like a free Positive SSL certificate and free Whois Guard with every domain name you register is a nice bonus!

.info – $2.99/yr &nbsp (Limited Time Only!)
.com – $9.98/yr
.net – $9.98/yr
.org – $8.88/yr
.mobi – $7.99/yr
.biz – $9.69/yr

Name Cheap

The average person now has several points of online contact ranging from Email addresses, Facebook, Twitter, personal website or blog and usually a few others.

I believe a service for consolidating these contact points is just a matter of time.
It has been attempted before with web sites like LinkedIn, Friend Feed and such like. These, however, tend to focus more on social networking than contact point aggrigation.

Could the Digerati be leading the way for another revolution?
I believe that changes are coming, and in a big way!

Heres why…

Our brain generally prefer storing memories and information using Mnemonics over other forms, such as numerical data. Remembering a list of phone numbers, for example, can take a while unless you have a great short term memory… Or Jedi mind powers!

Our brains seem to find it easier to recall words with a meaning attached and names, which is why the Domain name system was created. At the time, people didn’t want to remember and then type 209.85.227.103 into the address bar to get to google… I can’t think why!

If the mobile phone carriers would follow the example set by the DNS websites use to convert I.P. addresses into domain names and assign a name based system, it could open the way to an easier way of contacting friends, family and colleagues.

I think we could use one name or handle for all of our contact points if the phone companies would follow where others have already tread. It shouldn’t be too hard to impliment but I think it would have to be limited to inter-country calls due to the global population limit (an estimated 6,924,173,550 people at time of posting!) or the naming convention would have to be very convoluted.

There are a few obvious problems that spring to mind:

• Using real names could lead to unwanted calls for celebrities and the like.
• Large companies could end up with control of all the names or numbers.
• Cross compatibility could take a while to filter through.

But I doubt any of these will be a show stoppers when there are millions of possible users to market to.

Imagine if you could buy a sim card online or in a shop, register it online to link it to a name of your choice. People could then simply “call” your name or number to contact you.

It may be an extra step, but wouldn’t be required as the number could still be called. A firmware update would be needed to allow current phones to “dial” names. But again, this would not be hard to impliment.

I believe as soon as we can call our name or handle other services will try to use a similar model and intergration with services like Twitter and SMS. That can only lead to a more unified form of contacting everyone!

Viva La Revolution!

I have been using AV Arcade for a while now and think it’s a great script.
I have spent a lot of time looking through the source code and have have some success with my arcade site.

There are a few small issues with the script which don’t detract from the usability, but could reduce crawlability, SERPs and so on.

What’s the difference?

AV Arcade v4.0.2 [Unofficial] is my contribution to the great free arcade script.
I have removed and updated any redundant code.
I made the whole script w3c compliant, in the hope of making search engine indexing and updating easier.
I have implemented various small SEO changes to various pages.

Most of the changes I made were small.

It will, hopefully, make creating modules and templates a little easier too.

I havn’t changed the functionality of the script at all, but hope to have cleaned it up and added a few small tweaks.

When I first installed the script, well version 4, I checked it for validation errors…

[ Before ]

Most of these were minor and all were easily fixed, but should hopefully help Google index new sites and content faster.

[ After ]

What’s New

I have included as many bugfixes on the AV Arcade Forums as I could find.
I have also added, edited or created the following:

• Fully XHTML v1.0 Strict Valid
• CSS Level 2.1 Valid (See below)
• Bugfixes
• 9 Languages
1. Arabic
2. Chineese Simplified
3. Dutch
4. Spanish
5. Finnish
6. French
7. German
8. Italian
9. Portuguese
• New template
1. 5 Banners + .psd
2. XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid
3. Adsense Optimized
• Sitemap page
• Bookmark Module
• Tested with 3 Browsers
1. Internet Explorer v7.0.57
2. FireFox v3.0.4
3. Opera v9.62

I also fixed a few issues with the AVElf template.

AVElf Banners

Notes!

Please remember to backup all files before making any changes!

No SQL was harmed during the making of this update (No need to update or change it)

CSS is only valid with Featured games disabled, so the button is hidden if the option is on (For the delta template)
AVElf won’t work with Featured games disabled without modification.

To use the AVElf Template, you need to follow the steps below:

1. Login and go to the Admin / Settings page
2. Turn OFF Featured Games
3. Select AVElf from the Templates on the left hand side
4. Upload the contents of the “# Replace” folder into your main site
5. Choose your banner image and upload to the images folder (Renaming to banner_image.jpg).

To switch back to the Delta Template:

1. Login and go to the Admin / Settings page
2. Select delta from the Templates on the left hand side
3. Upload the contents of the “# Replace” (in the delta template) folder into your main site