Blogger Buzz: 2007 Roundup

A most awesome year for blogger it has been! There have been some great upgrades, improvements, and adjustments this year!

Blogger Buzz: 2007 Roundup

Save Profile on Call of Duty Modern Warfare

I just finished writing a little tutorial on how to change your profile name in Call of Duty 4. Hope it helps to those who need it.

Creative Way To Get Traffic

Shock value always helps people get attention for marketing, but quality of the shock (longevity) is what makes it stand.

Over at KnickerPicker.com

They have a very unique way of picking out an outfit, actually seeing a real moving person wear it!

Marketing Your Web Sites

If you're really into web design or graphics, you probably know how important it is for people to find your work. Well that's where your marketing skills come in to play. I'm not going to give the 101's on marketing here, but what I am going to do is give a you a link to a place that offers user-voted marketing content.

http://sphinn.com/

I've found some very good information within only a few seconds of being on that website. Perhaps in the future I will create an e-Marketing 101 guide for you though. I have virtually no money and have done all marketing by the book and without that which most consider essential money. That's right, I know how to be cheap, so cheap in fact that I wouldn't pay any money for some of my strategies, and if there's no price on them, that makes them priceless. You will have priceless strategies from me for free.

Caligraphy Tool Test

I wanted to test out the Caligraphy Tool in GIMP vs Project Dogwaffle. I've found that I prefer the Dogwaffle tool over the GIMP tool, although the GIMP tool is interesting too. I drew a character in each program and posted them here so you could compare them as well.

USING GIMP TOOL
(Reproduced Chinese word for "LUCK")

Below was using the Tempura brush tool
(not a real Chinese character)

I found that the marks were more smooth in Project Dogwaffle, but more controllable in GIMP. Both produce desirable results!

You can download GIMP for free here:
http://www.gimp.org
And you can download Project Dogwaffle for free here:
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/

Free 3d Graphics

I found a blog recently showcasing a 3d artists graphic works, 3d-photorealism.eu. He offers a free download section as well! Downloads are in .ace compression format which you should be able to use the free compression/decompression utility TUGZip.

Digg Buttons For Your Blogspot Blog!

I just put some "Digg" buttons on my site, in case you're wondering how to do it for your Blogspot blog too, here's the link that showed me how.

Back to LiveWriter!

It's been a while since I've used Windows Live Writer

I've missed Live Writer. It makes blogging so easy. Not that I want to be lazy, but that I want to do more in the same amount of time. Now I can toggle between many blogs at once! The only one it doesn't work for is my custom made blog, Chexed.com. It works for any blogger blog or wordpress blog.

I included the screenshot above so you can see just how easy it makes things! The only reason I stopped using it is because I reformatted my computer (because I got a virus :()

Things are rock'n'rollin again!

Flash Designed Visual Search Engine

Very cool search engine!

www.kartoo.com

It has a great design, and you can see what kind of keywords are associated with your website by using it. Flash Player required to use!