David, an affiliate manager from Etology.com, has given me a $25 coupon for FREE traffic for NEW affiliates.

To test out Etology.com and get $25 worth of free traffic from their advertising network, you can sign up for an affiliate account here, then use the coupon code “01KLSY” at ad checkout to get the $25 of free advertising.

Here’s an interview with David from Etology.com:

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(Thanks again David for the interview and your time!)

Etology.com offers a wide range of advertising/publisher’s programs including text ads, banners, thumbnails, and more. They offer a wide range of banner ads, which I liked since I need to be flexible when I am offering advertising on my blog.

The greatest feature about Etology.com is that they allow you to set your own prices for your ads.

For mine, I chose a 125×125 pixel ad, I haven’t put it on this blog yet, but I will do that later this week to test out the effectiveness and also conversion rate of Etology.com.

You can also set your ad to be sold at market prices, which is great since there’s a standard price for the advertisers.

For advertisers, it seems like you will have tough time finding the right site to advertise on as there are so many sites at Etology.com as shown in this screenshot of their marketplace:

But Etology.com does offer personal support so you don’t have to do the work and let the affiliate manager find good ones for you.

Another great thing about Etology.com is that they offer 5% commissions on any affiliates you refer. So you can make 5% of any advertising that your friends sell.

I will be trying out Etology.com for banner advertising on my blog later this week and also a breakdown of all affiliate programs will be given at the end of all AdTech 2008 reviews.

Since there’s so many people coming into Zedomax.com through Google search term, “wireless hack“, I though I round up some wireless hack guides on the internet real quick:

1. ZDnet - Hack most wireless LANs in minutes!
2. aeonity - how to ethically hack a wifi wireless internet connection using free hacking software.
3. ethicalhacker - Essential Wireless Hacking Tools
4. Metacafe video - Hacking Wireless Computers in your neighborhood

Cool, iPhone firmware is being updated to 1.1.1! So now I might actually think about buying one but then the network is still too slow….so I will just wait for the real thing…

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Well that is what you would be saying if you owned a web cam like this one. Behind the mirror is the web cam so you can stare into it and at the same time see yourself how others on the other end of the connection can see you, nice!

Now some people would say that this is perfect for women, but I am not totally sure about that, because I have seen some men carry on worse than any woman over their appearance. Especially with the ring of lights around the mirror.

Mind you it is a good idea to know that you do look ok, when making a conference call or something for your business etc. It is connected via the USB port, which would that there is no software to download. Unfortunately there are no prices and much other information on this device as of yet.

Source [Akibabar News]

These images were taken of an ATM machine in Russia, not quite sure exactly where, but this does throw some suspicion on how safe your money is when there are machines like this one blatantly out there just waiting for the next customer to come along and give it your card and PIN number.

Is this a scam? We do not really know, but the whole thing looks seriously suspicious, after all would you put your card in there and then give it your PIN number?

Source [Techna Bob]

Twitter is a simple application where you can blab and twit about where you are going, what you are drinking, and anything you are doing. It’s a way of micro-blogging which has taken a life of its own. (Maybe bigger than social networking sites someday) Anyway, while we try to make our own twitter with our evil minds (jk, we don’t have time to do that, we rather twit). Check out my new twitter page if you are bored or having some drinks.

Holy cow, remember our predictions that the code 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 will grow at an exponential rate? It’s doubling almost every day!

It will be interesting what will be done about this code in the near future. Who knows, this hex code might become a model for all sorts of online legal battles in the future.

On the side note, we wish Zedomax would reach over a million search results on Google faster… ;p

I’ve been doing a lot of research lately after my HTC 8125 broke, but it came back to life about a week later.

Since my HTC 8125 is so slow, I had to find a new phone that was FAST. I went to all the stores with demo phones including Cingular, Verizon, Sprint, and didn’t really bother going to T-mobile. Anyways, some of the Cingular stores had these HTC 8525 demos hooked up on Wi-fi so I thought it was really fast until I turned the Wifi off.

After going to all these stores, I found Sprint and Verizon had the fastest internet. (As far as simply bringing up a big site like Make on the phone)

What’s HSDPA and EDVO?

HSDPA is basically the data internet network for GSM phones (Cingular, T-Mobile) and EDVO is the one for CDMA phones. (Sprint, Verizon)

I am really looking forward to WiMAX, which is a network running on CDMA and supposedly is faster than your DSL or cable.

Browsing Tests

My current HTC 8125 on Cingular takes about 2 minutes.

Verizon took about 30 seconds and Sprint was slightly faster at about 20 seconds.

Then I went to the Cingular store and tested their HSDPA enabled HTC 8525 phone which took about 1 minute and a half to load up Makezine.

Well, this is all great, but where is the proof?

So, I found a cool site that tests your cellphone speed. I checked out the Cingular store and the Sprint store again.

Although I wanted to switch to Sprint, I wanted to do a last check for the fastest phone.

Here’s the results:

Cingular HTC 8125:

400 K bits/sec

Cingular Samsung Blackjack:

830K bits/sec

Sprint PPC-6700

1100K bits/sec

I wanted to test the Motorola-Q too at the Sprint store but maybe next time…

Actually, the Sprint PPC-6700 flutuated between 500K bits/sec to 1600K bits/sec

Overall, when browsing sites, the Sprint PPC-6700 loaded faster whereas the Cingular phones loaded very slowly regardless of the speed test.

If you are going to go with Cingular, make sure to get the HTC8525, which is the only phone that supports HSDPA. Actually maybe Blackjack does too…

I will update you on some results after my new Sprint phone purchases. (We are gettin’ the Moto Q and the Samsung IP-830W for some rugged testing…)

Also expect EDVO Rev B to boost some EDVO enabled phones… (Sprint, Verizon) Up to 9Mbps downloads!

If you are a network manager or likes to mess with network stuff, you know what this localhost 127.0.0.1 Doormat is for. ( For your home, of course!)

For those of you non-network IT managers, 127.0.0.1 is the IP address of Localhost on a computer or server. You can do a test in DOS command line, “ping 127.0.0.1″, and see if your network card is workin’

Wikipedia has a good definition of Localhost and Answers has a good technical info on Localhost too.

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