If you use GoDaddy.com to purchase and manage your website domain names, you should always do a quick web search with a search phrase like “godaddy coupons” or “godaddy coupons February 2010″. I had to renew my domain registration for my blog on organic raw living food and veganism. I found a page that gives GoDaddy coupon codes for February 2010. I used a GoDaddy coupon code from this page back in January and saved 30% on my domain renewal price. Nice 
If you use other services that allow you to enter coupon codes, you should similarly take a few moments to do a quick web search to see if you can find any coupon codes that you can utilize before you complete your checkout.
Quick Money Saving Tip: Use Coupon Codes to Save on Your GoDaddy Purchases
The Real Fun Begins When the Snow Starts to Melt: Chris Turner of The Ring Finders Discusses ‘Heat-Holes’ at Cypress Bowl
December 2009 & January 2009 was a particularly bad snow year in the Greater Vancouver Area of British Columbia, Canada. As the snow was melting, I found quite a bit of loose change as I went about my business around town. If I recall correctly, I found between $12.00 – $18.00. I mentioned this to a friend and she forwarded me an article about a family that has kept track of how many ‘lucky pennies’ they’ve found over the course of a few years.1 I was intrigued and started (on January 19, 2009) recording my ‘lucky penny’ finds to see if I could reproduce their success. Each time I make a new $5.00 landmark, I make a quick tweet about it (I’m @MarcusBarnes on Twitter). Finding lucky pennies as I’m walking around has turned into a bit of a hobby and I’ve become interested in taking up metal detecting as a result. While researching metal detecting, I came across Chris Turner of The Ring Finders – “an online directory of metal detector specialists that will help people find their lost jewelry at beaches, parks, lakes and yards around the world.”2
In the following YouTube video, Chris describes the ‘heat-hole’ phenomenon that helps explain why I was finding so much loose change as the snow began to melt at the beginning of January 2009:
As I claimed in the title to this post, for treasure hunters, change hunters, and other like-minded folks, the real fun begins when the snow starts to melt
I’ve made a previous post about Chris Turner and his Vancouver-based metal detecting service here on marcusebarnes.com — you may also want to check out Chris’ YouTube Channel: TurnersTreasureTeam for other cool videos related to his metal detecting services.
QUESTION: What’s the most interesting coin you’ve ever picked up while going about your daily errands, etc.?
References
- “Picking up loose change makes sense” interview by Sally Herships http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/02/change_hunters/ Accessed December 26, 2009
- About Ring Finders http://theringfinders.com/about/ Accessed December 26, 2009
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List of Twitter based Apps that Use Hashtags
I recently wrote a guest post on TwiTip.com on Why You Should Consider Using Hashtags (in your Tweets). One of the reasons I suggested using hashtags is that there a many web applications that utilize hashtag data. By using hashtags, you potentially give your Twitter profile exposure through these apps. I thought I would provide a list of these apps as I come across them. Please note that this list is a work in progress — so please come back from time to time to check for any additions to the list. I hope you find this list of apps/websites that utilize hashtag data useful!
- Mentionmap Twitter network graph visualization tool from Asterisq.com. Find out how to explore your Twitter network with Mentionmap.
- Foller.me — “a Twitter service that can provide you with the most detailed information about a specific Twitter user in the least amount of time!”1
- tagdef: “Ever seen a hashtag on Twitter, and wondered what it is all about? Now you can look it up, and cast your vote on the definitions. And if you don’t like the definitions, or none exists, you can create your own in seconds.”2
- My Tweet Cloud: “My Tweet Cloud is a free service for users of Twitter allowing us to get a tag cloud generated with hastags (#tags) used in their last 200 tweets.” 3
- Twubs #hashtags made useful – “Twubs are Twitter groups built around content aggregated from #hashtags.”4
References
- About Foller.me http://blog.foller.me/about/ Accessed December 24, 2009.
- Definitions of twitter tags – hashtag directory http://tagdef.com/ Accessed December 24, 2009.
- My Tweet Cloud – Get your Twitter tag cloud http://mytweetcloud.com/ Accessed December 24, 2009.
- Twubs http://twubs.com/ Accessed December 27, 2009.
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Your Monday Smile: “Darth Vader Feels the Blues” by Billy Faithfull and Oli Beale
I hope this “touching” moment between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker provides you with a nice Monday smile to help get you through your work week
It’s amazing how a small change of perception (and some nice music and video editing skills) can take such a serious moment from Star Wars into one that’s completely hilarious! Luke thinks to himself “Well… that’s the last time I ever take off Darth’s helmet….” The video was “conceived on The White Island by Billy Faithfull and Oli Beale – cut by BF”. This video (often used as an example of the viral potential of YouTube videos) has now had over 3.5 million views on YouTube – amazing!
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Font Resource for Designers and Creatives: Download Fonts from dafont.com
I recently came across dafont.com, a great website for finding interesting fonts, many of which are public domain, free, or licensed under GPL or similar use licenses. The site should be of interest to anyone doing any type of design work – either online or in print. To give you an indication of the scope of the available fonts for download, here are the major categories and subcategories of fonts you can find on the site:
- Fancy Fonts:
- Cartoon
- Comic
- Groovy
- Old School
- Curly
- Western
- Typewriter
- Curly
- Western
- Eroded
- Old School
- Eroded
- Stencil
- Initials
- Distorted
- Destroy
- Horror
- Fire, Ice
- Decorative
- Army
- Various
- Grid
- Foreign Look Fonts:
- Chinese, Japan
- Roman, Greek
- Arabic
- Russian
- Mexican
- Various
- Techno Fonts:
- Square
- LCD
- Sci-fi
- Various
- Gothic Fonts:
- Medieval
- Modern
- Celtic
- Initials
- Various
- Basic Fonts:
- Sans Serif
- Serif
- Fixed Width
- Various
- Script Fonts:
- Calligraphy
- School
- Handwritten
- Brush
- Trash
- Graffiti
- Various
- Dingbats:
- Alien
- Animals
- Horror
- Games
- Shapes
- Logos
- Music
- Asian
- Ancient
- Bar Code
- Nature
- Sport
- Sexy
- Army
- Runes, Elvish
- Esoteric
- Fantastic
- Heads
- Kids
- TV, Movie
- Various
- Holiday Themed Fonts:
- Valentine
- Easter
- Halloween
- Christmas
- Various
The above lists should give you an idea of the scope of the possible font downloads – more than 9000 fonts and growing everyday.
Among the other features of the site is some basic help on how to install a font and a list of font creation tools. (Who knows? Maybe you’ll want to submit a font of your own creation to the site.)
Too bad I didn’t know about dafont.com when I was putting together the video montage of photographs I created for my graffiti, tag, mural, and street art blog — it would have been supercool to use some graffiti fonts for the titles and captions in the video. Next time!
One thing I don’t like about dafont.com is that it’s not quick and easy to filter results by license. For example, it would be great to be able to click on something and get a list of all public domain fonts available for download on the site. This is not a major criticism though, since many sites that include content with varying content use licenses also don’t make it easy to filter by license.
