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I've just finished writing a lengthy post over at the Extra!Extra! blog referring to some of the anomalies I've been seeing in the Jungle-Life search engine results. I'm still trying to figure out what it all means but either way, some of you may be interested in the technical mumbo jumbo as you've expressed curiosity at the powerful search results you've been seeing here.

On the Usefulness of Meta Tags

Merchboss is another in the long list of CafePress type stores for selling your wares. The differences however are many.

Unlike other stores, Merchboss does not take a percentage of sales. Merchboss also allows you to sell your own products (assuming you are a musician, record label, or clothing designer) and the pricing structure is tiered with monthly recurring charges based on the amount of products, customization, and features you want added to your shop.

The layout and design of the site are tops so getting your products listed with Merchboss allows you a public venue to showcase your work in an attractive setting. You also get your own merchboss.com/yourname URL and other goodies like store statistics, customized colors and headers, and more.

The end result however is a Paypal cart which confuses me a bit. Why pay someone else a monthly fee to host a Paypal cart for you when you can create one on your own for free? Their FAQ addresses this question among others but in the end their service is not for everyone.

Worth considering however if you're looking for an affordable solution to selling your products with little overhead.

Sell your merchandise online with Merchboss

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So the company I work for decided it's high time we stop the flurry of interesting emails we're sending to one another, and start sharing with the world. And so a blog is born. I'll be posting on there regularly but it will all be geek stuff related to coding and such. We're using WordPress as our blogging platform and so far I'm not all that jazzed on it. I don't like the way templating works and I'm not especially happy with the posting format either - it tends to spit out invalid code and extraneous junk rather often - even with careful typing.

Either way, it's out there, it's live and I'm posting about as regularly there as I do here.

Extra! Extra! Extracting the essentials of the Web

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Being Hunted takes some time out for an in-depth three part interview with the founders of Surrender - a joint venture between James Lavelle (founder of Mo'Wax) and Earn Chen (of Ambush, Singapore). The article covers just about everything you'd like to know about the pair and their new shop in Singapore.

Surrender is up there with Supreme, BAPE, etc.. The article covers their viewpoint of the entire genre and how strange it is seeing materialistic 18 year olds buying 150 dollar t-shirts and ebaying them that same day. Their line is more subtle, a word BAPE is not familiar with.

Surrender: A Conversation with James Lavelle and Earn Chen

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Completely purposeless and yet equally addictive, the premise of file-swap is simple. Upload a file, get a file in return.

No limitation on how big or small the file - upload something, anything, get something, anything in return.

This has just launched so it is not yet full of porn, spam, trojans, or viruses. It is also not yet server overloaded, or shut down for copyright violations, or cease-and-desisted from Nike, so go have some fun while it's still fresh :)

File Swap - Give One, Get One!

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After spending several hours compiling all my sensitive data into a Word document I was searching for a simple encryption solution to be able to share the data with others in a secure manner. I did a search for "file encryption" on Google and the second search result to come up was a SourceForge sponsored project: AxCrypt.

AxCrypt is free and easy to use open source strong file encryption for Windows, integrated within Windows Explorer. Encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view and edit with a few mouse clicks.

The download is very small and the install takes no more than a minute. After install (no restart required) encrypting and decrypting files is easy. Right-click a file, enter a password, confirm the password that's it! The password is very secure and the file is encrypted. An additional keyfile may be used as well for even stronger encryption.

I tried AxCrypt on my document using the longest password I could think of, promptly forgot the password and locked all the data forever (not before spending 30 solid minutes trying every combination I could come up with however). So while I lost several hours of work and I've got an encrypted document on my hard drive with no possible way to open, at least I know the software does what it's supposed to.

From the FAQ: The basic rule is this - If you loose or forget your passphrase or key-file, your documents are lost. There is no back-door into AxCrypt. The only way to recover a lost passphrase is to try all likely combinations. If you have used a key-file, and lost that, there is nothing to do at all - the number of combinations is simply too large.

So there you have it.

AxCrypt: simple, free, strong, secure, encryption

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Edmunds has a nice article on travelling with dogs. Suggestions include; making sure your dog has a collar with identifying tags, bringing all the food, water, toys, and medicine your dog needs, why you shouldn't let your dog stick its head out the window and how to keep your pet as comfortable in the car as you are.

Top 10 Tips for Travelling With Dogs

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