It appears that Social Hour, one of the few ad networks to be completely banned from the Facebook platform, has now relaunched under a new name: Dizzy Networks. According to one source, Social Hour had been looking for a new face for the company and according to the company’s website, they hired Jeremy Olsson, who was previously the Director of Performance Marketing for RockYou. While the company is still focused on trying to convert IQ quizzes, it doesn’t appear as though Dizzy Networks is running as aggressive of advertisements this time around.

It was only a matter of time before…

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We picked up a great Firefox bookmark tip from [Colin]. He wanted an easier way to look up bug numbers on the launchpad bug tracker. Because the url is always the same with the bug number at the end of the address, he replaced the final portion of the url with %s. Now, when he types the keyword followed by the bug number in the address bar the bug page loads right up.
We don’t do all that many bug searches but it’s immediately obvious that this can be useful in a lot of ways. In the photo above…

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[Costis] managed to dump a copy of the boot ROM for the Nintendo Super Game Boy. This small piece of code (256 bytes) writes a graphic to the display at boot time as it loads the ROM on the game cartridge. He was able to dump the code by finding the exact point at which the device locks down the boot ROM. Just as that point approached he overclocked the device causing it operate so fast it couldn’t write the lockout bits into the register. Once past that single point of security, he executes a code that writes the…

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Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster safer and easier It has one box for everything Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages Will give you thumbnails of your top sites Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab

Many people receive phone calls from numbers they don’t recognize. In some cases we want to contact the person that called us. Sometimes we want to get the details about the caller so we can prevent receiving future phone calls from them.
There is an innumerable amount of reasons why you would want to find out what the caller’s identity is. In that case all you need is a simple reverse phone look up site that will help you get the required information.
So what are some of the reasons to run a reverse phone lookup?
With the help of…

One of the fastest growing Facebook Pages over the past couple weeks was a page developed by KZ Entertainment to entice users to fan the page in order to get the admin to name his son “Batman”. It’s not a completely original tactic as it has been used with varying degrees of success in the past, especially within Facebook groups. The real question though is whether or not this individual should be able to create a Facebook Page which is aimed at promoting a media company rather than accomplishing a legitimate goal.

Currently, Facebook arbitrarily disables publishing features of generic…

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Everyone likes a bargain. It’s even wise to keep one’s costsdown. On the other hand, you can be so cheap that you cut yourown throat.Here are two ways to register a domain name for free and somereasons why you might not want to.. You Must Have Your Own Top Level Domain TLD Name Your business website should definitely have its own top leveldomain TLD name. This means a name like yourcompany.com. Itdoesn’t mean a subdomain of someone else’s domain name, such asyourcompany.someisp.net.Sometimes persons hesitate to register a proper domain namebecause of cost, lack of knowledge, or indecision. However,paying the nominal…

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Ways to Promote Your Blog. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping ablog, you are telling the search engine that you have updatedyour blog content and that your listing should be refreshed.Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that manyindividuals and services use to track blog changes. Pinging yourblogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the searchengine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse thesesites to find something new. . Submit your blog address to blog search sites anddirectories. You can submit your blog’s url to websites such asTechnorati, Daypop, Blogdex…

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