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Today T-mobile launched the first Android based phone: the T-mobile G1 by HTC.

More info here:
http://www.t-mobileg1.com/g1-announcement.aspx

and here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/09/
t-mobile_unveils_first_google.html

Device video here: http://www.t-mobileg1.com/default.aspx

As of last month I relocated move2create.com to it’s new home on my VPS I recently got from virpus.com.

As this was my first VPS I expected quite some work, but with the help of resources like vpsmedia.com/articles it proved to be less work then I had imagined. My experiences as a beginner VPS user with virpus.com have been excellent and would definitely recommend them.

GeekyNomad.com post can now be listened to through the service of Odiogo.com.

You can do this by using the “listen now” button or by using the “subscribe now” button in the sidebar.

Tip: Just wanted to include my experience regarding the plugin. For me it wasn’t immediately clear how I could manually determine the location of the plugin “listen now” button. Then I stumbled across a line in odiogo_listen_button.php (wp-content > plugins > odiogo_listen_button) which I had overlooked.

Around line 113 there is an option that says:

$odiogo_adv_options['manually_insert_listennow_link'] = false;

Set this to true and use the code:

<?php odiogo_listennow();?>

to include the listen button anywhere you want in your template files.

A couple of months ago I got an email invitation for Naymz.com and decided to sign up.

Not having paid much attention to it for a while I recently stumbled across this post: http://collinlahay.com/2008/08/07/link-building-with-naymz/ on Collin Lahay’s website wich had some excellent tips on how to improve your Naymz profile.

After reading I decided to try and improve my own Naymz RepScore. The RepScore is a Naymz.com score system determined by factors like Profile Completeness, connections, references, ID verification, etc.

My starting score was a 3/10.

The following is a step by step detailing my steps that resulted in getting a good Naymz.com RepScore.

1. Create a free profile: http://www.naymz.com
2. Fill in as much personal/business information as possible, this includes:

1. Name, Residence, Occupation & Media
2. Your Resume, can even be nearly empty like Collin Lahay’s post mentioned
3. A Photo
4. Contact Information
5. Email adres | Add more of your emails for additional points
6. A short About… section

3. Add links from any personal, company and or blog websites you have (e.g. I also included a link to my Fotolia Portfolio). Also make sure to include the feed links if your blog and or website has them
4. Invite family, friends and colleages to join
5. Invite family, friends and colleages to leave you references
6. Add your “Tags”
7. Verify your identity | Now this was a very important step towards improving my score since this adds up to 250 points (for a RepScore point breakdown edit your Naymz Profile and click on “RepScore Details” and then any of the RepScore links). Naymz.com uses a service called Trufina in order to verify your identity.
   
   Now whether or not Trufina is truely insurance to prove “you are really you” is not really important at this point. Naymz.com uses it and it’s a good way to instandly improve your RepScore.
   
   Using the Trufina Coupon Code (c4ub8y3n | $3.95 discount) I found here I ended up paying only about $11 for both a “Trufina ID Badge” and a “Criminal Background Check” which I think is a good investment.

All in all the result was a RepScore of 8/10 as you can see on my profile here: http://www.naymz.com/search/thomas/korthuis/2071758 and all without paying the $9.99/m premium service naymz.com offers.

All this took me about 20 min. This time was also reduced because I already had a lot of info on hand from other social networking websites (e.g. my LinkedIn profile) as you may also already have.

Great video by Conservation International and Harrison Ford showing his (very) personal involvement.

Check it out: http://www.conservation.org/fmg/pages/videoplayer.aspx?videoid=30

If you are looking for more pictures like in the gallery feel free to visit my Creativity InMotion website at move2create.com and clicking on the “Photography” menu item in the top right hand corner.

A blog that attempts to provide you with useful examples and tips that could make a large positive ecological impact, although they are seemingly minor, quick and easy changes to your daily routine.

Found this video on www.instructables.com (http://www.instructables.com/id/E7OGJGKPAXEZ7BDYA9/)
The Hole - video powered by Metacafe

These are a few sites that offer discounted prices on great mac software: MacUpdate - macupdate.com/promo

What makes this list different from other lists? Nothing! These are apps I use on a regular basis. Some are free some are not and are listed in no particular order. Free & Open source Apps:

• TacoHTML Edit (tacosw.com) - Simple, effective, fast HTML, PHP and CSS editing - FREE
• Camino Browser (caminobrowser.org) - Mozilla powered browser in the Mac style - FREE
• VLC VideoLan Client (videolan.org) - Video player that practically play and stream anything in most formats - FREE
• MPEG Streamclip (squared5.com) - Must-have for video editing - FREE
• ClipMasterCM (abracode.com/ClipMasterCM) - ClipMasterCM allows you to save clipboard content on your computer hard drive for later access. You may compile a collection of clips which will be available for pasting in any application via contextual menu - FREE

Shareware & Commercial Apps:

• Disco (discoapp.com) - CD Burning with lots of features and nice smoke effect - $29.95
• Yummy FTP (yummyftp.com) - Fast and simple FTP Client - $25
• VisualHub (techspansion.com/visualhub) - Fast conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, Tivo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash - $23.32
• More to come later

As of today geekynomad.com is being hosted by Site5.com. Because of frequent downtime, email interruptions, slow page loading, etc we have moved from ixwebhosting to Site5. As well as having faster load times than ixwebhosting they offer more features then the old provider.

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Geekynomad.com is still under construction but gradually coming along. The intended goal for geekynomad.com is to become a general discussion place for anything interesting, new or generally worth mentioning - Maintained by Creativity InMotion - Website: www.move2create.com

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