Posts Tagged With: cheap
· May 2, 2008 at 5:36 am · Online Tools, Web Development
A few months back I did a round up of some of my favorite flash podcast players that are out there, but then I got people asking about the video podcasters out there. What type of tools could they use other than going with a YouTube, Revver or another Online service? Thanks to these downloads, you can get your own flash video player going for a relatively cheap price.
Flowplayer might be my favorite of the free flash video players out there. It has multiple color schemes and skins you can use, as well as being lightweight and not overly obnoxious with the basic design. If you want to upgrade you could also pick up the commercial license which would allow you to remove the Flowplayer logo when maximized, bug fixes and one month of support via e-mail.
JW FLV Media Player is another one you should check out if your looking for your own emendable flash video player. It supports flv, mp3, h264, swf and more. Also included is streaming support, RSS, play lists and accessibility features too. Released under Creative Commons, it too is totally free to use too.
Wimpy Wasp is not a free download to try, but it is worth checking out. This product too allows you to play flash video on your site by plugging and playing with the flash video player. Makes the process of putting your own flash player out there a lot easier. While you are on their site, you might also check out the Wimpy AV Player too.
Willing to pay for your player? You can also get a lot of other flash video player projects over at FlashDen. You may have to pay a little but they have a slew of downloads to browse through to see if they will fit into your current project or web site. Have another favorite, let me know and leave a comment.
· February 13, 2008 at 6:13 am · Desktop, Resources
Right now Vladstudio.com is having a special Valentine’s Day deal. You can just $19.99 (usual price is $29.99) to get a lifetime membership to the site. I have always been a big fan of this site - but didn’t use it much since the free stuff is rather limited.
With a paid membership though you get higher quality wallpaper and the usual watermark is removed. I am a big believer in supporting people who bring you excellent content for almost nothing and with a deal like this, how could you turn it down?
· January 8, 2008 at 7:10 am · Web Hosting
Talking to a few people both inside and outside the web hosting game there is a certain business model that seems to be taking off in popularity. Many large web hosts looking for new revenue streams are trying to also be Micro hosts. Now what is a Micro host?
Web hosting disk space and bandwidth offers are so large these days it is getting ridiculous web hosts have to do something new. You can always lower the price - so why not make fast food’s equivalent to the web hosting world? That is Micro web hosting 101.
Now who would want to use a stripped down and less expensive hosting plan? Well you will need to toss in a few more perks. Maybe an easy to use page editor or a template system. The target for these will not be Joe down the street who has years of experience in coding HTML, PHP and working with MySQL databases. The target is Jane, who has never done a web site before and wants something simple and quick so that she can type in the content, hit save and she never has to look at the site again for six months.
So is Micro hosting a bad thing? No. It is creating yet another business model that will make the web hosts money and the customers of the web host happy.
· December 28, 2007 at 5:00 am · Personal
Working freelance or as a “contracted worker” means you don’t have much time for 7 course meals. Heck, you hardly have time for meals at all as a mater of fact. You always have that next client, deadline or project to work on. With that in mind I thought I would share with you one of my favorite recipes for a quick and easy snack.
Please go gather this from the kitchen:
- 1 Can of Vienna Sausages (Armor is the best!)
- 3 slices of bread (regular ol’ white bread, don’t get fancy!)
- 1 bowl (don’t eat the bowl, please…)
Step 1: Drain the water from the Vienna Sausages, and then dump them into the bowl.
Step 2: Stack the 3 slices of bread, one on top of the other and rip them in half by your bare hands. This should give you 6 rectangle pieces of bread.
Step 3: Eat the first Vienna Sausage now. If you don’t, you’ll end up with an odd amount later on.
Step 4: Last step in this recipe is to wrap each Vienna sausage in a piece of bread (don’t be afraid to squeeze the final result to make it stick well). Then eat as you wrap. You now know what keeps me going from my day to day job a Lunarpages, to producing a web hosting podcast and more.
· December 14, 2007 at 5:00 am · Web Hosting
It has been fun the past few days watching the debate on the Web Hosting Show about fxts.net and a segment I did talking about their “promise” to give their clients 10 terabyes of disk space. Well, I give Daniel - the guy in charge over there a lot of credit because he has defended himself and his action.
Alex (from Sliqua Enterprise Hosting) had held the fire to his feet though without going over the line. Here are just a few examples of the discussion that has been had. Read the rest of this entry »
· August 20, 2007 at 6:12 am · Personal, Web Hosting
I took last week off from the podcast so I could work on tweaking the layout there and getting things more modern looking. There were a lot of small things I had to change after the big layout re-design, but now the show is back on track with a freshly squeezed new episode.
Here is the content line up for this week’s edition of everybody’s favorite web hosting podcast.
- Tips for Disabling “Index of” File Listings for Folders!
- Free File Hosting (Up to 1GB) With File123.com!
- Positives and Negatives of Cheap Hosting?
- Marketing: Free Layouts Are Traffic Hunters’ Gold!
- Who’s the Fastest Growing Domain Name Register?
Now that we are back on track - you should go check out podcast 119 (.mp3) and feel free to share with me your feedback, thoughts, comments and more.
