Why duct tape marketing? Well, duct tape is often associated with doing things yourself – and I want to help you learn all there is to know about marketing your website, your business or anything else you are putting out there for the masses to enjoy, with the smallest budget possible. 

So be sure to check out Mitchelaneous.com every single day this month, as I guide you though the best ways to make yourself more successful, without putting too much of a strain on your wallet.

The best feature of this camcorder has to be that it is really simple to use.  You honestly point it in the direction you want to film and then push the big red shinny button on the back.

Here is a sample video I took of my dog a few months back, so you can get an idea of the video quality.

Here are some of the other features worth mentioning too:

• Easy-to-use, pocket-sized HD camcorder featuring one-touch recording and digital zoom
• Simple user interface lets you start capturing HD video just seconds after powering on
• Captures 120 minutes of HD video on 8 GB of built-in memory; no tapes or additional memory cards required
• Convenient flip-out USB arm plugs directly into your PC or Mac to launch FlipShare software
• Pre-installed FlipShare software lets you easily email videos, edit individual clips, make custom movies, capture still photos from video, and even upload video to sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace
• FlipShare’s advanced compression technology allows for quick and easy sharing of high-resolution HD video in compact-sized files (via email or publishing online)
• Comes with Flip Video rechargeable AA battery pack (recharges when connected to USB); also supported by standard AA batteries
• Large 2-inch anti-glare color LCD screen to play back and delete videos
• HDMI output (mini-HDMI connector) makes it simple to watch video on your HDTV
• Video: 16:9 widescreen, HD 720p (1280 x 720) at 30 frames per second (fps) progressive scan; recorded as MP4 files

Now, I can’t hold a camcorder steady to save my life – but for people like me, you can easily screw a tripod into the bottom of the camcorder for hands free recording.

Overall, it has been a few months now, and I think I made the right purchasing decision. Having recorded more than a few birthday parties, and just my nephews and niece messing around the the backyard and can really say nothing but good things about the Flip UltraHD Camcorder.

Are you looking to a great bundle of web design and development treasures, for a fraction of the price? Then you need to go check out BundleHunt.  Right now they are offering everything from web hosting plans, premium WordPress themes, classy icons and more for a heavily discounted price.

BundleHunt is fantastic, because it does all of these things:

• Helps to Promote Great Design Tools, Software and Services
• Gives People BIG Discounts on Great Resources

I have yet to figure out how BundleHunt is making very much, but I am sure they have a business plan wrapped in there somewhere.  Currently you have 6 days left to get:

• Billings
• Flux
• 6 months of Site5 web hosting
• The Smashing Mag E-Book
• 1 Year Membership to SUBERNOVA
• Icon Dock (Icon Set)
• Designious (Vector Image Pack)
• 2 WordPress Themes from WP Bakery
• 100 HQ Photos from Photocase
• 100 Premium Files from Vandelay Premier
• 3 WordPress Themes from Mojo Themes
• Dry Icons
• 25% Off the Next Bundle

That is $1,400 worth of great and wonderful web design and development tools.  You only have to pay $49 for it all.

BundleHunt is a resource well worth bookmarking, and checking out.  You get tons a great things, for a really low discounted price.

With my recent surge of Mega Man 10 desktop icons I’ve created, I figured it was about time I say down and reviewed this wonderful game.  Mega Man 10 is everything you know and love about the old 8-bit classic, and will keep you happy if you like to punish yourself by playing a level over and over again.

We have done this Mega Man song and dance before.  Something bad happens, Mega Man has to fight eight robot masters, and well, you know the drill.  This time around though, you can also play as Proto Man right from the start – so that gives you almost the feeling of two games in one.

Thus far I have only beat one of the Robot Masters, and I’m still in that, “learning” phase with all the levels.  There is no hand-holding with this game, and it will take a certain level of skill and memorization to get through every single course.

Sure, there is an easy mode – which I haven’t tried yet, because… well, who is going to admit they beat the game on easy? Really?

Overall, Mega Man 10 is well worth spending $10 on.  If the game alone is not enough the keep you busy, the variety of difficulties, challenges and soon to come downloadable content should be.

Now why not go towards a more expensive product like the iPod line of players?  Well, I need something that is cheap enough that I don’t feel bad dropping it in my pocket, and letting it get beat up a little ‘bit while I do work outside.  I’m afraid if I got something like an iPod Touch I would be cradling the thing like a new born baby, which for my needs, it just does not fit.

Back to the Coby MP305-4G, it is not a bad little player in it’s own right.  Some of the features include:

• 4 GB of Flash Memory
• Built in USB 2.0 Interface
• Has Built in FM Radio (which will probably never be used)

It runs off a single triple A battery, which is a test really to see if I like that more, or the rechargeable battery I had with the Zen Stone Plus.  Couldn’t tell you the battery life yet – cause it has yet to run out.  Overall, if your looking for a cheap MP3 player you can slap some stuff onto and get back to work – I would highly recommend the Coby MP305-4G.  If your looking for something that has tons of bells and whistles, you might want to look elsewhere. 

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Daniel (from fxts.net)

Actually, fxts.net is not a fraud. We had contracted with JaguarPC to offer our service, which was a big mistake. JaguarPC was not a good partner with which to try to do something like this.

Today, we just relaunched our $1 hosting service, with much smaller specs. We plan to increase the specs back to 10 Terabytes each of bandwidth and disk space once we finish building our server cluster. We have moved to HostGator, having already purchased one server with them.

What started on a reseller account at JaguarPC grew too fast for JaguarPC to want to handle (we tried numerous times to upgrade to a clustered server solution at JaguarPC, and they basically told us to go screw ourselves as they were too lazy to help us upgrade). This, combined with a major DDoS attack, forced our service down for about five days. We spent this time moving to our new server at HostGator and reconfiguring the service. We have already begun to transfer old user accounts, and have already refunded most of the users who had accounts on the old server.

Again, after our cluster is fully up and running, the 10 Terabyte plan will be back.

Alex (from Sliqua Enterprise Hosting)

That’s pretty amusing to say the least… Per the comment from Daniel, somehow HostGator is going to allow you to offer such a plan under a reseller account? I’m not trying to be rude, but I don’t know any hosting company that is going to allow you to host 10TB worth of anything for $1. The cheapest I’ve seen a provider go on even 1TB is around $150/mo and that was because they are actually setup in a cluster for Backup space with approx. 200TB.

However, I’m really glad someone is going out there and trying to take full advantage of the “promised” resources provided under their oversold hosting accounts. Maybe this will inspire the majority of hosting companies out there *NOT* to oversell, or at least make it impossible to do what fxts.net is doing with their reseller plans. While I feel bad for JaguarPC and HostGator having to deal with your “requirements”, I don’t believe in overselling hosting and wish them the best of luck dealing with you as a customer.

Check out the entire conversation here.