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Domain Owners Beware!

If you own any domains, please beware of any unexpected bills arriving by mail about your domain name expiring and expected a payment of three times the amount you would normally pay at legitimate registries, such as GoDaddy or Tucows. I get them all the time and toss them right into the garbage where they belong.

This particular deceptive letter I get comes from a shady company called Domain Registry of America (droa.com). They also use the names, Domain Registry of Canada, of Europe and of Australia and have been tricking technically challenged people since at least 2002.

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CHEAT !

Having a few arcade websites in our portfolio, what better to add to our collection — and of interest to the more serious gamer — a video game cheats site.

We have almost 20,000 cheats from over 3,500 video games, so chances are, if the game has cheats, then we got ‘em at Turbo Cheat. Every system from the Nintendo, PlayStation, to the XBox 360 and more is covered at Turbo Cheat.

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I was swapping some hard drives around the other day and was reminded about an old portable USB drive that I had laying around. So while I had one of our family boxes open and its drives disconnected I figured that this would be as good a time as any to tinker around with that drive that was presumed dead for many years now.

My computer was not picking up any signs of life from this device and I had written those files off long ago. I figured maybe I could salvage the USB connection or possibly learn something else from this loss.

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Building Better Computers

It seems there is a new holiday tradition in my household. This is now the third consecutive year I found myself piecing together the parts to build somebody a new “super computer”.

This year it was for my son’s best friend who was tired of the lag he encountered while playing games like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars on his aging “rent-a-pc”. So after getting Santa’s approval for the financing, we ordered the hardware to make his games fly and an uber leet box just for show.

We were both like little boys the day the package arrived. We purchased an Asus motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, 1 Gig of DDR2 RAM, Diablo X-Man tower, and an extra translucent fan to keep it cool. The harddrive and CD-ROMs were getting recycled from the old box to save some money.

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ShowMeYourPix has surely evolved over the years and has been the basis for my addiction to the internet and my start as a webmaster.

I began this site during the late 90’s using the few megabytes of free web space provided by my ISP and the help of Netscape’s Composer. This web site began as a way to show off my photography skills to possible clients and to the world and has evolved greatly since.

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This past month we had some fun running our first ever sweepstakes promotion. Up for grabs was X-Men issue #97 from MovieComix.com. This collectible comic book was published in 1976 and is now worth $180 .

We collected several hundred entries during the three weeks the contest was open. To select our lucky winner, we called upon the assistance of Spider-Man.

MovieComix.com is the only movie comic book store which offers all those key comic book issues that are in high demand because of movies released by Marvel and DC Comics.

We have the key comic book issues that you seek for your collection. Our online comic book store offers these issues well below the Overstreet Value Guide.

MovieComix.com is where your comic heroes are now movie stars.