I was randomly selected as a winner in John Chow’s RSS by Email Contest and won a $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card! The gift card was donated by Shaun Carter, so much thanks to you as well as John for the prize.
Now I just have to decide what I want to purchase. I am leaning towards a DVD… maybe Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut. Then again, Need For Speed: Pro Street comes out in less than two weeks…
What would YOU buy?
After months of waiting, the demo for the most anticipated PC game of the year is here. The Crysis demo is now available for Download!
“The demo will feature the entire first level, “Contact,” as well as a “huge surprise from Crytek.”
So I’m watching the World Series and heard about this promotion at the beginning of the game. Being the food lover I am, I was hoping someone would steal a base and sure enough, it just happened! Free food FTW!
Head to Taco Bell on October 30 between 2-5 pm for your free taco!
I finally decided to sign up for a Flickr account. I have been meaning to do it for a while now, but just haven’t had the time.
For those of you who don’t know, Flickr is an online photo community. Think of it as the Myspace/Facebook for your pictures. You are able to upload pictures for free (100 MB per month), sort them and share them with friends or include them in various groups related to your individual picture(s). Flickr users can comment on each others pics, tag them as a favorite, etc.
I decided to purchase a Pro account, which removes several limitations on the free account, such as monthly upload limits and limits on the number of sets you can create. I’ve only uploaded around 400 pictures so far but I have several hundred more than I plan to add in the coming days.
Feel free to check out my profile page and leave some comments if you want 
… or, at least that is the plan.
My buddy Leo (the tattooed pilot on Battlestar Galactica) is hosting a sweet Halo 3 Legendary Edition Giveaway. If you weren’t one of the brave souls that waited in line for your copy of Halo 3 on release night (myself included), then you have a chance to win one for free with Leo’s giveaway! Of course, there really is no point in entering, since I plan to WIN!@!
If you noticed, I recently added the DealDotCom.com Widget to the sidebar of the blog. The widget is offered by BlueFur Webhosting and allows you to fully customize it to fit your blog’s theme. All clicks from the widget are directed with your referral ID, which gives you a much better chance of picking up new affiliates and in turn, making more money!
OCIA.net has teamed up with one of our sponsors, CoolIT Systems to bring everyone another great contest! This month, we will be giving one lucky winner a prize package featuring three of CoolIT’s best-selling accessories as well as $50.00 in COLD HARD CASH!
This contest is all about expanding the OCIA.net Forum by recruiting new members. Simply ask your friends and family to join the OCIA.net Forum and post a reply to the Contest Thread telling everyone who recruited them!
This is the perfect type of contest where you could use your blog or website and leverage your traffic to help you win! One forum member is already doing this! If he wins, he plans to take the prizes back to his forum and hold another contest - great idea!
I look forward to seeing some of my blogging buddies over in the forum real soon. Good luck everyone!
If you have an iPhone, you already know that Apple did a terrible job with the speaker on this phone. This is easily the worst speaker I have ever heard on a phone. Factor in the fact that you have to pay to create ringtones via iTunes, and well, things start to look pretty grim. But, fear not!
In my latest article, I take a look at how to get past these downfalls by creating your own custom ringtones and reducing the audio volume so they won’t overpower the iPhone’s speaker. Be sure to check it out and don’t forget to Digg it!
Fellow blogger and tech site owner Bob Buskirk was the very first person to receive an OCIA.net t-shirt. Well actually, I received the first production sample but they sent me a size that was too small, so I sent it over to Bob. Bob talked to his girlfriend Ashley and she was nice enough to pose for some pictures.
Thanks again to Bob and Ashley for the pics. Don’t forget, I am still running my t-shirt promotion! If you purchase a shirt, take a picture of yourself wearing it and post it on your blog, I will give you a FREE link back and also send you $5 via Paypal to help cover the expenses (shirts are only $12.99 each)! So, you get a cool t-shirt and a free link back all for just $7.99 !
Today we have a photo of the OCIA.net t-shirt designer Despot sporting the shirt that he created - pretty cool eh?! Despot won $100 in cold hard cash for his efforts, as well as a free shirt. Thanks again Despot for the cool design!
Don’t forget, I am still running my t-shirt promotion! If you purchase a shirt, take a picture of yourself wearing it and post it on your blog, I will give you a FREE link back and also send you $5 via Paypal to help cover the expenses (shirts are only $12.99 each)! So, you get a cool t-shirt and a free link back all for just $7.99 !
