elvinfish.com

So I was reading Drive Line, and looking at some posted pictures of the Lamborghini Alar Concept. Looks like we’ve found the auto world’s equivalent of a cleft pallet.

The original Photo

Looks kind of better like this, don’t you think?

The Lambrogini Alar with a mounted WWII Panzer IV Tank Turrent.

Nice, but doesn’t look very aerodynamic.

I guess tomorrow, they will start taking the Cadbury mini eggs over the shelves and I have to go back to being a sad panda.

I found this site mentioned on the MyspacePros forum. Imgred.com allows you to link images on the web without hotlinking. Basically, you provide the URL to an image on the internet, and the service downloads the specified image and stores it on their hard drive. The site then gives you a different html code for the URL of the image hosted on imgred.com. You can then use this URL to display the image on sites such as personal pages, forums, blogs, Myspace etc.

This seems like a clever solution to allow people to, “use” images off other websites without stealing someone’s bandwidth. This is also a good workaround for linking images from sites which have hotlinking protection.

Seems kind of devious, but could come in handy. Check out Imgred.com for a full explanation.

Edit: You can find the source code here -> link.

With social networking websites emerging left and right these days, it doesn’t surprise me that someone has started a site targeted at senior citizens. MyTimeHero.com, is a new online community which caters to senior citizens.

Look, we all know how hard it is to find new euchre partners and trade recipes in real life at any age, but these activities and others become considerably more difficult when you are up there age wise. With the increased difficulty mobility wise, and potential health issues, senior citizens can often find themselves isolated from the rest of society. So, I suppose that it makes sense to offer these silver foxes a community where they can interact with like minded individuals. And, just to clarify, when I mentioned euchre and recipes, I wasn’t making a mocking old people; in fact, the webs site’s introduction addresses these two activities directly; just read it for yourself.

Whether you would like to compare the best travel stories or find new Euchre partners, share a recipe or brag about your kids or grandkids, let myTimeHero.com connect you with your peers, new friends, and acquaintances from around the world and around your community. Make yourself at home with no struggle to fit in among teenagers. myTimeHero makes it easy to be yourself.

Now that we’ve got a general idea about myTimeHero, here are a few notable features that I found while exploring the website. It is a typical social network site with some good features for the demographic it is targeting.

Accesibility

• MyTimeHero, provides options for increasing the size of the text on the landing page itself. You can find the arrows to increase and decrease text size at the top right hand corner.
• The website has a very clean design, extremely easy to read and navigate. The colour scheme is easy on the eyes, and reminds me of pumpkin pies.

Registration Process

• The page leading to the registration form is a bit misleading. It features what seems like three thirty-something year old women sitting around a laptop. I thought this was a community for old people, not hot looking MILFS.
• What’s interesting about the registration page is that it age restricts new accounts. Meanings, if you were born after 1977, you would have to lie about your birth date to get a user account.
• I’m not too thrilled about the fact that there is no voice option for the captcha code. Those things give me enough trouble as it is. I think they should look into providing that option for better accesibility.
• The cool thing is, after registration you receive a sub domain, like http://elvinfish.mytimehero.com, which isn’t too hard to remember when you need to pass it to a friend/relative.

Website Features (Source)

• Personal customizable profiles
• Create and join interest groups
• Write articles in your blog
• Search for other TimeHeroes
• Send and receive on-site messages
• A safe all-around experience free of “spam” and “phishing”

The site is decent, and I haven’t really researched the competition, but this would be a nice quiet place for the mature web users. You won’t find any pesky teens on myTimeHero.com. As for the brand, “My Time Hero,” sounds like a bad movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Well, I suppose everyone should run out and get their grandparents to sign up. I would, but they are all dead. And if you are still trying to figure out what euchre is, then here is a link.

I’m liking the look of my current theme Fresh, designed by bartleme and converted to Wordpress format by ilemoned. It’s pretty, clean and very blue. Just how I like my themes. I made a few modifications, such as editing some header images and I found a nice big, blocky RSS button at geekwhat to replace the default background image for the feed’s section.

I’m all about the blue gradients and big, blocky RSS logos these days. I’m behind, on the web 2.0 style, but I’ve arrived nevertheless, or at least I think so, anyway.

Just a quick note, I just want to reiterate that I hate April Fool’s day. I usually don’t fall for April Fool’s hoaxes; however, google got me good this year with their “free” broadband service dubbed as the TiSP. I saw a post on the Myspace Pros forum and got all excited when I saw the words, “free, broadband and google,” in the same sentence. It happened around 2:00am this morning. I was tired, and that’s my excuse for being so gullible.

Other notable hoaxes on the net:

• Shoemoney blog.
• Matt Cutts got Hacked, omg no way!
• The Pirate Bay hosts in North Korea.
• Fork Press?

Or check out some famous hoaxes of all time at the museum of hoaxes. Entertaining site to keep you busy at work.