Monthly Archives: March 2010

Ridiculous Ad Networks

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 13, 2010

I have had the most frustrating problems with ad networks lately. First, Chitika. This is one of the harder networks to get into, and, according to everyone who is in it, can pay very very well. If it works. I was approved literally 1 1/2 years ago and have never been able to get it [...]

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New Traffic Goals

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 12, 2010

To help keep me motivated, I have a block of code on this website that compares a few of my websites’ traffic to another website’s traffic. For a long time, I’ve had the Fake Name Generator and Fake Mail Generator on that list. They’ve been consistently at 2x-20x the traffic goal for so long that [...]

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Unexpected Traffic

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 11, 2010

I woke up this morning to find a nice little surprise waiting for me in my Google Analytics account: Woah! Where did all that traffic come from? After looking at the referrers, I discovered that the Fake Name Generator was featured on Existenz.se (sort of a Swedish version of I Am Bored, I think..). So [...]

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Mobile Money

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 10, 2010

I’ve been wanting to make an iPhone app for the Fake Name Generator for months. The problem is, I don’t own a Mac, an iPhone, and the half dozen developers that have promised to make me an app haven’t actually done so. To make it worse, the Android has come out, creating yet another platform [...]

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SVG Barcode Generator

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 9, 2010

The past few days have been spent writing a PHP class that will generate barcodes and save them as SVG files. This class is going to be used in an upcoming barcode-related website I’m building. Currently it supports: UPC-A: The normal barcode you will see on most products in the US. UPC-E: A smaller, compressed [...]

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