From AllHipHop.com: To promote its new “Why Pay More†value menu, Taco Bell sent 50 Cent an offer letter obtained by AllHipHop.com, asking him to change his name to either 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent for one day this summer. Cue bigwigs in a meeting watching a security cam footage of Seventty-Nine rapping…
New Girl Talk Mashup Album
Girl Talk has released a new mashup album entitled Feed The Animals. Similar to how Radiohead sold their latest album, you can name your own price and get certain benefits depending on how much you pay. It’s available in both 320kbps and FLAC formats, and they will eventually make CD’s available. You can preview the…
Blair’s Pure Death Sauce
I was given a new hot sauce as a gift, Blair’s Pure Death Hot Sauce with Jolokia (Ghost Pepper) and Skull Key Chain, with the new pepper hotter than a habanero, called Naga Jolokia. I’ve been enjoying this hot sauce quite a lot, especially on Mexican food and in soups. It was so good that…
Post to Ping.FM using Launchy
With Ping.FM sending status updates, micro-blog posts, and blog posts to a number of different services, I thought it’d be nice to be able to quickly send an update using Launchy.
To do this, it requires the installation of Blat, a command-line email utility. Here’s a mini-guide on how to get posting to Ping.FM using Launchy:
- Download and install Blat. Here’s an example line on how to install Blat using these details — email: [email protected], smtp server: mail.goodblimey.com, username: mattieboo, and password: blah
blat -install mail.goodblimey.com [email protected] - - - mattieboo blah
- Open Launchy options and click on the Plugins tab. Click on Runner and double-click the Program field, then enter the path to the Blat executable.
- Double-click on Arguments and enter this:
- -to [email protected] -f [email protected] -subject Ping -body "$$"
Where [email protected] is the email Ping.fm gives you to send in updates.
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