Hey everyone. This is Matt Blancarte with ‘Games I Wish I Had Time For…’, guest-blogging again for David. Enjoy!

The title says it all. I don’t really have time for games of any sort. Well, I take that back… there is always thirty-seconds for WinterBells. Sadly, I just followed my own link and wasted about 2 minutes.

Video games nowadays are almost unbelievable. The level of detail and realism that is being achieved in some of today’s games on XBOX360, PS3, and PC, is absolutely incredible. When you look at some of today’s top-level titles it is almost as if you are watching a CGI movie. Being a gamer at heart, I still get my jollies from checking out the latest and greatest games over at IGN. There are a few titles that are awaiting release that I wish I had time for. Here they are:

Crysis
Part of the first generation of DirectX 10 titles to arrive on the PC, Crysis absolutely defies what you thought a video game could be. The graphics are absolutely mind-numbing. Take a look at the screen shots below and you will know what I am talking about (yes, that is a bad guy being thrown through a wall). Along with the next-gen graphics, the game features ultra-realistic physics, and a free roaming environment. The area is so vast that the draw distance for some objects is 16 kilometers. You can take advantage of all kinds of real-life possibilities when in battle. If you want to disable a moving vehicle, try shooting out the tires. This is the title to own in 2007, even more so than Halo 3.

Halo 3

A game that needs no introduction. I have already bought a copy of this game (about 8 months ago), so hopefully I will have some time to waste on it when it arrives. Halo 3 is going to have awesome graphics and killer gameplay. If you have been living under a rock and haven’t played either the first or the second installment in the series, do yourself a favor and pick up the third for the 360. This game is going to be arguably one of the best online games around. Check out this screen shot:

Mass Effect

Mass Effect is a Sci-Fi RPG set 200 years into the future. In a classic save-the-universe plot, you are protecting the galactic citizens from a rogue agent bent on destruction. The sheer size of this game will leave you broke, fired from your job, and by the time you’re finished, homeless. This is another Oblivion type time-killer, so be prepared if you dare start a game.

Take a second to check out some of the other screen shots and videos at IGN. What games are you looking forward to?

If you haven’t viewed the clip of Jim Cramer on CNBC, scroll down and check it out NOW!

David asks the question, “How would a real life market crash effect the net?” I am hear to tell you not to worry about that.

First of all, the market will not “crash,” at least in the 1933 sense of the word. The market does however make “corrections,” and it does so fairly often. A correction simply means that the stock market lowered sharply. I can say with confidence that the stock market will go down but it will also go up, and over time, it will go up.

This is why I recommend people should invest for the long term. If everyone invested for the long term and in a diversified portfolio, no one would ever lose money in the stock market. At least it would be the rare occasion, not the norm.

Who is Jim Cramer?

For those of you who have never seen his show or read any of his books, Jim Cramer is a former hedge fund manager. If you are unsure of what a hedge fund is, you can read about it more on my blog. Mr Cramer has a very entertaining tv show where he evaluates investments and viewers portfolio’s.

He also has several best selling books. You can find out more about Jim here.

So What the Heck was Cramer so Upset About?

If you have been paying attention to the news, you know that the stock market hasn’t performed very well the last week or so. This is mostly due to the problems we are having here in the US, in our sub-prime lending sector. Cramer was worried that the Federal Reserve was going to tighten credit and/or possibly raise interest rates.

This would be a very bad thing according to Cramer. On this clip he was dancing around and yelling a lot. He was mostly trying to get his point across that Bernake (the chairman of the federal reserve) desperately needs to not raise rates.

The good news came out 8/7, the Fed did not raise rates.

So is the stock market going to crash?

No. The stock market is not going to crash.

However, the sub-prime lending sector is still in shambles. Amid layoffs and homes getting foreclosed, things don’t look good for the sub-prime folks, and possibly even other lenders.

What Can I Do to Capitalize on the Situation and Improve My Position?

I would definitely recommend keeping an eye on foreclosed houses. Here in the near future there wil be a lot of money to be made flipping or renting foreclosed homes.

Also, don’t spend too much time worrying about the stock market. Just make sure you have a balanced portfolio that is adjusted for the amount of risk you are willing to take, and stick with it. Give your financial advisor a chance to do his job. He has you investing for the long term and you should commit to this. The stock market will go up and down however, over time will continue to go up.

Don’t sweat the small stuff. I am not saying that the recent losses the stock market are small stuff, you should just know that over an extended period of time the stock market will go up.

If you have any questions I would love to hear from you. You can learn more about me and my businesses on my blog, Josh Mullineaux dot Com.

In today’s iPod and iPhone-obsessed world, everyone wants to eat, breathe and sleep Apple. Apple is for many people, their dream company to work at, Well, I used to work for Apple, but I quit! That being said, what would you have done? Work at Apple or take the plunge into self-employment? Working for someone else provides for several things: a consistent income, a predictable schedule, excellent benefits and a upbeat work environment.

Ever since I was 10 years old (I’m 23 now), I had always wanted to work for Apple. They were my favorite company growing up, and when I got the opportunity work for them, I jumped at the chance. Looking back, I highly enjoyed working at Apple, but there was definitely something missing.

Working at Apple was definitely more fun that jobs I have had in the past - being around all those fun toys was entertaining and it was interesting to sell to the general public. There were also many drawbacks, such as flat pay, no commission and rude customers. In actuality, even though I was working for my dream company, I still felt unfulfilled working there.

As fun as it was working at Apple, I still felt like I wasn’t in control of my financial future. While I was working there, I was also trying to run my web design business on the side. Between this and school, I could not handle all of the work. At that point, I decided to quit Apple and run my business full-time.

Quitting Apple to run my own business was probably the best decision I have ever made. I now live a completely stress-free life, make way more money than I ever have, and enjoy a laid back schedule of my own making. I am now in complete control of my future and it feels great.

Leaving what is predictable and comfortable is very hard to do for many people, and believe me, I was a little nervous for the first few months. Was I going to be able to pay my bills? Would I have enough money for food? Those were some initial legitimate worries of being self-employed

I suppose I could have done a better job at planning to quit. That would have definitely helped ease a lot of the initial worry of being able to make it on my own. Several months after I quit, I wrote an article entitled, “5 Steps To Take Towards Self Employment.” Optimally, before someone quits their day job, they should have at least six months of living expenses saved up. I only had two months, but hey, I had to take the risk, and I am glad it payed off.

This post was guest blogged by Nate Whitehill. He runs a blog about business, blog and web development.

Hi, my name is Matt Blancarte and I’m filling in for David today. I’m excited to be able to write a few tech posts this week because my blog is more business/entrepreneurship related material. Alright, let’s get on with it, shall we?

Falcon Fantasies
I’ve been a hardware junky for about five years now. Alongside that, I am a hardcore pc gamer. So when you add those two things up, you have yourself what Nvidia calls an “Extreme Gamer, Technology Enthusiast.” Like all extreme gamers, I like to believe that someday I will be able to reason myself into buying a rig at $10000+ dollars. If you are into pc gaming, and you haven’t seen what kind of bill “pricey” hardware can run up, prepare to have your eyeballs fly out of their sockets.

There are a lot of choices out there if you want to build yourself a custom rig. You can pay companies like Falcon Northwest, AlienWare, Vadim… you could even put one together yourself if you could do the handy work. I have personally built many computers, and it is almost always the cheapest way to get the performance you are looking for. This article isn’t about cheap, though. This article is about spending the most amount of money possible to build the craziest rig I can think of. I have seen some rigs get pricey, but not too many come close to the extravagance, or ridiculousness, of a Falcon Northwest tower.

Once you get through the impressive flash intro and homepage, you can choose to build your rig. They have options for three chassis; the Mach V, Talon, and FragBox. The Talon and FragBox options are clearly the lesser of the three options, so we are going to go with the Mach V. These towers can be configured for Gamers, Business, or Multimedia Production. Let’s go ahead and configure our tower for gaming.

Once you’ve chosen to exercise your rights to brag, you’re on to the system builder page. The first thing I notice is the price tag. This computer is a mere $17,780.74 in it’s current configuration. That’s borderline insane, you’re saying. I agree with you, but for the heck of it let’s just see if we can spend more money. ^_^ Right, let’s upgrade to the air-brushed U.S. flag on the chassis… throw in a PhysX card… beef up the sound card… upgrade to Vista Ultimate 64 Bit… add some peripherals… no need to upgrade the screens, we’ve got two 30″ Samsungs…

Well, there you have it. Almost $19,000 for that amazing symbol of freedom. I am pretty sure that we have just put together the most expensive gaming rig possible. Now, the question is how bad do you want to sell your kidney for it? If you can come up with something more expensive or more ludacris, by all means, contact me at my blog. I will be surprised if you can!

Editor’s Note: Hellbent on outdoing Matt, I managed to throw together a $35,000 PC at Vadim. Sorry Matt! Red/Blue UV Lighting, FULL (meaning every component in the PC) water cooling, a 1000w PSU, 3Ghz Quad Core Intel Core 2 Overclocked to 4Ghz+, 4GB of Corsair Ultra-Low-Latency Dominator RAM, two Nividia 8800Ultras overclocked by 50%, a PhysX card to add some more power, $13,000 worth of hard drives (2.15TB and a few of the cards have a 100MB/second read speed), Blu-ray drive, XP Pro/Vista Ultimate Dual boot, etc. Check it out at the Vadim website!

Today’s guest post has been brought to you by the fantastic Lance Fisher

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My laser beam across the lake!

Wow! My word! Holy Crap! These are a few of the exclamations people use when I first show them my new laser beam. That’s what I call it. To call my 95mW Nexus Green Laser from Wicked Lasers a laser pointer is really misleading. At night, you can see a green line projected for what I’d guess is a mile. During the day, you don’t want to look at the dot. It is simply too bright.

So how did this all come about? A few months ago, I was lucky enough to win a contest that David ran here on Techzi.net sponsored by Wicked Lasers. After a wait, they upgraded my prize to the $370 laser in the executive line. I told David that I’d happily write a review, and now I’m finally getting around to it.

The difficulty about writing the review is that I’ve had a hard time actually testing the laser. You can supposedly pop balloons and light matches on fire with it. I have no doubt this would work, but I can’t hold the laser on a balloon, because I can’t look at it. It hurts your eyes just looking at the spot it projects. I suppose what I should do is invest in a pair of laser shades, but hey they’re forty bucks.

The best use I have found for this is to point out constellations. I can’t imagine a better tool. However, I am not an astronomer. My wife asks me what is the purpose of having it, and all I can tell her is “it’s cool.” But you know, without people being interested in lasers, playing with them, and searching for new uses, I don’t think we’d have great things like DVDs, CDs, laser levels, surveying equipment, and all those other useful inventions.

If you do end up getting one of these, I’d caution you to lecture you friends before you let them try it. Tell them about the blinding effects and how you can’t point it at airplanes or people. And yes, that’s speaking from experience.

This guest post has been written by (the one and only) CoolioJones from My New Hustle.

Technology is wonderful…when it works.

As part of a promotion I won from the company, I’ve had the opportunity to use T-Mobile’s new wireless service — specifically targeted for home use – for about a month now, and the verdict is in: wait until the technology is perfected before you take the plunge.

The service is called ‘T-Mobile HotSpot @Home,’ and it has great aspirations: you can use the service at home with a special phone and router, and you will enjoy phenomenal service while you are there.  When you leave your home Wi-Fi network, the service will transfer your calls seamlessly to the cellular network, and vice versa.  Additionally, all the calls you make and receive are free as long as you are on your home network! (International calls made still cost, however) Not only that, but when you connect to another Wi-Fi network, such as a T-Mobile HotSpot, all of your calls are free there as well!.  To round out these offerings, if you make a call while on a Wi-Fi network and you leave the area, when the service switches to cellular, you will not use any of your minutes!  Be careful though, because the opposite is also true: if you leave your cellular network while you’re on a call and join a Wi-Fi network, you WILL still be using your minutes, so word to the wise is hang up and call the person back to save minutes.

This is how the service is supposed to work; however, the real world has not been kind to this pioneer in the wireless industry.  In my experiences, the router that I received needed to be reset about two weeks after installation, because it suddenly stopped allowing website traffic through to my web server.  This frustrated me because routers typically sit there and do their job, but apparently this one had other plans.  Furthermore, I noticed issues when I tried to browse computers on my home network: my computers could only browse each other by name if they were on the same type of connection.  Wired connections could browse other wired connections by name, and the same for wireless connections, but a wired computer could not browse a wireless computer by name, only by IP address.  I do not know if it is specific to this type of router, or if I just got a bad one, but resetting it did not solve this issue, and it had not existed before when using my old router.

There’s more.  The service has frequently dropped calls when attempting to switch between home and cellular networks, so at times it’s not as “seamless” as advertised.  Also, the router itself (a Linksys WRT54G-TM) would drop calls while at home, and often I was in the same room so range was not an issue.  The phone that I received (Samsung SGH-T409) has many features such as Bluetooth compatibility and a camera, but still has a very cheap feel to it.  The call quality is good, but it has spontaneously rebooted itself no less than 4 times.  Samsung usually makes very good products, so I was very surprised at the performance of this one.

When the service works, it rocks.  It can save you some serious money on your telecommuting, and really make it seem like “the only phone you need.”  But until the completely work out the kinks to make it more reliable, it doesn’t make me feel much “at home.”

– The first guest blog post has been written by Martin, from MCT Images. –

Thanks to David for letting me be a guest blogger. I have been a regular reader since he got mentioned with ProBlogger.

My field is video production, but I also blog about the next-generation of high definition disc i.e. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. So I thought I would post about your options for the next generation of DVD. After all a lot of us have splurged on high-def flat screens, and our DVDs do look great on there, BUT they’re still not high-def. In other words your movies could be even clearer.

The Players

Unfortunately the powers that be could not decide on one particular format. Just lovely!

(And the reasons for that are beyond one post, I recommend reading Bill Hunt’s site The Digital Bits to find out why.)

On one hand you have HD-DVD developed by Toshiba.

And on the other hand Blu-Ray Disc developed by Sony.

Strengths for Each

Each format has one notable strength.

HD-DVD is cheaper because it uses current DVD technology and, as of this writing is, easier to produce.

Blu-Ray has considerably more exclusive studio support, in other words exclusive studios will only release their movies on Blu-Ray.

Cost Entry as of today

Cost wise you can enter the HD-DVD camp by purchasing a Toshiba HD-A2 player for less than $300.

On the Blu-Ray interestingly enough the most affordable entry is a Sony Playstation 3 currently at $500. (So you also get a gaming system as well.)

What to get

To put it bluntly, I cannot in good conscious recommend HD-DVD, there just isn’t enough support for it.

And for me it comes down to exclusive studio support:

HD-DVD:

- Universal (Jaws, Jurrasic Park, King Kong)

Editor’s Note: OI! You forgot a tonne of studios. Paramount, for instance. (Transformers, Heroes, etc)

Blu-Ray:

- Sony (All the James Bond Movies.)

- Disney (Do I really need to list them?)

- Pixar (Awesome movies!)

- Lionsgate (A lot of recent popular horror flicks)

- Fox (They released a little movie series called STAR WARS)

Cars will be the first Pixar movie to hit Blu-Ray and it arrives in November. Now think of all those moms and dads of little children that are going to pick up a new gadget for the whole family. If they want to include children in on the enjoyment they’re going to get the one which can play Pixar and Disney.

What happens if my format dies?

If you picked up an HD-DVD player and the format goes bust, it is not a total loss. You will still be able to watch your HD-DVD discs and your regular DVDs will be outputted to at least 720P and possibly 1080P depending on the model you get.

The same thing goes for Blu-Ray players. All Blu-Ray players are backwards compatible with your regular DVDs and they also get upcoverted.

Long Live Home Theater

This was certainly not an exhaustive coverage of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, but I hope it gives you enough information to begin looking at upgrading your home theater.

Please check out MCT Images Blog, where I blog about Blu-Ray, video production and Photoshop.

Editor’s note: Curse you, Martin! You actually put forward a pretty good argument for blu-ray. Microsoft recommends HD-DVD though, and when I can pick up an £80 add-on for my 360, I can easily watch play them pretty cheaply. Then there’s the cost of discs for (both) the formats. Expensive indeed. Great post though! - David

Since it seems that (again) there’s no REAL (meaning ‘interesting’) tech news around today, I thought I’d post a few videos of the world’s most poorly constructed cars.

First up? The Chery Amulet - one of Russia’s best selling cars. “As if the “Made in China” name wasn’t marred enough already” the Chery has achieved a whopping, undisputed one star rating. Where the number one came from, I’m at a loss… The car crumples, the steering-wheel nearly decapitates a driver, and going at anything more than 30MPH is a sure way to end up ‘on the other side’, if you get what I’m saying. via MobMag.

Next up is another Chinese sedan. The ‘Billiance’ (HA!) ‘BS6′ (Bull****6?) came back with a rather shocking one star rating. Excuse the German commentary, it’s the only version I could find. via Jalopnik.

Truth be told, whilst the carnage and destruction is incredibly interesting, I can’t help but wonder what a McLaren F1 and a Bugatti Veyron, crashing head on head would look like, from a spectators angle. I’ll have to ring up Jeremy Clarkson and see if he a can pull a few string for me.

So I guest blogged at Shoemoney. So I included an Affiliate link (with written consent from the Shoe himself). So they complained, they flamed, they did it all. They even suggested people’s social status should be set based upon how much whoring they do on people’s comments. Last time I checked, typing “I agree” and “great post” 30 times a month, day in, day out, meant you were unemployed, as opposed to president of the United States. Go figure.

Then you’ve got some great guys, who’re leaving constructive criticsm, something I appreciate. They’re telling me where I went wrong and how I can improve it. Constantly Peter from The Common Sense Marketer is leaving helpful, insightful comments on my posts - helping me improve. Next eBiz Guy approached the whole situation cooly and explained maybe how I could change next-time and gave me advice on dealing with the flames and ‘critics’.

There’s always the minority who refuse to believe… “I don’t believe that this author is 13. If whoever wrote this can come up with all of this stuff about link cloaking, then they could probably come up with the thought that others would think it was neat that a 13 year old kid knows it. It’s a good marketing strategy because you get an instant wow effect coupled with “it’s so easy a kid can do it”, plus it makes the rest of us feel dumb. I think it’s annoying.” But I presume anyone reading this blog has seen the proof for themselves… If not, just comment and I’ll get back to you.

And then there’s the people wondering why Shoe is letting a “13y old **** up his blog” which simply isn’t helping the situation. If they read the post - listened to the two key words ‘GUEST’ and ‘BLOGGING’, then maybe it’d help. Or am I just having too high expectations of people… Hoping they’ll actually read as opposed to flame? It’s people going round calling me a punk, claiming I’m a serial e-mail spammer (what the hell?) and claiming my sole purpose in life is to deceive others. All-in-all, I was pretty shocked. Check out the post for yourself and feel free to comment here, or at Shoe’s blog where I originally posted the article. (Apologies to readers who have already seen this post!)
—— Link Cloaking - The Why, The Where, The How ——

Link cloaking, or plain old affiliate link redirection. You might have heard the buzz about how you can ‘increase your sales by up to 400%’ or something equally ridiculous, but what can link cloaking actually do for you as an affiliate?

Imagine the situation. You’re a complete Internet newbie who’s been searching away for some time, trying to find a viable way to earn money online. All of a sudden, this fantastic opportunity pops along (courtesy of you, the affiliate). You’re about to click through to check out the product, when all of a sudden you see an affiliate link, something the stupid ‘Internet 4 Idiots’ book (or whatever they’re calling their silly little franchise now) earned you NEVER to click on. The end user, or Internet newbie, having seen a blatant affiliate link, and now in the knowledge that there’s a chance you’re only promoting a product for it’s excellent commissions is in serious doubt whether to buy or not.

Except the problem is bigger. If the newbies know, then chances are the more ‘advanced’ people up the Internet food chain will know too. Infact, everyone on the Internet who knows what an affiliate link is will immediately have second thoughts about your trustworthyness. The product could be world class, your presell could be so fantastically convincing, that Bill Gates would drop backwards off a Christmas tree on reading it. But at the end of the day? If they don’t buy… If they have second thoughts… If they doubt your opinion and your integrity… Then you will NEVER make a sale online.

Long 30-character affiliate URLs in themselves are quite naturally not the prettiest things in the world, either. If you can disguise your links by making them a simple short snippet such as…

http://www.affiliatedefined.com/recommends/djk.html

as opposed to…

http://zimedia.dayjobkill.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=shoe123

…then you’ll find yourself in a better position when dropping links around forums and such, as well as when targeting a general audience as your affiliate link will now be in the most part hidden. The real advantage of using cloaked links though? The bit that will actually save you money in the long run? All the nasty affiliate snipers out there (people who save money on purchases by switching your affiliate ID with their own) will be in the most part stumped. If they were desperate, even with a cloaked link, they could view your source code, but if you use fancy encryption techniques such as the ones at the heart of Ninja Link Cloaker (a product from Matt Haslem whom which I personally use), then you’ll be covered by all manner of fancy MD5 code encryption and super-fast execution script implementation. Complicated stuff, eh?

I’ve explained to you the ‘why’ and shown you the ‘where’ (when promoting products), but the real bit that stumps most people is the plain and simple ‘how’.

How can you create a cloaked affiliate link? How can you protect your earnings? How can you make a link redirect? There are hundreds of options out there, but I’ll narrow it down to my favourite, top-performing three.

The TinyURL re-direct. Free, though less effective than the options to come, it has no server demands and is externally hosted on TinyURL.com.

The PHP re-direct. Free and effective, though it requires your own server to upload said PHP file to.

The Ninja Cloaking method. Super-advanced, ninja-style, uber-sleek protection and cloaking.

TinyURL. It’s free. It’s quick. It perhaps doesn’t give the world’s best impression either, but all the same. It gets the job done nicely and there’s not much more to say. You simply go to the TinyURL website, pick a link to re-direct to and wham. Link is done and live on the TinyURL server. Just point your links that way and re-direction is instant. You can start cloaking right away at TinyURL.com.

PHP Re-direction has obvious advantages over TinyURL. If you make a typo and have already published a TinyURL link on your blog, there’s no much you can do in the way of changing where the TinyURL points. With PHP on your own server, you have full control over where your links go and what they do. A PHP re-direct isn’t powerful, but it is effective and for a novice affiliate marketer I’d highly recommend it. You can learn how to create a PHP re-direct at the About.com website.

Ninja Link Cloaking. I’ve already mentioned how I prefer to use Ninja Link Cloaker for many reasons. The sheer power in the software is remarkable. It runs straight from your desktop and boots up at the click of a button. On startup, you’re presented with two options. Do you want a ‘normal link cloak’ (basically an affiliate link in a full-page iFrame as permitted by most major affiliate networks) or a Ninja Link Cloaker special ‘ninja’ link? The ninja link has all the fancy encryption methods in place, coupled with fancy (yet ‘usually’ permitted) cookie dropping tactics, goes in for the big double-whammy.

I use link-cloaking all the time when Affiliate Marketing. On my blog, in e-mail campaigns, on forums, everywhere… Without them I’d be losing a serious chunk of my online profits and you believe me - I wouldn’t be the happiest ‘little’ kid on earth.

So I’m out on the hunt and it’s not as easy as I would have hoped. Having mentally ruled out the possibility of getting a laser printer (check the explanation), I’ve decided that a nice Lexmark, wireless networked, scanner/printer/photocopier should do the job nicely. The darn thing is… The stupid printer cartridges cost so flaming much. In a year and a half, I’d end up paying more for the ink than I would for the whole printer. Crazy, huh? I’m pretty darn sure that this is some hyped up conspiracy theory. The rich (the printer companies) get richer (by grossly overcharging for ink cartridges), and the poor (or not as the case may be), get poorer. Thankfully it’s not just me who’s noticed this though. PCWorld also wrote about the problem we’ve got, all be it, four years ago. It just shows how little the situation has changed though.

BusinessWeek asks again though… Cartidges alone, reportedly, made up over 50% of HP’s fiscal, annual profits in 2004, and recent research suggests things have only got worse for consumers in recent years. There are, of course, alternatives. Their reliability, the big name brands claim, are terrible, and patchy at best, however I’ve seen the results in action and I must say I’m not sure the results are any worse than the current Epson, £30 ($60) cartridges that we get at the moment. the only differences are brand name and price - to be brutally honest. Sites like InkShop.co.uk (whom agreed to sponsor this post) offer printer cartridges at 75% less than the retail price.

On the forefront though, at least I can get a darn cheap multi-function printer these days and simply hop on over to third party refillers. Google around for area based shops and ‘refill stations’ near you and (curse me for sounding like a freaking advert…) - see how much you can save. Seriously - plugs, sponsors and links aside. Just Google it. Now for someone to create an Ajaxy tool to calculate how much of our income we waste on freaking ink costs each year.

If anyone else knows of any recommended, or more specifically area-based refillers, feel free to share them in the comments. I’d like to weigh up options round abouts and see who offers best service/prices/deliverability, etc. If you’re NOT refilling cartridges, aside from damaging the environment, it’s your walet that’s getting colder by the sheet, not mine. On yet another side note, if anyone feels like recommending a decent multifunction printer whilst there at it, feel free to drop me a note and let me know what you’re using. Preferably something mid-priced. Not too shabby, not too bad. I’ve got cartridges to feed here, people.