MP3 Audio And Video Players Added

We've just added a section to the site with listings and reviews of MP3 players and personal digital video player such as the Creative Zen Vision 30 and the 60 Gigabyte Apple iPod. These are definitely the hottest electronic gadgets going these days, and its no wonder why. Beautifull full color video, top quality digital audio, all in a slim and sexy portable package thats just the right size for your pocket. Imagine putting your entire CD collection and maybe even a DVD or two right in your pocket to take along to school, the beach, camping or whatever you do. Wherever you go you can take your music and videos right along with you. We've got reviews and information about every model under the sun, along with pictures and pricing information so that you can get the perfect media player for you.

Easy RSS Content with PHP

I would like to thank our friends at Site-Reference.com for running my recent article about how to generate content automatically with PHP and RSS feeds. If you're looking for the Demo Program, its located here. RSS and PHP is really a fun thing to play with, and if you are looking for information to take you beyond the bit explained in my Site-Reference article, I would be happy for you to check out some of the PHP Books in my sites online store. You can read my article at Site-Reference here: Quick and Easy Site Content with RSS and PHP.

If you have any questions about the demo or the article, feel free to ask me at Site-Reference as I am a regular poster there.

Also I should thank the authors of the Really Simple Site Generator for providing the general inspiration to make the article. If you want to see how an entire website can be made with RSS and PHP, Really Simple Site Generator is a wonderful example.

Interested In A Poster Store Script ?

I've really had a good time the last couple of weeks working with the Amazon store script that makes up the "Store" sections of this website. You can also see the script in action on my Cannibal Corpse fansite in the Death Metal Music Store. But now that I have the Amazon script pretty polished, I'm looking for another PHP webservices project to play with.

Another affiliate program that I work with is the AllPosters.com Affiliate Program. The commissions are quite good and their ads are attractive. Since they have a lot of different posters to choose from, its easy to find offerings that match your site's content.

Well since I had such a great time working with the Amazon webservices store, I thought I might like to try my hand at creating a searchable, categorized, AllPosters poster store with the AllPosters web services. I will be offering free use of the script to all my recruited websites, so if you've joined AllPosters.com's affiliate program from the referral link on one of my websites I will give you the script to use to sell posters on your own forums and websites - For Free! Some of you who've joined I know, but some have joined annoymously - if you want the script send me an e-mail and let me know.

I'm working on a prototype of the script right now, and hopefully within the next couple of weeks I'll register a domain and put the script up on its own site where you can all get a chance to play with it and check it out.

Why Scary Software ?

You may be wondering why the site is titled "Scary-Software" or whats so scary about this site. Scary Software started as a joke between myself and some of my programmer friends a long time ago when I first started getting into the computer business.

Originally the meaning of "Scary" was "really-really" good, much like teenagers used to use the word "bad" to mean "good". In fact when we used the word "Scary" to describe a new program or idea, we were saying it was really great. "Off the hook" as young people might say today.

However, as our managers and quality assurance team picked up on the lingo, "Scary" software took on an entirely different, but understandably more approriate meaning.

I originally bought this domain with the intention of working on some simple 3D games with the Doom and Quake open source code, and the gaming themes of Zombies and Cannibals that I was considering made "Scary Software" seem an appropriate name. In the future with this site, I would like to bring some of my 3D gaming experiments to a stage where they are worthwhile to play with. And I hope to add some of them to this site, along with articles about game programming and website development and general topics of basic gamer geek interest.

Basically this is a site for myself and some programmer friends to play and try different things without taking them live on a real site. So this site will more or less always be in development. If you've noticed the errors and problems with the site over the last couple of days, as it turns out "Scary" software might be an appropriate name after all. Allthough we'll constantly be trying new things and changing them around, starting today we'll be trying hard to make things stable enough that at least the basic part of the site, the store front, the blogs, and soon to be released article areas are maintained and stay stable enough. Stay tuned we've got a lot of interesting articles and goodies on the way. If you like programming and playing around with web technologies, we'd be most pleased if you'd visit our forums and join.

Sorry! No more Free forum hosting

Unfortunately, I have to withdraw my offer of free forum hosting for friends and members of the Invision Power Board Resource Site Invisionize.com. Those of you who have already hosted a forum with Scary-Software for free do not have to worry, we have no plans to remove anyone's sites, but I don't have time to setup anymore free hosting accounts, and still work on some of the things I want to do with this site. I hope you understand. However if you are looking for a great deal on inexpensive paid webhosting please see our page of Webhosting Recomendations.