Author Archives: Phil Saunders

Social Micropayments – A Simple Solution To A Huge Problem?

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
This could easily become a very long post. I could discuss film & music piracy, the coming death of the traditional music, film & TV industries, newspaper paywalls, the lack of residual value with digital products etc. etc. etc. I’m going to try and avoid that. Suffice to say, people are used to getting things [...]
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My Websites / Websites I Have Made

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
My Websites www.philsaunders.com | This website (obviously).  It’s a WordPress blog (my first). www.pdscomputerservices.co.uk | My computer services company. Websites I Have Made www.whatswinning.com | An independent review website where you are free to leave your views on anything you like.  I have been developing this project with a friend of mine for a few [...]
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Quotes

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
“Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock”. - Will Rogers “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can”. - Arthur Ashe “Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness – the cultivation of which [...]
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Quotes

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something”. - Wilson Mizner “Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action”. - Anna Lappe “Management is nothing more than motivating other people”. - Lee [...]
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Quotes About Life

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die tomorrow”. - James Dean “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia”. - Charles M. Schluz “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things”. - Henry Miller “Everyone is a [...]
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Quotes

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
“You don’t get harmony where everybody sings the same note”. - Doug Floyd “Do what you can with what you have where you are”. - Theodore Roosevelt “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit”. - Aristotle “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your [...]
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Quotes About Sleep

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day”. - Friedrich Nietzsche “No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap”. - Carrie Snow “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one”. - Leo J. Burke “Dawn: When men of reason go to [...]
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On The Moon

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
Follow the adventures of The Toast King, Insanity Prawn Boy and a whole cast of moon-bound, flash-animated characters.  I love this. http://www.weebls-stuff.com/onthemoon/
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The Fab Faux

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
A bunch of guys cover (most of) the 2nd side of The Beatles’ Abbey Road and do a bloody good job of it if you ask me. The Fab Faux – Abbey Road Side 2 (mostly) from The Fab Faux on Vimeo.
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How to Convert FLAC Audio Files to MP3 for Free

By Phil Saunders | Published: July 5, 2010
I have written this article in the hope it will save you a bit of time. It took me ages to find this information on the web! I spent many weeks in 2004 archiving my CD’s onto an external hard drive in the lossless audio format FLAC. I did this because I wanted to have [...]
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