Animes I'm Currently Watching And Following This Winter 2012

I grew up watching Superfriends, Voltes V, Daimos, Transformers, He-Man, Thunder Cats, Astro Boy, G.I. Joe, Dragon Ball Z and a whole bunch of other animated shows. Back then, I call all these animated shows cartoons but, as I grew older, I learned that some of them were actually called animes.

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I never stopped watching them and, in recent years, I moved from watching them in Betamax, VHS, Laser Disc, VCD to DVD. Now, I only watch them online simply because it's much cheaper. In fact, I don't even spend anything anymore because there are hundreds of sites out there that allows me to watch my favorite animes for FREE!

Currently, I'm watching the following Anime's weekly (or whenever there's a new episode released):

• Hunter X Hunter (2012). This is a remake of the original Hunter X Hunter. The artwork is better and the pace of the story is much faster.
• Sword Art Online. This anime revolves around a fictional virtual world MMORPG called Sword Art Online. The characters were trapped to live their lives in the game and getting killed in the game means dieing in real life as well. If you love playing MMORPGs then you should definitely watch this one.
• Ginga e Kickoff. This anime is about soccer and a group of 8 young kids trying to become the best soccer players or team in the galaxy.
• BToom. This is also an anime that revolves around a fictional online game called BToom. The characters were transported in an island where they have to fight each other using the mechanics of the game to survive.
• Ixion Saga DT. This is just a fun anime to watch. The first episodes are just filled crazy almost random things.
• Robotic; Notes. This anime is about a group of High School kids who are trying to build a giant robot. I like it because the characters are very interesting.

Anyway, these are the animes I'm currently watching and I'm watching all of them online for FREE. Unfortunately, I can't post links to where I'm watching them because I don't want to violate any of Google's Content Policy for Blogger.com.

The Content Policy under Copyright states, "please don't provide links to sites where your readers can obtain unauthorized downloads of other people's content." Since, a streaming video needs to be temporarily downloaded into the users hard drive as it plays, putting up links to video streaming sites that show these animes can be considered a violation of the Content Policy.

So, if you are interested in watching these animes online and for free then just simply search them on Google.com. By the way, the fact that Google allows these sites in its search index is kinda ironic (and, in a way, hypocritical) because it's breaking its own Content Policy. LOL!

Anyway, goodluck with your search and I hope you find a good site where you can watch your favorite animes online and for free.

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Setup Blogger With Domain Name From Namecheap

Last week, this blog's internet address or URL was http://rom1975.blogspot.com but, now, it's http://www.rom1975.com. I recently purchased the domain name rom1975.com from NameCheap and used it on this blog.

The price to register the domain name was only $10.69 USD but I paid less than that because I used a special NameCheap coupon that gave me a little discount. This special coupon is only available for the month of October 2012 and it's called SPOOKYDEAL.

After successfully registering the new domain, the next thing I did was use it on this blog. Setting-up the new domain name was easy. What I did was go to this blog's Settings page and clicked on the +Add a custom domain name link under the Publishing section. Clicking on it expanded the section.

When the Publishing section expanded after clicking the +Add a custom domain name link, a form field appeared and it asked me to buy a new domain name for my blog. I don't need to buy a new domain name because I already bought one from NameCheap.

Instead of buying a new domain name, I clicked on the Switch to advanced settings link. Clicking on it made the Advanced settings form field appear but before I could enter my new domain name, rom1975.com, I first configured its host record in NameCheap.

I could probably write what I did but it'll be much quicker to just show what I did to make my new domain name from NameCheap work with my Blogger or blogspot blog. Simply view the screenshot below to see how I setup my new domain name's host record in NameCheap.

After updating my host record in NameCheap, I went back to my blog's Settings and entered the new domain name in the form field and clicked on the Save button. If it didn't work immediately then it just means that the domain name hasn't propagated enough yet. I simply waited a few hours and tried again. This time it worked.

Basically, this was how I setup my new rom1975.com domain name from NameCheap in Blogger. I'm not sure if I presented it very well but, as you can see, it was very easy. If you have a Blogger or blogspot.com blog and you want it to have its own domain name then you can purchase one at a very cheap price from NameCheap.

Anyway, I just hope this simple rambling of mind can help those who wish to setup a NameCheap hosted domain name in Blogger. Goodluck!

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New Blogger Template For ROM'1975

When I started this blog, ROM'1975, earlier this year the blogger template that I used on it was a modified version of the very popular Ads Theme Blogger Template. It wasn't just a popular blogger template, it was also my favorite. In fact, I used it on almost all my other blogger or blogspot blogs.

(Modified or Customized ProFinance Blogger Template)

Last week, I modified it again by changing the header graphics and adding a background image but, this week, I decided to use a different blogger template other than Ads Theme. Don't get me wrong, the Ads Theme blogger template is still my favorite and I'll still use it whenever I can but, for now, I'm going to use a different one on this blog.

As you can see, the Blogger Template that I'm using now is a modified version of the ProFinance Blogger Template. I downloaded the original ProFinance blogger template for FREE from PremiumBloggerTemplates.com and I modified or customized it according to my preferences.

After installing the template on this blog, what I did next was, I changed its background and header graphics. I added a background image, made the header area taller and applied a custom made header graphics on it. Those changes were already enough to change the over-all look and feel of the template but I didn't stop there.

(The Original FREE ProFinance Blogger Template)

I also changed most of the colors used in the original ProFinance Blogger Template from gray and blue to yellow and green. I chose yellow and green because those two colors matched the colors of the background image. The only colors that I didn't change were those used on the links, body text, sidebar text and those used on the body of the blog itself.

Anyway, modifying the free ProFinance Blogger Template was very easy. All I did was change a few stylesheet codes and the result was a modified or customized ProFinance Blogger Template specially made for this blog, ROM'1975.

So, are you also using a Free Blogger Template? Did you also customize or modify it according to what you like it to look?

For those who wish to get their own copy of the ProFinance Blogger Template, click here.

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Up And Down With SpeedySparrow.com

Currently, all my blogs are hosted by SpeedySparrow.com and, as of this writing, all of them are down. If I'm not mistaken, SpeedySparrow.com is now way off their 99.9 % Uptime Guarantee because the service has been down so many times and in so many hours this year.

I transferred to SpeedySparrow.com last year because one of my blogs suddenly got a lot of traffic and, because of that sudden increase in traffic, BlueHost heavily throttled it. This made the blog and all my other blogs in the account very, very slow. Afraid that BlueHost might suspend my account (which BlueHost is known for), I immediately asked for a good and inexpensive host in WebHostingTalk.com.

One of those that responded was Sean of SpeedySparrow.com. I asked him a lot of questions and he answered and explained them all. He was very accomodating and, even though I've tried CrocWeb and HawkHost first, I decided to go with Sean's SpeedySparrow.com instead.

Unfortunately, the first month turned out badly because SpeedySparrow.com's servers went down hard. It took them days before they could restore everything back to normal. As if cursed by some evil voodoo magic, SpeedySparrow.com's servers would constantly experienced some kind of server problems since then.

I stayed with SpeedySparrow.com because Sean was a really nice person and the support team was always available to respond to any questions or problems. Another reason why I stayed was because I don't have enough money to move to a new hosting provider.

I don't regret staying with SpeedySparrow.com but I'm now contemplating of moving to a new host as soon as I have enough money in my PayPal account. As much as I want to stay but this recurring down time and server problems are really hurting my blog's search engine ranking and traffic.

When I left BlueHost one of my blogs was getting 2,000 to 3,000 unique visits per day. After the transfer to SpeedySparrow.com, that number slowly dropped and now it's hanging on 300 unique visits. I'm not sure if the drop is related to the regular downtime but I do know that constant downtime can affect a blog's search engine ranking specially in Google.

Anyway, I'll be staying with SpeedySparrow.com until I get enough money to transfer to a new and more reliable host with stable servers. I'm thinking of moving to CrocWeb but it's not yet final. If you have a suggestion then please share it by posting it as a comment below.

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