free keyring maker prototype online
By terlan on November 14, 2008
Lots of interest in the free online keyring maker. The first working version is up on a test server. the free keyring creator can be found at http://www.gkcd.com/free/ Its limited at the moment in its functionality, you can only make a single size of insert (40 x 32mm) and you can only use the available selection of images.
The next thing thats being worked on is the user image upload and image editing code. This will allow you to create a permament account and upload and edit your own keyrings.
This is a prototype of a online keyring creator. It is only really online for testing and shouldnt be viewed as a finished product. ( I know its ugly as sin 
but its easier to test it without all the prettyness. Dont worry we’ll funky it up by the time its done.
All images within are temporary and for testing purposes. They were pulled from my harddrive and most will be dropped fromt he site before we set it live to the public, again we stress these images shouldnt be used to create commercial items unless you have a license to do so. Private personal use should be ok though.
We allow the use of the keyring maker for non profit purposes. The url of the keyring creator will change from time to time as we develop it. Please do not link directly to it, or bookmark it’s page, rather link to this page where updates on the progress and current URL will be posted.
V1 of the free keyring maker has a bare minimum of a user interface, and a more user friendly system is the next thing to be worked on.
How to use it
Select images from the various catagories till your sheet is full or you have all you want. It takes 2 inserts per keyring, 1 per side inserts are 40×32mm. A single A4 sheet holds 36 inserts.
Once you are ready to print, click the print your keyrings link, a PDF will open, right click and select print to send it to printer.
USe the leave a comment option to let me know what you think of the keyring maker and any sugggestions you might have for its future development or features you’d like it to have.
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cheapest ghd online. save £5 on a new purple ghd gift set
By terlan on October 24, 2008
ghd are releasing a purple ghd styler and hairdryer this xmas. Its available within next week, selling for £155 rrp, but ghds.co.uk is taking preorders now, and if you preorder from them you save £5, only paying £149.99 and that includes guaranteed next day delivery as soon as it comes into stock.
Thats currently the cheapest available from an authorised ghd retailer.
We’ll keep you updated on any other great savings you can make on this must have xmas ghd gift set and other ghd bargains.
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Olay Total Effects 7 in 1 sample for free
By terlan on October 21, 2008
Simple form to fill in to get a great sample of this anti aging solution from olay.
Olay total effects 7 in 1 sample offer has two options, choose either 7 in 1 night or 7 in 1 touch of sunshine. Theres plenty of information on the olay website to help you decide which would be best for you.
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Free ring sizer from diamond store
By terlan on October 21, 2008
Get a free ring sizer from diamond store and make sure that special gift you get for christmas will fit. Though its always the same age old dilema, how to get the ring size and keep the present a surprise… Oh well, maybe this little freebie will help.
Dont forget to tick the box next to the green text to make sure you get the ring sizer sent, it means getting a newsletter, but use the tips on a tempory email address in the freebie hunters guide to make sure you dont get spammed with junk.
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Win a LEGO Coastguard Set
By terlan on October 17, 2008
A great and easy Competition from the daily mail. Simply fill in the form and answer the easy question and you could win a lego coast guard sets. There are 10 that are up for grabs.
Lego is traditionally on e of britains favourite toys, its educational and encourages creativity. And if its free….. Its even better.
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Free lego toys for kids. 12 to collect
By terlan on October 17, 2008
Starting from Saturday the 18th October 2008 the Daily Mail are giving away free lego toys. You will be able to collect the free lego toys from Early learning centres and Woolworths. And you can even apply by post to have them delivered before christmas.
Grab the daily mail for the full details.
You will receive a free lego police helicopter to start with, then more items on other days. They are also giving away free lego stickers, a free lego carry case and free lego playmat for all the toys.
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Free toys for your kid from Halsalls
By terlan on October 17, 2008
Halsalls are giving any kid who registers to their free toy club a free toy. The club is limited to 2 people per post code, but Sending them to grandparents houses if theres more than 2 little kids in your life should be ok.
We’ve had little alien in a bottle keyrings from them, travel draughts game and crayons/ colouring set, so it seems a bit random what you get. but its a free toy and takes only a second or two to fill in the form.
We’ve posted about this in the past but the club looks like its been relaunched so i thought it warrented a second mention
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free printable boxes and gift bags
By terlan on October 14, 2008
printables.info have a selection of free printable boxes that would be great for wedding favours, gift boxes party treats or just to give away little things in for Promotions.
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Cloggs discount code
By terlan on October 13, 2008
If your looking to buy some shoes, try cloggs they’re giving you a 5% discount if you use the code : OCTA08
Theres a great selection and the prices are very competative. This codes valid Until 4th November 2008
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Comet discount codes and offers
By terlan on October 13, 2008
Some great discount offfers from comet this week on Nintendo DS and Apple Ipod Classics get em now before the christmas rush kicks in. As discounts nearer xmas are few and far between.
comet nintendo DS offer
Buy any Nintendo DS Console, DS Extras accessory pack, and choose one game (from a selection) for only £109.99 - Save at least £24.98
Comet nintendo DS offer 2
Buy any Nintendo DS Console with Flip & Play case and Scrabble/My Word Coach double pack for only £109.99 Save £39.98
Apple Ipod Discount Code
£10 off Apple iPod Classic 120GB – Code AWCLASSIC10 expires 19 October 2008
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Daily Cooks Challenge
By terlan on October 13, 2008
Got a nice email i thought i’d share from SRO audiences, who give away free tickets for TV shows :
We thought that you might be interested to know that tickets are now available for the new series of the new series of the popular celebrity cooking show hosted by Anthony Worrall Thompson! The tickets are FREE!
DAILY COOKS CHALLENGE
In this exciting and fun show for ITV1, host Anthony Worrall Thompson is joined by two new chefs each week.
The chefs then compete for celebrity guest judges each day. Antony also gives special masterclasses for the guest judges each day!
Booking is now open for the brand new series!
The show will be recorded at Capital Studios, Wandsworth SW18 1ET at 12 noon & 6.00pm on weekdays during October & November. If you’d to join us, then apply now!
You may apply now online at http://www.sroaudiences.com or by emailing with the following details to tickets@sroaudiences.com:
Full name:
Postcode:
Number of tickets required:Choice of date & time: (Choose from: 12 noon or 6pm on Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th, Thursday 16th, Monday 20th, Tuesday 21st, Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd, Tuesday 28th, Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th & Friday 31st October 2008. Later dates will be available via our website shortly )
Choice 1:
Choice 2:
Choice 3:
The minimum age for attendance at this show is 16. We shall notify successful applicants as quickly as possible by email with their eticket. All tickets are issued free of charge and are strictly non-transferable.
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free cooking and recipe videos
By terlan on October 13, 2008
ifoods.tv offers free cooking and recipe videos by real chefs showing how to prepare and cook thousands of dishes. This is agreat website thats totally free. Give it a check out if you want some insperational dinners.
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Reduce your energy bills with FREE energy saving products
By terlan on October 13, 2008
Eaga are giving away free energy saving products to qualifying applicants
If your over 70 or in receipt of any of a wide list of benefits you can get a 4 free energy saving light bulbs, a free PowerDown and a free eaga ShowerSmart.
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off on holiday
By terlan on July 8, 2008
Ok no posts for a week. Im off on holiday. And I know I could blog from anywhere in the world, hell I can blog from my phone, but I spend most of my working day at a pc, And half my free time ( lets not lie… nearly all my free time) at a pc, so when I go on holiday, I go completely PC free. I dont go near a pc or use the net at all. I do take my mobile, but its only in case of an emergency and spends most of the time offline. So no new freebies for about a week.
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The freebie hunters guide
By terlan on July 7, 2008
You want free stuff. dont we all, I know I do. Thats why I have this website, I like getting free stuff. And to help you out I thought I’d put to gether a list of do’s and do nots for freebie hunters.
First things first, nearly every form you fill in to get freebies is going to want to know your email address and you really dont want to be using your main personal or business email address. And I know to some of you wise freebie hunters out there this isnt news, but some of the offers you sign up for arent always going to be scrupulous with the email addresses they get. So play it safe and get a freebie email account. And all of us being freebie hunters its gotta be a free one doesnt it.
Now theres the big three to go for, hotmail, yahoo or gmail. All have decent junk mail filters to help filter out the rubbish and will serve you quite well. Just make an emaiilaccount like jacks_freebies@gmail.com or the likes and your set to go. Another option is to use a tempory email account. Whats that I hear you say, These are tempory email addresses that are deleted when not getting used. You go to a site like mailinator.com and they give you a free email account. The email account is created when the first email goes to it. You dont fill in any forms, simply invent an email address with @mailinator.com at the end and give it out. You then just check the email, click the confirmation link and the accounts gone till you need it again. I like using terlansjunk@mailinator.com anyone can use it, and check it as well…. so DONT use for anything except filling in freebie forms or signing up for forums.
What else do you need to do to get freebies, well browse the net and check lots of sites, not just one. Obviously you want to come to freekeyring.com first but theres lots and lots of freebie sites, some general like freekeyring.com and others more specialised, offering free signs, kids freebies, free colouring printables, free maps and so on.
Others are forums of users who swap and link offers as soon as they are found. The freebie forum at forums.moneysavingexpert.com is about the best out there, and the rest of that site is invaluable to saving cash and getting money off things. bookmark it.
So now your browsing the web like crazy looking for freebies and downloading lots of nice free software you better get yourself protected. Theres a lot of very bad sites out there looking to put less that ethical spyware and advertising software on your PC. So plod on over to safer-networking.org and download spybot search & destroy. It will protect your computer against a wide range of spyware and threats. Give the site a bit of a read to get the lowdown on how it works and install it. Oh and did i mention its totally free.
Ok lets add just a little more protection nip over to free.avg.com and download the free antivirus software to protect you from viruses in emails and software. So now your a little more safer when you browse, but just be careful when you click yes when asked a question by a website and you should be ok.
You can go further and install firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/) and use it to browse the web, some argue its way more secure to browse the web with, while others will argue that the newer versions of internet explorer are. Me… I stay out of that argument. I use IE7….. And firefox, depending on the pc im using at the time.( hows that for a cop out.)
Another tip I would offer is to keep a text file on your desktop. Call it freebies, or similar and every time you send off for some freebie, copy and paste the url and some info about it to the bottom of the file, add the date and hit save. Then when the freebie arrives type received or similar beside it. If after a month or so the freebie hasnt arrived you can go to the freebie site you found it on and let people know that the offer might be dead and let people on the forums know too. Some freebies are time limited and unless you let the website owner know he / she will keep the link to it live.
Now if your really serious about getting freebies, move on to the next level and try blagging some gear directly from the companies themselves. Send off an email or letter ( you know those paper things that seem to take forever to get to their recipients and dont have built in spellcheckers) to companies asking for a sample. Blatant and to the point, but it does work. If you have a blog, and get good traffic just offer to blog about anyone who will send you free stuff. You would be surprised how much this works for people. Does help to have a seriously popular blog, but if you dont try you dont get.
So happy freebie hunting and if you have any tips to offer post a comment and share the information with yourt fellow freebie hunters.
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Free keyring in bloggers stress relief pack.
By terlan on July 7, 2008
The day after I mention the severe lack of free keyring offers on the net, what do I find, a free keyring offer. Typical isnt it. I was browsing here.org.uk ( good site i like to read) and found a post about the following freebie. so credit goes to here.org.uk for this freebie.
Berocca are offering all you stressed out bloggers a fine free bloggers stress relief pack containing, a free bubble wrap keyring, a stress ball, a usb stress button, a dead fred pen holder and a pack of berocca.
link to freebie : http://www.berocca.co.uk/bloggerrelief/
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free t-shirt from perpster
By terlan on July 7, 2008
free tshirt from perpster if you live in the EU, USA or Canada.
To celebrate their launch perpster.com are giving away free t-shirts, one per household. There are mens and womens available in all sizes, If your from outside the USA they may ask you to pay postage, so might be best to check first, but us users get it completely free.
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Free web page templates for blogs and sites : seo and css
By terlan on July 7, 2008
Free website templates, these templates are really high quality and only need a link back which is unobtrusive and at the footer of the page to use them.
Not all of them are suitable for blogs, but with some tweaking ( if you know your css and html) they should be easily adapted to fit any website.
I’m thinking of using this free template for my new online free keyring maker when its finished, let me know what you think. The photo’s in the middle would be switched with images of keyrings and of course the title etc, would be changed to suit. But I think its a nice clean layout.
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Free printable dora the explorer calendar, fully customisable
By terlan on July 6, 2008
http://www.dltk-cards.com/calendar/dora/index.htm
Create and print a dora the explorer calendar. You choose from several images, choose a year and simply print it off. You can print a full year calendar or a month at a time. the images are a little basic but its a fun thin for the kids to make on a rainy day.
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Free Dora the explorer printable potty trainng chart
By terlan on July 6, 2008
http://www.nickjr.com/parenting/parenting_features/potty_training/printables/dora_potty_chart.jhtml
A simple potty training chart to print off featuring dora the explorer. From nick jr. There is a large selection of links to other freebie printables on there as well. happy hunting for them 
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Free online keyring maker
By terlan on July 5, 2008
I’ve been making a free keyring / keyfob maker for you to use for the last month or so (this is why the site wasnt updated for a little while), I’ve got semi working online keyring making software ready at the moment. But i thought I’d get some feedback from the online community first.
The idea comes form the fact that a HUGE amount of visitors come to the site looking for free keyrings, and to be honest, the free keyring offers have been in short supply for a while. So, I decided to let you design and make your own free keyrings.
Basically you select from various image catagories whatever you want to be on on your keyrings, or you can upload your own designs. The system allows you to select up to 32 images, which is enough to make 16 keyrings, 2 images for each keyring, 1 image per side. 32 is the number of standard keyring sized images you can fit on a standard piece of a4 paper. You then get a pdf that you can print out. Then you simply cut out the keyring images and use them in blank keyrings, which you can pick up quite cheaply from from ebay or other online suppliers. I might even try and source a low cost supply for users of the site to buy at wholesale prices.
Once the free keyring making software is finished, you will be able to use different sized papers, like standard 6×4 photo paper if you only need 2 or 3 keyrings. There will also be sample templates for custom keyrings to download and then upload to the keyring creator.
Now all of this will be online, totally free, and hopefully finished soon. It should work in most of the current browsers and wont require any activex controls or plugins, other than the adobe reader.
Now what i need to know is would you use it. or will it linger in internet obsurity never to see the light of day. Leave comments to this post and let me know what you think of the idea. Theres plenty of uses i can think of for the system, your own keyring selling business at car boot sales, flea markets or ebay. Fun things for kids to make in playgroups or rainy days. But thats just me throwing out ideas.
Please leave your thoughts on the idea or suggestions for features that could be put in it. I’ll appreciate any thoughts you leave about the online keyring maker idea, good or bad.
Update
The prototype keyring maker is online at www.gkcd.com/free let me know your thoughts on this initial test version
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free nivea extreme comfort shaving balm sample
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.nivea.co.uk/highlights/int_product/show/ips_nfm_extreme_comfort
Another nivea freebie sample for men. Just click the sample link, fill in the form and you’ll get a good sized sample of comfort shaving balm.
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free nivea dna moisturiser for men
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.nivea.co.uk/highlights/int_product/show/ips_nfm_dnage
Click the free sample link, and fill in the form to get the nivea dna mens moisturiser free sample.
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Free wedding stationary samples from the secret garden
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.thesecretgarden.org.uk/contactus.html
Planning your big day? why not get some free stationary samples for the wedding of your dreams.
Simply send off the request for to get the sample stationary.
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Free classical music pencils
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.classicalmusic.org.uk/free-pencils.html
Free pencils for musicians to hand out from classical music uk. seems simple enough. get some pencils by filling in the form. And when it asks if your a musician… use your imagination.
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Free millies cookie printable voucher
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.milliescookies.com/ClassicCookieVoucher08.pdf
Get a free cookie using this printable voucher. You have to buy something to redeem it, but if you use the shop to get coffee, muffins or the likes you might as well get a free cookie while your at it.
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Free Alarm Clock
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.claim-today.com/CTSclock.asp
Get a free alarm clock from this accident claim company.
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free rspb wildlife fun book
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.rspb.org.uk/youth/makeanddo/do/funbook.asp
It’s full of brilliant pictures, things to make and do, fantastic games and loads of info about birds and other wildlife.
Find out about amazing wildlife, how to make a wildlife snapper, all about animal tracks, signs and poo and much more!
Print off the form and send it to them to get the book.
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free measuring tape
By terlan on July 5, 2008
http://www.uniformschoolwear.com/FreeTapeMeasure.aspx
Get a free measuring tape from this supplier of school uniforms.
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free iron on name labels
By terlan on July 5, 2008
free iron on name labels
http://www.easy2name.com/brochure.htm
Great one for when the kids go back to school. Fill in a brochure request and get free samples.
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