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GET THE LATEST NAMECHEAP DISCOUNT COUPON CODE!!

I am a user of Namecheap’s domain registration service. I like Namecheap for their ease-of-use interface and no cross or upselling of other services. On top of the domain, you get one year’s free of WhoisGuard to protect your private information.

As with all domain registrars, Namecheap provides discount coupon codes to entice customers to sign up more domains with them. In the past, codes such as SAVE7993, EVENLOWER and BESTVALUE knocks off $0.89 from the original price of $8.88 per dot com domain. All these codes have expired and lapsed.

The new code is MORE4LESS which also takes off $0.89.
- works on new .com
- does not work on .com renewal
- works for .com transfers

Another new code is YAFFASPECIAL which is a $0.90 discount.
- works on new .com and .org
- works on .com renewal
- works on .info renewal
- does not work on .com transfers

New DOTMOBI code which fixes the price at $19.98
- works on new .mobi

MORE4LESS and YAFFASPECIAL codes apparently no longer work in the new year. It has been reported by many webmasters and some of you even took the trouble to alert me through emails and commenting. Thanks for that. Here are 2 new codes that you can use beginning 2007:
WCSSPECIAL and HAPPYNEWYEAR

Looks like HAPPYNEWYEAR is not working anymore. New code is FEBLOVE.

I will keep updating this post with the codes and conditions of use. Enjoy!

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Finally, after months of waiting and anticipation since January 16th when I first volunteered myself to this program, the Stardust@Home project is now ready to be rolled out. A total of 115,000 volunteers around the world have signed up to participate in this once in a lifetime journey to search for cosmic dust.

NASA announced that the Stardust@Home project will officially be at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time on August 1st, 2006 which is pretty late compared to their original forecast of March 1st 2006. Volunteers are required to download focus movies and use a virtual microscope to scan the images.

If you are ready to take some time off and volunteer, NASA is still accepting assistance. Note that not everyone who sign up to help will get the chance as NASA is going to conduct an online test before acceptance. To sign up, visit http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/.

This is the best part:

In recognition of the critical importance of the Stardust@home volunteers, the discoverer of an interstellar dust particle will appear as a co-author on any scientific paper by the Stardust@home collaboration announcing the discovery of the particle. The discoverer will also have the privelage of naming the particle! Each particle, as it is discovered, will be given some kind of alpa-numeric identifier (an address of sorts) for book-keeping puposes. But the name that people will actually call each particle by will be given to it by its discoverer. To also recognize the efforts of our volunteers who work hard, but may not find a particle we will invite the top ranked volunteers to come visit our lab in Berkeley for a special tour.

The inset (larger image)shows the current progress of this project. As you can see there are still plenty to do in terms of searching fot the dust.

Houston, we have a problem (2-August-2006 update):

We have shut down the training, testing and VM section of the Stardust@home website because of a problem in which random images of unknown origin appear in the focus movies. We do not yet understand their origin, but they are not images of the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector. Because of this, we have decided to suspect the training, testing and VM on the Stardust@home website until the problem is corrected.

Tags: Stardust@Home, cosmic dust, NASA