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Lockerz.com – An Honest Review

Posted by EliteTek on Dec 22, 2009 in General / Personal

Lockerz is a new website that allows you to gather “ptz” that as a user you redeem for free items. I am here to review this website, and give a quick comparision to other similar websites.

In their own words

Lockerz is the place to go to buy the coolest stuff at the lowest prices, watch exclusive video, discover new music, play the hottest games, hang out with your friends – and get rewarded for just about EVERYTHING you do on the site.

Our mission is to be your daily habit, not a site for your parents or grandparents looking for their long-lost friends from Kindergarten.

One other thing you’ll love about Lockerz are PTZ (or “Pointz”). PTZ are Lockerz’ proprietary loyalty “currency” that you earn whenever you buy, watch, play, share, invite friends, or even just show up on Lockerz. Redeem PTZ at the PTZ Place for incredible prizes, great products and dream experiences.

Too Good to Be True? Why are we doing this? To thank you for joining early. To build a Lockerz community of cool, stylish, cutting-edge people who love to buy great brands. To give you a taste of how PTZ will work when we go live this fall. And to test out different prizes and PTZ levels. That’s key. This version of PTZ Place is a test. PTZ levels will change when the full Lockerz site launches.

Lockerz is set to launch sometime in the Fall 09. Members who sign up now will get to explore and help shape the site before the launch. We hope you’ll join us.”

I am going to give a quick review of Lockerz.

Review:

To start off with, I find Lockerz very appealing visually. The website itself has been carefully designed with pleasing colors and a simple design. There are no advertisements (huge plus). An example is below:

Lockerz Main

Starting off, when you first sign up there is a game where you “catch” falling ptz. The great thing about this is, you can earn many points up. I earned 35 when I played. To give you a quick idea how much that is worth, an Xbox game that retails for $60 (regular price) is only 100 points. So essentially in under 2 minutes I earned a little over $21, that’s well over minimum wage!

When I first started browsing the website, I immediately clicked on the prizes (what would a site like this be without good prizes?!). I was very surprised to see things that I actually wanted! To give you, the reader a very brief idea of what they actually have there I uploaded some pictures.

When you click on prizes, you are greeted with three options (Cool Brands, Electronics, and Experiences):

prize overview

Experiences (Charities, Concerts Etc)

experiences locker

An easy way to gain “ptz” is to invite friends. You get 2 ptz per friend you invite, once you invite 20 friends, you then get 4 ptz every new friend. They have a very simple invite menu, you simply separate email addresses by commas and then send out an invite, of course you can send a personal message to go along with it!

Invite screen

Another easy way to earn ptz is to simply answer the daily question

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Overall, the prizes and easy points make Lockerz well worth the *very little* effort. I would give it an easy 9/10. The only reason is right now they are in beta and they don’t have THAT many ways to earn ptz, however, I am sure that will change :) . Currently, it is in Beta, however, it will be released very soon!

 
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Bambi / FaceBook Pets – Get in on the action!

Posted by EliteTek on Dec 22, 2009 in General / Personal

Bambi has a Facebook account, and has also started up a pretty incredible Facebook Pets group. I’d appreciate it if you checked both out!

 
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Graboid – Free Downloads, Hacked Accounts

Posted by EliteTek on Dec 22, 2009 in General / Personal

Graboid Logo

Ok, so i’ve recently been using a service called graboid. It’s an application which you download and it allows you to download and stream selected movies and tv shows etc.

The genres it can get into are endless, if you take a look at this screenshot below you’ll notice the vast selection you’ve got in front of you!

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Now, the great thing about graboid is the fact that you can stream the movie without having to download it first. Once the movie is finished it will bring up a prompt asking “Did you want to save this movie for future playback” it then goes ahead and stores it in a local folder on your machine.

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Usually the download speed for any given movie/music/content is at around 300 kb’s right off the bat, this can vary from different connections but in my experience it usually rockets straight upward from 300kb’s to 1mb’s.

What differs this from bit-torrent is the ability to stream right away, with no wait it also plays on a pretty neat media player built-in to the graboid client.

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All in all it’s a very awesome application and it’s worth trying out. The only down side is the fact that they limit your downloads. This can be avoided by using new accounts created via proxy. Shit you wont ever catch me paying to pirate.

http://anonymoussite.vndv.com/

Oh and you can also visit the offical graboid site for more detail.

http://www.graboid.com/

So, i hope you enjoy my little review, and i hope this opens your eyes to a new an awesome method on getting your favorite media!

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