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Allow customers/clients to use promo codes instead of affiliate links in WHMCS

If you’ve ever joined an affiliate program with an online retailer, or some type of company, you already know the most common way used by these sites to track the people you refer to them is normally with some ugly URL link that specifically tells the person it’s an affiliate link (http://somedomain.com/affiliate.php?affid=2838).  Well what happens if you send a person to their site, and then they come back a week later but don’t use your link?  What if they just don’t even sign up because they think the only reason you’re sending them to that site is because you’re an affiliate?  Well, if you have WHMCS, you’re in luck. (more…)

How to obtain root, install and run XBMC on D-Link Boxee Box

If you happened to be one of the ones (like me) who jumped on board with purchasing the first generation Boxee Box manufactured by D-Link, you probably ended up being just as disapointed as I was.  I originally purchased the Boxee Box because I was using, and liked, the Boxee fork of XBMC…unfortunately the support from Boxee was horrible, and they basically in my opinion didn’t care about their customers.  What few updates were released had problems they refused to fix, and eventually they ended up just dropping all support for the Boxee Box to focus on their newer release with the Boxee Cloud as those customers are now left high and dry after Samsung purchased Boxee Box and basically gave the middle finger to existing customers.  Not to mention the fact that Boxee and D-Link violated the GPL and would not provide root access to the device even though they were using Open Source code from XBMC.  Well luckily someone found an exploit and was able to gain root, which has now enabled us to be able to root the Boxee Box, and install XBMC. (more…)