As many of you may have experienced our search feature was nowhere near as good as it should be.  We however made a switch and now let google handle the search.  This isn’t the “prettiest” solution, however the power of the search is much better.  We are confident now that you can easily pull up our older tutorials, so what are you waiting for? Give it a shot!  It will also search the forums.

If your reading this message, Im hoping your ninja-enough to know that Summer was late by 1 minute this year, and so was this post. Anyways, Happy Summer! It is in my great honor to once again announce more sticker updates!

As you well-know, we have shipped hundreds of Tutorial Ninjas stickers across the United States and to Canada! Congradulations to everybody on that- it is great to have a community who participates in events!

On the latter side of things, for those of you who requested stickers, your shipments should arrive as late as the end of next week (depending on location).

Now, in order to further the success of these stickers (and for your bragging rights), hopefully you’ve read the memo that was included with your sticker shipment.

Since this really only applys to those who requested stickers-
Hopefully your taking pictures of your stickers where ever you stick them!
Please send all pictures of stickers to: stickers@tutorialninjas.net

If you have a cellphone with a camera:
Send an MMS message and attach the pictures you took of your stickers.
Send the MMS message to: stickers@tutorialninjas.net

In the email or MMS message, please include the following:

• First & Last Initial:
• Tutorial Ninjas Forum Name:
• Location: (City, State)
• A short description of your picture:
• Would you like your photo listed anonymously? (Yes or No)

And thats it! Send it to us, and find your picture in our coming-soon Sticker photo gallery!

Since we shipped a minimum of 7 stickers to each person who requested them, your obviously going to have a few different places to stick them. Since this is the case, feel free to submit as many pictures of your stickers as you would like! Just be sure to send each picture in a separate message!

For the complete Stickers Update and Information, visit the official post here.

Your thinking… oh great. What could possibly happen on Friday the 13th. Heck, this day has been bad enough, right? Well, think again! If you really look in the ninja handbook, Friday the 13th is a day of celebration! Friday the 13th is like Christmas for ninjas (except its more than once a year). All of my friends and I got together today to celebrate. Before you ask- yes, the cake was great! It was red, and black, and white, and in the shape of a ninja.

To honor this day, our Ninja printing friends brought us those stickers we promised you a few weeks ago! Fresh, sticky, goodness! Use the stickers to stick on walls, doors, your parents dressers, your computer, your forehead (they will stick to just-about anything). Just a little warning, these stickers are known to contain REAL ninjas. Meaning, if you treat them improperly, they will do something to you. <–Not a threat!

Aside from that, I have decided to reveal my 1000 friends identity (to some extent). (Shipped in a cardboard box to preserve their freshness and life-support!)

Dont be afrade to click the images to see them enlarged, they wont bite you. I did my “best” to hide their faces. Aside from all my blabbing, the good news is you should no longer fear Friday the 13th! After that short History lesson, you should now know that the stickers will be coming your way within the next 1-2 weeks!

For more information about the stickers, read this topic on the forums!

Remember all those crazy updates we performed just a week ago? Do you also recall that special present we offered to everyone on the forums? Were extending that offer to all of our site visitors (that have a forum account).

The official, exclusive, not-offered-anywhere-else-in-the-world, Tutorial Ninjas stickers! Help spread the word this summer by posting 7 of your Tutorial Ninjas stickers wherever you would like!

To quote our original offer (that is still in effect):

To get the stickers, just send me an email: java@tutorialninjas.net

In the email, please include the following:
Name:
Tutorial Ninjas Forum Name:
Address:

(And by address I mean PO box or Home address, where ever you want the stickers shipped.)

So all of you know, your address and information is COMPLETELY confidential.
It will not be shared with ANYONE.

In addition, just because were such generous ninjas–

If your feeling lucky, include the number 7 at the very end of the email and I might just throw in a few extra stickers!

And on the final note:

These stickers may serve a purpose in the future (contest?!), your better off getting some!

So, if you havent requested some free stickers yet, NOW is your only chance! The clock is ticking and we have a limited supply. This offer will expire at any time (a minimum of 1 week from today, or when sticker supply runs out; whichever is first).

If your feeling chatty, visit the official updates post located here.

Note: For those of you feeling left out, you are encouraged to make a forum account if you dont already have one; thus you can request stickers!

Well… it took us long enough and we are very sorry about the (hence… LONG!) delay, but we have finally updated everything on the site. This mainly pertains to our main site (what you are looking at right now), our theme, and many other back ends you probably have no idea about. Many were vital updates– just because the last time we performed an update like this was almost 1 year ago… June of last year to be precise. Other updates added features or improved the code efficiency of the site (less code mess on our end). Oh yeah, I forgot to mention we ‘upgraded our weapons and improved tactics’- yes, in English that would mean fixed many security holes.

So now that the updates are done, you are looking desperately around the site to discover a new feature. Great idea! To save you that time, ill tell you whats been changed!

• Google ad now appears every 3 posts. This ad is also smaller in width, so it does not distort the layout.
• Google ad in sidebar has theme-matching links.
• Sidebar toggle is enabled on the homepage.
  (Click the <> image in the top right of a post.)
• Has anybody realized you can hide any part of the sidebar by clicking on its header?
• Tag management has been improved. Its easier to find what you want!
• Search results have been improved. Removed toggle post feature for results (was useless).
• Lots of other ‘easter eggs’ have been incorporated into the site.
  For example: Error messages.

I could tell you about all the other updates, but there are just too many that aren’t exactly relevant to you.
Hey don’t forget to check out the forums! Theres a present for everyone!

The Tutorial Ninjas

Howto.Wired recently shared some information many of you may or may not know about reducing your carbon footprint and saving the Planet. Unfortunately, its just about one month after Earth Day, so I cant even make any “seasonal” statements about this.

With various web services, you can learn how to install solar panels on your house, plan the perfect carpooling schedule, fly green, and stop junk mail!

Given the steady drumbeat of news about climate change, water shortages, food riots and high oil prices, many of us are pretty well-versed in the basics of protecting the environment.

What’s lacking, particularly for us tech-lovers, are the tools to help us live our on-grid, totally Wired lives with the smallest possible impact. And we do need some help. If everyone lived like North Americans, we’d need at least five planets to support our lifestyles.

Here are some online actions you can take to “plug in greener.”

On a side note for all of you, as of today… Tutorial Ninjas has been made green. No, I am not talking about our layouts colors, look to the right of this text and you will notice our new “CO2Stats”. For more information about CO2Stats, learn more about CO2Stats.

[Reduce your Carbon Footprint via Wired.Howto.Wiki]