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Ad Muncher – your friend, your lover, your companion!

January 16th, 2009 Posted in rant, software, tips

Alright!  Here is a personal fact about me me (well, technically, it’s a couple of facts mixed into a nice cocktail of facts that I like to call “a personal aspiration”…):

I am a what I like to call a pleasure-person! (which has NOTHING to do with the fact that I cannot translate the Danish word “nydelsesmenneske” and anyone who says otherwise is a heretic and should be burnt at the stake). I actively seek out pleasure in all things of my life. I try to pleasure “optimize” my life by implementing things that can make my life easier, cheaper, more comfortable, more automatic, more autonomous all while also trying to minimize trivial things that have to opine (<= yes it’s a word) about (quote: me, just now!)

Some random (useless perhaps?!) examples that has helped fulfill the above aspiration would be

1. Having my bills subscribed to the Danish version of BillPay called PaymentService (Danish: betalingsservice). All my recurring bills gets paid this way, and I don’t have to think about them getting paid on-time or anything. This would be the time where Steve Jobs would say “boom!!! if he was giving a speech”
2. Having a separate “budget” account, where all the my recurring expenses are charged AND having the overview of what those expenses will be for the whole year ahead, so a fixed amount of my monthly pay are transferred to that account every month and I get no surprises with regard to unforeseen expenses. I know exactly how much money I can throw away on gambling, alcohol, drugs and prostitutes every month and it’ll be the same amount every month as all the fluctuations happen on the “budget account” Lovely!
3. A dish-washer. Yes, a dish-washer dammit!. As of writing, I’m still going on my first 18 months with a dish-washer, and d-a-m-n (!!!) this is nice. I don’t think people who haven’t lived without one for a long period of time can really appreciate it (when I moved away from my parents, I went cold turkey and took 7 years without one, so I’m in the know with regards to this subject. I’m okay with you calling me an expert on the subject when you quote me). Same goes for people with a wife who does the dishes (chauvinist? me? I resent that, especially if you’re a woman…), so trust me on this one. Love…thy name is M.Y. Dishwasher
   I am sure we all know, and appreciate, the old joke that goes like this
   1. Man 1:  Man, my dish-washer stopped working last week. It was terrible and dishes were PILING up
   2. Man 2: OMG, that’s horrible, what did you do?
   3. Man 1: I slapped her around a little and told her to get back to work….
4. This bullet serves no real purpose. It’s a pause-bullet-point to allow you to pause and laugh at the above mentioned joke….
5. A combined washer/dryer! Seriously, washer = good! dryer = good! washer PLUS dryer = awesome!. Although it stresses me a little already that when I get some kids, the amount of clothes that need washing will grow and you can’t do both washing and drying at the same time (Kenwood? Electrolux? Bosch? Miele? you listening? Fix THAT problem and you got yourself a new customer. I will write “great seller, would buy again” on you eBay profile, I swear!
6. Having stopped smoking! Yes, me stopping smoking was heavily influenced by the desire to pleasure-optimize. Hear me out please! Smoking gave a relaxing “high”, but at what expense!? You see, I’m no lady, so when I had to carry around a pack of cigarettes, I had the pack in my pants protruding like I was “very happy to see whomever I was in front of”, which often I wasn’t… Rest assured, now they know! Damn hippies!!

From the above examples I am sure you can all see why it hurts my insides (ohhh the hurt!!) that sites such as Mint.com or Wesabe.com don’t work with Danish banks. Furthermore, applications such as Microsoft Money & Intuit Quicken sucks cow-balls in comparison (and ain’t free…). Also, and this might be a little surprising (it was for me), it bugs me that my financial situation isn’t more complicated, so I could really benefit from mint/wesabe tools

So why is the post called “Ad Muncher…” and how the fu** funky-doodle does it relate?

Ok, the above hundreds of words were probably the longest build-up to why I actually wanted to write this post: Ad Muncher! This application  (Windows only btw, Mac users need not apply) is a God sent Flying Spaghetti Monster sent! I admit, I pirated the app many years ago when I first went looking for one, until I sent in my first customer support question and the reply came back with a solution to inquiry, but also stated “ILLEGAL PIRATED VERSION” in the email header, yet no mention of me being a pirate in the solution given – THAT is customer service (note: this does not mean you should pirate it, you douche!!).

That, and the fact that the application was simply so good meant I registered it, and this is back when I didn’t register any apps. I had no money and everything I bought was financed by student loans I took. But I’m glad I bought it as this is one of the only apps I still use from those years that was worth the money. So what does it do? Simple, all it does it:

Ad Muncher removes all advertisements and blocks all advertisement pop-ups online for any browser (ed: no, for real, it really works (almost) flawlessly!!)

My guess it that you probably don’t even notice many of the enormous amounts of ads you are subjected to online – that is, UNTIL you try the web without ads. My eyes bleed and I die a little on the inside whenever I use computers without Ad Muncher (or similar, nowhere nearly as good, free alternative such as AdBlocker for Firefox). Bottom line, Ad Muncher f***ing rocks the house!

The programs has the following benefits:

• works for all browsers (heck it even blocks ads in other apps that display ads)
• No seriously, it actually works. Not semi-works like Ad Blocker or any of the other ad blockers out there, R-E-A-L-L-Y works (…and now the chorus..ehh, wait! never mind that…)
• Super simple to setup, even you can do it
• Doesn’t’ at all interfere with encrypted sites (such as your bank or other secure sites) – with no setup!
• Costs just $30 Australian (yup, for you Danes out there that equates to a measly, pathetic 110 DKK). I have had free upgrades and updates since I bought it in the times of yore (<= pre-2005)
• Very small memory footprint (which you don’t care about, but it good. Kinda like the when you conserve energy for the environments sake, you don’t really care, but it’s nice that its there)
• Cuts down on your expenses for great stock tips, free iPod competitions, sex pills, you’re-visitor-nr. 1-million-in-blinking-neon-epilepsy-inducing-colors, although it will hurt your dating life as you won’t find out about as many of the sexy girls that are “ready to hit that” in your area
• Updated almost daily to fix ads it does already remove, so you don’t have to…
• and finally, for all the ladies out there, it has ssuuusssch a cuutte witttle wwoogooo of a donkey

This application is a pleasure optimizer’s dream application and you need to get it now. If you choose to do so, use this link, as it gives me a small commission (at no cost to you, which coincidentally proves that TINSTAAFL is a LIE! ). But seriously, even if you don’t want to give me ANYTHING (and I know there’s a lot of you out there, so holla!!) , you should still get the app. just type in www.admuncher.com in your browser’s address bar and await the bliss that is Ad Muncher! You won’t go back! It’s time to suit up!! Check out the before and after picture below flick them for larger images…

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