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Hack Wine Spectator, Again!

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

I don’t know why I do this, it’s just ingrained in me for some reason. I guess I just don’t like how Wine Spectator, in an effort to control searches for wine, allows Google to index deep into it’s site, only to taunt users who click on those results with the solicitation to sign up […]

Free Access to Winespectator.com Until October 31st, With No Registration!

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

To celebrate 10 years online, Wine Spectator is offering free access to it’s website until the end of the month. When signing up, they require an email address to send a link to (a smart way to get some new subscribers if you ask me). Since I’m not a fan of mailing lists, I signed […]

NEW - Hacking Wine Spectator: Full Access!

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Over the next week or so, everyone will be keenly interested in how the 2005 vintage of Bordeaux is going to turn out. Many are claiming this to be a great year for the region. To keep you up to date on the goings on in that part of the world, Wine Spectator has commissioned […]

Hack Wine Spectator with Google Part II

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

It’s back! I know Wine Spectator will get wind of it soon and fix it, but for now, access to Wine Spectators paid content is available.
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The power of Google’s cache strikes again!
This time instead of using Google News, we use Google’s Cache through search. Here’s how it works.

Go to Wine Spectator’s site.
Click […]

Six Steps To A Successful Wine Blog

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Over 2 years ago, in August of 2003, I got an idea. This new medium called blogging would be great for information on wine. Unfortunately, I wasn’t the first to get this idea (there was one other guy I knew about [at the time]), but I figured I would dabble here and there for a […]

Find a winery with Google Maps

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Winerybound.com aims to make it easy to find the wineries you want to visit by integrating Google maps. Google released it’s API, or code if you will, for it’s map service so people could integrate it onto their site. A few mixes that I like: www.housingmaps.com (uses craigslist housing listings for rentals and for sale […]

Sign up NOW for mailing lists!

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

As the population continues to grow, and more and more people become interested in wine, it is becoming more difficult to buy the wine you want. One of the best ways to be assured you’ll receive wine from your favorite producers is to sign up and wait on their mailing list. If you sign up […]

Wine Spectator Free Access Eradicated

Friday, October 7th, 2005

It was fun while it lasted (I never should have posted about it, I’m sure that’s how they found out). The Wine Spectator hack with Google News is gone! The last of the articles you can read are from September 15th and previous. I checked the other News aggregation sites, Yahoo, MSN, and it appears […]

Hack Wine Spectator with Google News!

Friday, August 26th, 2005

You know both websites, most likely you’ve used both at one time or another. But you got tired of paying for a subscription to Wine Specator online, or maybe you just didn’t want to. Now you are missing all the good stories.
It’s amazing what a little dilligence will do for you. I don’t have a […]

Pocket Size Vintage Chart

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Vintage Charts are nice, providing quick reference to quality wine. Although the accuracy of charts is debatable, it holds true that in good growing seasons, the majority of the wines will be good, and the opposite in bad years. The folks over at lifehacker recommend printing and laminating a chart for clean transport at all […]

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