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Creating Your Own Website The Easy Way! 2008-02-11 20:03:00 Nowadays, the emergence of websites be it for businesses or personal (blogs) is on the rise. Especially now that creating a website seems to be as easy as ever!There are a lot of web development companies and a plethora of freelancers! The challenge lies in selecting the right developer. For me, as a rule of thumb, I usually recommend choosing a developer or freelancer nearest to your location. This way you can easily communicate your needs to them.However, you can also try creating your own website. I found this great site in the internet that helps anybody on how to build a website without prior technical knowledge. With their cool service you can practically launch you own site in less than ten minutes!OneWebHosting is a unique web solution company since they can offer you on-the-fly so Read more:Creating
Welcome to the ride 2008-02-10 19:45:00 I'll give you a glimpse of my offline life...I love motorcycles.I like to ride.I like to experience that freedom.That unique experience only motorcycle riders feel...
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Web Ad Protypes from Microsoft 2008-02-07 20:50:00 I read this from the news this morning. The original article was written by Jessica Mintz, an AP Technology Writer. Here's a portion of the article:"Microsoft
Corp.'s online advertising researchers will spend this year teaching computers to be smart about sticking ads into video clips, and to be even smarter about targeting ads to specific Web surfers.Microsoft showed off a handful of early-stage advertising projects at its headquarters Tuesday that may or may not turn up as part of Microsoft's Web advertising platform.The demonstrations come just days after Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo Inc., which, if successful, will boost the software maker's Web traffic and online ad revenue.The full article can be found here "Looking at it from a blogger's perspective, I can't help to ask m
Online Casino: Getting that Casino Fever! 2008-02-07 19:39:00 Warning: Just like the real thing, playing online casino games are addictive!Still if you have the time and money to spare, then go catch the casino fever! It's real fun and stress relieving (at least for me!).However, before kick starting your favorite browser and keying online casino on google, here's some tips on how to choose the right online casino:Check out the site's software. You have to make sure you only play with reputable gaming softwares. You can find such information in the online casino's information pages. Among the list of the major and trustworthy softwares are Cryptologic, Microgaming, Net Entertainment, Playtech, Boss Media, Random Logic and OddsOn.24 hour online support is a MUST. If there are no chat supoprt at least look for a phone number and an email address. It's Read more:Casino
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If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself 2008-02-07 19:06:00 Adolf Zukor, a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures, on approaching his 100th birthday once said: "If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better
care of myself
." I am sure most of us will have the same sentiments. I am also sure that no one of us can predict what will we be years and years from now, for there are many, many factors that affect our lifestyle. Most of the things that happen to us are beyond our control. But what can really help us prepare for where we are going can be planning our retirement or old age. Because even if we are able to do so many activities and responsibilities right now, there will be a point in time when age will catch up on all of us. Preparing for our retirement place such as our care homes can help us a lot. With the state of the
Another Look at Ashop's Hosted Shopping Cart Software 2008-02-07 05:01:00 Last week I made a trial account at Ashop Commerce regarding their hosted shopping cart software and I am impressed by what I saw. Installation was actually a breeze and the flexiblity was superb. Even if it is actually a hosted ecommerce software (this means your ecommerce site and functionality is actually hosted in Ashops' servers) you can still have the look and feel of your ecommerce site to blend to your theme.More importantly check out is fast and simple. For me, as an owner of an ecommerce site this is important. I don't want to have my customers change their mind at the last minute due to frustrations because of complex and confusing payment!Here's six reason why you should choose Ashop:Ashop's ecommerce software is AFFORDABLE. With multiple plans to choose from depending on you Read more:Hosted
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Win a unique blog design! 2008-02-06 06:24:00 Here's another cool and easy contest for us bloggers. AffiliateGossip.com is sponsoring a contest wherein the grand prize is a "unique
blog design
plus two marketing banners."How to enter?You can submit as many entries as you want by: Subscribe to AffiliateGossip.com's site feedDrop your Entrecard to their siteWriting a review on your blog (such as this one)Referring visitors from your website to their siteContest winners are drawn every other month. The winner will be contacted via e-mail and his/her blog will be showcased on their website. Again, it's as simple as that.
pro360: Reviewing Online Casinos 2008-02-06 00:34:00 During my first time in the United States, my plan was to go to Las Vegas and try their world famous casinos. The plan never materialized as my work schedule did not permit it. I'm not a gambler, but once in a while you'll have that curiosity to try it out. Nowadays, you don't have to be in Las Vegas to play. There a lot of sites in the internet offering online casino service.However with more than a thousand sites, the problem is how to find the right site that will offer the best gaming experience, a scoring system that you can trust and the highest offered bonus to play.For that matter, pro360.com is a MUST site to visit if you are planning to play online. The site offers honest reviews which are designed to help players. They have systematically identified popular online games (e.g., B Read more:Reviewing
Digital Painting Anyone? 2008-02-04 23:56:00 Our graphics designer was tinkering with her photo editing software last week since we are in between projects right now. I gave her a digital photo of my youngest daughter to convert to a digital painting effect.What she did was awesome! To think that I just taught her that skill!Okay, I was just kidding.You can check out some of her original works here.DigitalPainting
EffectOriginal Photo
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Blog Contest: Win $100 from JoeTech.com! 2008-02-04 05:01:00 Heads up fellow bloggers!Here's a simple contest where you get a chance to win $100 in cold cash. Contest
is spearhead by JoeTech.com together with the following blogs:- Link Bait- Gorilla Sushi- CK Marketing- The Big Bald Blog- How 2 Blogger- Dot Sauce Magazine- Jason BoomThe rules are simple. You just have to:Make a comment of value (not just “i agree”, etc.) on a post = 1 entrySubscribe to RSS via email = 2 entries (per blog you subscribe to!)Write a post about the contest on your blog (must include a link to this page and the links below to participating blogs) = 25 entriesContest deadline is 12:00AM on March 1, 2008. But why wait? check it out now!
The Business Plan for Your Website Design Company 2008-02-03 08:02:00 If you are a freelancer and want to establish your own web design business, then having a business plan is an absolute MUST! However, creating a business plan is no easy task by itself. Fortunately, there is one good resource available in the internet. So if you are thinking to have your own web design business, this is for YOU!
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All About Rugby! 2008-02-01 18:16:00 I love watching basketball games. Here in the Philippines, basketball is the most popular game. However, when I have to work in Malaysia for a minimum six months, I missed my daily dose of watching the hoops game. During this time though, I was introduced to a new interesting and fun game: RUGBY!Rugby
is a game that is played in more than 100 countries worldwide. Rugby is played with two teams of fifteen players from each each side. The object of the game to take the ball in the end zone of each team to score points. What I like about rugby is its continuous flow type of game-- relentless action!When I went back to the Philippines I lost track of Rugby, until today. I came across RBS6Nations.com website, the official website for Europe's premier international rugby tournament, the 6 nation
Revenue Opportunity: Blogging with Smorty 2008-01-30 05:49:00 If you would like to explore some monetizing opportunities with your blog (i.e, blog for money, etc.), then sign up for Smorty. Smorty is an online service that gives you the opportunity to get paid for blogging. They basically connect advertisers to us bloggers by providing a good blog advertising system.Nowadays, Product manufacturers or service providers advertise on blogs for the purpose of visibility and product awareness. Since blogs do provide fresh content they offer unmatched publicity specially when the blogger actually patronizes one of their products. Another advantage of a product being reviewed in blogs are the inbound traffic through link backs to their site where visitors can be converted to actual customers.On the other hand, bloggers get paid for simply giving honest rev Read more:Revenue
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Shopping for a Shopping Cart! 2008-01-29 15:21:00 Before, one of the challenges of creating a web site for small businesses is incorporating an e-commerce functionality. I remember spending a lot of time sitting down in the front of my computer keying those PHP, ASP codes just to make a simple ecommerce software work.Nowadays there's a plethora of shopping cart software available, the challenge, now lies in choosing the right one. Just recently, I came across Ashop Commerce. Ashop Commerce offers a complete solution for merchants to sell online. One thing that interests me was their service on hosted shopping cart software. Normally, a shopping cart is a software that you install in your web server and run in from there. Using Ashop's Hosted Shopping
Cart, you don't have to install anything in your server, you can actually run the shoppi
Entrecard: Is it really doing your blog any good? 2008-01-28 15:00:00 Entrecard.It's the hype in the blogosphere these days. If you're a serious blogger then you should know about Entrecard.Its a social networking media that encourages fellow bloggers to visit other blogs and to drop their "business cards" on your blog. During my first few days after I joined, Entrecard drove at least 30 visitors a day. I estimate that this is a very small number compared to other bloggers.But do these numbers really reflect the quality of traffic I get from my site?By entrecard's own system, it encourage bloggers to visit fellow bloggers site and then drop their cards in their blog's entrecard widget. This gives you EC credits where you can use to buy ads in the entrecard system. A few months after Entrecards' launch a site dedicated to entrecard network browsing is alread Read more:doing
I just joined PayPerPost 2008-01-24 17:15:00 I started this blog without really thinking that I will be hooked into it. Though I still don’t have that super huge number of readers or subscribers, I am currently and seriously contemplating on getting my own domain name and web hosting. As most successful bloggers will tell you—it is better to have your own domain from the onset to spare you the trouble when the visitors starts coming in and you have to redirect them to a new domain. Plus, having your own domain really looks more professional than having the .blogspot.com attached to it. However, I would like to get my domain from possible earnings I get blogging. Small goal, I think.So with that in mind, I looked for some possible income sources for my blog—and there are a lot of them out there. With a quick pick among them, I s Read more:PayPerPost
Bloghology Launched! 2008-01-21 20:26:00 Bloghology is a product of the hard work of Mert Erkal. It is collection of information, profiles and interviews of different bloggers from all around the world. Bloghology introduces you to the real people behind the blogs. Initially, it contains 24 bloggers but the list will grow during the subsequent release every quarter this 2008. So watch for it!Meanwhile show your support to fellow bloggers and download the 2007 issue.Find out more about Bloghology at Search for Blogging.
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Joining The Green Cyber-Bandwagon 2008-01-21 18:18:00 During these times when oil prices keeps on rising and the dollar is on a steady decline, you may find that your somehow high salary is no longer enough. Suddenly your $100 gasoline allowance is no longer sufficient. The times when you need to cash advance your paycheck or get some payday loan to augment or fill up those "in betweens" needs keeps on getting frequent.For an average income family, this is a very likely scenario. But for those who have online internet access, a new revenue source is becoming popular: Blogs.Blogs, or Web Logs, has been changing the face of the World Wide Web. Almost everyday thousands of blogs are being setup. Nowadays when you google a keyword there is a big probability that the results will point to a Blog rather than a traditional website. Blogs, most ofte Read more:Joining
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How to add a "Contact Page" on your Blog(ger) 2008-01-20 10:42:00 Do you own a blogger account and would like to have a dedicated Contact Page on your blog just like those using Wordpress? Read this article and find out how.One thing I like with wordpress is that they have those "pages" feature. This feature enables you to create dedicated pages were you can place customized content on your site. One use for these pages is the creation of a contact page. Such is not the case with Blogger. However, there is still a way for blogger account owners to have a contact page in their blog (See My Contact Page for example).Follow the simple tutorial below to install your own that Contact Page for Blogger.Log in to you blogger account and create a new post. On the edit window, click the Post Options in the lower left corner. On the "Reader Comments Menu", select
Are You Losing Your Sanity to Spam Emails? 2008-01-16 19:41:00 If you are, chances are you're not alone. Spam emails have been used as a cheap online marketing strategy since email and the internet has been popularized. And as long as unscrupulous individuals exist, the end to email spam is far, far into the future. Still, you can do something against spammers to keep your online sanity...What is Spam?Spam Emails
are junk, unsolicited emails you received from unknown individuals. They are usually sent in bulk. If you don't have any spam filtering software installed, spam emails eats up your time just by filtering which emails are valid from your inbox. Spam emails also eat up your bandwidth. If you own a website, emails sent to your domain are part of the bandwidth you pay for web hosting. So unlike traditional snail mail where the sender pays for the Read more:Sanity
An Online Business Card for Social Networking 2008-01-15 20:24:00 I chanced upon EntreCard last week, however, I managed to register and install it in my blog just yesterday. In less than 8 hours, it managed to bring me 24 unique visitor traffic. For some that may not be a huge number but for a simple cut paste of a javascript code in my blog, I can say that was significant. I still need to log into entrecard's website for a deeper "read and understand" visit so I really have not taken any other serious activity with what entrecard has to offer still the initial surge of traffic have impressed me.From my initial browse, here's a quick look of what EntreCard is all about: "Entrecard is a blossoming social network of bloggers centered around the concept of community, sharing, and helping each other out." It's actually a sort of digitial business card, for Read more:Business
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Audio Ads: The Next Big Thing! 2008-01-14 07:48:00 Personally I think this would be the next best thing after ad sense. Pay Per Play is a non-intrusive marketing method since there are no banner ads cluttering your web space. What it does is it plays a 5 second advertisement every time your web page loads. Your reader does not see anything (i.e., banners, buttons, text-links, etc.). And the good thing is—you get paid every playing of the audio ad, no click through are necessary. This is a nice addition to your blog’s revenue stream. But you need to hurry Pay Per Play runs live February 2008. So if I were you I will waste no time and sign up as an affiliate right now!
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Save Energy, Turn Your World Black! 2008-01-05 01:58:00 Recently, I came across this unique search engine. Black
le was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.Quoting from their site:Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002It does makes sense. I read an article before that in order to prolong your computer monitor's life then stay I way from colorful wallpapers. Actually, in my computers I normally set, plain black as wallpaper. I Read more:Energy
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New Year's Resolution... 2007-12-29 21:57:00 I went blog hopping this morning...and the most striking post I read was from Mert (well I shouldn't be surprised!). His most recent post "How I Quadrupled My Blog Traffic In 3 Months" had me thinking about my purpose in blogging...thinking real hard...i thought it came in the most significant time..a few days from the coming of 2008.So my new years resolution: Be serious about blogging ...and to create one brand new blog...and bring it to success in 4 months just like...Mert did!What a great guy, that Mert is!I'll be off to my parents this few days so I guess this will be my last post for 2007. Happy new to all!Blogged with Flock
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Back on Track 2008-03-12 09:47:00 Weeks after our computer broke down making some of my personal files and applications being unaccessible, I finally was able to set up and install a replacement pc. Thus, here I am back at blogging trying to recover some lost ground...
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Removing Kavo.exe Virus 2008-03-14 08:38:00 Just recently, Yahoo Messenger in my computer acted strangely, first it disappeared every time I log in then after some time even before logging in it will now display an "exception breakpoint error." What's this? I scanned my system with McAffee however, No virus or trojan found and yet the problem is still there. I uninstalled yahoo messenger and installed it again. No success, still same problem. I hit the net and researched more about my problem. I got lots of hits but no real viable solution. However, I found temporal solution:Run Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL)End explorer.exe processThen run it again as a new task.After which, YM! will run successfully.Well, my Y! Messenger worked but I don't feel comfortable doing that process everytime I started my computer and decided to run YM! Plus
Being Cautious with those Widgets 2008-03-13 02:41:00 A few days ago my wife greeted me in the morning with a news that her blog is acting strangely. A friend commented that her blog has been popping up ads with some malicious and adult content. So without having a chance to do my morning routine, I sat down in front of our notebook and immediately noticed that there indeed was something strange about her blog. Logging into her blog, it immediately started popping out unwanted ads. I also noticed that there were some ad links that is evident in her blog. Checking it out it, I noticed that those ads were from clicksor. The scary thing is I couldn't remember installing any codes in her blog that would correspond with those ads. You see when it comes to the nitty gritty HTML codes of her blog, my wife normally would ask me to do things for her.
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