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How to piss me off with online video sharing websites

May 15, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

azureus online video streaming

The idea of sharing an internet connection with strangers can be really annoying, not that I have a choice, but was forced to because the landlord says so, I do have the option of acquiring my own telephone line but it is going to cost me a bomb.

Long story short, the situation was made worst when I am forced to share the internet connection with 7 people in the house; the best part is the broadband connection quota for every month capped at 40GB. That is like 170MB for each person per day, which is hardly enough. The 40GB cap per month is the ceiling quota from the company.

Since the broadband internet connection is limited to 40GB per month, why can’t these users be more considerate? Is it a must to watch funny videos online, multimedia sites such as YouTube really annoys me, especially video streaming sites that uses torrent technology.

I found a few ways to block Azureus, but could not find a solution towards the much more popular p2p video streaming software known as ppstream.com, its a Chinese video streaming website that utilize p2p technology and it is really killing the bandwidth. As much as I would like to scream ‘Go back to China’, but that is somewhat rude. (No racism here, I’m Chinese but not from China)

Buying a new VPN modem is out of the question, it is just way too expensive and why should I be the one paying for the hardware? P2P technology, it is a love hate relationship. God help me.

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Blogger T-Shirt

May 6, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

Blogger T-Shirt

The image above may appear to be some sort of vulgar hand sign but it isn’t, if you observe carefully, the hand sign spells out the word ‘blog’, which is rather creative. It is a T-Shirt by Ilias Karim and can be purchase at Threadless T-Shirt for less than 20 dollars.

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Joel Comm AdSense Secrets 4.0 Review

April 21, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

According to his website, it cost only $9.95 for the latest edition of Adsense Secrets, well, what is the catch? In his video, it says nothing about the trojan horse awaits you. Here is what Darren Rowse from Problogger has to say:

Please do read the sales copy and understand that there’s a membership program/monthly report with this that costs $29.95 a month which you are subscribed to when you sign up for this. You can unsubscribe at any time if you don’t want to be in it. I’m a little surprised and disappointed to see Joel doing this to be honest but it is mentioned in the sales page (see the ‘free’ bonuses).

I have to say, I almost fall for it until I read the review in Problogger.com and glad that I did, isn’t this unethical? On top of that, Darren says the book is good for new comers, and some of the technique mentions in the book are somewhat against Google TOC.

From the comments I read in various blogs, generally the reviews are good, I’ll get one copy soon and I heard Joel has made a public apology for the ‘hidden fees’, he goes to the extend of amending the options, guess I’ll my copy of the book without the monthly $30 newsletter subscription.

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Free adsense optimized wordpress theme

April 19, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

Adsense optimized wordpress themes usually cost a few hundred dollars, for those that are new to adsense and wordpress, especially the whole idea of blogging, that few hundred dollars could be an entire year of adsense earnings.

For newbie, SEOAdMax is a free adsense optimized wordpress theme, from a noob-web designer point of view, this is a fairly good wordpress theme in term of ads positioning. The ads are strategically positioned but somewhat dominating.

free adsense optimized wordpress themes

This WordPress theme is built for the purpose of monetizing your blog heavily with google adsense »”>Google AdSense and your own special blend of private banner ads or affiliate product banner ads.

SEOAdMax comes with 7 premade header graphics, simple Google AdSense code implementation and it even includes an automatic privacy policy generator. Not sure if many are aware of this, but the Google AdSense team updated their TOS which requires all publishers to include a privacy policy on their sites. SEOAdMax takes care of this for you automatically.

View Live Demo | Download SEOAdMax

If SEOAdMax is not to your liking, try something else. DoshDosh has a list of Adsense ready wordpress themes, these themes are not free but it does help newbie leapfrog their way to success.

P.S. From a personal point of view, it would be best to concentrate on good content and building up loyal readers instead of jumping straight to “making money online”.

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Free Business Card Design

April 16, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

Ooprint.com is giving away 100 business cards for bloggers and students for free, the only catch is the shipping cost which is probably around 7 to 10 US dollars, depending on the location. The paid version as oppose to the free version comes with customization, for instant your own logo and some background images.

If you’re not too fussy about the overall design and don’t mind going for a bland design, ooprint is the choice, after all, it’s free.

From a personal point of view, business card is essentially a presentation tool, it reflects greatly on your company and its seriousness when it comes to business. Check out this creative business card - Branding a Dentist.

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What the Fonts? Download Free Zapf Humanist, Era Demi, Trajan, Helvetica, Scriptina

December 13, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

Zapf Humanist, Era Demi, Trajan, Helvetica, Scriptina, Graphite Light

I am a font freak, meaning to say I have a huge collection of fonts and most of them are commercial fonts, follow in sequence with the image above:

Download Zapf Humanist 601 (Commercial)
Download Myriad Web Pro (Commercial)
Download Era Demi ITC (Commercial)
Download Georgia (Free, comes pre-installed in every computer)
Download Helvetica (Commercial, comes free only in Apple iMac)
Download Trajan Pro (Commercial)
Scriptina (Free)
Adobe Garamond (Commercial, alternate font comes free in every comp)
District
Download Graphite Light (Commercial)

If you’re looking for alternate fonts that is similar to the type above, visit Heavenlyfonts.com and Fonts101.com for commercial free fonts. They have a huge collection of free fonts for downloads. Wikipedia has a list of typefaces.

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The Power of Love

November 10, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

Celine Dion sang the classic hits - Power of Love, a very moving and powerful song indeed but this cartoon below tells a million words - the real power of love.

The Power of Love

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