October 18, 2008

Qassia, fresh new content sharing community

Qassia is a brand new web 2.0 asset, which can be described as a combination of blog and community. People post content across various topics, and the piece of work is called Intel. (not related to IBM) The platform also implements a credit system called Qassia dollars. You can earn Qassia dollars by creating fresh content or referring new sign ups. Qassia is useful in driving traffic to your site. You may ask: what are Qassia dollars used for? They can help rank your websites, according to the FAQs.

Take a look at the site and register using the below links…

http://cooke.qassia.com/

That’s my referral link, and I’d much appreciate if you use it. Anyway, here is the regular one:

http://www.qassia.com/mama.pl?a=signup

By the way, you can’t convert Qassia dollars into real money. It is just sort of virtual currency, or score system. And one more thing, you can make money from adsense on your article pages, and Qassia gives you full 100% adsense income. They only make money from adsense on non-articles pages.

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October 15, 2008

How to have separate inbox for accounts in Mozilla Thunderbird

This takes me a while to figure it out. Actually under account setting, you will find a button called "Advanced…" tab in the main account screen.

Clicking it will bring you to this menu. Now you can choose if you wish to use the global local folder to accept the messages or not.

thunderbird

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October 13, 2008

Firefox 3 sucks

I think the title tells all. If the new release is an attempt to rival Google Chrome, it proves itself to be an epic fail.

A glimpse of problems…

  1. Unstable – web pages unresponsive.
  2. Break a lot of my favorite add-ons
  3. Still consume a lot of memory resources.
  4. Font becomes weird in some websites.
  5. Ugly interface. I hate the new address bar style.

If you need to go back to Firefox 2, here is the directory index of Firefox releases…

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

Again, use Firefox 3 at your own risk.

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October 4, 2008

How to redirect non-www links to www URLs in wordpress, correctly

I have learnt it the hard way (and very painful way), and my mistake causes the pagerank of my domain drops from 3 to 2.

Why?

Because I edit the .htaccess by adding these lines as follow…

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

 

(where example is substituted by a domain name of your choice)

Usually this should work fine in ordinary sites.

BUT NOT FOR WORDPRESS.

With these modifications, all my non-www links redirect to HOMEPAGE, and they are considered as 404 error!

And with this setting in another domain of my own, all pages are perceived as duplicate content. Horrible.

It is even worse than doing nothing.

So how do I fix it?

Use this Permalink Redirect plugin.

Enable redirect to www for all non-www links under setting for the plugin. Certainly, you should enter the domain name with www in general setting. And the htaccess file should be writable.

I feel sorry for all those seeking for solution in my posts from search engines, because they all end up as redirection to homepages. My 404 page is set to redirect to home.

If you use wordpress and wish to have consistent permalink, be sure to get the plugin!

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October 1, 2008

LastPass, a possible alternative to Roboform

If you are tired of saving online logins and passwords manually, there are always some password managers out for you.

Roboform is the best in the market, but it costs you some money. Here is an alternative: LastPass.

Go to http://www.lastpass.com/ to learn more.

Glance:

Standalone program to store passwords as you are surfing the web. Integrate with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Work for Windows and Mac.

After some experience using LastPass myself, here are pros and cons with the tool.

PROS:

  1. Free and secured.
  2. Allow to group sites. Very handy in my opinion.
  3. You can export the logins.

CONS:

  1. Interfere with some secure websites, such as when using cpanel file manager.
  2. Always confuse between username, email and real names for login when saving. Annoying, and it forces me to edit site to ensure it saves correctly.
  3. You cannot save logins directly for forms you just entered on a page. Seemingly you can save only during page transition, if LastPass can detect it.

Overall a decent software if you don’t have Roboform. Otherwise skip it.

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September 15, 2008

Rocket Spanish – Learn to speak Spanish at warp speed

rocket spanish

Rocket Spanish Fact Sheet

(Visit the Rocket Spanish web site)

Product Name Rocket Spanish
Author Mauricio Evlampief
Website Address http://www.rocketlanguages.com
Version/Volume First and Latest Version
Product Delivery Instant Digital Download or CD sent via mail
Free Demo/Trial Yes. Six Day Mini-Course Demo via email.
Guarantee 56 Days Money Back Guarantee
Company Rocket Languages Ttd. Los Angeles, CA, USA
Price $99.95
Support Email support and private customer forums
Payment All major credit cards and PayPal via ClickBank
More Info Visit the Rocket Language website

Description

Description

Rocket Spanish is one of the most popular Spanish Learning Programs online because you can quickly get started online (you can be learning Spanish within minutes of placing your order).
The course was created by Mauricio Evlampieff, a native Spanish speaker from Chile. He used the same method that he used to learn English to develop this course. This course takes a practical approach to learning Spanish compared to the other products in the Spanish learning market.
Rocket Spanish contains over 12 hours of interactive lessons, a conversation course book, beginner and advanced grammar books (also audio supported) taking you on a journey from beginner to advanced in your Spanish speaking. That includes over 500 pages, 414 exercises, and a hugely popular software learning games.
It’s an innovative approach that goes against the traditional systems that can teach you basic vocabulary, they can make you very comfortable with greetings, and perhaps even talking about your day, and some of the more sophisticated ones can handle things like pronunciation correction but Rocket Spanish is designed you to get you speaking Spanish in less than 3 months.
Your course includes:
* Beginners to Advanced Lessons
* The Learning Guide
* Audio Tracks MegaVocab software game
* MegaAudio software game

Screenshots

rocket spanish screenshot

Rocket Spanish Customer Comments

“I’ve tried many products and self study programs…All of them have been boring or require a degree of discipline that I just can’t manage. Your lessons are interesting and practical…”(Rocket Spanish Customer Review)

“My husband is Cuban and he couldn’t believe how much better my Spanish speaking and understanding comprehension was after just a few weeks of using Rocket Spanish.”(Rocket Spanish Customer Review)

“I can listen to it in my car, so that’s extremely helpful since I have some driving time that I can devote to it…(Rocket Spanish Customer Review)

Rocket Spanish goes the extra light-year to get you speaking Spanish in a fraction of the time of standard courses (PC Preformance Tools)

Based on customer reviews, course content, speed of understanding and simplicity of use, our #1 top pick is Rocket Spanish. The speed at which you learn is simply amazing, and is by far faster then we expected. In fact, you’ll find that you’ll learn to speak and understand Spanish faster then if you had a Spanish person tutoring you! ( Tony Mendez-
The Learn Spanish Critic)

Rocket Spanish has been rated #1 Spanish Learning Course by:
www.learn-spanish-reviews.com
www.top-spanish-courses.com
www.jiffyspanish.com
www.learnspanishreviews.net
www.creamofthenet.com

Visit the vendor site.

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August 24, 2008

That’s just freaking close

This is a genuine near death experience. Given to me by a work colleague who just happened to have his new camera sitting on the dash.

read more | digg story

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August 9, 2008

Woman pays $1000 for an ‘upgraded’ PSP in Singapore

Sales assistant claims additional fees like licenses for downloaded games and more utilities. Poor woman. Totally scammed.

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,172505,00.html

Full story:

Click here to continue reading “Woman pays $1000 for an ‘upgraded’ PSP in Singapore”…

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August 7, 2008

Remote Backup Service, a Cure to Never-ending Cases of Permanent Data Loss

Remote data backup is more important nowadays. If you fear another incident of data loss on your PC or server, it is time to consider a remote online backup. Traditional methods of backup are becoming stale, and gradually replaced by automatic nature of remote backup solutions. This article reveals why you should get an online solution and how you can benefit from using a remote data protection system.

Click here to continue reading “Remote Backup Service, a Cure to Never-ending Cases of Permanent Data Loss”…

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June 4, 2008

Entrecard credits are now available to purchase, officially

Entrecard – A new change has come today. Check the price below.

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My immediate response, expensive! Before you are tempting to buy, be sure to look around eBay. You can find really good deals of credits there. There are also forums selling credits below the official price. Just google around.

[tags] entrecard, credits[/tags]

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