Saturday, 25th August 2007
I found a 50% discount for the popular screen recording software BB Flashback. The catch is you have to donate money to DonationCoder.com to be able to access the forum post with the discount code. There was no minimum donation policy when I joined but I am not sure if this will remain the same in the future.
I tested the BB Flashback discount coupon 3 days ago and as you can see it is still valid. The original price is $199. I consider this the best value for money screen recorder. If you can’t afford to buy Camtasia, BB Flashback is the next best thing available.
If you are on a tighter budget, you may want to consider getting BB Flashback Express. There are no editing features in this version and it lacks some other features of the normal version. At only $19.50 after the 50% discount coupon, this is a real bargain!
I won’t do a review of BB Flashback because Donation Coder has already reviewed most of the screen recorders available in the market today.
Tagged As: BB-Flashback, BB-Flashback-Express, Camtasia, Discount-Coupons, Donation-Coder, Screen-Recorder, screen-recording
Wednesday, 22nd August 2007
I thought my 1st generation 512 MB iPod Shuffle was dead since last year. I must have left it in my drawer for at least 1 year. Today, I decided to try my luck to see if it can be revived so that I could use it during my run a few hours ago. I suspected my iPod Shuffle had a firmware problem because I remember this was my 3rd iPod Shuffle. I had it replaced twice within a year. This particular iPod Shuffle went dead very shortly after I got it replaced and my 1 year warranty expired at about the same time too.
I don’t like the iPod Shuffle because it seems really fragile. Moreover, it does not have a screen to display my MP3 song titles and I hate using the iTunes software. Nonetheless, I wanted to see if there are any fixes for the infamous iPod Shuffle 1418 error in iTunes 7 since the last time I tried to fix it.
I downloaded the latest version of iTunes after waiting a long time for the download page to load up. Apple must have improved iTunes because they no longer separate iTunes …
Tagged As: 1st-generation, iPod-Shuffle, iPod-Shuffle-1418-Error, iPod-Shuffle-Reset-Utility, MP3-player
Monday, 20th August 2007
I did not plan on adding on to my previous Google AdSense competitive filter post but I encountered some weird bugs that everyone should know of, including Mr Google.
How To Accidentally Destroy Your Competitive Ad Filter List
You may run the risk of wiping out your entire competitive ad filter list when you REFRESH your browser in the event you see a screen like this:
In the mini screen shot above, I encountered a blank page while I was adding new links to the competitive list. I thought Google was having some problems with their server so I clicked on the refresh button to reload the page. BIG MISTAKE! Do not refresh your browser when you see the screen above. Click on the back button instead! I have alerted Google about this bug but I doubt they can recover my list.
How To Create a Competitive Ad Filter List the Right Way
Google recommends using the c from an Internet Explorer browser. Once you have installed it, you will see a new menu item titled “Google AdSense Preview Tool” when you right click on an empty space on any web site.
This is a sample of the AdSense …
Tagged As: Competitive-Ad-Filter, EditPlus, Google AdSense, Google-Webmaster-Tools
Friday, 17th August 2007
I just downloaded and read Social Media Daily by Michelle MacPherson. Overall, I think it is a very good guide on social web sites. However, I need to point out in my Social Media Daily review about the theoretical benefits and the work required to get this social traffic to your web site.
Tagged As: Social-Media-Daily, Social-Media-Daily-Review
Friday, 17th August 2007
If the Google AdSense sites that appear on your web sites are very well targeted for the content of your site, you won’t need to use the competitive ad filter. However, if you have web sites that do not get the right bunch of ads, you should use the competitive ad filter to block those untargeted ads from your web site to increase the chances of getting a more targeted ad.
The big problem with Google AdSense is they consider ads you wish to block as “competition”. Personally, I do not think of them as competition but annoyances. Once you enter a domain name into the competitive filter list, it will get blocked throughout your account. All of your web sites will not be able to display these ads.
As you can see from my competitive ad filter list, I have disabled some useless “Oasis spa” ads and other holiday related ads. If I create a web site about holiday topics, I will not be able to have these ads on my holiday sites even though they are targeted to my site’s content. Heaven knows why Google can’t create a “site specific ad filter” instead of the current filter …
Tagged As: Competitive-Ad-Filter, CTR, Google AdSense
Thursday, 16th August 2007
I know I should have “claimed by blog” on Technorati but I could not be bothered until today. Let’s see what happens….
Now that I have claimed my blog, I get my very own page on Technorati. I wonder what difference does this make.
Tagged As: Technorati
Thursday, 16th August 2007
I was very disappointed to find out only 6 of the 22 bookmarking sites OnlyWire claims to post to actually work with their service. Check out my OnlyWire review to find out which 6 social bookmarking sites work and which ones don’t.
Tagged As: OnlyWire, OnlyWire-Review, social-bookmarking
Thursday, 16th August 2007
PayPerPost is a blogging advertising network. They pay you to write about advertisers who list their products or services in their directory. I am not 100% sure about the blog requirements but here’s what I know at the moment:
You can make money with PayPerPost in the following ways:
PayPerPost does …
Tagged As: Blogging, make-money-blogging, PayPerPost, PayPerPost-review
Tuesday, 14th August 2007
Froogle.com is now know as Google Product Search. If you look at the bottom of the page, you should see a list of random keywords like:
This keyword list changes every time you refresh the page. I discovered that Keywords Analyzer gets it’s keyword source from this keyword list when you use the “brainstorm” feature. I thought this keyword list was really great at first until I created a little PHP script below to grab all the possible keywords into a text file…
What I did was to keep on checking the site for new keywords. I did it for a couple of hours and grabbed a total of 954 unique keywords. I came to the conclusion that this keyword list is a gimmick! Google doesn’t update this list of keywords. My script returned 954 unique keywords last year and it Google is still returning the same old 954 unique keywords this year!
I contacted Google to find out if they have some sort of API to retrieve the latest search keywords made by their users. From what I found out, there isn’t such a service yet. Therefore, if you see any keyword research …
Tagged As: Froogle, Google-Product-Search, Keywords, keywords-analyzer
Monday, 6th August 2007
There has been great improvements in the XML Sitemap industry with MSN (Moreover.com) and Ask.com now accepting XML sitemaps to improve the indexing of your web sites.
How To Create Sitemaps
If you are using a WordPress blogging platform like mine, you should download and install Google Sitemap Generator beta version 8 and the Yahoo Sitemap converter script as soon as possible. The Google Sitemap Generator script now pings to all the search engines I mentioned above.
For non-WordPress web sites, you may require a PHP script like the XML-Sitemaps.com Sitemap Generator script to generate an XML and Text file based sitemap for you automatically. This script took me about 2 weeks to get it right. I bought the script when it was version 2.5.3 and I could not get it to run on my site properly due to memory leaks and other bugs with the script. During the same time, other customers were also experiencing similar problems and we started to complain to the author about the crazy amounts of memory required to run this script. Finally, the author fixed some of the memory issues and released version 2.6.0 at the end of July and everything has …
Tagged As: Ask.com, Google-Sitemap-Generator, Google-Sitemaps, Moreover.com, MSN, XML-Sitemaps.com-Sitemap-Generator, Yahoo-Site-Explorer, Yahoo-Sitemaps
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