Journal of Useful Tips

When you rent a hosting space, you will most probably presented with hosting jargon or terms that you don’t understand. Today we will explore the meaning of “Parked Domains” and “Addon Domains” terms used in shared hosting.
Parked Domain
This is the most popular ‘addon’ feature offered in a web hosting package. Parked Domains means that your [...]

I’ve encountered a new breed of spam comments that uses social bookmarking service as bait.
Example of comments :
E-mail : spammers_email@example.com
URI : http://www.spurl.net/discover/user/username/
Comment:
Good site I found … Plan on coming back later.

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The social bookmarking url are pointed to the spammers personal collection of website. It seems that the comment spammers has changed their [...]

Sometimes it is annoying to have your favorite is unavailable for various reasons. The most annoying part is, the website is knocked out when you needed it the most.
Fear not! Now you can use Coral CDN (Content Distribution Network) as an emergency mirroring service for your favorite website. It is a p2p content distribution network [...]

Yes, that’s true, sometimes boredom kills. I need to loosen up a bit

I’m frustrated at some websites (particularly news website) that do not publish RSS feed, because this makes my life harder when I have to surf their website almost everyday for latest updates.

It is a time consuming work, especially when they do not update their website regularly as anticipated, and when they do update, you [...]

Ever had a broken pin on IDE hard drive? It’s frustrating when that’s happen, especially when the hard drive holds your valueable stuffs.

I found a nice website that explains a step-by-step guide to fix your broken IDE pins using ordinary tin foil and a sewing needle.
Visit this website for more information : http://arem.us/stuff/hdd/
Tags: hardware, [...]

Hi there,

One of my friend has posted nice well-written tutorial about how to convert Flash Video files (FLV) to Windows Media Video (WMV) using a freely available software from VideoLAN
What is Flash Video files (FLV) ?
Flash Video file is a file format used in various video sharing website such as Youtube and Google Videos. These [...]

Currently I use Spam Karma 2 from Dr Dave, and it works well for me, but I’m still curious about your experience in using other anti-spam solution for your blog.
For starters, I’ve tried Akismet before, and for some reason it did not work well for me. I dont know why, but I keep getting a [...]

Ever wonder how to take screenshots of your favorite movies using Media Player? I bet some of you have tried it and what you got is just a another blue-screen when your pasted it on a graphic editor program.
The trick is to change few settings in your Windows Media Player before you press the Print [...]

Maybe some of you wonders how to play classic DOS games in Windows XP, since newer operating system can’t play old DOS games anymore.
Now, here’s a howto that teaches you how to play your old DOS games back in your Windows XP machine. This tutorial assume that you have a DOS game ready in hand [...]