PPCalc – Paypal Payment fee calculator

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Jon Moffet

PPCalc is useful website that can calculate PayPal payment fee. This is useful if you’re planning sell product and service on the internet using Paypal.

By using the fee calculator, you can determine the exact amount of money you will get (minus fee) when the customers pay you, thus it will give you the general idea on the revenue you’re getting.

Reverse Fee Calculator
Another useful feature of this website is the Reverse fee calculator, which can be use when you want to make sure the person you’re sending money to receive the *exact* amount you’re intending to send.

For example, if you’re owe Brian USD10 and then you decided to pay him using Paypal, you need to make sure that Brian receive USD10 even after Paypal deducted processing fees.

PPCalc takes care of this problem by calculating the payment markups you need to add in order for Brian to receive USD10 after the processing fees (in this case you need to send USD10.66).

In conclusion, PPCalc provide you with a handy tool to calculate Paypal processing fee for your convenience to send or receive payments across the internet.

[tags]paypal,payment processor,calculator,e-commerce,ecommerce,credit card,ccnow[/tags]

Today is Friday the 13th

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Today is Friday – 13 April 2007, some people call it the dreaded Friday the 13th as they believe weird things may happen during this day because they consider it is an unlucky day. The date has been use by malicious crackers to spread viruses to computers around the world as it is a synonymous with ‘grief’ and ‘bad luck’.

I don’t know about you but people around me are making so much fuss about the date. Personally I do not believe in such superstition as it is counter-productive to base our lives solely on mere dates and numbers.

The next occasion of Friday the 13th will happen on 13 July this year, it coincide with the release of Harry Potter film : Order of the Phoenix. Harry Potter films is a well known franchise raking millions of dollars throughout the world, will Friday the 13th bring bad luck to Harry Potter? I don’t think so…

[tags]friday,superstitions,harry potter,humour,humor,funny,2007,bad luck[/tags]

Put Blog spam to end using Antisplog.net and Splogspot

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Splog or Spam Blog is a relatively new form of spam advertising in the blogosphere. These spammers use blogs and syndication feed as a way to to spread their spammy advertising campaign across the internet.

Spam Blogs is by nature is different from email spam, because you can’t not send unsolicited advertising using blog.Thus the motivations for creating spam blogs are different too, but it is likely spam blogs exists because the spammers want to attract web visitors from search engines and by earning money using (contextual) advertising in the process.
Spam blog is an annoyance because they content little to no content, and the content of spam blogs are usually copied directly from another sources like another blog or from article previously published on the internet.

Howto report spam blog?

You can use the AntiSplog and Splogspot service to report spam blog. using http://example.com as example.
Antisplog

http://www.antisplog.net/report.php?blog=http://example.com

Splogspot

- goto http://splogspot.com/pages/submit and use the form to submit the splog url.

Splog pollutes blogosphere, put an end to splogs now.

[tags]blog,blogs,splog,blogosphere,wordpress,splogspot,antisplog[/tags]

My web hosting messed up my blog

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Hey guys, I’ve a bad news for you, my web hosting (which previously hosted this domain) really got messed up. It seems that they have problem with late paying bills of their reseller account.

So now my account accidently suspended and so are theirs, I don’t know how much days it will take for them to clear things up, but I wont put my hopes much, I think i rather start this blog from scratch rather than wait for them to recover (if that the case!).

Why did I have to start from scratch? Well to make the story short, It seems I’ve deleted all my backup about this blog from my pc, so here I am, back to square one. But I promised to keep this blog updated with new posts and tips.

So my advise is, please choose your web hosting company and domain carefully, they might fscked with you if you’re not careful enough.

p/s: no prize will be given for those who are able to guess which is my web hosting company :p

Tags: web hosting, hosting, tips, internet

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How to disable PDF viewing in Firefox

Posted on July 16, 2006 by Jon Moffet

You may already encountered websites that provide link to a PDF file, usually if you installed Adobe Reader you will be able to automatically view the PDF files right inside your browser.

The trouble with this method is, your browser may freeze or crash while waiting for the PDF files to download to your computer. Furthermore, some people view this feature as a drawback because Web browser should not takeover PDF reader job.

The Solution

Fear not because somebody has published a quick fix that disable firefox capability to display PDF files on the fly.

Please proceed to Disabling PDF Display in Firefox

How to flush Windows XP DNS Cache

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Jon Moffet

Sometimes it is annoying discover that the your domain still points to an old location instead of a new one, after you’ve changed it’s NS record.

This happens because Windows XP tries to speed things up by placing the DNS information about that site, into a DNS cache on your PC.

The easiest way to fix this, is to go to Start Menu->Run, and type in “ipconfig /flushdns” without the quote, and the problem should be solved soon after that.

[tags]windows xp, winxp, tips, guides, dns[/tags]