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5 ways to spend your Paypal credits online if you can’t withdraw it

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There are plenty of reason why people seems to be unable to withdraw their Paypal money from their account. One of the main reason is that Paypal prohibit users from certain countries from withdrawing their Paypal account into local bank account, and getting a US checking account incurs additional costs that might not justify its use.

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Afraid not, because here are 5 ideas how you can spend your Paypal credit online, and let it not go to waste.

  • Bid items on Ebay – Ebay has many local websites, all of it supports Paypal as a method of payment. So why don’t you leverage this with your paypal credits?
  • Send flowers to your loved ones – Sites like Flowers.com.my offers variety of gifts and flowers on special occasion for your loved ones. You can show your appreciation by sending them bouquet of flowers
  • Get domain names, SSL cert or whois protection – Websites like Namecheap.com, provides an easy to use interface which enables you to obtain and manage your domain name more effectively. They offers SSL certificate at a reasonable price too!
  • Get your own VPS – You can get VPS account and run your own Web hosting company or your own SQL Server with RapidVPS. Payable using Paypal account of course
  • Order books online – What more better thing you can do other than reading books? You can browse the most popular books, read reviews and order books online on Barnes & Noble

Funny 404 Not Found Page – Webserver can get depressed too

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My friend forwarded this 404 page link to me, it’s funny that somebody has gone to a great length to make sure that you dont walk-away empty-handed when you encountered a 404 Document Not Found messages on their websites.

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For those who don’t know, 404 error code is probably the most popular HTTP code you encountered in the internet. It denotes that the page that you’re accessing does not exists or have been removed from its location.

You can refer to History of 404 website for more background information about the error code

[tags]history,http,webserver,web server,http, humor[/tags]

Download free Computer and Tech e-book from these websites

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Nowadays, computer books are being sold everywhere around you.

However, choosing a good computer book might not be as easy as it used to be. A lot of books nowadays barely touch the subject you’re interested in, that’s why you need an in-depth preview of the books before you actually fork your money on them.

And what better way to get a good book preview than e-book downloads?

Here is a list of websites that offers free e-book downloads, feel free to peruse them for your research/previewing purpose :

Note: Most of the book listed on these websites are copyrighted by their respective publishers/authors. Downloading material without express permission from the copyright holder might be illegal in your country, you have been warned.

[tags]books,e-books,download,downloads,free download,ebook, bittorrent[/tags]

What’s the differences between cc: and bcc: in your e-mail client ?

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If you’ve been using email clients for some time, you may already aware that you have the option of sending email to multiple recipient using to:, cc: and bcc:.

cc: means ‘carbon copy’ – is a copy given to another recipient beside the person you’re sending the email to. For example, if you are writing an email inquiring about the price of a particular product, naturally you’ll send it to [email protected], and then you might want to send a carbon copy to your supervisor – [email protected], telling him that you’re doing your job.

so when the sales department in the other company responded, your supervisor will be able to read the reply as well. So everybody in the cc list is able to know each other email address when they receive it.

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bcc: stands for blind carbon copy – basically is the same with cc: but with a little twist, the bcc: receiver just receive a copy of the email, and he can’t read other email addresses in the list. So in a nutshell, bcc offers more privacy than cc because the email address of the recipient is protected from each other.

hope that helps clears up some questions :)

[tags]email,emails,bcc,cc,email client,gmail[/tags]

Tipvista.com is now hosted on Dreamhost

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Tired of downtime and other service interruption, I finally decided to move this blog to Dreamhost.

I’ve been a Dreamhost customers for more than 2 years and I’ve hosted several of my websites there with no problem.

The reason that I kept this blog on its original web hosting company is because of its legacy value (yes, I’m sentimental), but lately I’ve been experiencing several downtime problem in a month that really annoys the hell out of me that I finally decided to change switch it to my trusty Dreamhost account.

The transition was smooth, and I’m able to get “Journal Of Useful Tips” back online in mere minutes.

I don’t know what actually happened to the previous web hosting company, but It seems that they still haven’t manage to get their main website online by the time of this writing, boo hoo.

For what it worth, I will certainly recommend Dreamhost web hosting service to my friends because of its excellent service that exceeds my expectations.

Special :
You can get USD90 DISCOUNT if you enter any of these discount code = “FAKAPED”, “WANGCYBER” when you order a Dreamhost account.

ps: No, I will not disclose the name of my previous web hosting company publicly as I felt sorry for them for losing me. Besides, I’ve backed-up all my files so I’ve no trouble moving out to a better company.

[tags]web hosting,hosting,web,dreamhost,domain[/tags]

Windows Vista Cracked?

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I’m not sure if this is a credible source for tech news, but I read this from news earlier today : Vista activation cracked by brute force from The Inquirer.

The said crack utilise brute-force attack which defeats the so-called unhackable Windows Vista Activation Code.

Although it might take several hours in order to get the correct through brute-force, the crack is said to work and can be downloaded from Keznews forum website .

Details about how to use the keygen can be obtained here : http://keznews.com/2431_Vista_Brute_Force_Keygen

It is important to note that, I haven’t personally this crack myself as all of my personal computers barely meet up with Windows Vista high system requirements.

So use it at your own risk! Otherwise, enjoy!

[tags]windows, windows vista, crack, keygen, computers[/tags]

Trouble finding your final year project thesis title?

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Are you having trouble finding your final year project thesis title? I’ve a nice, cool website that could help you generate a nice well sounding topic for you.
Here’s a sample of the title generated :

  • An interactive proxy theorem prover embedded in a synchronized concurrent preprocessor
  • A dynamic parallelizing cache embedded in a high-level concurrent cache
  • A scalable proxy technology related to an active digital database
  • A balanced binary system applied to a responsive digital compiler
  • A collaborative proxy solution for an integrated proxy work cluster

Disclaimer : This thesis generator generates topic for Computer Science candidates only
Generate your own topic at CS Topic Generator

Your favorite website unavailable? Try Coral CDN

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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 which store your favorite website on various computers around the world.

To access your favorite website using Coral CDN mirror is easy. All you need to do is append .nyud.net:8080 to the address of your favorite website.

For example :

http://tipvista.com.nyud.net:8080/

You can then surf the website using Coral CDN mirroring service. Now you don’t have to be frustrated any more when your favorite website went offline because of high-traffic or network problems. You can easily use Coral CDN :)

Get updates for website that does not publish RSS feed

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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.

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It is a time consuming work, especially when they do not update their website regularly as anticipated, and when they do update, you are usually the last person to know about the updates.

Page2RSS and Feedity might provide the answer for those who shared my feelings about those websites. These service generates RSS feeds for websites that do not publish RSS feeds.

With these service, all you need to do is subscribe the RSS feed provided by both service, and wait for updates. It will make your life easier by performing the checkup on your behalf, and inform you if there’s any updates on your RSS feed.

I’ve tried both services, although by far it is not perfect, It does save my time from having to surf my favorite websites for updates.
[tags] rss, feed, syndication,blogs,scraping,seo[/tags]

How to make Movie Screenshot from Windows Media Player

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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 Screen key. First, you should go to Tools menu, then Options, click on Performance tab, click Advance, uncheck “use Overlays”, then click OK.

Media Player Screenshot howto

You should be able to take screenshot of your favorite movie from media player after that, but don’t forget to check “use Overlays” back after you’ve finish with the screenshot, or your movie might slow to a crawl.

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