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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

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 :)

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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!

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How to fix broken pins on IDE hard disk

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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.

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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/

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How to Convert Flash Video FLV files to WMV

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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 files are tuned for web sharing and broadcasting applications. You can download these FLV files from Youtube and Google Video by using a free web service VideoDL.org

Although FLV files is light enough, Windows Media Video (WMV) file format are more flexible and are better supported by multimedia applications.

In fact, it is the main (perhaps the only) reason to convert FLV to WMV is because WMV files are widely supported by various multimedia and hardware player.

Please read the how to article at his website : Converting .flv (flash video) To WMV to find out how to perform the conversion.

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Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?

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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 lot of comment under my moderation list, and that isn’t practical to me at all, because I’ve to check a lot of comments in the moderation list (up to 1000++ in once case).

I’ve also came across blog which uses Captcha to deter comments spammers or even take drastic measure to their blog comments functionality all together.

Whatever your actions are, I would like to hear it from you about what kind of actions you’ve taken to reduce the annoying comment spams.

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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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How to play DOS games with DOSBox in Windows XP

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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 named M1 Tank Platoon.

Download DOSBox

Download DOSBox from DOSBox website.

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Start DOSBox

Start DOSBox and mount C drive

Install DOSBox

Install DOSBox, of course.

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Prepare your DOS games

Copy your DOS game folder at C: drive for easy access.
find dos games

Start DOSBox

Start DOSBox and mount C drive

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Start the DOS game

Change directory to the DOS game dir.

Execute the DOS game binary
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Congratulations!

And watch the DOS game flies in your computer, you can change it to full screen by pressing ALT+ key.

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