Journal of Useful Tips

Foxrate.org is a website that provide latest currency exchange rate.

The website is easier to use compared to competing services because it automatically detects your home currency base on your ip address. This will save you the trouble of selecting the currency you want to convert each time you visit the website.
The website also provides [...]

I don’t know if any of you already know about this, but I recently read in one forum about 2Checkout won’t let a newly registered seller use its service solely because he sells Paypal and Clickbank related e-book.
Here’s the excerpt from the 2CO email taken from the forum :

Hello,
Sorry for the delay. 2CO does not [...]

Interunix introduces a new Super Value Blog Hosting plan targeted for bloggers.
The plan comes with Wordpress preinstalled, 500MB of webspace and 15GB monthly data transfer. The Super Value Blog Hosting is hosted on a Linux machine running PHP 5 and MySQL 5 on Apache 1.3.x (mod_sec)
Best of all, the Super Value Blog Hosting plan [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m frustrated at some websites (particularly news website) that do not publish RSS feed, because this makes my life harder when I have to surf their website almost everyday for latest updates.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

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 [...]

Always experience the dreadful downtime of Streamyx default DNS? Here is the list of TMNet Streamyx Backup DNS server. It might be useful if the usual DNS server ‘mysteriously’ stopped working :

202.188.0.132
202.188.0.133
202.188.0.147
202.188.0.161
202.188.0.181
202.188.0.182
202.188.1.4
202.188.1.5
202.188.1.23
202.188.1.25
Remember, copy and put it in a safe place in case if you need it afterwards, it might be handy.
p/s: DNS or domain names [...]

A short post, but today I would like to share you two Wordpress plugins that could save your blog’s (and possibly your) life.

WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup helps you to backup your Wordpress files periodically to your email. You probably already have WP-DB-Backup If you’re using Wordpress 2.x, I hope that you would have already utilised this [...]