Another Malaysian Technology Blog
My friend was having trouble with his PC and he had to format it. He decided to install not genuine Windows XP SP2 from the CD that he bought sometime ago. After everything has finished, he ran the security updates to patch his PC and there are various updates available. One of it is Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notification update.
Today I got an invitation email from GrabMyAds. But hey, what is GrabMyAds? Then I clicked on the link and it sent me to GrabMyAds website.
GrabMyAds – Helping bloggers earn better and easier is another advertising company based in Malaysia. They just launched their service on 21st November 2007. It is still new but not sure how new it really is (read my post below). So we have three advertising companies in Malaysia — GrabMyAds, Nuffnang and Advertlets. So what makes GrabMyAds is different than the others?
Hurm…I don’t see any clear differences between three of them but what I can say is, GrabMyAds target blogs as their main customer. There is no traffic qualification needed. Even you have zero visit per day you still can participate in this advertising programme. They also will give you real time statistics and detailed reports about your blogs after you put their script into your blog.
When building a website or blog, you need to decide how people will link to you. Either with www prefix or without www. Some peoples love to have www in front of their domain name but some are don’t.
Both of the them does not have pro or con. But it is better for you to choose one and stick to it. This is because we don’t want to get penalised by Google for content duplicates.
As for myself, I am using with www prefix for my domain. I feel it is more professional to have www in front of my domain but some don’t think like that. To redirect your website from non www to www prefix, you need to put these lines in your .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cypherhackz.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cypherhackz.net/$1 [R=301,L]
This domain will expire on 19th December 2007. So I decided to renew this domain for longer periods. Instead of renewing it to one year, I have extended it to 2 years (want to extend it to 5 years but don’t have enough money :p ).
Why you should renew your domain? Of course the main reason is you don’t want to lose your domain. If you lose the domain, you need to pay thousands or even millions just to get back the domain. So you choose, which one is better? Pay $35 renewal fee (nowadays the price is cheaper) or $372 million to get back the mp3.com domain.
And if you want to renew your domain, I suggest you to renew it for more than one year. Like what I did, I extended this domain for two years. It is true that you need to pay more but it is worth. Because your website will be ranked greater in search engines because search engine like Google will check when your domain will expire.
Gmail team is working hard currently. There are more new features have been added in our Gmail. Days ago, they have put group chat and new emoticons. And here are another two new features that will give more kicks to our Gmail.
Coloured Labels
If you are using labels in your Gmail, you might want to use this feature. Coloured labels will make you easier to manage and notice which emails belong to which labels.
How to set the colour? At your Labels panel, click on the square to the right of a label and choose your favourite colour from the colour palette. The page will automatically refresh and the label will be changed according to the colour you choose. Read more about Gmail Labels…