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	<title>Free useful tips and stuff that matters</title>
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		<title>Extract Video and Audio from flv files using flv extract</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/12/26/extract-video-and-audio-from-flv-files-using-flv-extract/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/12/26/extract-video-and-audio-from-flv-files-using-flv-extract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With FLVExtract you can extract video and audio from flv files without reconverting them again and lose quality.

url to download FLVExtract http://www.moitah.net/#FLVExtract
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With FLVExtract you can extract video and audio from flv files without reconverting them again and lose quality.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/2159595428_37347285bb.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt=""/><br/></p>
<p>url to download FLVExtract <a href="http://www.moitah.net/#FLVExtract">http://www.moitah.net/#FLVExtract</a></p>
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		<title>Installing Language Pack in Vista for My neighbors</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/08/24/installing-language-pack-in-vista-for-my-neighbors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/08/24/installing-language-pack-in-vista-for-my-neighbors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I helped my neighbors to upgrade his Windows Vista that comes from the pc from premium to ultimate so that I can install the chinese language pack for them. I actually helped them to buy the upgrade from premium to ultimate online for about $172. After buying it I got the license file with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I helped my neighbors to upgrade his Windows Vista that comes from the pc from premium to ultimate so that I can install the chinese language pack for them. I actually helped them to buy the upgrade from premium to ultimate online for about $172. After buying it I got the license file with the product key on it and started the update. The upgrade took about one hour and went fine. After the upgrade I was happy and trying to install the language pack from Windows Update, but the language pack failed to install when it&#8217;s half way through with code 2 error! I restarted the computer, tried it again, but it&#8217;s still the same! Still can&#8217;t fix it even after clicking the get help next to the code 2 error and search online for solutions of the problem! I actually found many people with the same problem and no solution! Some people said that the only way to get through it is make a clean install of Windows rather than using the one that comes with the PC. Later I called microsoft support for help and that guy simply sucks, can&#8217;t do anything about it either. Afterward I didn&#8217;t have any other way to fix this and I decided to resize the Windows partition and make a new partition to install Windows on it. The first time I installed Windows Vista ultimate with the Upgrade Anytime CD without the cd key I bought because it didn&#8217;t work. After installing it didn&#8217;t work either because the cd key can&#8217;t be used for activation. After that I tried to instal premium first with the computer&#8217;s product key and then upgrade to Ultimate, but without activating the premium first and couldn&#8217;t use the cd key either. Of course it failed again. Finally I gave it one more chance by clean installing premium first and then activate it. After activating the premium I can finally use the upgrade cd key to upgrade to ultimate and install the language pack! Phew&#8230; almost wasted the money that I use to upgrade. I think the language pack doesn&#8217;t work with the preinstalled Windows in many computer and I had to make a clean install instead to get it work.</p>
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		<title>Wubi - Install Ubuntu inside Windows w/o Partitioning</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/15/wubi-install-ubuntu-inside-windows-wo-partitioning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/15/wubi-install-ubuntu-inside-windows-wo-partitioning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ubuntu]]></category>

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If you want to install ubuntu 7.04 Feisty, but you don&#8217;t want to modify your Windows partition and you want to install it inside, Wubi is for you. According to its website:
Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a few clicks. Wubi allows you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/wubi/en-US/index.html" target="_new"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1094/553990926_a7e75a7a38_m.jpg" alt="" /></a><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1376/554266171_042bbe013b_m.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />
If you want to install ubuntu 7.04 Feisty, but you don&#8217;t want to modify your Windows partition and you want to install it inside, <a href="http://www.cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/wubi/en-US/index.html" target="_new">Wubi</a> is for you. According to its website:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a few clicks. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you.</p>
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<p>Moreover, Wubi doesn&#8217;t need you to replace the default Windows bootloader, as &#8220;Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), this file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk.&#8221; Then it loads the file as a loopback root Filesystem, kind like those described in &#8220;The Loopback Root Filesystem HOWTO,&#8221; but with the loopback filesystem is actually in Windows&#8217;s partition.</p>
<p>Since Wubi makes Ubuntu run inside Windows partition, there will be a little bit performance penalty, especially when your Windows partition is fragmented. Moreover, if there were any error in the ntfs partition that affects the system virtual disk, you need to fix the errors with something like chkdsk in Windows first before booting Ubuntu. If you&#8217;re not afraid of partitioning, I still recommend you to install Ubuntu in a separate partition.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/">Wubi&#8217;s Website</a></p>
<p>Some screenshots of the Wubi installer:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/wubi/en-US/screenshots.html" target="_new">http://www.cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/wubi/en-US/screenshots.html</a></p>
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		<title>A Super Virus with Two Lines of Codes</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/15/a-super-virus-with-two-lines-of-codes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/15/a-super-virus-with-two-lines-of-codes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the video! A super virus with two lines of codes:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out the video! A super virus with two lines of codes:<br />
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		<title>Fix Linux Display Resolutions</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/14/fix-linux-display-resolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/14/fix-linux-display-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fix linux display resolutions when your xorg video resolutions are misread, causing display problems on boot like the one in the video, ie. it attempts to display a resolution higher than what your computer can support.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fix linux display resolutions when your xorg video resolutions are misread, causing display problems on boot like the one in the video, ie. it attempts to display a resolution higher than what your computer can support.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been for tooooo long that I haven&#8217;t posted anything</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/13/its-been-for-tooooo-long-that-i-havent-posted-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/06/13/its-been-for-tooooo-long-that-i-havent-posted-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been for tooooo long that I haven&#8217;t posted anything since school had always been very busy. Right now since the summer vacation starts, I&#8217;ll try to post more frequently.
I also have removed the adsense ads from my blog and replaced them with adbrite ads since they&#8217;re not making any money at all and it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been for tooooo long that I haven&#8217;t posted anything since school had always been very busy. Right now since the summer vacation starts, I&#8217;ll try to post more frequently.<br />
I also have removed the adsense ads from my blog and replaced them with adbrite ads since they&#8217;re not making any money at all and it seemed like it&#8217;s gonna take forever to make $100.</p>
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		<title>My Website Got Approved by Text Link Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/01/23/my-website-got-approved-by-text-link-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/01/23/my-website-got-approved-by-text-link-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today finally I got the letter from Text Link Ads that tells me that I got accepted into the program. It was kinda hard to get into at first since my website was still &#8220;young&#8221;, but two months after that finally I got accepted, mainly because my site has reached google PageRank 4 and started [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today finally I got the letter from <a href="http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=41196">Text Link Ads</a> that tells me that I got accepted into the program. It was kinda hard to get into at first since my website was still &#8220;young&#8221;, but two months after that finally I got accepted, mainly because my site has reached google PageRank 4 and started to have some backlinks shown in google. I&#8217;m going to give it a try and put the paid text links (if any) into my blog to see how it goes.</p>
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		<title>Google Map Weird Suggestion</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/01/02/google-map-weird-suggestion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2007/01/02/google-map-weird-suggestion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I got the driving direction to Disneyland in Google Map, it told me to Make a U-turn at Paradise Pier for 259 ft and then stop when I got there. What? It makes no sense to make a U-turn like this.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I got the driving direction to Disneyland in Google Map, it told me to Make a U-turn at Paradise Pier for 259 ft and then stop when I got there. What? It makes no sense to make a U-turn like this.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/343473143_2eeccd2d15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>Blogger Finally Responded My Request to Restore My Old Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/28/blogger-finally-responded-my-request-to-restore-my-old-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/28/blogger-finally-responded-my-request-to-restore-my-old-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today blogger&#8217;s support finally restored my old blog angelchen1111.blogspot.com to me. It took me five days to actually get a response! I had to say something like &#8220;I emailed blogger support like thousands of time and there&#8217;s still no response&#8221; in order to get them reply to me. It also said that it doesn&#8217;t guarantee [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today blogger&#8217;s support finally restored my old blog angelchen1111.blogspot.com to me. It took me five days to actually get a response! I had to say something like &#8220;I emailed blogger support like thousands of time and there&#8217;s still no response&#8221; in order to get them reply to me. It also said that it doesn&#8217;t guarantee that they will restore the deleted blogs to us. So never ever delete your blogger&#8217;s blogs because there are always spammers watching for them!</p>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Network Damaged by Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/27/chinas-network-damaged-by-earthquake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/27/chinas-network-damaged-by-earthquake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I started to have problem connecting to the Chinese websites. They all seemed to be down. I thought it was my connection&#8217;s problem, but it isn&#8217;t. It was because the earthquake in Taiwan that &#8220;damaged telecommunication cables linking the Chinese mainland, disconnecting users with overseas Websites.&#8221; Today the problem seems to get better as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I started to have problem connecting to the Chinese websites. They all seemed to be down. I thought it was my connection&#8217;s problem, but it isn&#8217;t. It was because the <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/citylife/2006-12/28/content_769814.htm">earthquake in Taiwan</a> that &#8220;damaged telecommunication cables linking the Chinese mainland, disconnecting users with overseas Websites.&#8221; Today the problem seems to get better as I can connect to many websites again, but still there&#8217;s problem with the network in China. Many websites are still not working and the connection is still very slow at times, and because of the damage, many users from China can&#8217;t open properly websites located in the U.S. or other countries.</p>
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		<title>Forgot to Take Back the Blog I Deleted Yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/23/forgot-to-take-back-the-blog-i-deleted-yesterday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/23/forgot-to-take-back-the-blog-i-deleted-yesterday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I forgot to take back the blog angelchen1111.blogspot.com that I deleted it yesterday. Now somebody took it over and is spamming with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I see the &#8220;check computer now&#8221; spam when i go to technorati, and when I type in angelchen1111.blogspot.com it will redirect to a &#8220;check computer now&#8221; spam page! I reported that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I forgot to take back the blog angelchen1111.blogspot.com that I deleted it yesterday. Now somebody took it over and is spamming with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I see the &#8220;check computer now&#8221; spam when i go to technorati, and when I type in angelchen1111.blogspot.com it will redirect to a &#8220;check computer now&#8221; spam page! I reported that to google and hopefully they will take care of it. Google should do something to stop it! People are spamming by taking advantage of deleted blogs.</p>
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		<title>Shopping Cashback on Buying Things Online</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/19/shopping-cashback-on-buying-things-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/19/shopping-cashback-on-buying-things-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to get additional cashback besides the discount that they offer online? On the website InstantProfitz you &#8220;can get automatic rebates for shopping at your favorite merchants - and all sorts of new ones too! This &#8216;cash back&#8217; is in addition to and separate from any discounts you may get at hundreds of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to get additional cashback besides the discount that they offer online? On the website <a href="http://www.instantprofitz.com/?ref=angelchen9999">InstantProfitz</a> you &#8220;can get automatic rebates for shopping at your favorite merchants - and all sorts of new ones too! This &#8216;cash back&#8217; is in addition to and separate from any discounts you may get at hundreds of online merchants!&#8221; All you need to do is to make qualified purchase at their listed merchants through their links, and you will get the percent cash back listed on their website for that merchant after 30 days.</p>
<p>There are many famous online stores including Radio Shack, Circuit City, Best Buy, and even Half.com on their list; through the links on that site you can save some additional $$$ besides their original discounts.</p>
<p>For more information <a href="http://www.instantprofitz.com/?ref=angelchen9999">click here</a>, also don&#8217;t forget to check out the FAQ, it contains some important information on how it works.</p>
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		<title>Godaddy.com offering $.99 .info domain for sale(updated)</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/19/godaddycom-offering-199-info-domain-for-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/19/godaddycom-offering-199-info-domain-for-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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Today I checked www.GoDaddy.com  and realized that it&#8217;s offering $.99 .info domain for sale! Right now it&#8217;s even cheaper than namecheap.com! I immediately grabbed some .info domains after seeing that. You actually don&#8217;t need to buy anything extra along with the domain to get that price. You can just buy the domain by itself [...]]]></description>
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Today I checked <a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2197224-10378406" target="_blank">www.GoDaddy.com </a><img src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-2197224-10378406" width="1" height="1" border="0"/> and realized that it&#8217;s offering $.99 .info domain for sale! Right now it&#8217;s even cheaper than namecheap.com! I immediately grabbed some .info domains after seeing that. You actually don&#8217;t need to buy anything extra along with the domain to get that price. You can just buy the domain by itself for $.99!<br />
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<img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1209/552346340_8aaf1ee493.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>American Consumer Opinion Affiliate Program Glitches</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/16/american-consumer-opinion-broken-affiliate-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The affiliate program of ACOP(American Consumer Opinion) is sometimes broken. The affiliate server has been down twice for long time since I joined it, either for the view report page or for the affiliate links. Once the server is down when you try to open one of those pages you&#8217;ll get an http 500 server [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The affiliate program of ACOP(American Consumer Opinion) is sometimes broken. The affiliate server has been down twice for long time since I joined it, either for the view report page or for the affiliate links. Once the server is down when you try to open one of those pages you&#8217;ll get an http 500 server error with the message &#8220;Server Error in &#8216;/&#8217; Application.&#8221; There must be an error in the server&#8217;s configuration that needs to be fixed.<br />
There&#8217;s another glitch in that affiliate program&#8217;s design, that the text links are not supposed to have impressions. Since the static text links are just a bunch of code within the web page, when we load the web page we don&#8217;t load anything from the server that tracks the link&#8217;s impressions. Impressions can only be tracked from the ads that load images, scripts, or others from the server. Because of this mistake I get only one impression in total per many clicks and a click through rate much higher than 100%. That was not possible. The first time I saw this I was frightened, until I realize that they can know how many times the link is clicked, but not how many times it&#8217;s loaded.<br />
The other mistake in the affiliate program is that if you use an email address with numbers only in the domain name like ***@163.com or ***@126.com, it rejects the registrations automatically. That affected many users from China since many of them use those kinds of email address. I didn&#8217;t realize that until many people told me that they had failed the registration, and they all used those kinds of email address. This glitch is more serious and I hope they fix that as soon as possible.<br />
update: Although There&#8217;s some glitches in its affiliate program, it actually PAYS, on 12/23/2006 I got the check from it.</p>
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		<title>Today I got paid by Adbrite</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/11/today-i-got-paid-by-adbrite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[adsense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today finally I got the check with four bucks from Adbrite, one of the pay-per-click program. Although it said it pays based on net-60 basis, it took me about four months to get this first check. On the other hand despite it takes so long for the first check, there&#8217;s no minimum threshold for the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today finally I got the check with four bucks from <a href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/landing_both.php?spid=21918">Adbrite</a>, one of the pay-per-click program. Although it said it pays based on net-60 basis, it took me about four months to get this first check. On the other hand despite it takes so long for the first check, there&#8217;s no minimum threshold for the payments, you can set the minimum check amount as low as you want. Because of this Adbrite is great for alternate ads, since it pays out no matter how little you earned. Many people including myself uses adsense+adbrite for alternate ads in case of adsense can&#8217;t find any ads.</p>
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		<title>Make WordPress K2 Themes Refresh Faster</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/07/make-wordpress-k2-themes-refresh-faster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The pages with wordpress K2 theme loads fast when you click them, but if you try to refresh the page it will be very slow to load, while other themes don&#8217;t have this problem. To fix this follow this guide taken from K2&#8217;s forum:
find the folder js inside the K2 folder, then for each .js.php [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The pages with wordpress K2 theme loads fast when you click them, but if you try to refresh the page it will be very slow to load, while other themes don&#8217;t have this problem. To fix this follow this guide taken from K2&#8217;s forum:</p>
<p>find the folder <strong>js</strong> inside the <strong>K2</strong> folder, then for each <strong>.js.php</strong> file comment out the <strong>&#8216;require(&#8230;.. wp-blog-header.php)&#8217; </strong>line and replace <strong>&#8216;!get_settings(&#8217;gzipcompression&#8217;)&#8217; </strong>with <strong>&#8216;( ob_get_length() === FALSE)&#8217;</strong>. After that the first few lines should look like this:<br />
<code><br />
        //require(dirname(__FILE__)."/../../../../wp-blog-header.php");<br />
        // check to see if the user has enabled gzip compression in the WordPress admin panel<br />
        if ( (ob_get_length() === FALSE) and !ini_get('zlib.output_compression') and ini_get('output_handler') != 'ob_gzhandler' and ini_get('output_handler') != 'mb_output_handler' ) {<br />
                ob_start('ob_gzhandler');<br />
        }<br />
</code><br />
Then add the following lines on the top of the files <strong>livesearch.js.php</strong> and <strong>rollingarchives.js.php</strong> after the php tag:<br />
<code><br />
  // Echo a translated string.<br />
  function _e($text, $domain = 'default') {<br />
	  global $l10n;</p>
<p>	  if (isset($l10n[$domain]))<br />
		  echo apply_filters(&#8217;gettext&#8217;, $l10n[$domain]->translate($text), $text);<br />
	  else<br />
		  echo $text;<br />
  }<br />
</code><br />
For <strong>livesearch.js.php, <del>comments.js.php</del></strong>:<br />
replace all<br />
<code>bloginfo("template_url")</code><br />
with<br />
<code>echo str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],&#8221;,realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . &#8216;/../&#8217;))</code><br />
There are two instances of these in <del>comments.js.php</del>, and one in livesearch.js.php.</p>
<p>After all these the pages will refresh very fast.</p>
<p><a href="http://getk2.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1934">Original post in which this guide is taken from&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Phishing PayPal email in my Gmail account</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/03/phishing-paypal-email-in-my-gmail-account/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/12/03/phishing-paypal-email-in-my-gmail-account/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a phishing spam PayPal email that mimics the address services.paypal.com in my Gmail account, with title &#8220;Notification of Limited Account Access,&#8221; and a url that asks me to verify my paypal account but pointing to http://www.soios.com/matiz/varios/www.paypal.com/ssl/, which is not paypal&#8217;s website. It&#8217;s actually from servidor01.mimela.com, not paypal&#8217;s server. Here&#8217;s part of the heading [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got a phishing spam PayPal email that mimics the address services.paypal.com in my Gmail account, with title &#8220;Notification of Limited Account Access,&#8221; and a url that asks me to verify my paypal account but pointing to http://www.soios.com/matiz/varios/www.paypal.com/ssl/, which is not paypal&#8217;s website. It&#8217;s actually from servidor01.mimela.com, not paypal&#8217;s server. Here&#8217;s part of the heading of the email from the original message, which can be seen in GMail by clicking the arrow next to the reply button and then click &#8220;Show original.&#8221;<br />
<code><br />
Received: from servidor01.mimela.com ([64.22.85.7])<br />
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 26si58691192wrl.2006.12.03.18.12.08;<br />
        Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:12:08 -0800 (PST)<br />
Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning services@paypal.com does not designate 64.22.85.7 as permitted sender)<br />
Received: from soios by servidor01.mimela.com with local (Exim 4.52)<br />
	id 1Gr3KQ-000599-7W<br />
	for myemail@gmail.com; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:13:10 +0100<br />
Content-Type: text/html; charset=&#8221;iso-8859-1&#8243;<br />
&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>Message-Id: <E1Gr3KQ-000599-7W@servidor01.mimela.com><br />
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:13:10 +0100<br />
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report<br />
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - servidor01.mimela.com<br />
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com<br />
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32705 32706] / [47 12]<br />
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - paypal.com<br />
X-Source:<br />
X-Source-Args:<br />
X-Source-Dir:<br />
</code><br />
Here&#8217;s the picture of the email (click for original size):<br />
<a href="http://static.flickr.com/105/313602173_2638d7c003_o.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/105/313602173_2638d7c003_m.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
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		<title>I got $25 AdWords Credit for signing up Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/29/i-got-25-adwords-credit-for-signing-up-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/29/i-got-25-adwords-credit-for-signing-up-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I got the email titled &#8220;Google Analytics and AdWords&#8221; from google that gave me $25 AdWords Credit for signing up Google Analytics!

If you&#8217;re interested in driving more traffic to your site, we&#8217;re offering a $25 promotional credit that you can use to get started with AdWords.
 Instant Approval Credit Card Offers are available for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I got the email titled &#8220;Google Analytics and AdWords&#8221; from google that gave me $25 <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select">AdWords</a> Credit for signing up <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a>!</p>
<blockquote><p>
If you&#8217;re interested in driving more traffic to your site, we&#8217;re offering a $25 promotional credit that you can use to get started with AdWords.</p></blockquote>
<p> <a href="http://www.creditorganizer.com/Instant-Approval-Cards-891834-page.php">Instant Approval Credit Card Offers</a> are available for people with any credit history. Bad Credit OK!</p>
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		<title>Reset Windows XP&#8217;s password using Offline NT Password and Registry Editor</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/22/reset-windows-xps-password-using-offline-nt-password-and-registry-editor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/22/reset-windows-xps-password-using-offline-nt-password-and-registry-editor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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A video of resetting Windows XP&#8217;s password using Offline NT Password and Registry Editor(from the boot floppy disk). Here&#8217;s the original version of the video.
Here&#8217;s the link to download Offline NT Password and Registry Editor and instruction on how to use it.
If your computer allows booting from floppy disk or cdrom, your Windows&#8217; password can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-WyVU5ymRFs&#038;rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-WyVU5ymRFs&#038;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br />
A video of resetting Windows XP&#8217;s password using <a href="http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/">Offline NT Password and Registry Editor</a>(from the boot floppy disk). Here&#8217;s the <a href="http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/d0416e9b-d98b-46e1-aef8-5331a2aecafa/?action=forceDL">original version</a> of the video.<br />
Here&#8217;s the <a href="http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html">link </a>to download Offline NT Password and Registry Editor and instruction on how to use it.<br />
If your computer allows booting from floppy disk or cdrom, your Windows&#8217; password can also be reset using some boot disk or CD like that one. You should disable booting from any disk, like floppy, cdrom, flash drive. etc. except for hard drive in BIOS setting if your computer is public computer or you don&#8217;t want others to reset your password.</p>
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		<title>My experience with switching in between paid web hostings</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/21/my-experience-with-switching-in-between-paid-web-hostings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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Yesterday I started to look for a more reliable web hosting after realizing that Cirtexhosting sucks because it&#8217;s down too often. I searched online trying to find a reliable cheap web hosting alternative and realized that many of them either require you to pay for a whole year at once to get a cheaper price(which [...]]]></description>
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<div style="position: relative; width: 128px; height: 98px; z-index: 1; float: right; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?248035"><img src="http://www.dreamhost.com/images/rewards/120x90-a.gif" alt="" height="98" width="128" /></a></div>
<p>Yesterday I started to look for a more reliable web hosting after realizing that Cirtexhosting sucks because it&#8217;s down too often. I searched online trying to find a reliable cheap web hosting alternative and realized that many of them either require you to pay for a whole year at once to get a cheaper price(which is still not cheap), or have too few bandwidth per month in general.<br />
After hours of struggle I found Host Department and almost signed up for it, but its website was very unprofessional and very tricky, i.e. you have to click &#8220;Php Web Hosting&#8221; in the bottom of the page where it says &#8220;Host Department&#8217;s Specialty Hosting:&#8221; in order to get php hosting package at the same price instead of the non-php, also the advertisement in the home page is very confusing and the sign up process is very poorly designed, i just gave up before paying for it.<br />
I then tried GoDaddy&#8217;s hosting&#8217;s Economy Plan, it allows you to pay about $8 for the first two months and $4 each month afterwards. But alas, while GoDaddy is good for domain registration it really sucks for hosting, it takes about thirty minutes to do what you could have done instantly in other hostings, like setting up the account and creating a mysql database, its server software is very outdated, it gave me hard time to import mysql databases because of its older version of mysql. Finally it doesn&#8217;t seem to support .htaccess that well, you can&#8217;t make custom error pages there, but only in the freaking control panel that takes even thirty minutes to change custom error page. I also heard other people say about the lock table issue when hosted on GoDaddy. Because of all these I gave up GoDaddy and asked them for refund on the hosting account calling the non-toll-free number.<br />
Later on I stopped looking for cheap web hosting because for me they&#8217;re unreliable unless they provide less features like space and bandwidth. I looked for some more expensive yet reliable ones and found <a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=angelchen1111">HostGator</a> and <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?248035">DreamHost</a>. HostGator got many positive honest reviews from some trusted sites like <a href="http://whreviews.com/">whreviews.com</a>, while for DreamHost it has tons more disk space, bandwidth, and other features like ssh. I had asked some people who is using it about its reliability and many of them didn&#8217;t have any problems with it. But I first decided to use HostGator anyways with its baby plan since it allows me to pay with paypal and I can try it the first month for $0.01, the plan is $9.95 each month and with a promo code like &#8220;jury&#8221; you can get $9.94 off for the first month on plans other than hatchling(the cheapest one, billed annually and 1 month free with promo code), I was very satisfied with it and didn&#8217;t have any reason to switch.<br />
But today I had one little problem, a problem that probably won&#8217;t apply to you. I asked one friend from China to visit my blog and surprisingly they said they can&#8217;t open it anymore since I switched to HostGator, I then asked others to try to open it and they can&#8217;t either! I started to realize that HostGator is blocked in China by its &#8220;Great Firewall&#8221;, just like Blogger had been blocked! That really frustrated me since I&#8217;m planning to develop a Chinese website with other registered domains in the same hosting account to take advantage of its multiple domain hosting, I also didn&#8217;t want to lose any visitors from China. I had to switch again since what I&#8217;ll lose is just one cent. I then switched my blog to DreamHost today, which has a lot more nice features, space and bandwidth, and I&#8217;m very satisfied with it. It has many more features than HostGator plus <b>200 GB Disk Storage</b> and <b>2 TB bandwidth</b> even with its basic plan with the same price as HostGator&#8217;s baby plan. </p>
<p><strong>Bonus:</strong> if you sign up with the promo code <strong>THEUSEFULHOST</strong> for <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?248035">DreamHost</a> you&#8217;ll get discounts for:<br />
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<li><strong>$85 off for any yearly plans! (no setup fee)</strong></li>
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<li><strong>$90 off for any two-year plans! (no setup fee)</strong></li>
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		<title>AVG antivirus 7 discontinues on 15 Jan?</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/19/avg-antivirus-7-discontinues-on-15-jan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/19/avg-antivirus-7-discontinues-on-15-jan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have gotten several times a message from AVG Antivirus Free 7.1 that says &#8220;Your AVG Anti-Virus 7.1 will be discontinued on 15. January 2007!&#8221; I always thought that avg is not going to be free anymore, since many free software that become paid have that kinds of notice. Until today I paid more attention [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have gotten several times a message from AVG Antivirus Free 7.1 that says &#8220;Your AVG Anti-Virus 7.1 will be discontinued on 15. January 2007!&#8221; I always thought that avg is not going to be free anymore, since many free software that become paid have that kinds of notice. Until today I paid more attention on what it said I realized that it&#8217;s just a notice that tells us to upgrade to <a href="http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5">AVG 7.5</a> for free. I can&#8217;t upgrade to AVG 7.5 in the update manager, I had to go to <a href="http://www.grisoft.com/">AVG</a>&#8217;s website to download it and install it using the <strong>Repair Install</strong> option, after that restart and everything is done. I&#8217;m very happy that AVG keeps its antivirus software for free, I hope that they&#8217;ll also keep it for free in the future.<br />
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		<title>Blogger blocked again in china?! (not anymore)</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/18/blogger-blocked-again-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I asked some of my friends in China to open my Blogger&#8217;s blog, surprisingly nobody could open it while I could, then I though maybe Blogger is blocked again. After that I searched &#8220;blogspot blocked china&#8221; in google and found many recent blog posts that said they can&#8217;t open blogger&#8217;s blog recently and blogger [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I asked some of my friends in China to open my Blogger&#8217;s blog, surprisingly nobody could open it while I could, then I though maybe Blogger is blocked again. After that I searched &#8220;blogspot blocked china&#8221; in google and found many recent blog posts that said they can&#8217;t open blogger&#8217;s blog recently and blogger is probably blocked in china again. Fortunately I moved my blog from blogger to WordPress a month earlier, so now this blog is still accessible worldwide.<br />
update: it&#8217;s unblocked on 11/21/06 or earlier.</p>
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		<title>Today I changed my blog&#8217;s template to TripleK2</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/16/today-i-changed-my-blogs-template-to-triplek2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I changed my blog&#8217;s template to TripleK2, a theme based on K2 but with three columns, with a very nice style TechnoBlue(found in the same website). Now I have one sidebar on the left and one on the right. The theme is similar to 3k2, but I didn&#8217;t use 3k2 since the last time [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I changed my blog&#8217;s template to <a href="http://www.johntp.com/2006/09/17/triplek2-a-three-column-k2-mod-for-wordpress/">TripleK2</a>, a theme based on K2 but with three columns, with a very nice style <a href="http://www.johntp.com/2006/09/17/triplek2-a-three-column-k2-mod-for-wordpress/">TechnoBlue</a>(found in the same website). Now I have one sidebar on the left and one on the right. The theme is similar to 3k2, but I didn&#8217;t use 3k2 since the last time it&#8217;s updated is like half years ago, it uses a much older version of K2 which probably has some bugs that cause trouble. I really liked the style TechnoBlue, since it looks very nice and neat, if you&#8217;re looking for a three-column K2 with a nice style it should be your choice.<br />
<img align="center" src="http://static.flickr.com/107/299158893_386f8fcbb6.jpg?v=0" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>How to add social bookmarking in wordpress</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/14/how-to-add-social-bookmarking-in-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the entry Let Your Blog Be Social nongeek talked about the advantage of social bookmarking and how to add bookmark area in blogger&#8217;s template. You can also do that in wordpress too, using the same way he said in that post, but substitute Blogger&#8217;s template tags with wordpress&#8217;s tags. For example, if you want [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the entry <a href="http://nongeeksight.blogspot.com/2006/10/let-your-blog-be-social.html">Let Your Blog Be Social</a> nongeek talked about the advantage of social bookmarking and how to add bookmark area in blogger&#8217;s template. You can also do that in wordpress too, using the same way he said in that post, but substitute Blogger&#8217;s template tags with wordpress&#8217;s tags. For example, if you want a &#8220;Submit to del.icio.us&#8221; line you should add</p>
<p><code>Submit to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&lt;?php the_permalink()<br />
?&gt;;title=&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&quot; &gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;</code></p>
<p>instead of</p>
<p><code>Submit to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&lt;$BlogItemPermalinkURL$&gt;;title=&lt;$BlogItemTitle$&gt;&quot;<br />
&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;</code></p>
<p>to your template&#8217;s php file before or after the line <code>&lt;?php the_content('something'); ?&gt;</code> depending on if you want it to appear before or after the posts.</p>
<p>If you want to submit to Digg there&#8217;s a great WordPress plugin called <a href="http://dev.lipidity.com/feature/digg-this-wordpress-plugin-reloaded">Digg This for WordPress Reloaded</a> that lets you to add a very cool &#8220;Digg This button&#8221; like the one I have in the posts, without changing the template&#8217;s codes. It also comes with a Complete admin interface with options for many customizations, like positioning the button, what pages to show the button, the style of the button , and many others.</p>
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		<title>Some of my posts were translated into Spanish after submitting to Digg</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/12/some-of-my-posts-were-translated-into-spanish-after-digg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My post &#8220;3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux&#8221; and the other about how to fix wordpress 404 error were translated into Spanish after submitting to Digg.com. The first is found in http://alt1040.com/archivo/2006/11/12/gentoo-linux-xgl-una-pantalla-touchscreen/ and the second in http://www.leterot.com/?p=118.

Mi poste &#8220;3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux&#8221; y el otro sobre como reparar Error 404 al [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My post &#8220;3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux&#8221; and the other about how to fix wordpress 404 error were translated into Spanish after submitting to Digg.com. The first is found in <a href="http://alt1040.com/archivo/2006/11/12/gentoo-linux-xgl-una-pantalla-touchscreen/">http://alt1040.com/archivo/2006/11/12/gentoo-linux-xgl-una-pantalla-touchscreen/</a> and the second in <a href="http://www.leterot.com/?p=118">http://www.leterot.com/?p=118</a>.</p>
<p>
Mi poste &#8220;3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux&#8221; y el otro sobre como reparar Error 404 al publicar en Wordpress fue traducido a espanol despues de enviar a Digg.com. El primero esta en <a href="http://alt1040.com/archivo/2006/11/12/gentoo-linux-xgl-una-pantalla-touchscreen/">http://alt1040.com/archivo/2006/11/12/gentoo-linux-xgl-una-pantalla-touchscreen/</a> y el segundo en <a href="http://www.leterot.com/?p=118">http://www.leterot.com/?p=118</a>.</p>
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		<title>My blog&#8217;s traffic increased dramatically after submitting posts to Digg</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/12/my-blogs-traffic-increased-dramatically-after-submitting-posts-to-digg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My blog&#8217;s traffic increased dramatically after submitting posts to Digg.com, before I only get 10 to 20 visitors per day, but after I added some of my posts to Digg.com my traffic went up to about hundred something visitors per day. I really liked it so much&#8230; if you&#8217;re looking for some way to increase [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My blog&#8217;s traffic increased dramatically after submitting posts to Digg.com, before I only get 10 to 20 visitors per day, but after I added some of my posts to Digg.com my traffic went up to about hundred something visitors per day. I really liked it so much&#8230; if you&#8217;re looking for some way to increase your blog&#8217;s traffic and your blog is not just a personal blog, you can submit the posts that falls into Digg&#8217;s six categories Technology, Science, World &#038; Business, Videos, Entertainment, and Gaming to increase tons of traffic to your blog.</p>
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		<title>Adbrite should not include Alexa ranking in their listing</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/10/adbrite-should-not-include-alexa-ranking-in-their-listing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/10/adbrite-should-not-include-alexa-ranking-in-their-listing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Adbrite should not include Alexa ranking in their listing, since Alexa rankings are very inaccurate and very easy to be manipulated. I learned from various web sites that its rankings are for the uninformative only, if you google search &#8220;alexa ranking&#8221; you&#8217;ll find about the truth of Alexa ranking through various websites. Comparing Alexa ranking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adbrite should not include Alexa ranking in their listing, since Alexa rankings are very inaccurate and very easy to be manipulated. I learned from various web sites that its rankings are for the uninformative only, if you google search &#8220;alexa ranking&#8221; you&#8217;ll find about the truth of Alexa ranking through various websites. Comparing Alexa ranking of the websites in the listing could be misleading and could misinform people about the website&#8217;s real traffic. I once tried autosurf and other Alexa boosting method and my website&#8217;s ranking rose from none to around 6,000,000 within less than one week, and Adbrite gave it about one and half star for the Alexa ranking in related to other listed sites, without that much real traffic. Also some websites are in the subdomain of others, this would cause the ranking of the domain on top of it shown instead of the subdomain&#8217;s. Alexa ranking can not be trusted, I don&#8217;t know why Adbrite included it to compare with other websites.<br />
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		<title>Southern California Free ISP</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/09/southern-california-free-isp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/09/southern-california-free-isp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SoCal Free Net is a very good free dialup ISP , it&#8217;s free for anyone living in Southern California. Unlike NetZero or Juno, it doesn&#8217;t have time limit or requires you to install any kind to software in order to use it. It&#8217;s very useful for Backup Internet Connection when your dsl connection fails. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socalfree.net/">SoCal Free Net</a> is a very good free dialup ISP , it&#8217;s free for anyone living in Southern California. Unlike NetZero or Juno, <font color="#FF0000">it doesn&#8217;t have time limit or requires you to install any kind to software in order to use it.</font> It&#8217;s very useful for Backup Internet Connection when your dsl connection fails. <br />The drawback of this freebie is that the ISP blocks almost all ports except for those you use to view web pages, as what it said from its website Q&#038;A: &#8220;This service is designed for web browsing only. You will not be able to set up a server on your own machine, nor will you be able to connect with telnet, ftp, ssh, SMTP, etc.&#8221; It basically only opens port 80, 8080, 443 for https and maybe others for you to visit websites, but it doesn&#8217;t monitor the traffics on the ports, despite what the website says, you&#8217;re still able to connect to ftp, telnet or other services that uses the http ports instead of their standard ports, also you can use Instant Messengers such as AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger over there since they only need the http ports. Overall it&#8217;s a very good ISP that gives you a worthwhile free dial up service.</p>
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		<title>www.internetexplorersucks.com points to Firefox&#8217;s website</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/07/wwwinternetexplorersuckscom-points-to-firefoxs-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/07/wwwinternetexplorersuckscom-points-to-firefoxs-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m curious of what www.internetexplorersucks.com look like, I typed it and it redirected to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/. It&#8217;s like the website http://www.ie7.com/ where it tells the user to get Firefox, although they&#8217;re not affiliated with Firefox, they&#8217;re just created by fans who want people to use Firefox instead of IE.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I&#8217;m curious of what <a href="http://www.internetexplorersucks.com">www.internetexplorersucks.com</a> look like, I typed it and it redirected to <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/</a>. It&#8217;s like the website <a href="http://www.ie7.com/">http://www.ie7.com/</a> where it tells the user to get Firefox, although they&#8217;re not affiliated with Firefox, they&#8217;re just created by fans who want people to use Firefox instead of IE.</p>
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		<title>how to fix wordpress 404 error when posting in wordpress</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/05/how-to-fix-wordpress-404-error-when-posting-in-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have mod_security turned on in your server you will sometimes get a 404 not found error when you try to save or publish your post. To fix this add the lines
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
to your .htaccess file in your wordpress&#8217;s root directory to turn off mod_security&#8217;s keyword filtering feature for posting forms, and you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have mod_security turned on in your server you will sometimes get a 404 not found error when you try to save or publish your post. To fix this add the lines<br />
<code>SecFilterEngine Off<br />
SecFilterScanPOST Off</code><br />
to your .htaccess file in your wordpress&#8217;s root directory to turn off mod_security&#8217;s keyword filtering feature for posting forms, and you should not get the error anymore when you try to post.</p>
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		<title>Fun program to trick people</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/11/04/fun-program-to-trick-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the program I created to trick people, it basically opens many windows without stopping unless you click the windows and press CTRL+ALT+A many times to stop and close the program. here&#8217;s the link to download it, and here is its source code. The program is virus free, you can test it yourself before sending [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the program I created to trick people, it basically opens many windows without stopping unless you click the windows and press CTRL+ALT+A many times to stop and close the program. <a href="http://muychilo.50webs.com/itsfun4.zip">here&#8217;s the link to download it</a>, and <a href="http://muychilo.50webs.com/itsfunsrc.zip">here is its source code</a>. The program is virus free, you can test it yourself before sending it to trick other people.</p>
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		<title>Flash objects break wordpress in Internet Explorer</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/25/flash-objects-break-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had problem loading my pages properly in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox, I wondered why this happen as I never had this problem with my blog before. At first I thought there was a problem with the scripts, but it still won&#8217;t load completely even after disabling the scripts, then I tried [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I had problem loading my pages properly in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox, I wondered why this happen as I never had this problem with my blog before. At first I thought there was a problem with the scripts, but it still won&#8217;t load completely even after disabling the scripts, then I tried to disable activex controls, and it loaded perfectly without the flash objects. Then I suspect the flash videos I have is causing those problems, I tried different flash objects and I found out that those with &lt;object&gt; tags won&#8217;t break the page, but those with &lt;embed&gt; actually do. I changed all my videos to </p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;ins&gt;&lt;object type=&#8217;application/x-shockwave-flash&#8217; data=&#8217;somefile.swf&#8217;&gt;&lt;param<br />
name=&#8217;allowScriptAccess&#8217; value=&#8217;sameDomain&#8217; /&gt;&lt;param name=&#8217;movie&#8217; value=&#8217;somefile.swf&#8217;&gt;&lt;param<br />
name=&#8217;quality&#8217; value=&#8217;best&#8217;/&gt;&lt;param name=&#8217;bgcolor&#8217; value=&#8217;#ffffff&#8217; /&gt;&lt;param<br />
name=&#8217;scale&#8217; value=&#8217;noScale&#8217; /&gt;&lt;param name=&#8217;wmode&#8217; value=&#8217;window&#8217;/&gt;&lt;param name=&#8217;salign&#8217;<br />
value=&#8217;TL&#8217; /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;</p></blockquote>
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<td><strong>Before changes:</strong></td>
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		<title>My former Blogger&#8217;s blog doesn&#8217;t update in technorati</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/24/my-former-bloggers-blog-doesnt-update-in-technorati/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My former blog angelchen1111.blogspot.com doesn&#8217;t update in technorati at all, except for the links. The last date I updated it was Saturday, October 21, 2006. but in technorati it says it was updated 67 days ago, the exact day I created that blog in Blogger. I don&#8217;t know why, I only have problem with that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My former blog angelchen1111.blogspot.com doesn&#8217;t update in technorati at all, except for the links. The last date I updated it was Saturday, October 21, 2006. but in technorati it says it was updated 67 days ago, the exact day I created that blog in Blogger. I don&#8217;t know why, I only have problem with that blog, I don&#8217;t have problem with other blogs like this blog and <a href="http://myspotforblog.blogspot.com">the other blog from Blogger.</a><img src="http://static.flickr.com/84/278899680_65ce53b790.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/23/3d-desktop-touchscreen-and-xgl-on-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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found in here
&#8220;I use: Gentoo linux, penmount usb touchscreen, XGL Gnome and my hands!!!!! Bill Barsch. Goiania-Goias&#8221;
I can&#8217;t post the google videos directly to wordpress from google, I had to copy and paste the code to post it here.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><ins><object style='width:400px; height:326px;' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' data='http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6313613059572588466'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='sameDomain' /><param name='movie' value='http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6313613059572588466'><param name='quality' value='best'/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff' /><param name='scale' value='noScale' /><param name='wmode' value='window'/><param name='salign' value='TL' /></object></ins></p>
<p>found in <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6313613059572588466&#038;q=3D+Desktop%21+TouchScreen+and+XGL+on+Linux&#038;hl=en">here</a><br />
&#8220;I use: Gentoo linux, penmount usb touchscreen, XGL Gnome and my hands!!!!! Bill Barsch. Goiania-Goias&#8221;</p>
<p><font size="1">I can&#8217;t post the google videos directly to wordpress from google, I had to copy and paste the code to post it here.</font></p>
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		<title>How to get rid of the wide spaces between the post body in WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/22/how-to-get-rid-of-the-wide-spaces-between-the-post-body-in-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we see some annoying wide spaces in between the post body, which makes the post looks wierd, like this one in the picture. That&#8217;s because the theme&#8217;s stylesheet made the post body&#8217;s texts to align justified. To get rid of those wide spaces we have to open the file style.css in the folder &#34;wp-content/themes/your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes we see some annoying wide spaces in between the post body, which makes the post looks wierd, like this one in <a href="http://www.theusefulblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/too-many-wide-space.JPG">the picture</a>. That&#8217;s because the theme&#8217;s stylesheet made the post body&#8217;s texts to align justified. To get rid of those wide spaces we have to open the file <strong>style.css</strong> in the folder &quot;<strong>wp-content/themes/your theme&quot;,</strong>  find the <strong>.post {</strong> section or <strong>.entry-content {</strong> section if you&#8217;re using <strong>K2</strong> and change <strong>text-align: justify; </strong>to <strong>text-align: left; </strong>to make the text to align left, so that they won&#8217;t make wide spaces by sometimes aligning left and sometimes aligning right. After changing this file the wide spaces will be gone.</p></p>
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		<title>I got too many wide space in between the post body(solved)</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/22/i-got-too-many-wide-space-in-between-the-post-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I got too many wide space in between the post body, does anyone know how to get rid of them? 
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		<title>Today I googled &#8220;tipspedia.info&#8221; and found many copied pages from my post</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/22/today-i-googled-tipspediainfo-and-found-many-pages-with-my-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I searched &#8220;tipspedia.info&#8221; in google and found some sites that contain an excerpt of my previous post that says &#8220;today I got the domain tipspedia.info&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221; (which I deleted) along with other posts&#8217; excerpts. Some of those websites were http://askthewebhost.net/blogs/ftp-hosting, http://www.propraetor.com/ftp_hosting/, http://paypal-coupon-code.zzdeals.com/, and http://trusted-info-net.com/blogs/yahoo-domain-hosting. On the right side of those websites come a list of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I searched &#8220;tipspedia.info&#8221; in google and found some sites that contain an excerpt of my previous post that says &#8220;today I got the domain tipspedia.info&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221; (which I deleted) along with other posts&#8217; excerpts. Some of those websites were http://askthewebhost.net/blogs/ftp-hosting, http://www.propraetor.com/ftp_hosting/, http://paypal-coupon-code.zzdeals.com/, and http://trusted-info-net.com/blogs/yahoo-domain-hosting. On the right side of those websites come a list of other posts and mostly important, ads from adsense.<br />
At first I was curious about why they do that until I see the ads over there, they do that because they want people to click their ads, those guys collect excerpts of posts by doing google blog search with some high paying keywords for the ads and put them together so that the search engine show their website more often, most of them shows a link for the original posts on every posts, but some won&#8217;t! Some of them even label the ads with misleading labels like &#8220;my websites&#8221;. That sucks, they&#8217;re like using our posts for their ad purposes.</p>
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		<title>Finally I moved my blog to http://www.theusefulblog.com</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/21/finally-i-moved-my-blog-to-httpwwwtheusefulblogcom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided to use the domain theusefulblog.com for my blog and use Wordpress to host my blog instead of Blogger. I decided not to use tipspedia.info since .info domain kinda sucks. I bought a very cheap web hosting from CirtexHosting which is only $2.50 a month or $24 a year. Despite its low price, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I decided to use the domain theusefulblog.com for my blog and use Wordpress to host my blog instead of Blogger. I decided not to use tipspedia.info since .info domain kinda sucks. I bought a very cheap web hosting from <a href="http://www.cirtexhosting.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=297">CirtexHosting</a> which is only $2.50 a month or $24 a year. Despite its low price, I found the service is excellent, it gives you <font color="#FF0000">5000 MB Storage, 100 GB Bandwidth</font>, PHP, CGI, MYSQL, and 5 Email / FTP Accounts in the basic plan, it’s almost never down and its support is also excellent, and it has Live Support where they answer your questions very quickly, the email support is also very fast.</p>
<p>After I created the host and installed WordPress on it I started to migrate the old posts from Blogger to WordPress. Because my Blogger was beta I can&#8217;t import it directly, I had to import its post&#8217;s RSS to the new blog, after importing I found the timestamp was off by seven hours I had to change them back one by one by hand, I also had to type the comments in one by one again since I don&#8217;t know how to import them from Blogger to WordPress :(. It took me about three hours to do all those&#8230;. Finally I finish migrating by putting the customization I had from Blogger to here and pick a theme for my new blog.</p>
<p>Right now I just don&#8217;t know how to change the top menu for this K2 style TrueBlue, the links over there are not obvious enough,<a class="imagelink" title=topmenu.JPG href="http://www.theusefulblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/topmenu.JPG" rel="lightbox"><img id="image33" alt=topmenu.JPG src="http://www.theusefulblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/topmenu.JPG" /></a></p>
<p>if anybody know how to make it look better please tell me about that by leaving a comment here.</p>
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		<title>I got the domain tipspedia.info for my blog</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/21/i-got-the-domain-tipspediainfo-for-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I registered the domain tipspedia.info for my blog in namecheap.com for $2.98 a year, which is very cheap! Now you can see this blog by typing http://www.tipspedia.info, I&#8217;m waiting for Blogger to support external ftp hosting so that I can move my blog to a new site with that domain. I had other domains [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I registered the domain <del datetime="2006-10-22T04:16:54+00:00">tipspedia.info </del>for my blog in <a href="http://www.namecheap.com/">namecheap.com</a> for $2.98 a year, which is very cheap! <del datetime="2006-10-22T04:16:54+00:00">Now you can see this blog by typing <a href="http://www.tipspedia.info">http://www.tipspedia.info</a>, </del><del datetime="2006-10-22T00:06:35+00:00">I&#8217;m waiting for Blogger to support external ftp hosting so that I can move my blog to a new site with that domain.</del> I had other domains registered and parked on other places as well, I&#8217;ll give them a try to see if I can make some money by parking them. I registered most other domains in goDaddy.com, which costs you $6.95 for the .com domains after you enter some promo code like <strong>cjc695dom, </strong>or 10% off on any order by entering something like <strong>cjcsave10, </strong>(for a complete list of promo codes see <a href="http://www.dealtaker.com/GoDaddy-coupon-code-a528-c40.html">http://www.dealtaker.com/GoDaddy-coupon-code-a528-c40.html</a>). I also saw an ad about <a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-2197224-10435428" target="_blank">Domain names from Yahoo! only $1.99/first year</a> and I registered one .info domain there, but I regretted of that decision and I should have registered a .com domain instead.</p>
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		<title>How to recover a corrupt registry that prevents Windows from booting</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/14/how-to-recover-a-corrupt-registry-that-prevents-wi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today my friend had a problem with his computer, while Windows is booting it restarted unexpectedly without leaving any error message. I tried to boot under safe mode, but still had the same problem, it restarted again. I then tried the start up option &#8220;Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure&#8221; on the boot menu, this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today my friend had a problem with his computer, while Windows is booting it restarted unexpectedly without leaving any error message. I tried to boot under safe mode, but still had the same problem, it restarted again. I then tried the start up option &#8220;Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure&#8221; on the boot menu, this time it gave me the blue screen with the message &#8220;<strong>registry error 0&#215;000051</strong>&#8221; and it told me that registry was corrupt. Because of this I had to use the recovery console to replace the corrupt registry with the last good registry found inside the <strong>System Volume Information</strong> folder, which is where the <strong>System Restore&#8217;s</strong> files located.<br /><strong>Here&#8217;s how I did that:</strong></p>
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<li>After logging in to the recovery console <strong>cd</strong> to <strong>C:\System Volume Information</strong>, then <strong>dir</strong> to list the directories inside of it, you&#8217;ll see a lot of folder named <strong>_restore{*}</strong> along with their date, <strong>cd</strong> to the most recent <strong>_restore{*}</strong> . If you don&#8217;t know what recovery console is or you&#8217;re not comfortable with it <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654">please check out this page</a>.</li>
<li>List all files inside of it and choose the most recent folder <strong>RPxxx</strong> that you think the registry at that date was still not corrupted.</li>
<li><strong>Cd</strong> to the folder <strong>Snapshot</strong>.</li>
<li>List all files again and you&#8217;ll notice something like<br />
<blockquote><p><strong>_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM<br />_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SECURITY<br />_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE<br />_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SYSTEM<br />_REGISTRY_USER_.DEFAULT</strong></p>
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<li>Back up the existing registries in the system folder just in case of the something goes wrong we can restore those registries<br /><strong><br />
<code>
<p><strong>copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak<br />copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak<br />copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak<br />copy<br />c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak<br />copy<br />c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak</strong> </p>
<p></code></p>
<p></strong></li>
<li>Replace the corrupt registry in the system by running<br />
<code>
<p><strong>copy _registry_machine_software c:\windows\system32\config\software<br />copy _registry_machine_system c:\windows\system32\config\system<br />copy _registry_machine_sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam<br />copy _registry_machine_security c:\windows\system32\config\security<br />copy _registry_user_.default c:\windows\system32\config\default</strong></p>
<p></code>
</li>
<li>After replace the above files restart the computer and it should boot appropriately again.</li>
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		<title>Yesterday I got paid by Bidvertiser</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/09/28/yesterday-i-got-paid-by-bidvertiser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday finally I got the first payment to my Paypal account by Bidvertiser, it was about 26 dollars, earned from the ads in my other websites. I&#8217;m very happy about that, since it&#8217;s the first time I get so much money in my Paypal account! It also proved that Bidvertiser actually pays, at least for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday finally I got the first payment to my Paypal account by Bidvertiser, it was about 26 dollars, earned from the ads in my other websites. I&#8217;m very happy about that, since it&#8217;s the first time I get so much money in my Paypal account! It also proved that Bidvertiser actually pays, at least for a small amount, although I don&#8217;t recommend it to anyone who has a very good website, because sometimes it won&#8217;t count some clicks. In spite of this it accepts almost all kinds of websites, including the free web sites and subdomains, you don&#8217;t need to wait for your website to be approved, but be careful that if your website is not approved after they review it some times later your website along with the earning from it will be DELETED!</p>
<p>Anyways here&#8217;s the picture of the payment received from it:<br /><img alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/110/277012109_0a5fb0f9c6_d.jpg" border="0" /></p>
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		<title>Url-xp.com is a scam</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/09/24/url-xpcom-is-a-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One day in a forum I saw a website http://www.url-xp.com/ that &#8220;pays&#8221; $2.00 per 1000 impression + Pop-under, so I gave it a try to see if it works. I went to sign up there and I saw a very simple page where you can put the paypal email address or e-gold account there, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One day in a forum I saw a website <a href="http://www.url-xp.com/">http://www.url-xp.com/</a> that &#8220;pays&#8221; $2.00 per 1000 impression + Pop-under, so I gave it a try to see if it works. I went to sign up there and I saw a very simple page where you can put the paypal email address or e-gold account there, but surprisingly there&#8217;s no Term of Use or anything like that there.</p>
<p>After signing up I put a website there and I tested the money link that &#8220;pays&#8221; $2 per 1000 impressions. Surprisingly it counts all visits including my own repeated visits, I wasn&#8217;t sure if it really pays because those websites that pays per impression almost always doesn&#8217;t count the visits from the same IP immediately, so I refreshed the money link 1015 times, and it showed about $2 there.<br />
After three weeks I still didn&#8217;t get anything in my paypal, I check it again and the website still shows the two dollars there, except now it says minimum payout is $50. After seeing that I gave it one more try and added one more url to auto-refresh. I auto-refreshed every 3 seconds for one whole night until I wake up and see the balance went up above $50, after this the page still looks the same as before except for the balance. I checked it out after some weeks and it&#8217;s still the same, I still didn&#8217;t get anything paid for it. Now I check it again and the website is gone! I went to look at its domain registration data at GoDaddy.com and it says domain suspended because of abuse: <a href="http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=URL-XP.COM&#038;prog_id=godaddy">http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=URL-XP.COM&#038;prog_id=godaddy</a>.</p>
<p>here&#8217;s the picture of the $50.153 they owe me, it seemed to be gotten effortlessly, but it&#8217;s never paid:<br />
<a href="http://static.flickr.com/121/277014297_20e22fab36_d.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/121/277014297_20e22fab36_d.jpg" border="0" /></a></p>
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		<title>How to autosurf effectively</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/09/14/how-to-autosurf-effectively/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Autosurf is a good way to increase your site&#8217;s traffic, it works by you visiting other people&#8217;s sites automatically in exchange for other people&#8217;s visits, sites are shown for a specific amounts of time then rotates afterward. Once you start the autosurf window, you can sit there to watch each websites that it shows up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Autosurf is a good way to increase your site&#8217;s traffic, it works by you visiting other people&#8217;s sites automatically in exchange for other people&#8217;s visits, sites are shown for a specific amounts of time then rotates afterward. Once you start the autosurf window, you can sit there to watch each websites that it shows up or you can go to do something else. There are many autosurf websites available, you could just google search &#8220;autosurf&#8221; to find them, the good ones can even get over hundreds hits(unique and non-unique) per hour. But some of them shows sites that load too many stuff that freezes the browser, or cheating sites like frame breaker, which redirect the page on the top frame, thus breaking the rotator&#8217;s frame.<br />Many autosurf websites won&#8217;t work well with Internet Explorer as they won&#8217;t rotate, you should use FireFox to browse them, if you don&#8217;t have FireFox, get <script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-8899819428615521";
google_ad_output = "textlink";
google_ad_format = "ref_text";
google_cpa_choice = "CAAQzcLH7QEaCD_4BVTjvVryKLGsuIEB";
google_ad_channel = "";
//--></script><br />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script> now! To prevent the frame breakers or sites that lag the computer, or to open many autosurf rotators at once without lagging you should install the extension <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/">NoScript</a>, then block all the scripts except for the autosurf sites, because they need javascript in order to rotate. After that you should also block the plugins because they will lag, click the NoScript icon in the status bar and then click options, click the advanced tab and check forbid java, flash, and other plugins, click OK to save. If you want to open many autosurf sites at once you should also disable loading images except for the autosurf sites, and open the sites in tabs instead of many windows. Once you&#8217;ve done all of those you could surf 24 hours a day to exchange traffic for your website with little or no breaking and lagging.</p>
<p>Note that the traffics generated by autosurfs are artificial traffics, people usually won&#8217;t look at your websites, if you want your website to be seen by other people attentively you should try Manual Traffic Exchanges like <a href="http://ilovehits.com/">iLoveHits</a>, <a href="http://www.fastfreeway.com/">FastFreeway</a>, or <a href="http://www.blogexplosion.com/">BlogExplosion</a>, they require the user to verify before switching to other websites instead of done automatically.</p>
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		<title>How to make links to open in a target frame</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/09/14/how-to-make-links-to-open-in-a-target-frame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To make links in a web page to open in a target frame or new window all you need is to add target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; in between the &#60;a href=&#8221;***&#8221;&#62; section of the html code, where *** is the default target frame.
target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; Opens a page in new windowtarget=&#8221;_self&#8221; Opens a page in the same frametarget=&#8221;_top&#8221; Opens a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To make links in a web page to open in a target frame or new window all you need is to add <strong>target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;</strong> in between the <strong>&lt;a href=&#8221;***&#8221;&gt;</strong> section of the html code, where <strong>***</strong> is the default target frame.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;</strong> Opens a page in new window<br /><strong>target=&#8221;_self&#8221;</strong> Opens a page in the same frame<br /><strong>target=&#8221;_top&#8221;</strong> Opens a page in the top page breaking all frames<br /><strong>target=&#8221;_parent&#8221;</strong> Opens a page in parent frame</p>
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<p>We can also use <strong>target=&#8221;frame or iframe&#8217;s name&#8221;</strong> to make the link to open in that frame or iframe.</p>
<p>To make links to open in a target frame or new window by default add <strong>&lt;base target=&#8221;***&#8221;&gt;</strong> in between the <strong>&lt;head&gt;</strong> section of the code. This also works for Blogger&#8217;s templates, for Blogger Beta&#8217;s templates since it had to be XML compliant you have to add the closing tag <strong>&lt;/base&gt;</strong> at the end to <strong>&lt;base target=&#8221;***&#8221;&gt; </strong>to make it work.</p>
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		<title>How to flip sidebar to left and post body to right in Blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/09/07/how-to-flip-sidebar-to-left-and-post-body-to-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Blogger Beta you can move the widgets up and down, but you can&#8217;t flip the post body to the right or left of the sidebar. Here&#8217;s an easy way to do that without widgets.
To move the sidebar to the left find the section main or main-wrapper and change float:left to float:right, then find the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Blogger Beta you can move the widgets up and down, but you can&#8217;t flip the post body to the right or left of the sidebar. Here&#8217;s an easy way to do that without widgets.</p>
<p>To move the sidebar to the left find the section <strong>main </strong>or <strong>main-wrapper</strong> and change <strong>float:left </strong>to <strong>float:right</strong>, then find the section <strong>sidebar </strong>or <strong>sidebar-wrapper</strong> and change <strong>float:right </strong>to <strong>float:left.</strong> To move the sidebar to the right just do the opposite, change float:right to float:left and float:left to float:right.</p>
<p>After flipping them you might want to flip the backgrounds as well, and fine tune the layouts to make your blog look well.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the picture of the template TicTac Blue with the sidebar on the left:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/93/277012112_9c89bfed30_d.jpg" border="0" /></p>
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		<title>Today I switched my blog to Blogger Beta</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/09/07/today-i-switched-my-blog-to-blogger-beta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I finally switched my blog to beta after the link to switch is available. After switching since I kept the old template unchanged, because of this the only change I could see is an improved Navbar, nothing else seemed to change. I have other beta blog with the new template that looks very cool, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Today I finally switched my blog to beta after the link to switch is available. After switching since I kept the old template unchanged, because of this the only change I could see is an improved Navbar, nothing else seemed to change. I have other beta blog with the new template that looks very cool, I wanted to upgrade this blog&#8217;s template to a new one too, so that I can organize my posts by putting labels for each posts and separate them into different categories. But my old template had too many customizations that won&#8217;t work well in new templates, especially putting the ads right after the posts, if I put the ad codes right after the post body the scripts between will be gone. I have to hang on until beta improves more before using new template.<br />I liked the new Navbar very much, now on its right side you can see your email, make new post and customize your blog. The Navbar&#8217;s codes are also friendlier for the search engines and other content targeting programs like adsense since it&#8217;s loaded inside the iframe, and it doesn&#8217;t have any hidden texts like &#8220;Notify Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? Blogger · Send As SMS&#8221; that confuses the search engine. Next time when I google my blog the result&#8217;s description will show the contents of my blog instead of those hidden texts.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>trivia: There&#8217;s a little extra &#8220;g&#8221; in my blog that I just upgraded in the &#8220;manage your blogs&#8221; section.</div>
<p><img alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/111/277009562_19d7872fe5_o_d.jpg" border="0" /></img></p>
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		<title>How to kill a hard drive in Linux quietly with an easy way to undo it</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/09/03/how-to-kill-a-hard-drive-in-linux-quietly-with-an/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that we can kill Linux by running the command rm -rf /, but this can&#8217;t be undone as your files are gone. Here&#8217;s a quick way to make your hard drive look like formatted and how to undo that easily (tested under VMWare with ubuntu), click each picture for more information.
First back up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We know that we can kill Linux by running the command rm -rf /, but this can&#8217;t be undone as your files are gone. Here&#8217;s a quick way to make your hard drive look like formatted and how to undo that easily (tested under VMWare with ubuntu), click each picture for more information.</p>
<p>First back up the first 10000 bytes of the hard drive and then replace it with empty data.<br />
<a href="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha1.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha1.png" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Everything seemed to be OK and we could still shut down normally, but&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p><a href="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/haha2.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha2.png" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p>After we restart, it won&#8217;t boot anymore with an empty MBR and all the partitions are gone! To fix it we need to boot from a boot disk and restore what we backed up.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha3.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha3.png" border="0" /></a></p>
<p> <a href="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha4.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha4.png" border="0" /></a>
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<p>After all this it everything worked again. Now restart and check it&#8230;</p>
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<p><a href="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/haha5.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha5.png" border="0" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha6.png" target="_blank" rel="lightbox"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://usuarios.lycos.es/aquiestachilo/blogger/linux%20cool/haha6.png" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p>
Inspiration from my very sad personal experience: </p>
<p>
Once upon a time I thought the first 512 bytes of hda1(where my Windows is installed) is the MBR but in fact it&#8217;s supposed to be the first 512 bytes of hda, I ran the command &#8220;dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1&#8243; and thought this would reset the MBR, but the Windows partition is ruined instead!</p>
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		<title>List of free phone call services compared</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/08/31/list-of-free-phone-call-services-compared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Free PC-to-Phone services with free PC-to-PC feature: Skype - Now you can make free unlimited phone calls from skype to regular phone within U.S. and Canada with no minute limits until the end of this year. This only apply within U.S. and Canada, if you&#8217;re using Skype from other countries the calls won&#8217;t be free.
Gizmo [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Free PC-to-Phone services with free PC-to-PC feature: </b><br /><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.skype.com/">Skype</a> - Now you can make free unlimited phone calls from skype to regular phone within U.S. and Canada with no minute limits until the end of this year. This only apply within U.S. and Canada, if you&#8217;re using Skype from other countries the calls won&#8217;t be free.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gizmoproject.com/">Gizmo</a> - I heard about Gizmo for the first time in an email that says &#8220;Skype bad, Gizmo good&#8221;. Now Gizmo can make calls from PC to mobile and landline phones FREE in 60 countries <a href="http://www.gizmoproject.com/learnmore-allcallsfree.html">(click for more information)</a>, but it requires both participants, the one making phone call and the one receiving, to use Gizmo to make PC-to-PC calls actively in order to qualify for this.</p>
<p><b>Free Phone-to-Phone services:</b><b><br /></b><br /><a href="http://www.jajah.com/">Jajah</a> - Like Gizmo, active users can use it to make long distance phone call with other active users. Unlike Gizmo, it&#8217;s phone-to-phone, to use it you have to go to its website to type your phone number and the number you wish to call, after a while your phone will ring - your friend&#8217;s phone will ring, and you can start talking. Unregistered users can only try it for 5 minutes, registered users can call 1000 minutes a month, five hours a week, 1 hour a day. <a href="http://www.jajah.com/content/freecalls.aspx">(for more information click here)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.phonehog.com/">Phonehog.com</a> - Like Skype, this service is only available in U.S. and canada unless you have a way to call its toll-free numbers for free in other countries. Unlike other services, it&#8217;s intended to be used in regular phones, to use it you have to dial the toll-free number and enter the pin number they gave you, just like using phone cards. When you registered you have no free minutes yet, to add free minutes you have to go to its website and sign up offers from other companies, many offers are free, some are paid, most paid offers gives you more free minutes. If you want phone card or you want to make phone call from public phones (20 units per connection) it should be your choice.</p>
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		<title>The best free web hosting sites</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/08/30/the-best-free-web-hosting-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You can find a list of free web hosting sites at http://www.free-webhosts.com you won&#8217;t need to register domain for almost all of them, I listed some that I think the best below.
If you don&#8217;t want ads in your website http://www.phpnet.us/ and http://www.freewebtown.com are the best for you. http://www.phpnet.us/ gives you 300MB web space and 80GB [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- google_ad_section_start -->You can find a list of free web hosting sites at<a href="http://www.free-webhosts.com"> http://www.free-webhosts.com</a> you won&#8217;t need to register domain for almost all of them, I listed some that I think the best below.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want ads in your website <del><a href="http://www.phpnet.us/">http://www.phpnet.us/</a></del> and <a href="http://www.freewebtown.com">http://www.freewebtown.com</a> are the best for you. <del><a href="http://www.phpnet.us/">http://www.phpnet.us/</a> </del>gives you 300MB web space and 80GB bandwidth a month, no file size limit at all; while <a href="http://www.freewebtown.com">http://www.freewebtown.com</a> is the only one that offers 2GB for free with no file size limit either, but the drawback is it only has 2GB bandwidth per month, the same as its space. if you want to get additional bandwidth you have to pay for it.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t care about the ads and you want a website with unlimited bandwidth and lots of space <a href="http://www.prophp.org">http://www.prophp.org</a> is best for you, it gives you about 250MB space, no bandwidth limit and no file size limit either. The ad they put on your pages is only a banner on top.<!--google_ad_section_end --></p>
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		<title>Two cool ads about switching to firefox found at www.firefoxflicks.com</title>
		<link>http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/08/28/two-cool-ads-about-switching-to-firefox-found-at-w/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelchen1111</dc:creator>
		
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For high quality version please see http://www.firefoxflicks.com. 
Did you see the annoying &#8220;Click to activate and use this control&#8221; message sometimes when loading a page? Firefox will never have this problem. You can effortlessly do things in Firefox that IE users only dream about, Switch to firefox now for a better browsing experience [...]]]></description>
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