Stop Begging For Comments!

When students are given a project to create a blog and are required to have involved content. They usually misinterpret it as the blogs must have a lot of comments. What the students often do is to beg their fellow students to comment on their blogs. This begging practice is strongly objected by all professors because the begging is a sign of desperation for grades. No professor wants to be the cause of students' desperation; that makes them look bad in the eyes of students.

But if the student gives the commentors something in return, it's no longer a beg. It's an exchange and exchange is the core of business: all parties get something in return for what they do.

So STOP begging for comments. Instead, give your commentors incentive.

In this turbulence economic times, thousands of people get laid off. What people are looking for when they are jobless and the economy is bad? Answer: They are looking for a new job or another way to get rich.

Here is how you can get tons of comments without begging anyone!

Create an email account. Set auto responder for that email which has your blog URL and download link for a report.

Post ad on online classifieds sites, under "job" section, title "Comment on blog to get FREE quality report". Tell people that the report is 5 page high quality report about [how to get a new job, how to win an interview, how to write resume; how to get rich working at home, how to be your own boss, how to get financial freedom from home...]. Put your blog URL and the email address you just created. Ask them to email you with the subject line which is the 2nd word of the 3rd paragraph of certain post. They will immediately receive a reply with download link.

Now just sit back and enjoy comments rolling in, let your email auto responder handle the work.

You may question where do I get a report and give them for free?
Ok, head yourself to EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com or ArticleCity.com. Search on the topic "job", "working from home"... Grab the 5 most viewed articles in a topic. Paste them all into a pdf file and now you have a free 5 page quality report. Upload the report. Remember to include the resource box of the article.

Before you think that this tactic scams people who are desperate then QUIT thinking so, because these are quality information. You give your commentors quality information (from the articles) and the sources that they can further explore (from the resource box). You actually do them a favor. You may have people thank you for that.

I hope this helps college students reading this blog in their blogging project. If you find this helpful (which I'm sure it is), please leave your comments :)

Cookie Stuffing How-to

Blackhat is the term coined to describe unethical, against TOS activities that are employed by Blackhatters to make profit.

Blackhatters are an unashamed species because if you ask them why they do those bad things, they will respond with some emotional, touching stories ready to make teenage girls shed tears.

The story usually goes about they got deserted by wives and kids. They got broke and their friends and families turned away, condemned and humiliated them as total hopeless losers. But they stood up, fought back and now proud to say to those traitors "In your face".

Or sometimes it's about a college student coming from a dysfunctional family (drunken dad, prostitute mom, you know, same old story)
who not only has to live independently at a strange city, but also has to take care of their little brothers, sisters.

All the stories usually end that they don't wanna do anything wrong. It's that life makes a goat becomes the wolf.

After the shaking stories, blackhatters swipe the teenage girls' tears, get back to their closet and continue to take on companies that they always accuse as "the true rip-off" or pity perverts "deserved to get beef".

However, there is one practice they is considered taboo and many blackhatters surprisingly feel uncomfortable doing it. That practice is called "cookie stuffing". But secret no more. I'm gonna share with you right now, for free, the powerful cookie stuffing tactic that guarantees to turn you loser into millionaire tomorrow when you wake up (just remember to get off the bed on the left side). Follow exactly the steps elaborated in the video below and you shall be rich.

Dig The Thinkin', Spin The Writin'

College students often find themselves rushing at last minutes for a written submission or report to be handed up the next day.

Most of time, before you put down anything, you search on Google for the topic. Sometimes you find an article or part of it very useful for what you gonna write about. It's simple if you can just copy-paste the thing to your paper. But the paper will be checked for plagiarism and it scares the heck out of ya. So you spend more time just to read and try to understand the article and rewrite it in your own word. Sometimes it can be time-consuming.

I will tell you some tools to help you in the rewriting process or automate it.

There are applications to help you rewrite the article by suggesting good replacement. Some well-known ones are Power Article Rewriter or WordFlood. But you have to buy the programs.
You can also use a dictionary program that has the synonym/antonym function like WordWeb to help you spin words.

There are a number of free online services to do the job for you.
BadArticle
AutoRewrite
QuickContentWizard

Another way is to utilize free online translation services. There are many of em but Google is always preferred due to its huge language database. It helps if you know a second language. Find an article about the topic in a non-English language. What you gonna do is translate that article 1-2 rounds into other non-English languages before translate it into English. It's good if the languages you are buffering through is under same language family (like East Asian family or Germanic family) because the structure and grammar of the content will be preserved.

Now try these tools and start posting your spinned content. And remember to give me your links at comment :)

Shake Your Fox With The Quake

Shake up your Firefox with SeoQuake addon. We all know that FF has an impressive collection of addons and the list keeps growing fat. This time, I'm gonna introduce to ya'll an indispensable FF addon for all webmasters, internet marketers and interested folks alike.

You can read the whole description about SeoQuake in mozilla addon site or on its website. Basically, it is feature packed and handy addon which helps me, as an IM, perform more than enough tasks for my work.

There are many additional parameters and plugins that u can find on seoquake website. A lot of people who get spawned by the idea of "hey I know SEO" will install the addon and enable a ton of parameters and plugins. Too much information can prove counter-effective. Folks will find it obtrusive and clutter and soon uninstall the great addon because they get frustrated that they actually don't have a clue about SEO.

So, tell me what are the essential parameters and plugins?
For plugin, I only enable Google plugin.
For parameters, most of the times, I only have Google Pagerank (PR), Yahoo! Links and Google Trend parameters.

*PR: rank of a website on certain keyword, ranging from 0 to 10 with the higher the better.
*Yahoo! Links: count the inbound links into that webpage, excluding links from the same domain.
*Google pagerank: search trend, geo information, related websites, keywords to that website/keyword

What else does SeoQuake offer?
SeoQuake has some other extremely helpful functions such as page info, keyword density. Webmasters and IMs will find these functions super helpful.

*Page info has 3 sections:
page info: including meta keywords, meta description...
parameters: all installed parameters will appear here
keyword density: basic keyword analysis

*Keyword Density
advanced keyword analysis with Google search volume and estimated CPC.

Are you saying that only cool people like you can use SeoQuake?
That's right I'm cool and I'm using it :)
For people who are not cool like me, Seo is a very practical and functional task that an average web surfers shouldn't waste time bothering. Tho it's cool to play with SeoQuake to know something about the website u r looking at. If you are doing research about a brand/product in Singapore and you come across an online forums discussing about it, it's a good idea to see where the majority of traffic to that site comes from, is it Singapore or US? If it's Singapore, it's acceptable to reference those comments as customers perception about that brand/product.

That's it about SeoQuake.

Help me! My windows crash!!

"Help Me! My Windows Crash!! It Don't Boot!"
Ok, that's not me screaming. But you probably encounter this several times in your time cuddling with windoze. I'm gonna show you how to prevent this as well as rescue your data when it happens. Note that I'm talking about XP. I have no experience with vista, and i don't wanna have tho.

XP's built-in system restore is ok. But it don't help you when windows refuses to boot up. There are several 3rd party programs to help you: most notably, acronis true image, first defense ISR, rollback RX and eaz-fix. Among the four, only acronis is still in active development; the rest are dying company (but their programs still work.)

All of them are commercial. However, acronis give away its version 8 and 10 for free and they works just fine. You can find the rest *somewhere*.

Acronis in fact never works for me. Moreover, i find its boot screen appear after grub. But there are a lot others find it useful.

FD-ISR also get a lot of praise. I just haven't try it out.

Rollback rx supposed to work perfectly. But there is one stubborn annoying problem with it. It eats my hard disk alive. Yes, within few days after installed, my hard disk shrinked until no more space left. I have to roll it back to baseline and uninstall. That's scary. But again, a lot of people praise it.

eaz fix is actually rollback rx rebranded. but some people claim it has some different codes and make it better than rollback. but i still havent tried it yet.

There, so far nothing stands out.

You could consider some program like returnil, deepfreeze but they are quite inconvenient.

So where is the cigar? No cigar, sorry but I'm now telling you a very effective way to rescue your data when nothing could save your windows. And that magic trick is called Linux.

Download any linux iso and burn it to CD. If you want it handy, use unetbootin to create a live usb. All computer produced after 2001 support booting from usb.

Now boot from usb, get into Linux and copy data to an external hard disk.

Some of you may scare of linux but believe me, this process is really easy. And if you only need basic stuffs from a computer, like school work,surf, music,movie... , linux is great. Tho if you wanna dig a bit, its learning curve is pretty steep.

For a linux distro, I suggest Puppy Linux, one of my favorites.

Beware!! The Infectious Disease Is Released!!!

The title definitely draws eyeballs. Yes, and that is not a new hit box office, but a linux release codename. Haha, some of you might be surprised that how those linux geeks can come up with such a good name! (well, good name, that's what I think.)

Ok, Infectious Disease is the codename of Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) latest release( 5th December last year). Woohoo, another ear-catching name.

I just discovered DVL exactly last night and quite surprised that I've never heard of it before despite I've been using linux for some years. There is no mention of DVL on DistroWatch as well as Wikipedia.

DVL is built on DSL, Damn Small Linux, a lightweight distro which revives your old 10 years old 486 stone age box. Different from its brother, DVL is supposed to distroy it!

"DVL is a distro made to be extremely vulnerable to security risks."

" DVL is everything a good Linux distribution isn't. Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, and exploitable software that makes it vulnerable to attacks. DVL isn't built to run on your desktop -- it's a learning tool for security students."

"DVL was initiated by Thorsten Schneider of the International Institute for Training, Assessment and Certification (IITAC) and Secure Software Engineering (S2e) in cooperation with Kryshaam from the French Reverse Engineering Team. "The main idea behind DVL," says Schneider, "was to build up a training system that I could use for my university lectures."

"Schneider says that DVL's sole purpose is to give users as many security tools and training options as possible. "DVL is made by people with significant black hat backgrounds, incorporating the community of ReverseEngineering.net and Crackmes.de. It contains a huge amount of lessons, including lesson descriptions and solutions if the level has been solved by a community member at Crackmes.de."

That's about DVL. If you want to try Linux out, I suggest Ubuntu or Linux Mint. If you like this article, very easy, go here to donate :) Ooh, I love the Puppy.

Where is Singapore?

I just came across a blog entry with a pretty funny title, What Country Is Singapore In?
This blog is of AngryAngMo, a German expat living in Singapore for *just* 2 years.

To Singaporeans, this is a ridiculous question for sure. But for foreigners living in Singapore, this is not surprising at all. When I left my country, Vietnam, to Singapore, a lot of friends asked me that very same question, and more. Questions like "Is it very cold there?", "So can you speak Singapore language?", "Which city in Singapore will you stay?" are always at my expectation when I told someone that I was going to leave for Singapore.

I was at first a bit surprised tho coz Vietnam and Singapore are both in South East Asia and some basic knowledge about the region is taught in school. Then I was not sure I should blame this to Singapore being a such small country or the poor education in Vietnam which stuffs things in one ear and run out of the other.

That being said, I did get surprised in AngryAngMo's entry that Singapore is one of the only four sovereign city states, same San Marino, Monaco and the Vatican. This is the first time I heard about this. I just simply thought Singapore is a country and that's it!

I decided to make a search on "sovereign city states" and I came to a Wikipedia page where it says Singapore maintains "a significant armed force", "ranked highly in terms of defence spending and troop size". Even though I know every Singaporean guys have to go through army, I don't expect Singapore army has a significant troop size. That's pretty cool, hope the pirates in Malacca get busted.

If you are a foreigner going to live in Singapore, I highly recommend AngryAngMo blog. A lot of fun stuffs are there.