Post A Comment And I Will Give You A Domain For FREE

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Internet Marketing, Personal
• Date: Jun 27,2008

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Win A Free Domain

I have been busy lately with my job, my blogging activities, and my affiliate marketing adventures. I really feel like I have no free time at all (although I do find some time watch TV everyday :-P). So, I’m trying to get rid of some unnecessary stress from my mind, building and promoting more sites is one of the stress.

Anyways, I’ll get straight to the point, because I know you want to know what’s the deal about this free domain. Well, I have a couple of websites and domains that are lying there, gathering virtual dust. One of the domains that I’m not using is ourweddingfavors.info, and since I’m such a cool guy, I have decided that I will give it away for free to anyone who gives me a good reason why I should give him or her the domain.

If you go the domain URL right now, you will see a nice looking website with wedding favors as in the screen shot below:

You can have the same website too, it’s not much complicated. The site is actually provided by a ad network called Chitika. If aren’t a Chitika publisher, sign up with them and when you login to you account, you will see the “Chitika For Domains” feature, that’s what I used to point the domain to the site. You can also follow the instructions on the site and do the same if you like, after I transfer the domain to you. It’s easy, you only have to point the domain to the webhost address of Chitika.

By the way, “wedding favors” is a profitable niche which gets lots of searches but has low competition, at least I know it had low competition when I registered the domain some months ago.

The domain expires on Wed 02/25/2009, so you have plenty of time to play around with it, before you decide to keep it (by renewing the registration) or not.

That’s it. Simply comment on this post. I’ll approve the post and on 5th July 2008, I will pick the winner and contact him or her by the email provided to push the domain name freely to the winner’s Namecheap account. If you don’t have one, you can get one for free.

If you have any questions, just post it here as well. Remember, your comments are not going appear instantly, because I personally moderate and approve each comment for this blog. So, no need to re-submit if you don’t see your comment immediatley :)

UPDATE:

This contest is extended till 12th of July 2008. Waiting for more comments!

2ND UPDATE:

This contest is now over, and the winner is “Nehna”. I will contact the person with the email provided for the domain transfer.

Your New Home On The Internet

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Cool websites
• Date: Jun 25,2008

I recently came across this cool website, which basically is like an online desktop PC which you can access from anywhere. The website is Jooce, their idea is to be the new virtual home of the millions of users who access the Internet from Internet cafes, so they don’t have to carry their software and files on portable drives, like USB drives, wherever they go.

What are the things you can do with Jooce?

• Share files, music, photos and video with simple drag and drops.
• Watch videos and play games from any desktop you’re accessing.
• Connect to your instant messaging(MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM) and social networks.
• Organize your files and contacts like you would on your personal PC.
• And much more…

People with a busy online life and cyber-nomads who connect from multiple computers will love the system, it will make life much easier for them. Signup with Jooce and start customizing your individual online desktop.

Squidoo Sends Tweet Updates To Your Twitter Profile

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Blogging, Cool websites
• Date: Jun 23,2008

When I introduced the WebSMS Squidoo Lens some days ago, I mentioned coming across a new(or not!) feature on Squidoo. It’s the Twitter feature that quickly(in one click) sends a tweet to your profile when you make updates on your lenses.

To set it up, go to “My Profile” after logging in your Squidoo Dashboard. That’s currently the 5th orange tab from the left on the dashboard. Once there, scroll completely to the bottom and you will see “Social Application Settings”. that’s where you connect your Twitter account to your Squidoo account.

After entering your Twitter username and password, you can test if you have correctly setup everything. You will see the following message at this point:

Note that for this test, Squidoo will send a test message as a tweet and it will appear as follows in your Twitter profile:

That’s it! Very easy to setup and and you can quickly inform all your followers whenever you make updates to your lens. You will actually see this option everytime you publish your lens, just click on it and the tweet is twittered :-p

Improve Your Vocabulary And Donate Rice To The World Food Program

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Cool websites
• Date: Jun 21,2008

I came across this site some days ago on the TV news, so I decided to blog about it since it’s for a good cause, to help end world hunger.

 FreeRice is a website established in October 2007. The concept of the site is very simple actually. You donate 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program each time you get a word definition right. They have a large number of word definitions from dictionaries, thesauruses and books of synonyms in their database.

You are improving your English vocabulary and at the same time being a part of this good cause. It is obvious that improving your vocabulary will help you in many aspects of your life, whether it is to be more effective at your job or improve your grades in school.

It’s actually a smart word game, the program determines your difficulty level appropriately depending on how you answer. Each time you get an answer correct, 20 grains of rice is donated on your behalf. There’s nothing else for you to do. Once the site says you donated, then it’s been donated, even if you close the browser after a few questions. That’s not all, you can also hear how the words are pronounced.

The rice is paid for by the sponsors who advertise their banners on the bottom of the site. And they really do donate the rice, you can see them donating FreeRice in Bangladesh in this video.

I believe this is a big step in helping to end poverty in the World. Every Internet user should be part of it. All it takes is to answer some questions and you could be avoiding someone’s hunger-related death. So, please join us at FreeRice and let’s make a difference.

It Was About Time For A WebSMS Squidoo Lens

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Computers & Internet, Social Networks
• Date: Jun 18,2008

I have always liked the idea of being able to send SMS from the web. Mainly because it’s free and save my credits on my mobile but also I can type with my keyboard, so it’s faster and my fingers love the smoothness of my keyboard :-P

 There was a time when I used to always have my mobile in my hands and just sending SMS all day long, whether I was in class, on the roads, in front of the TV, in the bus, just about anywhere actually. I was addicted to text messaging. Hopefully, I didn’t need rehab to stop this sms addiction, all that was needed was to be a broke international student in Australia. The last thing I would wanna do with my money at that time was to recharge my mobile credits. It was then that I discovered text messaging via the Web…

So anyways, cut the long story short, I have created a Squidoo lens dedicated to ways of sending free SMS from the web. I will try and continuously update it by pointing the short descriptions to the original blog post on FusionFoot.com. I still can’t believe I got the short name I wanted for this Squidoo lens. It’s a six-letter word, can you guest what it is? (You won’t find the word in a dictionary though)

It’s “websms”. Yes, it was still available on Squidoo, lucky me :-)  So the lens’ full URL is http://www.squidoo.com/websms

 Here is a screenshot of the WebSMS Squidoo lens (which, I suppose, looks like any other lens out there):

P.S. I also came across an interesting feature with Squidoo. It’s probably a new feature since I didn’t see it before. I will talk about it soon, so stay tuned [that is, subscribe to the RSS feeds (if you haven’t done so yet!)]

More Website Templates

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Blogging, Cool websites
• Date: Jun 16,2008

Some days ago, I was talking about where I get my wordpress themes or templates from. Today, I’m going to talk about another cool website that you can use to find the right website templates that will fit with your website content.

Dreamtemplate.com has a huge number of amazing website templates in their database. They have high quality templates, and not just website templates, but also Flash templates, PowerPoint templates, word templates and more. You can quickly and easily browse through the long list of categories on the left sidebar from the homepage.

For a one-time fee, you get unlimited access to their database of 1000+ websites and Flash templates, 15000+ cliparts, animations and images and lots more. You can check out the features here.

Dreamtemplate.com adds new designs and templates on a regular basis. Not only that you get access to a large number of professionally designed templates, but you also have the full HTML and PSD files for each template. So, you can quickly make your changes and upload the files to your server and make your website live in no time.

Some people pay $100 or more for getting their website custom designed. Why would one pay so much for a custom designed layout when for less than that money they have access to thousands of website templates. Among those thousands, there surely must be one that will fit the theme you are looking for. Unless one has lots of money to waste on getting custom designs and waiting weeks or months before they are delivered, web templates is the way to go.

A membership with DreamTemplate.com will make life easier for any business owner looking to put up a website about their business. No hassle of dealing with designers, no long waiting periods before website is delivered, no maintenance fees or update fees.

Now, you might be thinking I’m taking as if I hate website designers. No, I dont! In fact, I would consider myself to be a website designer. I have learned website designing during my graduate studies. Even in the office (where I work as a Software Engineer), there was once a task to design a webpage and I did that myself. But my logic (which is a pretty smart logic) tells me not to become a website designer unless I can bag contracts from the big companies. ;)

Anyways, that’s it from me for today.Be sure to visit DreamTemplate.com if you are looking for website templates. Who know, maybe you will find teh template of your dreams there :-P

Happy Birthday To ME

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Personal
• Date: Jun 14,2008

Yep, it’s my birthday today! It’s been 24 years since Mother Nature brought me to this World already.

What did I do in these 24 years of my life?

Well, I have only been a student all this time. I only got my first job last December, so in a way, 23 years of my life went into studying and getting a Bachelor degree in Information Technology. Of these 23 years, I spent about 2 years at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. The rest of the time was spent in pre-primary school, primary school, secondary school and college. Then, the last few months, I’ve been working as a Software Engineer(only the name sounds cool, I don’t find it so cool now :-P).

What do I want to do now?

Hopefully, start my own outsourcing company by next year. Working for bosses isn’t really my thing, I’d prefer being the boss myself ;). Seriously though, I really wanna start that company now(or soon!) because now is the time I can afford to take risks. I am not married so I have no family to feed. It doesn’t matter if I starve for a few months, I can take it :)

Let’s see where life takes me and where I will be for my next birthday! Have a great weekend everyone.

Where Do You Get Your Wordpress Themes From?

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Blogging
• Date: Jun 11,2008

I have become a big fan of Wordpress blogs now. As you might have noticed, even FusionFoot.com is powered by Wordpress. When I first discovered the world of blogging about 2 years ago, I couldn’t get a go of any blogging platform, I was so used to static websites then.

The only blogging I found easy to use then was Google’s blogger/blogspot. Then, I got to know Typepad and Wordpress blogs. Typepad is not bad too, but I personally think one has to be more familiar with the technical side. Wordpress is much easy and the best part is that there are so many plugins and themes available.

So, where do you get your Wordpress themes from?

I have never(not even tried to) designed a theme from scratch, simply because they are so many of them freely available i didnt find the need to. I get my Wordpress themes from WPThemesFree.com. They ahve a large collection of free themes that you can download and use for your own blogs.

They are arranged within directories and you can use their advanced search feature to find the theme that suits your needs. They even have a formula called the Wordpress Theme Sparkling Index(WTSI) to determine the best upcoming themes in their database.

If you are looking for a WP Theme, go ahead and check them.

Get A Free .CO.CC Domain

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Cool websites, Internet Marketing
• Date: Jun 9,2008

Get your free.co.cc domain, which you can use for domain mapping. That is, you can use the domain to map it to your existing web presence such as a free blog or photo album, etc.

This way, it makes the ugly-looking and long urls more appealing to the eyes and which can be easily remembered. But you have to hurry before someone registers your favorite domain name.

That’s not all, you can also create customized email to your .co.cc domain name, for example yourname@yourdomain.co.cc! So, go and search for the domain you want, if it is available register it today and it’s yours.

Robots Inspired By Animals

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Widgets & gadgets
• Date: Jun 8,2008

Science is always going to intrigue us. Watch this video of some on the robots created by researchers, inspired by nature.

The video starts with a robot fish. How cool is that! Now imagine fixing a camera in the fish and you can see the underwater world the way a fish sees it. The video also shows mechanical cockroaches and some sort of self-configuring robots in action.

Footage is courtesy of University of Essex.

You can read more here.