1. Web developers do not deliver a good job (I have tell you n times about everything you need to know, including inserting auto-play background music. I have also given you guys a benchmark website which I want – I want it to be similiar or better than Dell’s online ordering website. I have budget, yes I have!)

2. My site ranking is poor, something is wrong (Why other websites are listed on the the first page of Google but not mine. I should engage my friend who is a SEO expert working in eOneShreak)

3. Isn’t my website should be fully automated (What I want to say is, web developer should create an auto-pilot website or money making machine version 2.0. I just need to sit there waiting for money to come in)

4. Keep my online business ideas confidential (My ideas is first in the universe. I have discussed this plan with God and both of us agreed that this will hit and overtake Facebook. You are lucky to be involved in project like this)

5. The site is not what I want… (Isn’t that you know everything about website? You should propose something fresh, innovative, better, faster….)

Web developer says:

1. Well, we are afraid that this is what we can do with your limited budget (Even given the same budget as what Dell has invested, you are only a copycat and your business will fail because a website is not an online business. You need to have strategy to make it work and remarkable)

2. There is no overnight trick to make your page to first in Google (Idiot, do you know what is PR? Not Public Relations but Page Rank)

3. We have done all the integration right (If we are able to come out with such thing, we would not be here doing the website for you. You know, you don’t even buy anything online before and you expect your online business to be built and money piling up in your Paypal account. Again, do you have Paypal?)

4. Sure! We will keep this ideas to no one including my cat. My fish do not talk but I won’t tell them too (This is the n times of people mentioning this ideas. To make you happy and to make sure we get the project, we will agree that you have done all the search in Google and happily confirmed that you find no similar website or ideas)

5. Let’s us try again and we hope it is closer to what you want this time (We have another final payment to collect so we will have to bear with you a wee longer. We do not understand what do you mean by better, give us clear guideline)

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2. My online sales is slow
(Web developer: You own a restaurant. Your contractor are working on the renovation. Do you expect your contractor to guarantee your sales? We are more or less the same. Your website is a business to you, but it is only another project to us)

3. My site has never completed
(Web developer: The changes are never-ending. If you stop giving us more updates, we can get it done anytime)

4. The design sucks
(Web developer: We are designers, please trust us. If not, why would you engage our service? Anyway, you are the boss, we would still listen to you and make the design sucks for you, who cares?)

5. Why so expensive?
(Web developer: We, web developer, are dedicated to create a website with extraordinary patience. A lot of effort are spent to make sure you are the ONLY person in this world to like the website, not anyone else.)

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2. Unlimited mailbox
(This is our marketing trick to make you signing up email hosting with us. Who really cares if you have 500 email users and overload our email server! We host more mailboxes than we can afford to in each server so that we can lower down the price of your hosting.)

3. Unlimited add-on domain name
(Mixing different sites together are not a good practise, we know that from day one. But since everyone like the magic word ‘Unlimited’, why not this one?)

4. 99.999999% uptime
(Customer never ask for an uptime report to justify our actual uptime. If they do, we can come out with one which they will never understand except that if they are from Mars)

5. Reliable customer support
(Smart customers are only a step away to know that we are sucks by googling, eg ‘exabxxxxx sucks’. See, not many are doing that, we are always safe!)

6. Free domain name
(What they do not know is that we are going to make them pay it back on the next year. If that is not enough, we can send them bills for DNS, Migration Fee, Domain WHOIS update fee, you name it.)

7. No-downtime migration
(We can point our finger to countless parties when there are any downtime – TM, DNS, Dogs & Cats, Weather, etc)

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Setup diagram

Close view of the wireless print server

Print server with printers

Interested?

Sony VAIO J series in Windows XP

Most newer PCs are shipped with Windows 7 and provide no driver support to Windows XP. I bought one and it takes me few days to figure out how to get the Windows XP running. Just before we go into the technical details, I wish to share with you some advise from people that will DISCOURAGE you from doing that.

“I’m glad to provide you the information about the Device Drivers for the Windows XP Operating System. According to the specifications available, the Computer is preinstalled with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Operating System and does not support Microsoft Windows XP Operating System. Sony’s VAIO Computers are designed for, and supported under, the OEM version of Windows pre-installed at our factory. If you install any other Operating System in your system, it is required to contact the manufacturer of that Operating System for any and all support issues or Device Drivers and Software Utilities they may have available” said Sony Support Centre.

The following tips applies to Sony VAIO J series but I believe you can get some hint if you are on other brand or models.

1. By default, Windows XP does not include SATA driver. You need to insert the SATA driver into your Windows XP installer. To do this, use nLite

2. Sony declined to participate in the verde driver program. This is bad. To get a display card driver, use laptopvideo2go.com.

3. Other model of notebook or PC from Sony may have support to Windows XP. Since PC from same brand usually use the same hardware specs. I have got most of my drivers there. For example, I use driver from VPCCW1AGG for my VPCJ118FX.

You can email me for a list of drivers I have compiled for VPCJ118FX for windows XP. I will be more than happy to share with you and prove to you Sony support team is not there to help.

Special thanks to Aiktern from Waysoft for the SATA support.

It’s time to change, my fellow web developer friends :)

This is how it works:
1. Enter the customer’s email address in Paypal.
2. Paypal will email a payment link to your customer.
3. Your customer clicks on the link and make a payment online.

Paypal charges no more than 2.9% of the total amount transacted. Now, you can send payment requests in Ringgit Malaysia and withdraw money in your Paypal account to any local bank in Malaysia too.

Enabling credit card payment for your business isn’t hard. Go for it!

As, I do not know what happen to some of the company. Airasia, for example. They have the budget to put up the ads but they never reply your email. MSC Malaysia, do not be surprised, you hardly hear from them too after writing in. Why? Is that when the company is big and high in the sky makes you deaf? :)

By signing up Srvrc.com, you will receive the referral or reseller commission as long as your customer continue hosting their website with Srvrc.com. It helps you to build up a passive income.

The URL to the new project

Play with Barcodes

Too bad, his web hosting company put a limit and bring down the site instead of allowing the traffic to pass through and bill him later.

Site down notice

Need a work around? Check this out.

Letters are not environment friendly

For about a year, we work with a mobile office concept. No mailing address are published in our website, namecard or letterhead. Customers have no problem trusting us for our business email solution. Our operation are not affected at all without the mailing address.

1. Businesses need email address, not mailing address

2. Customers choose you not because you have a mailing address

3. My mailbox sit in my netbook, not the one fixing on the wall outside my office

4. Never print your mailing address on your namecard.

View Pin’s namecard

I didn’t like it at all the first few days. It is too Apply de way. But, I can’t live without now. Through it is not a netbook or notebook replacement, the screen and the touch keyboard can not come near to my Dell Mini. But, it is a must to replace the old handphone we have. It replace Garmin after I have installed the Tom Tom navigator, it replace my calculator, my mp3 player, my twitter…

iPhone car mount, iPhone car charger, jailbreak service, look no further but Wong, 012-3060222. SMS him. He can deliver or post it to you.

You will see Google Facebook soon because Google will do anything to acquire more traffic

Large sites like Twitter and Facebook before it tend to grow in step-like patterns, with bursts of growth followed by periods of flatness during which the site absorbs its new users and adapts to their needs.

Quoted from Nearly 75 Million People Visited Twitter’s Site In January (comScore)

Due to some historical reason, you need to use 02 instead of 00.

For example if a Singapore fax number looks like 65-6578-9090

Outside Malaysia: dial 00-65-6578-9090
Inside Malaysia (using fixed line): dial 02-6578-9090

Cute :)

But, what about those businesses running on mobile office… hmm

Newbie loanshark splashes paint on door but hits wall instead

1. Send reminder in time. We do it exactly 30 days each cycle.

2. Deactivation in time

3. Termination for the stubborn one

4. Clear the dispute and difference in expectation

5. They own you the money, so don’t feel bad to get it back

Some customers will sweet talk to you and make you feel that if you are harsh, you won’t get business from them in future. Remember, this is not true. If this is true, you do not want this customers because the moment they don’t pay, it is noise. It become a cost to get YOUR money back.

Looks Google has included the email they have received from the previous domain name offer in their affidavit

I will sell my Domain

googlenetbiz.com

for $50000 Only,

Do you Buy it.

According to Google, this is “Thus, the Respondent has offered to sell the disputed domain name for “valuable consideration” in excess of his reasonable out-of pocket costs, which is prima facie evidence of bad faith. Although the Respondent has indeed offered to sell the disputed domain name to the Center and not to the Complainant itself or to a competitor of the Complainant, this fact is and of itself is not germane to the finding of bad faith. As noted above, the circumstances set out in paragraph 4(b) of the Policy, in particular, the subparagraph cited above are not exclusive. The fact that the Respondent has offered to sell the domain name (albeit to the Center and not to the Complainant or to a competitor of the Complainant) is evidence of bad faith.”

1. Is this service renewable or one-off

2. Will you start work without first payment or must with full payment?

3. In the case of dispute, what is the refund policy?

4. What is the short name of your service?

5. What is the setup instruction once you have received the payment?

6. Upon collection of renewal fee, what is the procedure to renew?

7. Work out the instructions for service deactivation and termination.

8. What about service REacticvation (payment received after deactivation)?

9. Grace period for each de/reactivation and termination mode?

10. Change plan of existing service?

Knock three times

A notification email works like an alert to someone when something has been done. The next time you have implemented a notification email to your system, you’d probably want to read this:

1) For important action only such as payment received, renewal reminder, etc

2) Keep it short. Since this is repetitive, readers will take snap than reading through

3) If the occurrence of an action is high in a day, consider stop sending notification

4) Send out from noreply@xxxx.com. You don’t expect replies anyhow.

5) For extremely urgent case, add SMS features. After all, it is about alert.

Human Parasites ~Intestinal Parasites~

They absent in most of the meeting (except when bosses are around)

They got promoted, but not you (you wondering why… isn’t that performance matter)

They never fail to dress up and impress (the keyword is sexynesssssssssss)

They talk a lot but do less (so-called important strategy blar.. blar…)

Company can still survive with their existents (Don’t ask me how)

From advertising in mudah.com.my, I contact a person named Luca Mariaci through web contact template for her Mercedes Benz E240. I ask her to reply me to my email. A day later, she email me, and she explain that she wanna sell her husband’s car which bought from Malaysia when her husband working in Malaysia. Now, her husband is working in UK, and she is staying at her hometown in Italy. The car is in Italy, and she emails me all the cars picture.

After that, she try to convince me by saying that the car have all the documentation of JPJ (road transport department document) and PUSPAKOM certificate (standard procedure for change of owner in Malaysia : computerized vehicle check up). I’m surprised that A WOMAN in Italy can know deeply about all the procedure to sell cars in Malaysia. wow.. She says if I’m interested, we can begin the transaction using escrow services for safety reason. I don’t feels good, so i try to trace Luca Mariaci’s email but fail because she’s using gmail account. I fail to get her location so, in my next email, i asked her to check my company website (local website, frequently accessed by the Malaysian only) with reason maybe she can find something interesting there.

Luckily, she do open the web and later i can trace several access from outside, which is very unusual from my server logs:

72.30.79.26 United States California Sunnyvale Inktomi Corporation
81.90.1.163 Russian Federation – - Network For Infrastructure Of Netlline Ltd
38.99.13.116 United States California San Francisco Performance Systems International Inc

Then, she asked me my contact details, and after its given, she tell me that she will submit my name to the escrow company services. After that, less than 6 hours i get an email from ittoptran.com, telling me that a Merc Benz had been registered to send by air on my name. Now, i believe that this transaction is 95% fraud.

I do open the http://ittoptran.com, the web looks perfect just like a professional courier company. However, i fail to open http://www.ittoptran.com, only http://ittoptran.com can be accessed. Feeling something is wrong, i do check the name “ittoptran” and finally found that the name is “blacklisted” or “suspected” fraud. hehehe..

New Escrow Services in Malaysia

Live Current Media (OTCBB: LIVC.ob) today announced the sale of a domain name for gross proceeds of 500,000 CAD, or approximately $400,000 USD. Based on information including whois record changes, Domain Name Wire believes the domain name sold is Malaysia.com. Malaysia.com is the only domain the company has put on the sales block that has had a whois change since then.

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2. Managing your own Adsense is fun

3. Youtube can find you any song, even the oldest one

4. Interior design for our incubator will start as soon as we get the key.

5. My sister washed her mobile phone in washing machine.

6. Clinic Petaling Jaya (next to Murni) is one the best. They don’t give antibiotic.

7. We are Visa agent again

8. My friend is featured in a Blog :)