When I was trying to find an eCommerce solution for my wedding dresses store, I tried Shopify for 30 days and then been a paid customer for 10 days before I canceled my plan (NOT in a negative manner). Have something to say about them so I come up with this brief review, which, hopefully …
Stop! For a minute of break, feed yourself with these very interesting infographics, numbers, statistics and facts about www.facebook.com, the zoo of people. There are also data and survey about other social networking sites such as Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace that are listed in comparison with Facebook for your curiosity. An Average Day on …
It is vital to have a web presence in today’s digital world. With the large availability of high speed internet providers, it is also crucial to provide content that gets the attention of the visitor right away and makes them want to stay on the site. Bounce rate is the amount of “single page” visits …
Gaming sites. Of all the money making blogs, eCommerce, or even corporate websites on the web, perhaps none is more effective at bringing in the cash than those hosting game communities. The “why” of this is pretty obvious, kids and grownups spend huge sums at play, particularly digital playground play. So, the reader is asking; …
Productivity tools don’t necessary make money for you, but they save money, especially those that help you keep organized, and save large amounts of data in one place so that you won’t have to access multiple sources to get much needed information. For people on the go, there’s no better, and more affordable solution, than …
I was checking out some live chat services and it came to my mind that Skype might be a great alternative. It’s free and it’s widely adopted. Depending on the merchandise your website sells, Skype would be a great live web chat solution, such as in the niches of technology, digital productions, online applications, etc. …
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When you get the gift card or certificate number (a series of alpha-numeric strings) such as this: MASP-78DRUB-XCX9 You may add it to your Amazon account so the gift amount is added to your Gift Card Balance before you can spend it. After you have signed in Amazon, go to “Your Account” and scroll to …
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Provided that your user account on the server has the privileges to access crontab thus can create or remove cron jobs, you can use this PHP class to integrate crontab in your application. I created it for many of my own projects that need crontab to do scheduled jobs. It’s pretty straightforward. Don’t know what …
PHP: Crontab Class to Add, Edit and Remove Cron Jobs Read More »
Making sense is NOT what I’m known for. You are warned. Success is a shadow of rarity. Try to be rare before you try to be successful. 99% of the people takes whatever they can while 1% gives whatever they can. 1% is a rarity. So they are 100 times more likely to get what …
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Few know that those who have web hosting are at the same time endowed with a free VPN (Virtual Private Network, a very safe connection to transfer important data). With a few simple steps by the help of PuTTY, the tiny legendary SSH program, anyone with a web hosting account can have a private VPN …
SSH Web Hosting as Socks5 Proxy for VPN Tunnels via PuTTY Read More »
I officially signed up with Magento Go‘s Going Places plan for $25 / month and paid $99 for my SSL to be installed. It’s been 3 days and I wish I had better things to say about them. And this is my review. Uptime: 4.7 / 5 It’s too early to tell because I’m only …
Magento Go Review – Sucking Support & $99 Ripoff for SSL Setup Read More »
I coded a lot in Zend Studio 5.5.1, the gold old version that’s insanely popular because it made it so easy to code in PHP. As PHP evolves, ZS 5.5.1 gradually falls behind of the edge and it simply becomes imperative that you switch to the latest version of Zend Studio, the 8. The IDE …
This is the second time I wrote a review of WiredTree and also the second time to have signed up a VPS account with them. The last time it was a 512MB VPS (VPS512) that has now been upgraded to VPS1000, doubling everything, RAM, disk storage and monthly bandwidth (tripled!), yet the price tag stays …
So I’ve tried the Pro version of SEOmoz, an online SEO software application, for a few days and I think I’ve got to write a review. This would turn out to be very ugly. Many years ago the features that this system brings to the table could have been useful for the SEO novice, but …
A quick tip for those who just started learning HTML. It’s possible to add a line of code in your HTML page so that it’s automatically refreshed every few seconds when loaded in the user’s browser. To make the page automatically refresh itself every 60 seconds, just insert the following code in the <head></head> section …
Office 365 is a set of team collaboration / productivity web applications for professionals, businesses, government agencies and education institutions. It currently offers 3 different plans: For professionals and small businesses, $6 / user / month, basic features For midsize businesses and enterprises, $12 and more / user / month, advanced features For education And …
Microsoft Office 365 Review & Screenshots – What will you get? Read More »
Someone approached to sell me a grandfathered .EDU name. I never thought .EDU domain can be traded so I started to research a little bit. Ain’t they owned only by educational institutions of United States? Turns out .EDU names in existence as of October 29, 2001 were more freely registered and thus many non-educational entities …
DreamHost just gave me 5 promo invitations that could be used for new accounts only. Whoever uses one of the invitation codes to sign up with them would get $100 off for a two-year plan. Just use one of the 12-digit invitation code in the “Promo Code” field when signing up at DreamHost: 737871080684 599411300419 …
Given a directory, how to display the contents (directories and files under it) of it recursively and exhaustively? Here’s the code: $dir = ‘/path/to/directory’; // without trailing slash, can be absolute paths such as ‘/home/jim/public_html’ or relative paths such as ‘samples’ getDirContents($dir); function getDirContents($dir) { if (is_dir($dir)) { $dirs = explode(‘/’, $dir); $last_dir = $dirs[count($dirs) …
PHP: Display Files and Sub-directories of A Directory Recursively as A Tree Read More »
I was trying to find a PHP function or class that can convert English words / nouns in plural form into their singular form so that wordcrow.com automatically detects and redirects plural lookup to the singular page. After a while searching on Google, I found this class. This great class (Inflector) was ported from Ruby …
PHP Class: Convert Plural to Singular or Vice Versa in English Read More »
