Criteria of strong password

At least
- 8 char long
- 1 number
- 1 small case character
- 1 upper case character
- 1 special character

Wordpress got hacked

10-tips-to-make-wordpress-hack-proof/

Be careful with cheap software site

Recently I was looking around for Adobe Dreamweaver software. The retail price is USD399. I found this website selling at US69! Then I found this forum discussing about cheap software website. So just be careful when purchasing software only (especially if they sell it for very low price). 

Check the forum

Getting link back for SEO

The most straight forward way to get link back is by submitting it to web directory.

Some list of web directories that you can send to.

http://www.tipsntutorials.com/Top-Directories/
http://www.best-web-directories.com/

You may need a form filler tool to submit to many web directories. I personally use Autofill Forms (Firefox add on)

Google trend for website

I just realized Google Trends also has trend for website. Not just for
keywords.
Check this out. http://tinyurl.com/yhyxbq6

You can get only trend for big websites. But the interesting part is
there is no trend about google.com? Why is that? Are they hiding their
own website trend?

Social media tool - hootsuite

My friend introduce me to this tool - hootsuite. It acts like a control center for all social media that you have.

See them all in one screen. Since I have several different accounts for facebook and twitter, so I decided to give it a try after I tried tweetdeck but not so comfortable with it.

How to set a goal?

I tried to set a goal few times in my life but have none I can call a success.

To set a goal, you need a number (something measurable), duration to achieve, realistic.

The hard part is the monitoring part.

Say you are targeting to earn $25,000 a month by end of year 2010.

To achieve that, your plan should be based on smaller target/goals.

e.g.

Jan - $5,000
Mar - $7,000 (addn $2k)
Jun - $10,000 (addn $3k)
Aug - $14,000 (addn $4k)
Oct - $19,000 (addn $5k)
Dec - $25,000 (addn $6k)

Then need to think the plan how to achieve that. e.g. additional $2,000 from Jan to Mar.

To monitor every month on the achievement. Whether you are close to your goal or it's just unrealistic and unachievable.

I'm on skype again

It has been a long time ago I left Skype. Maybe about 2 years time. Got few friends on skype but not as many as I have in Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger (no longer in YM also).

I need to use it back for one of program support that I join. The strength of skype I think is on its voice chat and connectivity with phone.

Plan to use this blog again

I need some space on net to write something especially on my new findings and result of my experiments.

The blog post will be very short and I don't care about grammar or language error.

Now I want to make some research on twittter

Upgrade for more space with google

Official Google Blog: A simple way to get more storage

Google announcing space upgrading for most of their services like gmail, picasa etc.

With very special low price of $20/year you can add up to 6GB of space!

How to disable non-genuine windows warning msg

Just only few weeks microsoft announce to detect an display a 'warning msg' for all pirated microsoft windows software, now there is a work around to overcome that. How fast.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/workarounds-to-disable-non-genuine.html

Get mobile with your thumb drive

Now you can use your thumb drive to replace your hard drive. You can install portable applications on it and use it at any computers.

Check it out at
http://portableapps.com/

Get free essential applications with one download

http://pack.google.com/

included - firefox, antivirus, ad aware, acrobat reader etc.

My new blog

I've just purchased a new domain name and have my new blog over there.
From now on, I'm not updating this blog anymore. Please visit my new blog at

www.ahmadazwan.com

Content does matter. Most of the time.

What I've learnt after developing lots of websites for people and myself is content matter most.

Design goes to second place. Anyway we need to have at least an acceptable design to make it at least presentable to the website visitors.

My favorite free website template is

www.templatesbox.com

PHP MySQL development

Searching for ways to write PHP coding with MySQL database in more efficient way. Found this website that describe PHP db driven website architecture. Very complicated yet I think is very useful and efficient if it is implemented in big projects.

A Development Infrastructure for PHP

looking for a domain?

It's hard to find a good domain name since they are all taken. Now if you need a domain name, you have to find a long one, or with hypen '-', or with numbers, or with a different extension such as .cc .us .biz .info etc.

To help you finding a good left domain name, you can try
www.nameboy.com

Just enter your desired words, and the tool will list all available combination of the words with available status

Affiliate and referral program directory

Other than clickbank and commissionjunction, this website also popular among internet marketers

refer-it.com

Google tools page

This website provides useful tools to track google's stuff.

You can track
- pagerank
- back links
- indexed page

Further more you can put it on your website by copying the script and paste in your html code.

Visit Mypagerank.net

Other tools such as online stats - current user online, unique visitors, total visitors
and also google sitemap generator.

Submit your site to popular directory

Get higher ranking and link popularity by submitting your website to website directories. Some of popular directories are

http://dmoz.org
http://zeal.com
http://linkopedia.com
http://joeant.com
http://goguides.org
http://sevenseek.com

Submitting site to website directory is more important than submitting to search engine.

list of best web directories
http://www.best-web-directories.com/free-directories.htm