September 2007 Archives

I need a tool can help me to control the computer in my office. That PC is located behind the Firewall. The XP included Remote Desktop can only allow me to access the computer in the same network.

So I have to find other product or service.
Now I found this wonderful service.GoToMyPC

Let me show you how it works. You can follow my steps. It is free to try. You can use it for 30 days without charge.
1) First click the link below, to sign up a new account.

And next enter the password you like with at least 8 characters and mixed with letter and number.

Then you will go to the next page to ask for the Credit Card information to verify you are safisfied to get this free trial.
Remember: This is a risk-free trial. You will never be charged during your free trial, and you can cancel at any time.

2) You will be asked to download the software to installed at the host computer. Just like me, I install it in my office computer.
By click the "Install on this PC" button, you confirm to download the host software and let it run on your PC.
After it runing, it will ask you to set up a Access Code, which will be used when you try to connect it from other computer.

3) Connect it from other computer.
Open a Browser on other computer first. Enter http://www.gotomypc.com/
Input the email and your password, which you set in the step 1, into the left login box.
Click the "connect" button. It will launch the connecting process, which need Java support.

Enter the Access code of the computer you want to connect into the popup window. Here is what I setup in the step 2.

I am sure everybody knows this, but a refresher is always a good thing! AND this is true.

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Sixapart release the MovableType to MT4.01 yesterday.

The release Advisor as below:

* Release Type: Bug Fix Release, with one XSS security vulnerability resolved which could affect some users. This vulnerability has not yet been exploited in the wild.
* Mandatory? Strongly Recommended for all MT4.0 users, particularly those affected by the addressed issues, but not mandatory.
* Performance Implications: Expect performance increase. Many critical performance improvements over MT 4.0. Users should expect to see a performance increase in both the application and in publishing.
* Plugins Affected: None that we are aware of -- all MT4.0 plugins should work in MT 4.01. However, this is a release that addresses some issues with the Movable Type plugin API, so some plugins may be updated for this release.
* Templates Affected: No changes in your templates are required. The default search results template was modified slightly to be compliant with W3C standards.
* System Requirements: This release has no new or additional system requirements.
* Licensing considerations: None. MT 4.01 is a free update for users of any version of MT 4.0
* Upgrade Fatigue: No planned updates are scheduled until the next feature release of MT4. This will only change if significant security issues are found which require a 4.0x release.

To upgrade David Yin's Blog, MT 4.0 to MT4.01 is very straight forward. Just Download the MT 4.01 package and upzip it.
Copy all files and overwrite the original installation.

No database updating.

I will see how better the performance improved.

I just sign up the new online traffic booster facility, BlogRush.

It is very simply to apply BlogRush, Just click the link above, enter your email, your blog's address, feed address, and choose your category. That's all.

Now you have an account and copy the code of account and paste it into your blog. Done.

Let me introduce how benefit you will have if your sign up the BlogRush.

Each time the widget displays you earn a 'credit' which means that a recent headline from your own blog will be displayed on someone else's blog. If your blog gets 100 page views a day your headline will be displayed 100 times on other people's blogs.

Sounds good. It is fair to you display once and the other blog display once for you.

Not only that, more traffic you will have. They have a referral system so that if another blogger signs up to Blog Rush after clicking through to it from your widget you'll get credits each time that the referral blog shows the widget. The referral system goes 10 tiers deep - so you can potentially get ALOT of credits.

Ten levels. Unbelievable. And It is Free.

And also there is some features I really like.

I found some sites framed my Blog, and keep popping some bad windows.

I do a google, and found this script works to prevent from it.

Just copy the following code in to you pages. Now any site want to frame your page will automatically jump your site out.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT><!--
if (top.location != self.location)top.location=self.location;
// --></SCRIPT>

Masterseek is a kind of search engine which provides quick and free access to company profiles, contact information, and descriptions of products and services from more than 45 million companies in 75 countries.

You may find masterseek can get some useful search results. Some times not.

Just like me, I tried to enter "sport insurance" in Canada. No response. It gave me only No hits and followed by two Google AdSense ads.

But when I put this search term into all world, some search results come up.

So I can not tell you is it good or not. It very depends on the user's experience.
You know, some people like Google, some people like AOL, and some people like Yahoo. What about you, after you try this Masterseek?

I add a page, previously call it individual page in MT 3.3, in my blog hosted by MT 4.0 .

It looks fine, when I click the publish button. But the problem is I can not find this page anywhere in the site.

I tried a lot of ways to solve it. Finally I find the solution.

Let me tell you the wrong way first. I spent almost 20 minutes to find it. I also want to spend two more minutes to note it.

1) The user right? No.
2) The settings in mt-config.cgi? No.
3) The Blogging setting in preferences of backend? No.

The correct answer is Archive Mapping.
I upgrade this blog from MT3.35 to MT 4.0.
The archive mapping is keeping same as before. So, after upgrading, I manually modified all archive mapping excluding "pages". Because I have never use this type of archive before.

I forgot it.
Now I got it and solve this problem.

I still want Sixapart can fix this problem in the next version. It should give some notice or error message to tell user it can not be published correctly instead of the published OK message.

I'd like to introduce this software from Nuance.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Standard

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard you can talk to your computer and watch your spoken words instantly appear in documents, e-mails, and instant messages. Fast, easy and amazingly accurate. A noise-canceling microphone is included.

Let's go through the key features of this software.

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As we know, if you want your own blog or site to be known by more people, you need a more links from other sites.

Here is a very powerful tools. I call it Generation 2 site directory.
After 2 months site marketing by my SEO Service, this site get more traffice from search engine.

To submit your site or blog on G2links directory, you have three options.
1) Featured links $5.99 (48 hour review) ~ Permanent ~
You pay $5.99 for a permanent link if your site is approved by editor. Remember, you link is a featured links. It is highlighted and keep on top of the head of specific category.

2) Regular links $1.99 (72 hour review) ~ Permanent ~
If you choose this one, you get an regular link which is listed behind the featured links. It costed you $1.99.

3) Regular links with reciprocal free
It is free. Nothing better than free. If you have a personal blog, just provide a reciprocal link to get a link back. It is a win win situation.

You may find David Yin's Blog is listed as a featured link under category : blog.

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AuctionAds issued a official post on September 5, 2007. Announced that they were increasing affiliate payout from 2% to 5% and today they sent words that any new publisher signing up for AuctionAds will get an instant $25 credited to his account.

Of course, the minimum payout is not $25 any more. It is raised to $50. You still have to earn another $25 to get pay.

OK. I do like this news.

For the current users, who have not get their first payout, will also have this $25 instant bonus. Sounds good.

So, if you are still thinking about sign up or not, just sign up for AuctionAds to get your $25.

There are so many ways to make money. But today, I would like to show you something new.

payperpost is a good tool for blogger. Just like me. I write my blogs day by day for lots of different topics as below:
* Digest of books, and/or movies
* Hardware of computers
* Independent Thinking focuses on my thinking about society, human relationship.
* L.A.M.P. is Linux server, Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP script language.
* My Life is for my family.
* Notes of MovableType is to keep my memory of how to do and what I did on this Blog platform.
* Reviews is so clear, this post is one piece of review.
* Software is talking about computer software.
* VOIP gives many tips of VOIP phone. Including VOIP devices, VOIP service providers, VOIP usage.
* Vehicles collect some information of driving and cars.
* Web Site and Network has advices of Internet, local area network, and website design.
* WordPress Notes is another blog software. I use it for other blog.

You know I have so many stuff to write. The posts are free to read. So how to support this blog? How can I pay for the hosting and others? This is a question for all bloggers who has their own personal blog.

So PayPerPost is a service for you and me. We write some something has similar topic with our blog. Or write something we are interested in. They are all paid by advertiser through PayPerPost, if the post satisfy advertiser and match the requirement.

It is a platform you can choose the job of post. Only the job meet your blog will be show as your job opportunity.

So look this is my first PayPerPost job on DavidYin's Blog. As agreed, they will pay me $20.00 to spread it.

When you are doing the lead Aggregation Business (Lead Sales), you may need a web-based CRM software.

AIMpromote

AIMpromote is the name of this kind of crm software.
CRM is Customer relationship management. You can find more information from Wiki.

A typical CRM system is subdivided into three basic sub modules:

1. Marketing
2. Sales
3. Service

To see how this AIMpromote doing, just try its 14 day free trial.
It focus on the following industries: Mortgage, Insurance, Auto, Real Estate, Financial, Home improvement, Debt.
The users can be from 1-3 to over 500. So much flexibility.
The price is $33.00 per user, minimal 3 users. No Setup fee.
It looks good from the list of full features.

Let's go through the features as below:
* Lead Management Features
Lead Attention Meter
Custom Lead List Display
Limited Lead Export
Lead Import Limited
Alerts and Reminders
Lead Opportunity Value
Lead Reselling
Custom Status
Custom Substatus
Private Labelling
HIPAA/GLBA Compliant
Unlimited Custom Fields
Searchable Database
AES Encryption (SSL)
Lead Management Dashboard

* Reporting
Campaign Performance
Return on Investment (ROI)
Return on Advertising Spent (ROAS)
Gross Profit
Net Profit
Campaign Cost
Revenue from Leads
Revenue from E-commerce Sales
Call Center Performance
Limited Real-time Reporting
Activity Logging
Duplicate Lead Removal

* Sales Force Automation
Marketing Automation
Custom Tasks
Custom Task Types
Task Calendar
Newsletter / Mass Mail
Unlimited Email Templates
Automatic Notification
Automatic Lead Distribution
Next-in-queue (Round-Robin) Lead Distribution
Custom Filters

* User Management and Authentication
Multiple Authentication Levels
User Groups
User, Group, and Organization Specific Rights
Admin Login as Any User

* Support and Consultation
Email Support
Telephone Support
Support Community
Custom System Configuration
Website Integration
One-on-One Training

* Website Integration and Internet Marketing
Visitor Tracking
Web Analytics
Automatic Lead Form Builder
Dynamic Lead Forms
Dynamic Telephone Numbers
Integrated Affiliate Program Management System
Post Leads to External Form
Closed-Loop Tracking

Some features are solely provide by AIMpromote:
Unlimited Custom Fields
This is a wonderful feature. You need it to customize your own form without limitation.

Customize your lead generating feedback forms with unlimited custom fields. The AIMpromote system has been engineered from the ground up with extensibility and customizability in mind. We know that at some point during the sales process there is information you will need that no other business ever would. To address this, we have created a system for you that treats every field as a custom field. You can choose from any of the standard HTML form field types, plus quite a few AIMpromote proprietary field types.

You know, this is my Blog in English and just upgraded to MovableType 4.0.

For this version. I'd like to show some new features included.
1) OpenID
The comment system is very powerful.
You can leave your comment anonymously or by Sign in.
What about this Sign in?
I give four options for other commenter. The MovableType built-in registered user is put here for myself.
Let me describe these for options:
A, OpenID
B, LiveJournal
C, Vox
D, TypeKey
They are all free.

There is a post discussing it.

2) Built-in support for integrated spam fighting and optionally displaying a CAPTCHA for comments
This one is so powerful. It can filter most of the spam comments.

I do like it.

This is really handy toolbox for Blogger.
All kinds of resources including WordPress, MovableType, Blog Hosting Solutions, Tips & Advice, Blogging Forums & Sites, Blog Tools and Resources, Blog Monetization, etc.

Just click the link below to find these usefull content.
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