Win USD100 From AnitoKid!

Here’s great news! A Filipino blogger who goes by the moniker AnitoKid is giving away US$100 at the end of this year in conjunction with the first anniversary of this blog, The Anitokid Chronikos – Billiards and Philippine sports. November 20, 2007 marks the day he has blogged for one full year already.

I am not sure about you, but when I visit a blog, I like to check out what are one the sidebar. I have discovered many new widgets and stuff from sidebars of blogs. AnitoKid has something that I came across for the first time. Yeah, I know I am slow but being online 24/7 does not mean that I have to know about every single thing that is released online, does it? What this widget that I like the is scrolling list of visitors by city. I think it is way cool. If I have more visitors, I may implement that!

I am surprised to see the Nuffnang ad on AnitoKid’s blog because I thought that Nuffnang is only open to Malaysian and Singaporean bloggers but I guess expats qualify as well!

I first came to know of AnitoKid from Fuel My Blog. If you check out his credentials, I am sure you will be as impressed with him as I am. In any case, no matter if you are a fan of AnitoKid or not, why not try to win USD100 off him? Just write an anniversary review his blog and then let him know of your review by email. This should be done before 12th November, 2007, 11pm Philippine time.

Good luck, to myself too!

Building Newsletters Professionally

I was surprised when I discovered that my friend has more than eight thousand people subscribing to his newsletter. I wonder how he managed to handle that many people but he told me the trick is in a newsletter software that helps to keep him organized.

Apart from managing subscribers, using MyNewsletterBuilder, he could customize his newsletters and store them online so that he could easily search it out if he needed to refer to older issues.

By publishing his newsletters online, his content is also easily picked up by the search engines because they conform to web standards hence making his text search engine friendly. Naturally, he gained a lot of traffic from this alone.

I was impressed with his professional looking newsletter but my friend revealed that it was a no-brainer to have the template and even I could make my newsletters professional looking because MyNewsletterBuilder has a wide range of templates to choose from that suits many different occasions!

For as little as $8 per month, we could easily create newsletters that would blow our subscribers away! My friend encouraged me to try the service out because there is a 60-day free trial for the newsletter software and templates. I’m afraid I would love it too much and then sign up even though my database of subscribers is small!

Technorati Authority Jumped

If you did not participate in My List, then that’s too bad! Submission is already closed. The good news is that after I added my blogs in, Technorati Authority for Blank Canvas jumped twelve notches and ** An Anonymous Journal ** jumped eight notches.

While I have previously joined a couple of DoFollow and Triple P Blogrolls, the link network was not as obvious as My List. Not that I could see anyway. After I joined DoFollow and Triple P, there was no link back that was detected and no Technorati Authority jump. However, the link backs only came in from the comments that I have left on DoFollow blogs.

Now, THAT is effective but it takes a lot of time when you have to visit the blogs, read them and leave constructive comments. Well, it’s rather fun but time consuming, like I said.

I never really paid much attention to my Technorati because it was screwed up for a long time but now that the issue is resolved, it’s time to build up my authority.

Now, I don’t really know what is so special with My List that the effect is almost instant. Perhaps it is the way they are written. Something about web-standard but, hey, who is analyzing as long as it works??

Award Winning AntiSpyware Software

Just now, I received a cryptic message that I had to decipher. The message came like this: SHX OGUONPR ZI RWP MAEJ ZUSBO-VCJSFPX OPKJCBLUSBP SGDURMPR

I went, “Uh-oh! How am I going to decipher that?” Here I am, someone who doesn’t even understand Da Vinci Code but luckily, I found a website to help me decipher that. Yes, I cheated a little, so? Hehehe

Anyway, the real message reads: SPY SWEEPER IS THE MOST AWARD-WINNING ANTISPYWARE SOFTWARE

I was pleasantly surprised, of course. If you have read my previous posts, you will know what happened to my computer. My computer is a work tool that I can’t afford it to be down at all. I take care of it the best I could and protect it like I protect young and helpless children! That was why when my computer was cured by Spy Sweeper, I bought it straightaway.

And as a user, I do agree that Spy Sweeper is one of the best, if not the best antispyware software in today’s age. There are so many programs available but they seriously fall short against Spy Sweeper’s standards. I am really not surprised that it has won so many awards from PC World, Smart Computing, PC Advisor, PC Pro, Softpedia just to name a few.

The good news is that now they are offering $10 off regular price. I did not get to enjoy that when I bought it but I am going to spread the news to friends whom I know need spyware protection. Who doesn’t need anyway? A friend told me that the only way to prevent our computer from an infection is not to go online with it. Well, how could we do that when we have to work online? The answer lies in spy sweeper!

Win With Geeky Speaky

As many of you know, I am a freebie lover who scours the internet for freebies and contests! My, I have won many things when I was into this passionately but I am running a dry season here. Heck, how could I win anything when I did not even submit my entry?

Well, as luck would have it, I discovered this exciting geeky contest by the ever so generous Colleen. Every month, she will be hosting a contest and giving away geeky prizes where the winner will be decided in a drawing. Now, living in Malaysia, I always feel sidelined by companies who are running contests but Colleen is opening up her contest to anyone living in any corner of the world. Not only is she forking out the prizes from her own pocket, she is also going to pay for international shipping. All together now.. aaawww

For the month of June, from 1st until 21st of the month, the grand prize is a 1GB flash drive while the booby prize is a Futurama DVD. Now, the flash drive will definitely come in handy because I will be buying a laptop soon. Even though I already have two desktops, one has a faulty floppy drive and I could only transfer my files via USB ports and I don’t even have a flash drive *gasp*

With the addition of a laptop, I would be having a difficult time transferring files from either one of the machines to the other or both. Now you understand why a flash drive would come in so handy!

I don’t even know why I am letting you know about this contest and dilute my own chances at winning but hey, the more the merrier, you know? If you would like a shot at winning a prize off Colleen, hop over to her blog, Geeky Speaky, to read the rules and regulations.

May the best win! Good luck!

Attack On My Computer

I went to my friend’s house and we played some computer games and was shocked to discover that he did not protect his computer with an anti-virus program. Well, he is a guy and he should know!

Last month, my computer was stricken with a Trojan that totally crippled it. I couldn’t even use it at all. I connect to the internet and it could but none of the data from the internet could be displayed on screen. It was very weird.

I could not even research on my problem online because none of the web pages would open! I called up my regular technician and he told me to run my anti-virus program which I did. He told me to empty my virus vault, defragment my disks and then restart my computer which I also did.

After three hours, I gave up! I was about to cry even because I had so much work pending to do and here my work tool is broken!

My technician took pity on me and told me to bring in the computer so that he could run Spy Sweeper for me since I do not have it. Viola, it just took a little while to catch that culprit. Spy Sweeper was so effective that I bought it right there and then.

No way do I want to ever experience that again! My friend accused me of visiting porn sites and other junk sites but I swear I never! Trojans, spies and viruses could lurk in any websites and then pounce on unsuspecting visitors. It is best to keep the computer protected at all times, you know?

Vast Improvement in PPP-ville

The other day when I wrote Six Hours! Too Freaking Long! I thought nobody would read it. But boy, am I wrong. Somebody from Florida searched for keyword PayPerPost on Google Blog Search and chanced upon my blog post.

Not long after, PayPerPost implemented something new. This is what I have been looking forward to since the first day I joined them as a postie.

Now, Opps that are fully reserved will be indicated with a beige shade which was later changed to a grey shade. Therefore, I do not have to keep hitting the “Take This Opportunity” button like I have always done. Some people told me that I would think they are crazy for trying to take an Opp for twenty five times. Well, nobody wants to know how much time I spent on taking an Opp trying to wedge in as soon as a slot is available.

Well, what can I say, I won’t give up till the Opp drops off from my list of available Opps. With this new feature, no longer do I have to waste time trying to take something that is not available in the mean time. I could blog on some other Opps or I could write original interim posts, heck, I could even watch a movie if I wanted to, unlike for the past seven months where my finger never stopped clicking on “Take This Opportunity”.

Phew….. the internet truly has ears. Or should I say “eyes” instead?

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