Google, you are now 9 years old already. Be a good boy and serve us good quality and relevant ads please. Yeah, ads that pay US$10 for every click! Hahaha…

How do you like Google’s birthday logos over the years above? Read more about Google’s history to understand the world’s most used search engine better. Happy Birthday Google!

Readers, how much is your average CPC? Care to share with us, AdSense newbies?

I know you understand that it’s important to backup your Wordpress database but sometimes you say to yourself “Yeah, I will backup my Wordpress database tomorrow”. But tomorrow never comes! Ask yourself, when was the last time you did the backup? 3 months ago?

Actually, it’s pretty easy to do a database backup in Wordpress itself provided you are using one of the later versions of Wordpress. It takes less than 3 minutes in my case since I have a fairly simple blog and not many posts.

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Everyone complain his Internet connection is slow. Those who are using Tmnet dial-up say so… those who are using Streamyx also complain Tmnut is cheating on them because they do not notice any speed improvement, or more precisely constant disconnection especially when they are using Bittorent to download movies! Let’s test our Internet speed today and see if your’s is slower than mine! We use Speedtest.net.

For the uninformed, Speedtest.net is a free broadband speed test with servers located all over the world so that you can get more accurate testings. Get your test results and compare with others from the same area, or even from other parts of the world.

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I hate taking part in tests or quizzes because they require a fair amount of thinking, make my hair grow white! I have never done well in any tests. However, as a blog owner it’s good to know how good you are in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is essential to get your blog or website ranked higher for your target keywords in search engines. Higher ranking means more visitors and that means more revenues from your blog or website! Haha… I love money!

SEOMOZ, a well known guru in the SEO industry has designed an online quiz for nothing but to test your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) knowledge. The test consists of 75 questions which covers almost every aspect of SEO. I took the test but the first question itself got me stuck for nearly 10 minutes because I couldn’t figure out which of the given list is the least important area in which to include my keyword(s)… to me all of them are fairly important… Haha…

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Check out my new webcam which I bought from PC Planet in Tesco, Puchong. I know nothing about web cams and the salesman gave me three options. Frankly, the one from AVF looked awesome in the design department, and it felt good in my hands too. I believe it should fit well on a laptop too with its flippable base. However, the salesman who seemed quite IT savvy recommended the other two models as according to him the AVF model doesn’t plug-and-play on Windows Vista, which I am using. You may have problem finding the correct device driver… this didn’t sound good.

So, AVF was out. The other two models were easy to decide as one of them looked horrible with 6 LED lights. Although they serve good purpose - to light up when the place is dark, but I don’t really like how it looked. So, it was obvious which one I have chosen.

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