It’s interesting to see what sites folks at TIME think are so important that they can’t live without. I myself have been using a few of those sites but don’t think that they are so important until I can’t live without them…

Surprisingly, Amazon.com tops the list, but perhaps the list is not in any order. Frankly, I haven’t ordered anything from Amazon yet, although I do reckon that the number of stuff you can find on their online store is growing by the minute, it’s just amazing how an online bookstore can turn into in a couple of years. If you liked Amazon, I believe you will also like my online store too. Check it out.

Next in the list is BBC.co.uk. I know this is a really good news website, but for my daily update, my first choice is still Thestar.com.my, and of course Petalingstreet.org (PPS). How could a blogger foget PPS?

What follow BBC are two fairly unheard of sites at least in this part of the world. They are Citysearch.com and Craigslist.org. But, I am sure no serious bloggers and website owners are not familiar with the site at the 5th position. Don’t tell me you have never heard of Del.icio.us? Del.icio.us is a very popular site to share your favorite web links and see what other people are bookmarking.

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I believe for WordPress blog owners, one of the most visited page everyday apart from Malaysia Tech Blog (for the tech news and tips and tricks) is your own WordPress login page (wp-admin/). Although there has been a lot of improvements in the look and feel of this login page, especially in WordPress 2.0, but I am sure you would like to customize it further. Put your own logo or design in and make it sexy!

To customize the login screen, you can do it the geek way. Go to the “wp-admin/images” folder on your WordPress server and change the two images login-bkg-tile.gif and login-bkg-bottom.gif. This could be easy enough if you are familiar with Photoshop and should be safe since you are not editing any PHP file.

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Good news, Kongtechnology Online Store is finally launched. You are invited to come to the store and do your shopping. Shop now to make sure you get your delivery before Chinese New Year.

Make sure you check out the books section. Some of them are really interesting. One of them which raised my interested is Secrets of Successful Blogging. I think this book will be of interest to all of us who blogs. Own a successful blog which has tens of thousands of readers and makes tens of thousands a month! Duplicate the same formula to ten blogs and we become a millionaire instantly.

Some of the t-shirts are worth a look too. They are cute and funky, with captions such as “Some days just aren’t worth blogging”, and “I’m blogging this”. These t-shirts are hand-picked for bloggers!

Check out my online store now. Don’t hesitate, your online shopping satisfaction is guaranteed!

Recently I was setting up a WordPress blog for a friend of mine. What was supposedly to be completed in minutes took me much longer than expected. The installation didn’t seem to start at all but threw out a blank page in IE and in Firefox it asked me to save the installation file. What the heck… the WordPress was the latest 2.3.2 version already, so should be stable and good.

The hosting was on a Plesk server. In the error_log file, I found the following error message which was not alien to me.

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 233472 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-admin/includes/schema.php on line 103

I think this means that the server did not have enough memory to process the size of the data that it’s required to perform. The default memory alloted to PHP was 8MB and this was fairly small for big applications such as WordPress, especially if you have a lot of plugins. But I wasn’t sure why this also happened to a new installation with the default plugins.

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Those bastards at eBay control the online marketplace and being the multi-billion market that it is, cashing in seems a reasonable way to make money online. One of the best way to profit off eBay is to start a BANS (Build a Niche Store), which happens to be one of the hottest and fastest growing money making concept on the web today. What’s important is it actually works!

Here’s why you absolutely MUST setup a BANS store today:

1. USABILITY – BANS are easy to set up and customize – you are offered templates and scripts to help you customize your store. I find it’s a great bargain. For US$97, you get around US$500 worth of stuff. If you buy the template elsewhere and hire a programmer for the scripting, or buy the ready-made scripts from somewhere else, you’ll probably end up hurting your pockets pretty hard.

2. FIRE AND FORGET – You get the benefits of having an online store, but not the nuisances – you don’t need to offer your buyers customer support, you don’t have to worry about shipping the products, you don’t have to worry about order forms and so forth. Just stick the products on your website, directly from the eBay products database and you’’re set for selling and earning affiliate cash. You can easily launch your BANS and let it make sales for you, just check your account regularly to see how much revenue you have made!

This is what they call make money in your pajamas!

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