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How Do I Type Accents on a BlackBerry?

2013-04-26T04:54:00.001-07:00

I tried to type letter that has the two dots over u (ü), on US International computer keyboard, you press AltGr + y, but don't know how to type on a Blackberry, and found this article:

How Do I Type Accents on a BlackBerry? A Simple Step-By Step Tutorial: " Start out by pressing and holding the letter that you want to type with the accent, such as “a.” After a moment the letter will capitalize itself, but this is ok. Continue holding the letter down, and roll the trackball in any direction. The letter will start to change, and will rotate through all possible variations, including different accents and both uppercase and lowercase letters. "

'via Blog this'

The C Book — Expressions and arithmetic

2013-04-04T01:19:00.001-07:00

The C Book — Expressions and arithmetic: "It is always true that the following expression is equal to zero:
(a/b)*b + a%b - a
unless b is zero."

'via Blog this'

Wow! This costs me some brain cell to make sense of this expression.

Country-specific domain for Blogspot to enable censorship

2013-02-21T21:28:00.001-08:00

Why does my blog redirect to a country-specific URL? (ccTLD) - Blogger Help: "country-specific URL"

'via Blog this'

Your blog now has different domain for every country, and an identical copy of your posts for every domain. This is how my blog appears to different visitors from different countries:

chineseaesop.blogspot.tw

chineseaesop.blogspot.se

chineseaesop.blogspot.de

chineseaesop.blogspot.com

chineseaesop.blogspot.co.uk

"Aw, Snap!" - To create a new user profile

2013-01-08T05:52:00.001-08:00

My Chrome Browser crashes a lot, especially when I open Gmail. This article help me to fix it:

"Aw, Snap!" - Google Chrome Help: "If the browser continues to display the "Aw, Snap!" message, your user profile may be corrupted."

I find the folder, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\, but I had small trouble to rename the "default" folder, it says that another program is using one of the files in this folder. But I have closed all windows, and also tried restarting the computer. Then I realized that "System Icons" on the taskbar have a Chrome icon, so I right click the icon and exit program, then the computer let me rename the folder.

Chrome has been snapped so far.

How to stop Freenet?

2012-12-23T05:22:00.000-08:00

How to stop or temporally shutdown Freenet?

On Windows, you may find "stop freenet" in Freenet Tray.

On Ubuntu, or other Linux system, go to your Freenet folder, run a command inside the terminal:

FreenetUser@ubuntu:~/Freenet$ ls *.sh
run.sh update.sh

You can see run.sh command, run.sh have six options, one of them is to stop the Freenet:

FreenetUser@ubuntu:~/Freenet$ ./run.sh ?
Usage: ./run.sh { console | start | stop | restart | status | dump }

FreenetUser@ubuntu:~/Freenet$ ./run.sh stop
Stopping Freenet 0.7...
Waiting for Freenet 0.7 to exit...
Stopping Freenet 0.7...
Stopped Freenet 0.7.

This is how you to stop the Freenet on Ubuntu.

When I upload a video onto Blogger, where is it stored?

2012-10-30T09:48:00.001-07:00

When I upload a video onto Blogger, where is it stored? - Yahoo! Answers: "When I upload a video onto Blogger, where is it stored?"

'via Blog this'

Now my question is this, what if I want to delete this video? Because sometime we regret of publishing something online. How can I locate my video and delete it?

Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger

2012-10-18T12:43:00.002-07:00

Now I believe that I have understood at least these things about Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger:

1. Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger, or the 'Advertise products' Gadget is powered by Google Affiliate Network, we may say this is a ready-made version specially for Blogger users, so you don't need to request to join individual advertiser, and waiting for approval.

2. Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger is now eligible for UK publishers.

3. Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger hasn't got many advertisers 'On Board'.

4. Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger Gadget search and match advertise products by KEYWORD.

5. If you type some ILLEGAL (such as a two words with a dash between) keywords to search, the gadget will freeze, and an error window pops up like this:

And I also tried some words like 'kindle', it freeze too. You need to reload the page to use the gadget again.

6. View Dashboard link will not appear under the until you publish at least one advertise product, the status will change from Eligible to Active.

Blackberry content rating

2012-10-04T17:44:00.000-07:00

When I try to download Foursqure App for Blackberry, I received this message, and couldn't download:

BlackBerry Support Community Forums: "1 of your download(s) has a higher content rating than your device permits higher content rating than your device permits"

This question hasn't been answered in the above-quoted forum, but a Blackberry help blog post gives detailed explanation and warning for how to set up contents ratings.

One thing to be repeated here is that you'd better not lock the setting after enabling it with a four-digit security code, because if you forget the password, there is no way to reset it, the only way is by performing a security wipe out of your smartphone.

Ubuntu 12.04: Flash player settings problem solved

2012-05-01T13:00:00.000-07:00

Updated Unbuntu 11.10 to 12.04 LTS, and am very glad to find that the Flash player settings dialog unclickable problem solved.

Before Ubuntu 12.04, each time I connected to a site with flash apps, such as Youtube "Record video from webcam", that want to access the the webcam or microphone, the Adobe Flash Player Settings dialog freezes, allow/deny buttons are unclickable.

I tried to find a solution for that, but gave up at last , because all those suggestions seemed to be useless. I have faith in Ubuntu, I thought to myself, this problem will be solved at the next release. I am sure of that. ^_*

Xomba

2012-03-28T14:14:00.001-07:00

Xomba: "Xomba is sort of halfway between Squidoo & Helium with the potential of making money by revenue sharing with Google Adsense ads. "

'via Blog this'

I got this email after submitting my registering form at Xomba:

Thank you for registering at Xomba. Your application for an account is
currently pending approval.
To join Xomba please follow these steps.

1. Reply to this email with the username you created.
2. Please let us know what subjects you plan to write about.
3. Please copy your first article in your email.
If you are approved, we will contact you with instructions on how to log into
your account.

Thanks,
-- Xomba team

My Experience with DocCash

2012-03-05T20:08:00.001-08:00

Docstoc is an online documents sharing website, simimlar as scribd. DocCash is Adsense revenue sharing program of DocStoc.

I registered an account two years ago, and uploaded several documents. I associated my Adsense account and set up tracking URL for docstoc. Recently I noticed that it shows up in my adsense performance reports everyday, but with 0 pageviews, N/A clicks and N/A earnings, but I check stats in docstoc, the view number is bigger than zero.

So I wrote to ask the reason, and got a reply shortly, and I am told by the customer care team that my account has been deleted:

Dear Valued Customer,

I'm here to tell you that your Docstoc account has been deleted. Since your account is deleted, all your information has been removed from our system.
If you change your mind, please feel free to visit our website, where you can easily create a new account within seconds!

Account deleted and my information removed without giving me any reason! Did I ask to delete my account?

DocStoc have a new Premium which sells legal and business documents, Adsense Revenue sharing can't actually makes enough money for the website, so they seem to treat it like rubish.

Youtube and Adsense

2012-01-30T15:34:00.000-08:00

There are two kinds of 'Youtube Partners': Youtube Partner is a Channel that gets lots of video views and lots of subscribers; while an Individual Youtube Partnership means a specific video of yours instead of a whole Channel, which a Partner may set up banners or change channel settings restricted only for Youtube Partner, and monetize all videos. If you are invited to link your Adsense with Youtube, and have to monetize your video one by one, then you're an Individual Youtube Partner.

You can't track Adsense revenue from Youtube by Custom channel or URL channel, because when you try to add URL channel, you get an error message: "URL cannot contain a Google host." So there seem to be no way to find out if your video is making money for you or not. But, some say that "Content Host" refers to the in-video ads of Youtube, a little bit weird of course, and if you don't have other site(s) which enabled for mobile contents, then "AdSense for Mobile Content" also comes from Youtube.

Add to this there is one more confusion, in your adsense account settings for 3rd-party access (youtube), it says "N/A for revenue share" in the Host's share of revenue section. N/A is short for Not Applicable, but what does it mean?

Ubuntu mouse freeze

2011-10-23T07:12:00.000-07:00

My Ubuntu freezes my mouse when I'm typing Chinese, and this makes me believe that Chinese Input Method Editor causes this problem. But when I searched for answers, there seem to be many reports of this problem.

This morning, I was interrupted by a telephone call when my mouse freezes again, when I return back to my computer, the mouse has already became normal.

Next time it happens, I just ignore it, it turns to normal again in couple of seconds.

New BloggerTemplates: Dynamic views

2011-10-02T18:41:00.000-07:00

I have spent hours to customise my blog tonight, but when I almost felt satisfied with the result, I noticed there are new series of templates called Dynamic Views.

I can't help trying them out. They looks awesome. But the blog readers might have not been familiar with these types of browsing methods.

Update Vosao to Version 0.9

2011-10-01T03:58:00.000-07:00

Vosao for App Engine is the Content Management System (CMS) for Google App Engine, easy to install and update, and free to run. This CMS is currently in active developing and update frequently, seems very promising.

Vosao latest version has a default template Coolblue10 for you, so it now looks like a "REAL" website.

Steps to install:

Download App Engine SDK for Java, if you don't have Java installed, you shall download and install it first.
Download Vosao and extract to local folder. Find the file WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml and change the application name to your appspot application name.
Upload the CMS application by issuing the GAE SDK command line:

(Linux) $ {SDK bin directory}appcfg.sh update {unpacked war directory}
( Windows) ; {SDK bin directory}appcfg.cmd update {unpacked war directory>}

Beware that the admin login is admin@test.com, and password is admin. Do remember to change you password.

Fofou: Forum on Google App Engine

2011-10-01T03:29:00.000-07:00

A simple and very nice forum for App Engine, simple to install and free to run.

Steps to install:

Download python and install it.
Download App Engine SDK for python and install it.
Download the Fofou, and extract it to a folder, and edit app.yaml, change the application name to your App name.
Run SDK. File --> Add Existing Application.
Click Deploy button. You will be prompted to input your email address and password.

Login to your forum as admin, create the first forum.

Now here is the trick for Adsense. When you create a forum, you add Adsense code to the Sidebar, for Sidebar is displayed in the left column. HTML allowed.

Monetise Your Video on Youtube

2011-09-16T16:33:00.000-07:00

I received an email invitation from YouTube recently, it says:

Your YouTube account might be eligible to earn revenue from the playbacks of your videos.

If your account is enabled, we may place ads next to the videos that you submit for monetisation. You will earn a share of the revenue from the ads, as long as you meet the programme requirements.

I have tried to apply for Youtube partner several times without success, because my videos don't "appear to be viewed by thousands". Now several videos reach or over thousands views.

While I am trying to figure out monetising, I notice some interesting copyright issues:

Your video has to be 100% original, and you have to declare the ownership of the copyright, which include audio or musics.

You can't monetise video:

in Creative Commons Licence, or
created by Youtube Editor or Youtube partners such as GoAnimate!, One True Media, Xtranormal Movie Maker, or Stupeflix Video Maker, this happens to free version, I didn't try paid version,
or includes music by AudioSwap.

Monetise button appear below every video files, and you have to do it one by one. As soon as you monetise a video, you can't change copyright from Standard Youtube Licence to Creative Commons Attribution licence, the radio button turns to grey. Although the monetise button appears under CC licence, and you monetise it, but ads won't appear when you playback.

Another discovery is a subtitle tool which add or subtract an offset to or from the timings specified within an .srt file. The one and only for Windows is SubtitleOffsetter, and it's a command line tool. I download a long film and its subtitle file, and split the long film into several parts, and upload to Youtube with subtitle file. The video and the subtitle can sync for the first part, but the rest won't sync, all you have to do is subtract time of the previous part(s) in milliseconds and save the caption file to a new file, and upload it.

Adsense: You’re missing 81 opportunities to earn more!

2011-09-04T07:40:00.000-07:00

Received a message, saying that I am missing 81 opportunities to earn money, but I can't do anything about it, since I have no control of Ad palcements in Hubpages. In the previous post I mentioned that since Hubpages launched it's own Ad program, my Adsense earning are almost dried up. Here is the message:

At least 80 of the pages on Hubpages are running less than three ad units. Adding any of our top performing units (336x280, 300x250, 728x90 or 160x600) to prominent sections of your pages will substantially increase your ad impressions and overall revenue. Across the pages that we analysed, you could potentially add at least 81 units on hubpages.com. Click here to create new ad units and start earning more!

This is the big problems when you're dependent on revenue sharing publishing websites which you have no right to dictate your terms. Similarly, this happened to the traditonal publishing industry, in the life circle of authors, publishers, printers, distributors and booksellors, writers are always at the most disadvantage position, many were struggling with poverty, but became famous and his books were exploited again by those greedy publishers.

HubPages Ad Program and Adsense

2011-08-24T17:47:00.000-07:00

Since HubPage Ad Program became available to everyone, my Adsense revenue dropped drastically, then without choice, I submit my tax information and joined the Program, its earning seems OK, but Adsense earning gradually dried up.

Adsense pay out UK Sterling (pound £) into my bank account, but Hubpage will pay me dollars to Paypal, and the real value of earnings will be affected by exchange rate and service charge by Paypal during additional steps of transferring fund to my bank account.

Any Hubbers here have same experience?

Submit a comment to Google Blogger three times then it can be published

2011-08-24T17:35:00.001-07:00

I have a strange experiences in one blog on blogspot.com, every time I submit my comment anonymously, I have click the Post Comment button three times, then my comment will be published and appeared on under the post.

I wonder if anybody has same experience as mine, and I guess this may be an undeclared anti-spam technique or some smart trick?

Best Free antivirus software for your Windows PC

2011-06-22T14:23:00.000-07:00

I have a Dell laptop which pre-installed McAfee, because I don't want to pay for the license, so it becomes quite a nuisance when message windows pop-up several times a day, asking me to register, although it's still within the free trial period.

Spyware Doctor with Anti-Virus that comes with Googlepack is good, because it has basic function to clean up when find infections. The one you download from official website doesn't provide this service.

As far as my own experience goes, the best,antivirus software is Microsoft Security Essentials, although I don't know if it's most popular. Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times. This is just what I want, because to be honest I really don't care much if my pc is PROTECTED or not, as long as the Security Centre tells me YOUR PC IS NOW PROTECTED, gives me peace of mind and leaves me alone to do my job without the pop-up windows interfering my thought.

Of course, your Windows system has to be genuine. Many of my Chinese fellows just buy a naked machine, and pay 10 -20 RMB (about $2-4) for a CD or DVD which includes 'genuine windows system' and many hacking tools, so when I recommend them to try Microsoft Security Essentials, they just shake head and smile.

Fake 'FastAntivirus2011.exe' pop-up alert

2011-06-12T14:26:00.000-07:00

Almost fooled by a fake fast-scan alert when I search for an image:

When I click the image, the website redirects me in 3 second to another site, and a pop-up message says:
Windows Security 20111 has found critical process activity on your PC and will perform fast-scan of system files!!

On click the OK button, it starts "fast scan", and "found" many Trojans, viruses, etc.

Another pop-up messages, it asks you to Remove or Cancel to ignore, wherever you click, it will download a FastAntivirus2011.exe for you!

This is the fake 'FastAntivirus2011", you may notice the left navigate pane of the Explorer is typical Windows XP instead of my Windows 7, address bar shows the website address instead my local files.

Delete immediately the downloaded file! Don't installed it!

Help protect your computer from fake 'FastAntivirus2011.exe' pop-up alert:
- Make firewall active.
- Always update operating system, internet browser and anti-virus programs.
- Install a separate anti-malware program aside from present anti-virus application if it is not included.
- Be cautious when clicking links. It can point your browser to download threats or visit malicious web site."

Google Search wish me Happy Birthday

2011-06-04T00:26:00.000-07:00

What a surprise, Google search wish me happy birthday!

I set Google search as my home page, almost never miss a birthday of celebrity or festival. Today I see a cake with candle and wrapped presents, wondering whose birthday it is. Moving my mouse on the picture, it says: Happy Birthday, Jim! I click the picture, it take me to my Google Profile page.

Adsense not showing up in Chrome

2011-05-31T05:05:00.000-07:00

I have searched for an answer, but in vain. There are many reports about Adsense ads not showing up in different browsers, in my case it's Chrome.

I implement adsense code within iframe tag, but this seems not a problem, because I build an experimental pages both with and without iframe (or together in one page), Chrome displays both correctly.

My website is built on Microsoft Office Live for small business, its free hosting, a lot of restrictions. for example it will append a 'defer=defer' attribute to the adsense code.

Vuala Chat

2011-05-20T11:55:00.000-07:00

Vuala: "Vuala is a new dating site. It is a place where you can always find a new friend. You can chat, draw, play games and even more. It is without any registration and it is completely free."

You specify your gender and age, and choose a friend's gender and age, then type something and click the Right Arrow button, somebody will show up instantly, and start chatting.

So you always chat with a stranger, and even if a family or buddy at another end of the line, you still don't know who they are, how do find other friends that you actually know? So some people think this is cool but is it safe, since you may thing is he/she a creepy stalker person?

Currently, you can't put your state, county, place as search criteria, and can't create account, seems haven't many people using it.

This site claims that it's a dating site, and it allows people under 18, even has an age range between 3 and 12!

This chat site has a App in Google Chrome store.