Bryan Tay's Blog

Create Wordpress Under Your Own Domain

Bryan Tay — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:07:06 +0000

Want Wordpress on your own domain(www.yourdomain.com) not under Wordpress(yourname.wordpress.com)?

First you have to buy a domain, of example www.yourname.com. Next get a host where your files are placed.
For more information on domain and host, refer to my previous post

Different bloggng platforms have different ways of how to link the blogging platform to your website.
For wordpress, if you have cPanel as given to you by your host, you can easily add Wordpress by going to Fantastico in your cPanel. Otherwise, to install it yourself, you can follow this guide.

Watch Videos Without Buffering

Bryan Tay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:50:37 +0000

Always hate waiting for videos to buffer before you can watch? Actually you need not.

The free SpeedBit Video Accelerator can help to load videos faster and that would help you save time waiting for the video to load and also watch without buffering. It is a software that has to be downloaded before it can be used.

How it works? First you launch the program after you have downloaded and installed it. When you open your browser to watch a video online, it will detect that a video is playing and it would accelerate it. It works for most video sites and the best thing is it is free. The free version can accelerate Normal and High Quality(HQ) videos but not High Definition(HD) ones.

Download Jay Chou Piano Sheet Music

Bryan Tay — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:40:40 +0000

I like to listen to Jay Chou’s music, but it may not be enough for me. I do know how to play the piano and sometimes I would download some music sheets from the internet to play some of it. The website I recommend is SheetMusicGuy. You can actually listen to the sound first with the embedded youtube video before you consider downloading. Of course it is free and no sign up is required. Most of Jay Chou’s nice songs sheet music are there for download. There are also sheet music for other songs but mostly I use that website for Jay Chou’s music sheet. Below are some Jay Chou piano videos to watch.

How To Find Someone’s Phone Number

Bryan Tay — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:30:43 +0000

This post is only for those who are living in Singapore. YellowPages allows users to find people’s phone number. It allows users to search for company’s phone number, residential phone number or business phone number. Therefore, if you need to find someone’s phone number and you have the person’s name and address you can find his or her number very easily.

Website Access Denied

Bryan Tay — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:06:40 +0000

There are times where sites cannot be viewed because they are specially made for other countries and deny your access. So how to get access to these websites is to use a proxy server. It may sound complicated for you at first but in fact it is a very easy method to use. It is free and easy, and also it is very secure since the websites cannot detect where you are from. That is precisely the reason you can get access to their websites. If you use it to surf illegal sites, don’t get me involved haha. But what I use proxy for and what I like about it is it is secure and you can surf the web anonymously without anyone knowing where you are from. One of the free proxy I usually use is HideMyAss. You do not have to download any software and you can just use it in your web browser. Ok now try to give it a test. Firstly, do not use HideMyAss and Check What Is Your Ip Address it will show you your location. Now use HideMyAss and check what is your Ip address by typing www.whatismyipaddress.com into the website bar on the HideMyAss website. You will be surprised to find out that your location cannot be detected. There you are! Surf the web anonymously and go to any websites you like without being stopped.

Download Anything You Want For Free

Bryan Tay — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:51:31 +0000

Steps To Download Anything You Want For Free

Search Google for download free “item name” and click on the top few links to see whether to can find what you want.
What if what you want to find is not on Google? If it is a software, read this step if not skip this. Go to CNet and search for the software you want. I like to use this site since it allows me to filter my search results. For example I want to find anti-virus software. If I search for free anti-virus, it would give me results for free trail anti-virus and free anti-virus. But what I want is only the free ones. Hence I have to narrow the search which the website provides at the left hand column. They have options to narrow search by platforms, by license types, by category, or by operating system, Hence you can find what you need very easily.
At 4shared, you can search files you want. It is easy to use and do not require any download or sign up. As a free user, you have only the limitation of waiting for,if I’m not wrong 35 seconds, then your download link would start and I think also that there may be ads, who cares about ads. But other than that, I feel that it is a good website for downloads.
There is another website Mediafire where there is also a large directory of shared files you can download. The download rate is fast as there is no delay even for free user, no sign up is also required. There is also unlimited download which means you can download as many files as you wish and also download resuming which means that if your internet connection suddenly gets disconnected, you can actually resume the download later.
The last resort to use is to use torrents. But they sometimes come with viruses and trojans so make sure you do a scan before opening files downloaded from torrent sites. You can go to PirateBay first. Note that there are alot of torrent sites but the one that I usually use is PirateBay. Not all files dowloaded from torrents are illegal. It depends on what you download. If you download copyrighted music albums then it is illegal and you have to take the risk of getting caught. What to do when you first go to the site is to search for what you want. Many results would appear. If there are many choices for you to choose, choose the one that have as little LE as possible and as much SE, this would make the download faster. Download the file of your choice. It would only take less than one minute and the file you downloaded would be in a extension of .torrent. So now what you need is a Bittorrent client to complete downloading the whole file. Download Bittorrent and run the program. When it is opened, click on the add button and add the .torrent file you downloaded earlier. There you are! Just wait for the download to complete and the file you want will be downloaded

I don’t like to use Megaupload or Rapidshare as a free user, unless you are a premium user, if not it would be very difficult to download files. Megaupload always gives a notification that your download limit has reached. Rapidshare would give a notification saying that somebody using my ip address is downloading a file, then they would ask me to wait for a certain period of time. If lucky, maybe I could only download one file from their website, after that, I would not be able to download any more files. But many people use these websites to download files because they have a large directory of files available for download.

I mentioned above about resuming downloads at the part about Mediafire. The normal downloading window for Windows do not offer this service. Therefore, you can download a free software called Speedbit Download Accelerator that helps to resume your downloads. It is quite important for downloading large files since it would take a very long time to finish the download and no one would want their download to restart after downloading the file half way.

In conclusion, you can follow these steps to download anything you want for free. All the above method and sites mentioned above are safe and easy to use. Feel free to try them out.

Who Says English is Easy?

Bryan Tay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:06:11 +0000

I got this from my sms

Who Says English is Easy?

Don’t believe what I said? Then fill in the blank with either Yes or No.

“Oh____, I am a pig.”

See? So, if you can’t answer, send to another pig.

Haha

How To Subscribe To Blog Without Rss Feed?

Bryan Tay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:27:25 +0000

Most of the blogs have a rss feed that you can subscribe to. However, there may be some that isn’t any.

The solution: Ponyfish

It is free and easy to create. In less than five minutes, you can have your feed ready for your favourite site.

Create A Forum For Your Website

Bryan Tay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:40:11 +0000

If you already have a domain name and a web hosting account, go into your hosting account at control panel, click on Fantastico De Luxe under Software/Services. It brings you to a page and at the left side of the page, under discussion boards there is something called phpBB. Click on it and install the forum. There you are! It can also be customized if you do not like the look of it. However, what if you do not have a hosting account or your hosting account do not provide this service? You have to create a forum under some other people site for example forum.com/nameofyourforum. Usually blogging websites would provide the comments tools installed therefore there is no need for forums. For non-blog websites webmasters who needs to create a place where your visitors can discuss, they can get free forums available listed below, however there may be ads on your forums.

10 Free Ways To Get Website Traffic

Bryan Tay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:51:45 +0000

Bookmark your sites to social bookmarking sites such as Digg and others. Also place a social bookmarking icon on your webpage for people to bookmark your site such as AddThis.
Participate in forums as it builds trust between the users and you hence you can advertise your site more easily. Like lets say if you place your link there, there is a higher chance that people will click it. However only participate in forums on your topic. Lets say your website is on Health and you post your link onto a Football Forum, the likelyhood that people will click it is very low. Even if they do, they may not be interested in your products and may not buy it. Hence you have to get targeted customers instead of many customers that are not targeted.
Nowadays, most people use the search engine to search for webpages. Therefore, the higher your page rank, people will notice it more easily. Hence you have to optimize your website such that it is search engine friendly, also called Search Engine Optimization(SEO).You can do this by using your keywords that is related to your site more often in your posts.
You can also write articles and post it to Ezinearticles where there is a huge directory of articles. Only unique articles are accepted. Private Label Rights articles are not allowed. So how can writing articles improve your website traffic? At the bottom of every article you write, you can place your link there so that people would click it. It is targeted traffic since the article you write is related to your website. To make more people click the link, you have to urge them to click it. Do not use the click here for my website. Instead tell the audience what they will expect when they go to your website. For example, they may get a free gift or something on this line.
You may submit your sites to Google and other search engines. However, you just need to submit your site to Google and Yahoo since many of the other search engines depend on Google or Yahoo for their results. Therefore, do not pay for some service that submits your site to thousands of search engines. Furthermore, most people use Google hence submitting your site to the other search engines will not help much.
You can upload videos that you have created that are related to your site to YouTube. At the descrption box at the right side, you can place your link the getting targeted traffic.
Make your site interesting so that people visiting your site would add your site to their favourites folder on their web browser or subscribe to your rss feed and would come back again. There is no use getting many visitor and none comes back.
Make some powerpoint slides regarding your site and upload it to SideShare. Remember to use keywords.
Post Classified ads to Cragslist.
Submit press release to let people know your product or website to Free-press-release.

The above methods are free methods to get traffic. You can also get paid traffic if you have the money. It is much faster than free traffic but you have to be very careful since there are many people that lose alot of money there. How does it work? You can buy a ad space on Google when people click on your ads, you will have to pay Google. The ad space may also appear on other sites with Adsense, depending on your Adwords settings. What I am talking here is Adwords, but there are many others out there such as Overture which is Yahoo’s form of paid traffic.