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How to Check Whether Programs Are Safe To Uninstall in Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:28:00 +0000

Check when programs were last used/ installed

The easiest native way to see when programs were last used/ installed is through Windows Settings.

Press Windows Key + I to open Settings.
Go to Apps > Installed apps (or Apps & features).
Click the Sort by dropdown menu (which defaults to "Name" or "Size") and select Last used date (or check the Date installed if last used is unavailable).

Via Control Panel (Classic View):

Press Win + R, type appwiz.cpl, press Enter
Shows the same list but sometimes with more detailed publisher info

Windows removed native real-time tracking of app usage years ago, meaning programs like Photoshop or Atom will keep displaying their installation date even if you opened them five minutes ago.

For any program you're unsure about, right-click → Properties or click the three dots in Settings and check:

Detail	What to Look For
Publisher	Be cautious with entries from Microsoft, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Realtek, or your PC maker — these may be hardware/driver-related
Install Date	Flag anything that appeared recently without your knowledge
File Location	If it lives in `C:\Windows` or `Program Files\Common Files` → leave it alone
Digital Signature	Missing/unknown signature = higher risk
Uninstall Warning	If Windows warns it's "required for system functionality" → do NOT remove

To see when programs were actually launched

Method 1: Use Windows Task Manager (App History)

Windows built-in App History tracks actual CPU time and data usage for modern/Microsoft Store apps and some desktop apps.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
Click the App History tab on the left side (the clock icon).
Look at the CPU time or Network columns. Programs with zero CPU time have not been actively running on your machine since the data logging started.

Method 2: You can check the modified date of the application's actual configuration or launch files.

Open File Explorer and go to C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86).
Find the folder for the software (e.g., Adobe or Atom).
Switch to Details View (View > Layout > Details).
Look at the Date modified column for .exe files or user data subfolders. If a folder or executable has not been modified in months or years, it usually means the application hasn't been run or updated.

Method 3: Use ExecutedProgramsList (Most Accurate Free Tool)

If you want an accurate list showing the exact time every .exe file was last executed on your computer, use a lightweight, portable diagnostic tool called ExecutedProgramsList by NirSoft.

Download ExecutedProgramsList (it is free and requires no installation).
Run the application.
It scans your Windows Registry, Prefetch data, and UserAssist keys to build a table.
Click the Last Executed Time column header to sort all installed programs from most recently used to least recently used.

Quick Rule of Thumb Before Uninstalling

If you are unsure whether a program is safe to uninstall:

Safe to remove: Web browsers you don't use, third-party media players, games, standalone utilities (like Atom or Photoshop).

If the uninstall button is greyed out/missing OR Windows explicitly warns against removal → it's protected; don't touch it.

Do NOT remove: Anything named Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, Microsoft .NET Framework, or drivers listing your hardware manufacturers (e.g., Realtek, Intel, NVIDIA, AMD). Removing these will break other applications on your PC.

Usually Safe to Remove

Apps you installed yourself (browsers, games, tools you recognize)
Preinstalled bloatware/trials: Norton, McAfee, trial antivirus, manufacturer demo apps
Microsoft consumer apps people often don't use: Xbox, Clipchamp, News, Weather, Maps, Movies & TV, Solitaire Collection
PC "optimizer," "cleaner," or "driver updater" tools you never chose to install.

Never Remove (Critical System Components)

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables — many programs depend on these
.NET Framework / .NET Runtime — core platform for apps
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime — used by many Windows components
Anything with "Driver," "Chipset," "BIOS," "Firmware," "Update," "Health Tools," "System App Runtime" in the name
Microsoft Store — keeps apps updated
Hardware support tools from your laptop manufacturer (hotkey/energy utilities) unless you know what they do

Article Submission Sites VS Google Panda

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Article submission has become a favorite way for many online marketer and blogger to build links without too much effort. If you are unfamiliar with this practice, article submission (or also called article marketing) involves writing unique articles and then submitting them to the article directories. Your article will be reviewed by their editors and when it is published, your content becomes searchable and that usually includes a link to the author’s website.

Using this tactic, the article sites will not only get free articles but also the ones who will benefit the most. In recent years, some larger companies have also jumped on this, they created sites and loaded them with their own content. Suite101, wikiHow and eHow are some of the better known ones. Although sites like that are a great source of revenue for Google but their contents are usually very poor and some of them are even considered as spam.

Because of this, Google decided to make a change and thus Panda update was created in order to clean up the landscape. Even though Google claimed that their intent was to find more high-quality and original content but it became obvious that the Panda update was made as an effort to disparage content farms and claim back the territory Google once owned. Like it or not, the article directories were the main target of this algorithmic change.

Will article marketing remain effective? It will likely remain a viable method, but now it will contain more barriers to entry and you need to knock them off their perch by showing your superior content.

Article Submissions Traffic After Panda Update

Ezinearticles was one of the article submission sites impacted the hardest by the Panda update. Shortly after the initial Panda update rolled out, Chris Knight (EzineArticles CEO) started to lay down some guidelines for moving forward on the company blog. He has made some significant changes including a reduction in the number of ads per page, no longer accepting article sumissions through a WordPress Plugin, reducing the number of article submission accepted by over 10% (only for articles that are not unique enough), raising the minimum article word count to 400, removing articles that are considered thin and spammy and many more.

As for HubPages (one of the sites that being hit hard also), the change is quite simple and easy to follow. Other than No duplicate content is allowed (this rule is of course applied to all article marketing sites), there must be at least 50 words of content for every featured product, capsules that contain eBay, Amazon, RSS as well as Link capsules cannot be the first full-width item.

The following are some of the winners of the recent update according to some researchers:
1. Youtube.com
2. Yahoo.com
3. Blogspot.com
4. Wikipedia.org
5. eHow.com

The following are some of the losers of the recent update according to some researchers:
1. About.com
2. Answers.com
3. Ciao.co.uk
4. Reviewcentre.com
5. Brothersoft.com

Google Panda Algorithm Update 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:42:00 +0000

For those who spent much of their time on the internet in the last couple of weeks, they probably have known about the Google “Panda” algorithm update. But for those of you who do not know yet, let me summarize the announcement launched by Google last February 2011. This update has caused a lot of concerns for online businesses and writers with websites. One of the change they made was meant to make Google search results more effective, useful and desirable.

For sites which rely greatly on Google traffic, vanishing from the first two pages of their search results (the point at which more than 95% of searchers give up) can mean the difference between your financial life and death. Google also released a Chrome browser extension called Personal Blocklist in February. This feature can stop any site that you dislike from appearing in your results and at the same time you will be helping Google out too.

You can check for your recent visitors to your website using Google Analytic and see whether you are one of those who already being ‘hit’ by the panda. A member of Google’s Product Quality team, Michael Wysz who works with webmasters and has given an important and useful piece of advice. In short, write a good quality content and avoid low quality content.

The panda’s main aim is to remove every poor quality sites from their list as well as to pull down any sites with their spammy backlinks. According to Google, this panda update is mainly designed to provide better rankings for original and informative content. Google also have said that low quality content on part of your site can impact its ranking as a whole.

Google uses the length of time in a web page to determine how important or useful that information is. The longer the visitor stays in your web page, the more useful Google will think your web page is. High percentage of visitors returning to your site is also one of the important factor you need to obtain.

Page content doesnt match with the page title tag as well as keyword stuffing can also make your site vulnerable to panda. If your page has a large number of dupe (of your own copy), no or few content, improve it or remove (and 301) it or block it from Google with robots.txt. You can also add rel=canonical tags to those ‘duped’ pages so that Google will not see those pages as dupes.

Google Webmaster Tools suggests that you should not have too many javascript and ‘lookups’ in order to speed up your page load time.

You should have your keyword/s in your domain name and URL (space replaced with hyphens). You should have your keyword/s in your title tag (10 – 60 characters), description (less than 200 characters) and keyword (less than 10 words) meta tag. Every word in your Keyword meta tag must appear somewhere in your body text and no single word in this tag should appear more than twice.
You should also have your keyword/s in your H1 – H3, links or anchor texts (to site pages).

Try not to exceed 100K page size, smaller size files are preferred (less than 40 K) and less than 100 links out total is recommended in one page.

According to wordtracker, the “panda slap” is only applied at the page level and not site-wide. Therefore certain pages of yours might get hit harder than the others and some of the pages also might did well out of panda.

Other than that, certain things remain the same, like building backlinks is still one of the most recommended way to get your site ranked well. Sites which use tools such as autoblogging or sites that are built for the purpose of adsense are always not recommended.

How to Use Blackberry Protect to Backup/Restore Your Data

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:10:00 +0000

Blackberry Protect is designed for locking/wiping our stolen or lost handset and for backing up as well as restoring specific data from our Blackberry smartphone. With Blackberry Protect, our very important information such as contacts, sms messages, memos, tasks and browser bookmarks can also be easily recovered.

When automatic backups are enabled, your Blackberry Protect will back up your smartphone data at the specified frequency. Of course you need your Blackberry ID in order to have this feature on your BB smartphone. When your device is not connected to the wireless network, or is turned off then Blackberry Protect will back up your data the next time your device is turned on and connected.

The backup process will be paused when the Blackberry device is in use and the Blackberry Protect will automatically finish the process once the smartphoneis in idle. Not only that, we also have the ability to perform a remote backup or remote security wipe so that your personal information can be removed.

If you have misplaced your smartphone and a backup hasnt been made, dont worry, just login to the Blackberry Protect website where you can easily perform a remote backup or remote security wipe.

To start using this free application, you can download and install the Blackberry Protect into your Blackberry smartphone.

You can also stop and start using this feature if you want to by going to Blackberry Protect from your home screen, press Menu or Blackberry icon button and select ‘Stop Blackberry Protect’ or ‘Start Blackberry Protect’ and then enter your BBID username and password.

Blackberry Protect can automatically back up your data monthly, weekly, or even daily.

To change the types of data you want to back up:
Go to BB Protect – press menu key – Options – select the check boxes.

To turn off backups:
Go to BB protect – press menu key – Options – uncheck the Automatically Back Up check box – press menu key – Save.

To access and explore this fantastic feature, you can go to the website at http://protect.blackberry.com.

The Blackberry Protect website enables you to display message on your BB smartphone (such as your address or phone numbers) so that anyone who finds it can read the message and returns the device to your home.

From the Blackberry Protect website you can also view your BB smartphone’s current location, this means that if your Blackberry device is stolen you can easily find it.

Blackberry Protect also make it much easier for you if you want to switch your old Blackberry smartphone to a new one. All you have to do is perform a backup on your old phone and then logging into Blackberry Protect on your new Blackberry phone and selecting the restore data option.

How to Back Up and Restore Blackberry Contacts

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:09:00 +0000

How to Back Up and Restore Blackberry Contacts

On the Home screen, click the Blackberry Messenger symbol or icon.
On the contact list screen, press the Menu key and click Options.
After that click Back Up and then Back up files locally (you can keep your backup file on your Blackberry smartphone or media card).
You can activate the Auto save contact list changes (by selecting the check box), so that a back up file will be saved automatically whenever your contact list changes.
Click Back Up Now.

To restore the contact list back up file

On the Home screen, click the Blackberry Messenger symbol or icon.
On the contact list screen, press the Menu key and click Options.
After that click Restore using a backup file from device.

However, BBM 7 comes with a major update. In BBM 7 (and going forward), we no longer have to worry because all the BBM contact list and settings info would be tied into your Blackberry ID. This means that it will grab your contacts and settings list and holds onto them. We no longer need to back up or restore the contacts manually either from the SD card or by email as all the information is stored in your BBID. If you notice, there is no backup/restore feature in the menu options of the BBM7.

In order to find out what version your bb messenger is through Option > Applications. Other way is to go Instant Messanging folder from your Home screen – on the contact list screen, press the Menu key and click Options – press the Menu key and select About Blackberry Messenger. You can also just install a ‘new’ version and it will tell you if your version is older or newer.

Blackberry Protect
You can also use Blackberry Protect in order to switch data to your new Blackberry device. This application is also free and would let you take advantage of several important features such as automatic backups of all the contacts, calendar entries and many more. In addition, you can also perform a remote backup as well as a remote security wipe so that all of your personal information can be removed – just visit the Blackberry Protect website. Using the BlackBerry Protect website we can also do many important things such as view the current location of our device on a map and make our device ring (even if it is in silent mode).

How to Download and Install Screen Grabber to Capture Screen on Your Blackberry

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:30:00 +0000

Blackberry Screen Grabber is an application used to capture screen from your Blackberry phone. It is very useful, simple and easy to use – and it is also free! After you have captured the screen, you can then send your screen grabs to your Blackberry’s contacts.

Interested? If you are, then you can download the application through the following steps:

First you press the “Menu” button on your Blackberry phone. Locate the “Downloads” icon and click on the icon.

After that, click on the “Blackberry App World” icon. Once again, press the ‘Menu” button on your Blackberry phone and click “Search”.

In the search box shown there, type “screen grabber free” and then press “Enter” key on your phone.

When the Screen Grabber program appears on the screen, click the “Download” button and your Blackberry will download the program for you.

After you have successfully downloaded and installed the program, you can start using it by pressing the Blackberry menu button and select “Screen Grabber”. After the screen shot, you will be presentied with the option to save the image or email it.

Screen Grabber saves the images of your screen shot in a small size so that it is easier to email and save. All your screen shot images will be saved in a new picture file called Screen Grabs. Another good news is that these files do not contain any Screen Grabber advertising or a watermark.

The application is very easy to use and it is compatible with many different Blackbery's models (from 8100 - 9981) as long as they are running OS version 4.5 or higher.

One of the drawbacks to this app is that you will be forced to load an ad after you grab an image, this ad will automatically be displayed after every screen shot you take and you can't cancel it out.

Another one is that when you try to click the Blackberry menu button from the home screen, you will not find an option to grab the home screen. So for the time being you can't grab your home screen using this application. But if you need to capture the home screen, here is a little trick to do that:

Go to option - select screen/keboard - then change one of the convenience keys to capture it - go back to your home screen and press that key - done.

How to Create, Change and Switch Your Blackberry ID

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:15:00 +0000

When you bought a second hand blackberry smartphone or someone has given you his old blackberry to you, then you should remove the previous owner’s blackberry id and change it with your own bb id.

Unfortunately, for some models you cannot sign out from the current blackberry id and sign in with different bb ID without a security wipe, so heres how you should first wipe your bb smartphone to a factory setting default so that you can remove the previous owner's bb id and sign in with your own.

Go to Options from the home screen > Security > Security Wipe > you can check all to wipe all the data in your blackberry smartphone and everything would be set to factory setting > type “blackberry” to confirm the wipe > then click Wipe Data.

With the above steps, all of your contacts, emails, media, applications etc would be wiped off, and after that you can sign in with your account.

If you forget or want to create a new blackberry id, then you can go to http://us.blackberry.com/bbid.html > click the link to create your new blackberry id > click I Agree > complete the required fields in the sign-up page > click Save. After this step, you should receive a confirmation email, click the link within the email message (the link will expire after a 24-hour period), when prompted, enter your blackberry id and password.

Once your blackberry id has been created, you can anytime change it by logging into the Blackberry ID website and then edit your account details:

Login to your Blackberry ID website with your username and password > click Account Details > Edit > replace the current email address/username with the new ID > Save > Done.

To change your Blackberry ID username on Blackberry Bold 9900 4G:
Go to Options from your home screen > scroll to select Device > Blackberry ID > scroll to select Screen Name > after that delete the existing username and enter the required username > now press the Menu key > Save > Enter your Blackberry ID password > Ok.

How to find out what model your Blackberry is:
Press Menu button from your smartphone > select Options > select About. On some models you have to select Device and then About/About Device Versions. Now you can see the model of your Blackberry and its software version.

Other quick method is to go to Message folder from your home screen, open up your email and type “Myver” on the Subject empty field and then press space button on your phone. After that the model of your blackberry smartphone as well as the OS version will appear immediately inside the blank field.

Done :)

How to Transfer Blackberry Memopad to Your Computer

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Open and compose a memo. After that click the “Menu” button and then click “Save” in order to save your memo to the media card.

From the Blackberry Desktop Software

Connect your computer and your Blackberry using the USB data cable and then open Blackberry Desktop Manager (or “Software”) on the computer.

Click “Get started with this device” – check the “Organizer data” box – click “Finish”.
After that click “Organizer” – click “Configure setings” – click the “MemoPad” check box, and then highlight the desktop application you want to export the MemoPad notes and click “Next”.
After that click “One way sync from device” – click “Next” twice – click “Finish” – click “OK” – and then click the “Sync” button.

By Email

Use your rollerball to find the ‘Memopad” icon and click it. After that press “Menu” button in your blackberry phone and select “Forward As” and then select “Email”. Input your email address and send your note to that email.

Notepad Applications

You can also use notepad application such as BBnotePad, a free text editor that is more useful than the Blackberry's Memopad. This app allows us to export our notes as documents in TXT format or as memos, that can then be read on any computer. It also allow us to choose between Suretype and Multitap input systems. BbnotePad lets us to save notes either to our Blackberry’s internal storage or into our SD card. This is perfect when you need to read your note on your computer or you want to exchange memos with other BB users.

What is, and the Differences Between IMEI, ESN, and MEID

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:00:00 +0000

IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) is a 15- or 17-digit code (usually unique) given to every single mobile phone. The function of an IMEI is to identify the phone.

IMEI can usually be found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. A phone is only given one IMEI number.

Beside using the codes to identify valid devices by a GSM network, it can also be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing the network.

IMEI numbers connected to a GSM network are all stored in a database (Equipment Identity Register – EIR) containing all valid mobile phone equipment.

In most mobile communications devices, these hidden numbers will appear on the display if you enter *#06# (star-pound-zero-six-pound) on the dialpad.

When a phone is turned on, its IMEI number would be transmitted and verified by the network. When a phone is reported stolen or is blacklisted, its number is marked invalid.

First 8 digits of IMEI are Type Allocation Code (TAC) – it indicates the mobile phone brand and model. The first two digits are the Reporting Body Identifier, indicating the GSMA approvd gruop that allocated the TAC. The rest last 7 digits are defined by manufacturer (6 are its serial number and 1 is check digit).

Difference Between IMEI and ESN,
ESN, or electronic serial number, is also unique identifier for cellphones. This 32-digit number is linked to the user’s account and holds her or his information including network and account information.

ESN serves as both the SIM card and the IMEI number because it carries both the cell phone’s unique identifier as well as the network (user) information. And because of that, the carrier must be informed whenever the user wants to change phones – not as simple as switching out a SIM card.

There are two primary mobile service provider technologies we use today – Global System for Mobiles (GSM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). A mobile phone is manufactured to support either GSM or CDMA, but not both. A unique identification number was then assigned by phone manufacturers to each handset according to the technology it supports. ESN’s are currently mainly used with CDMA phones whereas IMEI numbers are used by GSM phones. However, ESNS are slowIy being phased out in favor of the MEID.

What is MEID?
MEID stands for Mobile Equipment Identifier, a longer identification number (14 digits long) that is more similar to IMEI number. This unique number is also used to identify your cell phone that utilizes the CDMA technology for wireless service.

What Does mAh Stand For

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:24:00 +0000

The letters “mAh” stand for milliampere hours – it is how a battery’s energy storage capacity is measured. This also tells us how many electrical currents are released in an hour.

m = milli = 1/1000
A = ampere, a unit of electrical current (usually shortened to “amp”)
h = hour
Therefore mAh means 1/1000 of an ampere for an hour. It is equal to 3.6 coulombs.

For example, if you have a rechargeable battery with a capacity of 2700 mAh (or 2.7 AH), and it is used to power a device that draws 1 ampere of current, therefore if that battery is fully-charged then it can power the device for 2.7 hours.

The higher the mAh rating then the higher the energy capacity of a battery and longer the battery cycle. Typical rechargeable batteries are rated between 1800mAh and 2700 mAh, it can also be purchased in different sizes (AA, AAA, 9V, etc). We can now determine how long your battery will last by mAh. Under normal usage it is 45 minutes for every 100 mAh (approximately).

Digital cameras, PDAs, digital video and hand-held video game systems are usually high-drain devices. And all of those devices will perform well with rechargeable batteries which have a higher mAh.

Difference between voltage and amperage.
Voltage is how much electricity there is, whereas amperage is how fast that electricity if moving.
As an analogy, imagine that we are driving to the cinema in our cars. The “voltage” here is the desire we have to get to that cinema, while the “amperage” is the speed with which we are getting there.

VHF and UHF TV Antenna

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:02:00 +0000

Television antennas usually has a pair of metal rods (made primarily of alumunium) extending from a boom. The quality of the antenna is depends on how well anodized the metal is. When the metal oxidizes, you will almost always experience inadequate reception. Outdoor TV antennas are more prone to wear than their indoor counterparts although outdoor TV antennas provide additional reliability and clarity. The main factors determining reception are the direction and distance from the television station transmitters to your antenna, as well as the transmitter’s power. Indoor antennas are gennerally small, designed to be placed on or near your TV and can be affected by wall insulation, roofing materials, plumbing, electrical wiring and even people moving around a room. Other sources of household interference include computers, fluorescent light, and cordless phones.

The relative strength of the signal an antenna able to deliver to a tuner is referred to as “gain” (measured in decibels, or dB). The higher the dB, the greater the gain. There is another specification called front-to-back-ratio, it means how much better the antenna receives a signal coming fromm the direction it is pointed compared to a signal coming from the opposite direction. The larger the number the better it is.

Difference between VHF and UHF.
Television stations operate in either the Ultra High Frquency (UHF) or Very High Frequency (VHF) bands. VHF and UHF are bandwidths used to broadcast radio and television signals for operators to receive them.
In US, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decides who is able to use which frequencies for whhich purposes, and it issues licenses to stations for specific frequencies.

VHF : 30 MHz – 300 MHz, channels 2 through 13 on TV
UHF : 300 MHz – 3 GHz, channels 14 and up on TV

Megahertz means "millions of cycles per second," so "300 megahertz" means that the transmitter at the radio sttation is oscillating at a frequency of 300,000,000 cycles per second.
Kilohertz means "thousand of cycles persecond".

Other Common frequency bands:
• AM radio : 535 kilohertz – 1.7 MHz
• Short wave radio : bands from 5.9 MHz – 26.1 MHz
• Citizens band (CB) radio : 26.96 MHz – 27.41 MHz
• Television stations : 54 – 88 MHz for channels 2 through 6
• FM radio : 88 MHz – 108 MHz
• Television stations : 174 – 220 MHz for channels 7 through 13

There are hundreds of them, for example:
• Garage door openers, alarm systems, etc. - Around 40 MHz
• Standard cordless phones: 40 – 50 MHz
• Baby monitors: 49 MHz
• Radio controlled airplanes: Around 72 MHz, which is different from...
• Radio controlled cars: Around 75 MHz
• Wildlife tracking collars: 215 – 220 MHz
• MIR space station: 145 MHz & 437 MHz
• Cell phones: 824 – 849 MHz
• New 900-MHz cordless phones: Obviously around 900 MHz!
• Air traffic control radar: 960 – 1,215 MHz
• Global Positioning System: 1,227 & 1,575 MHz
• Deep space radio communications: 2290 MHz – 2300 MHz
Antenna are available for VHF, UHF or a unique combination signal. Most of the dual band VHF/UHF antennas are in fact two different antennas in one package. Most digital TV stations broadcast in the UHF frequency band. The difference between UHF and VHF TV antennas is mainly the size. UHF frequencies are much higher than VHF, so UHF antennas are much smaller. The difference between VHF and UHF transmissions is only the frequency range or ‘band’ they are in. Many thought that UHF is an inherently better technology, it’s not. The technology, or principle of their operation is the same. Since there are considerably fewer UHF wireless systems in use, so the main advantage of using the UHF operation is there’s less chance of interference, making them sharper and clearer on the whole. On the other hand, the beneft of using VHF sytem is that the transmissions tend to be cheaper and they can work better when the receiving antenna and transmitter are not in sight of each-other.

Downlead is a common name used for the lead-in line that connects the antenna to TV. Only coaxial cable that commonly referred to as “coax”, should be used for downlead. Good quality coax cable is 100% shielded with an alumunnium foil and alumunium wire braiding to reject interference.
When connecting coaxial cable, connect the center conductor cable to the antenna and ensure that the shielding braid is firmlly contacting the saddle clamp but not to crush the cable by over tightening tthe saddle clamp. Coaxial joints and plugs should be soldered or securely fastened with screw connections.

Diplexer is a device which combines signals from UHF and VHF antennas into one output cable which can then be connected to your TV set. It can be mounted either near the TV or near the antennas. Diplexer is needed only when your TV set has just one input socket for both UHF and VHF cables.

FM rejection filters or sometimes described as an FM trap, enables receivers to reject FM sound signals, tthus preventing them from interfering with most TV signals.

Another way to enhance signal gain is through the use of electronic amplification. An amplifier which installed on an outdoor antenna or mast is often called a preamp or preamplifier (Booster). Preamplifiers normally consists of 2 components. The first component is the actual amplifier, it should be mounted on the antenna mast abuot a foot below the main boom and is connected to the antenna witth a short length of coax cable. The other unit is the power supply, which is mounted inside the house and provides power to the preamplifier through the coax cable between the two unit. The splitter should not be located between the power supply and the preamp, if the splitter are in line between these two, the splitter may block the voltage from reaching the preamp and will stop almost all of the incoming signal from reaching the TV. Most experts recommend only using amplifier if you need to, because it amplifies noise along with the signal and it can be overdriven by strong signals, which make reception worse. However, if the signal is split several times, the problem you will get is a signal loss. If 2 – 4 way signal splitter is added, it normally will not weaken the signals enough to justify adding a distribution amplifier to the system. However, If more than four, let’s say you have three TVs, two VCRs, and an FM receiver all connected to one antenna, a preamp is really a good idea. There are many different types of preamplifier available. Some are for UHF or VHF only or both, and in differing amounts of gain from 6 – 30 dB. A good UHF antenna may give you 8 – 10 dB gain.

What is IP Camera

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:30:00 +0000

An IP camera is a camera that uses the Web to transmit images and control signals. It transmits data in a digital format over an Ethernet connection. IP stands for Internet Protocol, and IP camera is also commonly called an IP network camera. It is usually used as a security camera and surveillance. The images quality are better than analog and it can be installed alone or in a group. They are normally mounted and connected to a digital video recorder (DVR) or linked to a network video recorder (NVR) to form a video surveillance system. If the IP camera is connected to a computer network, it can be viewed and managed over the internet from anyplace in the world. It simply needs access to a conventional Web browser and every IP camera on a network has its own unique network functions and address as a video server. The camera type have a wide variety of protocols including TCP/IP and HTTP.

Until very recently, video surveillance and security was accomplished using CCTV or Closed Circuit Television. This technology included analog cameras, video tape recorders and coaxial cable. When charged- coupled device (CCD) sensors became available, the production of digitized images is enabled by the technology. However, the transmission was still analog via coax to analog VCR’s. When DVR (Digital Video Recorder) was introduced, it could be linked directly to analog cameras which made storing, searching and retrieving video much more efficient. Personal computers were then introduced for display of the images through modem and network connection to the DVR.

With the introduction of Network Cameras, the entire system has now been digitized incorporating onboard processors and web server software. The system is very flexible, it doesn’t need coaxial cables to connect the network. The most common types of IP cameras are fixed body, fixed dome and PTZ cameras. Fixed body camera is normally enclosed in a rectangular housing and the direction it is pointing is quite obvious. Fixed dome camera is enclosed in a dome-shaped shield and it is hard to judge where this type of camera is pointing. PTZ (Pan, Tilt and Zoom) camerais typically used for live monitoring. A PTZ camera can move down and up and right to left. It can also zoom out or in on a face, door or cash register.

What is and How to use Hubpages

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:58:00 +0000

HubPages is a social networking and personal interaction website, you can promote your website through HubPages. It is just another way for webmasters to create their quality backlink. By using Hubpages, users can write anything they are knowledgeable about or anything they like and add links to direct relevant traffic to their main site. You can use Hubpages to promote your affiliate products or even your Internet home based business website, and another best part is that you do not have to learn or have any knowledge about HTML, PHP, CSS or any other tech stuff, it is basedd on WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). The writing platform is sleek and user friendly. You also don't have to be an expert in order to write about a subject.

The more websites link to your website, your website will get higher ranking in the search engines. In Hubpages, you are not allowed to create more than two links to one site on each hubpage. You can use the content in the first paragraph to link to your site and use the RSS feed as the other one.

The Hubpage’s articles, or they call it as hubs (a hub is a web page on any topiic) tend to achieve pagerank pretty easily and can produce Dofollow backlink with a high enough score (last I heard is 75). Hubscore is the rank assigned to your hub by Hubpages, the rank is based on the nature and the quality of the content displayed on it. Hubs are the combination of small sections called capsules (or what they call them as ‘building blocks’ of the Hub) which include text, photos, links, video, RSS feeds or even money making option. Break up your text capsules with header titles. By taking advantage of the text title, it should make your articles easier to read. Use pictures in your articles, image search engines can bring additional traffic. You should not place unnecessary or too many links on your Hubpage.

Hubpages is a revenue sharing content site, it allow its users to be able to generate a nice income from their hubs. Adding Ebay and Amazon blocks can help you earn money through their affiliate programs or you can add your Adsense accuont and earn money on the clicks and impresions the ads gets. Adsense links are automatically inserted into every page. In order for your hubs to get approved by Google AdSense your hub must contain unique material that you write on your own and do not obtain copied content from other webpages. You will be able to login to your new account of Gogle Adsense and check your earnings once your hubpage is approved onto the Adsense program.

Does hubpages only take a percentage in my articles that i publish on hubpages.com or from all my sites? And since hubpages is using a revenue sharing model, why we should publish our articles there instead on our own website? Well, if those are the questions you are about to ask, you can find the answer here.

To promote your hubs, you can send links out to the Internet community through social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Propeller, Reddit, Mixx or forums. You can add the links in your blogroll or link section in the sidebar of your own website or blog. A good quality hubpage will entice visitors to continue to your website.

Visitors to the site can visit the main page to see what is new, what is hot and what is the best rated, they also can search for hubs on a specific topic.

Create a profile, put your main website URL and email for the contact information. You can use the internal tag system to promote your Hub by tagging it with good keywords that are relevant to your content. When you create a hub you can link to another hubs that is related quite easily.

Interested to join Hubpages and start earning extra money? you can visit the site and register by clicking the link here.

Mixx Social Media bookmarking website

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:09:00 +0000

Mixx is another popular social media website among many others out there and the site helps you to submit any of your favorite or interesting content which you want to share it to other people. This social media site combines social networking and bookmarking. Mixx was launched in September 2007 and has a format similar to Propeller (Netscape) and Digg where you vote stories up or down. The difference is that once you submit stories to Mixx, you can’t delete it or change its title or description while you might be able to do this in other social media site. All of the content is user-generated, there are no editor who decides what you should find interesting, so you can submit stories, videos, photos —whatever you find informative, interesting, fun or different.

Mixx also has groups, you can set up your own group. This makes it possible for its users to not only submit their work to different categories, but also to different groups and therefore get more exposure to their work. Make sure you submit quality original content.

As similar with other social media site, expanding your friends is one of the most important factor to promote and gain more votes to your stories, in Mixx you can add people as your friend by going to any people profile and click “follow”. In many cases, people will also follow you.

Mixx is one of the most useful social media bookmarking site which can get you rank in SERPs according to many SEO experts. The others are Digg, Jumptags, Diigo, Folkd, Oyax and Dzone. Of course, others may have different experiences. Although many of those most popular media sites provide Nofollow links but they actually rank in SERPs and can get you good social/organic traffic when indexed.

For the time being, it seems that Mixx does not allow any submissions that come from many sites such as Squidoo, Livejournal, Weebly, GoArticles, EzineArticles and even Blogspot.

Pinging service using Ping-o-matic

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:16:00 +0000

Pinging is one of the most effective, easiest and quickest things webmasters can do to promote their web pages. What is ping? A blog can simply use a pinging service to tell search engine “Im Over Here”, and the blog would get indexed almost immediately. One of the most popular site which offer this kind of service is Ping-o-matic. This "pinging" service is free to use and you dont even have to register to use the service. Though Ping-o-matic was designed to prromote blogs, but you can also use it to promote website.

To use it is very easy, all you have to do is simply input the name of your article or site, and the corresponding URL, and that is it. In the blank under Blog Name, input your article's Title. Next, copy the URL of your article and paste it in the space under Blog Home Page. You can leave the RSS URL blank. After that when you scroll down further, you will see "Services to Ping." There are 21 different services for you to choose. If you want your article gets pinged to every service Ping-O-Matic submits to, then check all of them. The last step is to simply click 'send pings' button. That is it. You are done.

After you are done with the pinging process, a confirmation page will appear (see below).
Repeat the above steps if you want to start pinging other articles or pages you may have to promote. Everytime you make a change such as adding photo, video or more content to that page... go ahead and ping it again! You should see traffic results very quickly.

Do note that only use Ping-O-Matic when you update your blog or site. Using it many times without updating your blog will lead to your blog getting black listed.

Tips and tricks to optimize Digg

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:43:00 +0000

Submitting your webpage, blog post or article to Digg is an excellent method to gain additional exposure. Once you submitted your story, other users can vote for it. Content with more votes votes will rank higher and benefit from massive exposure. Story with the highest votes will also be featured on Digg’s frontpage in addition to ranking higher on searches. Everyday, lots of internet marketers, webmasters and bloggers struggle and use many kind of tricks, in attempts to get their contents or articles featured on Digg’s front page.

Set up a good interesting profile and create for yourself an eye catching avatar (avatar= logo or personal image) to attract attention to your posts. With 15 submissions per page and hundreds of submissions per hour, you need to have something that make your posts stand out from the other.

Take your time coming up with good title and description, put in your keywords to optimize SEO. Your title and description will be displayed to visitors and that is what you are using to convince readers to click on your link. When it comes to the description, do not reveal anything, make the visitors curious about what is written in your posts. Make it unique rather than just copy and paste the first sentence or paragraph of your post into the field.

Submit a good quality content and made from your original content, not copy-pasted from other article.
Don't always Digg your own posts, Digg does not like their users who submit their own page too frequently.

Try to accumulate as many friends as you can (this is said to be the most important part), select those who are active and will digg your stories when you ask them to. You can anytime replace the active friends with idle ones. There is a button for you to check the ones who dugg your stories.

Do leave comments and respond if other user leaves a comment on your story, you can as well digg their story too. Do not spam, or you might get yourself banned and your access terminated.

How to submit articles to Digg

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:42:00 +0000

One of the most favorite method for people to promote their articles is through the website called Digg. This steps will show you how to submit an article on Digg and share it with the world.
First, of course you need to register and have Digg account for your own. You can read my previous article on how to create a Digg account.

After your account has been verified, login to Digg and on the main page click on “Submit New” (the third tab on top of the page). Click that link and it will take you to the submission page.

Find an article, blog post or image which you would like to submit (you also can submit yours). Copy and paste the website URL address into the submission form. Specify whether the submission is a video, image or news article and then press Continue (it will take a few moments for your submission to be processed).
Next will be the page saying it is checking for duplicates to ensure someone else has not already submitted the page to Digg.

After that you will reach to a page where you are asked to add a title and description (write a short interesting blurb about the article before submitting it). The title and description will be seen by visitors when they are making the decision on wether to click on your link or not. After that pick an appropriate topic category which your article belongs to (make sure is accurate, otherwise you may get many negative feedbacks and comments on your posts). Fill out the form and submit your article by clicking “Submit Story”.

Your article will then automatically appear in the Upcoming section of its category and is officially a part of the Digg.com community and other Digg users can now read it and vote on it. If different people submit the same page, it gets votes and pushed to the first page.

What is Digg and how to join

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:40:00 +0000

Digg is a social news site for people to discover and share content anywhere on the internet. If you find a page which you want to share, you can “digg” it byy submitting the URL and a brief descripption of the page through the Digg website. There is no editors at Digg. Digg users will see your submission and they have options to “digg” it (help promote) or “bury” it (help remove spam). They even can Digg and bury comments they like or dislike. Digg surfaces the best content as voted on by the users, and if your content appear on the Digg’s home page, it will be seen to millions of visitors and therefore, you can expect a huge bump in traffic and receive lots of backlinks (which is good for your SEO). However, it is difficult and only a small number of posts will ever make the Digg front page.

All of the Digg’s website content (from news to videos to images) comes from the site’s visitors (that would be you and other Digg account holders) and it is submitted on a voluntary basis. Among all of the social bookmarking websites, Digg is one of the most popular one, and according to Alexa.com Digg is in the top 250 most visited websites on the entire web. It is reported that Digg has approximately 33 million visitors each month and has 24 million account holders and 5 million of them are active on the site everyday.

Everytime you submit an article, video or image, it will automatically appear in “Upcoming Stories” and it will be seen by other members, if they like it, they ‘digg it’. If your submission does not receive enough Diggs within a certain time period, it will eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section.

Before you begin you need to register first with Digg, enter your info or data needed, after that you will receive an email after you complete the registration process. Click the link given in the email to be a new Digg Registered User.

After your account is verified, you can add optional information to your profile (you can always change your profile data in Profile tab) or skip the step and start Digging.

You now can simply select and take one Digg button and put it on your site. The first thing you should do after posting is to click on your own Digg button and let visitors have their opportunity to click the button to vote on it.

Propeller and Reddit Social News Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:35:00 +0000

If you want to find more social news sites to increase your website traffic further, you can try Propeller and Reddit.

Propeller (formerly known as Netscape) and Reddit, both are famous social news websites, meaning that they are programmed by its members — the audience, includes you. You can find plenty topics from technology, gadget to humor to politics and to many more. Once you become their member (it is free to become one), it allows you to submit and vote on any stories, share it with friends and maintain a list of your favorite articles and upcoming articles. You also can submit pages from your own website or blogs that you feel are worth telling others about and at the same time inviting more traffic to your spot on the web. An excellent reward for well written or informative content.

For those who like to spam or submit their own content have to be careful as your submissions will be 'auto-buried' and will not appear in the search result. Sometimes there are some articles that you submit will not be displayed, do not know the reason why, you have to report to the moderators and tell them about this. When you are banned from Reddit, you still be able to log in and submit articles as much as you like but all of those pages will be visible only to yourself and not others, and when you log out and visit your user page, the error message will appear telling that "the page you requested does not exist".

How it works? It is very similar to the way other social bookmarking sites like Mixx, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon or Digg. Members find good article on the web, submit them to Propeller or Reddit and other members can vote and comment on those stories. Those articles which are most popular will rise to the top. Of course each of these site (or any other bookmarking sites) has its own flagging and presenting the content. To cast your vote in Propeller, simply hit the “Prop It” red button on the left of the story summary. Users can also create a group or join any number of existing groups. The main idea is to connect with people who share a particular passion. Another bonus is that you have another links in to your website from these social news sites and to your article, so there will be a possibility for others to find you and comment or link to you.

Sometimes when surfing in reddit, you will receive this error icon or message (see pic on the right) saying that “you broke reddit”. I received this message after the article submission. I opened a new tab and see that the article is being submitted successfully but i don’t know why this icon appear, maybe is a bug, some people say that it is because the link was submitted more than once or due to excessive submissions. What ever the reason is, the picture is cute and when i checked on Google many Redditters have received the icon too but still not known why.

In order to start using Propeller and Reddit, you just simply go to the site and register for an account. There will be no toolbar to install, all you need to is to spend a significant amunt of your time networking on the site, meeting other users, getting involve in discussions and leaving comments. Once you got so many friends already, you can ask them to visit your post that you submitted and vote it up. When you finally start using all these social news site, like most things online, it can become quite addictive.

What is Diigo and how to use Diigo

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:30:00 +0000

Diigo is a social bookmarking service. Maybe many of you already know how to favorite a web page using Internet Explorer or bookmark using Firefox browser. In Diigo, the service is more or less the same but instead of saving the URL in your browser, you save it on the internet. The advantages of using Diigo to your everyday blogging or web surfing:

Diigo allows its users to highlight text information and take personal notes on web pages. To keep everything organized, it can be arranged by tags or lists.

When you highlight sentences, words or some phrases from an article on the web, this setting will automatically be saved, so anytime you come back to the same page, that particular information will always be highlighted.

Diigo also allows you to add sticky note on a web page. Create your own notes, move them anywhere on the webpage.

You can save your bookmarks online (Just like Del.icio.us or StumbleUpon), if you bookmark web pages using your browser, it may not be with you all the time especially when you use other computer or laptop. Secondly, you will lose all of your bookmarks if something bad happen to your hard drive. Thirdly, if using your browser to bookmark pages on the web, only you yourself can see what is in the list of your bookmarks. By using Diigo, other people wil be able to see your bookmarks and you also will be able to see theirs.

You also can choose to share with friends and collegues to allow them to access the web page, add their own annotations or view your notes and highlight. All of this information can be viewed from any computer, browser or cell phones with browsing capabilities, this can happen because the information is saved online. You can search and access your bookmarks anywhere, by full-text or by tags. Diigo also give us the option whether to let your bookmark freely available to the public or keep it private. Your bookmarks also can be organized into lists.

When users bookmark pages with Diigo, they are actually doing two things: saving the web page URL, and the cache image of the page also being saved. This means that they will always have a copy of the original page including the highlight and notes, even if the page content is changed or if the URL becomes broken.

By using Diigo, you can find the most famous bookmarks on any subject, get recommended and related content while browsing and subscribe to the most recent bookmarks by sites, tags or users. The groups feature also allows you to join groups within your area of interest, so when other people in your niche make any bookmarks, you will be notified. You also can create your own groups. Each group also has its own disscussion board where members can make announcements, conduct conversation, etc.

Use Docstoc to Get Adsense Approved Easily and Fast

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:30:00 +0000

In order to share many types of your documents to other users online, Docstoc provides you that service. DocStoc was founded by Alon Shwartz and Jason Nazar in August 2007 and it was publicly launched in November 2007. In Docstoc, you can upload as many documents as you like and create free high quality backlinks to your sites, blogs, hubs, lens, etc. and earn a percentage of revenue. Docstoc supports .doc, .xls, .pdf, .rtf, .txt, .docx, .ppt, .pps, .xlsx, and .ppts file formats. You can embed Docstoc documents onto your own websites and blogs, this feature is interesting because you can scroll, zoom, drag, rotate, and more with the DocStoc widget.

Docstoc has a pagerank of 6, it has officially come out of it’s beta and professionalism is something that Docstoc aimed for, so you will find any types of professional documents in various languages and categories. There’s a huge library full of user’s documents which categorized in a number of different categories including creative, business, finance, educational and technology. All documents are free to upload and free to view, it is much like scribd.com (Docstoc’s main competitor). You also can set your documents so that they only can be viewed but not downloaded. You need to register for an account in order to upload your documents or download any documents from the site, however, if you just want to view certain documents on the website, you don’t need to register for an account.

How to get fast approved by Google Adsense using docstoc.com:

DocStoc can also help you make money, by becoming Docstoc member you can upload and share 50% of your revenue via Adsense with DocCash, meaning you get the payment from Google, not DocStoc. Since Docstoc rank high in search engine (especially long keywords), it can actually expose your content more than if you publish it on your website or blogs. other similar website that you can use to promote your content and has high ranking in search engines are Hubpages and Squidoo.

Somehow applying for Adsense via Docstoc is now more effective than using Blogspot. Google will no longer approve Adsense applications from publishers who are using Blogspot or other subdomains because Google only accept website which are using top level domain for their Adsense application. One of the advantage from using Docstoc is that you can apply for adsense without needing to have a website and hosting. All you need to do before applying for adsense via Docstoc is that make sure you upload at least 5 copyright violation free documents and complete your profile, fill up all the necessary information and allow Docstoc to access to your adsense account during application. If you follow the steps properly you might get approved within only 6 hours!

After your adsense get approved, you can paste adsense ads anywhere you want such as your websites or blogs and earn the revenue 100% yours. Like Hubpages, Doctoc only take 50% of your adsense revenue from your performance within their site and not your other site.

Tips to optimize AdSense for Search

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:01:00 +0000

AdSense for search can be a great way to increase website revenue for the owner. You can place 2 AdSense search boxes on a page. When visitors search some query using the search box on your pages and click on the ads which appear on the top and right side of the results page, you get paid. To implement Adsense for search you can simply copy and paste the code given into any place on your website and let the search engine collect the dollars for you :)

As many webmasters suggest that you should change the color of the search box to match the background of your site and text so that your AdSense search box should look like it belongs to the page, well..in fact a colorful and recognizable search box will stand out on your site and it works too, many bloggers have different result with both of them.

You also have the option given by AdSense whether you’d like the search results to be opened within your own website or to be host by Google. Many publisher choose to open within their own sites so that readers will believe that the source of search resullt is from your blog and this makes them love to click ads. The other reason is that the site owner have more control over the design. It’s not a bad idea also to put your search box on the results page itself for any users who might want to make another searches.

Publishers also can insert keywords to refine the results to make them more relevant to your readers. Let’s say you have a website about Photoshop, you can enter the keywords “Adobe”, “Computer Softwares” and “Photos”.

Your AdSense search box should be placed where your visitors can find it with a quick glance. Locations such as below the header and right or left navigation column are good spots for this. Place it above the fold, it means that the visitors should not have to scroll down in order to notice the search box. You can also place it below each post for easy navigation.

Another important thing should be considered is adding your logo, this is a cool feature because it provides chance for your readers to see and remember your logo that might increase their chances of remembering your website for a future visit.

Page Impressions, Page CTR and eCPM

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000

What is Page Impressions in AdSense report?
Page Impressions: how many times your AdSense JavaScript is executed by a user’s browser and ads are displayed. They will count one page impression regardless with the number of ads shown on that page, so if you put 3 ads unit on a page and it is viewed twice, you will receive 2 ‘page impressions’ and 6 ad unit impressions.

Page views: how many times the page or pages containing your AdSense advertisement was shown to readers or visitors.

What might causes page impressions and page views becomes different:
When your pages are viewed in mobile devices and the like, sometimes all other elements might not be working and the request will simply be ignored to include external data. Your ads also will not be shown up if the users have disabled or turned off the JavaScript or you open the page in a browser which does not support JavaScript and <iframe> tag. Your AdSense also will not show up if the readers are running ad blocking software so what they see is a blank space instead of your ads. The visits made by Googlebot and other spiders that are indexing your content will also increase your pageviews and it doesn’t include your ads.

Clicks: how many times your AdSense link is being clicked.

What is Page CTR?
Page CTR: CTR (Click Through Rate), is the number of times an advertisement is clicked divided by tthe number of impressions for the page containing the ads. In other words, it is the percentage of the clicks received, based on how many views it has. CTR = number of clicks / number of exposures.

What is eCPM?
Page eCPM: eCPM stands for ‘effective cost-per-thousand, (M= mil, it’s Latin )’ it is calculated by dividing the total earnings by total number of impressions in thousands. (Total earnings / Impressions) X 1000 = eCPM.

How If AdSense PIN Code Never Come

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:16:00 +0000

In order to check your address as a publisher, Google Adsense will send Personal Identification Number (PIN) via mail to your address. This is a part of AdSense payment system. The PIN will be sent if the publisher has crossed $10 mark. Normally, it takes about 3 to 4 (sometimes 6) weeks for the PIN to arrive at your place. The PIN itself will looked like a postcard with the PIN code enclosed. You need to enter the PIN code on your Adsense account so that you are able to receive payment.

However, many people who live in certain countries in Asia have difficulty receiving the Adsense PIN code although they have made the request three times. As for my case, it takes about 5 months for the Google Adsense PIN to arrive at my place, maybe there’s problems with the postal service in my area. And yes, after 4 months and you still have not enter the PIN code on your account, the ‘Public Service ads’ start to appear on your every ads and you wont get paid if visitors happen to click on them. If you still do not enter the PIN code in 6 months, Google will disable your account and all earnings will be refunded to the Adwords advertisers.

In the case publishers do not receive the PIN code after 3 or 4 weeks, they are allowed to make another request (AdSense account --> reports payment --> enter PIN). If they still have not receive the PIN yet, they can make another request (last request). All PINs are same, the first PIN code and the second PIN code you request will contain the same number, so it does not matter which PIN code should you enter.

How if after you made the last request and still don’t receive it for a single time?

Don’t worry. Log in to your Adsense account and go to PIN information page and you will see a “contact the AdSense support team“ link.

Click on that link and you will reach to a page where you will be asked for your Adsense publisher ID. If you don’t know your own ID, look at the top right corner of your Adsense interface (it look something like this: PUB-XXXXXXX). Enter the ID and submit the request, after that Google Adsense will send you an email in about 2 days time and ask you to provide either your digital image of a government issued ID card, bank statement, or telephone bill displaying your payee name and mailing address as it appears in your account. Simply scan one of those documents, attach it on your email and send them to Google Adsense.

After Google Adsense support team receive your response, they will review the information you have provided and update you on the status of your PIN verification. That’s it. Now your Adsense account has been officially validated by Google and will no longer need to enter any PIN code again and be able to get your earnings.

Adbrite PPC, AdSense alternative

noreply@blogger.com (Susan) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:04:00 +0000

Adbrite is another way to monetize your blog. It is an online advertising program that brings website publishers and advertisers together for their mutual benefit and one of the best choice for an alternative to Google’s AdSense. AdBrite allows publishers to place relevant ads on their site. Before you start using it, note that the click cost in Adbrite is normally lower than in AdSense.

Adbrite provides a range of advertising options for your website: text ads , banner ads and full page ads. The full page ads are higher paying but only can be shown once per day per user. Publishers earn each time the Full Page Ad is viewed.

The Inline ads format lets website owners to display an ad only when a visitor scrolls over a given word. Publishers earn when a visitor clicks on the Inline text ad. This saves a lot of space on the pages.

You also can monetize your photos on your page with interactive text ads. Captions slide out whenever a visitor hovers over the image. Publishers earn when the ads is clicked by a user.

Like AdSense, AdBrite also lets publishers customize the look and feel of their text ads. The colors, size and layout can be customized. You get paid when visitor clicks on the ads or per number of ads viewed. It makes payment by paypal, which is far much easy than the adsense check system. The minimum payout is only $10, there at google adsense the payout minimum is $100.

Adbrite also provide better customer support than google adsense, with Google AdSense you can’t sell ad space in your page, with Adbrite we can create our own price and packages. They provide good reporting tools too.

Signing up to Adbrite was straight forward and easy: only basic information and payment details are required.