Did you know that Hosting company is really important when it comes to blogging. Well I would like to share you guys on what hosting company I am now. Well I am now hosted at DreamHost. Since I join this hosting company from July 2008, I only experienced maybe 2 to 3 downtimes which only took for about 30 Minutes. Yup it is not like other hosting company which takes about a day or two. I am still not yet on a private server. I am still using the shared hosting package but Maybe next year if everything goes well I might transfer to Private server since Techathand.net readership is increasing day by day.

Here is the present payment option for Dreamhost.

• Pay Monthly @ $10.95/mo + $49.95 setup = $60.90
• Pay Yearly @ $9.95/mo: 9% off + no setup = $119.40
• Pay for 2 Years @ $8.95/mo: 18% off + no setup = $214.80
• Pay for 3 Years @ $7.95/mo: 27% off + no setup = $286.20
• Pay for 5 Years @ $6.95/mo: 36% off + no setup = $417.00
• Pay for 10 Years @ $5.95/mo: 45% off + no setup = $714.00

Did you know that you can get off $50 dollars off from the price above if you are going to use my Dream Host promo code : TECHATHAND50

Discount will only be applicable at the first payment. So if you are going to opt to yearly payment you need to pay only for 119.40-50 = $ 69.40 which is actually 5.79 per month for your first Year. Promo code is only valid for the first year so if you are going to choose 2,3,5 or 10 you will still get $50 off from those price.

It is the biggest discount that you can get from DreamHost. If you have any question you may contact me thru my contact page. Wait there is more. You will also get a 1 year Free Domain Registration.

Disclosure : Dreamhost Links are affiliate link. That will only mean that I will earn if you are going to use those links above

I believe that Php 1,800 is a fair cost compared to the amount that we will be able to save if this gadget will work properly. The good thing with this new gadget is OFW can be able to call their love ones at anytime with a lower rate.

One of the great feature of this gadget is you can receive voice calls and Text Message for free. Although the message will  be their for about 9 hours and after that if your machine is off, you will not be able to retrieve it.

I just hope that it will be a great service. And I will surely get one for my use. You can see more details of their service in their FAQ site here.

Disclosure: This is not a paid post. Smart is an advertiser on this blog.

1. christmas ringtones – A Techie site might have Christmas ring tones that will be available for those Nokia Phone or other Phones that you have reviewed in the past.
2. christmas cards – This might not be appropriate to this site but still , this site can help you look for For Free Christmas Cards in the net. Just try to use some Google Commands and you can easily find it.
3. christmas songs – Well this does not have this songs but I have other site that can provide you with Tagalog Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords.
4. christmas wallpaper – You can find lots of Christmas Wall Paper in the net or perhaps you can check it out from my Album who knows you might find one picture that will be suitable for your Christmas Wallpaper.
5. free online christmas music – Free Online Christmas Music Will also be available using the proper Google Commands.

So I am referring about the Google Operator that you can check from Google itself.

So Happy Holiday Season and Happy Optimization. Just my thoughts

Picture from by brungrrl

Did You know that there is an ongoing promotion from SMART Bro wherein they are giving away laptop when you load your SMART Bro Prepaid. With the “Loads of Laptops” promo, SMART Bro subscribers now have a chance to win a brand-new HP 2133 Mini Note laptop every day, every time they  buy a minimum of P30 load for their SMART Bro!

SMART Bro Prepaid gives high-speed Internet access at an affordable rate of only 10 pesos for every 30-minute use. The whole kit now costs only 2,500 pesos and could be used straight out of the box, for speeds of up to 2 mbps. It uses SMART’s nationwide wireless broadband network to connect a desktop or laptop to the web through the use of a USB-type wireless modem.

A minimum of 30-peso load entitles a SMART Bro subscriber to a chance to win an HP 2133 Mini Note laptop. Raffle draws will be done weekly with one daily winner until December 13, 2008. So here is the breakdown of your possible raffle entries

• 30-Peso Load = 1 raffle entry
• 60-peso load = 2 raffle entry
• 100-peso load = 3 raffle entries
• 300-peso load = 10 raffle entries
• 500-peso load = 16 raffle entries.

To join, subscribers must first activate and register their SMART Bro Prepaid account in SMART Web Connect.

Load for SMART Bro Prepaid is available from over a million SMART E-load retailers all over the country, or via the SMART Bro Load 100- or 300-peso card.

More info available here.

I believe that it is a great marketing strategy from SMART Bro. Well I have to tell my parents to register their account who knows they might be one of the winners till the end of the promotion .

I still don’t know if Filipino’s are ready for online purchasing.  I have made post before and ask my readers if Online Banking is safe in Philippines and I receive some good feedback on that time. Now I would also like to know thought from the Filipino Consumers, Do we now trust online banking? Because online banking is also synonymous with Online store since you also have to provide you credit card details in purchasing. And I believe that the success of paypal in Philippines is also one of an indication that one could really transact online.

Let us compare price in US Online Store and Philippines Apple Online Store , A Macbook Pro cost US$ 1,999 in US and in Philippines online store it is Php 109,990 which is almost 15% more compared in US price.I believe it is fare price since it is due to the tax and delivery of the unit from US to Philippines.

So I just hope that Apple Online store will not be the only one to do the online store and I think by Next year more and more company will do the same. I suggest that those company open it’s affiliate marketing system so that we bloggers can earn from the referrals

What do you thinks is it a good idea ?

Well as you know I made an e-book regarding earning from current events { Password = “SEOMONEY” } , but sad to say that not all bloggers knows what will happen in the future, Is it right ? Well what If I will tell you that it is possible to know the future events so that you can be prepared in your SEO ( Search Engine Optimization )  tactics. I know  that lot’s of this blog reader are already well verse in Search Engine Optimization and since I am happy today after I found out that some of my keywords are already up in the SERP this Tip will really make your day.

If a blogger can get it into top of the SERP ( Search Engine Ranking Page ) for a certain event it will surely bring money from clicks thru Ads and not to mention the traffic it will bring to a site.

So How will you know the future events?

Well it is really easy. You just have to use the Google Search and just type keywords such as [ Future Sports Events Wikipedia ] from there you can see Category:Future Sporting Events , you can change the keyword to [ Future Events Wikipedia ] well actually we can make the variety of keywords just add Events & Wikipedia since Wikipedia has a large number of events both future , past and present so Wikipedia is the best place to go for research.

Wikipedia can tell you variety of events in the future so it is only up to you to grab it if you have time.

Then after checking the events you just have to check thru Google Trends on what events you need to optimized and which events gives lots of traffic based on their succeeding season. Then you have to use the Freekeywords from wordtracker.com to know the variety of keywords you may use to optimized your post. Well actually if you use SEO for Firefox Plugin you don’t have to go individually to Google Trends and Wordtracker because the mentioned Firefox Plugin has already links in the below portion of the search results.

Just to sum it all :

1. Search for the Events
2. Check for Traffic Opportunity
3. Check for Different Keywords { Don’t just concentrate in one keywords – Be Imaginative and be like a searcher }
4. Then Optimize the post using different tips you know.

I just hope this tip will help you to know on what event you may want to blog and get a ton of traffics. And as an additional tip those events have usually very little competition.

I have some Other SEO Tips in the past that you might want to check :

• SEO Tip : Know Where Google is Leading You
• How to Know the Indexed Pages for the Last 24 Hrs
• Comparing Google Results from Different Data Center
• Your Blog Post as an Investment
• Analyzing Your Blogs
• Be a Plumber Fix Your Leaking Site
• How Important is Google Webmaster Tools

And lots more from SEO Tips Tag and SEO Category

I just want to share the easy ness it brings to me I believe it will help a lot who are like me busy as bee

Adrian ‘pagvac’ Pastor, a security researcher with GNUCitizen.org, on Friday posted proof-of-concept code that can inject a third-party page — a fake login page in Pastor’s example — while the user’s browser address bar still displays the Google domain. This could dupe the user into entering login details.

"The beauty of frame injection attacks is that the attacker is able to impersonate a trusted entity without needing to bypass XSS/HTML filters or even break into the target server," Pastor explained on the GNUCitizen site.

In a related blog post on Friday, security researcher Aviv Raff explained that Google is vulnerable to "a cross-domain Web-application sharing security design flaw."

And According to the news this flaw has been seen since April and Google is not yet taking any action.

"Today, after not getting any further response from the Google security team about this issue, and after Adrian published his proof-of-concept, I’ve decided to reveal this information in a hope that this security design flaw will be fixed by Google as soon as possible," said Raff.

In reference to the proof-of-concept, a Google spokesperson said, "We’re aware of the potential for this kind of behavior when services are hosted across multiple domains, and we take steps to restrict it where we believe it may have security consequences."

Well Google has to explain this one on their official site, so that their E-mail user will feel comfortable on using their Free E-mail. And Did you know that E-mails can be tracked ?. So better keep a hard copy or printed copy of those E-mails that needs protection such as username and passwords that still resides in your mailbox. Better transfer it to your PC for safe keeping purpose. Better to that or be sorry later on. What if they hack our AdSense Earnings ? So Be Careful .

via www.informationweek.com

The following is the specification of the Asus Eee All-In-One-Touch Screen PC ETP1602-WT-X0010 which is available for free delivery @ £399.99 Free Delivery

Here is the specs :

• Processor: Intel Atom
• Memory: 1GB
• HD Capacity: 160GB
• Graphics Card: Shared Graphics (128MB)
• Operating System: Windows XP Home
• Main Specifications:
• ScreenSize: 15.6" (16:10 Wide Panel)
• Touch Screen: Single Touch Panel
• OS: Windows XP Home (SP3)
• CPU: Intel ATOM (1.6GHz/533MHz FSB/512K Cache)
• Chipset: Intel 945GSE + ICH7M
• Memory: 1GB (DDR2 667)
• Storage: 160GB, SATAII 5400rpm
• Graphics: Shared Graphics (128MB)
• Webcam: 1.3 Mega Pixel
• Mirophone: Digital Array Microphone
• Audio Chips: 2 x 4W Hifi Speaker + SRS
• Communication: 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
• WLAN: WiFi 802.11b/g/n
• IO Side Ports: Memory card slot (SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro) / USB ports x 2
• IO Rear Ports: Audio Ports x 3 (Microphone, Line in & Line Out) / USB ports x 4 / Gigabit LAN port
• AC Power: 19Vdc, 4.74A, 65W power adaptor
• Net Weight:4.3Kg
• Software: StarOffice, Adobe Reader 8.0, Norton Internet Security (90 day trial version), Express Gate, Skype, Eee Memo, SoftStyles, Eee Cam & Eee Cinema
• Keyboard + mouse: Wired Keyborad & Mouse
• Warranty: 2 Year UK Collect & Return Warranty

I Don’t know when it will be available in Saudi Arabia or in Philippines. So this will be a great competitor of HP Touchsmart IQ504 pc which was launched last June 2008.

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