Jammed: Full into Capacity

I’ve been a “stumbler” for over a year now but I was not getting any stumbles for my pages because I was not doing anything! I’ve read several good articles about how Stumble Upon can boost your traffic but totally disregarded them. Until recently, I attempted to try Stumble Upon and saw how my blog traffic massively grew.

Previously, I was only getting up to 20 visitors at one time. Last February 24, 2008, this blog had 372 online users, which was the highest so far. Right now, Stumble Upon is one of my top traffic sources.

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Blogging, Internet Free Traffic, Stumble Udon, Stumble Upon

Sharing large files is easy nowadays due to the advent of P2P software like LimeWire, Morpheus, Ares etc, and file-sharing websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, and others. However, most of these softwares or sites require waiting time and download before you can download another file. This becomes a dilemma with split downloads like movie clips, e-book downloads, and other large divided files (i.e. part 1, part 2, etc). You can only avoid waiting time and download limits by paying as premium user.

Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and other free e-mail service has attachment size limits (usually 5 MB). This attachment size is applicable only for documents, but not when sending large files as attachments like video clips, audio files, high resolution images, etc.

Pando is a great free P2P software that lets you share large files in blog posts, instant messengers and e-mail.

Send large e-mail attachments. Pando allows you to send up to 1GB of e-mail attachments through your free e-mail account.

Share files with your readers and friends without the annoying waiting time and download limit. Pando also lets you share big files with your friends in IM clients and websites/blogs.
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Computer, Internet, Technology, Webmasters Tools Email, Freeware, Internet Tools, Pando, Rapidshare, Software, Website Tools, Yahoo! Mail

Tomorrow (February 25) marks the 22nd year anniversary of EDSA revolution. It was one of the most historic events in the Philippines because democracy won over dictatorship. It showed the solidified unity of Filipinos to oust a greedy and corrupt leader. The Filipino nation rejoiced. We were freed! We should be happy, shouldn’t we? We were once dubbed as the second happiest people in Asia, after all.

Ironically, we can’t feel that so-called happiness right now. The current political crisis we are experiencing – the NBN controversy only proved the ongoing deception and corruption of our political leaders – is no reason to be happy.

In an article from The Philippine Daily Inquirer, analysts said that the Filipinos are still unhappy after 22 years since the fall of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos no matter how the present administration is boasting about economic growth, which has improved the lives of many  because of Pres. Arroyo’s policies. Read more…

Current Events, Politics Current Events, EDSA Revolution, Philippines, Politics

Customizing your videos adds attractions to viewers and your profiles. There are several ways on how you can create a customized YouTube videos.

1. YouTube’s own customization service. YouTube Users has been enjoying the ability to customize their video players to match the theme and layout of their website and blogs.

2. Slide SkinFlix. It lets you choose the skin and theme of your player. You can make it appear like a plasma TV, iPhone, theater, etc. It is perfect for MySpace and Friendster layouts. See the sample video below.

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Google, Internet, Tips Google Videos, How-To, Internet, Tips, Videos, YouTube

For months now, this blog has been freed from comment spam I used to experience before because I found out the most effective ways to avoid WordPress spam.

1. Deactivating Akismet. Previously, I was getting at least 200 spam comments per day. I had to scan them one-by-one because some comments were filtered as spam by Akismet. Out of frustration, I deactivated the plugin with thoughts of completely avoiding these spam messages. True enough, I have not received spam comments since then.

Note: Do not delete Akismet from the plugins directory because you’re blog may experience another spam flood.

2. Install a spam blocking plugin. Currently I am using Matriphe Keycode, one of the best anti spam plugins I’ve ever used.
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Blogging, Tips, WordPress, WordPress Plugins Anti-Spam, Blogging, Online-Tips, Spam, Tips, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

Found this new site StumbleUdon, which lets you exchange stumbles automatically. You may earn up to 15 free stumbles everyday. Without doing anything.

How does it work?
1. Join the program. It will ask for a nickname (your username), password, and your StumbleUpon ID and password. Joining is through invitation.

2. Submit a specific page in your website or blog to StumbleUpon.

3. Then log in to your StumbleUdon account and submit your page. You need credits/udons to submit a campaign. You earn maximum of 5 credits per 24 hours or more if you invite more friends. Remember that you credit score is reset every 24 hours so you have to use it to as soon as you earn it. You get one stumble for every 1 credit/udon.
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Blogging, Internet Free Traffic, Link-Exchange, Stumble Upon, StumbleUdon