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Today is a good Friday to receive money! The highest amount of money and exchange rate I ever receive since blogging.

As usual, I withdraw my Adsense payment via Western Union in CIMB bank. Google Adsense payment issue at the right time. I manage to withdraw money with exchange rate USD to RM at 3.587. It is the highest exchange rate in my experience.

If you remember, I made Paypal transfer few days ago. Since it is already 5 working days, I call to my card center to verify the payment. The bank customer service said I spend money from credit card, not credit to credit card! Panic…Let’s see our conversation.

After verify my information..the lady ask (more…)

One of my baby (Windows 2003 small business server) was having low disk space error yesterday. Its not the first time this Windows Server low disk space on its C: drive (system drive). I have do necessary housekeeping, cleanup temporary files.

After a day, the warning pop up again. It cause my application can’t proceed data into SQL database. I wonder why it eat up disk space so fast?

Root Cause: System Volume Information

Without anymore files to clean, I need to find out the root cause. I compare folders one by one in C: drive. Finally, found the folder “System Volume Information” contains 8GB files! It is under C:\ root drive after uncheck “Hide Protected Operating System files”.

It is the root cause. Lots of system files inside, looks like growing too everyday. In Windows XP, system volume information is location to store restore point. In Windows 2003 small business server, it contains shadow copy of shared folders or drive depends on settings. (more…)

Excited to search and install applications in my jailbreak iPod touch 2.1 firmware. To conclude the usefulness and fun of new iPod touch firmware, you must have the 10 best iPod touch applications. If not, your iPod touch is just like a boring media player.

Which are the 10 Best and Must have iPod touch applications? Here I list out mine. Add into comment if you want to append the list.

MxTube

MxTube is a Youtube video solution. It can stream Youtube videos just like the standard Youtube app. MxTube also allows you to download and save these videos to your iPhone. Simply search and download the video you’d like to view later and that’s it. You can watch all your videos directly from the MxTube app without conversion.

Docs

Docs is a new iPod Touch document viewing app. With Docs, you can view text files, Word .doc files, as well as Excel .xls and .pdf files. It also enhanced with zooming and scrolling capabilities. (more…)

One of the important factor that keeps a blog healthy and growing is incoming link. When a blog or website link to your blog, they actually grow your blog in 3 ways:

• Search Engine Ranking – Original incoming links are key factor to decide your ranking in Google search results. The more raw links you get, the higher ranking for the keyword.
• Referral Traffics - Probably increase your traffics when people click the link and visit your blog. Further, new potential readers are on the way!
• Reputation - Build impression and reputation when people refer to you. Especially incoming link from famous blog in that niche. Write unique, quality content to get quality link back.

Now you know how important is incoming link to grow your blog. The question comes. How to get more incoming links?

Get More Incoming Links

Of course you will say good content. We have to admit good content is the base. But other than that? 3 techniques you can’t resist to apply soon. (more…)

No doubt everyone can make money from blog. Some make good income than a normal job. Where others make only pocket money or a cup of coffee.

My question is can you make a living from blog? This mean can you make enough money for your living just from blog? There is always exceptional case, but generally affected by 2 factors below. (My wife discuss this on her posts-part1 and part2 in Chinese, and now I translate and reorganize here).

Factors of Make Money Blog

Although Chrissie just blog for 6 months, she notice blog for money is not easy. Make money from blog sounds easy but not everyone can do that. Full time blogger that make a living from blog is result after lots of effort, not luck!

So, what the 2 main factors that she noticed? (more…)