FileFront: Ultimate Unlimited Online Storage

A movie link brought me to this download storage website and this is the biggest online storage webhosting website I’ve seen so far, actually they are providing UNLIMITED storage. I’m not quite sure if I see it correctly but who cares? As long as we get our free stuff, their communities start growing and that’s the way we share profit. You know what I mean if I tell you about their site statistics of over 1.5 millions files totaling 48+ TB of space.

  • Allow user to upload as many files as you like in any format and there’s no LIMITATION storage in each member account.
  • Uploading file can be up to 1GB.
  • Any illegal content will be deleted.

In addition of this, a blog domain hosting by filefront.com is also provided for those who are looking for a simple editor method but yet powerful. You can also navigate to add blog, photo, file and video. The only limitation I can see there is don’t upload a large file if your connection speed is too slow or inactive as you will probably end up with a hanging screen after 10 hours processing. Well, I believe that is not possible to happen for a broadband user if you have a stable connection.

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Why Hang Around While You Have Geoff?

Why do you still googling around about the market while you have marketing tech news? A PR3 blog was started since 2003 but a delinquency occurred of his updating within 3 years and finally the blog is becoming to LIVE in 2007. Although the blog may lack of layout design with default theme but the marketing skill of the content is the highest rank in this classification. After jumping into this excellent with all informative marketing news blog, along with intelligent comparison of the most updated technology news, I found myself plump of knowledge and would definitely subscribe to his RSS feed in my daily netvibes read. How is it so informative? A screenshot has taken of his blog’s categories and just simply by looking of that massive profit content provided inside each of them, I’m sure you will be gaining something!

A penetrate deeply comprehension about Geoff Caplan’s resume as online marketing consultant (1994-1999), content writer (1999-2002), internet marketing consulting (2002), marketing director (2002-2005) & web marketer (2005-2006). This is my second day trying to go through every single post but yet there are more to go.

Says we are now in Apple iPhone luxurious time interval and people are waiting for the big launching day. Tens of thousands of people are expected to line up this Friday for the most hyped gadget of the decade. Before jumping into the cue, I urge you to read what does marketing expert talk about it. I just love the become one of his loyal readers and it is my honour to take a review of his blog.

 
I Got An Unknown Payment From SgAffiliate


I joined this program about 2 months ago and no doubt that I was thinking this might be some kind of scam. After two months later, I received a payment with a description from SGAffiliate of a paid out SGD5.81. I barely can’t remember what and why join this program. But who care, I got an unknown payment! That’s not much because I stopped using the service after one week signing up to them. I’m not sure why they paid me for such a small credit amount 1 week ago. Why they pay me for such small amount? Perhaps there is no minimum pay out? Are they earning too much so they are willing to giving out money to members? Or they bet I’m going to write a post for them after receiving the payment. Well, you got me right and I’m really doing a short review for them along with their payment proof in my paypal account.

Now you see the proof and here’s how they work:

  • Sign up sgaffiliate account
  • Login and complete the offers clicks at “Offers” page. After you have done it, the offer will be moved to Pending Offer page awaiting verification, it then will be moved to Approved Offer page and the amount will be credited into your account
  • Paid out will be made on the 20th ~ 25th of every month but minimum of $20 if you choose to pay by cheque

There’s only one tip sharing here, when submitting an offer while credit/debit card is required for a trial version. Don’t worry, just give them the information to the offer and after trial version over, they will send you another email to ask if you wish to have a full bundle. By that time, you just have to cancel the offer and your credit/debit card won’t be charged a cent. In fact, you just have completed an offer from SGAffiliate.com and earn your commision. That’s how I got my payment. Good luck to you.

 
NetStat Live: Network Status Freeware

After tweaking your internet browsing speed, ever wonder how fast is your modem connect at, in other word, how much data can actually get? Does your internet connection sometimes seem slower than normal? Before this, let me show you the windows classic network connection status and guess what, I can’t really tell with this and nothing can explain much though.

I rather get myself a freeware explaining pretty well from its live stat along with graph of CPU usage by AnalogX NetStat Live. NSL is a small (273kb), easy to use TCP/IP protocol monitor which can be used to see your exact throughput on both incoming and outgoing data. I can tell what’s slowing my pc down or if it’s internet connection problem simply from the NetStat graph. It’s really clean and easy to use tool.

 
How To: Optimize Router For Stable Wireless Connection

Recently I have been facing a wireless drop out problem from my network. My 802.11g network card is working quite strange these days, says I’m approaching the end of download or surfing through the internet quite smoothly and in the middle of Skype call with my girl, without a sign, my Wi-Fi connection drops suddenly. I then keep retrying to connect back my router, but the blinking signal seems off the air. Few minutes later, the connection miraculously resurfaces. If you also have this kind of problem, don’t blame on your local broadband company server first. Try to solve the problem by yourself from the information below.

One of the biggest reasons for wireless interference is the use of 802.11g or 802.11b networks and 2.4GHz cordless phones. Router for those networks and 2.4GHz phones operate in the same frequency, and they’re competing with each other. This is exacerbated by the fact that they’re in the same room. Interference from wireless products in the 2.4GHz frequency is a known issue for 802.11g/b networks; even baby monitors and microwave ovens have been known to wreak havoc on Wi-Fi networks.

These steps will help you create a stable, always-on wireless connection.

  1. Change channels.
    Interference is a likely cause of intermittent connections. All 802.11b and 802.11g networks operate at 2.4GHz, in a small swath of spectrum once used primarily by ham-radio hobbyists. Today, these radios, plus other Wi-Fi gear, Bluetooth devices, cordless phones, microwave ovens, baby monitors, and wireless surveillance equipment, all crowd the spectrum. When these devices compete for the same airspace, they interfere with each other, potentially blocking each other’s signals. Luckily, there are ways to sidestep and minimize interference in many situations. In the United States, 802.11b and 802.11g devices can be configured to operate at any one of 11 channels. Unfortunately, these channels overlap with adjacent channels, so you have only 3 non-overlapping channels at your disposal: channels 1, 6, and 11. If you and your neighbor both have a wireless network, both of which are set to channel 6, you may experience interference. You can remedy the problem by resetting your wireless router to a different, preferably non-overlapping, channel, in this case, either 1 or 11.
  2. Replace your cordless phone.
    Cordless phones are among the worst sources of interference for wireless networks. For example, my cordless phone is putting away separately with the base and therefore they tend to transmit frequently. But the base is just near to Wi-Fi router, this makes sense the frequency they all sharing among each has a big interference. One solution for this is to divide them into different channel. Unfortunately, my 2.4GHz cordless phone doesn’t have the function to allow me to do that so I quickly head to my router setting to change a different one. Generally, it’s not a good idea to place a cordless phone next to a Wi-Fi router. If this doesn’t help, consider replacing your 2.4GHz phone with a 5GHz phone. This way, your phone and network won’t be sharing the same airspace and won’t interfere with each other.
  3. Expand your wireless network.
    The farther you are from your wireless router, the greater the potential for interference to block or to slow your connection. For example, you may be able to connect just fine in your house, but on your patio, you may have an intermittent connection that disappears whenever your neighbor is using her cordless phone. The signal on your patio may be too weak to cope with the interference coming from the house next door. You can strengthen the connection with antennas or repeaters, or a power-line bridge to import the connection from your router to your patio and feed it into a power-line access point. Instead of the weak signal from your distant router, you now have a strong signal from an access point placed right where you want to buttress your coverage area.
 
In Remembering of Chris Benoit

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This is nothing relate to technology but I just want to show my top respect and totally feel sorry to lose the greatest World Wrestling Entertainment ever wrestler to give his 120% in his career performance had passed away on 25th, June 2007 – Chris Benoit. I’ve been chasing this wonderful performance show since 10 years ago while watching together with gang of my friends at the sidewalk restaurant cheering with each other. Especially when the song “Our Lady Peace” was playing, and looking at the guy walking into the ring preparing to give the magical moment to the world. This song is one of my favorite WWE superstars’ theme songs. 22 seconds from the beginning of this song is really rockin’ my heart and it is like I’m the one preparing to fight for my title. No doubt, the WWE show always full of audience and how much I wish being there experiencing the atmosphere on LIVE with all WWE fans. But on this Monday RAW, it’s really a strange environment while watching a LIVE without an audience. Vince, the chairman speaking on the stage with tears around his eyes giving a 3 hours tribute as a remembering to this world class athlete, Chris Benoit.

Last night I was woke up by my friend’s IM, striking my dream after the news telling. Saying that WWE superstar, Chris Benoit along with his wife and his son, were found dead at his own home. The case was ruled as a double homicide-suicide.

-He said it is being reported he suffocated his wife and son, perhaps a day apart. And then hung himself. Late Sunday night, he sent a strange text message to a person within the WWE. The police broke into the house at 2:30 pm today and found them in separate rooms.

-Vince called all the wrestlers backstage this afternoon for an emergency meeting. Wrestler were already bawling and crying. A longtime WWE wrestler said it was the most emotional state he’s ever seen the wrestlers.

-There was a really uneasy feeling Sunday. Everybody felt something was wrong.

-One wrestler said “It was bound to happen”. There was a strong suspicion backstage that Benoit did this right away. There was also a suspicion that Nancy had done it. They had a volatile relationship and everyone knew it.

-Hardly anybody backstage really knew Benoit. He had a very small inner circle that one time included Eddy Guerrero and recently included Chavo Guerrero. But even they had a certain psychological distance from Benoit. Everyone could tell that something wasn’t right lately with Benoit.

-He said that he was a very nice and pleasant person to be around, but a person close to Benoit said that Chris had “snap potential”.

-A lot of steroids were found in the Benoit household, and Benoit has had bouts with “roid rages”. WWE may suffer publicly because of their unenforced “Wellness Policy”.

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How To: Speed Up Windows by Getting More on Hardware

I can still remember my first time when I touched the keyboard using my first Windows 3.1 and I bet there are many people out there never heard of this. Installing a new Windows would need at least 4 hours by inserting 10 or more diskettes one by one working under DOS command. After that, while working with Windows 95 to Windows ME using DOS format to do the Windows reformat and reinstall, also never been an easy procedure. 3 years ago, I had taught a girl to follow all those procedures via IM (online chatting) when she had 2 PC while another was broken down, WOOT! Can’t imagine how could that be happened and it took me 2 hours to help the girl turned her broken PC to ALIVE! It was like mission impossible to her and so do I! LOL. And I think that’s how our love begin growing by that moment and she is my lovely fiance now. That’s cool huh!?

All right, oldies times is always memorable. Just like older versions of Windows used a file system called FAT32 (File Allocation Table, if you must know). Newer versions use one called NTFS (New Technology File System). The file system is how Windows stores your files on your hard drive, and it just like a library arranges books on a shelf. It’s possible that your computer is already set to the right way. Convert FAT32 to NTFS has several benefits and I can tell you there are many ways for you to convert FAT32 to NTFS with simple command whereas very few instructions on way back. I’m not giving out that way even I know one because NTFS work better for you, there’s no way why you need to use FAT32 system file.

To Ensure File System
Open up My Computer > right-click on hard drive > Properties. On the window that appears, you’ll see either “File system: FAT32? or “File system: NTFS.” If it is FAT32, let’s lose it:

Losing FAT, Getting NTFS

  • Shut down all running programs
  • Start > Run > enter cmd
  • In the command prompt something like “C:\WINDOWS” with a blinking cursor will show up. (If you’ve ever used DOS, you’ll recognize this.)
  • Enter the following:
    convert c: /fs:ntfs

    (If your hard drive isn’t drive C:, substitute the correct letter that you wish to convert, and don’t forget the space between the colon and the slash.)

  • Press Enter, a message saying that the conversion will begin on next time you start Windows. So restart your computer manually. Then Windows will convert your drive, and it will also reboot your computer twice.

Hook into DMA
Ensure your computer is transferring data efficiently by using a technology called DMA (direct memory access).

  • Right click on My Computer > Properties > Tab to Hardware > click on Device Manager
  • Click the plus “+” sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
  • Double-click Primary IDE Channel (If you have two of them, just repeat this procedure.)
  • Tab to Advanced Settings
  • For each one, click the drop-down arrow next to Transfer Mode and choose “DMA if available.” Then click OK. (If you have another Primary IDE Channel, repeat this procedure.)
  • Close Device Manager and reboot your computer
 
How To: Speed Up Windows XP

The following instructions are given to continue my previous boost-up Windows XP tweaks, but before starting the procedure below, you will have to save your current configuration by setting up a System Restore Point. This way can revert back to that point if anything goes wrong. It’s kind of like a BIG UNDO button.

To set a Restore Point:

  • Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore
  • On the welcome screen, choose Create a Restore Point
  • Give a description, such as “Before Changes.”, click Create

Now, you have just created a Safety point. So, Let’s tweak.

Make your menus load faster
Open up a new menu would have taken very little times but open up more than 10 would have added up waiting time. To get rid of waiting time by doing this:

  • Start > Run > enter regedit
  • Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel > Click on Desktop
  • On the right panel, double-click MenuShowDelay and change the Value data to 0
  • Click OK

Free up memory from closed programs
Windows usually store part of closing program in memory even if it’s not being used. Called dynamic link libraries (DLLs), they take up memory and sometimes cause other problems. To prevent this, tweak by chaging a Registry key.

  • Start > Run > enter regedit
  • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion
  • Under CurrentVersion > right-click on Explorer > then choose New->Key
  • In the box that appears (”New Key #1?), change the name to AlwaysUnloadDLL
  • Hit Enter. On the right side, double-click the word (Default)
  • For the value data, enter 1
  • Click OK

Speed program startup
Windows can be set to load information about some applications to make them start up faster by changing how much work a program called the Prefetcher does.

  • Start > Run > enter regedit
  • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / Session Manager / Memory Management / PrefetchParameters
  • Click on PrefetchParameters, on the right panel > double-click Enable Prefetcher > value data to 5 (in decimal, not hexadecimal)
  • Click OK

Reduce Windows’ workload
If you have many folders and subfolders, every time you access one, Windows will spend a lot of time updating the “last accessed” time for that folder and all its sub-folders. Stopping that process will buy you some time.

  • Start > Run > enter regedit
  • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Control
  • Under Control, right-click on FileSystem > choose New > then DWORD Value
  • Replace “New Value #1? with NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate and hit Enter
  • Double-click NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate and change the Value data to 1
  • Click OK

Improve Swapfile performance
Many programs use a lot of memory, and if you run more than one or two at once, Windows might run out of RAM. In that case, it will start using a section of your hard disk called the “swapfile” to store information. It’s a lot slower than RAM, but it beats not being able to run a program. But sometimes Windows uses the swapfile before it has to. This tweak will tell it to wait ‘till the last moment before doing that.

  • Start > Run > enter msconfig
  • Tab to System.ini > click the plus “+” sign next to 386enh
  • Click New, then type “ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1? in the box that appears
  • Click OK
 
How To: Improve Internet Browsing

If you like my previous post that I had taught about how to increase your system performance, I’m going to share another trick on how to improve your internet browsing to make your broadband connection work more efficiently with Windows.

But first, you might want to test your current connection speed for several times to get a better idea of average bandwidth speed. Then check again after you made the trick. This way will give you the peak surprisingly like the screenshot shows below. A good tool to do this is the TCP/IQ speed test.

Stop QoS
QoS, for Quality of Service that supposed to make sure your network is working, but in reality isn’t helpful and can eat up to 20 percent of your bandwidth.

For Windows XP Professional users, follow these instructions to disable QoS:

  • Start > Run > Enter gpedit.msc
  • Locate the Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > QoS Packet Scheduler
  • In the right-hand box, double-click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth
  • On the Settings tab, choose Enabled
  • In the “Bandwidth Limit %” box, set it to 0%. (Do not leave it blank.)
  • Click OK
  • For Windows Home Edition, follow these instructions to disable QoS:

  • Start > Settings option > Control Panel > Network Connections
  • Right-click “Local Area Connection” > Properties
  • On the General tab, uncheck QoS
  • Network settings
    I can tell you that Windows networking comes configured for a generic user with a generic connection. It can’t differentiate what kind of Internet connection you have, whether you’re using dialup or DSL or a cable modem. Because of that, its network settings are also generic. So there’s always a tools out there to help you by this, and the easiest way to tailor these settings to your connection. Whereas, some programs may be quite hard for beginner to manage, but a much easier to use I have discovered is TCP Optimizer from Speed Guide, a Web site dedicated to broadband issues.

    The nice thing about TCP Optimizer is that you only have to use a slider to indicate your connection speed, tell it how you connect, and click on the Optimize button. When you reboot, your connection should be noticeably faster (and you can always go back to TCPIQ.com or Speakeasy.net to check it).

    Screenshot shows the peaks after I had made this trick, note the highest peak

    Actually this is just a tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of small tweaks you can make, and the only limitation is how deep you’re willing to delve into your system. Googling for “speed/boost up windows XP + tweaks” will give thousands of results of websites will be dedicated to helping people squeeze every last drop of speed from their machines. The only limitation is how deep you wish to dig out.

     
    Audacity: Podcasting Freeware to Record and Edit

    PodCasting – The name becoming vogue since 2004 from iPod and broadcast which a podcast is a multimedia file that is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile services and personal computers.

    Music and/or sound effects can compliment a podcast nicely. However, there’s a fine line between that and overkill. A nice piece of music from a favorite song can serve as a great intro to your podcast. Audacity recording and editing software allows you to play with the audio file and add effects like a fade-in or out, which makes the podcast sound all the more professional.

    Remember that anything over 44.1KHz is too much. Sound effects used during a podcast in a moment of spontaneity can be fun, but again, watch out for overkill. You do not want to alienate your audience with annoying sound clips.

    Audio should never dominate over your content, either; breaking up the flow of conversation in your podcast with needless sound effects can turn off an audience in a hurry. Remember that content is king of the podcast.