I was browsing the web as usual tonight when I suddenly remembered that it has been more than a  month since the latest version of Ubuntu was released. If you didn’t know, Ubuntu is the only Operating System (and a free one at that) who is scheduled for a new version release every 6 months. That is twice in a year!

If you look at the version number, 8.04 means that that Ubuntu version was released at the year of 2008 ( the number 8 ) and at the month of April ( the number 04 ). This is the eighth release of Ubuntu, and knowing its dependability to release a new version for every 6 months, the next version of Ubuntu (8.10) will be released on October later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

If you know the word ‘blog’, chances are you also know of a website called Blogger, where you can create your own blog for free. No setting up, monthly or even yearly fee unless you want to use your own domain name. I also use their free service to create a blog when I started blogging in 2004, although I didn’t blog that often. But lately, more and more people started blogging not only as a means to express themselves, but also to earn money.

There are now more than 50 million blog sites on the internet with around 170.000 more blog sites is created every day, that is approximately 2 blog sites per second. So I decided to continue blogging, but this time with an added incentive, that is to try and make some extra cash from my blog. Read the rest of this entry »

This must be the most blogged about topic in the blogging world right now, even the top blog sites are posting about it although perhaps not very detailed yet. Considering that a lot of people are using Wordpress as the basis of their blog, this is not a very surprising thing. I myself use Wordpress for building my blog and so far I have to say that I am very satisfied with it. Besides allowing people who have nothing or minimal knowledge in web building to have a very professional blog, it is also easy enough to install.

If you want to build your own blog, Wordpress is quite frankly the best choice for you, because most hosting companies now provide the tool to build Wordpress with just a couple of mouse clicks. Read the rest of this entry »

As any webmaster will tell you, in the internet the most important thing is traffic. Even if your writing skill could earn you a Pulitzer prize, if no one is actually reading your writing, then your writing skill will do you no good. But if your writing skill is good or even just okay, and there are hundreds or even thousands of people who read and actually likes your writing, then you have much more to gain.

When you write about something you like, or if writing is one of your passion, surely you don’t want people to plagiarize your writing and claim it as their own. But since there are literally millions of blogs out there in the Internet, finding out whether one or several blog has done just that is almost, if not, impossible. Read the rest of this entry »

Tonight, the verdict is in. Just a couple of hours ago, I received an e-mail from Blogsvertise’s representative saying that my blog has been approved. But, since the blog is rather new (less than 60 days old), they have put my account on probation. Besides new, another reason is because I haven’t got a lot of post on my blog. That in itself is a valid point. And in this case, both of them are true. But what I like about them is they’re willing to give a chance and are willing to give me assignments, only in a reduced rate of payout. And not also that, but they also told me about how to get off the probation status.

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