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Are You Twittering? Follow Me On Twitter!

izzat ruslan — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:18:12 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. Do you know Twitter? Do you have account on Twitter? If you know and have account already, maybe you already know what’s Twitter is all about. But for you who is yet know what on earth is Twitter, let me brief you with some information about Twitter.

Twitter is a free social-networking site like Facebook and Friendster and also a micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read updates from other users which known as tweets. Tweets is text-based posts which limit up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the users profiles and this tweets also visible to other users who have subscribed/followed them which known as followers.

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

I know many bloggers out there already join Twitter and for those who is yet join Twitter, why not you join this social network? It may help you to boost your blogs traffic indirectly and get loyal readers from your followers. Anyway, before you get misunderstood, Twitter is not only for bloggers. Anyone can join and use Twitter, like they use Facebook or Friendster. So, join Twitter now!

I’m considered a new Twitter user and from my own opinion, Twitter is a great social-networking. So, I recommend you join it today and start twittering. If you are already on Twitter, you can follow me on Twitter to get latest updates from me. Ok, see you there!

p/s: Follow me on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/izzatruslan

Need Backlink? Qassia is the Answer

izzat ruslan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:25:11 +0000

Salam and hello to all. Do you need backlink? Unlimited backlink? Why backlink is so important? Well, the answer is simple, to increase your blog/website page rank and your blog/website accessibility on search engine. By the way, now its not hard to get backlink as for now, there’re numbers of free backlink website provider which you can sign up for free. Anyway, I want to share with you this not so new free backlink website provider, Qassia.com.

Currently the website is on trial stage, so the new registrations are limited to for those who got Qassia referral link. So, to make life more easier, here is the link. Some rumors said that it will be private soon, so hurry up and get yourself an account!

Do You ‘Nang’ Your Own Post? Yes! Why not?

izzat ruslan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:03:18 +0000

Hello to all, this post is a respond to a post by one of the nuffnangers. I’m not trying to insult or start a flame war or what so ever. But I just want to express my own view and opinion from my own perspective. At first I know Nuffnang, I didn’t really know how to get such an immediate traffic to my blog. Before this I’m just hope that my blog will be listed on the first page of the search result which somehow sound impossible such for a new comer in this blogsphere. But after Nuffnang introduced a system called Innit, everything changed. At least, I still got an amount of visitors in a day even I didn’t post anything new on my blog. It’s better than no visitor right?

At first Nuffnang introduced Innit, users only allowed to submit their blog post url. After that, Innit comes more popular for those blogger who want to get an immediate traffic to their blog. And after a while, Innit comes with a new system which allowed users to vote aka ‘Nang’ which post they find interesting. Next, Innit comes with ‘Dang’ button which I can said it somehow a button to decrease the vote of the blog post. This 2 system becomes more interesting when Innit now shows which posts are most popular, which means got more vote from the nuffnangers and also which post got the top ‘Nang’ by the nuffnangers. Ok, that’s is Innit. So, to get your post to be listed on the most popular and top post, you’ll need to get ‘Nang’ by other nuffnangers. And of course you need to write something interesting so that peoples will ‘Nang’ or vote your post. But the question now, do you ‘Nang’ or vote your own post? Before I continue, lets have some screenshot here.. hehe

maybe this post didn’t get much ‘Nang’, how about this?

and this..hehe

Huuhu.. see that? They also ‘Nang’ and vote for their own post. Is it ok to ‘Nang’ or vote your own post? My answer is, it’s all up to you. Ok why you should ‘Nang’ your own post?

Because it is your post. You write it heartedly with your own passion to write.
In fact it is your post, off course you like your post and you know it was interesting.
In fact it was an interesting post….
Off course you’ll and should ‘Nang’ it!
and you should be proud to be the first to ‘Nang’ your own post before others.

I don’t think it’s such a big deal for someone or blogger to ‘Nang’ for their own post. It’s only one vote or only one ‘Nang’. And you only allow to ‘Nang’ your own post once. Not two, not three etc. LOL.. It just one vote anyway. Otherwise you really love to see that number zero. If you think blog writer aka post owner don’t have right to vote or ‘Nang’ for their post, I think Nuffnang should come out with a filter that blog owner can’t ‘Nang’ their own post. *I wish it’ll not happen*

But the thing now is this..

I’ve right and been given a chance to vote or ‘Nang’ for my own post just once. Why not I just simply click that yellow button and give my post 1 ‘Nang’? Why not I grab that chance? I find my post interesting because I wrote it. And of course I’ll ‘Nang’ it!

When I got ‘Dang’-ed for the first time, I tried to figure out what’s wrong with my post till I got ‘Dang’-ed. I don’t know what’s wrong with my post. LOL.. lastly, is it only because I ‘Nang’ my own post. LOL again. What ever.

Before I end my post, my answer is, Yes, I’ll ‘Nang’ my own post! Yeah, because I write it and I know it is interesting so I ‘Nang’ it! huhu.. ok.. Chill ya.. don’t get offended. Again, this just my point of view.

P/s: Till now, I didn’t use that orange button aka ‘Dang’ button even once although I found that post is not interesting, because I don’t like to condemn their post like that. So, let it be.

Adobe Photoshop Express

izzat ruslan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:46:37 +0000

Hello to all my dearest readers, i’m gonna share with you all my opinion and review about all this new Adobe Photoshop Express – currently in beta stage. Ok, this review is based on the time i tested this web application. My first impression about this web application is, WOW! so fast, fast here means the loading time of the web application. I didn’t expect that speed because i know how slow my apartment internet connection, but anyway, this web application seems can be load fast in such a slow internet connection, good. But then i think, can it compete with Picnik? Another free online photo editing tools that i reviewed last time. You can read it here.

First thing first, if you wanna use this free web application, all you need to do is to sign up for an account for free. Although you can use this web application without an account, but you can’t upload your picture. Without an account, you only can used the pictures that shared by others. My recommendation is, just register for a free account and get free 2GB of images/photos hosting! Sound interesting? The registration is not so complicated, just provide your email, name, password, birth year and country. For country, only one selection available, just select it. After register for an account, you’ll get a confirmation email and you need to verify your email for your account. After that, you are ready to use this web application.

Ok, this is my review. The interface is quite neat and nice. I like its dark grey interface colour..huhu. You can see from the screenshot below. The menu also located nicely and very user friendly. So, it won’t be a difficult for a first time user.

You can see all your photos by clicking at My Photos menu. To edit your photos, just click which photo you want to edit and click Edit button at the bottom part. Then just select what editing you want to apply to your photos from the left panel. Unfortunately, there are not so much you can editing you can do. Just a simple editing like colour balance, white balance, black and white and others simple editing. You also can’t adjust all that editing manually, everything was already set automatically when you select which editing you want to apply. Just select from what they already created for you. Everything was created automatically. If you want to add some text into your photo, just forget it. There are no such a thing in this web application, you can’t add any text, decorate it and etc. Its just a simple photo editing tools.

One thing i found out is, somehow this not really good la.. whenever you want to save your edited photo, it would replace your current photos without asking you, so i think before do any editing, make a copy first.

So what’s the conclusion? Still far to compete with Picnik, so many of things still not available like inserting text to photo. But, to think that this web application still in beta stage, maybe it can be considerable. If you want to get more into editing your photo, i will recommend Picnik compare to this one.

Pros:

FREE online photo editing tools
FREE 2GB of photo hosting
Personal photos gallery URL ( http://.photoshop.com )

Cons:

Not so many editing tools available.
Edited file will replace the current file.

Anyway, i’m looking forward for it final release. Here is the sample photo that edited using this Adobe Photoshop Express. What do you think? Try and experience it yourself.

Test your web design by BrowserShots.org

izzat ruslan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:53:00 +0000

Are you web designer? or are you design your own web or blog? When it comes to design part, it is important that the design can be viewed properly as you designed. So, it is important to test it weither it is showed properly on each types of browser. As known, there are quite lots of internet browser out there with runs on variety of operation system (OS), for instead Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, MacOS and etc. And it is quite hard to test it on all those browsers which needs you to install that browser on different platform. So, thats why BrowserShots.org comes. This free online tools is really useful for those who design the website or blogs. Ok, lets have some introductions what BrowserShots.org is all about.
I quote the introduction from their website.

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you
submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of
distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will
make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

See? How useful this service. You don’t have to install all those browser on different platform anymore. From here you’ll know how your websites or blogs that you designed would looks on those browsers without install them on your machine! For example, do you wanna know how your websites or blogs showed on Flock 1.0 browser which running on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)?? BrowserShots.org will help you to get the view of your website. Easy rite? It is much more easier compare to you need to install all of them on your machine.

Here are some of screenshot of BrowserShots.org
*Click on image to enlarge.

Can you see that?List of browsers you can choose to test your web design.. and running on different OS too!
This is the results that you’ll get after submitting your web/blog URL to BrowserShots.org. It’ll need about 15 minutes to give you the results, depends on how much browsers you select. If your web/blog design got javascript, flash or java, please make sure that you enabled this feature before submitting you URL to BrowserShots.org. You can see at the bottom of browser list there are several setting there, so make sure you set any appropriate setting before submitting.

Now, i know how my blog showed in Flock 1.0 that running on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) without even install Flock browser and Ubuntu on my computer! Amazing and awesome rite? So why not try it by yourself? it is totally free and you can save the screenshots of your blog by downloading all the screenshots of all browser that you’ve selected.

here the link : http://www.browsershots.org/

Nuffnang, Innit and Google PR

izzat ruslan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:16:00 +0000

Nuffnang? well, i joined nuffnang about few months ago. Nothing i’ve earn yet, but wait “nothing” means here i never cash it out yet, my earning still not reach the minimum amount for me to be able to cash it out. Huhu.. well hopefully, i can cash it out for the first time soon.

I checked my Nuffnang membership status, yeah! i already selected as Glitterati member of Nuffnanger. Actually i noticed that about few days ago. Since Adverlets make a fool last time, it is still in my consideration to put the Advertlets ads back although they had offered compensation for their mistake. So, you think should i put the Advertlets ads back? Btw, i doesn’t earn nothing yet from Advertlets ads, nothing here really nothing. Zero! So i think i’ll keep with Nuffnang since Glitterati membership offered more special offer compare to compensation offered by Advertlets which they only offered for 1 month only and for sure it only give advantage for those who really earn from the Advertlets ads.Then, for me who doesn’t earn anything yet,how? You can read the offer of becoming Glitterati member of Nuffnang here.

Innit? really thankful to it. Innit help increased my blog traffic rapidly since i did posted my first post there 2 months ago. What can i say, it is really a great web directories for you to increase your blog traffic. You can read my previous post about Innit here.

See that how Innit increased my blog traffic? Japan is no. 1?Lols.. but that is for today’s analytic. How about month ago?

Malaysia is still on the top..huhuu..

Wallah…my blog traffic increased rapidly. Thanks Innit!

Well, i just noticed by Cypherhackz at his blog about Google updated their PageRank (PR) database. So, i just checkout my current PR for this blog. Since there have lot of PR checker out there, so i just go first to the one that Cypherhacks checked his blog PR, DigPageRank. When i tried to check my PR status there, what i got is just “Database Down”, “Not available” bla bla… Then i go to my usual PR checker website, which is Blogflux. I got what i want there..huhu at least i got a result there, my PR still remain at 3. Lols.. nothing change? Btw, i think it is ok for a blog of 8 months old. Uncle Google, can you give me one more? hehe.. after that.. i checked my PR at other website, PRchecker.net. Also give me the same result. Well, i think i need more backlinks then.. Yeah, and for sure Innit can help me into it!

So can you see the result of combination of this three great free service? I simply write it this way..
Innit (Help increase your blog traffic) > Nuffnang (Earn more la! You got more visitor from Innit) > Google PR (Increase your PR indirectly..)
But theoretically, it is not simply as that la..huhu the more important is, you must have some effort to achieve your dream level in this blogosphere.

Advertlets.com domain expired?

izzat ruslan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:57:00 +0000

Hahaha…i’m just checked up my blog today.. then i noticed something weird happened to my blog. It doesn’t load completely and then will redirect to an unknown page. From there i think maybe there are some errors regarding the advertlets.com domain or advertlets ads.

So, if you’ve advertlets ads on your blog, you’ll noticed that, everytime you try to surf or view your blog, it’ll redirect to a page which only happen to those domain that already expired. Do you know where my blog (http://izzat3114.blogspot.com/) redirected? Here the link

So how come?i can’t view my blog properly.. and what i do next is.REMOVE ADVERTLETS ADS. and it works. There are no more redirecting process which quite disturbing and cause my blog inaccessible. damn!

So, curious to know more, i then tried to connect to Advertlets.com which now i know that the domain was already expired. When i tried to Advertlets.com, it showed a page which there are a date when the domain expired and from there i know that, the domain already expired from 3rd Jan 2008. Huh. how come they didn’t noticed that and renew it asap. Do they know that there are many of bloggers and webmasters served their ads? and do they know, due to their expired domain cause inaccessible to those blogs and websites? lol..

And now, the best choice is… REMOVE THE ADVERTLETS ADS. and just wait they renew the domain.. and i don’t know when. So, i only put Nuffnang ads on my blog for now. hmm..just wait for them to renew their domain…

Easy photo editing with Picnik

izzat ruslan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:24:00 +0000

Hi guys!
Wanna share with you all the all new free online image editing tools, Picnik. What can i simply say, it is SIMPLE, EASY AND FAST. You don’t have to know nothing about editing. What you’ve to do is simply choose the effect or editing you want and Picnik will do all the rest for you. Sound easy rite? And of course, everyone of you want to know weither this service is free or not. Fortunately, this service is FREE OF CHARGE and no registration needed. But, you can register yourself by entering your email, so Picnik will keep you up to date with their latest update. But it’s all up to you.
Actually, Picnik offer you two type of account, free and premium account. The premium account need you to pay $24.95/year. But it’s doesn’t mean the free account is not good as premium account. With your free account, you’ll get awesome editing tools for your image. More, Picnik also can edit your image from anywhere, Flickr? Picasa? Facebook? Photobucket? Webshots? or even your own computer! Huh, sound great rite?
Here is a example of image that i’ve edit using Picnik. You can get Lomo effect only in premium account but actually you can also get it by using free account. All you need to do is by combining various effect that offered in free account than you’ll get the same effect of lomo as in premium account! Huh, i’m also used the free account..hehe

Looks great rite?Why not try it by yourself? Picnik will help you to get a better edited image for you.

Here are some of screenshots of Picnik

Note: Click on the screenshot to enlarge it

The New Nuffnang!

izzat ruslan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:26:00 +0000

Nuffnang already upgraded to their new version which is now Nuffnang 2.0 Well, there a lot improvement i think from the previous one. No problem with login process. I’m also noticed that some features which is blog statistic, keywords, referrals and some others features have been fixed and now it work better than before. Congrat to Nuffnang!
Want to earn money?
Because this is my first post about Nuffnang, why not i introduced you all what on earth is Nuffnang. Ok i’ll simply explain here what it is actually. Nuffnang actually is a blog advertising community. Nuffnang is a online platform that allow advertiser to advertised their ads onto the thousands of local blogs that have been registered under Nuffnang. Happy to say that, for bloggers, the registration is absolutely free and you can start place Nuffnang ads on your blog and start earning! Easy rite? Oh..1 more, currently, the registration only for Malaysian and Singaporean. But i think Nuffnang will open the registration to all over the globe. Ok, thats is the simple introduction to Nuffnang.
Drive traffic to your blog!
Nuffnang now introduced one more usefull service and free of charge! It is called Innit. This service is actually a service to drive traffic to your blog by submitting your blog post url. Then Nuffnangers (a call for Nuffnang members) will click at your blog post url that you’ve submitted. There are thousands of Nuffnangers out there so you can believe this service. Isn’t usefull? When you get more traffic to your blog, there are more chance for you to earn more money from your ads.

Ok don’t talk more, just feel free to register your blog at Nuffnang and start earn money! oh, one more drive more traffic to your blog.

p/s:I’m just wondering why my Nuffnang ads doesn’t show any ads. Is it a bug?

HOW FAST YOUR SERVER/SITE?

izzat ruslan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:18:00 +0000

Want to know how fast your server/site?
So from now,before you go purchase any webhosting plan, it is better for you to check the connection of the server of hosting provider that you’ll host your site soon. So here is the website that can help you to figure out this..hehe
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
So, next is you go to DNS TIMING section. Then enter the name/url of the webhosting company. For example www.exabytes.com.my then click LOOKUP. About less than a minute, you’ll get the result. The result will be in grade which is A, A-, A+ etc. So the A, we can say that it is fast server. What can i say more?Try out yourself now!
Here are some of servers/sites that i’ve tested with above stuff.
http://izzat3114.blogspot.com [A-] Yeehaaa!!! ^_^
http://www.internet-webhosting.com [A+] Malaysia Hosting Provider, my previous web hoster
http://www.uniten.edu.my [C-] erm,no comment
http://www.exabytes.com.my [F] ?? Don’t know why,something happen?
And why not you try it?Hehe..juz for your infomation.