Posted on May 5, 2008 11:30 am
Some people spend tons of money on softwares. Sometimes, I can’t help but go WTF with all this because the softwares they buy does the same thing as its free counterpart. Hence, I have decided to make a list of the softwares which are paid for and alongside are the softwares which do the same thing but are free.
FTP
Spend: WS FTP Pro
Save: Smart FTP
HTML Editor (with Tabs and Syntax Highlighting)
Spend: Ultra Edit
Save: Notepad++
Image Manipulator
Spend: Adobe Photoshop
Save: The GIMP
Antivirus
Spend: Norton Antivirus
Save: Avast! Antivirus
File Extractors
Spend: WinZip
Save: 7-Zip
That’s all I can think of at the moment. If you’ve got anything to add, feel free to hit me up, okay?
ETA: I’ve re-written my about page. Go check it out.
Posted on April 30, 2008 5:17 pm
A lot of people are curious on how to get more hits to their website and a lot of people have also given suggestions. However, I noticed that most, if not all, of the suggestions given usually take sometime before yielding results. As a result, a blog post for those who are desperate for hits.
- Write your site’s URL on every piece of cash you own. Remember, money travels quickly.
- Create a heavily-animated button and plug it in every single plugboard there is. Make sure you use bright colors so it would immediately catch the viewer’s eye.
- Offer a lot of
unoriginal creative things for your visitors. PSDs, brushes, scans and Photoshop Actions should get you are a couple of the things you should have. Don’t forget unsafe PHP scripts too!Visitors would simply come running to your site!
- Join the weborexia phenomenon. I’m sure someone will link you up in no time!
- Join comment exchange communities such as Despair
and don’t bother commenting on your link assignments. What matters is that someone comments on you.
- Send an angry email to 1337 people stating that they’re hated by everyone else in the world because they think they’re so cool and that they own the interwebz. I would recommend Jem because more often than not, she’ll link you in her next blog post. Wouldn’t you like that?
If you don’t like to mail Jem, consider someone from Snark. Remember, there’s an e-Drama board in there. 
- Sign a lot of tagboards and guestbooks. They’re always a good bet.
- Get affiliated with a hundreds of people. Don’t even bother knowing them. Acquaintance is for dorks.
- Adore Swimchick and Outspoken Kate. Defend them to those who claim that their website is crap. If possible, befriend them too.
- Always remember: IE > everything.
P.S: This was inspired by Jem’s article about promoting one’s site (see, I followed step 10 :P).