Nowadays there are many people out there who sought help from SEO experts to help garner hits to their websites, thus ensuring that they are back on top of the search engines. One can also look at SEO tips from SEO sites like 2chix Seo Service Company which has a very funky name to it. 2chix? Well considerably it is really 2 females behind the foundation of this company that will help in your SEO ranking.

TechieDan ain’t gonna lie, as his website still has moderate SEO elements to help push him up the search engines, but there are also many SEO alternatives not done yet. One simple SEO that I can teach you is do write proper names for your post. If you still do not get it, you may consult me for some simple help.

Of course SEO is not really for anyone and also not for those who does not want the unnecessary limelight to their personal blogs. Though there is a catch, if you do not bother about SEO and you are running CPM ads on your blog, you will lose the big fish. Of course, but that is another story though.

Here is an excerpt for Squarelet

The Internet never sleeps. In the world of online business, as someone’s night becomes another’s day, the cycle continues and business transactions carry on. So why let your business’ opening hours limit your profits when you can be earning while you sleep? It is time to wake up and smell the opportunity. It is time to sell online!

Once you open your eCommerce online shop, Squarelet<http://squarelet.com> come in to ensures your business is ever ready every second of the day. And night! A growing trend in Malaysia, shoppers are now browsing, searching and shopping online. You can now capture this untapped market and watch your revenue grow day and night.

If previously you have always feared the complexity of technical requirements (and the high costs that comes with it), fret no more.

Squarelet supports you all the way, from hosting and renewals to payment getways to deep IT support. Hey, Squarelet even works with your existing website. You just focus on what really matters – YOUR business. And the best news of all? It all comes with a super simple pricing with unlimited upgrades.

Go to Squarelet.com now for a quick introduction. If you are looking for the easiest eCommerce solution, you are just one click away.

So now are you convinced that there are such companies that help you in your online business? Though for now Squarelet caters more to the Malaysian market. I think I can foresee them expanding further. Now what will TechieDan sell online?

Users of Android systems can now go to their market or as the new one mentioned as Google Play to download the desired app. If you required it to be install later, just click the image above to get the Instagram for you Android.

Note: Instagram for Android caters for newer devices with Android 2.2 and those that support OpenGL ES2. So do check if your device supports it. Although you can also check it when you go to Instagram download area to see if your phone supports it.

Using Visual Basic 6 has its limitations. TechieDan has learnt that when trying to support a system which is deemed obsolete and replaced with the better and newer Visual Basic.Net. Of course, there are still older systems that exist and Visual Basic 6 is definitely one of them.

Visual Basic 6 connects using Microsoft Access 97 and this is where the complication begins.

TechieDan has Microsoft Access 2010 and Visual Basic 6 installed on his work desktop. Surprisingly he is modifying an old program to display certain values using Crystal Report on top a Visual Basic 6 platform. Microsoft Access 97 has the file extension .mdb but since TechieDan only has Microsoft Access 2010, he does not have access rights to change the structure and properties of the selected database.

Using Microsoft Access 2010 allows update and insertion of data though anything to do with the structure of the old access 97 format cannot be done. Access 2010 allows saving to different versions of Access which is 2000 and 2003. Sadly Visual Basic 6 does not support these types. Thus needing to convert to 97 format and getting support from Microsoft Help seems to suggest that too.

Refer Below.

You can convert a database that contains Rich Text Memo fields (Memo fields that have the Text Format property set to Rich Text). However, versions of Access earlier than Access 2007 do not interpret the field as Rich Text. If any Rich Text formatting is present in the Access 2007 data, the text displays with HTML tags instead of the formatting in earlier versions of Access, as in the following example.

Solution

There is no way around that with Access 2010 converting to Access 97 format. Of course there are other ways out there with other third party programs to do the conversion. If you are still looking for a way using Microsoft’s product, either get the old MS Office 97 or get the Access 2003 to do the conversion for you.

Thoughts

Backward compatibility seems not to be encouraged by Microsoft. Though, if only the companies involved using these software would actually have people with the correct skill sets to upgrade. Anyone who has a better idea of solving this, do drop your comment below.

Take for instance, a person goes to an event. He blogs about it as do 20 or 100s of others that attended the event. We now have duplicate blogs regarding this event and most photos are duplicate. This is good for the organizer, though if everyone blogs the same thing, it becomes boring to the readers unless someone writes in a perspective that is different. This meant that instead of talking what event has happened, what are the schedule of the event, maybe pop in some thoughts and different perceptive of the event.

Seemingly events like this usually generates lots of blog writings as the organizers might reward them based on the blog writings, or reward them with meals and privileges in the VIP areas. Of course, everyone wants to be in the limelight. Though how about the smarter ones?

What does TechieDan mean by saying that?

Blogging is a past time and a very enjoyable thing to do. Making money online just by blogging is seriously not something new in the internet. As opposed to lifestyle blogging, where one has to attend events and getting invitations, blogging online without having to attend these unnecessary commotions and earning money is incredible. Surprisingly, let’s talk about the Internet unfolds.

Lifestyle Blogger

They blog according to events. Once the event has ended, there would be a few hits here and there which would help generate some income. Though how long will this last depends on how great is the event. Of course, if they have a great following and become famous for whatever reason, they have potential to earn large income online as advertisers come in.

Technical Blogger (Only remain online)

These bloggers are basically ones who I call the smarter ones. They might not have a huge blogger followings and also rarely attend parties that lifestyle bloggers do. Writing a blog post about some technical problems, food, products, life technicalities will almost always ensure that there is traffic to his/her blog. Why? As users of the Internet, a wide range of people look for solutions and these bloggers provide the solutions and the reviews which can be used over time. Earning money is also easier as they just have to remain in front of the monitor with their keyboard (or some instance tablets/smaller devices) and write their reviews.

Well, now you have it and roughly know the difference. If you are not aiming to be a lifestyle blogger which need huge followings from the people around you, I suggest being somewhat a technical blogger. You see, there are such things as link buying and also writing reviews for a product which will reward you monetarily.

Well, a website I could recommend is LinkVehicle where one can buy blog reviews and also can market their blogs or sites to others for them to buy a review too. An example would be below as to how one can send their blog for others to buy reviews to write about their website or an article.

How does TechieDan know?

Currently TechieDan is also a user of this system and though there are wide range of articles to choose from, this site gives the web link buyer to choose their writers or reviewers instead of us fighting our way to get the latest opportunities to write.

Also buyers get to choose a blog that supports their niche of the review they wanted from the blog itself. This at least helps to minimize random topics being publish in a blog.

Of course, bloggers you may now submit your blog to be included into this marketplace though there is a catch.

What’s the Catch?

Below is an excerpt of what sites and blogs acceptable.

LinkVehicle reviews every site submitted and is committed to providing our advertisers with quality links. To ensure quality, we have specific requirements a site must pass in order to be placed in our marketplace. The amount of incoming Links to your site will play a large role in determining whether or not you will be placed in our marketplace.

Knowing this, it is highly unlikely that non original content would be in the market thus ensuring high quality content from the blogger markets. Of course if you own one which writes original content and have good backlinks, this is the website for you.

As a publisher, you will get paid for the links you published. For bloggers, you will reviews to write. For advertisers, now after reading this ‘short’ explanation of what LinkVehicle is, and if you love my writing, you can register here and if you’re interested in TechieDan to write a blog review about your product, do visit mt affiliate link HERE.

I had complaints or rather suggestions that the website could be slow in certain parts of the world. Looks like, it is time to dwell on some possible solutions..

Before I go on ahead, how does one actually get a lot of website hits? A technical blog usually has more hits from search engines. You need to brush up on SEO techniques to be able to achieve the target you wanted. After doing so, what else? This is where TechieDan.com is moving forward now.

Ever noticed why sites like Google provides fast searching queries?

Ever wondered why your emails from Hotmail, Gmail or all delivering your emails faster?

Now can you imagine if they are all hosted on a server and only one server?

That is what they have been doing; ensure that the customers and users will be able to cut latency as they browse through their site. Unlike google which has their own different servers in different parts of the world, I doubt that most of us normal bloggers and writers would be able to afford it. This is where alternative solutions would be to locate a company like Cachefly Content Delivery Network, using their besthop traffic management which directs traffic to the closest server which cannot be matched by traditional hosting.

I have gone through Cachefly‘s website and had a look at their demo and I must say I am mighty impressed with the architecture layout of how do they resolve the internet latency. A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is definitely going to improve the speed in retrieving the data but the question now is whether does one require this service?

Of course this I would leave to each of his/her/company needs. The lowest pricing I saw was a $0.03/GB which is good, but also with a minimum purchase of 10GB which only cost like $0.30?

Recommendation

I personally think that this is more suitable for high traffic websites which comes from country that your website is not hosted at. Globalized companies would benefit more of a doubt so getting faster response time for the user will definitely improve the interest of a potential client. This is definitely one of the fastest way to increase website hits as users will want to visit a site which does not wait for packets to be sent and receive at a slow rate.

Love the caption!

Sometimes thing happens unexpectedly

Though, little can be said about the kids. Just a few days back, one of the kids went surfing on the internet only to run into an unwanted web link that when clicked would run a install feature which would have been disastrous to our very own TechieDan. It would have installed the dreaded Trojan horse file that could have most of the information leaked.

Seriously, Dan has thought that this needs to have a filtering ability. Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox have their own filtering technique to prevent kids from accessing sites like pornography. We all thought that this would be enough. No matter how, the inbuilt detection from the browser still has its limitations. It is also a problem for the average surfers where websites which deemed normal suddenly turn up to be a problematic website and as such it is also not only a problem for the kids but also for the average public that surf the internet.

What steps could be taken?

So it is time to look for some other sources of internet filtering. One such example would be NetSpective. Well, third party internet filtering appliance like NetSpective seems to be a swift solution for most of these problems. We might be IT pros but once again it would be better to be safe than sorry. It would be unbelievable if TechieDan would have failed because of situations like these.

If up till now you have been unsure as to what internet filtering meant, have a look at the brief description here.

Internet filters protect children and teens from questionable and malicious internet content, which makes them a must for schools, libraries, rec centers, churches or any place with child care or after school programs.

An advanced web filtering solution can also help your business increase employee productivity, decrease security risks and threats and maximize your network’s capacity.

I want to protect the organization

As above I believe most readers here would have been from an organization looking for solutions to their problems. Remember that employers should learn to minimize risks for their organization and thus it is important to obtain a security feature as such. Just a simple mistake by one employee could jeopardize the whole intranet in the company. As an employer we would not want this to happen right?

So what about your thoughts then? Still considering whether to have an internet filter installed on the network? Consider no more, time to eliminate those pesky problems.

In short, internet filtering is not only for the kids, it also applies to us adults in our every daily life. Time for some filtering to be done. Get rid of those pesky annoying ads, pornograhy websites and malicious malwares and spywares.

Systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application. Their purpose is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization and manage the connections to outside stakeholders

Of course in simple terms it is just a software to manage the resources in the company in terms of finance, human resource management, project management and so forth. This is what exactly a company needs. Of course, if TechieDan plans to start a company too, it might not be feasible but once he is stable getting a ERP software like this would be simply worth it.

Suffice to say, there are few ERP Software around the Internet. If you are the CEO or the managing director of your company, how do you manage without it? Here is one such software from TGI.

This software allows these few characteristics to be done as below.

One is able to view account information, download documentation and system updates, track open issues, view E21 modification history.

E21?

Well, let’s just say it is a special name for its software. With a software name Enterprise 21 ERP System, it might have 21 functions? Well, what I got from the website though is that there are tonnes of function such as viewing account information, download documentation and system updates, track open issues, view E21 modification history and many more.

There is that E21 again. Well, it looks like I have to try it to know what it means.

There are lots of other ERP software of course, there is no harm trying this one first though. At least the background check was the company involved in developing this software was founder in 1990. Now that is about 21 years of software development.