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Poll: Post Ratings - To Use or Not To Use?

It’s been almost a year since I installed the WP Post Ratings plugin here on JaypeeOnline. Anyways, I installed this plugin because I liked the idea of having my posts rated by you, my readers and visitors. This helps me in two ways. First, I can get your immediate feedback regarding the post. Second, ratings that you submit on each …

Blog Updates 01.08

It’s been a while since I last did a blog update post. It’s not that I haven’t had any updates to post but I just didn’t have time to do it especiallly during the two month hiatus. Aside from the recent theme reboot, I’ve also updated, uninstalled and installed plugins.

Uninstalled Plugins:

• Who Sees Ads? - I had to disable/uninstall the Who Sees Ads? plugin because it suddenly caused a fatal error the other …
  
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JaypeeOnline Theme Reboot

UPDATE #2: I’ve fixed this already and everything seems to be okay when I checked with Opera. Please let me know if you see some errors or bugs with in this theme. Thank you!

UPDATE #1: Less than an hour from being launched, there’s already a bug. If you’re using Opera, the featured article section is not aligned well. I’ll be trying to figure out the problem and fix it as soon as I can. Thanks …

JaypeeOnline Recap: The Year That Was 2007

I was having second thoughts whether or not I would do a year ender post or recap. Since you are now reading this, it means that I decided to go ahead and do it. This is JaypeeOnline’s recap for 2007.

2007 was a great year for me and my blog. I would call it the coming of age for JaypeeOnline. For what started out as my personal blog, has now turned into a more focused blog. I”ve never imagined my blog to reach this far but I’m very proud of it. I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank my family, friends and loyal readers because without them, all of this won’t be possible. You guys are the driving force, my inspiration. Thank you so much!

Back Online

After almost a month of not having Internet access at the apartment, I finally had it installed and working today. The guys from Time Warner Cable activated the line, installed the modem and after a few minutes had me connected to the world wide web. Initially, I wanted to get Verizon as my ISP but they didn’t provide service in my area so I had to choose between AT&T and Time Warner. I ended up choosing the latter because they offered the better deal. Time Warner didn’t require any contracts so I can terminate my account anytime I want. Plus, they provided the modem for free while AT&T charged $49 for it.

As soon as I got connected, the first thing I did was to update my antivirus definitions then the next thing I did was check the speed of my Internet connection using Speedtest.net and here are the results:

invisibleSHIELD

Don’t you just hate it when one of your gadgets or devices gets scratched? Not only does scratches make it look ugly but it can also decrease the resale value of that device in case you plan to sell it in the future.

If you want to prevent your devices from getting scratches, what you need is an invisibleSHIELD. An invisibleSHIELD is a tough, invisible film that can protect cell phones, digital cameras, iPods, …

More Google PageRank Updates

Last month, one of the hottest topics in the blogosphere was the Google PageRank updates. Many big time bloggers like ProBlogger, Copyblogger, John Chow, Quick Online Tips and Weblog Tools Collection were penalized and lost pagerank.

For Filipino owned blogs, among those that were penalized in the initial update were Yugatech, Retzwerx, Jozzua and Codamon just to mention a few. The reason? Most if not all, were …

Google Feedfetcher Had A Hangover

When I went to check my blog early today, there was one thing that I noticed and that was the big drop on my RSS subscribers. Last time I checked, my Feedburner chicklet showed that I had 174 readers. This morning, it showed only 109.

What happened? I had no idea. It’s normal for the number of my RSS subscribers to drop 10 readers at a time but for it to lose 65 readers overnight …

New Joomla SEO SEF component

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a useful tool in helping a website or e-commerce business become successful. Website and blog URLs play a key role in search engine optimization.

For Joomla users, having pretty URLs is one of the basic issues they have to tackle when it comes to Joomla SEO. With SerrBizSEF, a SEO SEF Joomla component you can now make your URLs to go from this…

http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Item id=71

..into something pretty …

Back From Short Hiatus

My apologies for the lack of updates and posts in the past week or so. I was very busy because my parents came to visit us from the Philippines. Most of time I was out taking them to visit friends, go sightseeing, shopping, dining out and stuff. When I get home I’m already exhausted that the only thing I can do is check my emails or approve comments and I have no more time to …

What’s In The Box?

I got something delivered to me by FedEx yesterday. This is what the package looks like:

Wanna know what’s inside the box? Any guesses? It’s not Pandora’s box neither a jack-in-the-box. Hehe.. I was so busy last Friday and was out the whole day today so I wasn’t able to post this. If you wanna know what’s in the box, come back tomorrow and you’ll find out what it is.