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Sharing large files is easy nowadays due to the advent of P2P software like LimeWire, Morpheus, Ares etc, and file-sharing websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, and others. However, most of these softwares or sites require waiting time and download before you can download another file. This becomes a dilemma with split downloads like movie clips, e-book downloads, and other large divided files (i.e. part 1, part 2, etc). You can only avoid waiting time and download limits by paying as premium user.

Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and other free e-mail service has attachment size limits (usually 5 MB). This attachment size is applicable only for documents, but not when sending large files as attachments like video clips, audio files, high resolution images, etc.

Pando is a great free P2P software that lets you share large files in blog posts, instant messengers and e-mail.

Send large e-mail attachments. Pando allows you to send up to 1GB of e-mail attachments through your free e-mail account.

Share files with your readers and friends without the annoying waiting time and download limit. Pando also lets you share big files with your friends in IM clients and websites/blogs.
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BerryBlitz asked how to get back his PR2 (his blog now has PR0). Apparently, he is one of the millions affected by the PR backlash as punishment by Google on paid links.

Well, here’s a tip for those who were affected by PR drop:
I was Stumbling a while ago when I found this timely and interesting post from Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs Journey, one of the successful netrepreneurs and probloggers, on how he has managed to get his page rank back to 6. When the big sweep happened, his blog went down to 3 from his original PR6.

Good for him he has now managed to get back his page rank. He added no follow to all paid links in his blog, then submitted a review request with Google at their Webmaster Tools then patiently waited for Google to give him his original PR. According to him, “Google simply doesn’t tell you whether you have successfully adhered to their requests or you still need to do more to have the penalty removed.”
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Text Link Ads (TLA) has helped me a lot on my hosting and domain dues and other online transactions. Adding funds to Paypal was still not possible in the Philippines so my TLA payments are what I use to pay my hosting and domain. I don’t have a credit card (except for my mom’s GSIS e-card) so I have to depend on my Paypal balance to pay for these things.

I was earning at least $100/month with TLA and the links to this blog generate most of my earnings (>60%). For a starter in blog monetization, 100 bucks really mean a huge amount. However, after reading some of Google PR drops and sites getting banned from Google results because of paid links, I had to reconsider things.

John Chow’s blog for example was number 1 in Google results for “make money online” keywords but now it’s nowhere to be found. Some bloggers however, like Darren Rowse of Problogger.net suggested to “Forget About Page Rank and Build a Better Blog” and further emphasized that it’s the quality of content that gives you traffic and that relying in Google is a bad move. Dosh Dosh also stated that Google PR are just numbers and a “webmaster fetish”, i However, for a struggling blogger who’s still building a traffic like me, the searches from Google and other search engines really matter a lot.
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Entrecard credits these days should be dubbed as the “virtual money” of the blogosphere. It is now possible to do online transactions without the need to spend real money, using Entrecard credits. With this possibility, users are also exploring new ways on how to earn more credits.

If you visit the Entrecard Shop, you’ll find great ways to spend your ecs:

• For Advertising: You can buy an ad space or text, a blog review, and directory submission.
• Buy Products and Services: Buy an e-book, pay and buy a web space, a blog installation, graphic design, CDs and DVDs, comments for your blog (yeah, even this), search engine optimization, etc.

Of course we know that we can buy ad space on different blogs through browsing the directory. To buy all these products, you have to have enough credits. We already know the conventional ways to earn credits: by dropping and receiving drop cards from others, every time someone advertises in our widgets and receiving donations from others.
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Using magazine-style WordPress themes is the new trend in the blogging community. These themes enhances the CMS capability of WordPress.

Why is it better to choose a magazine- or newspaper-style theme?

1. It’s “pro-looking”. One of the ways to drive traffic and persuade readers is making your layout professional. Because these themes can be taking a lot of knowledge about coding, most of them are designed by professional designers.

2. You can maximize the space on your blog. You have a lot of space for advertising and other widgets.

3. It is best for multimedia. Magazine-style themes are best for video blogging and podcasting.

4. You can have featured posts highlighting a certain notable post.
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Mozilla has released the new and improved Firefox 3 on its beta version. How will Firefox 3 improve on things?

- Performance improvements, including over 300 memory leak fixes, perennial problems with Firefox since the beginning and an issue that plagues it badly today

- Firefox 3 does seem quite a bit speedier than version 2.

- With its intuitive search, users can auto-scour their surfing and browsing history and bookmarks for visited URLs and even page titles, making it easier to find “lost” pages as you type.

- Bookmarking is easier to do (just one click) and organization of bookmarks is also improved.

- Security improvements
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My domain and other sites, has been hosted since its birth in the blogosphere by Ejam Hosting through its post-to-host program for FREE.

I have been satisfied with their hosting because I am getting the features of a paid host for FREE and so far, Ejam has satisfied my qualifications for a free host. Unfortunately (or fortunately), since this blog has been widely visited these past days, I have to upgrade my bandwidth limit and storage capacity.

Although I was satisfied with the hosting, my fear of losing my website was still there. Because it’s a free hosting, I was afraid of instability in the future. I’ve experienced this dilemma with my previous free hosts. AhPlace, my first host, for example, has been one of the most-trusted free hosts but due to hacker attacks, click frauds, spammers, and several other instabilities, it has to close down losing all the data of its hosted members. I still highly recommend Ejam, though.
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Here’s another way to increase your blog Alexa rank. Just follow the instructions below to join. Thanks to LadyJava for inviting me to join this new way of gaining traffic.

~Start Copying Here~

Alexa Redirect Train by Carl Ocab.

Rules: Put anything you like above this list – Chit Chat, talkies, introduce what this is. Something like that.

Start copying on the “~Start Copying Here~” and copy all the things listed without removing the links. (Of course, the train would be no use without those links.)

Move all the sites labeled “Newcomers” to the list labeled “Oldies.”
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My own list of most beautiful and best WordPress themes, inspired by the 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen list by Smashing Magazine.

Dark Theme for WordPress was originally used on Wolfgang Bartelme’s website. It is a three-column, dark theme which is be perfect for community, technology and even personal blogs. I am not a fan of dark-themed layouts for blogs but this particular theme has struck my interest. It’s neatly done and it maximizes your website space, which means you’ll have more space for site ads, links and widgets.

The theme has been tested on WordPress 2.1.3 with Firefox and Safari, may play well with IE6/7 too. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0.

Bartelme Design had made available a customization kit for download, which will enable users to add a nifty logo for their blogs. The kit includes a PSD file and a short description of how to change the CSS accordingly.
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The other day I received an e-mail alert from Auction.ph about their new adjacent site named AdAuction.

Auction.ph, the Philippines leading on-line market service where businesses and consumers can sell and buy goods and services, either through auction or outright purchases announces their new adjacent site AdAuction specifically designed for bloggers and site owners.

How it works: Simply display theirr pre-formatted ads on your page and earn a commission for every successful transaction resulting from the ad on your page. All you need is a blog or website, an AdAuction account, a little time and patience and you’ll be on your way to earning easy cash! No minimum page view requirements.
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Ever since I started making themes for WordPress, I’ve already contributed a total of 8 themes at the WordPress Theme Viewer. It’s quite a fulfillment for me seeing that most of my themes were appreciated by hundreds of WordPress users.

I aim to continue creating more themes for all WordPress users. It’s also one way of developing my not-so-good skills in CSS and HTML. I have learned these codes by my own efforts, thanks to the helpful web tutorials.

I am releasing my 9th theme, which I named Jammed and Green.

Description: A two-column, clean, green theme for WordPress.

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Please read the README.txt bundled with the zip file for instructions on plugin and theme installation.

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A while ago, I received a notification about my link being featured in the Million Dollar Avatar homepage. It was not unusual though because they feature 100 random member avatars in their homepage every 24 hours. I was just glad that my link was already featured a day after I signed up. This project is another addition to the previously made efforts for blog promotion like MyBlogLog, 2000 Bloggers, blog networks, content aggregators, and several directories, and many other ways.

Four ways that your site gets promoted at Million Dollar Avatar

- Every 24 hours, they display 100 random member avatars on the homepage so your link will be displayed at their homepage for 24 hours.

- Every 5 minutes, 100 random member avatars avatars will be displayed on the backpage.

- Every day, “The Daily 20” is generated. It displays random selection of member sites with a subscription feed for users to subscribe to via email or their RSS reader.

- Tag search: Let users find any and all members by tag or general search.

Get to know more about Million Dollar Avatar.

I’ve received many requests to release a theme similar to what I am using now. I have decided to release a public version of this theme. I would like to apologize for the delay. I didn’t have much time these past days. I hope you’ll like it.

By the way, I would like to that Hostseeq.com for sponsoring my theme.

It’s already available for downloads at the WordPress Theme Viewer.

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