Google has launched a beta version of their Adsense service for video. Web publishers that participate in Google’s AdSense ad network will now be able to make money by offering ad-supported video clips from Youtube site.

This service won’t be available to everyone yet. Your site must havean English-language content, serve at least one million video stream per month, and based in the U.S.

Click here to apply for Adsense for video beta

Technorati Tags: Adsense, Google Video

If you have a web-based version of your application, you might consider nominating it for a Webware 100 award. Winners receive lots of promotion on Webware and attention from users and the media.

The deadline to submit is January 25, 2008, so act fast!
http://www.webware.com/100

There is a way to change users from the command prompt without logging off Windows.

1) Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to launch Task Manager and look for a process in the list called explorer.exe.Click the End Process button.

2) Next, click on the file menu and choose New Task (Run…)

3) Enter “cmd” and hit enter to open the Command Prompt window

4) Inside the Command Prompt, use following syntax:

runas /user:username “explorer”

For example to switch to “Administrator” account, use the following command:

runas /user:Administrator “explorer”

Technorati Tags: Windows XP, RunAs

Paypal recurring payments allow seller to automatically renew the subscription payment on the expiry date. In other words, if you bought the subscription using Paypal, your subscription will be automatically renewed and your debit/credit card will be charged at the time the billing cycle is triggered. This process continues until you cancel the service.

To stop recurring billing charges:

1) Login to your Paypal Account.

2) Click “History” subtab

3) Show only “Subscription” and click Details to view your subscription details.

4) At the bottom of the page, Click “Cancel Subscription”.

5) On the next page, you will be asked to confirm the cancellation. Click the “Cancel Subscription” again to complete the cancellation.

6) You are done!

Technorati Tags: Paypal, Recurring Payment, Automatic Payment

TMnet has recently blocking user’s outgoint port 25/tcp traffic. They has limit port 25 access in order to cut down on spam sent through their servers.

This prevents users from sending email using non-streamyx or non-tmnet SMTP servers eg. mail.company.com.my, only smtp.streamyx.com and smtp.tm.net.my will be allowed. Means if you operate or have your own mail server, you must configure your mail server so that it is an open relay.

For more information visit

http://www.tm.net.my/tmnet2006/contents/products-services/news_result.cfm?id=1411

I’ve just received an email from Namecheap saying that they are now increasing their
price for domain name from $8.88 per year to $9.29 per year.

Here is a part of the email’s notification about the price increases:

In light of that decision, NameCheap.com will be adjusting its pricing
on Sunday, October 14, 2007 as follows:

.com domain renewals, transfers and new registrations:
Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year

.net domain renewals, transfers and new registrations:
Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year

.org domain renewals, transfers and new registrations:
Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year

.info domain renewals, transfers and new registrations:
old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year

.biz domain renewals, transfers and new registrations:
Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year

PayPal has announced yesterday that they are now offering withdraw funds into Visa card for Malaysian. With this new facility, Malaysian citizen will now be able to withdraw money out from their PayPal funds into their Visa credit, debit or prepaid card.

The image below show you step-by-step how to do it:

Please note, a fee of $5.00 is charged for every transaction made.

Technorati Tags: Paypal, Withdraw, Visa

To allow each new user to have his/her blog hosted in subdomain (eg. http://user.domain.com), you’ll need a wildcard entry in the DNS. To enable wildcard dns, you have to add one single line to your domain name zone:

*.domain.tld. IN A 123.456.78.9

Apache Setup
Open httpd.conf and add the following line at the VirtualHosts section:

DocumentRoot /www/subdomain
ServerName www.domain.tld
ServerAlias *.domain.tld

If you are on shared hosting such as Cpanel, you need to contact the support team and ask them if wildcards are enabled on your account. If not, tell them to add a wildcard entry in the DNS for a particular domain.

Technorati Tags: Apache, WPMU, Wildcard DNS, Hosting

Got this message when I logged into my google account:

NEW - Congratulations, your account has been upgraded to include the all new Referrals 2.0 - click here to get started

With Google Referrals 2.0, I can choose up to 15 products or ads and google will provide them and rotate them. Very interesting.

If you don’t see referrals 2.0 feature on your account, please check back in a few days. It will become available in all accounts in the next few weeks.

Check out more detailed of Google Adsense 2.0 Referrals here

Technorati Tags: Adsense, Referrals 2.0

Here is a quick how to for installing SMF (SimpleMachines Forum):

1. Download SMF from simplemachines.org.
2. Install SMF forum on the same database as Joomla! / Mambo. Use a different prefix such as “smf_”.
3. Download SMF Forum Component
4. Install SMF Mod using SMF Package Manager.
5. Install SMF Integration Component

Technorati Tags: SMF, Joomla