ATI used to have a RSS feed for announcing their latest ATI Catalyst drivers. However, on 20 February, they announced that “Catalyst updates will no longer be available as an RSS feed We are excited to announce the availability of exclusive updates on Twitter!!”.

Check out the ATI Catalyst… Read more…

I DO NOT disagree with SocialToo’s decision to stop automated DMs on their site but I disagree with their decision to block users who send automated DMs from other sites.

There are pros and cons of sending automated direct messages on Twitter. I believe the number one reason for… Read more…

A lot of countries are still not PayPal-friendly. People in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and a lot of other developing countries have a vey hard time trying to get PayPal to work.

While this is none of our business if you we don’t live in these countries, it is our business… Read more…

Don Reisinger wrote an interesting article on how he uses Twitter to replace RSS readers. Personally, I still use RSS readers from my Windows machine and I don’t think Twitter is going to replace that any time soon.

However, I do understand that this Twitter phenomenon is something that… Read more…

Oempro 4 is the latest version of Octeth’s popular PHP/MySQL email marketing application. I have been using Oempro 3 for a couple of years and I was really looking forward to version 4 because the previous version could not import content from RSS feeds. The new Oempro 4 features… Read more…

StumbleUpon can be found within the ShareThis plugin’s list of social bookmarking sites. I believe StumbleUpon should be given its own place outside of the ShareThis plugin’s menu because it is a very important social bookmarking site and I want my visitors to be able to share my web sites’… Read more…

My friend introduced me to Dropbox because he wanted to transfer some songs to me. I was impressed with the download speeds and the ease of use of the Dropbox so I decided to use it to share files with my freelancers.

Dropbox Plans

The… Read more…

I started encoding PHP files of my site, Oasis Fanatic, a few years back when it got hacked. Thankfully, the hacker did not deface my web site or damage my database. He or she just wanted to use my web server to attack another web server.

Why Encode PHP… Read more…

I stumbled upon Tweeter Getter, a viral marketing tool that claims to increase your number of Twitter followers by the thousands. “15625 new Twitter followers” is what the creator claims you will get if you use his system. Some people say this thing works like a… Read more…

I think I have hit Twitter’s following limit. At the time of this post, I have 1216 followers and I am following 1881 people in my Twitter account.

According to Twitter, I must “balance your follower/following ratio in order to follow more people”. Find out more… Read more…

Sometimes a new WordPress release messes up things that they fixed in a previous version. Here we go again with the irritating exclude pages bug in WordPress! The fix is something similar to post I blogged about in August…

My fix was inspired by this post from Texto.de.… Read more…

Quick Twollow.com Demo from jon on Vimeo.

Twollow is a really cool tool to look for people who tweet about the things that you want to target. I thought it does not work but recently I have been getting more followers out of nowhere. I am… Read more…

TwitThis is a free service and WordPress plugin that allows you to add a “Tweet This” button at the end of your WordPress posts/pages. Another plugin would be Tweet This, a WordPress plugin with a bit more features than the TwitThis. I prefer the latter because it helps… Read more…

I signed up for a trial of John Jonas’ Replace Myself membership site. I paid only $4 to try the site for 2 weeks so I was not expecting much. The regular price is $97 per month, which I find a little too costly.

Anyway, I think my expectations were… Read more…

This is my full review of this amazingly popular book on how to live the lifestyle you want.

I must say this is one the rare books that I have re-read multiple times. I have highlighted the important keywords of some paragraphs in the book for easy re-reading and… Read more…