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This is not a common topic I would write on this blog, but since my vent out my disappointment on the new Nokia E72 keeps restarting. I receive some traffic and comment regarding this issue. At first, my problem temporarily stop because I upgrade the first firmware as soon as it pop up on my phone. But after some time, even the Facebook application comes with the phone will cause my phone to restart.

Earlier I had wrote to Nokia about this issue. They provide me with two option. Option one was to reboot my E72 and remove the battery. Wait for 5 minutes before starting the phone again. This option did not help at all.

But the second option is doing fine so far. No more restart, especially software like nimbuzz. But this is hard reset (Remember to BACKUP). Using Nokia PC Suite does fine for me, backup everything, even on your SD card. After backup, type in *#7370# and it will prompt for lock code, it should be 12345. Your phone is now good as new, and everything is totally gone. I restore most part of the backup, other than my setting (I decide to do my setting all over again). After that my problem is gone.

Do this at your own risk!

I had always like buying domain, not sure why, may due to the fact that it is pretty cheap. Choosing a domain is more than just picking a nice Mobile Number or Car License Plate, because it affect how people remembers, how people would type it, how Search Engine would pick it up, it also gives an impression to other people and most importantly it is your brand.

Guidlines for Choosing a Domain
Try to get domain that is related to your search keyword. Most of the time, someone already got the dotCom. But you can always add like mydomain.com, thedomain.com, domainworld.com and much more.

Another trick is that you can opt for dash (-) in domain, but it may not be great because people does not like dash as much as Search Engines. So if you get car-classifieds.com, you can get better SEO score, but you might loose some people to carclassifieds.com.

There are also method where you could make out a new name, like most big companies would do, but it would require marketing cost to do branding. Of course if it sticks near to the keyword, it would gives you a double effect.

Long or Short? I would try to have it max at two words, but if characters is short, I will look at three words domain as well. I don’t mind the character as long as people can remembers easily. But it is not advisable to go as long as 64 characthers (which is the longest you can go). I would not even try 20 characters.

Buy from someone else? If you have the budget, you can opt for this, but domain squatters usually wants to make big amount of money, so you will most probably need to have some USD in hand.

.Com or .Net? I will only go for .Com now, unless there is a superb domain out there that I would spend money to keep. Yes, we have some successful .net and even .org. But you should know that you are promoting someone else domain each time you promote yours. And the .com owner will sell you at a high price once you have got your name establish, and it doesn’t matter if the name is a crap name or somewords you made up.

Domain Research
I like AjaxWhois, not sure why, but might be the green colours and it is instant but it only gives you .com and .net results.

Google Keyword Tool has always been a big help in researching for keywords.

Some thesaurus will open up your choice of words

I think this process applies to Blogspot.com, Wordpress.com and even profile name like Twitter (which I have successfully sold one previously). What is your process or choosing a domain?

I got this phone 2 weeks already, it is a great phone as I have upgraded from a pretty lousy phone that I have used for almost 2 years. With the high expectation of getting a phone which could keep up with my online updates, I quickly install some great applications, but come to know that most of the resource hungry application or resource hungry websites actually make my new Nokia E72 restart. This happens without fail, so there is no chance at all for me to log into Nimbuzz, or even Meebo url will cause it to restart. Not to mention website like Facebook (non mobile) will do the same. I can’t tell you how many times my phone restarted….

Overall, I think that the qwerty keyboard and touch scrolling feature is simply great. Makes it look and feel like a blackberry. For a RM1,550, you are getting WiFi, qwerty keyboard, 3G with HSDPA connection speed, GPS (Garmin if you have the map), 5.2mp camera + second camera for 3G, and the mail application is such a great deal.

But the constant restarting of the phone is getting into my nerf, while I tried my friend E71 and they had no such problem. They are discussion about this E72 restarting issue at Nokia forum too.

Looking forward for firmware upgrade, which I heard European version is out, hopefully they fix this problem, or I am getting myself to the Nokia Service Center to bug them for a fix.

It seems that we will be seeing twitter search result when we do a search on Google. Although I would admit that I do not actually search for anything in Twitter before, and including them in Google seems to clutter up the information for me. Also, the twitter search result will update from time to time to get the latest updates.

Yea, I am also taking a look at the latest iPad! Would like to see and feel an actual unit. I believe it is a nice unit to do some reading.

Currently I have Alexa and Technorati ranking on my ranking matrices for Malaysia Top 100 Blogs. I have been struggling to get other ranking up when I got compete API and the ranking ready, only to find out that it does not rate subdomain. Meaning yourname.blogspot.com will rank the same as www.blogspot.com, which is ridiculously bad. I have yet to come out with a solution.

While Google Rank script works well running one domain at a time but when I run my database of almost 200 domains, it seems to have no response from Google at all. I will need to fine tune this.

It has been a boring weekend with my daily job taking up a lot of time as I am on standby and my servers are not behaving well, I am stuck at home monitoring those metal box.