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.

I know there is other software out there whereby you could do remote connection but one software whereby you can bypass your  firewall is pretty hard to find. With this Remote connection, you can basically surf, ftp, telnet, or do any other connection that is limited by the firewall. I think that LogMeIn is using a java connection therefore the port used in this connection is only port 80 whereby it is usually open for surfing purposes.

It is a free software whereby the server (your home PC) will need to be on while the client only require a standard browser and some ActiveX will be installed. Plus, the connection is also encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption. Browsing speed is decent depending on your download & upload internet speed.

The only disadvantage is that you will need to keep your home PC connected and on when you need to do this. Unless you have someone at home to call when you need to start your computer. Nevertheless, this is a way you can bypass your company firewall, or solve netbook unable to run heavy duty software, or unable to download certain files, or would simply need to remote as your file is always stored in once place.

Been really busy recently and so ashame of myself of not writing anything here for so long, because it indicates that I did not learn any new things, new ideas or found any new tips & tricks recently. But nevertheless, I have move some of my domains to a new Semi-Dedicated hosting. I have been looking for a great semi-dedicated hosting for quite some time. The reason mainly because of financial side which I am more than comfortable to pay for hosting now.

I believe that I found one reliable webhosting company but it is too early to say, all I can say now is “So far so good”. This blog will not move so soon because I have paid for Hostgator for their 3 years plan and it is not that resource hungry as my other websites. My new hosting is with ServerFreak Hosting, they are a Malaysia hosting company, pretty reputable so far and their office is quite near to my house. Will come out with their service review once I tried them out for at least 3 months.

On the other hand, I have been spanding some time with my family, and taking pictures with my new DLSR.

Previously  I have actually written about blogs that are manage by more than one person. The reason mainly because of time and wanted some variety in the posts. Currently it is doing pretty fine as we could get around $50/month, not much but I would say that it is pretty decent since we just spend like 2 hours each person each week. But the downside was that we only have two person blogging now. It was expected that some friends will give up or found out they do not like blogging.

Anyhow, it was nice that I found someone to share my interest and share my knowledge with and it generates new idea on how we could promote and increase our visitor. We manage to get 450+ visitor a day which is pretty good because it is quite a competative topic that we are blogging about. Not the best blog out there but pretty satisfied.

Show that you are proud to be a Malaysian by having this logo on your twitter profile. This is just some new website that I just stumble upon, and created a profile for all Malaysian who twits. If you have any cause that you would like to support you can create your own at Twibbon. Offline, I am always supporting only one charity which is Good Samaritan Home in Klang, that is the home for orphan and kids from broken family.

If you have none, join my cause and have this logo display on your Twitter profile picture. This is another great little twitter application that is pretty neat.

Get this twibbon on your twitter profile. for Malaysia!

I had no choice to change to another theme quickly as my previous wordpress theme, Forte is actually not compatible with the latest wordpress 2.8 but I did not notice as I was too busy and had no time to even update this blog. Basically all comments are disabled, even though I have enable them in all my posts in post level and also settings.

Thanks to Lee who contacted me about this issue, I had to quickly change the theme as my troubleshooting shows that it is the problem with the theme and I could not identify the part of the code having problem, even having to replace the comment.php file with the wordpress default file does not work either.

I believe this new theme is working fine and I am pretty happy with the look, it is actually a magazine theme that I have edit it to look like a blog again. The only cons about this theme is the footer that is encrypted because they are affraid that we delete the credit to the theme developer. Anyhow I do not do that, previous footer stay intact for the whole priod, but having the footer I could add my stats there whereby the processing is done later, and visitor will not notice the lags.

I have spend quite some time trying to make a new theme for my personal photoblog. It is a blog focusing a lot in my new hobby, photography. I am trying to make time for this new hobby of mine after I got my first DSLR, Nikon D90, it is just simply beautiful.

Got the idea of using only one rotating picture on my front page, but I do not want to keep it empty like other photoblog. Blog post only appears on the right sidebar. Due to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and navigation, I keep the category, my tweets and blogroll right at the bottom of the page so that they are not too obstructive.

Site: http://www.adiwong.com

From my previous post about my Wordpress journey, I have been selected, that was actually the easy part. Now the hard part is to win the voting system that I am way behind. Vote for me here.

So here is my giveback if I win the contest, yes, I will contribute back if you could help me out here. I will make a Wordpress MU website for Malaysian whereby people could start their blog for free (I think I will get a .my domain to give a better localize url).

Then I will use USD100 for contests to giveaway as a promotion of this new community to make sure for its success. Not to mention the time that I am doing to devote here.

Also I will give out USD20 to a random person who voted for me and commented here. (yes, I can’t track them but if I win, I don’t mind giving, so comment on this post and continue to vote for me in your office, home, laptop, friend’s computer…wherever you can vote)

Then, I will give USD20 for a lucky blogger who posted a link to this post to support me in this contest. You can write a long post or a short post, and it is up to you.

Lastly, I will also share another USD20 for a lucky twitter who retweet my post for supporting me. You could copy the phrase below for simplicity or write anything that include @8dee

RT @8dee Give support and Vote for Riceblogger.com at http://bit.ly/3ya2Ew

Then the last tiny bits will be left for me any my family to enjoy a good meal.

All this will be given if I were to win the 1st prize. I am trying to aim big but if I do make it to other prizes, I will still try to contribute in a smaller amount. So vote for me here. (it takes less than 5 secs to do this)