My husband’s pc was broken few weeks ago and he haven’t got the time to fix it yet. He was so careful with his laptop that he decided to make my pc his crash machine. I’m not sure what he was doing but fretted when I experienced slow browsing, and was impossible for me to upload images, or even access my admin page for Wordpress. Then eventually the Blue screen.

The Blue Screen of Death (or BSOD), or Windows Stop error, is an itch on the nose. Everytime Windows define a faulty software,hardware, or driver it will not allow your computer to continue to work properly. This always happen with so many different reasons. From a defective hardware, such as a malfunctioning power supply or a bad RAM.

I bugged a friend for tech support because my husband was so busy on a meeting, and he suggested to just take my pc subsytem to a technician. He can’t walk me through hands-on technical troubleshooting on the phone because it might be risky. But I took the risk to open my subsystem and cleaned off dust on my hardwares. The fans are working alright. So my system didn’t overheat. I unplug and replug everything, making sure that devices were strongly corked in to the sockets and ports. And when i powered it on, it still gives the bleeping sound that means its trying to read my device. It just wouldn’t boot to Windows. I assumed it was a faulty hardware since I already painstakingly deleted suspected programs through Safe Mode earlier. But after a few tries it wouldn’t let me proceed even on Safe Mode.

When my husband came home, he took the other RAM, surmising it’s faulty. Then we were able to reinstall WindowsXP. And all was well. My husband’s pc is another issue. I’ll know when he will have the time to check it, he’s always busy. If I did not nagged him to help me with my pc he wouldn’t have moved to help me.

With WindowsXP most of it’s issues can be solved easily by a simple reboot. But this is not always the case, such as if you need to repair a bad hardware. Some of the original Windows components can repair the wrong steps and misses we made. You just need the WindowsXp installer on hand and boot in Safe Mode. But for hardware issues you’ll be needing your screw driver and a good eye  to check your devices.

I do not take time to change my Friendster account’s layout and all because I like it as simple as it is. Plain and dainty like how I wanted it to be, just like my Multiply account. But if your thing is glittery and fun style of skins and layouts, and amazing themes, check my list of sites that gives cool layouts, glittered graphics, generators and widgets to suit your style.

glitter-graphics.com

Spider Layouts
Bigoo
PingaFriend
Friendster Layouts at Glitter-Graphics
Friendster Style
Free code Source
FriendsterLayouts

More than anything else, this Friendster Layout Creator from Spider Layouts’ so great. Think of creating your own layout exactly the way you feel and fancied it to be.

There are widgets like the Look-alike Meter , Horoscopes, BunnyHeroLabs and more. Youtube and MetaCafe video uploaders. And slide-shows from Slide and OneTrueMedia . Also, you can have mp3’s on your sites that you can get for free from mp3-codes.

And my favorite tickers from Lilypie. Pretty background and markers for your kids’ birthdays, anniversaries, and any occasions, too.

Friendster’s growing network is very influential. The site is a highly recognized online social community. You’ll get to connect with family, friends, long lost friends and classmates, and everyone else. I’ve noticed many people go gaga over their Friendster profile page and took endless effort inserting CSS codes on their pages.

It wasn’t so long ago since I started blogging seriously. But it’s been ages since I’ve created websites for clients, for personal and business. From the basics of html to xhtml, Static to Dynamic, website designs became more interesting and flexible as time passes by.

As a Flash Designer, I have found inconveniences and curbs on my projects esp. on editing and revising of designs. I had Flash for personal sites before, and found it exhausting to edit pages whenever I think of updating my contents. CMS is so reliable and amazing when it comes to such needs. All you have to do is check your PHP codes or/and HTML, edit and save. Then you’re done. Also for content creators to submit content without necessitating expertise in HTML or FTP.

Lately, I devoted my spare time in blogging, or I’d much prefer to call it writing. But what interests me more is my site’s layout design. A friend told me not to focused more on the site’s design when blogging. The content’s more important than anything, he says. Well he could be right. But my heart says I’d like to post my articles in a way that would be attractive to the viewers.

From modifying other WP Developers’ designed, I’ve learned many things, and wanted to do more. Good timely, the MindanaoBloggers are up to something really great. They organized WordCamp Philippines 2008. To be held on 6 September 2008 at the Augusto-Rosario Gonzalez Theater, College of Saint Benilde in Manila.

Sponsors of the WordCamp Philippines 2008:

• i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
• Free Online Flash Games
• Wazzup Manila Philippines
• Real Estate CRM
• Real Estate Website Designers
• Orange County Real Estate
• Auto Insurance Quotes
• Lane Systems Inc.
• RedMedia
• Orange County Business Lawyer
• Cebu Pacific Air
• Buddy Gancenia Reality TV
• SmartBro Wireless Broadband
• SPOT.ph
• Make Money with Performancing Ads

And the wonderful people behind this event:

• Blogie
• Andrew
• Ria
• Migs
• Winston
• Juned
• Dave
• Chuckie

I got a new mobile number and it begins with +63999-…..

Yes, seriously 0999-. It’s from a new telco called U Mobile or ümobile. It is exclusively for 15 to 35 year old individuals who are residing in the Philippines. And one must be able to get a subscription, or the sim, through an invite.

It is said that ümobile was bought by Smart from a telco named Cure. And it is the first ad-capitalized mobile service in the Philippines, and in Asia. Subscribers get a free load because advertising funds everything. Subscription to the service includes mobile ad campaigns that subscribers will receive and benefit from, according to ümobile. To simplify it, subscribers get free loads along with advertisements coming in their mobile phones. Simultaneously, I hope not.

Free load’s cool, but the ads. Imagine being bombarded with advertisements every now and then. It’s no different to the spam we have in our email inbox. Spam mails are all but annoying and just-consuming space of your email hosting. So it’s no-free load at all.

Some people are too tight to give out personal information. We can’t use aliases since the courier would be asking id’s from us, or whoever we authorized to receive our sim cards.

To whom would this sim work best? I only have two mobile phones. One, I am using for my eternal Smart sim, and the other for my Globe and my Sun. This may work for people who wouldn’t mind having to received ads, or what I called spam messages. But for those 15-to-35’s who wanted a peaceful mobile life, less of the bugging ads, this wouldn’t sell.

Basically advertisers pay for your text messages and calls. It’s a give and take relationship. However, I choose not to take, so I wouldn’t have to give in to what’s being given.

But what interest me are some of the sim’s features. They have a website wherein you can manage your sim. Like check balances, phone configurations, and others. Also, they have a “change your number” feature. But it’s not working yet. And what I like most , is we can purchase loads online, and can be paid using Paypal. But then again, I think it’s also not working yet, because the “Creating Request . . .” is taking forever. Well, they’ve just launched, and a few website glitches are acceptable and forgiven.

From 0910- to 0929-, using 0999- is really something new locally.

** If you’re looking and wanting to try the service, you can get an invite from here. Send me your name, email add, and number. [rj@charmedmom.com] I received an invite from my husband on a Monday, and i got the sim delivered at our home on Friday of the same week, easy and fast.

I got my domain back.

A year ago I overlooked the expiration date of one of my domains, animoport.com. And it went into a domain name auction and another acquired it. Then they had just turned it into a domain parking. I wanted the animoport.com badly for sentimental reasons that this was my husband’s first owned domain name, and it has our lastname. Though i used it now for personal matter. And so i registered ‘theanimoport.com’.

Few months later, I have received mails offering my expired domain for a very high price. Since I own another version of the domain, they expected I’d want to get the ‘.com’ version.

The email claimed that theirs is a company that specializes in recovering preferred expiring domains and sell them to individuals like myself or building out their own sites on these expired but valuable domains.

Excerpts of the email;

animoport.com is a pretty darn good domain name and,the truth is, the animoport.com is a far stronger version of thename than the theanimoport.com is.* animoport.com is more intuitive and easier to remember.
Odds are people trying to get toyour website are inadvertently going to animoport.com because they assume that’s where they can find you.

animoport.com conveys Professionalism that theanimoport.com cannot match.If you’d like to own animoport.com, you can buy it now by covering our acquisition costs and a modest profit.

If you have any interest I encourage you to act quickly because this domain name will only be offered for sale
for a limited time.

animoport.com was previously priced at $457, but as
part of a very limited marketing test, I’ve decided to
discount our inventory of domain names for just 24 hours.

How big of a discount?

Up to $250.

That’s a huge savings.

But, You do have to act right away though… because this offer is only good for the next 24 hours.

Yesterday I was checking Centralops for domains’ availability. And my ‘animoport.com’ is already available . They have let go of my domain. I registered it right away. And I got it for $1.99 USD only.

How could people buy domain names that could be important to others but not so much to them. Then sell it to a very high price. They take advantage of others’ misses and forgetfulness. So okay the world is full of business people and all.