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		<title>For Workstation</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2010/04/03/for-workstation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Workspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acer Timeline, with 8 hour of battery life, who would need an extra battery on the road? And this edition with support of Beijing 2008, runs a good HD movie too IKEA designed Jonas desk, with pull-out panel, saving space as you needed! Office chair spina winning the design award. Design with air flow in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/acer_timeline.jpg" alt="Acer Timeline" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.acer.com.my/acer/product.do?link=oln85e.redirect&#038;changedAlts=&#038;kcond48e.c2att101=-1&#038;CRC=2759084358#wrAjaxHistory=0">Acer Timeline</a>, with 8 hour of battery life, who would need an extra battery on the road? And this edition with support of Beijing 2008, runs a good HD movie too <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/office_desk.jpg" alt="Office desk" /></p>
<p>IKEA designed <a href="http://www.ikea.com.my/en/catalog/detail.asp?art=00161941&#038;q=b3r7p17&#038;cat=workspace,tablenchair,computer">Jonas</a> desk, with pull-out panel, saving space as you needed!</p>
<p><img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/office_chair.jpg" alt="Office chair" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.g-mark.org/english/archive/2007/best15/07A10046.html">Office chair spina</a> winning the design award. Design with air flow in the mind, how nice to have a seat without living and work for the next 8 hours straight <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/tmt88iv.jpg" alt="TM-T88IV" /></p>
<p>EPSON <a href="http://www.posmicro.com/epson/tm-t88iv.htm">TM-T88IV</a> receipt printer. For freelance web designer who work professional (<em>as in contract and invoices ready</em>), this is definitely one added bonus point in the office.</p>
<p>I do, hope that I owned all of them. But it&#8217;s a simple wishlist and might or might not be in my wishlist <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Firefox lagging on fresh loading</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2009/03/06/firefox-lagging-on-fresh-loading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.osground.com/2009/03/06/firefox-lagging-on-fresh-loading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FireFox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lagging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loading]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think a lot of users have this experience. I for one, happen to experience it the earliest among my friends. Though I&#8217;d changed to Google Chrome months ago, but Chrome is getting unstable for my usage, and I love how FireBug plugin works in Firefox and all the rest plugin from Firefox. The list [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think a lot of users have this experience. I for one, happen to experience it the earliest among my friends. Though I&#8217;d changed to Google Chrome months ago, but Chrome is getting unstable for my usage, and I love how FireBug plugin works in Firefox and all the rest plugin from Firefox. The list would go whole day just like <a href="http://www.gitomer.com/">sales training</a> session. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m still convince that Firefox gonna take over the browser share soon <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/firefox-preloader.jpg" alt="Firefox Preloader" /><br />
Firefox preloader is a little application that helps load Firefox easier on first load. Firefox preloader load a little memory when you first boot up your computer, to help smooth fresh loading of Firefox. What I experiences without this preloader was a lagging session for at least 3 minutes everytime. Though there are tips on how to speed up Firefox, but it limited the whole usage of Firefox! I understand that bookmarks is one of the factor of speed loading, but I need those bookmarks <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' />  However, I don&#8217;t see Mac version though&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>How Auslogics BoostSpeed helps my system</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2009/02/02/how-auslogics-boostspeed-helps-my-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows XP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry may sound like a sponsor post, but it isn&#8217;t ok? They&#8217;re not paying an amature blogger like me to write some shit for them, so keep reading 1, It works like it should. Speed up my system from day one. It was recommended by my girl friend at first with the best disk [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This entry may sound like a sponsor post, but it isn&#8217;t ok? They&#8217;re not paying an amature blogger like me to write some shit for them, so keep reading <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/auslogics-onebutton.png" alt="Auslogic button" /><br />
1, It works like it should. Speed up my system from day one. It was recommended by my girl friend at first with the best disk defragmentation software. I keep looking into it and found the BoostSpeed which eventually become one button that I click almost every day I use computer. It is fast, and it is so easy that even a nerd knows how to operate it.<br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/auslogics-registrydefrag.png" alt="Registry defragmentation" /><br />
2, Registry defragmentation. One of it kind, I never thought registry should and can be defragmented as well. Though it can&#8217;t delete the useless registry entries, but it works for adjusting the entries to make sure it run smooth and fast. Just a small note, everytime you install a softwares, mostly there will be a registry entries built inside registry. However, when you uninstalled the software, it doesn&#8217;t mean the registry will be disappear by its own. No softwares I found can do this at the moment, if you find it, tell me please <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  The best part, even when I was degramenting my drive C, the whole system still stable and I am still able to go online and reserve some seat at <a href="http://www.westgatereservations.com/">Westgate</a> without a problem.<br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/auslogics-ui.png" alt="Auslogic Interface" /><br />
3, This is really fast! By using the one button, it only require more or less 5 minutes to finish. That says, it check all your system and see which needed to be maintain. Clean up your disk space for a bigger space usage, then it defragmented your disk. All in just less than 5 minutes on my system. Subject to the disk usage as well.</p>
<p>This has become one of the software I am so needed all day long. A few of my friends has it installed after my first demo for them and all getting a good regconition <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  Why waste time keep formatting and blaming Microsoft for their product when you, yourself don&#8217;t know such product exist? <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
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		<title>AVG does help</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2009/01/18/avg-does-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.osground.com/2009/01/18/avg-does-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so far still a hardcore user of Free AVG anti virus program. There was a friend of mine who had his external hard drive infected by some unknown virus, which all the folders will be hidden and all the un-hidden folders were virus infected folder, by clicking on it, it will activate the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am so far still a hardcore user of Free AVG anti virus program. There was a friend of mine who had his external hard drive infected by some unknown virus, which all the folders will be hidden and all the un-hidden folders were virus infected folder, by clicking on it, it will activate the virus and spread around all the hard drive.<br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/avg-free.jpg" alt="Free AVG scanning" /><br />
Me? Scan all the hard drive he plugged in with Free AVG anti virus. The virus gone just like that. However, I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s the virus name though, only know how it works. So, beware if you think your folder can&#8217;t be open one day <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>After scanning the hard drive, I was thinking. The <a href="http://diet-pills.sybervision.com">best diet pill</a> for a geek is virus <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' />  Honestly, many friends of mine are geek, IT geek who online like a mad man. Anyway, I&#8217;m still observing and research about viruses myself, be right post <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s here now</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/11/26/its-here-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally Google Chrome added a bookmark manager. I&#8217;ve been looking for this function ever since I converted from Mozilla FireFox, I ended up placing all my bookmark one by one and arrange them back as in Mozilla FireFox. Just update through your Google Chrome and you&#8217;ll get it]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally Google Chrome added a bookmark manager.<br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/chrome-bookmark-manager.jpg" alt="Chrome bookmark manager" /><br />
I&#8217;ve been looking for this function ever since I converted from Mozilla FireFox, I ended up placing all my bookmark one by one and arrange them back as in Mozilla FireFox. Just update through your Google Chrome and you&#8217;ll get it <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Fastest processor on the planet</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/11/22/fastest-processor-on-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel release the fastest processor on the planet, how fast? I don&#8217;t know. However, I don&#8217;t think that processor is the main factor of all the computer. I mean, come on, the main thing we&#8217;re facing most of the time is the operating system itself. Doesn&#8217;t matter how fast the processor is, if the operating [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Intel release the fastest processor on the planet, how fast? I don&#8217;t know. However, I don&#8217;t think that processor is the main factor of all the computer. I mean, come on, the main thing we&#8217;re facing most of the time is the operating system itself. Doesn&#8217;t matter how fast the processor is, if the operating system mess up, it just don&#8217;t work.<br />
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I wonder who is gonna be the first one to use this Core i7? After the latest release of Apple Macbook line, is Apple gonna be the first one to release it? Or maybe Acer or Dell gonna work it out first <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' />  Anyway, looking at the price from US$284 to US$999, it&#8217;s really hard to swallow.</p>
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		<title>HTML editor</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/10/17/html-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After several years being a Mac user, I&#8217;ve get used to the ease of HTML editor by Taco. This html editor is light weight and has only the function I needed. Everything seems to be perfect for me, no fancy thing. I like to hand code a site instead of using Adobe Dreamweaver. I remember [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After several years being a Mac user, I&#8217;ve get used to the ease of HTML editor by Taco.<br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/taco-html-edit.jpg" alt="Taco HTML edit" /><br />
This html editor is light weight and has only the function I needed. Everything seems to be perfect for me, no fancy thing. I like to hand code a site instead of using Adobe Dreamweaver. I remember when I was a Windows user, I use Microsoft Frontpage that built in with Microsoft Office 2003. However, now I&#8217;m using Microsoft Office 2007, there&#8217;s no HTML editor by Microsoft anymore, unless Adobe Dreamweaver which I obtain a DVD together with the creative suit. However, I don&#8217;t like to have that fancy and slow loading program and I found this one, HTML Kit.<br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/html-kit.jpg" alt="HTML kit" /><br />
It has almost exact same interface with Taco HTML, with more buttons. Buttons that I&#8217;m not gonna use anyway. Though the loading speed is slower than Taco HTML edit, but it is faster than Adobe Dreamweaver nonetheless. Now it&#8217;s time to get used to all the necessary program again in Windows.</p>
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		<title>Internet marketing and internet advertising</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/21/internet-marketing-and-internet-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;re a lot f talks about internet marketing or internet advertising. I&#8217;m an advertising student, I&#8217;ve seen a lot if not the whole classmates having a thick portfolio with print ads, TV commercial, radio script, environment ambient and design works. None of them have the idea about internet advertising yet. However, I&#8217;m sure they will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;re a lot f talks about internet marketing or internet advertising. I&#8217;m an advertising student, I&#8217;ve seen a lot if not the whole classmates having a thick portfolio with print ads, TV commercial, radio script, environment ambient and design works. None of them have the idea about internet advertising yet. However, I&#8217;m sure they will pick it up quite easy and fast, because they are internet user.</p>
<p>Nowadays, only those traditional agencies still working on traditional media like television, radio and newspapers. International agencies are looking a way out of those. I&#8217;ll see if I can get myself some analysis after observing for sometimes now.</p>
<p><strong>1, 24/7 advertisement like never before.</strong><br />
How can you tell your newspaper ads are gonna be viewed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Let&#8217;s make this simple, how many time you actually read newspaper? Morning only? After lunch a while? Internet give 24 hours advertisement and 7 days a week! Non-stop until you feel it&#8217;s time to take them down.</p>
<p><strong>2, It&#8217;s about interactive.</strong><br />
Until today, still agencies looking for copywriter who can produce great copy. They never said in which media <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  You can&#8217;t let the consumers to touch your print ads, either do any traditional media. But in internet advertisement, you&#8217;re able to do so, this is not only depend on the copywriter along, it need a great idea to know how to interact with the consumer.</p>
<p><strong>3, The power of search engine.</strong><br />
Thinking that your company web will not have any visitors? Thinking that your company site has no potential on bringing new customers? Think again! Clients are not stupid, they will did their research, and the easiest way for them to do research is online &#8211; Search engine. They might search for a good agency, they might look for a great similar produce, to know their target is to win on the field. If your company has the potential of helping them, the rest is just history.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all I can think of at the moment. Let&#8217;s see if I can think about it some more and add it in sometimes later. I do believe internet advertisement will grow rapidly in the next few years. Hopefully my insight and gut feel is correct <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' />  I&#8217;m working on lots of internet advertisement as my portfolio now though&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Best Mac OSX maintenance software ever</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/20/best-mac-osx-maintenance-software-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/20/best-mac-osx-maintenance-software-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to my faulty DVD-Rom, I can&#8217;t repair my volume header, that scared me for a while. I took my time to look into the internet for the best volume repair software. I get cocktail and some other that are shareware And finally I come across this best maintenance software called &#8211; Applejack. It allow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Due to my faulty DVD-Rom, I can&#8217;t repair my volume header, that scared me for a while. I took my time to look into the internet for the best volume repair software. I get cocktail and some other that are shareware <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/applejack-web.jpg" alt="Applejack" /><br />
And finally I come across this best maintenance software called &#8211; <a href="http://applejack.sourceforge.net/">Applejack</a>. It allow Single User Mode to maintain and repair the header! It also helps if the laptop can&#8217;t boot up. Best of all, it&#8217;s freeware! Not even a shareware can compete with this. I got my volume header repaired and now running smooth <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  Imagine sitting here all day long just to find out how to repair my volume header, damn! I should have know this software earlier. Next entry must be a  <a href="http://www.weightlosspills.net/">weight loss pill reviews</a> due to the long hour of sitting without exercise this few days.</p>
<p>All you need to do is press &#8220;Command + S&#8221; when startup and the sound &#8220;Pong!&#8221;. It can&#8217;t work when it is on the user mode though. My idea is to just use the command key &#8220;applejack auto&#8221;, it will do 3 things.</p>
<p>1, Repair header<br />
2, Repair permission<br />
3, Clean up cache</p>
<p>Which is way better to remember all others code <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' />  It is only 331KB file by the way.</p>
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		<title>Choosing a hosting</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/05/choosing-a-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s always problem with finding a hosting. My friend who run a business offline and wanted to have an online e-commerce, he came to me and ask about hosting. I can&#8217;t really answer him though, because it&#8217;s subjective, but advice is able though. Me as one, who doesn&#8217;t really need support most of my time. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s always problem with finding a hosting. My friend who run a business offline and wanted to have an online e-commerce, he came to me and ask about hosting. I can&#8217;t really answer him though, because it&#8217;s subjective, but advice is able though. Me as one, who doesn&#8217;t really need support most of my time. Some downtime is fine, as long as it doesn&#8217;t affect my earning <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' />  Anyway, the best way to look for one, these are my-list <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>1, Your needs</strong><br />
What do you need when you host your website. What is the requirement, large space? Large bandwidth? Also, take account that hosting company is also one of the factor for those, each hosting company don&#8217;t just simply host website, some have limited access on script and etc. At the end of the day, you need to plan what you want to do with your web.</p>
<p><strong>2, Reliability and speed</strong><br />
Many hosting company offer you a 99.99% uptime, but it&#8217;s not accurate. Don&#8217;t think too much about this kinda uptime. However, in order to make sure about their uptime, your monitor is important, try to get some free uptime monitor on the web. Monitor them for a month and make decision, don&#8217;t rush. Speed is also a factor for a web. Visitors don&#8217;t have patience like you do. There&#8217;s a lot of site that offer free bandwidth or speed test on web as well, google them and you&#8217;ll get a tons of it. Use them as you use for monitoring the host company as well.</p>
<p><strong>3, Technical support</strong><br />
Test them! This is what I did all the time. Keep asking them question before you buy the host, keep making them busy, and see what they react on you. Many hosting company, some even famous one, run by a bunch of friends only. So they do it for their own, they don&#8217;t do it to meet end month pay cheque. Ask them some dump question, and if their site are down, ask them for explanation, even if you&#8217;re not their customer.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been with this hosting company Galaxy Webhosting. It run by bunch of friend or maybe just one man. It&#8217;s fine for me so far, it&#8217;s been the 3rd or 4th years I&#8217;m hosting with him/them. But one thing I don&#8217;t have from the list though, technical support! Whenever there&#8217;s a downtime, he/they don&#8217;t give explanation, no email replied, no support ticket reply as well. That&#8217;s why I said, even if you&#8217;re not their customer, ask them if you see their site is down! If some perfectionist person hosting with the same hosting company as me, I&#8217;m sure <a href="http://www.acnecuresrevealed.net/">acne treatments</a> will be what he needed now. I&#8217;m even thinking I&#8217;m getting some blood pressure.</p>
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		<title>Art of a website</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/04/art-of-a-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you created a site/blog. You wanted to give your visitors an information about you or your product. Everybody doing the same thing, it&#8217;s like buying a PC, you gotta choose from Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, Lenovo and all the etc. That&#8217;s why, your site/blog have to be stand out from the crowd, like Dell [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, you created a site/blog. You wanted to give your visitors an information about you or your product. Everybody doing the same thing, it&#8217;s like buying a PC, you gotta choose from Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, Lenovo and all the etc. That&#8217;s why, your site/blog have to be stand out from the crowd, like Dell did recently. In order to make your site/blog to stand out, color is the main factor, then only come to navigation, lastly, the design (Background? Icons? Graphic wise?). So here are my list again <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>1, Stunning main page.</strong><br />
Well, if you have a site/blog without an introduction page, worry no more, header it is. First impression is important, that&#8217;s also the reason why I changed the whole structure, design and color of this blog, as I&#8217;m changing the content as well. If it&#8217;s about <a href="http://www.thepartystartshere.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&#038;Category=17">Halloween invitations</a>, let it be wild, but remember a punkin. You need to make someone like your whole site/blog art eventually the content become something interesting if there&#8217;s a twist.</p>
<p><strong>2, Inviting colors.</strong><br />
Now, I&#8217;m not talking about full of color. You need to learn how to combine color. Advise, try not to follow the art class theory, it just not work. However, colors also define a branding imagine of a site/blog. For example, black, you&#8217;ll think about ghost, scary and etc. Although this may seems to be too surface, but it does count.</p>
<p><strong>3, Design, design and design.</strong><br />
It doesn&#8217;t need to be full of graphics and icons. Some webmasters like to put lots of clipart they found online and place them all over the site. What I&#8217;m saying is a proper design. One header, one content side, one side navigation and one footer, job done! From these structures, try to implement something eyes candy. Catch all the attention of the visitor.</p>
<p><strong>4, Content it is.</strong><br />
Well, I have to be honest. I like humor content. My observation on sites and blogs around the internet, only humor has the traffic. Don&#8217;t think so? Try yourself then. You have to know how to deliver an information by humor. I&#8217;m not saying those formal content is dull, but just for the sack of people coming back again, since you might update them after sometimes.</p>
<p>Like always, those are just my point of view. However, if you want to gain more traffic on your site, I think you should always check if there&#8217;s any enhancement that you can do on the site/blog (Picture maybe?). Done my writing today! See you again soon <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Importance of META tag</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/03/importance-of-meta-tag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meta Tags are HTML tags that provide information to the search engines about your site. Search engines have recognized that site owners to use this resource to control their positioning and descriptions in search engine results. You have created your web pages and have now identified your keywords. You can create your meta tag easily [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meta Tags are HTML tags that provide information to the search engines about your site. Search engines have recognized that site owners to use this resource to control their positioning and descriptions in search engine results. You have created your web pages and have now identified your keywords. You can create your meta tag easily using &#8211; <a href="http://www.addme.com/meta.htm">Meta Tag Generator</a>.<br />
<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/wongpk/OSGround/se_meta.png" alt="Search engine search meta tag" /><br />
As you see from the above screen shot, google actually search the meta tag that content the keyword &#8220;OS Ground&#8221;. Search engines are like <a href="http://www.memorysuppliers.com/smartmedia.html">memory cards</a>, they store all the meta tag of all sites in their memory. Meta tags are great significance as they boost the overall performance of the site. They are useful in enhancing the placement of your site in various Search engines such as Yahoo, Google, and MSN thereby increasing the traffic to your site. But of course it has to depend on your <a href="http://www.osground.com/2008/08/02/how-search-engine-love-your-blog/">keyword</a> as well.</p>
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		<title>How search engine love your blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[link popularity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many techniques to increasing traffic to your blog. Among them are search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Many SEO strategies that you will find on the internet are severely outdated and by using them, you will actually be hurting your search engine ranking instead of helping it. There are only a few left which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many techniques to increasing traffic to your blog. Among them are search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Many SEO strategies that you will find on the internet are severely outdated and by using them, you will actually be hurting your search engine ranking instead of helping it. There are only a few left which is still working well for most websites and blogs. Keywords and Link popularity. Believe it or not, social bookmarking sites were created and getting famous one by one is all because of both of them. Think it&#8217;s not working? Think again.</p>
<p><strong>Things about Keyword Content.</strong> When the concept of keyword content first came out, most web owners stuffed their web pages with keywords and it worked. It was long ago though, unlike bloggers today that write so many paid post with keyword like <a href="http://www.cleanertoday.com/Moth-Traps-by-Catchmaster-s/85.htm">moth traps</a> or whatsoever. These keywords will only help the site that linked to the keyword, but for your blog, it&#8217;s not helping at all. However, due to the spamming keywords used, search engines started to filter out the spamming keyword, so over using keyword on your blog/site will not help.<br />
Keywords are important, but it is also important to use them correctly. </p>
<p><strong>Incoming Links.</strong> Trading links with other blog/site (reciprocal links) used to be a successful SEO for link popularity. However, it doesn&#8217;t do so much good anymore. The search engines actually looking for quality links that aren&#8217;t reciprocal. Now thinking why online advertising is such a success nowadays? Either you do a good advertisement or write a good content to attract people to link you themselves without reciprocal link.</p>
<p>I myself having problem about SEO too, because I&#8217;m using too much keyword and writing too much paid post. A year ago, Google started to filter out all the blogs that write paid post and sell link space. So there&#8217;s no PR on many blogs nowadays, but hey, advertisers look for traffic as well <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s start blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/02/lets-start-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.osground.com/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you wanted to blog? Be it blogging for your own, blogging for a niche topic or blogging for business. To make it look and sound professional, there&#8217;s always steps to go for. Let me see what I can dig out from my previous experiences. Point 1 &#8211; Choose your blogging platform There are so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, you wanted to blog? Be it blogging for your own, blogging for a niche topic or blogging for business. To make it look and sound professional, there&#8217;s always steps to go for. Let me see what I can dig out from my previous experiences.</p>
<p><strong>Point 1 &#8211; Choose your blogging platform</strong><br />
There are so many blogging script out there. But only 2 are widely used, which are WordPress and Blogger. Don&#8217;t worry, both of them are free <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Point 2 &#8211; What you want to write about?</strong><br />
This is the hardest point when you wanted to start on writing about anything, even if you know your niche content. However, to make sure the blog would run like professional for search engine (Forget about visitors for a while), look for the top 100 keywords of the day/month/year whichever you can find. After all, visitors are the one who type in the keywords aren&#8217;t them?</p>
<p><strong>Point 3 &#8211; What your reader what</strong><br />
You can just write whatever you want. That is easy. But blogging as a professional blogging is not fun as you thought. The key here is to compete with other bloggers to get as many readers as possible. Unique content is a gold mine.</p>
<p>After all these steps, I&#8217;m starting to blog right away <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  I haven&#8217;t touch how to advertise your blogs and make money etc just yet. When I compile every information in my mind and I&#8217;ll post it up, soon there won&#8217;t be any need of <a href="http://www.somersetmortgagelenders.com/">mortgage lenders</a> since people are all starting to blog <img src='http://www.osground.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Reasons to start business blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.osground.com/2008/08/01/reasons-to-start-business-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once before my friend who has a business asked me about new idea to implement on his business. So I told him about blogging, he as a blogger who thought that it was wasting his time (Obviously he thought he is wasting time blogging. Tell you more later). However, my understanding of blogging is different [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once before my friend who has a business asked me about new idea to implement on his business. So I told him about blogging, he as a blogger who thought that it was wasting his time (Obviously he thought he is wasting time blogging. Tell you more later). However, my understanding of blogging is different though, as internet users keep growing day by day, this is how blogging could help on his (Or maybe, your) business.</p>
<p><strong>1. Easy Publishing Tool</strong><br />
Type your post for the day. Add some hyperlinks or images with the click of your mouse. Hit the &#8220;publish&#8221; button. You&#8217;ve just updated your blog with new information, and it&#8217;s live on the Internet. It&#8217;s that easy. New stock, latest sales etc, everything can be an entry.</p>
<p><strong>2. Search Engine Visibility</strong><br />
Once you started a blog, it will automatically ranked in search engine, although it&#8217;s not in a click of eyes, but it does happen at one point. And if you&#8217;re using some famous blogging platform like WordPress, ranking in searching engine is much faster than any other.</p>
<p><strong>3. Potential for Conversation</strong><br />
Most blogging platform come with a comment feature. At the bottom of each post, readers can leave comments. So instead of the one-way communication of a traditional website (Where I talk and you listen), you now have a two-way conversation taking place. You can probably see the business-building potential of this.</p>
<p><strong>4. Return Visits</strong><br />
Blogging programs make it easy for people to stay in touch. For example, your visitors / readers can simply subscribe to your blog&#8217;s syndication feed to receive future updates automatically. There are also programs available that can convert your posts into an email newsletter format. That way, people can sign up to receive future posts just like signing up for any other e-newsletter. It&#8217;s a handy tool that can keep people coming back over and over again.</p>
<p>Anyway, you don&#8217;t need any  <a href="http://www.onedollarglobeinsurance.com/termlifeinsurance.htm">term insurance</a> just to start a business blog, these are my points though. However, at the end of the day, business blogging still depend on your preferences and your mindset about blogging.</p>
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