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Guest post on iPadeology: “iPads: The World Changing Device & How It’s Made The Human Race More Productive” originally appeared on ajb{log} on October 12, 2011. Tweet This

Here’s how I did it:

1) Unlock your domain at GoDaddy

2) Go to your preferred domain registrar, initiate the transfer. Make sure your domain name is transferrable (see #1)

3) After you have paid for the transfer, your preferred domain registrar will ask you to enter an Authorization Code (sometimes called as EPP or transfer secret info/code), on GoDaddy, you’ll find it here. Add support@godaddy.com to your address book and/or whitelist. The email will come from it.

4) Once you get the authorization code, enter it on your preferred registrar. The transfer will now continue.

5) GoDaddy will ask you to authorize the transfer. Login to your account and go to “Domains” >> “Pending Transfers” >> select the domain

6) On the pending transfers list, click the domain you are transferring

7) You will see a screen like the one below. Click the “Accept/Decline” button

7) A overlay window will popup and just select “Accept” and click “OK”. And that should be it.

You should receive 2 emails from GoDaddy confirming the transfer.

That’s it. I made this post because I found that domain transfers are somehow one of the most challenging tasks in owning a domain. And I do hope that this post outlines how to do it away from GoDaddy.

How to transfer away from GoDaddy originally appeared on ajb{log} on August 11, 2011. Tweet This

As soon as you login, click the “Profile” link.

As soon as your mouse hover the word “Profile”, it will pop-out a menu for adding/editing other items. Ignore that menu and just click on the “Profile” link.

That’s it! I guess the menu throws people off.

OR use this quick link to change your password in PayPal. Hope it helps.

How to change password in PayPal? originally appeared on ajb{log} on April 27, 2011. Tweet This

Well, I don’t want to keep you from waiting. Here’s how you do it:

1) Login to Blogger (I preferred Blogger Draft in this example)

2) Click “Layout” on the blog you want to add the Widget

3) Click “Edit HTML”

4) Tick the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox.

5) Search for the following code (you can use CTRL+F on your browser)
<div class=’post-outer’>

Once you found it, on the next line you should find this code <b:include data=’post’ name=’post’/>. If you found that, it means you are on the right spot.

Copy the code below and paste it right after that <b:include data=’post’ name=’post’/> code (highlighted yellow above).

<script>
fb_like = &quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<b:if cond=’data:blog.url’><data:post.url/></b:if>&quot;;
document.write(&quot;<iframe scrolling=’no’ frameborder=’0′ allowTransparency=’true’ style=’border:none; margin:10px 0 0 0; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:auto;’ allowtransparency=’true’ src=’&quot;+ fb_like +&quot;’/>&quot;);
</script>

UPDATE: The above code doesn’t seem to work because copying it from here adds some funky characters in the markup. Grab it here instead:
http://snipplr.com/view/32953/facebook-like-button-on-blogger/

Like the highlighted code in the screenshot.

6) Click “Save Template”

7) You’re done! Refresh your main blogger blog now and you should be able to see your new Facebook “Like” Button Widget

Got it working? Post your URL in the comments below. Cool huh?

Add the new Facebook “Like” Button Widget on your Blogger Blogs originally appeared on ajb{log} on April 22, 2010. Tweet This

Here are my January 2009 top most read RSS feeds:

FriendFeedLinks – Home
Hacker News
Engadget
Gizmodo
Google Video – Top 100 New Videos
CrunchGear
The Inquisitr
Startup Meme
Boing Boing
YouTube :: Most Viewed Videos – Today
Design You Trust. World’s Most Famous Social Inspiration.
VentureBeat
Lifehacker
TechCrunch
FeedMyApp
Dvorak Uncensored
Tech Blog
Design Float / Popular Entries
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
KillerStartups.com – all
Cult of Mac
FirstShowing.net
Mashable!
Css Creme
ReadWriteWeb
Mployd.com – Where hiring happens
CSS Globe | Web Standards Magazine
Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
Search Engine Watch Blog
swissmiss
GigaOM
Photo Basement
The Apple Blog
Web2List
launch feed
Hot Chicks with Douchebags
Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials -

My Top 40 Most Read RSS Feeds originally appeared on ajb{log} on January 26, 2009. Tweet This

Yes you are reading that right, Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined in terms of population. Facebook has a staggering count of 150 million users according to Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook).

Country population breakdown:

Turkey – 71,892,808
Canada – 33,515,000
Australia – 21,468,700
New Zealand – 4,280,000
———————-
Total 131,246,508*

That, my friend, is really impressive! It makes you wonder how they keep their systems running smoothly, how they scale up rapidly.

Facebook has more than 10,000 servers and leverages mostly open-source software across a distributed architecture, with thousands of MySQL instances. “It’s almost a new challenge every day,”

Jonathan Heiliger (Vice President of Technical Operations, Facebook)
CNET interview

That’s not the only thing, Facebook has more than 10 billion photos! Some additional stats:

• 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site daily
• Over one petabyte of photo storage
• Serving over 15 billion photo images per day
• Photo traffic peaks at over 300,000 images served per second

Truth is, impressive is an understatement.

*Source: Wikipedia

Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined originally appeared on ajb{log} on January 8, 2009. Tweet This

Let’s take a look how many pages at NETTUTS are indexed. Note that this will vary from one location to another, as well as ISP used and nearest datacenter used by Google (I’m currently testing this in North America and the count is going to be variable and approximate).

Let’s hit “site:nettuts.com” at Google. They have approximately 588 indexed pages. Now let’s see how many backlinks they have. Let’s hit “link:nettuts.com“. They have approximately 1,400 links going back to them.

The numbers above are not really that much. However, what matters here is when you look at their RSS feed subscriber count, they have 14,400.

So, what’s the point? Sites like NETTUTS still proves that content is king. It doesn’t matter 100% how many pages of your site are indexed at Google, what’s really important is that you deliver quality content to your visitors.

The rest follows.

NETTUTS Proves Content is Still King originally appeared on ajb{log} on December 2, 2008. Tweet This

And it looks like I’m not the only one who is noticing how good they are. Here is a detailed report on tasting Coppeneur chocolates from another blogger.

Some more pictures below:

I so love the Hot Chili and Black Pepper one!

The above ones are from Madagascar chocolates and Ecuador chocolates!

You have to try these out. Best gift for this Christmas season.

Delicious chocolates from Coppeneur originally appeared on ajb{log} on November 18, 2008. Tweet This

Friendster on the other hand, the most popular social networking site in the Philippines may be losing its steam after more than 2 days of downtime due to a data center power outage in Santa Clara, California. You just can’t seem to wonder how did Friendster allowed itself to be offline? Was it because it had a single point of failure? Having one data center housing more than 85 million users? Could a data mirror in Asia have helped since most of their active users are there?

In any event, Multiply just got a strong partner in the Philippines – media giant ABS-CBN. But will Multiply be able to grow their user-base in the Philippines with the help of ABS-CBN and overtake pinoy-favorite Friendster? The answer to this question might be sooner than later.

What are your thoughts?

Sources: Business Mirror, ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN Acquired Minority Stakes In Multiply.com. Friendster Losing Steam Over Two Day Outage originally appeared on ajb{log} on November 17, 2008. Tweet This

Tech Blog Philippines (TBP) just started and still oiling the engines to the blog and will soon be up to speed. We’re promising lots of new stuff on this blog.

TBP is being spearheaded by the same cool guys at PinoyBlogosphere. Watch this space, it’s gonna be fun!

To subscribe to the TBP feed, just click here.

–aj

Tech Blog Philippines: Philippine’s Newest Technology Blog originally appeared on ajb{log} on June 19, 2008. Tweet This