Jump For Your Spring!

Everybody loves spring because during spring, flowers will blossom, sun shines brightly. Everything likes back to normal again. We have colorful days to celebrate. I wonder if there lies somebody that do not love spring. Where do they live? LOL!

Even sports like spring very much. We can play baseball, softball, tennis, and soccer. For those who do not like game sport, you can swim, dive or jogging. During spring, we will enjoy everyday life with meaningful activities. As the earth is turning from leafless to green and fresh, we also turn to fresh and cheerful.

I think that people will not laugh at you if you decide to celebrate the spring by jumping high to the air. Jump, jump and jump. Yes! A jump like what Michael Jordan ever did, high on the air like you want to touch the sun.

Yes, I want to jump. But, How can I make a high jump?

OK, do not worry. Just get a pair of Air Kicks Anti Gravity then you can jump as high as you want.

Start Your Online Store Now!

Start your online store now. Many people have successfully launched their online business by selling online. What makes you wait for more success stories? You want to tell the world your own success story, don't you?

I think you must not worry about shopping cart software. Yes, you need it. But, once again, you do not have to worry. Shopping cart software is not a big problem any more. You need shopping cart on your web store? It is not a big deal. Or, you mention it as ecommerce software? OK, it is up to you. It will be no problem for us.

I have told you once about an online shopping cart provider. Its service is affordable, easy to use, and stable. You don't need to do dizzy and difficult things like procure your own servers, install and configure that servers, install your shopping cart software, connect your shopping cart software with your web. No! You don't need to do all of that difficult things. With Ashop Commerce, you will have your online store easily.

To set up your online store with it, you need no HTML knowledge. You don't need to code some HTML tags. You are supported with a Rich Text Editor to customize your content. Ashop commerce even give you free store design with 24 months plan. Or, if you mind with that, you can choose store design from 50 editable themes available for you.

What about payment gateway? Do not be worried. The shopping cart software is integrated with all major banks and payment gateways. You may accept credit cards for real time payment. Of course, you still are able to receive offline payment through checks or bank deposits. One thing that will give you more ease to receive payment, it is also integrated with Google Checkout.

It provides you with everything you need to conduct your online selling activity. Analyzing your sales activity is easy. You are provided with the sales analysis tool. Every report you need to analyze your sales is available. Traffic report, search engine traffic and keywords report, sales report, search engine visitor report, best sellers report, sales by customer etc. I think that it provides wonderful comprehensive service to us and you do not have to wait any longer to begin selling online.

Are you still uncertain about that? So, try it. A test drive tool to demo the online store is available. If it is not enough, Ashop Commerce gives you 10 days free trial.

Best Web Hosting Companies

I know Kausal Seth because he makes good templates for WordPress and Bloggers. I remember that I ever downloaded a WordPress theme from Kausal Seth.

But, I read on his post about Best Web Hosting Companies that he experienced black outs on his web hosting. He said that he was looking for best web hosting company that shall experience no black out, as he expect. Of course, he has pointed three web hosting provider as the best web hosting in his views. Theya are:

1. Host Monster
2. Host Gator
3. Yahoo Host

From that sorted list, Kausal Seth choose Host Monster. I think that he has made a good choice. But, I think that I know a web hosting provider that proves for having good service and stability. I can say that because I hosted a blog on that host and recommend my friend to host his forum on that host too. So far, the host shows good performance and I never found a black out happened. Think that Kausal Seth have to consider this web hosting company. It is ZZ Hosting.

I have know affiliation with ZZ- Hosting. I only a customer that is satisfied with its service.

Signal Loss Every Evening

I can't handle it anymore. INDOSATs signal looses every evening starting from 7 pm to 8 pm. I think that INDOSAT does it in purpose. Turning off its signal every evening is INDOSATs scheduled avtivity.



Tomorrow I will tell INDOSATs Customer Service to stop my Blackberry Internet Service subscription. Of course I will try XL first. If it has good and stable signal, I will subscribe to Xl Blackberry Internet Service.



I am truly in doubt to chose which operator. INDOSAT is proven to has unstable signal. Normally, I always get three bars with GPRS. But, every evening the signal turns to a SOS signal. On such that situation your sophisticated handheld means nothing. You can make no call, no sms, no email, no internet activity. Your pals, family and other people can make no call and sms too. They still are able to write you email but it will be pushed to your handheld when the signal comes back.



On the competing side, XL is complained by its subscribers to have bad service too. In id-blackberry mailing list, complaints to XL dominates the mail traffic. Many people said that XL was doing its network enhancing so that in some area network outage present. But, other customer told that after XL announce its 0.000000...1 tariff, network quality started to diminish. I face a difficult situation. Therefore I must try a XL prepaid card to monitor its signal stability. Migrating to XL without trying its network quality will lead to a regret. I do not want to fall in to deeper pain.



Wake up INDOSAT guy! In Citra Raya, Tangerang, you have bad BTS.

Sent from my BlackBerry® 8707g

My Wish To Blogger

Repeating my wish list to Blogger, I expect Blogger Team would answer to the most feature I badly demand now: comment form under post.



In web 2.0 environment, a comment-friendly engine is needed especialy for bloggers. Comments to their posts prove that their posts have been read by visitors. Disable comment blogs have been left by bloggers because visitors love interactive blogs. Bloggers are social creature that always try to get along with others. And, they prefer to choose a comment friendly blog to visit.



Of course Blogger has made itself as an openID server to ease non-blogger users to comment to blogger blog. But, it was not enough. A comment form that directly appear under post is loved more than a multisteps commenting system like what Blogger has.



My fellow bloggers complained me for providing them a blog that was not coment-friendly. They asked me to migrate to wordpress, blog engine that rapidly attract bloggers to move. For me, reader's voice is number one thing to follow. I am in preparation to migrate a blogger blog to wordpress. Sticking to Blogger and pay no attention to reader's voice will result in pain, your readers will leave you behind.



Come on, Blogger, have a hardwork on it. Develop a commenting system that is user friendly. Giving us new features are good but giving a comment-friendly platform is better. I do not want to migrate all of my blogs. But, if you have no progress, may be I have to do that.





Sent from my BlackBerry® 8707g

Indosat Signal is not Stable

I live in Citra Raya - Tangerang, Banten. It lies only 40 to 50 kilometers from Jakarta, the most civilized town in Indonesia. But, living near Jakarta does not always mean that you will get everything like what Jakarta does. Gaps exist on many areas. Telecommunication is one of area where gap exists.



I am a subscriber of INDOSAT MATRIX, a cellular phone product of INDOSAT. If in Jakarta you always get signal for your cellphone, in Citra Raya, the signal is always not stable. You can get three bars of signal, then a minute later you will get SOS. I experience this every day while I am at home.



I have written about that on my other blog (in Bahasa Indonesia) but no progress has been made. Complaining directly to INDOSAT Customer Service will give you nothing. I believe that my complain will go nowhere. Temasek bring no progress to INDOSAT. It only cares to INDOSAT's profit, not customer's satisfaction. I do not argue that INDOSAT will never lead the telecommunication market in Indonesia. INDOSAT is satisfied to become number two or number three because being number one is to hard to achieve.



Only the best mastering market share and it is not INDOSAT.





Sent from my BlackBerry® 8707g

Google Alerts or Google Alert?

Do you have interests on something and want to know every single happening on that matters? I think that you have to subscribe to a service that allow you to be emailed about everything happened to your subject of interests. I don't care if you are interested in marketing, management, online business, bonsai, classic paintings or ... um, pornography. You decide them, not me.

But, let me tell you that you can use the service from Google Alerts. I have been served by Google Alerts and think that it gives me ability to always come up with my interests. Many thanks to Google for providing that service.

To use Google Alerts is easy. Just type the search terms of your interest than choose the type of search results you want to have (news, blogs, webs, comprehensive, videos, groups). After that specify how often you will be emailed (once a day, as it happens, once a week) and type your email address. Do not forget to click Create Alert because it is the reason why you fill in the forms! An email will be sent to you asking for your confirmation. Click the link provided in that email and yessss..... you will be emailed if there are something happen on the internet.

Second thing I found on the internet is Google Alert. Its name is Google Alert but it has no affiliation with Google. From its About page, Google Alert tells us about themselves:

Google Alert is the web's leading automated search and web intelligence solution for monitoring your professional interests online. It tracks the entire web for your personalized topics and sends you new results by daily email.

Different from Google Alerts that give you free service, Google Alert charge you $4.95 a month for personal service and $19.95 for professional service. I like the free service. If you want to now more about unfree service, please download its brochure.

Google Alert users give positive testimonies. I don't recommend you to choose Google Alert but please read their testimonies. Then, decide yourself whether you will choose Google Alerts or Google Alert.

Blogger Layout Tool Looses Its Scrolling Bar

I manage some Blogger blogs including this one. I still use Blogger because Blogger that introduced me to blogging world in 2001. Of course, I have other blog that supported by other blog engine.

I ever wrote whist lists to Blogger because I see many bloggers were moving to WordPress.Com. What make them moving was WordPress.Com easy commenting system. In a wordpress blog, comment form directly appears below its corresponding post. It makes blog visitors are given simple and easy way to post their comments. In Blogger, we face the opposite situation. To leave a comment, we have to click a "leave a comment" or "post a comment" link. Imagine that we have to follow two steps only to post a comment.

First, from a blog homepage, we have to click comment link or click the post title to show visitors comment. This is OK because other blog engines have the same way. But, we have to do second step, that is click "post a comment" link to post our comments. Comment form does not appear directly below post (if there is no comment) or below comments (if there are comments posted by earlier visitors).

Comment form under post is badly needed. I expect that Blogger in draft will prioritize to provide that functionality before other tools. Jacky Supit has asked about that again on his post about new Blogger facility that Blogger in draft is still working on -- scheduled post.

OK, now let us talk about Blogger layout tool.

I went to one of my blog's dashboard and then opened Layout (Template > Page Elements). Usually, I found a scrolling bar on the very bottom of my blog template layout. But, since last night I did not find it. I thought that the error was on my template. But, just now, I faced that problem again. No scrolling bar so that I had to drag page elements on the very right side to other side if I wanted to edit that page elements.

Click image above to magnify.

Do you Blogger users experience the same problem with me? How to solve that problem? What code I have to add to my template code to reappear the scroll bar?

Get Your Payday Loan Online

"I need money! I need money! My bills have to be paid soon. Can you borrow me some money?"

"Oh no! No, ... You have to give me more time. I have no money now. I will have it next week."

We often hear conversations like that. If you never hear, just watch Mandarin movies or American movies. They sometimes have conversations like that to describe the relationships of an indebted man and his creditor (that is usually represented by triad or mafia).

I think we don't have to be panic if we need some money. We can apply for a payday loan. payday loan is a short time loan to cover your spending needs. Sometimes people solve their cash needs by taking a cash advance from credit card. OK, I think that it is not wrong. But, consider its interest rate. Credit card interest is a compounding interest. If you can't pay your credit card invoice fully, you will get in to a vicious circle. I have experienced one and I do not want to be slipped again.

With this payday loan, you will have your loan with fix interest cap. Of course, the rate of interest assigned to your loan will be calculated. But, every state has a regulation to limit the maximum payday loan interest rate. You are protected by your government!

Then, what are the requirements so that I can be qualified for a payday loan?

Easy, there is no difficult requirement. All you need are:

1. You maintain a job or have an income from welfare or social security
2. Be at least 18 years old  of age and a citizen of the United States
3. Have an active savings or checking account with a direct deposit set up

I see no "heavy" requirement. Every adult people having job and having back account is believed to be qualified for payday loan.

What make us happy is that we can apply for a payday loan online. This payday loan application form is available online. What we have to do is only fill the form completely and then submit the form. What next? Waiting. Maybe you will be asked to fax some documents for a verification purpose. After that, I think that your bank account will be credited. Some amount of money will be transferred to your bank account. How much? It depends on the approved loan.

What an easy way to get a payday loan.

Driving in Australia

Australia is the smallest continent on earth. But, despite its small size comparing to other continents, Australia is still larger than the biggest island lying along Indonesian archipelago. You know that Australia and Indonesia are neighbors, don't you?

From internet I found that 90% of Australian moving across their continent by car. They use their cars as their daily transport. I always imagine that driving in Australia will be my fantastic experience. I enjoy driving car myself especially if the scenes along my trip are beautiful.

I have lots of friends study in Australia. They said that I should try to drive off road in Australia. they said that it will be my most excited experience. But, they warned me to learn Australia's road rules and, if I want to go to the Aboriginal Land, I have to get their permit to travel across their land.

There are many places to stay for leisure after driving across Australian continent. But, I suggest to stay in Cairns, Noosa, Gold Coast and Sydney. Hotels in Australia are convenient to stay. If you want to stay in on of four places I mention before, you will easy to find Gold Coast Hotels, Noosa Hotels, Cairns Hotels or Sydney Accommodation.

Tropical scenery on that places are very amazing and I think everyone will love. Below are the images of Noosa National Park and Gold Coast beach.

Driving across Australian tropical region will be very fantastic. Renting cars also easy. But, I suggest you to tell the rental car supplier if you want to go off road. You better tell them what route you intend to trip because the can advice you to take best and safe route.

I can't wait till the time I sit in a car cockpit and drive that car myself to visit every Australian beaches.