He told me that if VC media player is installed, HP won’t replace the speakers as it damages the speakers. But, again there is a catch. What he said was “we see the state of the speaker, and if we do not find the damage we replace it.” He also said that “we understand that a lot of videos don’t work without VLC.”

Best way is to keep your default media player to Windows Media Player and use VLC as a last option.

Ok, you must have figured it by now. In my opinion “get paid for blogging” is probably sponsoredreviews.com’s most known punchline. This is the first ever service that paid me for writing reviews in my blogs. Every month sponsoredreviews.com sends me some kind of payment. I have using others too, but, the quality of clients sponsoredreviews.com is able to bring is amazing.

I remember that some of my blogs were too small when I started. I used to accept 5$ jobs and built up nearly good reputation. Then the higher paid jobs trickled in.

The procedure is that you list your blogs and then apply for the jobs available for you. The advertiser takes a call and sends you his counter bid or acceptance. sponsoredreviews.com has facilities wherein you can monitor the status of your bid.

Once you have completed your review within the time frame, you have to submit it. sponsoredreviews.com is a damn prompt paymaster. They pay bi weekly and even small amounts via paypal.

This particular service has so many features and tutorials that helps you to review correctly. This helps in maintaining the quality of bloggers reviews.

PC’s require registries to be cleaned by registry cleaners. Check out this registry cleaner. The site lets us know that with its technology it will fix the overall performance of your computer quickly and easily.

This registry editor did a quick 2 minute scan and found 983 errors for a customer. You can try it for a clean registry and improve performance of your PC. Another customer feels that Regwork was one of the best investments she made for the PC problems.

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Business Ethernet is normally used for Local Area networking. Companies like this business ethernet provider, provides business ethernet at costs that is a fraction of DS3 Access. Megapath delivers speeds ranging from 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps. For a fast, reliable inter-office connectivity, Ethernet is optimum solution. Ethernet is delivered by mediums like fibre, Ethernet over copper, wireless and microwave.

Businesses use T1 for their external connection. Look at the same company example with business t1 solutions. It gives you three options, i.e, T1, Bonded T1 and Premium T1. Normal T1 services are offered at 384kbps to 1.5 Mbps speeds. Bonded T1 and Premium T1 speeds are up to 6.0Mb’s. A premium is charged for proactive monitoring in Premium T1 services.

A business can use stand alone or managed services. Companies like Megapath also offer enterprise solutions for its customers. Generally enterprise solutions involve bundling of services which lowers your cost of ownership. There is also a problem of reliability and downtime. Enterprise solutions help you in these areas too. Businesses have to just manage their business processes than worry about their infrastructure needs. Enterprise solutions also give you the much needed back ups which otherwise a business would have been buying at extra cost.

It is not easy to figure out the reliability of the vendor which offer services. One of the benchmarks could be the awards and the testimonials. Taking Megapath as an example again one can see the number of awards they have got. It won 2009 Product of the Year award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. MegaPath’s Dan Foster has been recognized as a 2009 Channel Chief by CRN magazine. It has won awards previous years too. It means that this company is very confident of getting itself audited by popular third party channels.

Look here for sound drivers listing. Sound drivers and the printer drivers are perhaps the most searched drivers on internet. Latest drivers are needed to make your PC run the optimum way. This website has featured in many good computer journals as per its website. They have been certified free of viruses and spyware.

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One the payments which was reversed is back in my paypal account. I will watch for 2 days and tell you if they reversed it again.

Update 1: 4th Feb 2010 @ 20:32 IST: I got this reply from paypal

Thank you for contacting PayPal.

We are aware of this issue and I sincerely regret the inconvenience it
has caused you. We will inform you once the problem has been resolved.

I’ll be glad to hear from you if you need clarification. You can also
visit www.PayPal.com/101. Thank you for choosing PayPal for your online
payment needs. We appreciate your business.

Sincerely,
Cherryl
PayPal, an eBay Company

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Here is the mail from paypal

We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may contact the buyer and have him or her resend the payment as follows: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment such as a gift, then we have requested that the sender find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you,
PayPal

I hope they resolve the issue fast.

It is strange, people on internet are reporting that they have this problem since 26 January, 2010. I managed to get payment to my bank in 2nd February 2010.

There is one more curious thing.

I have – 10$ negative in my account now.

It reads:

# PayPal balance: -$10.00 USD # Resolve your negative balance

when i clicked the resolve link I found this

Add Funds to Restore Your Balance

As stated in our User Agreement, you cannot have a negative balance and a sustained negative balance may result in limited account access. Please add funds to your account. You can mail a check, money order, or cashier’s check made payable to PayPal, Inc.
To add funds via credit card, complete the information below and click Submit.

From:
Amount:

To:
PayPal Account

You can also add funds by check deposit.

On the Policy updates tab, I found:

* Modification to the Personal Payment Fees for domestic Japanese transactions

The fees for personal payments received on or after October 14, 2009 for domestic Japanese transactions are being modified from:

3.4% + ¥40 JPY

to be the following:

3.6% + ¥40 JPY

All other fees shall remain the same.

May be similar policy will come in affect in India too.

But why the hell are they doing it without intimation?

Your Name XYZ
Email xyz@gmail.com
Message: Search Engine Optimization

Subject: We would like to get your website on first page of Google.

All of our processes use the most ethical “white hat” Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized.
Please reply and I would be happy to send you a proposal.

Or

Sub: Search Engine Optimization

We are interested to get your website on first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Please get back to us for more details.

My normal response is “it is your decision. If you decide to go for it, I will forward all the username and passwords to you.”

Normally, the wordpress, the script used to build my clients websites have some powerful features for SEO. The basic SEo steps have been takn too like search engine submissions etc. Most of the clients have been given tips on how to get traffic to their sites.
But, in case you are willing to pay for additional SEO, you are free to do it.

He asked me for a solution that time. Frankly, even I was little perplexed on the way forward. The issue is that his content is fit for really serious folks and there is a limited way I could help him. Then something happened. I had asked all my clients for a “blog road map for 2010.” I had forwarded some blogging resources found in this site. So, he wrote back again stating that he needed to monetize. I too got out of my mental logjam and forwarded him some ad networks to register. The first one to approve him was Adbrite. Then the second one to approve him was chitika.

Frankly, I was skeptical about the combination. But, in the back of the mind, I thought, if Chitika + Adsense then, why not chitika + Adbrite ?

Frankly, the small Indian blogs could use this as an option if they have similar problem.

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The increase will take effect on January 13th, 2010. This increase will not affect previously made bids, your previous bids will continue to pay 65%.

Those who can, should increase the price of the blog listed there. You cannot complain much, Sponsored Reviews is the best out there in its class.

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Well, you can tell by the way I use my blog,
I’m a looser’s man—no time to talk.
Traffic is down and no one’s around, I’ve been kicked around
Since I was born.
And now it’s all right. It’s OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The Blogging Times’ effect on man.

Blogging’s goin’ nowhere, somebody help me, yeah yeah yeah, Stayin’ alive!

I absolutely loved (I still love it) this song in my fledgling blogging career. The scars are permanently etched in my memory. Heck, every time I pitch to the client, I start with “you don’t want your website to be hanging in internet and no one will ever see…” No, its not fear psychosis that I use to sell my services to them (you see that is an old paradigm in selling, I subscribe to newer ones BUHAHAHAHAHAH!), it’s my own fear psychosis that haunts me. At the same time, as years have gone by, it helped me to drive my clients websites too. If not paid for doing it, I always make it a point to remind them to do it.

Bloggers need motivation at various stages. I will stop at and address just the second stage.

Stage I: Potential bloggers need motivation to start a blog. Almost everyone has a latent desire to blog, but, it has to be translated to action.
Stage II: Beginner bloggers to keep going. This is where the blogger can make or break his blog.

Right, you followed my guide on a good blog and wrote your first content. Then you wrote your second content, then the third one, then the ……. 4th one. No one came to your blog and then you get bit demoralized. Trust me, you have all the reasons to get demoralized. You deserve it. But, atleast you figured out that by just creating a blog and writing some sentences is not enough. so, you followed my other post on “possiblng ways to get blog traffic” and tell some of your friends to come and visit. But, to no avail. You know, getting traffic is damn hard. It’s even harder to retain it. You should understand that folks on internet are in tearing hurry and have no time. The internet is such a big place that some one has already done what you are trying to do and probably done it better. They have first mover advantage and are slick bloggers. To get your head out of blogging waters and make a blogging watermark is going to take helluva time.

Get a fact in your head booster, good bloggers work very hard even when they have succeeded. You need to work equally hard.

What is the solution?

Be honest. Have right expectations. This is very important. Its not possible to grow one of the biggest blogs with dry topics. In my opinion, things that sell are celebrities (I am trying to be modest) or Movies or Gadgets etc. There are exceptions in every category. So the subject of your blog is say ‘soda Ash,’ don’t expect ‘celebrity blog’ kind of traffic. Expect similar response in making money on that blog. The demotivation comes from wrong expectations. Another point is the traffic won’t drive in, you have to drive the traffic. In a day, take some time to drive traffic ( “possiblng ways to get blog traffic” ). You need to shout to be heard.

You can even try two blogs, one for your subject matter and other for popular subjects. This might also reduce your demotivation. I tried that sometime back and it worked for me.

I have addressed the core issues of demotivation during blogging. Other motivation points are the general everyday motivation techniques we use, after all, blogging is no different from the things we do everyday.

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