Bridge to Nova: January 2008
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Create top-notch business card

There’s no doubt that most businesses owners aree concerned about their marketing campaigns. In business nowadays, branding is everything. So that creating an effective brand name is the very first thing business owners have to do for their business.

So if you're a business owner, have you make your brand name yet? Don't forget to create a perfect logo design that would match your business. If you're about to create Custom Logo Design, I would suggest you to take a look at logoyes.com. You can try their Free Logo and Business Card Creator. If you don't like the final design, you don't have to pay a cent.

Their custom logo creation process includes six steps as follow.



For first step, you need to choose image that would reflect your company stance such as High-tech, Bold or Flair.

For second step, you need to choose the industry of your company such as Arts, Automotive, Engineering, Real Estate, etc. After that, you need to choose the symbol that would reflect your company for the third step. And then type the name of your company for the fourth step. For the fifth step, you can customize the layout as anyway you like. Then, finally, if you like what you've created you can buy as a sixth step or you can go back to any step you want to change anything or start over again to try new mind blowing logo.

Their six-step custom logo design creation process is very easy, convenient for everyone. If you don't like the logo, you won't be charged anything. If you like the design, for $69, you can save your logo. If you want your logo with the business card design, then you need to pay $99. I think it's a great deal to have such a nice, professional and credible logo design.

For this review, I have created one business card design for Bridge to Nova. This is really great. Take a look!

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Well, we are very curious with our competitions. Sometimes, we really want to know how much of the subscribers do they have too? For me, I haven't publicly shown my feed subscriber counts yet even though I am having a quite impressive number for me.

Well, anyway, if you want to view the feedburner counts of the blogs that don't display, you might be able to see it if you're lucky. In fact, lucky here means those blog owners should have got change of mind and should be stupid too.

Here's how to achieve this.

This is my feed address.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BridgeToNova


If you want to see my subscriber, you should type in the address bar as follow.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/BridgeToNova


What do you see now?



I'm not lying to you. You can't see my counts because I know this trick and I've already prevented from it by deactivating in my feedburner dashboard. But hey, there are a lot of bloggers out there who don't know this and you can check their feed counts.
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Unlock your DVD player for region free

Do you know that every DVD player that comes with your PC is limited to your region? Here's how DVD regions are divided.

dvdregions 

So if you live in region 1 (that's USA), you can't play DVD from region 2 (Europe) or any other region except region 1. DVD manufactures limit DVD players for a reason. By dividing the region, they could make sure film makers could set the price based on specific region. If a movie is popular in USA, buying region 1 DVD for that movie might be more expensive than the very same film in region 2 DVD.

So how can you unlock DVD region? Well, thanks to http://www.dvdunlocker.com/, you can unlock your DVD player within a few seconds. All you have to do is find your DVD player model in their list. If your model is listed, they can 100% guarantee that their method will work. They can unlock over 1500 mainstream DVD players. So if you are sick of malfunction DVD from your friends of other region, you should start unlocking your DVD player now. Hurry up, if you buy before midnight today, you can grab this precious software for just $9.95. What are you waiting for?

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If you are using Windows Vista like me, you must be familiar with the following dialog box, don't you? This is because of Windows Vista new addition security feature called User Account Control (UAC).

uac

Some people gave up on Vista and return to XP because of UAC. Well, it is quite surprise to know that some people couldn't figure out how to disable UAC and they simply blame on Microsoft. These people are really pathetic.

Let me show you how easy it is to disable UAC.

1. Simply go to Start Menu -->> Control Panel -->> User Accounts

2. After that simply click on Turn User Account Control on or off as shown in the picture below.

turn uac off

3. You will see the last time UAC dialog to click Continue.

4. And then rebooted your computer.

Simple, huh? Enjoy your Vista!

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file-saver

Sometimes our hard disk contains a lot of data, photos, music and video files. It is quite common for us to accidentally delete important files. What can you do if you accidentally delete your files or lost your files because of nasty viruses?

Well, you can recover deleted files easily by using programs from http://www.file-saver.com. With this software, possibilities are endless. You can recover any types of your files no matter they are photos, musics, videos, or whatever. I can say that if you delete it, you can easily recover it.

So, I highly recommend you to check this software and get it. It would really come in handy when your disaster strikes.

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Have you ever wonder how big the TV can go? As of now, the world's largest, biggest television is 150-inch high-definiton plasma TV unveiled by Panasonic.

The giant TV features an 8.84 million pixel image resolution. Its screen is the equivalent of nine 50-inch sets, with an effective viewing area of 11 feet. This is a step up from Panasonic previous by-then world's largest 103 inch plasma.

Even though Panasonic not yet announce the price of 150 inch, for 103 inch, it cost $70,000 when it launched.

When I was young, the biggest TV I know of is 29 inches. It's quite funny when I look back time. I feel like the future will be funnier and funnier as technology advances on.

Source : Yahoo News
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Have you ever afraid of your favourite website could go offline? So that you want to save all the contents of the website on your computer before the site goes down? Yeah, I know saving web page one by one could take a year to download medium large websites.

website downloader

But there's a copy website program from http://www.web-site-downloader.com which could do the exact job for us with our minimum effort. You can get the program from their website. This program could download all webpages, images and videos from your favourite website with one simple click.

How much do you have to pay for this simple useful program? Well you need to pay only $16.95 one-time fee. For me, it sounds a great deal.

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I have told you guys about how to type web addresses more quickly. Ctrl+Enter will fill you up .com. But what if you access to .net site more often and you want to change the default Ctrl+Enter to automatically fill you up .net not .com. How can you do it?

It's easy just download URL Suffix Add-ons for Firefox. After installing the Add-ons, go to Tools -->> Add-ons. And then Choose the URL Suffix and click on Options.

url suffix

You will see the URL suffix configuration dialog box as follow.

config url suffix addons

See? You could even configure for Enter behaviour, not just Ctrl + Enter. But I find it quite annoyance as most of the websites I surf are end with various suffix.

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Recover your lost Excel passwords

I enjoy Microsoft Excel a lot. In fact, a lot of my daily usage and my budget plans are normally done in Microsoft Excel. As I used more and more Excel and contain a lot of confidential data in Excel file, I need to keep it as securely as possible.

I love Microsoft Office for their invention of Password protection feature since earlier versions of Office. Their Password protection made me feel save from my friends and co-workers, who are very curious about all my files in my computer. But one of the bad thing is that, as I've got a lot of password, sometimes I forgot the password of the file that contain all my budgets for the last whole year.

I was sweating a lot. But then Excel password recovery from http://www.password-studio.com/ save me from disaster. This software is really a great deal. It checks up to 140,000 passwords per second, that is four times faster than it’s competitors.

So if you've encountered a password forgot nightmare like I do, you don't have to sweat anymore. Just head to password-studio.com.

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Microsoft Outlook display the Outlook Today page when you first start up since very earlier versions, but for me, it's a quite useless page since I just want to read my email.

I always change Outlook default setting by digging into Advanced Options via Tools -->> Options and then change the default folder. Hey but there's an easier way to do this.

Just click on the Customize Outlook today button on the upper right corner of your Outlook as in the following pic.

customize outlook today

After that you will see the following screen.

choose outlook default folder

Be sure to uncheck, "When starting, go directly to Outlook Today" checkbox. The default for these would make Outlook to go directly to your inbox. If you prefer to go Outlook to any other folder than your inbox, you can choose any folder you want by click on Choose Folders button.

Hope this tip would help you make more productivity.

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Internet isn't as anonymous as you think it is. Whatever website you browse, or whatever you do on the Internet, you leave the trace, IP address. IP address is uniquely assigned on the Internet to identify each computer in the world.

So, what's the big deal about the IP address? Well, hackers can exploit your computer and your identity, your confidential data if they just find out your IP address. So should you fear and not surfing at all? NO, not really.

There's a solution for you. You can surf virtually anonymous. How's so? You can hide IP address very easily too. Check out http://www.hide-my-ip-address.com/. This site is a very good identity theft protection, I highly recommend it for the ordinary surfer like you and me.

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Having sick

Sorry for no post for a long time. Last week, I've got a flu and now I'm recovering. Soon, I'll resume my daily tech news, tips and etc. Thanks for those who emails me and asking why I don't post. You guys really made me encourage to resume blogging. See you all soon.

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Adobe is spying on us

We all are worried about our privacy on the World Wide Web. With technology advancing and bad boys are releasing bad things every day, we all have to install the antivirus and antispyware that we think would protect us from evil.

We normally ignore that our trusted applications might sometimes be tracking on us. Even if their intention is to improve their program not to invade our privacy, I do mind.

Let's take a look at Adobe InDesign CS3.

adobe spy

 

Thanks to Dan from uneasysilence, he noticed that when you start Adobe InDesign CS3, the applications try to connect to 192.168.112.207. Yes it is look like an internal IP address. But hey, take a look again, it is not! It is actually connecting to 192.168.112.2O7.net. You see? Really evil, huh?

Dan find out that 192.168.112.2O7.net is owned by Omniture, a huge behavioral analytics firm.

Well, Adobe says they want to know more about their users. But, in my opinion, putting behavior analysis software in an application without informing the user is really bad thing. But the worst thing is that the 2O7.net URL was chosen to spoof it like a local address. They are intentionally spying on us. I don't know about how other people would feel, but for me, I've lost trust in Adobe.

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Avoid tele-marketers by using disposable phone number

avoid phone

Let's start the new year with the best tip. I've told you guys about how to avoid spammer by using one-time disposable email services. That could really save you from a lot of email spammers. But what about telemarketers? It is quite annoying to receive a call from someone you don't know and talking about the product you're not interested at all. Yeah, nowadays, spammers are everywhere.

I've found a website called Numbr, which provide disposable US phone numbers. This service is very useful especially if you want to list your phone numbers in MySpace, Facebook or any other social networks.

I've no idea about their business model as they provide this service absolutely free. You can forward to any US landline or mobile phone no. After one month, your number will expire, but you can renew for free in your control panel. The best of all, their website states that your number will never be reused.

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