The hubby and I were able to attend the launch of SMilDS Connect last week. It was an interesting introduction to a very promising business software solution that will prove to be very convenient for online enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Here’s to give you a glimpse of what this complete E-Commerce solution is all about.
Kikay Corner has been selling organic thanakha online for close to a year now and the launch of SMilDS could not have been more timely because I have plans to switch to a dedicated online store from its current state of being a mere page in my beauty blog.
We might have mentioned once or twice from previous posts that we now have our newest blog live — ChristianHomeschooler.info. Yes, it is one of the reasons why we have stalled in posting some updates for this blog. Thank you for your continuous visit despite the lack of updates, though. We just love homeschooling so much that we were afraid we were just going to flood MarriageandBeyond.com with homeschool related posts. Which is actually accepted as it can always belong to the “Beyond” phase. But then again, as a web content writer who maintains niched blogs, we deemed it better to have a separate one to journal our homeschooling journey.
1) Follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe on Twitter.
2) Post a tweet “Just entered to win a Modu Phone. Quick! Go follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe and retweet: http://bit.ly/6e2q7O #thanks2yugatech”
The prizes are as follows: Modu phone, 10 Globe Tattoo and 10 prepaid load cards worth Php500 each. That’s 21 additional winners for a total of 52 winners this week.
Have you created your PayPal wishlist yet? You still have until December 31, 2009 to create your wishlist and earn up to $100. I already have $47 in my account. I made sure to check first and only shared my own wishlist when I was sure it’s legit and it is. All you have to do is click here and just share your wishlist. Easy peasy, eh? It’s a facebook application and it is a legitimate promo of PayPal.
This PayPal wishlist promo is limited to the following countries: India, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia or Singapore and promo ends December 31, 2009.
You are immediately entitled to US$1 as soon as you create your own PayPal Wishlist and you get additional $1 for every friend referral.
Aside from our DSL connection at home, the hubby and I have had two internet broadband sticks (Smart – prepaid) and Sun (postpaid), until recently that we also got a hold of a Globe Tattoo that came for free from my anniversary gift to him – a netbook. I was actually surprised because I kind of gotten used to the two other broadbands’ ultra slow responses. The free Globe Tattoo that came with the netbook has been responding pretty satisfactorily. I claimed the tattoo stick as mine and it was okay with the hubs because we were really planning to get a tattoo for myself, after being frustrated over the connection speed of the two other broadband that we’ve had.
We’ve been well aware of the broadband wars, which really got us to try each one. It has been two days since I got theGlobe Tattoo and so far, so good I love the speed it gives me. It may be that I always get good coverage around the areas I connect to the internet.
MarriageandBeyond.com is to turn two in a few weeks time. With this in mind, I was reminded to once again back up all my files, not that I expect the same nightmare happening with our current web host. It is just something that we have got to get used to doing on a regular basis.
As we turn two years old, we hope to be more wise as we hope to have this site progress by existing for its purpose. I am slowly getting a hold of some technicalities, but still not much. A more interesting discovery is that this site has generated sitelinks via Google. I first did not know what that meant and I haven’t fully figured it out yet. But one thing for sure is that we’re doing something good and Marriage and Beyond’s articles are of value.
Trailblazing innovations in broadband technology and still the country’s most preferred broadband provider, PLDT myDSL has once again introduced another first to its subscribers – the revolutionary Watchpad.
On Watchpad, there’s something for everyone. With Cignal HD as content provider, PLDT myDSL subscribers can now watch the hottest TV shows from their favorite channels – right on their computers. They also get to play the coolest online games and hang out with their favorite celebrities, all in one exclusive entertainment portal. While surfing, subscribers can even update their Facebook, Multiply and Twitter accounts, without having to leave the Watchpad page. Best of all, Watchpad is available nationwide and it’s absolutely free.
This is what I have been busy with this past few days. The six main sites that I maintain is taking its toll on my online socialization. I can’t even get myself to drop by blogs and make my presence felt by commenting on entires. I miss my online friends!
It was when the hubby and I came home Saturday night when I first noticed that MarriageandBeyond.com, which is hosted with EzNet-Hosting.com is down. All the while I thought it was a temporary glitch brought about by the sudden unreliability of EZNet-Hosting.com, wherein which this site is hosted. Imagine my dismay when I saw that their site was down as well. Things in my head came into play. All the what ifs you could possibly think of. What if their server was hacked, etc. Jeff checked the “who is” tab to know if it is still registered with the same person a certain Dale character with the email address dalem01@ntlworld.com. The same person we transacted with when I subscribed to their one year hosting service last January. It is still under his name. We decided to give it a day until we will have this site propagated to my husband’s unlimited account with HostGator.
What happened with our hosting with EzNet-Hosting is too frustrating for me to feel anything else since. I paid them last January 2009 in good faith for a hosting service to last a year. After a day and the site is not still up, I knew we have got to decide. It was later affirmed when I cannot even access the control panel of my site. We also found out from the “who is” button that EzNet-Hosting.com is not registered with the same person anymore. That is less than a day since we last checked when it was still with dalem01@ntlworld.com.That’s as easy as letting us know that we’ve been had. If the site was hacked, then all this information below would have been opted by the new owner to be concealed by paying a minimal amount to set his “who is” to private.
The information on the current owner of EzNet-Hosting.com:
This is the fourth banner forMarriageandBeyond.com. From its generic shore picture that came with the theme, we changed it when we won a banner header design fromOur Love Story
Dear hubby installed the header above when 2009 came in. It was not the best family picture we have, we just picked any random picture to paste even as we were shifting to a “friendlier” layout/template. Read the rest of this entry »
With this LolaTechie going around as the most recent marketing strategy of this telephone company, I think my mom could easily come close to a second when it comes to groovy grandmas who are able to ride the waves of technology. She has always been computer savvy right from the early 80’s. While most of my classmates in grade school have yet to see what a computer does, we have been exposed to it. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t know about you, but I do get this endorphin high whenever I claim a brand new domain. Â Could this be a symptom common to all probloggers? Â The brand new blog is the oldest I have had in Blogger. I recently migrated all contents of my original online journal to
For those who have formerly exchanged links with jenaspacio.blogspot.com, here I am asking for a favor to change the URL from your respective sites to www.jenaspacio.com. Â All my other web pages are niched ones. Â Understandably, I cannot just about pour anything random whenever I write. Â The most personal that I could get is via this blog, Marriage and Beyond. Â I love that I have my name in my domain this time. Â I am a little behind, I know. Â A lot of other bloggers claimed their first domain with their names in it. Â In this aspect, I am a very late bloomer. Â The plan is for me to be able to pour my heart out in that blog.
I decided to stick with its original blog title, so it goes…
What’s in the title? It sounds pretty ordinary right? Â But having no other title in mind when I was trying to think of a nice one in 2004, for my multiply site, I just figured that it will be about my life. Â Each day comes and goes. Â I will journal things in my life. Â Blessings and otherwise. The way I spend it, whether with regret or fulfillment, it will go whether I like it or not. Â Not the most profound, I know. But it does make sense, right? Â so it goes…
Hope you could visit my brand new site and maybe leave a line or two.
One of a webmaster’s ultimate nightmares is zero connection. It makes those times when internet connection is on intermittent mode, suddenly bearable. This is what happened to my connection yesterday. I had deadlines to beat and a handful of other tasks scheduled to take care of.
The impatient me got to my old grouchy self and refused to call the hotline. I couldn’t believe I will be back to calling hotlines again. I reckon that our former broadband connection got me traumatized of sorts. We literally had to call several times a day, agents saying the same lines over again and not getting the connection problem resolved. Frustration to the highest level, to say the least. I was brought back to that instance. Plus the fact that I barely know what the hubby did back then when their technical team is with him on the phone going about all those crazy troubleshooting. One thing for sure, I was not in my best mood yesterday morning. The hubby was sweet enough to call the hotline himself before he left for the office and I was told that it was reported that there is trouble with the DSL connection around the East area and they are doing something about it.
After almost two years of getting into internet marketing and five domains later, it could have been easier for me if I had chosen to get a multiple domain web hosting instead like what my husband did. I have learned since that it will not only make things easier but having one account for unlimited number sites will be the best way to go if I would like to get more domains later. Renewals will even be a breeze. Now, because I did not know better, I have to renew hosting for every single domain that I have.
Spare yourself the headache and if you plan to get serious with internet marketing, you might want to read the blog over at webhostinggeeks and choose the web hosting that will fit your need. There are a handful of list to choose from and best of all you can read through customers reviews and learn what others have to say to prospective hosting provider. It is always best to know you are with the right company, especially when you are doing internet marketing. It is hard enough to complete with a lot of web sites with thesame niche as you do, the edge of having a good host will always be a plus.
It really won’t stop raining these past few days. I have to confess, I am so loving it! I really love the rain more than the sun. I sometimes think that I am a Cullen. Haha! I guess what I love most about it is that we did not have to turn the air conditioning unit on for almost five days now. That is really something. Last week we almost had it on for an entire day because the heat was really crazy. Now, I’m dreading to get hold of our next electricity bill.
