Archive for November, 2007

As everyone noticed today, i’m changing this blog header image. Actually there’s no specific reason why i’m doing that. Just playing around with my beginner Photoshop skills. So what do you think? Please give me some opinions or comments ok!

From this:

To This:

1. Explicit Phrase: Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.

Example: “internet marketing”

2. Exclude Words: Lets say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the “-“ sign in front of the word you want to exclude.

Example Search: internet marketing -advertising

3. Site Specific Search: Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the “site:somesite.com” modifier.

Example: “internet marketing” site:www.internetgecko.com

4. Similar Words and Synonyms: Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the “~” in front of the word.

Example: “internet marketing” ~professional

5. Specific Document Types: If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier “filetype:”. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing.

Example: “internet marketing” filetype:ppt

6. This OR That: By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized).

Example: internet marketing OR advertising

7. Phone Listing: Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature.

Example: phonebook:617-555-1212 (note: the provided number does not work – you’ll have to use a real number to get any results).

8. Area Code Lookup: If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it’s from.

Example: 617

9. Numeric Ranges: This is a rarely used, but highly useful tip. Let’s say you want to find results that contain any of a range of numbers. You can do this by using the X..Y modifier (in case this is hard to read, what’s between the X and Y are two periods. This type of search is useful for years (as shown below), prices or anywhere where you want to provide a series of numbers.

Example: president 1940..1950

10. Stock (Ticker Symbol): Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock.

Example: GOOG

11. Calculator: The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google.

Example: 48512 * 1.02

12. Word Definitions: If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command.

Example: define:plethora

13. Searching for URLs containing certain words. Use the “inurl:word” modifier.

Example site: internetgecko.com inurl:discuss

That’s all. If you have any of other killer tips, please share it here ok! As we can broaden our knowledge right?

credits to Lovebird009

I’ve noticed recently some of the blogs that i’ve visited displayed something like ‘badge’ or button that written on it a phrase  like “You Comments, I Follow”, “U Comments, I Reply” & etc. So, i’ve decided to make the same concepts badge for my blogs. I called it UCIF (You Comments: I Follow) badges. Sounds cool too!

Straight to the point, here’s some of my released UCIF badges for you to use on your blogs or sites. You can use it for free, i’m not asking for any in return. Just use it on you blogs & websites. I’m happy to do this! I’m also using it on this blog & my main blog.

I’m released it in Hi-Res graphics file “.png” files with transparency features. So, you don’t need to worry if you want to use it on any colors or background.

This is the preview of it:

You can download all the UCIF badges here
Please drop me a comment if you like it & tell me where do you use it. Thanks!

Here’s i’m going to give some guides & tips for the beginners on how to Stumble the pages/articles or blog posts that you like on the internet. StumbleUpon is one of the most popular free service of social bookmarking that available on the internet.

Join 3,791,232 Stumblers & Discover New Sites
Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great sites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations.

Connect, Meet and Share
Connect with friends and share your discoveries, meet people that have similar interests.

1. At first, you must install the StumbleUpon toolbar on your internet browser. Whether you’ve using Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers. For the current time being, the StumbleUpon toolbar currently developed for IE & Firefox. I’m actually using Opera browsers, so to Stumble pages: I’m using Internet Explorer 7.0 & Firefox. To download the toolbar, go to their homepage: HERE & locate this button for download.



2. After finished downloading the installer,locate the installer & double click it to install the StumbleUpon toolbar. Just click the ‘next‘ button & you’re ready to go.



3. The installer will restart any opened browser if it was detected while in installation process. Once the browser restarted, tadaa!!! You can see the toolbar on the top of your browser. Whether it’s IE or Firefox, it was same. Now, you’re ready to start Stumbling on the pages you like!



4. Now, to start Stumble the article,page or content: Just point your browser’s address to any desired webpages that you like. Once you on the page that you like to Stumble (actually something that interesting,right?) just locate & click the button(”I Like It!“) on StumbleUpon toolbar



5. A new window will be opened now(pop up). That’s the StumbleUpon window, here you must fill in the required part as seen in the picture below. Some of the part already filled in. Lastly, click the “Submit This Site” button. Guess what? Now you have Stumbled a page!!! Horey! :)

*Please note that you must be registered first @ here if you want to Stumble pages using StumbleUpon toolbar.
Please notify me if i’m missing some part here. Thanks!

It seems i’ve been tagged by Wanorizan.

Now, I would like pass this meme to the following 5 bloggers:
Stannero, Kento, Tkada, Arina and Zawawi a

Thanks! Here comes my answers:

1.a movie that made you laugher
Hahaha! it’s “Fun With Dick & Jane” starring by Jim Carey

2. a book that made you cry
Hmmm…actually this is a diary or novel: “Ichi Ritoru No Namida” (1 Liter of Tears)

3. a best friend
Can i consider my mother is my best friend?

4. a favorite childhood memory
Bought my first videogame console. The cartridge one :)

5. your favorite animal
Of course it’s neko! (cat in Japanese) kawaii ne! (so cute!)

6. your favorite food
Satay, Takoyaki(it’s literally fried or baked octopus ball),Friedrice & Pizza!

7. an item of clothing you can’t do without
My favourite jacket 

8. something you collect
Money, game’s console, computer, some comics & gadgets. :)

9. your favorite store to shop in
Sogo, Reject Shop, Giant & Factory Oulet Store(FOS)

10. your favorite flower
Cherry blossom(Sakura) & Daisy

Done in 5 minutes! :) Yukatta! (great!)

Now, I’ll pass this meme to the following 5 lucky bloggers !
Aslan, Itsume, Turk, Rudy, ‘lil red 1