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Attraction Methods to Gain New Visitors

Blog Marketing

I am currently trying out many different options to increase my daily visitors. This is what I have tried to do so far.

> In wordpress, I have added a few new plugins. ( the all in one seo pack ) to greatly enhance my meta keywords per post / page, and also to define a unique title and such for each of them too. This I hope will increase my SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) return with the major engines.

> I have also added links to the social networking sites like, digg, and others. This I hope will get people linking to what I have to write about. We’ll see. So far I have been dugg once on my vobcopy / mkisofs page. Its a start

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Your house is not your asset

We are taught from a very young age that we are supposed to go to a good school and get a great education and get a good paying stable secure job. Then when you are all set in your career, you go out and buy a house and car or two. You are living the dream. Then you rely on your house as your biggest asset to create equity for you so that you can buy a bigger house later and maybe some more toys. I hate to tell you this, but this is a lie. I see it a little differently, and you may not like what I have to say. But here goes.

Your house is your biggest liability
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Setup Zen Cart Local Sales Tax Mod

I recently had to hack my way through the Local Sales Tax Module for Zen Cart. Much thanks to Heather and her help with getting this to work on Leap! Movie

To start follow the instructions at Local Sales Tax Mod
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Vobcopy and Mkisofs to the rescue again

Firstly, vobcopy does not make iso images directly. You first need to extract all the required files from the dvd you are making an iso image of.

To do this take a look here.

Short version is this.

This will place all the files in the current directory. So make sure that you are in the directory you want all your files in.

Then run this command in the directory that holds the VIDEO_TS sub directory.

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Make money on your site
I recently signed up for a click bank account. And wanted to tell you all about how you can also use an affiliate program like clickbank to increase your sites operating budget. ( i hope ).

First go to clickbank.com and signup as a publisher.

Then search through the products they are selling or promoting, and if you find some that you think will fit nicely into your site, you create a hoplink for the product.

To place the link in your site just copy and paste it into your page.

You will want to change the “click here” to something that describes what the link is about.

Thats it.
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DVD Copying to hard drive with dd
In adddition to using vobcopy, and mkisofs you could also use plain old dd to do the trick ( sometimes )

It sometimes works, and when it does it works well.

From the command line in *nix ( Unix, Linux, OS X, etc. )

> dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/dvdfilenametocreate

Lets break this down. dd is the command you are running, and if is the input file, everything is a file in *nix, and of is the output file you wish to write.
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Loan Modification and FHA Loans What you need to know

There are a few options that homeowners may have when it comes to being upside down on their house.

First look to a trusted mortgage broker to ask about

• FHA loan.
• Loan Modification

An FHA loan is a government backed loan , that comes with some caveats. Firstly you have to meet the requirements the have set forth. These are not limited to when you took out your mortgage, or the balance, or the type of loan, and property value. The FHA loan program also limits you when it does become time to sell.
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HP LaserJet 1020 Install On Ubuntu 8.04 tls

Upon performing updates on Ubuntu, my HP LaserJet 1020 stops working.

To fix this, I have to reinstall the foo drivers.

Then grab the foo2zjs drivers

Untar them in place

CD to foo2zjs

Uninstall the currently installed version
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How to use vobcopy and mkisofs in Ubuntu to backup your dvds^* to your hard disk

There are many different methods for backing up media your hard disk.

In Ubuntu, the easiest way to do this is right click on the dvd and copy it directly. This works about half the time.

Or you can try the unix dd command method.

> dd if=/dev/dvd of=nameofdvd.iso

This too only works some of the time.
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UDPATE to Ubuntu Logitech Dual Action USB Gamepad install

Dual Action Gamepad The Logitech Dual Action Gamepad is the ultimate precision instrument whether you’re going for the tackle the kill the gold or the finish line. $15.99

WOW!!!

I never thought that i would write something that a. people actually searched for, and b. that would show up on a first page search result.

I love this wordpress software.

“install usb joystick in ubuntu” who knew?

I only wrote it at as reference for myself, and possibly if others needed such information they could have it too.

[ UPDATE ]

I have done some more searching on getting the gamepad working with gsnes9x gui mode.

I had to change the /etc/snes9x/snes9x.conf file.
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