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Book Announcement: Surviving and Making Money in a Down Economy: A Guide to Coping with Unemployment and Finding New Opportunities

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I wrote a book and decided to post it in the Amazon Kindle Store.  It’s called: It’s a guide for the Unemployed and Dealing in this economy.  Hopefully, People will enjoy it. You can find it by clicking on this link here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085QZIJE Hopefully it helps.  Help me get the word out! The book will be…

Creating PDF Files without having to purchase anything.

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Percy Kwong

We all have the need to create pdf files at one time or another.  I used to use pdfcreator from sourceforge, but it seems as of the latest version, they’ve sold out. So this led me on a search for a new solution.  The solution is from bullzip.com and works really quite well. I would…

If you’re looking for Rock-Solid WordPress Hosting, I offer it now.

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I now offer WordPress Hosting. It is high-quality hosting with all technical support and training built in.  It also includes the ability to set up e-commerce on your site.  You can sell your digital or tangible products in real-time. I also offer Pay-Per-View e-commerce capabilities.  This is not an el-cheapo practice, but rather for individuals…

Amazon Prime – Good or Bad – a 2 Year Review

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Amazon offers something called Amazon Prime. Basically here is what it offers: Special access to certain quality video content for free viewing on your computer and multiple amazon enabled devices. Free 2 day shipping on everything in its warehouse. Free one day shipping around the holiday times occasionally. Free access to the kindle lending library…

Backups: a bit of insight and perspective.

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Many of us have backups.  Many of us don’t.  Here’s an interesting question though.  Those of us that have backups.  How many have actually tested them out to make sure they’re working?  If you have, how often do you test them? Most people set up a backup solution and just let it run.  They don’t…

Fixing Live WordPress Install without downtime [Solved – A Solution]

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I love wordpress.  It’s simple and very powerful.  The only problem with it is the quality of the plugins and the constant upgrading.  Like Microsoft Windows, sooner or later, something is going to break.  Of course, I didn’t notice it until just recently. On my blog (This blog), the newsfeeds broke.  I really don’t know…

Using Amazon’s Free Tier to get a free VPN server for a year

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve written about personal vpn servers and the great things round strongvpn and other vpn providers to get around the ISP throttling problem of Netflix.  I always figured there was a better way to do it. Well, after a bit of thought, I realized that one could easily use Amazon’s free tier (a micro-instance) for…

Using Amazon’s Free Tier to get a free VPN connection for a year.

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I know I’ve written about this in the past, but I’ve finally created a guide on how to do this step by step. It’s available for purchase now.  This is literally a how-to on getting an OpenVPN server up and running for free for a year. Specify Your Donation: (Min. $5.00)  [wp_eStore_buy_now:product_id:11:end]

EC2 Instances, the pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So I decided to take the plunge into moving my mailserver from Linode to EC2 considering it made more sense after doing some math.  The reality is Linode is an excellent VPS host and I still have many machines with them (and highly recommend them), but the reality is at some point, it doesn’t become…

Is Firefox preventing you from going to a website because of the port it’s on? [Solved]

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Every once in a while, we need to go to a website that has a non-standard port.  For example, the address might look like this:  https://localhost:888  (This would be for the 3ware management interface for example). In Mozilla Firefox, you’ll get a screen that looks like this: [singlepic id=63] Obviously, this can be a real…

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