To let you know, several review-posts I published on this blog were rejected by the ReviewMe advertisers. That’s really disappointing but what can I do. I am just an idiot who blog as if I am a smart one.

Failure can’t stop me

It’s true that I am really disappointed by what I experienced at the ReviewMe and it led me to decide to stop writing paid reviews. Take note that only paid reviews will be stopped which means, I will continue writing free review of products, services, and websites.

Yes! my future reviews will be for free. I will not be asking anything as a return of reviewing products, services, or websites. To learn how to review, and enhancing my skills in reviewing are enough and will serve as your payment as I feature your products, services, or websites at this blog.

Want to be reviewed?

I know that some of you want your products, services, or websites to be reviewed and be featured at this blog. So, now is your chance. Contact me immediately and do the following:

• Give me the URL of your blog, or website that you want to be reviewed.
• Send your product to me and let me use it for 1 month so that I can write fair review of your product. Don’t worry I will return it to you.
• Give me the URL of your websites that offer a particular services.

In you email me, tell me directly that you want me to write a review of something and give me the info as stated above. Below is the example on how to tell me to write a review:

SELaplana,

Please review my blog at http://myblog.com. Thank you so much.

Yours,

Your Name

However, if you want me to review a product, you can email me like this:

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Please give me your address, so that I can send you immediately the product that should be reviewed.

Thank you,

Your Name

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The Clock

That clock is actually called the �Say The Time� clock. From its name alone, you can already tell that this is a talking clock. It talks every time you click on that clock by telling you the current time or will remind you on the time you set for a schedule.

The �Say The Time� clock can be downloaded here� for $24.00 only. However, you can try it for about 30 days without paying anything.

What’s the good things with the “Say The Time” clock?

Just like what I told you above, this clock can be used to remind you the current time. Say for example, you are composing� a write-up for your blog. Because your mind is focused in thinking of ideas for that write-up, you missed your meals.

Now, the “Say the Time” has the ability to remind you your important tasks. For example, at12:00 noon you set it up to remind you for your lunch. So at exactly 12:00 noon, the clock will say, “On <the day>, <date> , the time is <the time>” then a dialogue will popup up wherein the notes are written, just like what’s shown on the screenshot below:

And by default, the system is� set to remind you the time every 15 minutes.

Actually, you can do a lot of things with the “Say The Time”. For example:

1. You can change the look of the clock on the task bar.
2. You can change the voice of the clock whether to hear the voice of a lovely lady or of a gentleman.
3. You can show the calendar and even synchronize the date and time internationally.
4. �You can use its Countdown clock and Stopwatch features.
5. You can use it as your alarm clock.

You can take an alarm clock software download here.
Note: This post is sponsored by Say The Time via the ReviewMe.

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As proof to this, I am receiving emails daily from fellow Filipino bloggers, asking me for suggestions on what webhosting company should they go to buy accounts.

Well. I knew tons of local webhosting company that exist today. You can even Google it via keywords such as “Pinoy Host”. “Filipino Webhost”, Pinoy Web Hosting” and other similar keyphrases.

However, I can’t refer you to webhosting companies that I haven’t tried first, because I don’t want to blamed for the bad things you encounter with that hosting companies.

Since 1999, I only tried 3 Filipino Webhosting company. But I can’t refer you the third one because I was not satisfied with their services. Below is the list of Pinoy Webhosting companies that can satisfy your needs as they satisfied mine:

1. NOKIA Webhosting Solution. It is the host of our Pinoy Bloggers Directory, and hosted our previous sites such as the “Pasugo, God’s Message Online” and the “Ka Webspy Network“. The company is owned by Mr. Job and he’s the one who personally manages the company and even cater its clients. You can visit directly the business site here.
2. PlogHost. Ploghost is another Filipino owned hosting company that currently caters thousands of Filipino-owned blogs. It offers ladderized packages that is very much advantageous to bloggers whose aim is to own a blog that will cater millions of visitors per day.

UK Based Webmasters and Bloggers

If you are webmasters or bloggers basing in UK, then I think, it will be better if you buy hosting accounts from the web hosting companies near you or you can even try one of our sponsors, the “Freez0ne Internet” which is called to be the UK’s best value hosting company.

The FreeZone Internet offers 4 packages:

1. Starter (50MB Storage Space, 1GB Data Transfer, Up to 5 Email Accounts, FREE Domain Name, and FREE Email Support)
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What’s Simpleology means?

I googled the definition of this term but didn’t find any. So, I will just give you my definition based on what I understand as I visit the landing page which is the WebCockpit 1.0.

Simpleology is derived from the terms: Simple and ology. Simple means easy or not complicated. While logy can be mean as the field of study. Thus, Simpleology is the science of simplicity, just like what their slogan says: “How the World’s Richest 1% Get More Done by Working Less – And Less Hard, Too”

Actually, I can’t really write a better review about Simpleology WebCockpit 1.0 because I just can’t access the real content of it. When entered my personal info on the form provided at the site as shown below, I was just redirected into a very long promotional page, a boring page which couldn’t excite me to buy their product.

About Simpleology WebCockpit 1.0

Since, I couldn’t access the real product that should be reviewed, I will just give you the description that they gave us through the ReviewMe campaign:

The Simpleology WebCockpit 1.0 is our first “Web 2.0″ application designed to allow our users to apply the simpleology principles (as taught in the Wall Street Journal best-selling book and the Simpleology 101 online course) in an automated setting. Both simpleology 101 and the WebCockpit are free to all (along with a few other userful tools). This is our first release and will be followed up with radical enhancements and improvements in future versions.

And I want to inform you that although they offer the product for free for trial, but you need to complete the paypal payment steps which might mean that after the 30 day trial period, you’ll be charged of certain amount, as stated:

 Free for the first 30 days then $97.00 USD for one day.

You can check for it anyway.

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About the Watchband.Biz

From the Domain itself, you can already guess what’s the main product of this company. Watch Bands. Yes! Watch Band or Watch Straps. There are 3 kinds of bands available: Leather Bands, Synthetic Bands, and Metallic Band.

The leader bands has several types based on the sources of leathers such as Bijou, Alligator, Crocodile, Lizard, Ostrich, Shark, etc. So, you can choose whatever leather you want to use for your watch. If you are fond of metal watch bands, you can choose whether stainless or Titanium and then whether folded, solid or whatever. However, if you think leather and metal bands are not your preference, then you can have the synthetic bands whether rubber, silicon or velcro.

Watchband.Biz is not just selling bands but they also offer parts of watches such as spring bars, buckles or deployants and batteries. They are also selling tools used for servicing watches.

With regards to accepting payments, Watchband.Biz accepts VISA and MasterCard or via FedEx. So if you don’t have credit cards then try sending your payment via FedEx.

About The Site

The site is designed pretty well with a careful choice of colors making the site friendly to users’ eyes. It has 3 versions based on language: (1) English, (2) Francais, (3) Deutsch.

Currently, the site is ranked by Alexa at 638,000+ and has 231 webpages linking to the site. When googling for “Watch Bands”, it only ranked 3rd but currently on the top 1 of the “Watch Straps” of Google SERP. I think, they should still work hard to top the Google SERP on “Watch Bands” instead of setting up campaigns for “Watch Straps”.

As of writing this review, there are 443 pages of the WatchBands.Biz that have been indexed by Google. Does it mean, they are selling less than 400 watch straps?

Last Words

Didn’t I tell you already the result when frequently writing review? Well, frequently writing review will definitely develop your skills in reviewing products, websites and services.

So, if you have a blog and want me to review your blog, contact me immediately. If you want me to review your products then send them to me and I will review it for you. Or you can also purchase my review here.

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The campaign is about the BackGammonMasters. And they want me to focus my story on the Press Release. So, it’s not a review at all. This is just simply buying links.

The BackGammonMaster

I know that you’ve heard a news about Paris Hilton and that she’s sent to jail for violating her probation. The said probation is related to her case, that is, driving under the influence of drug.

Now, with this news, they want me to tell you that BackgammonMasters to Send Paris Hilton a Positive Outlet during her Jail Time so that Paris can play this board while in Jail. They mean that they will send her the personalized BackGammon board.

Ohh! What a joke!

Anyway, according to the PR, BackGammonMaster is a BackGammon Software company.

About this Campaign

Well, I feel like the campaigner is something like a greedy one. They’ll pay me $6 by this requiring me to create 3 links to their sites.

Okay, I’m sorry for telling you this. I don’t know if it’s me who became greedy, but I just don’t like the PR.

Read also my post at Naruto Shippuuden fan blog: Naruto Terminology and What is Naruto.

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I googled the definition of it and found several meaning as listed below:

1. The comma-separated values (CSV) file format is a tabular data format that has fields separated by the comma character and quoted by the double quote character. If a field’s value contains a double quote character it is escaped with a pair of double quote characters. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.csv)
2. A file with Comma Separated Values. One can sava a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to a CSV file and use Oracle’s SQL*Loader program to upload the CSV file into a table. (www.orafaq.com/glossary/faqglosc.htm)
3. Comma-separated variables. A file format, commonly used for spreadsheets and databases, which uses a comma to separate the stored data fields. The advantage is that the comma is part of the standard Ascii character set so there’s no barrier to the readabi1ity of files including it; the disadvantage is that if an actual comma is present within the data, it must be surrounded by double quotes to avoid being read as a field break. (www.msun.edu/infotech/its/how/glossary/c.htm)

So, I guess I understand a little about it. I was using it before when I wrote computerized examination program when I was still in college.

About CSV Reader

I am actually reviewing here the product called DataStreams. And according to the offered campaign, “DataStreams is a component library for .Net developers to easily integrate data from various formats like CSV, Excel, and XML into their applications“. In other words, it’s a kind of data or software that can be used with applications.

It can be downloaded but you need to pay the price (depending on the license type) as shown below:

I downloaded the freedemo version here, and checked how can I use it, but am just a dumb blogger who has the hard time understanding what are these things.

Reviewing a product like this really forced me to do some copy-and-paste activities. After all, I am a copy-and-paste maniac. Okay, let me paste here what I found on that homepage:

Csv Reader is an extremely fast and stable .Net class for stream based parsing of virtually any commonly found delimited data format, CSV files, tab delimited files, etc. It’s usable from C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, or any other .Net language. It’s compatible with the 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 .Net frameworks. The methods are designed for ease of use, while the inner architecture is designed purely for speed and efficiency. Parsing is done using the de facto standard CSV file specifications.

That’s posted on the introduction part. And it made me wonders if DataStreams is the CSV Reader itself. Okay, whatever… Anyway, I will only be paid here for $5.00 and that amount is just enough for the link posted on this blog which will stay here forever.

If you have questions regarding DataStreams or CSV Reader, I think, it will be better if you’ll address your questions to bruce@csvreader.com.

Good luck!

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Anyway, $5.00 can already paid back my expenses on my Trip to Isabel Leyte. Yes, while writing this review, I am here at one of the cafes in Isabel, Leyte.

The Mozomo.Mobi:

The Mozomo.Mobi is owned by Mehul Patel. It’s a company that produces designer mobile content for Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, Windows Mobile or PocketPC and other handsets. You can get here for free the mobile themes or skins and interesting wallpapers.

You don’t have to worry actually whether the theme or wallpaper is compatible to your handset or not. Just fill in the form as shown below, then the site will show you those themes and wallpapers available for your handset.

You can download wallpapers and themes of sexy babes in bikini, asian sexy babes, cars and bikes and many more. Just don’t look for any porn pics here, they’re not available.

However, they’re currently providing mobile contents for the following handsets:

Sony Ericsson Phones : F500i, J300, K300, K500, K510, K610, K700, K750, K790, K800, M600, P900, P910, P990, S700, S710, T226, T230, T238, T290i, T300, T306, T310, T312, T316, T610, T616, T618, T628, T630, T637, T68i, V800, W300, W600, W800, W810, W950, Z1010, Z500, Z520, Z525, Z530, Z600, Z608, Z800

Nokia S60 Phones : 6680, 6681, 3230, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 7260, 7610

Nokia N-Series Phone : N90, N70

Nokia S40 Phones : 3155, 3220, 5140i, 6020, 6021, 6030, 6101, 6102, 6170, 6230i, 7260, 7270, 7280, 8800

Pocket PC : all models with OS Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Mobile 2003.

Motorola : 650, v180, v185, V186, v220, V980, c380, c381, c386, c385, c390, A835, e398, v3, v300, v500, v535, v550, v600, v635, v80, V975, C375, PEBL U6, E1 ROKR, SLVR L7, C980, C975, c391, c330, c350, c370, c450, c550, e380, L6, L2

Samsung : D720, D730, Z600

Panasonic : X800, X700

Last Words

Again, this is a $5.00 -worth of review accepted through the ReviewMe campaign. If you want comprehensive and professional review, then purchase it here.

If you are bloggers and want me to write a $100-worth of review of your blog for free, visit this page for details.

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The company will pay me $5.00 in exchange of the review I made through the ReviewMe campaign.

About MovAvi VideoSuite

MovAvi VideoSuite is a video software that let’s you do the six things with your video:

1. Capture video from your digital and web cameras. It is capable of capturing videos on your tape-video camera, digital camera or even from your web cam.
2. Convert video to run on any mobile device. Even if you don’t have knowledge on any video format, converting video to run on any mobile device is just too easy. What you need to do is just select the device where you want to play the video whether iPod, PSP, Zune, PDA or cellphone. And the videos that will be converted can be from Video CDs or DVDs or any video format on your computer.
3. Split and merge video files.� You can use the Join feature to merge multiple video files in any formats into a single longer movie file, or use the Split feature to split up a long file automatically by size, time or number of segments, or manually by selecting the beginning and end points of the desired segments. These things ca be done without any recompressions or ruining video quality.
4. Add filters and special effects. The software is built with special effects through its automatic filters and you can even preview the results in real time right in the main window using the split screen. You can make your movies interesting ones just like what you’d seen on movies.
5. Rip, backup and copy DVDs. This is another interesting capability of this software where you can rip off videos from DVDs into your PC.
6. Burn data, audio, and video CDs and DVDs
7. Create classy video postcards

Last Words

I have many things to say about it. But I am paid to write a review for only $5.00, so I think this is enough for the price.

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This is actually a review of the “how to remove spylocked spyware” page for the anchor text, “remove spylocked“.

About the page:

From the page title itself, it’s already clear that this page contains free tutorial that will show you how to remove the latest smitfraud infection, SpyLocked, from your computer in 4 easy steps at no cost.

The first part of it contains information that explains what SpyLocked is. It then gives us hint on how will you know that your PC is already infected by SpyLocked spyware, and then explains how did the PC get infected by it.

The tutorial or instructions on how to remove SpyLocked spyware is divided into 4 pages. The first page contains the things I mentioned above. The second page contains the Step 1 to Step 4 of removing the spyware. The third page contains the Step 5 to Step 7 of removing the SpyLocked spyware. The fourth page contains the step 8 and step 9 (final step) .

Things To Learn from These Pages:

I know, I was paid to write a review about the page on removing SpyLocked Spyware. But we are not restricted to write positive things only. So, let’s us examine deeper the pages and learn lessons from them.

(1) Adsense Placement

One thing I noticed is the placement of the Adsense ads and the page navigation menu. Just take a look at the screenshot below.

Actually, based on the latest memo released by Adsense team, this kind of implementation of Adsense is not acceptable. This is actually similar to the problem you learned from our previous review of the Jozzua’s blog. If the owner of this page failed to modify the implementation, then it will end up the suspension of his accout. So, what we can do for now is to tell him or her to email Adsense Team and let them examine the adsense implementation on that site.

Remember to stay at the safe side than earning a little Dollar in a short period and then experienced the banning.

(2) The Trick

Reading the whole pages of steps on removing the SpyLocked spyware, you most likely learn that the author of it offers it for free. The monetization is done through the Adsense ads. However, at the end of it, we’ll notice a trick wherein users will think that what the author recommends to protect themselves from this kind of spyware is by downloading the software as shown below:

It is said that the critical final step in the removal process is by installing the free Google Pack to Protect the computer. Then there’s a “Get Firefox Ad” with the arrow pointing to it. I myself really think that what the author tells us is to download the software as pointed by the arrow.

I think, it’s better if what has been pointed by that arrow is the real Google Pack image linked to the download page of it.

However, the final words of the author says:

As long as you downloaded and installed the Google Pack from above, your system should be safe from reinfection by SpyLocked as well as most other malware programs.

It said that the Google Pack is “FROM ABOVE”. Does it mean that the Google Pack he’s referring to is the Adsense Referral Ad for Firefox? Ohhh! It’s a foolish thing to point the Firefox download as the Google Pack.

I wonder how much the webmaster earns from this foolish business.

Real protection

If you really want to be protected from spywares, maybe you need to install the PC Security Shield into your PC. You can even shoose one from the list I made of the best PC Security software for your PC.

Last Words

Again, this is a sponsored review. I will be paid $5.00 for this review and the ReviewMe will received the other $5.00.

If you want me to review your blog for free, do either of the following:

1. Write a review of my blog with the link back to my blog. I love the link with the anchor text, “Dumb way on How to Make Money Online“. However you can also use SELaplana as anchor text when linking to my blog. After that, email me immediately about it so that I can immediately check your blog and prepare the review.
2. Mention me frequently in your blog, with the links to some of my blogposts. Join our community and email me about it.

However, if you want me to review your commercial sites or blogs, you need to purchase it here.

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