A fellow Digital Point forum member recently offered me the opportunity of testing out the traffic boosting services he offers at Megatraffix, and I am so impressed by the service that I have to share this with you. Essentially, the service promises you worldwide or targeted unique, real traffic to your website.

There are several plans which you can choose, which differ in the number of visits delivered to your website as well as the source of the traffic. Naturally, the higher the amount of visits and the uniqueness of the location, the higher the plan is going to cost. That said, its worth mentioning that the plans are affordably priced, starting with only $7 for 5000 unique visitors.

What is even more interesting is that you are provided with a control panel from which you can track the number of visitors which have been sent to your website. Also, you can ‘throttle’ the maximum number of visitors the service sends to your site on any given day. This allows you to maximise the traffic you buy over a longer period of time.

So if you want to boost your web traffic, Google PR rating or Alexa ranking, head over to Megatraffix and you can literraly sit back and watch your visitor counter grow.

Do you come across websites and forums which require you to register before you can view the content on them? Certain forums require you to register and login before you can view posts.

In their registration form, they usually require you to key in your email address to which a verification email is sent before you can login. This is a surefire method to increase the amount of junk email you receive in your inbox everyday. One solution is to use a throwaway email address (such as mailinator.com), but if you are in a hurry and need to access the site quickly (or to quickly download something) but do not have the time nor patience to register, all you have to do is visit www.bugmenot.com.

BugMeNot is essentially a database of pre-registered username and passwords for many websites on the Internet. Since it is driven by the users themselves, there is a very high chance that the login you require is already available on the website. Better still, there is a voting system which automatically promotes logins which work so that you spend less time trying out logins which have either expired or have been banned. Naturally, if a login works (or does not work) for you, its best to go back to BugMeNot and vote for that particular login. After all, the content on this website is by the users for the users.

BugMeNot has also released a throw-away email service which allows you to quickly check any email address @bugmenot.com. This is very similar to mailinator.com and other throw-away email addresses work, and makes it easy to obtain all of these features from one site.

So the next time you are faced with a registration page which is holding you back from the content you need to access, head over to www.bugmenot.com for the solution.

A friend and his wife came over last weekend seeking for advice on a new Flat Screen TV for their new home. There are many technical variables which need to be considered before deciding upon a flat screen tv, but perhaps the most hyped feature is screen resolution. This is commonly marketed as HD-Ready or Full-HD 1080p.

If you were to go to any electronics store in Kuala Lumpur, you would notice that most sales personnel would try to sell you the latest Full-HD screens, whether or not you really need it. The reason? Higher commissions. Full HD screens have driven the prices of lower resolution screens down, which is an excellent thing. Unfortunately, if you are not fully aware of the technical details, you may get influenced by the sales pitch and end up with something that does not mactch your needs.

When deciding on which resolution to go for, the first thing you will need to know is the type of content you are going to watch on it. Chances are, like most people with basic entertainment requirements, you will be primarily watching Astro and an occasional DVD movie. This is considered medium to low resolution content with a typical resolution of about 500 horizontal lines. If you were to watch this on a high-resolution flat-screen TV, the content is going to pixelate. What this means is that the picture is going to look very blocky (like the image of the eye below). This is similar to what would happen if you took a photo with your digital camera at a low-resolution (such as 2 megapixel) and printed it at a large size.

If on the other hand, you are an avid gamer, and have an Microsoft Xbox 360, or a Sony PlayStation 3, you should get a Full HD screen to enjoy the breathtaking detail which videogames today have to offer. Another thing which would justify a Full-HD screen is if you are going to watch high definition video, which comes in either Blue Ray or HD-DVD formats. A Sony PlayStation 3 also doubles up a Blue-Ray player, so you can watch high definition movies.

Personally, if all you are going to watch is Astro and DVD videos, I would recommend that you try and source an older Flat Screen TV with a low resolution of about 1024×768 pixels. You may be able to get this set at a bargain and it will produce a smoother image compared to the newer Flat Screen TVs if you are watching Astro and DVDs.

So the next time you are at the electronics store, with breath-taking images being displayed on the Flat Screen TVs, ask the sales assistant to show you what the screen looks like with Astro or a normal DVD. Do not be surprised to see a pixelated image. But hey, its better to see it at the shop than once you take it back home with you.

Many people use domain name forwarding or masking in order to present a professional image to their readers while being able to host their websites on shared or low-cost hosting. For example, if someone has a free website at www.geocities.com/samplewebsite, they may want to allow users to access it using a personalized domain name such as www.theirwebsite.com.

One option is to purchase a web hosting account from a hosting provider and associate that hosted account with the domain name of their choice. While this is a good option, it may not be the most cost-effective method, since some people may have many domain names, and would instead like to share one web hosting account across all those domains.

The solution to this is domain-name forwarding, which is essentially a simple frame page which hosts the original site within it. This service is usually provided free of charge by most domain name registrars with the purchase of a domain name. The end-user can then key in the more meaningful domain name, while the original domain name is loaded in the background.

However, if you were to host a site based on Wordpress / Joomla or a similar CMS based on the PHP/MySQL platform, you may encounter that you are unable to use the user login (and admin login) feature if you were to access your site from the forwarded domain name, but works fine if you were to login using the original domain name.

The reason for this is that Internet Explorer uses the address bar in the browser to set the cookie (and not the URL of the originating content), therefore causing the inability to login. I first faced this issue when I developed a site using Mambo a long time ago, and found a solution which worked. Since then, I have successfully implemented this in my other sites using Wordpress and Joomla.

If you are facing this same problem, I would like to share the solution with you, and this is what needs to be done. Open up wp-login.php (it should be in your Wordpress root folder), and just below line 9 (in Wordpress 2.x) - the line that says header(bla bla), put this line: header( “P3P: CP=CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM PRE”);

What this does is that it adds a P3P Compact Privacy Policy to your site. Just by doing this, you should be up and running already, and nothing else needs to be done. However, if you need to know more about P3P or what this is doing in detail, let me refer you to the Mambo support page where I discovered this solution : http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=13076

All the best and do let me know if you need help with this workaround.