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Ridiculous Freelance Jobs
Google Adsense has made way for the worst freelancing jobs ever being posted on some popular freelancing websites. Some of these buyers write enough terms to make me laugh and I do not see how any freelance designer or programmer can bid on building a website like the one that meets the expectations of the client posting these jobs. Here is a description of one of such jobs which I have obviously re-written so that no freelance work exchange website claims that Im using content that belongs to them and you will find my comments here which are translated version of ...
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So this is a post about remittances that we get from clients in USA. I somehow landed on citibank remittance service website and found it very cheap remittance mode as they charge only 1$ if you send money using a Bank Account but the problems are so many that its not worth the savings. Starting with the first one, there are so many details that they ask during registration including but not limited to SSN which not every client will put in. Then it takes 2-3 days to verify the account so that you can start a transaction. Now even after the ...
» continue readingLocal Timestamp in PHP : Indian Sample Code
Local Timestamp in PHP Recently I was stuck with one of the assignments which required Local Indian Timestamp to be inserted into database and was not able to find anything better than this even after much googling. I hope you find this useful and if there is a better way, Please let me know and I will update this post. I know there is a better way with PHP 5.3+ but this had to work on a lower version. <?php /* * Function to turn a mysql datetime (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) into a unix timestamp * @param str * The string to be formatted */ function convert_datetime($str) { list($date, $time) = ...
» continue readingNo Audio in TV from HDMI Output
Missing Audio in TV from Laptop HDMI output I recently bought an HDMI Cable as I was irritated of connecting and VGA Cable and Audio cables to my TV from my Dell Studio when I need to watch TV. Im using Windows Seven with VLC PLayer and the video worked perfect and the quality improvement as expected from High Definition Video was really VERY SIGNIFICANT. I admit that I really loved the video quality improvement but the audio was missing and that was disappointing. On first thought, I wanted to blame it on the cable as I bought the cheapest gold plated ...
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First Page on Google by Email Marketing Many SEO Experts who are filling in your contact forms.... what can they really do? I get one or more email everyday from so called SEO Experts who claim that they can get me more clients and customers by getting me on First Page of Google. They claim that they can help our clients find us on all search engines within days. Now considering that I have captcha on my contact forms, I am assuming that there is a human filling up this form which means that the business that is trying to help my website ...
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