[MOVED] iNicholas

I am coming for you, Wordpress! I already earned the money for webhosting, and now I am going to port my blogspot blog to a Wordpress one. I will be using Godaddy webhosting, since it's cheap and it has good reputation. See you soon in Wordpress. =]

So, recently I had decided to change my earning report to monthly basis. Well, below will be a total of how much I made online and with which service. I am happy with what I have earned although it is not a big number. The money are all in PayPal and some still waiting for payout. I am going to use to get my self a hosting and move my blogs to Wordpress. I have already successfully earned to money I need to pay for web hosting. Very happy. However, I don't have much time on doing this thing as my school exam is around the corner. Sigh, I hate exams, haha.

Actually, you can't find free wireless Internet connection at Bangkok's Airport. You can find a lot of open network, but you need to have a login id and password, so meaning that most of it is paid service. Not fun man! Airport should have provide free Wifi to travelers and anyone.

Thanks stickman guides on helping me accessing the "free" wifi at Bangkok Airport.


When you are at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, you will find a lot of wifi network, one of them is aotwifi.

Connect yourself into the network.

Start your web browser, I recommend Mozilla Firefox. Get Firefox with Google Toolbar for more secure browsing.

You will now land on a page where you are require to key in your login username and password.

Just type test for username and test for password.


You are now ready to surf the Internet. =) Happy surfing.

I am now getting fed up on running Photoshop. I don't know what had happened to my PC, few days ago, it can't power up, everytime I turn on, nothing show on screen. Now even though it can start, I can run my photoshop, when I try using Magic Wand/Lasso or Crop, my whole PC goes hang or shut down. Something wrong with my hardware I think, I definitely need to power up my PC with more rams or maybe a new PC. But I am sure my dad won't get me a new PC because my PC is still running fine. =( All the upgrades work only can start after my school exam ends which at October. Let's hope the time goes faster then "It's Upgrade Time!". I need 1 stick of 1GB ram and a AGP DirectX10 GPU. Wonder how much will it be .

Hi guys, sorry for not posting anything on the past few days, I have been away to Thailand for travel. You can read my blog for my travel experience. Stay tune, great posts are on the way.

In my previous templetes, there isn't a search bar or navibar on top for people to search through my blog. I was looking at my blog, and wanted to find some old articles that I wrote, I realised that I should have a search area for people to make a search, so it will be easier.


When I changed my templates to MistyLook yesterday, I saw that this MistyLook ported to Blogger version by Blogcrowds is not 100% the same as the one on Wordpress. This Blogger version don't have the search bar on top right corner of the page and the feed icon below the navigation tab area.


I thought of adding the search bar into this template. I copied the search bar code from Wordpress based blog using MistyLook. No luck, I have the search bar on, but I got no result when I search.

So, I added search widget to the sidebar.

From that, I made some tweaks to the search bar above, and it's now working like a charm. Just like the original Wordpress MistyLook theme with the search bar on top.

If you are using the MistyLook Blogger template, then look for this lines (navigation tabs) :
<div id='navigation'> <ul> <li class='current_page_item'><a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a></li> <li><a href='http://i-nicholas.blogspot.com/2007/05/little-about-me.html'>About Me</a></li> <li><a href='http://i-nicholas.blogspot.com/2007/06/make-money-online-with-inicholas.html'>Make Money</a></li> <li><a href='http://i-nicholas.blogspot.com/search/label/Link'>Links</a></li> <li><a href='http://www.contactify.com/851b2'>Contact</a></li>

Then add this lines of code after the next tab :

<li class='search'><form action='/search' id='searchThis' method='get' style='display:inline;'><input class='textbox' id='s' name='q' type='text' value=''/><input id='searchsubmit' type='submit' value='Search'/></form></li>

If you are not using MistyLook, you can try too.

For adding Search Widget on the sidebar, just click here and scroll down the page for Search Widget.

In conclusion, a blog should have a search bar so that reader can search through posts they wanted to find easily.

I was doing my revision for my coming school exam and I was feeling bored of it, so I decided to check out some templates site to see any new blogger template uploaded. Oh gosh, I found a very popular Wordpress based template, MisyLook at BlogCrowds. BlogCrowds is famous for porting Wordpress theme to a Blogger version and they just update their site with new look and more templates for download.


If you reads John Chow, then you know I am using the same templates as him, almost the same yet still Wordpress one have additional features. I haven't have time to edit my blog banner yet. I always hate to start Photoshop in my computer because it will causes my system to run very slow due to lag of ram. I need a stick of 1GB ram! Currently my computer have only 512MB of ram, and most of the time, my Mozilla Firefox suck most of the memory.


I think this will be a better template at the moment and I will stick with it. 2 column might be hard for me to categorize my sidebar, but I'll try to figure it out later. See ya!

Hello, I didn't do the weekly earning report with you guys this week. I had decided to make a detail report by the end of the month and it will be monthly basis from now onwards. Well, this is because that the earning is not much, and you can't really see the different of amount of money I earned, the number is small. Maybe with a month time, I can earn more, then every month, I will get different amount of earning. Being a new blogger making money online is hard, need to do a lot of research, reading and writings. Let's wait and see how much will I earn by the end of the month.

What free email service are you using? I am using Gmail.

I believe a lot people out there also uses Gmail. As for me, I think Gmail is the best free email service. Best of the best. I don't really set up Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook or any other email program to read my email. I just point my web browser to Gmail because it's fast and smooth. The UI is very simple, easy to use and navigate.

My first email was Hotmail, I don't like it though even though they just upgraded to Live Mail, it's not as smooth as Gmail. When composing mail with Hotmail, they place ads at the signature area. That sucks man although nobody would every bother it. I am still using Hotmail, as my Windows Live Messenger account, but I don't ask people email anything to me to that account.

Then I have tried Yahoo Mail, at least it's better than Hotmail. Quite fast too. Though, Yahoo also have a line of ads at the signature area like Hotmail. Not fun lah. Some more, Yahoo wants you to pay for a Pro account for larger attachment and pop access. Boo!

Gmail is the best. POP access for free, 20mb sending attachment, 2.8GB storage and counting, Gtalk build in, simple, easy to navigate around. =)

How about you?

In school, I don't really talk to my friend about making money online. If I tell them about it, they sure will tell me it's impossible unless you sell thing in eBay. They know eBay! Thanks Transformers, a lot of my classmate know about eBay now.

Last time, they don't even know about site that can sell or buy things, they only know you can BUY things on the net but don't know what site. Many of them still actually don't know how these very big, extremely big company like MSN, Yahoo!, Google make money online.

I was noob also, when my teacher ask about what is the most popular online store in the net, I said eBay. I was wrong, actually it is Amazon! Now I know what's a eBay is, eBay is a place that allow you to set up your own stalls, sell and buy stuff.

Well, besides writing paid post, delivering great contents, selling ads space in your site/blog, clicking on ads, you can sell things online and make some money.

What things can you sell online?
Those all junks in your bedroom lying under your bed which are still in good conditions, like toys, video games, decorative items, teddy bears, unwanted usable computer hardware. Since you don't use it, don't throw away, try selling online, maybe someone get attracted by your item.

Besides that, if you know a supplier of anything, try to get a little stock from him and sell them online. Nowadays, people do like this because they no need to open a shop to sell things. Just set up your little online store at ebay or Yahoo Auction, then start selling.

Where can you sell those?
Very popular eBay. You watch Transformers, then you'll know.
Yahoo! Auction. My brother uses it in Singapore. Too bad, Yahoo! Malaysia don't have it's own Yahoo! Auction.
For local Malaysian, most popular one is Lelong.com.my, better than eBay Malaysia.

Have I sold anything online?
Seriously, no. I really got nothing to sell. I love my video games collection, don't want to sell it out or give it away. I can't really find any junk in my bedroom. maybe if I do, I'll definitely will sell it. Who don't want to make money? =D

So, I just want to tell you that you can make money online by setting up your own online stores too!

Heard of Justin.TV before? I wrote about it before long long time ago, er, not very long. I am fan of Justin.tv, very cool.

Well, I have think about how to run your own Justin.tv in Malaysia. We don't have EVDO wireless broadband here, but we do have 3G. Edge too, but Edge might bit too slow. It will be best with HSPDA.

First of all, you must get yourself a portable laptop with high capacity battery. A very light one and feel comfortable when carry around and also a web camera with build in microphone.

Then, get yourself subscribe to 3G/HSPDA unlimited data plan, either via Maxis or Celcom. I myself would recommend Maxis because my area have HSPDA for speed as fast as 1.8mbps, but Celcom have more coverage over other states.

AFAIK, only a few states in Malaysia have HSPDA service, Penang and Kuala Lumpur. There are many states have 3G coverage already, like Kuching, Johor, Perak, Kedah, Penang and Kuala Lumpur.

Now, get a cell phone which last longer when 3G connection on OR best with a HSPDA adapter for your laptop. Why it's best using HSPDA adapter? Because most phones suck a lot of battery usage when 3G on, so like standby time can go until 3-5 days but with 3G on, I think is half to a day.

Last part, set up the Internet connection, wear your cam over your head or anywhere, start broadcasting at blogtv.com or request invitataion at Justin.tv then start your broadcasting. Pack everything into your bag and start moving =D.

NOTE : Not only Malaysian can do this, if you are from other country and have 3G connection or EVDO then you can have YOURS.TV broadcast on the net and show the world your interesting 24/7 life.

Well, you can make money with it as long as there are viewers that watching you. Sponsors will come and look for you very soon. Look at Justin, he is making money from his sponsors.

That's all and it's a simple guide for you to make your own Justin.TV, hope you will like it.

Hi all, I am quite busy this few days with school works which means that I would not be blogging so much. I just can't stop myself from blogging, it is so much fun, but my mom wanted me to concentrate on my study. Well, I will try my best to bring you tips on making money online and technology.

If you are a student in high school, you can join Young Enterprise program, if your school has it. Basically, you will learn how to run a company, be part of a company and gain knowledge and communicating skills when selling things to the customer. So, besides making money online like me as a student, you can also join clubs like this in school to make money TOO!

Here is a list of social bookmarking site where you can submit a site or a blog post to it and share with the world. Well, if you are hardworking enough, submit every of your post to all the site below and I am sure you will get lots of new reader.

I am not so hardworking, so I use OnlyWire. I don't know did all my post submitted, but I am pretty sure that it helps a bit on bringing new reader to my blog.

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Well, today is my birthday and I am truly 15 now. So which mean that I am eligible to sign up for Nuffnang. Previously, I am not allow to sign up for Nuffnang because I was underage. Now I isn't underage anymore. Hehe.



Well, Nuffnang is an online blog advertising company in Malaysia. A local Problogger here, 5xmom admire their service and she have been paid $$. I am still playing with it. Ads will not show when I inserted the code, but a real ads will only shown after 3 days after the ad campaign is completed.

You can track your blog traffic besides making money online. It's only simple site traffic tracking like how many unique user visits, and where they come from. I like this feature which Advertlets don't provide.

The make money thing starts 3 days later, so let's wait and see. Their minimum payout is at RM50 via check.

And lastly, Nuffnang is currently available for Malaysian and Singaporean.

Besides just making money, Nuffnang do sponsor bloggers get-together event in Malaysia. Read their blog for more.

So in short, if you are staying in Malayia or Singapore, and have a blog, and above the age of 15, sign up for Nuffnang now!

Oh my god! AdBux.org is actually a scam on making money online. I didn't do a research on it. adbuxtruth.blogspot.com have just made a new website call adbuxscam.com and write about it on the scam, go there to read the detail on Adbux's scam. I didn't bother it much as it's not making money online for me. However, I have see 1 friend of mine made $10 with Adbux. Even though if you can make money online with it, it will be very slow. So if you were reading my blog about Make Easy Money Online with AdBux, then I am wrong. Try other stuff, don't falls into the trap of Adbux. You can always make money online with Payperpost. =)

It's the time again. I skipped blogging a day, yesterday I was quite busy and went to the cinema. Well, another week has gone, and seriously, I want to tell you that my earning is not that good. I can hardly find paid review to write about and no earning on AdSense. Cool things is there's new source of my online income. Let's get straight into the point. As below, all I mention is in total value, I haven't touch any of the money yet. So little, I can't buy anything also.

Previous earning :
$16.80 from Smorty. (No opportunity for a few weeks already, I received opportunities via email, but when I signed in that time, it had been taken).
RM100.43 ($29.19) from Advertlets. (I wonder why it stop earning this few days. I am eligible for paycheck).
$6 from Payperpost. (Will be paid $40.26 soon, I have 0PR, so I can hardly get new opportunities).

Week 2 earnings :
$6 from Smorty.
$5 from Payperpost.
RM2 ($0.58) from Advertlets. =(
$8.13 from LinkWorth. (Haven't paid yet.)

What should be earning but not?
My Advertlets should be earning, 2 weeks ago, I get around $3-5 everyday without clicks but with high CPM, but then last week, I got like few cents a day after Advertlets fix their server even though I got almost the same amount of visitors a day but low CPM.

How about paid reviews?
Well, now I realise that a low PR or 0PR blog can hardly find opportunity to write in Payperpost. I manage to get 2 last week, when I signed in to Payperpost, I quickly take up the 2 opportunity. Until now, I still see 0 opportunity for me.

As for Smorty and Bloggerwave, I still see no opportunity for me for a LONG time already. I do receive email from Smorty about a campaign to write about, 2 days ago at 7.30pm, I was AFK for 10 minutes, then when I login to Smorty, I don't see the campaign. I think I need to install the email notifier for me so I can quickly grab that Smorty campaign.

Newly added.
Linkworth is my new source of my online income. So far, I have 1 advertiser bought a text link on my other blog (Nicholas Chan's Blog). Their payout is at $25 via check. If I successfully earn >$25 with LinkWorth then I'll use payment by check, if not, I will change to PayPal.

Traffic is not sastifying.
I need more traffic to my blog. Wish my blogs' pagerank will increase soon so I get to grab more paid review. Not much reader commented on my blog. I have removed "nofollow" in my blog, but it don't seems working, anybody can help me on that?

Make Money with Google AdSense
Have a site or blog? You can make money with Google AdSense. *ahem ahem* It's not my choice. I always login and see earning $0.00. Main reason is I don't have LOT of reader, I need more traffic. I believe in the FUTURE AdSense will make money for me. Sign up for AdSense.

NEW : JUST LEAVE YOUR CONTACT DETAILS AT THE COMMENT AREA AND I'LL SEND YOU THE INVITATION.

I have 5 Pownce Invitations to giveaway to my fellow readers. You need to do a short review which include at least a link to this post and my homepage on your blog. Then drop me a comment or send me an email with the contact me tab above. The first 5 person who submitted the post will get to join me in Pownce. So, it's a good one, I have seen people selling Pownce invitation in eBay, don't waste your money on it.

Please link me with the anchor text : make money online, Pownce invitation.
Here is an example of what you can write (you may copy and paste).

iNicholas is about technology, tips and tricks and helps you make money online. He is giving out free Pownce invitation to join him in Pownce. Why spending money on Pownce account at eBay when iNicholas is giving out free invitation? Check it out now.

Read my writeup on Pownce. Hope to see you guys soon in Pownce. Cheer!

If you don't feel like logging into you web-based email account every time you want to check mail at your desk, a notifier program can tell you at a glance if you've got new mail by alerting you straight from you desktop or taskbar.

Notifier come in many forms, from shareware to desktop widgets for both Windows and Mac OS X.

Two good options are Yahoo! Widgets offers a free Yahoo! Mail Check and Google has a free Gmail Notifier program. - New York Times Special Features.


I think that Widget is cool looking on desktop, just like the Mac OS X's dashboard. However, if your computer have little ram like me (512mb of ram only), then I don't recommend you to use widgets, my Firefox alone already used up 18xmb of ram. I don't like lagness. So, have at least a GB of ram in your computer.

As for now, I don't have a lot of email received, not a businessman or anything, so I don't need a email notifier, I can always check my email when I want to.

Widgets will be cool as you can access your main account straight from your desktop, have a to do list, calendar and more. =)

Hola, I realize that some friends out there already have a Payperpost account and so they can't get paid. If you don't have, you can be the first one to make $7.50 from Payperpost via iNicholas. So, I give a little benefits to them that can't make the $7.50, if you do a review about my blog, iNicholas, I will link you in the sidebar. So, your link are on the main page.

As for those who want to link exchange, you can contact me then I will then add you in the Link page. =)

And lastly, for those who review me for making money online purpose, or not, I'll write a post with your link on it.

First of all, I need to thanks Aidan for inviting me to join Pownce. I just wrote about Pownce recently. While, currently you can't sign up for Pownce yet as it is in beta. You need to get a invitation from a Pownce user like me =D or drop your email at the main page and wait for Pownce team to invite you.


I think Pownce is pretty cool. It's like MySpace/Facebook, I have my own Pownce page and I post all my short messages there. Besides that, I can also post links, upload file and events to share with my friends on my network at Pownce.

There is a Pro account which requires you to pay $20 for a year for these features :

• Send files up to 100 MB
• No advertisements

Well, I am not going to waste my money on that. I am ok with ads but sending files up to 100MB? I haven't try sending a file yet. =) Maybe someone want to sponsor me a Pro account, then I'll give it a try. Hehe


Like Twitters, there is a program for you to download into your computer. Mac OS and Windows supported. The program is quite nice looking. Before you install, you need to have Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) only you can install the little software on your computer for you to post message, links, events, and files. If you don't have AIR, you can download from their site.

However, Pownce doesn't have a widget for your website like Twitter. I believe maybe they will make one in the future.

Newly updated : Pownce is more likely like a social networking site like MySpace and Facebook with Twiiters. =D