What’s the last time you set your resolution,  tell yourself something that you wish to do or to have, and work hard to get what you want for your life? As you can done almost anything online nowadays, you can set your resolution online and share it with millions of other net surfers.

People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).*

So how can we set our resolution online?

Short answer, 43 Things. 

43 Things is a website where you can create an account instantly and write down all your resolution and sharing it out with the community. you can also keep track on your goal achievement, write blog about your goals, put up related photos, as well as reading other’s goals and get inspired.

What’s good about 43 Things?

Different reasons for different person, but i think setting up your goal and your resolution at 43 Thing is cool because:

• It’s free and the best of all, its going to be free for a long time from now.
• Personally, i feel that sharing your goals with others help you to achieve it.
• Setting up a goal on 43 Things is even easier than setting up a blog. It’s nearly instant!
• Widen your eyesight about life and get inspired when reading other’s goal.
• It’s simply fun – reading others goals help me to kill off silly time online.
• You dont feel left out when you are working hard to achieve your goal. people with the same goal are known as a team in 43 Things – supportive huh?

Some popular goals

The list has no surprise, but i bet you want to know what most people want to do with their life. at the time of writing, 808,737 people in 11,142 cities are doing 838,368 things including, here are some of the popular goals:

• 17,903 wish to lose weight.
• 14,322 wish to stop procrastinating.
• 11,989 wish to fall in love.
• 9,421 wish to drink more water.
• 6,931 wish to save money.
• 4,071 wish to learn how to cook. 
• 2,528 wish to worry less.
• 5,983 wish to read more books.

Does any of the above match the goals in your list? now you know you are not the only one that wish to cut off that extra pounds, or to find true love, or to live your life better by stop worrying. yeah, people on earth are sharing more or less the same problem and setting up the almost the same goals…

… but NOT ALL. may i present you:

Not-the-same goals in 43 Things

To have super powers…

There are people who wish to be a superhero. Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Iceman….

To be REALLY crazy…

Speaking of weird, how about taking the shit on to your dinner table? with just a quick scans on the website, i found 31 people at the time of writing that wish to taste a shit… ewwwww~

To be meaningful…

And… believe it or not, there are indeed thousands that wish to decide what the hell they would like to do with the rest of their life. seeing the goal of shit-eating, i am not surprise that people sometimes are lost and want their direction back in life.

To be spontaneous…

For the adventureous, show up at the airport with a bag & a passport & take the first flight available seems inspiring…

To expose their body in front of someone…

Born naked, be naked. it might not be in your list but yes, they are people who wish to take a strip tease class, be a stripper of the day, show their nipples thru a shirt, and go topless at the beach.

(Guys, does that makes you feel like going to the beach>  )

Tips on goals setting and achieving your goals

While you might have your own way in setting your own goals and life resolutions, there are actually some general rules and ways in goal setting that help.

• Think big, but set achievable and realistic small goal that will bring you to the big destiny at the end of the day.
• Express your goal positively: Say ‘i want to achieve something’ instead of ‘i want to avoid something’.
• Write down your goals and remind yourself always on the goal – it can be a note in your wallet, a sentence at the notice board, a reminder in your outlook calender, or in 43 Things.
• Be precise. if you wish to be rich, tell yourself how rich you want to be. is it a 7 figures in your bank book makes you feel rich? or is the flashy sport car at your garage, or the luxurious swimming pool in the compound, or all of the above? tell yourself, specifically, how you want to have your goal to be.
• Visualise the day you achieve your goal. try to foresee what you’ll have on the day you made your goal come true – how does it feels? what will you see at the day? who will be there with you? try to imagine that you already had that and hard-print that feeling in your mind… this will keep motivating you to achieve the best you ever want.
• Be consistent! there’s nothing more important than being consistent if you really wish to achieve success. tell yourself, after setting a goal, you will get it done no matter how tough is the tasks or how much does it takes.

Now you’ve seen what other want to do with their life and you got some tips on goal setting, what’re you waiting for? Go save the world at 43 Things now!

So, you wanna be special and surprise her with your special way in marriage proposal huh? Frankly, the best marriage proposals are the ones that tug at your heart strings a bit. They don’t really have to be luxurious or money-burning. All they need is a true heart, and a little creativity.

With everything going online nowadays, perhaps you can make your marriage proposal online as well?

Here’s my suggestion: get all the photos of you two ready, make a simple entry webpage with those photos and some love messages, on the following page that comes after the entry, make a huge red text “WILL YOU MARRRY ME?”, send he the URL of the website and make sure that she looks at it, or if you two share the same PC, make the site as your homepage and lead her to view it. i bet she’ll burst into tears with the surprises. it’s simple, yet, it is very romantic, dont you think?

So, to the details: here’re what you’ll need to do (and the cost of doing it):

1. Register a domain name at here, price: $4.99 – $7.99 per annum.
2. Host it on a normal webserver. (you can get it here), price: $95/year, or $6.95/mo.
3. Make two simple webpages your self, price: $0.
4. In case you are a HTML dummy, get a college boy to do it, price: not more than $20.
5. In total, to the max, you will spend $7.99 + $95 + $20 = $123 for your marriage proposal.
6. Return of a good marriage: priceless!

Doesn’t the proposal plan sounds good?

Tips: If you dont ming of ugly banners at your webpages, free domain and hosting can get things done in the same way, in that case, you get everything free. but since marriage proposal is a once-in-a-life-time (or twice, maybe) thing, come on, dont be stingy… spend some money and make a good looking website for it will you!?~

*Freebies for you!*

OKAY, i am going to to do something special here.

For a limited time, i am going to design, and build your marriage proposal webpage, and host it up at http://www.howto101.net/ for one month, totally free! yes, i am going to make a special design on two new webpages, and host it up just for your marriage proposal, totally FREE! it’s a time limited offer and you need to contact me fast for the details. reach me at webmaster [a] howto101dotnet. Cool? now you better be fast to write that email to me. i am closing this deal in anytime.

Other special marriage proposal that i suggest

Marriage proposal for animal lovers

Does your her love animals? Puppy maybe? Get her a pair of puppies, clean and make up the puppy nicely (ribbon on the its neck is a must), tie your proposal ring along with your proposal message on the puppy, leave the puppy (in a box) at the front door and call her out for the surprise.

Well, of course the suggestion is okay with other cute animals as well (notice the word c-u-t-e, dont bring a cow, please) kitten, rabbit, or even a pony (wow) may work fine… its up to you and what’s your her preference.

Caution: if the puppy shit or piss inside the box, things might really turn ugly.

If she ever read snail mails…

Mail her a romantic poem from Shakespeare or Browning. Include a photo of yourself knees with the proposal ring, write with marker on the photo “Will you marry me?”. If possible, surprise her by getting into her place right after she read the mail with the proposal ring in hand.

Caution: Make sure your envelope is water-proved or not easy to tear so your message can arrive safe from the hand of postman.

 

When stranger comes with flower…

Every woman LOVES flower, so flower is the best way to cheer her up and get her to say yes. 

Get lots of roses ready on the day before you propose and bribe as many strangers as you can on the day you want to propose. Get every strangers walk to her and present her a rose while she is traveling to work. Wait at below of her office with your proposal ring ready. When she appears, you know what to do.

Caution: This proposal plan will work excellent especially if she goes to work by public transport or by walking.

The NOKIA way

Remember how the guy in NOKIA proposal ad sends out his marriage proposal? Make a few photo of signboard (with your modification of course) to form the money question: “Will you marry me?” and send into her cell phone. Now that’s a creative marriage proposal.

What you can do is to re-run the whole thing again with the same idea, take photos shots on signboard, and send MMC for example. what more, with today technologies, do it in a 3G way. spot all the letters you want on the street, give her a live phone-video streaming and show her all the letters and get immediate response from her… better?

Caution: Well, for this case you two must have a phone with camera (or more, 3G enables) …

If you got lots of cash to burn… go public!
In case you have excessive cash to burn, make the proposal BIG. You can buy full page ads on local newspaper that she reads every morning; or rent the signboard nearby her house; get a radio ads if she wake up on radio alarm every morning; or hey, you can even make a TV ads asking her to marry you!

Caution: Only if you are hell rich… if not, you will be more like an idiot that has no money sense to her.

Go with her family
Gather her family for a surprise party. When she step into the party with surprises, stun her once more by kneeing down and ask her to marry you in front of her family.

Caution: It is no doubt that such way of marriage proposal shows your respect to the girl’s family and it most probably will make her feel proud. However, not every girl prefers to have their romantic moments in front of their own family member.

The hidden track…
Record your proposal speech into the middle of a music CD or cassettes. Play the music while you are driving her back after a nice dinner. When she is still in the surprise of the hidden tracks, get your proposal ring ready, pull over the car and ask her to marry you.

Caution: Make sure you stop your car safely.

Wrapping things up

See! Making a marriage proposal is not that hard… all you need is some references and some creativity. After all, if you love her with your true heart, your proposal will be always be the best to her.

Does the bold headline alerts you the fact that you can get a blog for free? free blogs hosting is everywhere online and thanks to them, we can now do more things on the Internet easily. with a blog, you can host your photos, write your diary, throw out your random rants, write your travel journal, and share among your friends. sounds great? so let’s get our guide started here!

What is a blog?

A blog is actually more like a simplified version of website. Think about a “normal website” where there are homepage (the first page of a site) and the other subpages connected together with links (known as hyperlink). These pages serve information or certain web applications such as mail storage, online shopping, sending emails, perform data searching and so on.

Taking Yahoo! as example, when you go to http://www.yahoo.com/, you are at the homepage.

When you navigate around Yahoo!, say that you get into the Yahoo! Entertainment news via a link from Yahoo! homepage, you’ll get into a subpage, that looks somethings like this:

Entertainment pages in Yahoo! for example, are the pages that serve information. A giant website like Yahoo! can do a lot more than that in their website ofcourse. For instant, you can get email services on their website, instant Messenger downloads, as well as Yahoo! music

Now if we look at a blog, it is a simpler version of website. generally speaking, blogs dont offer as much features as a website normally does. what a blog normally has is a mainpage of recent content entries, along with subpages that meant for past entries archive.

Well, in most cases, i guess we can say that a blog has a main page and nothing else. On the main page, there is a set of entries. Each entry is a little text blurb that may contain embedded links out to other sites, news stories, etc. When the author adds a new entry, it goes at the top, pushing all the older entries down. This blog also has a right sidebar that contains additional permanent links to other sites and stories. The author might update the sidebar weekly or monthly.

An example of blog

What can a blog be?

As i mentioned earlier, a blog can be a personal diary, a daily pulpit, acollaborative space, a political soapbox, a breaking-news outlet, or even just a collection of links. its a place to have your own private creations and it  is whatever you want it to be.

Hosting your free blog

Currently there are lots of places offer free blogging software and free blog hosting. These offers are widely opened to the public and to register one, all you need is a unique user name (create one!) and a valid email address (get one free!).

Perhaps the best part of blogging is that the blogging software had made blog publishing work as easy as ABC. with a very user-friendly GUI, you can manage your blog styles (with built in blog template), links, blog posting, comment editing with minimal or no any web programming knowledge is needed. With blog nowadays, teachers can share their experience in scholl online, carpenter can share out his work on the Internet, and photographer often host their photo shotings online – all because of blogging is easy, and its free of charge.

If you are looking for a free blogging platform, here are some places where you can host your free blogs:

• http://www.blogger.com/
• http://www.wordpress.com/
• http://www.blog.com/
• http://www.blogeasy.com/
• http://www.hi5.com/
• http://www.friendster.com/
• http://www.xanga.com/

The procedeurs of setting up your blog at these platform are pretty similar, we will take blogger as our example here and here are the step-to-step instructions of…

Setting up your free blog at blogger.com

1. Go to http://www.blogger.com/, notice the arrow icon that states ‘Create your blog now’? click on it to get started.

2. Next, you will be required to key in your account basic information. emails (get one from gmail.com for blogger), password, screennames, the visual code verifications, and tick on the user agreements. Press next.

3. Here, you will need to input the basic information of your blog. what’s your favor blog title and blog address? note that your blog URL will be added into as a sub URL of blogspot.com… say that if you enter ‘howto101′ into the blog address, your exact blog address will be http://www.howto101.blogspot.com, got it?

In case you wish to have your own domain, you will need to register it and host it on a server. try Godaddy for domain registration and for hosting, i would suggest bluehost. there are a lot more good hosting services available…i recommend bluehost is just because it works fine with me and i like their customer supports a lot.

4. Choose your blog templates on the next screen after you clicked on continue

5. That’s all and you can start posting right away!

Here’s how it looks like from inside

Come on, its really easy and i am sure that even my 60 years old dad can do it! so can you! time to start your own blog, go go go~

In case you’re NOT looking for free blog hosting, then perhaps you need this: Web Hosting Secret Revealed – A website dedicated to test and to review various web hosting services. Click here to visit WebHostingSecretRevealed.com.

What’s free satellite TV program on PC?

As the rapid growth technology, satellite TV and PC are able to merge into one nowadays. With highspeed broadband internet connection and a special designed computer software, consumers can now view satellite TV program from all around the world on their PC monitors. unlike conventional satellite TV services, these satellite TV shows are free of monthly charges, all you need to pay is the one time set up fees on buying the program and you are done.

Taking Free Satellite PC programâ„¢ (one of the satellite TV on PC program) as example, here are roughly what you can get from your free satellite TV program on PC (with the reference of Free Satellite PC programâ„¢ official website):

• 1000+ satellite TV program channels from more than 84 countries worldwide including local channels, various sports channels (wow, live sport events!), premium movie channels (HBO!), and documentary channels.
• $97 one time setup fees and that’s all – no monthly fees, upgrade fees, nor equipment costs.
• User-friendly interface where you get TV channel description on each channels (waste no time!).
• Software is 100% legal to be used.
• If you are interested to try them out, you can click here for the software instant download.

No wonder more and more people are searching them online. Check out the screenshots i found online, here’s a sample view of Free Satellite PC programâ„¢.

Looks good? yeah, it sounds too good to be true.. moving on, lets see what’s not good about this piece of new technology.

The catch-22 of free satellite TV program for PC

However, before you got amaze and jump into the deal, i have to warn you that these satellite TV program doesnt suit everyone. and it definately cant compare with the traditional satellite TV services. Some disadvantages and questionable features i’m seeing on this software are:

• Picture and audio quality
  Is the picture quality acceptable? what is the picture pixel sizes? can it goes full screen with 1280 x 1024 resolution? Does it include HD features (guess not huh)? and how about the audio features, is it surround sound?
• Internet connection stability
  PC satellite TV depends highly on Internet connection stability – so definately not suitable for area with low speed or unstable Internet connection.
• Junkies in the channel list
  With any TV services that provide more than 1000 channels in one lum sum, you can expect at least half of them are craps! i once read about one of the satellite TV PC program users review where the users complain most of the channels listed are unfunctional. so dont be over-excited on the 1000s program channels features.
• Overpriced, maybe? And hey, a set up fees of $97 seems a bit too much to me (ok ok, perhaps i complain too much).

Closing things up

To be frank with you, i believe satellite TV program on PC is not for me. when enjoying TV entertainment, i prefer to sit my butt on my sofa, watching my 40″ with one hand pressing my remote randomly and the other feeding in popcorns to my stomatch. the mouse clicking, small pc-monitor viewing and sitting in front of my PC table simply doesnt mean leisure for me at all.
BUT, that’s me! it can be a good deal for you if you look at it the other way round…. its cheap, it gives extremely huge program selections, and hack, you can even surf net easily on TV ads break. IT CAN BE A GOOD DEAL, no doubt. So, to have or not to have, its up to you. i’m just showing some directions here.

For those who need more information on satellite PC, visit Free Satellite PC program; for consumer guide in satellite TV offers, we suggest Satellite TV Issue.

In Google own description, Google AdSense is a program that can give you advertising revenue from each page on your website—with a minimal investment in time and no additional resources. AdSense delivers relevant text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site and your site content. And when you add a Google search box to your site, AdSense delivers relevant text ads that are targeted to the Google search results pages generated by your visitors’ search request.

Simply said, Google Adsense is an advertising program that enable website owner to put ads on their website and earn commissions when the website visitors click on the ads served. This kind of ads program is normally known as CPC Ads as advertisers pay (or the publishers earn0 whenever their ads are clicked. If you are not sure about what’s Google Adsense by now, i’m sure the images below looks familiar to you, those are samples of Google Adsense (in image form).

Google Adsense are served in three major categories, showed above are commonly known as Ad Unit. The rest of the other two are Ad Link and Adsense for search. Instead showing up links and description in Ad Unit, Ad Link are just plain links that lead the visitors to a bunch of Ads in Google (and you earn money when your visitors click on those ads); Adsense for search enables your visitors to search content within your website, the search results are returned along with Google ads and when your visitors click on those ads, you earn the ads revenue. well, that’s the brief on Google Adsense – pretty simple and direct.

Since Google Adsense is launched year 2000, it changed how the Internet world radically – more and more people get online trying to make some profit via Adsense, MILLIONS of scrapper sites and MFA (made-for-adsense) site popped up, and suddenly, advertisement block with the label ‘Ads by Goooogle’ are seen everywhere online.

Speaking about polution, i bet Google Adsense is the mother source of most crap websites online nowadays.

So without any further delay… i present you my guide (break into several sections due to long legth article) on how to make a decent income with Gooooooogle Adsense:

• Getting started with Google Adsense
• Myths with Google Adsense
• Tips and tricks in Google Adsense

Make sure you finish them and start to make some decent money from Adsense!