Free International Call From A Moving Bus In Taipei

April 29, 2013 10:58 pmTerence Chang
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OBI Talk Free International CallIt’s good to come back to my home town, where I grew up and lived for 26 years. Many of the foreign travelers from US may wonder how to call their families or friends in the US. I am actually amazed by the Taipei Gov. Now I can actually dial my my friends in US from any one of the 800+ moving bus in Taipei. With the free Wi-Fi offered by Taipei city government, I can check email, making a free US domestic calls on a moving bus, at major city facilities, hospitals and subway.

I have never heard or seem any city bus in the USA offering free wi-fi. Obviously, Taipei is much more hi-tech than USA. At mean time, you can also enjoy FREE BIKE RIDE in Taipei!

I you are interested in traveling to Taipei and make long distance calls to people live in USA or Canada, you can actually make free calls. Here are the setup you need.

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Launching Startup Missile

January 21, 2013 7:56 amTerence Chang
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Startup Missile
I’ve been living in Arizona since 1996 and have never heard about the titan missile Museum in Tucson, AZ. So I am so glad that I had chance  to take a look at the only Titan nuclear missile museum in the entire USA. I was also able to sit on the commander’s chair that had chance to change the world.

It was a cold room with lots buttons that was built to destroy the enemy. I am so glad that the world has never changed in that way. Part of the trip was to become a board member of a newly announced private organization to collaborate between Taiwan government’s Technology & Science Department, Industry Park in Taiwan, the high tech companies and universities in Arizona. My duty will be facilitating the process to help bring high tech companies to invest in Taiwan and to bring talented people from Taiwan as exchange.

This got me exciting. The fastest way to get me ahead of the high tech startup game is to put myself into the game. I will have lots opportunities to meet with high tech company’s executives, university professors, Taiwan’s government officials and Arizona state government officials.

Titan Nuclear MissileIs the missile ready to launch? Not really. the real Titan nuclear missile is retired. It will never be used to destroy the enemy and the world. It was amazing to see this giant monster and weapon in front of my eyes.

What is also interesting me has nothing about the missile. It’s the risk and opportunity I am facing. I will have chance to smooth my own startup process by utilizing OPM (other people’s money) and OPT (other people’s time).

There are so much to learn in the business world, but I am going to give my 1000%. With many other mentors leading me, I know I can succeed faster too.

Never Say Never!

I hate politician, but I end up become part of the political equation. I won’t pick a side, but I will use the political power to accomplish my goal in the fastlane way. I now need to learn how to become a lobbyist in the technology world. There is lots money to be made and lots achievement to be accomplished. I will be able to learn some real world business skills such as negotiation, resource arrangement, risk  management and politician.

This is NOT a job. It’s giving before taking!

It’s too early to see my future with this organization, but I am doing it for all or nothing. I have nothing to lose. Really!

The reality is that those people get business done without social media. So it tells me that I will need to shut my mouth off in the virtual world and get down to the business.

With that being said, I need to restructure my own business model. You have to prove that your business worth much before using OPM and OPT.

I am ready to turn the key and push the red button! I hope you are ready too!

Add Google+ Follower Widget

December 11, 2012 7:27 amTerence Chang
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Do you use Google+? I am a big a fan of Google+ these days. I also use Google+ follower widget on Blogger blog. So here is how you can add the Google+ follower widget on to your WordPress blog widget area. Don’t forget to follow me on G+ and let me know you came from my blog. I would love to learn from you and help you on your journey as much as I can!

Copy and paste the following code and replace your Google+ profile ID.

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Passive Income With Weebly Niche Site

May 3, 2012 5:51 pmTerence Chang
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Not too long ago, I post my passive income side project using Free Website builder – Blogger and Weebly. Now I am back on this subject again. After few months testing, I find Weebly a very well created platform for generating more niche targeted passive income.

No wonder other Weebly competitors are going down (Yola, Webs), but Weebly still stands still.

[UPDATE] Read about the round 2 of building passive income niche site with Weebly.

Here is few reasons that I choose Weebly for niche project over blogger. I am not saying Blogger is bad, it is just better to use Weebly for non-Google AdSense type of website. In other words, on those Weebly built sites, there will be NO AdSense, which is 50-50% shared with Weebly. Ouch! The income will come from the value you put on the site with quality content and lead generation.

Here are the main reasons I use Weebly for niche project.

  1. Very easy to use – For web developer like me, I can easily setup a new site in less than 1 hours, get custom domain point to the site, register Google webmaster, Bing webmaster and get indexed in matter of just one day.
  2. Better Design and Template – Weebly gives a whole bunch clean designs and allows you to change image header and add text in it.
  3. Really clean code – Weebly generate a clean HTML code, which reduce the page load time.
  4. Multiple Media – Weebly gives pretty much all the multiple media integration you need. I can easily add a new Google map and video.
  5. SEO Friendly – Weebly gives you the power to create unique title, meta description for each page, but NOT each blog post.
  6. No Hacking – So far, I have not heard any one claiming their Weebly site being hacked. I, however, has so much trouble on my own WordPress website being hacked over and over again. I also have to take care of all the upgrade and plugin update. That’s time consuming. It cost my time (money) to do so.

If you are a paid customer of Weebly, you can host 10 custom sites on one account for only $71.80 for TWO FREAKING YEARS. That’s what I did. And here is how I did it.

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Affiliate Marketing – Catching The Big Fish

March 31, 2012 10:53 pmTerence Chang
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Finally, after all these years hard working and making no huge revenue as affiliate marketer, I’ve decided to slowly move away from being an affiliate marketer selling other people’s products. I am starting a new chapter. Now I am offering affiliate program to stay home moms, coupon bloggers, deal catcher and anyone who wants to make 50%+ residual income month after month.

I know there are a lot of challenge ahead of me, but I know I am one step closer to take control of my business model and spend less time on something I don’t do well. Here is the only catch. You have to be a US citizen in order to get paid. I am not ready to blast out the network to international affiliates, since it’s all about promoting local businesses in the US.

I am also getting tired of being dragged by small local businesses, which don’t dare to spend marketing money to improve their businesses. They are not the target customer. I am going after the big fish.

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Fix Windows7 Hosts File Access Denied Issue

March 13, 2012 2:04 pmTerence Chang
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Speed Coder

Image Source: Day 486 / 365 – Late Night High Level Coding Courtesy Of: JasonRogers

Well. It really took me a long time (days) to find out the solutions to clean up the hosts file on Windows. The solutions is actually fair easy. So I want to share this solution to people who had so much troubles fixing it. Almost every search result I found on the Internet are asking me to down extra software, which may or may not contain spyware or virus. So it actually make your problem worst.

The problem:

For some reasons, my computer was infected with either undetectable virus or spyware (tried MacFee, TrendMicro HouseCall and even Microsoft Security Essential without any luck) that lock up the entire etc folders and make the hosts file disappear even I login as administrator on my Windows7 PC.

The hosts file is located under C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc folder.

What hosts file does is to cache a copy of website / domain with their IP address. Hackers and spammer knows how to use this files to drive traffic to their advertiser sites.  Once every few hours, when I click on link on Google, Bing or even Facebook, the browser redirect the link to a third-party unknown advertisement site or porn site.  So I know my DNS records was hijacked.

So the only way to solve this problem is to find out what process are locking up the hosts file, and delete the file and clean the hosts file.

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99% Or 1% – Your Choice

October 26, 2011 10:38 pmTerence Chang
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That Way
Image Source: Lt. General Rochambeau

I know I will piss 99% of the people who read my blog post. That’s OK. My blog is for people like me, who wants to be the 1%.

Personally, American dream isn’t about being the 99%. It’s about being the 1%.

You can blame on richer people or politicians, but you can’t deny the fact. They’ve achieved what the 99% can’t not achieve. It’s the reality and it’s just like the food chain. You have to work your way up. The brutal world isn’t fair. You have to put your effort into your future.

Put yourself in the 1%’s shoes. You will see the world differently.

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Personal Branding With More Exposures

August 20, 2011 10:33 pmTerence Chang
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About Me Banner
What do you think about the above AboutMe banner? About.Me is a cool personal branding service that gives you a one landing page to show off your info and link to many services you already have. The services include YouTube. Flickr, WordPress.com, Facebook, Twitter and so many more. I’ve decided to just add my personal blog and photography blog, Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Although the service is free, it is still really buggy. I have to update my profile page many times in order to get it right. There seem to have some cache issues in their system. As you can see, you can simply link to many of your online profile, social networks and upload your own background image, which I’ve post on my HDR Cozumel Beach.

My purpose of using this service is to basically gain extra exposures. You know how important exposure is to the website. So this is definitely a great place to so. The catch is that you will have to spread the word out, otherwise, no one will know the page exist. You can find the page at About.me/Terence.Chang.

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