Bargain Sniper for freebies and vouchers
Last night, after having my dinner, i was watching Australia Current Affair show at 6.30pm, and it grab my attention because its talking about Best Daily Deals website. Some of the website they featured there is not a new website for me, because i have bought from them before. Here is some online deals website which get featured last night : Zazz, Dealsdirect, and also Catch Of the day. I’m very impressed with how fast CathOf theday website is growing so far. Maybe it takes only 1.5 years for “catch of the day” to grow their business to the level they got now.
ACA also featuring the Best site for freebies and vouchers : Bargain sniper . I knew this site is just launch, and i think they are very lucky to get featured in current affair show. After i watched that show, i tried to access the Bargainsniper website, but here is what i got: “This site have been suspended by our web host due to high traffic tonight“. So if u guys reckon your site gonna get feature in australia current affair one day, get ready and make sure you got enough bandwidht, otherwise its gonna be useless.
By the way, here is the top Australia Online Deals website , based on recommendation from ACA:
Best daily deals
Daily deals
Best deals on electronics and appliances
Dick Smith Electronics
Best deals on big brand cosmetics
Strawberrynet
Best deals on the perfect gift
Red Balloon Days
Best site for freebies and vouchers
Bargain sniper
kutukutubuku oscommerce security bug
I was browsing around and then i found this ecommerce website from indonesia which is selling a book online ‘www.kutukutubuku.com’. As i know, its not too many ecommerce site in indonesia can survive because it looks like not too many indonesian is ready yet to purchase stuff online from internet. But lately, because the internet connection is getting faster in indonesia which indirectly increase the internet user, i notice that there are some new comers in this market. And one of them is this indonesia online book shop called http://www.kutukutubuku.com/. The collection is quite complete, and it looks like it is managed professionally. It’s good to see that ecommerce is starting to emerge in indonesia.
But the reason i’m writing this topic is because of security reason. For some reason , when i visit the site i was logged in as registered user with user id=’ulzana’. It’s surprise me because i never register with them and i didn’t try to hack their site either. Please notice that i didn’t change anything or do anything harmful to their site. The reason why i wrote about this is because i wanna know if the problem is from oscommerce bug or other reason . I notice that they are using the free oscommerce as the ecommerce script, so this might be a bug from oscommerce. Anybody know about this problem from oscommerce?
And for the owner of http://www.kutukutubuku.com/, you guys need to put more effort to secure your site, because for ecommerce website, this is very crucial to make customer confidence and wanna buy from your site.
Exetel ADSL2 Review
I am very excited right now, that’s because i got my adsl2 connection already from exetel. Finally, after around 10 days has been suffering because i have to use dial up for my internet connection, today i don’t have to deal with the slow speed of dial up connection anymore. Its time to say goodbye to dial up which is such a pain in my ass.
For the Adsl2 internet connection, It took about 2 weeks since i lodged my application.
| Exetel Submit Your Application To Supplier On This Date | 2007-10-30 |
| Supplier Confirms Receipt Of Your Application On This Date | 2007-10-30 |
| Estimated Date For Phone/ADSL2 Cut Over * | 2007-11-13 |
| Estimated Date For Line Activation * | 2007-11-13 |
| ADSL Activation Completed On This Date | 2007-11-13 |
You can see from above detail which i got from the exetel application status page, it took exactly 15 days.
Once i got the connection, i actually got a problem to connect it using my adsl old wireless modem ZyXEL P-660HW. Then i tried to update the firmware to the latest one. It looks like this firmware update fix the problem, and finally i can connect already. The first thing i do once i get connected is to test the speed. There are some website which provide the free tools to test the adsl speed such as zdnet and ozspeedtest. From Zdnet broadband speed test page, my speed is around 9000kbps, which is not too bad i reckon. And from ozspeedtest site, here is my result:
Mirror: Exetel
Data: 3 MB
Test Time: 3.02 secs
Your line speed is 8.12 Mbps (8122 kbps).
Your download speed is 1015 KB/s (0.99 MB/s).
For you guys who want to know more about how fast is the speed for each adsl connection type, here is the table quoted from ozspeedtest site:
| Connection Type | Typical kbps | Typical KB/s |
|---|---|---|
| 28K Dialup | 28.8 kbps | 3.6 KB/s |
| 56K Dialup | 56.6 kbps | 7 KB/s |
| 256/64 ADSL | 200/56 - 256/64 kbps | 25/7 - 32/8 KB/s |
| 512/128 ADSL | 400/108 - 512/128 kbps | 50/13 - 64/16 KB/s |
| 1500/256 ADSL | 1200/216 - 1500/256 kbps | 150/27 - 188/32 KB/s |
| 8000/384 ADSL | 1500/326 - 8000/384 kbps | 188/40 - 1000/48 KB/s |
| 12/1 ADSL2 | 1500/700 - 12000/1000 kbps | 188/88 - 1500/125 KB/s |
| 24/1 ADSL2+ | 1500/700 - 24000/1000 kbps | 188/88 - 3000/125 KB/s |
| 24/2.5 ADSL2+ Annex M | 1500/700 - 24000/2500 kbps | 188/88 - 3000/312 KB/s |
| Uncapped*/128 Cable | 2880/108 - 10000/128 kbps | 360/13 - 1250/16 KB/s |
| Uncapped*/256 Cable | 2880/216 - 10000/256 kbps | 360/27 - 1250/32 KB/s |
Other tool which i reckon is very useful as well is the tool to find out how far is your location from the adsl exchange from adsl to exchange website. Because by knowing how far you are from the adsl exchange , you can know how much speed you can expect. The closer you are, the faster speed you can expect.
How is your guys speed compared to my speed?
Exetel ADSL2+ Internet Connection
Finally i move in to my new place already in Hornsby. I actually planned to sign up with TPG for my internet connection as i wrote before on the other posting “TPG or Westnet”, but then i changed my mind. After comparing the price and bandwidth, i decided to sign up with exetel. I took the ADSL2 bundled With Telephone as well. Its actually almost the same price if i take the telstra (for my home phoneline)+ TPG (for the ADSL2+) but exetel offer cheaper price for the local phone call, where telstra plan cost me 30cents per call, whereas exetel only charge me 18cents. Its gonna takes around 2 weeks until i can get the ADSL2+ connection, so meanwhile i’m using prepaid hello dial up for my internet connection, which is a pain in my ass, very very slow. Hopefully exetel can finish the process faster and i don’t have to wait too long. From what i read in whirpool forum, exetel got pretty good feedback so far, and its one of the reason i sign up with them. If you are using exetel, please give me some feedback here.
Make money with Adsdaq
I just sign up with adsdaq.com, a new publisher program where you can set your own CPM price for your website. There is no cost to participate on this program. Publishers name their Asked Price and if ADSDAQ can meet that price you get paid 100% of your Asked Price. For you guys who don’t know what is CPM, here is the definition of CPM: CPM stands for cost per 1000 impressions.
The good thing about ads which paid by CPM is regardless of whether or not that ad is clicked by the end user you will still get paid, because you get paid based on per impression. This kind of advertising program is suitable for a websites which get a lot of impressions.
You can also setup backup tag code, which is will be used in case adsdaq can’t sell that ad space for you. this might be because you set up your CPM price too high. The admin section including the report section is pretty good in my opinion. But i cant really tell yet how is the ads perform in my website. I will post again once i got the statistics report.