Archive for June, 2008
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Federal law requires all companies/individuals to hire contractor (freelancers) on W9 unless they are foreigners (international residents, non-us citizens, non-immigrants) , for which W8 form has to be submitted. I see a lot of freelancers do away from big projects that require contractor’s US tax id to work (especially for w9 purpose). But one thing most of them do not know is the fact that they can hire foreigners on W8 bases. W8 works equally well as W9 for tax filing. W8 is designed for US residents to hire foreign resources working off shore.
Next time when you were asked to submit W9, request your client to process W8 instead. W8 entitles you to pay taxes in your home country.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Since Microsoft’s pull-off from the bid, Yahoo is acting evil. Increasing prices on services and trying to rip its customers. One of the ugliest move came from its Small Business Services. Yahoo is now charging $35/year for domain renewals. The worst thing is you wont even know about it.
Today I got an email from them notifying me of an upcoming renewal of one of my domains. I glanced through it and ignored the content for the first time . Then later I got another email for another domain, but this time I noticed the increased price of domain name renewals they have imposed. I strongly feel that $35/ year is too high for domain names and Yahoo must pull it back to $10.99 else they are to lose my kind of customers who owns 100s of domains and cant afford to pay $35/year for each.
I already started looking for options 1and1 sounds nice but need to research a little bit.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Current Version: 1.2 Beta
License: GPL
Description: This mambot will sync Joomla 1.5 and Pligg 9.9 login with ease.
Looking for JPligger for Joomla 1.0.x and Pligg 9.8? See here.
Tested on: Joomla 1.5.2; Pligg 9.9.0
Note : CB is not required for this plugin to work
Detail Description: This plugin will allow you to run Pligg inside Joomla using Wrapper. It will sync user registration, login and forgot password between Joomla, CB and Pligg.
Support: Community Driven and If I find time.
Ideal Installation:
- Use at your own risk! Backup first or use in test environment first.
- Install Joomla in root folder
- Install Pligg in /
- Note DB settings of Pligg
- Install JPligger Plugin in Joomla
- Visit its settings
- Provide details of Pligg DB
- Publish and Save
- Hide Registration through Pligg. Instructions here: hide-pligg-registration.txt
Optional Information: Pligg inside Joomla wrapper view instructions here.
Download JPligger 1.2 Plugin
This project was funded by Guillermo Moreno
Posted in Joomla, Pligg, Project, jpligger | 18 Comments »
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I have many friends that are into Freelancing and share the same experience. Many times freelancers have to do away with sleep and work 24 hours stretch, just like a resident in a Hospital. I came across a nice tool that will create a pie chart based on no. of hours you spent on daily routine. Have a look.
I have attached mine here.
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