Over at TheHardwareReviews.com, we started a page where the readers can submit their hardware related problems and get it solved.

No matter whether you are looking for suggestion on which laptop to buy or on how to fix your Monitor or on anything else, just ask us and we will gladly help.

All you have to do is to submit them via this page and we will answer them in a post soon. Also make sure to subscribe via RSS or Email to get notified when we answer them. Don’t be shy, ask us now!

This blog was down for two days or more and DreamHost never bothered to reply or fix it. JohnTP.com was hosted on my friend Deep’s DreamHost account and it was blocked as my blog took a lot of resources.

Deep’s account hosted many other sites too and all were down because of this and another blog. I was on a visit to my Grandparents house at the time and never knew that my site was down until I visited it on my uncle’s PC. But I thought it was a temporary thing.

Later while traveling back home, Deep called to let me know about the mess created by DreamHost and that he has been contacting them for a long time with no luck.

After many hours, Dreamhost replied back and unblocked all sites except for this blog. I then created my own DreamHost account so that I can use VPS. Many more hours later of contacting DreamHost they moved my domain to the new account, but forgot to move the files and database!

Continue reading ‘DreamHost’s Support Sucks’

A week back I had held this blog’s first contest to reward 5 readers on Christmas by giving them free ad spots on this blog. The contest was over yesterday and today I have randomly selected the winners. They are:

1. 125×125 ad spots: Adam McKerlie and Lisa Sabin-Wilson
2. 468×60 ad just below the post: Jeremy
3. Ads in the JohnTP.com RSS feed: Keith Dsouza and Dan

Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for participating in the contest. Adam, Lisa and Jeremy can start advertising their sites as soon as they send me their banners. I will include Keith’s and Dan’s links in the RSS feed soon.

Continue reading ‘Winners of the Christmas Contest’

I have been working on this blog for many weeks and it finally looks ready to be mentioned here. As the domain name suggests, TheHardwareReviews.com will cover reviews of different hardware like Cell Phones, Digital Cameras, Laptops and MP3 Players.

The reviews aren’t written by me, but by different writers having good knowledge in hardware who will be updating the blog daily.

Continue reading ‘Introducing My New Blog: TheHardwareReviews.com’

I have never held any competition on this blog, so here’s my first ever contest to reward 5 lucky readers on Christmas.

The Prizes

1. Two 125×125 ad spots

2. One 468×60 ad just below the post

3. Two ads in the JohnTP.com RSS feed

How to win a prize

All you have to do is subscribe to this blog via email and then leave a comment on this post using the email address you subscribed with and the web site you want to advertise here. That’s it!

If you have already subscribed to this blog via email, just let me know by leaving a comment on this post. Don’t forget to mention the email address you subscribed with and the web site you want to advertise.

Continue reading ‘Christmas Gifts - Win FREE Ad Spots On JohnTP.com For A Month’

These are my favorite posts of last month:

• WordPress Plugin: Feed Count - Feed Count is a WordPress Plugin that displays the number of subscribers to your feedburner feed in plain text. The plugin allows you to customize the feed count with CSS and I am sure those who don’t like the FeedBurner chicklet will like this plugin.
• Get New Readers For Your Blog By Guest Blogging - Have you fed your new blog with many quality posts and yet find that your blog is not read by others? Content is surely king but it isn’t enough to increase your blog subscribers. People need to know that your blog exists and for that you need to promote your blog. There are many ways to promote your blog but one of the best way is to guest blog on popular blogs in your niche.
• Write A To-Post List For Your Blog - Have you ever been in a situation where you have an idea for a post but then later you don’t remember it when you want to write the post? To prevent this from happening again, create a text file named ‘topost.txt’ on your desktop and whenever you get an idea for a post open the text file and write down a rough title for the post and describe the content of the post in a few words.
• Increase Your Blog’s Subscribers By Offering Email Subscription - As there are still many people who do not know what RSS is, offering an Email Subscription form on your blog is a good way to get those people to subscribe. For those who have not done it yet, this post tells you how to do it.
• Give All Your Advertisers Even Exposure - Got Banners is a WordPress Plugin that lets you randomize banners like you see on TechCrunch and John Chow’s blog. Unlike other banner rotators, Got Banners displays all the banners provided simultaneously. But, in a different random order each time.
• Use Images To Get Your Best Posts Noticed By Your Visitors - Many of us link to our blog’s most popular posts in the sidebar or in a separate page to show visitors that our blog is worth reading. But how many visitors do you think will notice these text links on your sidebar? The best way to draw your visitors attention to your best posts is to replace the text links with images.
• Another Way To Draw Attention To Your Best Posts - If you have too many posts that you want your new visitors to check out, either create many images and rotate them or list out the text links in an organized way like you see on Problogger and FreelanceSwitch.
• 12 Reasons Why I Like Windows Live Writer - Using a desktop blog editor saves you a lot of time and makes blogging easier. There are many desktop blog editors available like Windows Live Writer (WLW), Ecto and Qumana. Being a Windows lover, I use Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer. This post lists the reasons why I like it.
• 16 Things To Do After Starting A New WordPress Blog -  If you just started a new WordPress blog, here’s a list of things you must do.

I started this blog writing about all the things that I am interested in, but later decided to focus on just blogging, making money online and WordPress on this blog and to move other tech stuff on to other blogs. I used to write for a Tech blog and also had started a Tech blog of my own some time back, but then left it.

I currently have two more blogs other than this one which I never wrote about here as they aren’t ready.

I am now looking for good writers to help me with these two blogs, I will be paying per review. If anyone is interested and has expertise in either Hardware or Software, send me an email using the contact form and I will reply back as soon as possible.

Readers who just want to check out my other blogs, I will let you know once they are ready.

Continue reading ‘I Am Looking For Hardware and Software Reviewers’

This post is to reward regular commenters of this blog by linking good posts from their blogs and sending them some traffic. If you would like to get rewarded too, all you have to do is start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

• How To Group Chat in Google Talk - Madhur Kapoor
• FriendFeed - One feed to keep track of all your friend’s activities - Shankar Ganesh
• Tips for instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger - indyank
• How to Achieve Blogging Immortality - David Bradley
• 7 Free Anti Spyware Softwares - Nirmal
• TNX.net: Innovative Way Of Trading Text Links - Simonne
• How to Scan your RAM with Windows Vista Memory Diagnostic Tool - Shivaranjan
• Yahoo Messenger Tips and Tricks - Keith Dsouza
• How to Read all your Emails from Gmail - Vijay
• 12 habits of successful bloggers I found interesting - Mani

This post is to reward regular commenters of this blog by linking good posts from their blogs and sending them some traffic. If you would like to get rewarded too, all you have to do is join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts -

• Top Ten Firefox Addons to Annoy Advertisers - David Bradley
• Ultimate Guide to time saving for Bloggers - Shankar Ganesh
• How to get your Paypal account verified without a Credit Card -Nuts & Milk
• Lock Folders without using any Software - Madhur Kapoor
• 5 Ways to Attract More Comments - Blogging Experiment
• How I Improved my AdSense CTR by 51% by using AuctionAds - Ashwin
• 7 Blogging Tips for Beginners - Nirmal T V
• Tips and Tricks to Get More out of Your Laptop Battery - Shivaranjan
• WordPress Plugin: Better Comments Manager - Keith Dsouza

Daniel from Daily Blog Tips has been running an interesting series called Bloggers Face-off since quite a while now. And in this Face-off, its me vs Everton Blair from Connected Internet.

The Bloggers face-Off also has a poll to let the readers declare the winner, so please do vote for me