Convert Malaysia Driving License to Singapore Driving License

To Convert Convert Malaysia Driving License to Singapore Driving License, you must obtain your Malaysia driving license before obtain any valid passes such as Singapore work permit, Employment Pass (EP), Long Term Visit Pass

Alternatively, you can sit for Singapore Driving License test at

Bukit Batok Driving Centre Ltd
815 Bukit Batok West Avenue 5
Singapore 659085
Tel : 65611233 Fax : 66656923
Internet : http://www.bbdc.com.sg

Comfort Driving Centre Pte Ltd
205 Ubi Avenue 4
Singapore 408805 Tel : 68418900 Fax : 68418913
Internet : http://www.comfortdrivingcentre.com.sg

Singapore Safety Driving Centre Ltd
3 Ang Mo Kio Street 62
Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park 3
Singapore 569139
Tel : 64826060 Fax : 64828808
Internet : http://www.ssdcl.com.sg

Adsense and Infolinks advertisement networks

Yes, you can use both Adsense and Infolinks advertisement networks on all your websites. I have been using Adsense and Infolinks to monetize all my websites for months now without any problem.  It’s proven 100% safe for you to use both Adsense and Infolinks to monetize your websites.

What is Google Adsense?

I’ll not explain further on what is Adsense in this article (check out my other posts on Adsense). Basically, Adsense is the most popular advertising network on this planet. I believe most of the advertisers and publishers are using this network.

What is Infolinks?

First you need to understand what Infolinks advertising network all about is. Actually Infolinks complements Adsense, and you will get small amount of money from it too. Infolinks is a leading provider of ‘In-Text advertising’ and the direct competitor to Kontera and Text Link Broker.

The benefits by having both

If you are thinking to maximize your online earning or to make quick ‘money’, then you should be having both the Google Adsense and Infolinks advertising networks up on all your websites. Bear on mind; both Adsense and Infolinks are serving different objectives and missions as described above.

Since both of them are the ‘perfect couple’, why shouldn’t you add an additional channel to boost up your earning? I can’t think of any reasons to resist the usage of both advertising networks on my websites.

Be aware, if you having both Adsense and Infolinks on your sites

Having both Google Adsense and Infolinks up on your page; may bring down Adsense click-through rate or CTR. This will significantly affect your Adsense earning, as some of the clicks are being diverted to Infolinks. Other than that, some of your readers or fans may be irritated; due to ‘too many advertisements’ being displayed on a page.

I will suggest you to limit the number of Infolinks ‘In Text’ advertisement per page. For an example, instead of having 10 in-text advertisements; you can bring the number down to 5 by having only relevant keywords.

Avoid credit report discrepancies with Credit Monitoring

Having a good credit monitoring is crucial, and before we talk about the advantages of to having a good credit monitoring. Let’s discuss the importance of having an outstanding credit report which associated with the credit monitoring.

Credit report is a document that displays all types of credit information use to determine your credit worthiness. Financial institution very often uses this report to check if you are good in paying your loans. With credit history, financial institution can determine the risks before your loan application is approved.

In some instances wherein there are some discrepancies that are being displayed on your credit report and that why the credit monitoring comes into place. It is necessary for you to check your credit report occasionally, as some times a false transaction or information is being included in your account. If no correction or dispute make on the report discrepancies, then this likely to affect your chance on getting loans or any financial assistance or request.

The second reason you need credit monitoring is to enable you to know if there someone who are using your name to apply for loan or anything similar. Having credit monitoring is a crucial step towards protecting yourself from identity theft over sensitive personal information. That why you need to protect and free yourself from being a victim, and with this report monitoring; you would be able to report any unusual activities on your account

Another is your credit history; you cannot leave it unmanaged as this is very importance too. You have to ensure anything shown on your credit report is true and valid. With the credit monitoring, you definitely have a clear vision and view on your account.

Many companies are offer credit monitoring services, and among other are credit reporting bureaus. Perform your own research on the company that has proven records on bring fast and reliable credit information, before hire a credit monitoring service. You also have to ensure that this company will report to you immediately if there any usual activities for your to file a dispute with authority before too late. In conclusion, credit monitoring gives you lot of benefits to you and others; and ensure everything that shown on your credit report are right.

Are Infolinks and Adsense compatible

Infolinks and Adsense are compatible

Infolink serves as link advertisement while Adsense serves as image and / or text links. This is good news for online advertisers to boost online revenue.

Alternative to Adsense

There just too many people got banned from Adsense program, and majority of these people may not commit to fraud case (example victim of clicks bomb by other visitor). Some of the people are just not able to got their Adsense application approved, because of the tighten policies or some unknown reasons.

I had the same problem before, as my application was not accepted despite trying for countless time. I decided to share my homework done by myself to source for alternative programs that similar to Adsense during the period here.

Here are the example sites like Adsense, that’s worth to try (I only list some that familiar with)

a) Infolinks

This is in text advertising, if you see in some blog and websites; whenever you point you mouse cursor to the underline text. A small box will pop up displaying the ads, you got rewarded if people click on it. Also, you can use Adsense with Infolinks to maximize your site income.

The rewards are slightly higher compared to the in text advertising companies around, not to mention the easy approval.

b) Adbrite

This is the second popular ad network after Adsense. Adbrite allows you to manage the ads to be displayed on your site. You need a Top Level Domain (TLD) in order to publish or participate, but you may check again with them to confirm.

c) Yahoo! Publisher Network

Similar to Adsense, and easier for US citizens when come to the application

The above 3 ads network worth to try for those having difficulty with Adsense, and always check the details before signing up!! 

Anyone publishing using the above please leaves your reviews/comments to help the rest

Your payments are currently on hold

Your payments are currently on hold. A huge error message in red color popped up on my Adsense main screen today (10 January 2011). The message sound ‘Your payments are currently on hold. Action is required to release payment’, I was panicked after reading the message.

Quickly, I clicked on the ‘more details’ button to find out more details on reasons behind the message.  Luckily nothing major after understood reasons and continued to Google for answer. I decided to share the information to new Adsense members.  Basically you will be receiving this message from Google for account validation as soon as your account earning hit US 10 dollars.

There are three sections for you to be completed, in order for Google to release your earning

a) To validate your payee name / address / phone (no phone validation for some countries).  You will be receiving a PIN from Google via email; the delivery basedo on people comments around 3 weeks. Once you validated the payee name / address / phone, insert the PIN number sent by Google Adsense team and hit ‘Enter’. Now you done 1 out of 3 steps

b) Setup the channel to receive your earning. Google will be sending your earning when the threshold hit US 100 dollars. You job here is to decide how to receive it via the following channel

    i) Check – Standard Delivery

   ii) Check – Secured Express Delivery (there will be charges of US 24 for processing fee)

  iii) Western Union

Above all the available channels, Western Union may be the best option for members outside of USA; whereas you can receive your payments the next day via Western Union offices/agents.

Standard check may take 3 weeks for delivery, not to mention the time for check clearing house. Therefore, Western Union the best!! (Please check the fees applicable on your own. No changes in my country)

c) Submit your Tax information

Adsense Domain

What is Adsense for Domain

Great news to webmaster to earn with Google Adsense for Domain, even with the undeveloped domains, Adsense for Domain will display the information such as advertisements, links or search results; instead of showing ‘page cannot be found’ for the parked domain.

Adsense for domain is available to all domain extensions, provided the owners are adheres to the Adsense rules and regulations.

Getting started

It’s easy to setup  the Adsense for Domain, by just following the steps below

a) Sign into your Adsense account

b) Click the My ads tab, then choose the Domains from the sidebar

c) Select New Hosted Domains

d) Add the Domains either by entering all the domains individually in the text box or by uploading the CSV file (maximum of 5000 domains for an upload)

f) Modify your domain registrar settings. Point the DNS to the following addresses.

    •ns1.googleghs.com

    •ns2.googleghs.com 

    •ns3.googleghs.com

    •ns4.googleghs.com

g) Customize the colors and channels

Now you are done, and usually the advertisements will be serves within 24 hours with subjected to Google Adsense review and approval. Happy Earning

Google Adsense Account Disabled

There are many people who have their Adsense account disabled and they are completely lost on what to do next. I have been on Adsense program for a year; encountered people complain about how their Adsense account being disabled. 

Frankly speaking, many of people have their account disabled or banned due to fraud. Google are extremely strict when it comes to fraud. For an example, many publishers click on their own advertisements to ‘steal’ money from the advertisers. In order to protect the advertisers, Google has to take drastic action to disable or banned you from the program; and return the money back to the affected advertisers.   

Anyways in this article, I would like to share with you some of the common mistakes and tips to prevent or minimize the risk of Google to disable or banned your Adsense account. 

a) Do not click advertisements on your own website. Google has a very powerful tracking tool to detect frauds, especially if you click on your own advertisements. Many newbie doesn’t aware of this until their account is being disabled due to this reason.

b) Always play safe. Report any abnormal activities to Adsense immediately. Example if you notice any of the below activities

- If you accidently click on your own advertisements

- If you notice suspicious clicks, that coming from a certain country or website

- If you notice a significant increase of traffic to your website

- Anything that not normal or suspicious 

c) Always read the Google Adsense Terms and Conditions (TOS). Most of the Adsense publishers never read the Adsense terms and conditions, so often people have their Adsense disabled due to non compliance. Also do not ignore warnings or questions from Google, always response to them at soonest either thru email or website.

d) Having multiple Google Adsense accounts. In the Google Adsense TOS, each person can only have one Adsense account. Surrender to Google, if you are having more than one Google Adsense accounts before they catch you. Google has a very power tool to detect multiple accounts that belonging to same person.  

Tips to protect your Credit Cards

In the modern society today, almost everyone is holding at least a credit card for the convenient of purchase and probably security reasons. Usage of Credit card is still growing, along with the advances of technology and innovation, that’s enable the cashless transaction almost everywhere from parking to shopping.

However, in line with the wider acceptance of credit card and increase in number of credit cards issued; security and fraud has becoming a major issue. Banks worldwide are working with the security experts on how to prevent frauds constantly. Yes, they should think of an effective ways to prevent fraud. We as the credit card holder, also plays a crucial role to ensure the safety of ours credit cards.

There are many guides and tips readily available online for you, but still not good as these tips are too ‘lengthy’ and complicated to most of us. I have basically summarized the points, and believe that just follows these 5 tips to protect your credit card; should be good enough to secure your credit card. The 5 credit card security tips as below

a) Always ensure the credit card returned after the transaction is yours and not someone else’s. Do a simple check particularly on the name on the cards.

b) Do not leave your credit card unattended (example in the car or office), if you are not using the credit card; keep your card in a safe place such as safety box at home. Remember; always ensure your credit card is in your possession. There are local escorts accept Credit Cards for their services with such as Visa and Master Card, even AMEX to lure more customers. They may keep your card which is not safe. 

c) Always destroy your old credit card by cutting across the magnetic strip and across the chip on the card. Do this whenever you receive a replacement/renewal of new credit cards, or even for the cancellation of credit card.

d) Always remember and destroy your Personal Identification Number (PIN) when you receive a new PIN to prevent unauthorized withdraw or usage.

d) Always report to your bank immediately, when your credit card is stolen / lost or even when the PIN envelope is compromised.

List of Universities in Nusajaya (Iskandar Malaysia)

List of Universities in Nusajaya (Iskandar Malaysia)

Raffles University Iskandar
International Student Village
Netherlands Maritime Institute of Technology
University of Southampton Malaysia Campus
University of Reading Malaysia
Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia
Primary Trust School
Public Secondary Trust School
Marlborough College Iskandar Malaysia