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The effective Blogger what it means to Blog (My Tips)

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Percy Kwong

What does it mean to be an effective blogger?  It means you have a great quality blog and are very good at generating a following.  While I can speak of Blogging, I speak of it from the point of view how I do things and what Blogging means to me.  Here are my tips on…

Encoding Video Files for Free While Leveraging the Newest Tech including GPUs.

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I encode plenty of files.   The files include family photos to files for work presentations and of course, web work.  Leveraging a GPU  (Graphics Card) can significantly decrease decode time. The only problem is that all of the GPU assisted applications cost money!  or do they? Well.. I use two applications exclusively. One is free,…

Using Amazon’s free tier to get your own FREE personal vpn server and connection.

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve written about personal vpn servers and the great things round strongvpn and other vpn providers to get around the ISP throttling problem of Netflix.  I always figured there was a better way to do it. Well, after a bit of thought, I realized that one could easily use Amazon’s free tier (a micro-instance) for…

So I opened a Firewall Appliance Store.. (Shameless Plug)

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve opened up a new webstore called cheappfsensefirewalls.com If you need some one on one Training with PFsense, I can supply it:  $75.00  [wp_eStore_buy_now:product_id:7:end] The concept is to sell pfsense firewall appliances. Let me know what you think.  Also, for any purchase from the store, I will donate $5.00 towards to the pfsense developers.  So…

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