Arrg….guys I have a major problem. I have a email account which I have been using for years. However, the last few weeks, it kept going down, you know like cannot access to their POP, cannot send mails (SMTP), lost mails which appear a few weeks later and so on. Yes, it is a free email service provider, but come on. It has been happening on and off for a while now. Any problems should already be solved by now, right? And worse of all, since a lot of my contacts I used this email account and if I change, I will have lost many of them. And it’s going to be a hassle to notify all my contacts too.
My free email provider is MyRealBox. Once it was superb when it was owned by Novell. Now, after being sold to Messaging Architects (or something like that), it’s service went downhill. Messaging Architects my foot! It claims to provide anti-spam, anti-virus and tons of useful features but what the heck, I can’t even access my mails at times. I really hope it is not planning to do a paid service to get dumb people like me to sign up in order to get access to our emails. I guess what they say is right, don’t go for cheap stuff, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Lesson learned my friends.
Gaming time! Yes, let’s talk about computer and console games. If you are into gaming, you will find the next site I am going to introduce you very useful. GameFaqs is all about game codes, cheats, walkththroughs, hints and tips. You will a huge collection of hints and walkthoughs, from the very ancient games to the latest brand new games right here on this site. Console sets like PS2, PS3, Xbox, Wii, Gamecube and GBA are all represented here. Cool! A one in all gaming hints site. It even has my favourite Starcraft walkthough. Did you know that the game Starcraft is still being played regularly in Korea? Luckily, they are not like my friends and me, we are still playing Microprose’s Master Of Orion 2! In case you are too young to know what is Master Of Orion 2, it was released in 1996. Yes, just after Windows 95 came out. If you like more information of Master Of Orion 2, please take a look here.
But guys, remember games isn’t everything. There is beer, girls and my authority sites blog too. And sometimes, you may even need to pee as well. Just don’t do that in a bottle, go to the little boys room for god’s sake.
In digitalpoint forums, someone posted about Web Directories being garbage. While I cannot completely agree with him that this is so, there are a lot of directories which are in fact nothing more than link farms. Yes, those are garbage. I have seen “directories” with just thousands upon thousands of links, without much content. And they are basically useless to anyone.
However, there are a lot of directories which are not garbage. They are very useful, both in terms of getting rankings and traffic. And some directories can help your new site get indexed faster. But for me, I doubt that general web directories are ever good at driving traffic to their listings. Niche directories on the other hand, will be a good source of targetted traffic for their listings. Why? Search engines are rather bad at finding these kinds of sites, thus a human edited niche directory will be more of a value to searchers and visitors.
It would be interesting to note that since Google and their links started to play a huge part of our Internet, web directories have evolved from just listing sites on a topic or a subject to an powerful SEO tool. So, another point to directories. You may think that I am biased to directories because I own 2 directories myself, but in all seriousness, directories will remain an important part of the Internet till Search Engines come up with a foolproof way to find relevant results.
