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Alvin - who has written 338 posts on Alvin Poh’s Blog.

Alvin is a Singaporean who's interested in marketing, techy stuff and likes to just figure out how the two can work with each other. On top of his blog, you can also follow him on Twitter.

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How To Integrate Facebook With AWeber Sign-up Form

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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AWeber is a company that does a very good job of providing mailing list services, and is always innovating and coming up with new ways that you can improve your email marketing. One of their latest innovations is how they’ve created a way that allows any Facebook user to automatically sign up with your AWeber [...]

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How To Convert G2M3 Encoded WMV Video Files Into Standard WMV Video Files

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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The G2M3 codec is a codec that GoToMeeting uses. Not all computers, including Macs, can play videos encoded with the G2M3 codec. To convert videos encoded with the G2M3 codec into the normal WMV video codec so that any computer can play it, you need to download the Window Media Encoder and convert the video [...]

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How To Solve Windows 7 Activation Error 0x8007232B DNS Name does not exist

Sunday, December 4, 2011

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If you’re trying to activate Windows 7, and are faced with the following error: Error Code: 0x8007232B Description: DNS Name does not exist You can try this to solve the problem. Search for “cmd”, then right-click on “cmd.exe” and choose to “Run as adminstrator” (this is important!) Then type these: slmgr.vbs -ipk [Your Windows 7 [...]

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Best Casio G-Shock Sports Watches For Men

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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1. Casio Men’s DW5600E-1V G-Shock Classic Digital Watch This is a classic bulletproof G-Shock watch. If you want fancy features like a thermometer, barometric pressure graphs, multiple alarms, and world time, then you’d have to look elsewhere! If you want a watch that keeps accurate time, lasts forever, and can take a ridiculous amount of [...]

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Understanding Tyre Safety

Sunday, October 23, 2011

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Tyres (or tires, depending on where you’re from) are a vital part of the car, and are especially so since they are the only form of contact that your car has with the road. Regular checks on your tyres and performing regular maintenance should be the norm, but first you need to know that there [...]

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How To Search For ID Values In A Different Worksheet With Excel VBA

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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This Excel VBA function allows you to take a column of values (e.g. ID numbers) in one worksheet, and use that to get corresponding values that are in a second worksheet. If you understand SQL, it’s something like: SELECT b.country FROM idtable as a, countrytable as b WHERE a.id=b.id I’ll explain the scenario further with [...]

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Logitech K750 Review – Best Wireless Keyboard Review

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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I was using the Logitech K340 keyboard for around a year. Back then, the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 was not released yet. While the K340 keyboard was great at the start, after some time the keys would get stuck. E.g. I would be pressing down on the backspace key, and it would remain stuck, [...]

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