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GiT Guide & Basic Commands for Git Beginners

August 4, 2013 by Mohsin Rasool

I love to learn new concepts of programming and GiT has really inspiring stuff, so I learnt Git few months ago, and then i forgot. And today I wanted to do a little GiT stuff and I was unable to get it going… So I refreshed my memory of GiT commands and did my test repo at GitHub. For future reference I am going to list that git hacked list  below 🙂

GiT Setup: ========

git config –global user.name “Your Name Here”
git config –global user.email “your_email@example.com”

Make local dir and move to that
=========(not git command)
mkdir ~/Hello-World
#Creates a directory for your project called “Hello-World” in your user directory

cd ~/Hello-World
#go to that folder

Make repo
============
#create file from ccommand line with TOUCH
touch README.md

#initiate git first time in local dir for git to work
git init

#add files for committing
git add README.md

#commit message
git commit -m “first commit”

#add remote origin for repo
git remote add origin https://github.com/Ravian/dd.git

#push changes to remote master
git push -u origin master

Workflow
=======
given you are in the local repo dir
you have added remote origin repo
then workflow is like:

git status
git add filename
git commit -m “commit message”
git push -u origin master

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Git, github

Added Good Looking Pricing Table to MagicBox Website

January 7, 2013 by Mohsin Rasool

Hi,

I have added new pricing table for our newly launched WordPress plugin called Conversion MagicBox Plugin. Three types of pricing is offered as per your needs. Checkout here www.MagicBoxPlugin.com
Please let me know if you have any questions, or tips to improve the site or plugin.
Thanks,
Mohsin
Ps. Do not forgot to watch the video on that site, LOL can you catch the exact moment where my English died, and I had to take long awkward pause…:) (yeah creating own videos for business are hard compared to personal fun videos. But glad that I was able to do this one.)

Filed Under: Internet Business, Productivity, Technology Tagged With: magicbox, pricing, Video, Wordpress plugin

Thank You WordPress

January 4, 2013 by Mohsin Rasool

I use WordPress daily in my own business as well as most of the time our clients also choose WordPress and ask us to build their website based on WordPress.

I cannot thank enough to WordPress and whole WordPress team to make this great product open source and free.

I learn something new daily about this great project of its own kind on the internet.

Just today I installed Android App by WordPress and really loving it, this makes posting to my blog so easy.

Also today I was sharing with my team that MEDIA section in WordPress 3.5 is so lovely. Oh also those new Publish and Update buttons also so cool in WP 3.5.

Thank you WordPress, thank you very much. Wishing you all best year 2013.

Regards,
Mohsin

Filed Under: Internet Business, Productivity, Technology Tagged With: android, app, gratitude, Wordpress, WP 3.5

2Checkout Coupon Promo Code Get Free 2Co Account

March 8, 2012 by Mohsin Rasool

2Checkout.com (2CO) is a worldwide leader in payments and e-commerce services. 2CO powers online sellers with a global platform of payment methods and a world-class fraud prevention service on secure and reliable PCI-compliant payment pages.

2Checkout’s payments platform bundles a gateway and merchant account into one single offering with no need to contract with a merchant bank or manage separate agreements.  You can accept Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, PayPal, Diner’s Club, JCB and Debit cards (in the U.S.) from one solution through 2Checkout’s fully secure hosted payment pages.  In addition, 2CO provides industry leading recurring billing services, call center support, full SSL certification, and the system is translatable in 15 languages and 26 international currencies for buyers and sellers in over 200 countries. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet Business, Own Business, Technology

Top Ubuntu Free Softwares We Use Everyday in Our Internet Business

October 22, 2010 by Mohsin Rasool

Here is a quick list of little software, goodies and apps I use daily and love them:

1. Tasque – A Task Manager – Compatible to Remember the Milk Service. Light Weight, and very easy to add new tasks using Keyboard.. No need to ever use a Mouse to click.

2. GColor2 – Desktop Color Picker – Lightweight utility to get HTML and RGB color from anywhere on your screen. Great from Web Designers to get color ideas.

3. Take ScreenShot – Ubuntu Built-in Utility to take screenshot of whole window, or selected area. I use it almost every day to take shots and send to clients to make my point. You can find it in under Applications > Accessories > Take Screenshot

4. Artha – An Offline English Dictionary & Thesaurus – Wow I love this little friend, it has what every conventional dictionary tool misses i.e. If you enter wrong spelling, just like Google, it will give you options saying: Did You Mean…and give you options to choose from.

5. Blobby Volly Game – A cute little game to kill time when you need to. I really love this little fascinating game. Best when played by two players.

6. CheckGMail – A little app like Gmail Notifier, keeps you updated about your Gmail emails, good for quick overview of what is coming in there. Just search in “Application Software Center” in Ubunut for CheckGMAIL and click Install. Set it to be loaded on Start-up to run every moment to monitor your inbox.

7. VLC Media Player– My all time favorite one and only one Media player for all media needs. If you stick to this player for a week. You are going to love it for life.

Other applications include FireFox the great, Skype, Chrome, Open Office, GIMP and FileZilla.

Best Regards,

Mohsin

Filed Under: Internet Business, Productivity, Technology

Fire the Complex, Go for Simple

February 26, 2010 by Mohsin Rasool

It is very bad to be an entrepreneur and also try to prove the world how genius I am by presenting complex solutions!

Man it has happened to me and  often i find myself in this trap. I see a simple problem in the market, and when I try to solve this, wow I have got the simple solution…but my damn genius mind will not accept that so simple solution.

My genius mind wants me to bring something which makes people wonder, which is so complex and difficult that no one in the world can do that.

That is great if I am going to run for Nobel prize..but for simple business I observe that simple solutions always win, Simple is HOT! Simple and Easy is what is called Miracle!

I tried to come with a graph, a grid to help focus our energies, for me and my team and i came up with four cases as shown in the following image:

simple-vs-complex

Now you see there are four different cases for problem and solutions with respect to simplicity and complexity:

1. Simple – Simple Scenario:

Simple Problem and Simple Solution. Wow I think it is where the money is. When i observe my big money makers so far, it is always the case..but problem is we kill the idea as simple-simple case scenario fool us and says who is gonna buy this, people will laugh that how simple it is, and i will look like a stupid guy with so simple solution/product. Lol our genius mind always wanted to add some extra crap/steps to add the complexity to the solution to show how genius we were to discover this combination.

2. Complex – Simple Scenario:

Complex Problem and Simple Solution. Awesome, one thing to focus on long term, this is where you earn respect and fortune both in one basket. Long term but good to have in the mission statement. I think it is not where cash flow is, if you need money to run the following three months, better you focus on CASE:1 Simple-Simple!

When you have money to fund your time and energies come to this quadrant and amaze the world, bring something which brings WOW, FUN and Happiness to the world. Yeah you push the button and problem is gone because solution is so simple.

3. Simple – Complex Scenario:

Simple Problem and Complex Solution. Wow this is what genius minds always come up with. A pure genius mind trap. How irrational i sometime become, that I often find myself in this scenario, there is simple problem, and damned i have got a genius solution which takes 20 days training , 12 hours to operate and 27 steps to follow to kill that little bug 🙂

Forget this, fire this, whenever technology changes, i find many people who do not want to learn new technology fall in this trap, they do not want to show the people new simple solution but wanted to tie up them into their big-dinosaur solution. Sure way to go out of business in coming years.

4. Complex-Complex Scenario:

Complex Problem and Complex Solution Well that is interesting case. Many time I have thought this a good option to consider, but then one thing dawned on me , that come on, we can take this case to case 2, if we spend more energy and bring more creativity to the table, we can take this complex problem to Case:2 where we have SIMPLE solution to this complex problem instead of complex one.

Again I have crossed this one too from my goals list. I think for a short life like us humans we have much to do on first two cases / quadrants. Specially for the entrepreneurs as I said in the start of this post, let’s stop fooling ourselves and forget about complex products and solutions.

Let’s bring more simplicity to our customers’ lives and I am sure they are going to give us more money to bring more simplicity. Let’s declare to ourselves that we do not have to prove anything to anyone that how genius we are!

We just want to add value to our customers’ lives by solving their simple and complex problems and bringing SIMPLE solutions to them. This is the only thing which will justify our title of Entrepreneurship. What you say my friend? Let me know your thoughts in the following section of comments.

Best Regards,

Mohsin Rasool

Filed Under: Featured, Internet Business, Own Business, Productivity, Self Development, Technology Tagged With: complex, Entrepreneurship, Featured, focus, problem, simple, Simplicity, solution, Vision

Facebook Profile Nice & Clean Personal URL

January 29, 2010 by Mohsin Rasool

Facebook allowed on June,2009 to change the profile url from default format, difficult to remember url to easy to remember personalized profile addresses.

There are still new facebook users who have not changed their url and claimed their personalized profile url (vanity url).

When you start your facebook account your profile address would be something like this:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=109XXXXXXXX

You can get it personalized and get something personalize like mine new url is:

http://www.facebook.com/MohsinRasoolDotCom

i.e. You get facebook+username (you pick the username)

http://www.facebook.com/YourChosenName

This will help your friends remember the address of your facebook page(profile), and also it will help you rank your facebook profile account high in Google and other Search engines for your name and chosen keywords.

How to pick your personalized profile address:

Very simple, simply follow this url: and rest is easy to follow!

http://www.facebook.com/username

Have Digital Life at Facebook!

Mohsin Rasool

Filed Under: Internet Business, Technology Tagged With: Facebook, personalized url, Social, Social Media, Social Networking, vanity url

Seven Best Free Tools I Use Everyday in my Business

December 22, 2009 by Mohsin Rasool

Here is list of seven (07) best tools which are free to use and I cannot run business without these tools which I use everyday:

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1- Firefox Browser 

I know you may already use it, this is great browser made for Internet Marketers. I put this on #1 for its great plugins. Most of the Time I use Following Plugins: 

  • SearchStatus SEO Plugin– Great plugin for SEO guys. Shows all stats you need about any website you are browsing right now.
  • DownloaderVideo – Using this you can download your favorite videos to your computer.
  • ScrapBook – Save any website page to your computer for offline use, with everything intact.
  • FireBug – Great plugin for website developers. It is just the awesome plugin.

2- VLC Media Playervlc-free-player

Play every format of MP3, MP4, DVD format. VLC Player can play any audio, video, or DVD without asking for another CODEC to install.

This media player is Lightweight, Fast and Great when it comes to play any media on your computer. I just hate it is Cap like ICON 😉

3- Free Download Manager – FDM 

Sometime we have many files to download to our computer. Thing is it is hard to manage and download all small files one by one. It is just boring and time consuming. So I use this tool. You can put every file to be downloaded in it and it simply keep downloading every file one by one.

I suggest you download LITE version as it is light-weight and faster and does the job.

4- CC Cleaner – SpeedUp Your PC cc-cleaner

This is little tool i install at every computer I use, it does help me tune-up the PC, Windows, Vista garbage. I suggest you get this tool and cleanup your computer and see the difference in speed.

It also help you manage which program run on start-up so your computer loads fast.

5- Foxit Reader – Lightweight PDF Reader 

I have used Adobe PDF Reader for years but just few months ago I came across this PDF Readers and I love it. This lightweight and very fast when it comes to open new PDF files and read them.

I simply love it. And suggest you get it to save your time when it comes to handle and view PDF Files.

6- OpenOffice – Create Free PDF open-office

This is simply the free alternative to Microsoft Office. But best thing I like about it is that you can simply create PDF files from Word Docs.

You just click on FILE MENU, and click SAVE AS PDF..and You have your document in PDF format.

7- Live Writer – Free from Microsoft

I am using this right now to write this post. This is one of the ONLY best FREE product from Microsoft. You set your wordpress blogs account in it and you never have to login again to your wordpress blog.

This is just the ONLY best desktop blogging tool this time and I love it. It has many great features, and also easy to use as the interface is just like any other MS product, so if you have ever used MS Office, you will find it easy to use.

Hope you find at least one program in this list which you like and use!

Best Regards,

Mohsin Rasool

Filed Under: Internet Business, Productivity, Technology Tagged With: Blogging, Business Tools, Free, Free Softwares, Free Tools

Google Wave – Best Tips & Tricks for Users

December 2, 2009 by Mohsin Rasool

Hey Guys,

It is good to share that at last Google as sent me invitation for Google Wave and I can login and be the part of Google Wave!

If you are already using Google Wave, please share your best tips and tricks for a new user of Google Wave.

I would be sharing the exciting stuff which i found interesting about Google Wave after some time. Time to surf in Google Waves!

For now I have found these great blog posts full of best tips from great bloggers:

  1. Cheat Sheet: Hints and Tips For Google Wave – A good compilation of tips by David. You would learn the new terminologies used in Google wave and some other good tips, good for new users.
  2. Ultimate List of Google Wave Tips and Tricks – This is good collection of videos explaining many aspects of Google Wave and how you can make best use of them. Great video resource for Google Wave users by Keith.
  3. 6 Tips For Using Google Wave On Your First Project –  Nice easy to read list of 6 tips to use Google Wave in your projects to collaborate with your team members by Will Kelly.
  4. Google Wave: A Complete Guide – Nice easy to follow guide by Ben on Mashable blog. You are going to find some best tips there for new users of Google Wave.

That is it for now. You are free to share any other tip you may know to take Google Wave to next level.

Best Regards,

Mohsin Rasool

Filed Under: Internet Business, Technology Tagged With: Business Communication, Business Tools, Google Wave, Internet Services, Social

Paypal in Pakistan? Response to a Friend

November 21, 2009 by Mohsin Rasool

Hi,

I just wrote this personal message to a friend from Pakistan, Danish, who said this:

“Bro , Seriously due to unavailability of paypal i am really facing loads of troubles , do you have any alternative which you are using ?”

 

I wrote my answer there, but due to length of the message could not post there, and also I thought many other fellow Pakistani friends will benefit from this so I post this at my blog here:

Danish My Friend you are always welcome.

Yeah you are right Paypal problem we face here… But I use and recommend 2Co as this solves about 80% problem, i mean with 2Co you can receive payments from customers who want to pay though Credit Cards as well as also from the customers who want to pay from their Paypal account balance!

As i said this does not solve 100% problem as still you have no means to use those funds online, until they get into your Local Bank Account.. So we cannot make payments online as we could have made through our
Paypal account…for this i recommend to get hold of Credit Card, of yours or someone in your family who can trust you , and you can trust him/her!

Also if you have digital product and you want to tap into Affiliates market, you have also Clickbank there…to handle your Payments, and payments to affiliates!!!

MAN it used to be hard in the days when 2Co Would not accept
Paypal…
No Paypal, No Clickbank, No Problem | Mohsin Rasool
(Also download the report from there i wrote once for friends like you
facing NON-Paypal problem -)

Note: Above post/report was written before clickbank was available in Pakistan,,
but now as clickbank is in Pakistan…i suggest to use Clickbank for Affiliates
and not 2Co’s very limited affiliate program.

and when Clickbank would not allow Pakistan

…but now you have both!!!
ClickBank in Pakistan WoW! | Mohsin Rasool

You see we are making progress… so do not worry and keep working on your Goals you are going to make more than thousands who have Paypal account but have not made money online due to inaction or no work!

Wish you best there, hope this gives you some ideas,
Mohsin Rasool
PS. Oh I wanted to share this with you:

I used to earn very less money , say only Adsense…
And used to think and focus on the problem that how sad
i have no PayPal , no clickbank…

Then One day a very great friend of mine from Singapore, Ameer Salim,
said this:

“Mohsin do not focus on problems (Paypal) focus on opportunity (2Co!)”

That day was the turning point, as I said OK , No Paypal NO Problem!!!
I am going to sell and I am going to use 2Co..After all they are multi Million Dollar
company,,, why cannot they process my first Million Dollar 🙂

Then I started to offer services and some products and it really has become my
integral part of bi-weekly income…yeah 2Co sends weekly/Bi-Weekly your money
directly to your bank.

So Danish I recommend you go with 2Co and forget about Paypal problem for now.
When you have made some stuff, you will have some great friends here online.
And if you must need some payment to be received through Paypal you can ask
your friend to accept that payment on your behalf. But your sales system should
be fine with 2Co as they are going to take payment for you from all non-paypal and paypal buyers.

Oh live by revenge LOL…i mean if Paypal says : No Pakistani… Say: NO WAY! NO PAYPAL! … hahah Paypal Sucks! This will make you feel great and really this
will FREE you from the thought of absence of Paypal as disadvantage to you!
http://www.paypalsucks.com/ 🙂 – Now sometime I joke ,No it is not Paypal which does not accept Pakistan, but it is Pakistan which does not accept Paypal . HAHAHAHA!

Have a Great day! Let me know if you have any question in this regard.. I will update this post or reply in comments.

Filed Under: Internet Business, Money Matters, Technology Tagged With: 2Checkout, 2Co, Clickbank, Friends & Family, Internet Marketing, Pakistan, Payment Processing, Paypal

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