1. You need either a business or premier account to use IPN. (sourceforge)

2. Enable Auto Return (in Paypal > Profile > My Seller Tools > Website Preferences > Auto Reply > On) to redirect users back to your site after making a payment.
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The setup
When a new article is written, wordpress will update the blog RSS and this feed always contains the latest contents of your blog. For this blog, that’s davidtan.org/feeds.

Some people uses feedburner to publish and track where their feeds are viewed, clicked and consumed. Plus, there’s also a setting in feedburner that will sync new posts to your twitter account as well (ex. @davidtanth). You can also subscribe to your blog’s feed in Google Reader to keep track of your own blogs.
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Here’s how you can clear Google Chrome’s browser cache and all the history of which websites/pages that you’ve previously visited. Long story short, use the keyboard shortcut key CTRL+SHIFT+DEL to get the following:

The instruction are really straightforward. Check the settings which applies to you and press clear browsing data.

Done!

I have an iPad and i love it. Here I present you with a list of some of the most useful iPad accessories that I’ve found.
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I’m getting lots of spam mails and spam comments lately selling me SEO services promising that I’ll rank at page 1 for my keywords, get more traffic and make more money. Although it’s true that ranking on page 1 in google will get more traffic to my sites, I didn’t like the way I was approached by these SEO marketers. Where did they get my email? Am I interested in the first place? Why should I trust them? Do they even know what I do and write about in this blog?

Here are just some examples of so called SEO proposals that I’ve been getting in my inbox and comments. Try to learn from them and see why they didn’t work on a target like myself.
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You are given an encryption key after Magento is installed successfully. This key is just a text string and stored in a xml file called local.xml in your magento installation folder.
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While working on a project to read and write mp3 id3 tags using Perl’s MP3 Tag module, I found out that I was getting this error:

Software error:
Writing of ID3v2.4 is not fully supported (prohibited now via `write_v24′).
For help, please send mail to the webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

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Upgraded to TortoiseSVN 1.7 and found out that Netbeans 7.0.1 doesn’t recognize some of the checked-out source code using TortoiseSVN 1.6. Here’s how you can get Netbeans to work with SVN 1.7.
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Updated my iPhone 4 to IOS 5.0.1 through iTunes. Was using 4.3.3. previously and main reason for upgrading was to get the cool notification center on my iPhone. For those who don’t use iTunes, here are the direct download links from Apple (not from Warez or free file sharing sites so you know these are legit working versions).
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I’ve been managing Adcenter PPC campaigns for a while now and getting my skills recognized was the right thing to do. I’ve just taken the Adcenter Accreditation Program test today and here’s the result.

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