Well, as I have mentioned before, I would introduce another category on my blog, because my profession is actually sometimes linked with computer tips and tricks. I was thinking about naming tips and tricks and now here it is.

Nowadays, all over the world, we no longer use much of clone computers, because brand name computers are as cheap as clone computer. Moreover, branded ones can customize the specifications so easy, some companies even offer you online customizations. Anyway, having a computer means we sometimes run into some computer and hardware/software issues more or less & it is important to know the make, model and serial number of the hardware components of the computer to provide to the supplier or the company. Because sometimes you are at remote connection or lost your labels on your machine or calling to customer support, you will more or less need to identify what product or model is you are referring to.

This applies only in Microsoft Windows machines

1. In the command dos prompt… (start) and (run) and type “cmd”
“wmic bios get serialnumber”

In addition, You can use the command “wmic csproduct get name” to retrieve the local computer model or brand in same command DOS prompt.

2. Using a vbs script: you can use notepad in your windows and Save as “getSN.vbs” after you copy and paste into notepad that’s bold letter below. And then after you save it, just double click it to display on your screen.

On Error Resume Next
Dim strComputer
strComputer = InputBox(“Enter the name of the computer:”)
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:” & “{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
Set colSMBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery (“Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure”)
For Each objSMBIOS in colSMBIOS
MsgBox strComputer & “: ” & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
Next

Well, that’s all about it, it’s pretty neat and useful for me. I know people will need to use this command because it will come in handy one way or another. Oh, Another reminder, this is only for windows based computer. Below are the operation systems that are applicable to commands and script above. Hope you find this blog post useful and I too hope to post more useful stuff like this in the future as well.

Above commands and script are applicable in.

• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V
• Windows Web Server 2008

About Domain names

The importance of domain name is critically important. Most of the great domain names are taken and I still see them doing little use at all. Some people just bought them for ages and finally they gave up using it because they did not really have a business plan or model to implement it. On the other hand, I saw some people bought unimaginable domain names and also failed with terrible domain names. So, I will discuss a little bit about domain names that comes to my mind.

As long as it takes domain names

Try to avoid it. Some people thought it is extremely important to have keywords in the domain names. It is true in branding, for example, Zytech or Microsoft, they are not really meaningful as a matter of words, but they are meaningful to the brand name. If you are building your brand, it is good to use long domain names, but of course, up to the limit where people can accept, not like cheap-best-reasonable-online-shopping-place.com is too much to remember. The ideal selection is to have not more than 12 letters without the TLD domain names (.com, .net, .tv, .org, .us).

Shorter domains

It is actually good to have shorter domain names, because when you use email promotion or even someone has to email you, you would want comfortable and easy to remember email address. Another tip is to use short form like infomm.com which could actually mean a long meaning, but also fairly easy to remember.

Dashed domains

I do not like dashed domains, be realistic, why do you use dash? The odds are, someone has already registered the name already without dashed, therefore, you need to have to dashed, consequently, that means you will possibly lose your visitors to that domain without dash as well. For example, onebest.com versus one-best.com, the name is fantastic, easy to remember, fits most of the businesses with quality and quantity, unfortunately,  people may not type – (dashed) all the time and it might lead your potential visitors to another website.

Multiple domains

One domain costs basically less than $10, if you are going to do a reputable and good business, why not spend a little bit more for your domain related and use additional parked domain which is now very easy to do so. For example, if you have bestchef.com and someone can actually buy bestchefs.com for your possible traffic and potential income. So, never feel that is not required to spend, perhaps it will be your best $10 spent in the future. Also, if you have several domains that are not used, just parked to the domain that is in full functions, or, you can actually park and display ads with Google AdSense as well. The bottom line is, do not let your domain unused at all.

So, good luck with your domain names, I will write more about domain name and its related topics soon to give you more depth. It is best when you click and read my particular topic rather than just reading through because at the end of the each post, you may find related posts that are very useful and relevant to my main post. Thanks for reading.