How to obtain a domain name that can be ported to your router and server for free

This tip will help you how to obtain a domain name and port it to your router that can run your computer server from your home, office or even with your android mobile and open to internet (i.e. yourname.domain.com).

In this tip also, it will help you on how you can run your website server from your normal PC and make it available online like a normal website.

Obtain Domain Name

This is applicable to those who have Dynamic IP provided by ISPs. If you have Static IP Address provided by your ISP, you do not need this steps. Go to Port Forwarding Steps.

Step 1: Register at DLinkDDNS (note that DLinkDDNS is a DynDNS free service and it will provide you one host name hence it is free. It is not recommended to use this style if you have confidentiality to maintain, I will not be liable for it). Moreover, you can have an option to have host names by registering one account per email.

Step 2: Download DynDNS Updater to keep your host name up-to-date. From the downloads, choose which operating system you are using and install.

Step 3:  Log-in to DynDNS Updater and add your host name to keep up-to-date every time your dynamic IP address change.

To test if it is working, visit your host name (i.e. yourname.dlinkddns.com), and it will forward you to your router log-in area.


Port your host name to your Router and Server

Step 1: Login as Admin to your router

Step 2: Go to Port Forwarding

Step 3: Name your application. (i.e. I am running my local hosted website with XAMPP Server to LAN IP address 192.168.1.10.) I will name it XAMPP, and then change the External Port (i.e. 8888) and then change the Internal Port to 80 (80 is the default port of XAMPP) and then change the IP Address to 192.168.1.10 and then make it Enable.

How it works? when you visit your host name (i.e. yourname.dlinkddns.com:8888), it says go to this IP (your router IP), with Port 8888. It will check port forwarding if it is enable and search for 8888. Now that 8888 is available, it will forward you to 192.168.1.10 with port 80, and then it will run the application. You can see your local hosted website through internet anywhere.

Remarks: On Port Forwarding, you can do many functions, i.e. port your DVR, Attendance Machine, Printers, IPCam, VoIP and many things that you will know in the future. 

Enjoy!

How can you play your downloaded movies/musics to your Smart TV / Android TV, Tablets and Phones for free

Last time, I am badly in need in having a media streaming server that my Smart TV can have an access to it and at the same time my Nexus 7, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and other PCs, that are connected within our home network "wired or wireless" can have an access to it also. In that time, I have searched and tested many software and none of them solved my problem.

In this tip, it will guide you on how to play your downloaded movies/musics with your Smart TV / Android TV, Tablets and Phones.

Step 1: Download AllSharePCSW provided by Samsung.

Step 2: Install AllSharePCSW to your PC to be served as media server and after that set the folders where you are saving your downloaded movies/musics files as shown below.

After the changes has been setup, you will need to wait until syncing its content list is complete, in order to show those files to your devices.

Step 3: All Share Installation or alike

For Smart TV, skip this step as AllShare is already preinstalled (I will not tackle if it is not preinstalled to your Smart TV). 

For Android TV, Tablets and Phone, install VPlayer Video Player from Google Play. Note that it must be compatible with your android device, otherwise, you have to find other alternative apps that support AllShare as I have tested more than 20 apps from Google Play and none of them met my requirements.

Step 3: Pairing AllShare to your devices

Pairing your devices with Allshare is very easy. Just go to Tools > Connection Setting Wizard and follow the steps. (For security reason, I recommend that you know the IPs of each devices, so that you can know which devices you are pairing with your AllShare). At the last steps, select the devices you want to allow and press "Connect".

For Smart TV, it will notify you on the Smart TV Screen if you will gonna allow AllShare to connect to your Smart TV, just press on Accept and it is done.

For Android TV, Tablets and Phones, you do not have to do anything.

The picture below is an example of paired devices with your AllShare.

Finally: Running Files from AllShare to your devices

For Smart TV, go to Internet TV, open AllShare Apps and select your PC and then choose whether you want to play Video, Audio or Photos (note that only those you have selected from Step 2 will appear in the list), and then select one valid or AllShare supported file and it will run.

For Android TV, Tablets and Phones, open VPlayer Video Player and swipe to Media Servers, select your PC and then  choose whether you want to play Video, Audio or Photos, and the same only those you have selected from Step 2 will appear in the list. You can open one valid or AllShare supported file and it will run.

Be noted that this is not a common media streaming, as it is not playing movies/audio simultaneously to devices, instead it is starting the movie/audio from the start and you have the freedom to select you want to play on each devices from your Allshare Content List.


Problem Faced:
If you are experiencing lagging or slow file opening, please check your router as it happened to me. I am using queues system within our network and I disabled it. :-)

Enjoy

Make your business card more shareable

Making your business card more shareable is not easy. Now, we do not have to type or write details from business cards in order to save them to our contacts/phone book. The below procedure will help how you make your business card more shareable. 

Step 1: Program your "VCF" business card program. It's easy, just follow the steps.

Below is the original code: 

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
N:Saaduddin;Mohammad Ibrahim;;;
FN: Mohammad Ibrahim Saaduddin
ORG:ARNOBIE OOI
TITLE:System Programmer & Developer
TEL;TYPE="cell,voice";VALUE=uri:UAE (Dubai):+971-55-863-1161
TEL;TYPE="cell,voice";VALUE=uri:Philippines:+63-906-285-4561
EMAIL:arnobie@gmail.com
URL:http://gplus.to/arnobie
END:VCARD

From the original code above, i'll mark what area you can change to put your own details: 

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
N:Saaduddin;Mohammad Ibrahim;;;
FN: Mohammad Ibrahim Saaduddin
ORG:ARNOBIE OOI
TITLE:System Programmer & Developer
TEL;TYPE="cell,voice";VALUE=uri:UAE (Dubai):+971-55-863-1161
TEL;TYPE="home,voice";VALUE=uri:Philippines:+63-906-285-4561
EMAIL:arnobie@gmail.com
URL:http://gplus.to/arnobie
END:VCARD

To know more about vCard coding, Click Here

Step 2: Open QR generator, if you do not have favorite one, you can Click Here. After that, copy and paste the code to text mode. QR image will appear on the preview area, test it with QR reader / scanner and it should show the same as below: 

Step 3: Design your business card

Step 4: Put the QR image to your design as exampled below

Congratulations! You have your own business card that can be shared easily to any smartphone all details you have provided from your business card through QR code.