Tumblr, the popular micro-blogging platform, has released the Tumblr BlackBerry App to allow blog updates on the smartphone.

Tumblr BlackBerry App support all the post type (text, photo, video, etc) of Tumblr. You can upload photos, record voices, record videos using the app and then upload to your Tumblr blog.

Click here to download Tumblr app for BlackBerry. It’s free. [link]

iPhone user? You can download Tumblr for iPhone here.

Do you have a Tumblr blog?

Yesterday, I mentioned that many websites haven’t update their copyright year in the footer, including some world’s popular sites.

The official Google blogs are not getting the copyright year updated, too.

As far as I see, none of the blogs under Google Blog Directory has updated the copyright year. Some blogs even stay in 2008!

Come on, Google!

It doesn’t take much to build a blog. Use a third-party blogging platform like Wordpress or Blogger, choose your template and pick and click to add all kinds of widgets and gadgets.

However, keeping your blog interesting is another matter. First, it’s hard enough to gain a little recognition in the blog band. Shakespeare couldn’t even get any traffic to his blog if he were writing today. There’s just too much competitions.

As more of us take the plunge and become bloggers, building an audience becomes harder and harder, regardless of how many directories you submit to. There’s a cacophony of blog static and keeping blog visitors interested enough to come back becomes more difficult with each new blog launch.

So, to keep’em coming back, check out these tips to keep your boring blog from putting visitors to sleep.

1. Post regularly.

The W3 is littered with blogs that started out with well-intentioned authors who quickly realized just how hard it is to create interesting blog posts at least twice a week.

If a blog follower comes back and sees that nothing has changed since she last visited, or sees that you made your last post in ‘07, guess what. That follower isn’t coming back.

A successful blog – one that attracts attention and generates interaction – is based on green content. Visitors expect new information. Think of your blog as a giant mouth that gobbles up words like you gobble up pistachios. To keep them coming back, you have to keep it fresh.

2. Create a blog about something important to you.

If you’re favorite pastime is needlepoint, create a blog about needlepoint. First, you know the subject. You have the knowledge. It’s that knowledge and expertise that will continue to drive more and more visitors to your blog.

Second, it’s much easier to write on a topic about which you have a passion. Politics, self-improvement, business development, investing – what’s your passion? Your posts will be infinitely more compelling if you care about the topic. And, as a bonus, you’ll cut your research time down to zero.

3. Your blog is not about you.

Oh sure, there are plenty of vanity blogs – blogs of a poet’s epic verse or an artist’s latest oil paintings and these kinds of blogs serve an important purpose to their owners. It provides the opportunity to share themselves with others, an organic human need. We want to engage others. We’re social animals.

Now, it may be your blog. You put in the blood, sweat and tears to build the thing. You’re the boss, the editor, the custodian and the entire IT department. Your blog is your own piece of the web.

That said, your blog isn’t about you. Not if you want more than friends stopping by to read your latest foray into haiku. Blog visitors want information – information they can use in their own lives.

They want to read topics that spark their imaginations and get them thinking. A well-written, up-to-date political blog is always interesting, regardless of political stance.

When developing your posts, keep the interests of readers in mind. Engage the reader. Encourage interaction in the form of responses to blog posts. It may be your blog, but it’s not about you – at least it’s not if you want to build a following.

4. Add graphics and illustrations.

Indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words, especially on a blog.

Blog readers don’t actually read. They tend to scan. If they discover a good blog or get pinged about an interesting post, they might take a minute or two to read through your latest blog piece.

Graphs and charts are useful in conveying a lot of information quickly. A simple pie chart conveys the same information it would take you to explain in an entire page of text – and frankly, the pie chart is probably more interesting.

5. Layout for eye scan.

Again, blog visitors don’t want to plow through pages and pages of text – an endless scroll of text strings. Boring.

• Break up long paragraphs into smaller bits.
• Use heads and sub-heads to help readers find the specific nugget of information they’re looking for.
• Use bullet point lists – very scannable. (Hey, like this one!)
• Bold the text. It makes it easier to read and/or scan.
• Use negative space. That’s space that doesn’t contain text or an image. Think of it as breathing room for the blog visitor. Don’t cram your words together. Give them and readers the chance to breathe.
• Highlight key points. Use a different color text or a different font to identify critical points. These visual cues send scanners to the meat of the post.

6. Keep it short.

A blog post can be as short as a 100 words and still deliver value to the returning reader. In fact, long posts can be intimidating. So, if you have the need to create a 20-page post, break that one long post into a series, i.e., Part 1, Part 2, etc.

Anything longer than 1,500 words – that’s about 3-4 pages – is getting long for a blog post. Keep your posts around 1,000 words apiece and you’ll do just fine. And a 500-word post, that delivers good information, is better than a 3,000-word post filled with puff.

Webbies have the attention span of gnats in the blog band so if you want them to pay attention, keep it short and to the point.

7. Stay relevant.

As the author and editor, you have to keep your posts relevant to the reader. If you’re blogging about investment strategies, don’t post a blog on “10 Ways to Save At The Supermarket.” Save that one for your consumer blog.

Staying relevant means a couple of things depending on the topicality of the blog you create. If your blog deals, in any way, with current events or activities (stock markets, for example), relevance means today. Now!

In other cases, blogs about specific interests or aspects of life – family health, for example – relevance relates to focus. Keep your posts focused on the topic at hand. That’s why visitors came by.

8. Add a “Tip of the Day” feature.

You may not have time to write a new post everyday, but if you know your stuff, you can take a minute or two to write a daily tip that you post as a text widget. Keep the daily tips up to date and keep them at the top of your widget pile so visitors can pop in, check out the day’s tip, and head off to some other blog to which they subscribe in an RSS reader.

9. Always look professional.

Nothing says “rookie” faster than a post that hasn’t even been run through a spell checker. Your posts should be letter perfect. A good post is created in the first draft. A great post is created in the second, third and final, proofed draft.

Keep a dictionary, a thesaurus and a style manual on your book shelf. If you look professional, it shows you care. And that makes visitors care more about you.

(Tips: If you are trying to use jargon please explain it or else you will risk the chance of losing readers!)

10. Educate, motivate, inspire.

That’s what a blog is all about: providing valuable information (education), defining opportunities (motivation) and assuring the reader that they can learn more, discover more, be more (inspiration), whether it’s needlepoint or open-heart surgery.

When you sit down to write your next blog post, keep these three functions in mind: educate, motivate and inspire your readers. In the end, you’ll have a blog that’s helpful on a variety of levels.

Time to sit down to write your next post? Make it a good one.

Check out: ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

Edward Khoo is a full-time blogger based in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. He blogs at EdwardKhoo.com, a blog about blogging tips & internet marketing. You can follow him on twitter at @squall768.

This is a guest post. If you would like to contribute too, please contact us.

EdWard Khoo, a 21-year-old Malaysian decided to quit his studies and become a full-time blogger.

Edward wrote an email to thank me because an article “Journey to become Pro-Blogger” I published in 2005 has inspired him to become a full-time blogger.

Following my advice to start with part-time blogging, Edward has become a successful blogger after 2 years of hard work.

He is now contributing weekly guest articles for Sin Chew Jit Poh (Malaysia’s most popular Chinese newspaper) on “make money with blogging” column.

Edward also bought himself an Apple Macbook Pro laptop.

My two cents

First of all, I feel glad that an article of mine could inspired a reader and changed his life. It is priceless!

However, I don’t think it is a good idea to quit studies and turn into full-time blogging. You could miss many things which are only available in college: knowledge, fun, friends, life, etc.

As an uncle, I often miss the times when I was in the college. That’s a great memory in your life.

Since Edward has decided to become a full-time blogger, I would suggest him to do part-time studies and get a related certificate (web development).

Yes, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both quit their college studies and still become successful. But we are not living in their time.

Here is my another advice: “Always has a backup plan.”

Over to You

Should one quit studies for full-time blogging? Is MONEY more important than STUDIES? What are your opinions?

In case you don’t see any twitter updates from your friends in the past few hours, don’t be surprised. Your twitter friends are not sleeping.

In fact, Twitter is having a problem which is causing the twitter timelines to be delayed or state or frozen. Twitter updates are still working but you don’t see them.

Twitter is working on it but the issue has not been resolved, as at the time of writing now.

I (@liewcf) feel something is missing when Twitter is down.. How about you?

More Information:

• Twitter Power listing at Amazon.com
• The Twitter Book listing at Amazon.com
• Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets listing at Amazon.com

I’m Liew Cheon Fong (a.k.a LiewCF). I just passed my 29th birthday at August 19, 2009. September 9, 2009 (09/09/09) is my 4th anniversary of full-time blogging.

My life does not change much after 1st anniversary of full-time blogging.

Every month, I still get money from multiple Internet income sources. I have free time and money to travel at anytime (went to China, Japan, Taiwan this year alone).

I’m no longer taking public bus because I bought the Honda City 2009 (but still take express bus to KL because of the high toll fees and petrol fee)

I have monthly investments in unit trust funds. Am a Gold member of Public Mutual. My latest funds report shows that I have yet to profit from my funds (blame the economic crisis!).

I do not own a property yet. Buying a property is like getting a girlfriend, it is not easy to find the right one and it is a long-term commitment.

A personal good news is that I am now in a relationship. YES, after being single for years, LiewCF finally got a girlfriend!

*hooray!* *claps! claps!*

(No, you won’t see her photo here. )

Health is important, especially for someone who work at home. Chances are you would have less exercise and sitting in front computer or TV most of the time.

My body weight is increasing year by year ever since I became a full-time blogger. No more! Started 3 months ago, I joined a local gym club with a friend and have been actively going for gym workouts almost daily!

Till now, I have successfully lose 5KG+ and have a better body shape (read: bigger chest & arms). *grin*

Few notes to new bloggers (who want to make money)

In the past years, I have seen many full-time-blogger-wannabes but only a very few of them have succeeded. Whenever someone ask me “how to make money by blogging?
, the follow are my notes for them:

• Understand yourself. What’s your expertise? What can you offer to your blog readers?
• Pick the right topic. Write only the blog topic that you would have passion and endless content. As well as a topic which has many demands (readers). You need to do some researches for this.
• Blogging is a slow process… It really takes time for your blog to be discovered by people. The competition is much higher nowadays. Don’t give up too early.
• Be ready learn new skills/knowledge. HTML, SEO, online marketing, and image editing are the few things you need to know (at least, the basics).
• Stop blogging if it has become a stressful task for you

More Information:

• ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income listing at Amazon.com
• Blogging For Dummies listing at Amazon.com
• Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers listing at Amazon.com

Adi Wong compiled a list of Top 100 Malaysian Blogs based on Alexa and Technorati rankings.

Here are the top 10 Malaysian blogs:

1. Hong Kiat — Design & Tech
2. Kenny Sia — Lifestyle
3. Paul Tan — Automotive
4. Raymond.CC — Tech
5. Anwar Ibrahim — Politics
6. Lim Kit Siang — Politics
7. Hemmy.net — Mixed
8. Jeff Ooi — Politics
9. LiewCF (me) — Tech & Lifestyle
10. Cheeserland.com — Lifestyle

What does it mean to you, a blog reader?

If you want to read some interesting Malaysian blogs, it is a good list to start with. Visit every one of them to discover the one you like.

What does it mean to you, a blogger?

Why are they Top 100 and you are not in the list? Why are they popular and your blog has no readers?

It is a good list for you to study the reasons that other blogs are more popular than you, and how you can improve your blog.

Check the blog designs. Check what topics are popular. Check their writing styles. Check their ads placements. Etc.

I am sure you can learn alot from the top Malaysian blogs and improve yours to be one of them.

By the way, if you think your blog deserved to be listed in the Top 100 Malaysian Blogs, feel free to contact Adi Wong to add yours.

P.S. I wonder who in the top 100 bloggers attended the recent Bloggers’ Universe Malaysia Gathering 2009 (BUM 2009)?

Book Recommendation: Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers

Received an email from my beautiful accountant yelling for help. Her innocent personal blog has been marked as spam by blogger.com and asked her to request for a i-am-not-spam review.

Her blog will be reviewed, and, and if everything is ok, will be unlocked in 2 working days. Otherwise, Blogger.com will remove her blog within weeks. She is not alone.

Those are probably false positives of the Blogger’s spam-prevention robots.

Solution? Submit the form and pray. Chances are your blog will be removed from the spam blog list.

My two cents

Although Blogger.com is my choice of Free blog hosting, this is another reason why you need a self-hosted blog over a free one.

You want to host your blog for free, but which is the most reliable blog hosting?

Pingdom did a uptime survey of nine blogging services for a period of 4 months. They discovered that the Top 3 most reliable blog hosting services are: Typepad (not free), Blogger, and Wordpress.com.

Reliable and Free?

Among the Top 3, Blogger and WordPress.com offer free account. Both have the same downtime of 20 minutes in the 4 months survey period.

So, which is better? I would say Blogger.

Although WordPress.com offer free account too but there are many limitations, one of them is “no custom css”. You cannot edit nor change your own blog theme. You have to pay to have WordPress.com premium features.

Note: WordPress.com is NOT WordPress.ORG (blog publishing application).

On the other hand, Blogger, which is backed by Google big brother, does not have such limitations and has better offer.

Serious blogger?

If you are a serious blogger (you want to do it BIG), then you should consider renting a good and reliable web hosting and then install WordPress as your blogging platform (the blog platform of choice among top blogs, too).

I use WordPress and love it!

[Hat tip: Peter Alguacil]

The 1st Malaysian blog-ping aggregator, Project Petaling Street (PPS) has been sold, 3 months before its 6th year of service (12 June 2009).

The new owner, who prefers to stay anonymous, contacted me last week and sent me the copy of sales letter. The buyer prefer to keep the sales price in private but I can tell you that it is a very good buy. I would buy PPS at that price too, without blinking my eyes!

According to the new owner, some big chances will be applied on PPS. First of all, a new web design. The official PPS tweet published a screenshot of upcoming new PPS design.

The new design is cleaner with white background. It has a “featured pings” section, which I wonder how they are picked. Also, there are many ad blocks fill in blank spaces.

Not sure how many people will click the ads on PPS. I think PPS can earn more by selling the ad space to local blog ad networks.

The old PPS is gone and let’s hope the new PPS will continue its spirit and be a better one.

Shall you have any comments about new PPS, you can drop it here and the new PPS owner might read it

So, you want to make FAST money by blogging? Someone from Singapore is looking for part time bloggers to write about Asian celebrities. Each blog post get paid for $1 USD.

Will you take the job? Personally, I think $1 USD is under paid. If you are willing to blog for $1 USD per post, please let me know.

Writing paid blog posts is a fast way to make money online. The more you write, the more money you get.

For me, it is not an ideal way. If you are able to write many blog posts, you would better setup your own blog and start making money from your blog.

You will need to take some time to learn about setting up a blog, blog marketing and promotion, and some tips and tricks on blogging. Here are some books that might help:

• ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
• Blogging For Dummies
• WordPress For Dummies

Today is the Blog Action Day 2008. The theme of the year is “Poverty”. For that, I joined Kiva and made a few loans.

Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

Kiva helps people to fish rather than giving them the fish. The loaner do NOT get any interest but the biggest profit is that you changed a life by micro-lending.

I joined Kiva since 2007 but never been an active loaner before Oct 2008. Shame on me!

Blog Action Day suggested that bloggers donate their earning of the day for charity. I made 4 Kiva loans USD$25 each. Check out my lender page.

Kiva Piggy bank

Beside making a couple of loans, I also bought the Kiva piggy bank from the Kiva Store. The piggybank is cute, green in color, plastic. I will feed it with coins as the fund to lend on Kiva.

Join Kiva now and become a kind loaner. If you are Malaysians, please join the Kiva Malaysia Community.

Google Blog Search’s front page has been redesigned and now it tracks and groups the related blog posts according to the number of blogs about a story and the published time.

Google blog search front page

The new Google blog search looks very much like Google News. The related blog posts are clustered, and a blog count and thumbnail are displayed on the left hand side.

Clicking the blog count will dig further to the story and a chart on the right is showing the “hotness” of the story based on the number of blogs covering the story in the past 16 hours.

On the left most sides, the blog posts are categorized in different topics: Politics, US, World, Business, Technology, Video Games, Science, Entertainment, Movies, Television and Sports.

However, unlike Google blog search results, no feed is available for each blog topic. You can’t get the latest updates via feed or email.

For some tech geeks, the new Google blog search front page may look like a killer to Techmeme but Matt of Google showed the different.

Do you like the new Google blog search front page?

Google Chrome blog theme is blog theme that mimics the design of Google Chrome web browser. The theme is available for WordPress and Blogspot users.

screenshot of Google Chrome blog theme

Theme features:

• 2 columns fixed width
• widgets ready
• gravatar ready
• support WordPress 2.5 and above
• Tested on IE 6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome
• XHTML & CSS validated

Theme download

• Google Chrome theme for WordPress
• Google Chrome theme for Blogspot

[via Blogging for Novice]

“Add Adsense To Your WordPress Blog Without Changing The Theme”

August 31st is not only the National Day of Malaysia but also the BlogDay 2008, which is the 4th BlogDay since 2005.

Like last year, this year I would like to recommend another 5 Malaysia blogs as part of the BlogDay 2008:

• FriedBeef — tech blog with a lot of useful tips.
• HongKiat — popular tech & design blog
• Jen’s eBay Blog — ebay blog by a power ebay seller.
• 靓人志 — chinese blog on lifestyle. Starting scratch after following my guides.
• 洋洋的假期 — a girl’s personal blog, truth, real and touching.

That’s it. Hope you enjoy the listed blogs. What’s your BlogDay 2008 recommendations?

More Information:

• "ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income" (Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett) listing at Amazon.com
• "WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))" (Lisa Sabin-Wilson) listing at Amazon.com

After the success of Malaysian Chinese Blog Award 2007 in last year, the crew is now preparing for the Malaysian Chinese Blog Award 2008. They have started accepting nominations on August 4th, 2008 and it will be closed at September 30th, 2008.

The Malaysian Chinese Blog Award 2008 has more categories than last year, that is 21 different blog categories. Your blog probably already fits in one of them.

Malaysian? Blog in Chinese? Click here to register!

My two cents

It is glad to see that the Chinese Blog Award is still going on for the 2nd year. When am I going to have a Chinese blog? Soon.

Where is the Malaysians English Blog Award, or better, Malaysians Blog Award? Nobody plans to do that?

[hat tip: Duller]

The is a guest post submitted by Zul of SkorCareer. All content and opinions belong to the author.

“I am quitting blogging.” A friend told me some time ago. He started blogging 3 months back now and wanted to call it a day.

“What?” I am kinda surprised.

“Yes. You heard me right. I am quitting blogging. In fact, I have deleted the contents of my blog. It’s clean now. Empty. Nothing in it.”

“Why? It’s been only 3 months. Don’t you think it’s too early to throw in the towel?”

“No, lah. I had enough already. I am not even sure I did the right thing by jumping into this blogging thing in the first place. I have less than one dollar in my Adsense income and it does not seem to grow. Plus I am also running out of idea to write so my blog is as good as dead.” It seems like there’s no turning back for him.

3 months passed. One day, he came back.

“I am blogging again.”

And so he did. And after another 3 months, guess what, the same thing happened again. He told me he doesn’t to write again. I am not sure if he would ever come back.

This friend went a full circle from writing his first blog entry into making a full stop – twice – in a space of a year, and still ended up nowhere. Had he continue writing short entries in his first blog twice per week, in a year his blog would have grown into having more than 100 articles. Within a year his blog would have a page rank, some link backs, generated a few loyal readers and his income is very likely to grow if he monetizes it right.

It’s very true when motivators said that many people in their life quit at the tip of their success. Just think of the time we boil water. For a good 2 minutes, as the water is heating up, we barely see any changes. But on the molecular level, the H20 particles are agitating, chemical bonds are breaking and once the temperature hits 100 degrees, there’s no stopping it to boil.Unfortunately, many of us, fearing nothing would ever happen, decided to quit at the 99 degrees. Only if we knew how big that one additional 1 percent will bring…

Sometimes the price of quitting is higher than the price of persevering. There’s a classic story of 2 Malaysian bloggers cum internet entrepreneurs who were buddies and had produced their products together. One of them is a mentor to the younger buddy.

One day, the mentor decided to quit the internet for some reason, leaving his friend on his own. Instead of quitting too, the young guy went to create a product that made him more than RM10,000 in a month. The last I know, he made more than RM5,000 in two days with his latest product.

Finally, here’s the story of Robert Kiyosaki when he was embroiled in trouble and was about to quit doing business. How you interpret the meaning of the story is up to you.

Kiyosaki was having financial trouble in getting his business to kick start and he was running out of resources that can drive him further forward. His money was gone, and he and his wife Kim were living in a rundown car.

As a last attempt, he called his rich dad. His rich dad was one of the wealthiest persons in the town, but he never gave any money to Kiyosaki as part of teaching him business, and he was not about to change the pattern. Kiyosaki begged for money and at one time told his dad if he did not get a financial help, he would quit his dream of running a business and find a job instead.

True to his principle, his dad still did not give him any money. And in responding to Kiyosaki’s call to quit, here is his answer,

“You could have always quit long time ago. Why quit now?”

The is a guest post submitted by Zul of SkorCareer. All content and opinions belong to the author.

"Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!"

I will go to KL to attend the BarCamp Malaysia held on 26th and 27th July 2008.

What is BarCamp?

Frankly, I am not sure too. According to BarCamp.org,

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants.

Get the idea? It is a group of people gather together and sharing with each others. BarCamp Malaysia is the 1st barcamp in Malaysia. Check out the interesting schedule.

When is BarCamp Malaysia 2008?

Date: July 26, 2008, 10:00AM-6:00PM. July 27, 2008, 10:00AM-2:00PM.
Venue: xTrain Sdn Bhd, Unit E-7-1, Block E, Megan Avenue 1, 189 Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lumpur. (view map)

BarCamp Malaysia was a registration only event but due to the overwhelming responds, they are open to walk in registration at 9am, 26th July 2008. So, if you are not registered but interested, make sure you are there early!

I am not giving any talk at BarCamp Malaysia 2008 but I am very much looking forward for it! Surely, you will meet many geeks and experts there and discussing geek topics with them is FUN!

Just before I am going for my HongKong/China holiday, I got a great news. My blog, LiewCF.com is accepted in 9rules network!

“9rules is an online community of blogs and bloggers. In 2006 it took the award for Best Community Site of the Year at SXSWi in Austin, Texas.” [via wikipedia]

I was first notified by Keith Dsouza via Twitter. I thought it was a joke because I didn’t put much hope when filling the 9rules submission form after get to know about the 9rules 6th round submission on “Footsptes in the Mirror” by Edrei(the first Malaysian blogger in 9rules network?)

So far, Edrei found SIX Malaysian in 9rules network:

• Cypherhackz.net
• EducateDeviate
• Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food
• Liewcf.com
• Novelr
• Footsteps In The Mirror

I should be proud about it, shouldn’t I?

My two cents

I am not sure what is the traffic effect after joining the 9rules network, but it is great to be part of the big blogging network. 9rules is about community, as other existing 9rulers told me. Joining the family is definitely a good thing. Wish to have more Malaysian bloggers in the 9rules soon!

It is quite common that mod_security is interfering the functions of your web applications. mod_security is installed and enabled by your web server admin but you can still disable it for your individual website using .htaccess file by following this tutorial.

“mod_security is an Apache module (for Apache 1 and 2) that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications.” — HowtoForge

Disable mod_security in .htaccess file

1. If you do not have one yet, an .htaccess file in the folder of your web application
2. To disable mod_security COMPLETELY, add the following line to the .htaccess file:
   SecFilterEngine Off
   OR, to disable HTTP POST scanning only, use the following instead:
   SecFilterScanPOST Off
3. Save the file and test your web application to check whether disabling mod_security has solved your problem.

I recommend you to try SecFilterScanPOST Off first, instead of disabling mod_security completely.

My two cents

mod_security is good to protect your website but it might cause some problems for certain web applications, especially in file uploads. My server has mod_security enabled and I encountered WordPress upload error: “HTTP error”. The SecFilterScanPOST Off solved the problem immediately.