Google Caffeine – faster but at what price?
August 14th, 2009
Google Caffeine promises faster, more time relevant search results. But how will that affect your own search results?
Easy OSX hosts file editing with GasMask
February 4th, 2009
It’s not often I come across a new utility that combines simplicity with easing a regular point of pain.
Jamming the scraper signals
December 12th, 2008
Many bloggers have experienced their content being legitimately syndicated onto other sites and permit it to happen as part of their promotion. But many have also experienced the scrapers: sites that illegally duplicate entire blog contents, replicating new and old posts in order to populate their sites with content. A Wordpres plugin helps us fight back.
Stumbleupon Firefox bar gets an update
November 27th, 2008
I just installed Version 3.28 of the Stumbleupon toolbar for Firefox and thought it worth mentioning on the basis of a particular additional feature.
Comment spammers want to hear from you
November 17th, 2008
I once wrote about my experience with “ethical spammers” back in 2005.
In that instance, the wiki spammer added an almost apologetic message attached to the spam that they kept the original content intact (while adding a huge chunk of spam links, of course).
Dot com domains for just $1.99?
October 27th, 2008
Word is spreading fast about a new GoDaddy code that gives you a .com domain name for a mere $1.99: 199TEST
Monitor twitter buzz with TweetBeep
September 30th, 2008
How about some real-time monitoring of specific words, phrases, or brands that people are mentioning on twitter?
RIP .info – and I was just getting optimistic
July 22nd, 2008
In a recent post I mentioned on how the infamous .info domain was gaining a little respectability and rising above the image of the “spammer’s domain”. This week, I am thinking all hope is lost.
The .info domain is administered by Afilias. They recently submitted a proposal to ICANN (the global domain registry) to enable them [...]