Today, I released a new open source, free tool that will hopefully help everyone in the fight against having their sites hacked. Here’s the info on the MonitorHackdFiles tool.
We all hear about how often people’s sites get hacked. This tool won’t stop that from happening, but here’s what it *will* do.
Let’s say a hacker places some malicious code in either some existing files...
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A few days ago, a friend asked how much he should charge for someone buying a typical 125×125 ad block on his blog. I had just answered a similar question in a forum and realized that I’d often asked myself the same question over the years. And the funny thing is that there is very little information out there to help anyone make that determination. Over time, I’ve done some...
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When I was toodling around the ‘net searching for design inspiration for the new design for this blog, I ran across a tool from Logicsmiths Custom Web Applications that allows you to add a free time tracking gadget to Google’s personalized homepage (‘iGoogle’). I thought that was pretty cool, but I don’t use iGoogle, so I started looking for other free time tracking apps out...
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Which search engine should you use to search for images? My opinion: all of them! If you only use one search engine to search for an image, you could be missing out on some spectacular images. But I don’t expect you to waste time going from one search engine to another. That’s what metaengines are for, and my favorite is Zuula.
I use Zuula 100% of the time as my web search engine, but I...
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Think blogging and participating in online communities cannot bring about powerful change? Think again! After reading one short forum thread post, a blogger was able to pick up a big story, tell his readers about it, thereby causing a cascade effect that changed the way, not one, but TWO huge companies practiced business.
For quite some time now, registrars were required to allow a 5 day grace period, in...
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