Fighting spam can be time consuming. However using Excel, or any good spreadsheet program, can help limit the time spent, fighting these assholes. It doesn’t have to be complicated, but is something one should do regularly. Keeping track is simpler, when you use a spreadsheet. You can eliminate duplicates, without worrying while copying the information. Now that saves time, and that is a good thing. Continue reading
Apr 10th by Malcontent
Using htaccess helps reduce the spam to your blog, but there are times when you just feel like it will never end. The truth is, these spammers seem to always be one step ahead of us, and it just seems to keep on growing, like a snowball rolling down a mountain. I suppose part of the problem rests with the idiots who actually buy from these cretins, and the other part, is we often ignore basic security procedures, to help stop them. HTACCESS is a simple solution, not ideal, but it can help, in the fight against unwanted spam, but like anything, it takes a bit of work to set up, and maintain. Continue reading
Apr 09th by Malcontent
More than just a quick beverage, link juice is about the sharing of your sites authority, with another site, or within your own site. It is how the Search Engines determine if a page, or site, is popular, in which they call it being Authoritative. Link Juice is simply sharing that prestige. Continue reading
Apr 01st by Malcontent
ICQ adds stuff to your computing that makes you wonder, what other information are they gathering, without your knowledge? And for being a secure browser, how does FIREFOX allow changes to some key components, without even telling you, despite having high security settings? Find the solution here to how ICQ needs to be controlled, when upgrading, and how to fix the Firefox security holes. Continue reading
Mar 27th by Malcontent
Which way to go? Some argue that static pages, with a warning, will protect you from legal repercussions, while others disagree. However, what about the surfer? Does having a static front page turn them off, or does it have no effect on their desire to enter your site, and shop? What about returning visitors, does a static front page become an annoyance, that turns them off, so they don’t come back? Continue reading
Mar 24th by Malcontent
Spam is the bane of Bloggers, and while Akismet does a super job, there are tricks you can employ to help keep them away. By using some of the available options in the settings area, you can manually ban selected IP addresses, or domain names. Heck, you can ban selected words, but with caution. The thing is, banned them, keeps them away, and that’s a good thing, in my mind. Least it stops seeing all those nasty spam numbers awaiting approval or action. Continue reading
Mar 23rd by Malcontent
The latest ICQ update has me seeing red. I mean really, what with an increase in spam in the email, to telemarketers, you would think big outfits like ICQ would produce a product, that isn’t riddled with spyware, or attempts to make changes to key settings in your browser, without giving you a choice. Yet that is exactly what ICQ does, so beware, because it wasn’t IE that let it in, but the so called safe solution to IE, FIREFOX. Makes you wonder what else it lets into your computer, when you are browsing. Continue reading
Mar 10th by Malcontent
Daylight Savings Time, which means more hassle and less sleep. I really hate losing an hour, not to mention the damn time needed to change the clocks, the blog settings in every damn blog, so as to not screw up the post schedules. This sucks, and frankly, I don’t think it saves us one bit of energy. Continue reading
Mar 07th by Malcontent
Is it okay to use a picture or advertising copy from someone without their permission? Or is it stealing, but because everyone does it, we think its okay? Maybe we just figure that we are too small of a fish for the big boys, who own the stuff, to come after us, so its a simple matter of risk management? Course, we act differently when it is our stuff, don’t we? Continue reading
Mar 04th by Malcontent
Extensive wordpress blogging tips and hints coming over the next week, including plugin favorites. Get helpful advice on using themes, and installing wordpress blogs. Continue reading
Feb 28th by Malcontent