December 2006

phpBB Forum Spammer Registration Mod – Kill the SpamBots!

December 19, 2006 Forums

I found a great mod for phpBB forum administrators. This particular mod will ban any user who registers for your forum from a particular time zone. I’m not sure if many newbies to phpBB are aware, but most SPAM registrations come from GMT-12 Timezone. If you can prevent users from registering from that zone, you’ll [...]

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Need Money? ReviewMe Fails to Deliver any Cash

December 18, 2006 Affiliate Marketing

Boy am I annoyed! I, like hundreds, if not thousands of others, was excited about the launch of ReviewMe last month. My first review request came in, and I followed all directions to the letter, posting my review of the company requesting it on November 23. It is now December 18th. I have not recieved [...]

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Are Blogrolls Dead or Do I Need One?

December 13, 2006 Blogging

I haven’t heard much conversation in the blogosphere about the use of blogrolls. What I have seen is that the top blogs no longer use them. Is this a recent trend? I have my theories, but I think the blogroll is still important for newer blogs. Today, one of my favorite real estate bloggers, Teresa, [...]

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How to Protect Your Website’s Copyright When Someone Steals Your Content

December 10, 2006 Google

There is nothing worse for a webmaster than finding out that your site has been copied. Every time I find out that someone has stolen my intellectual property my blood boils! Instead of just getting angry, there are steps you can take to stop the violations of your Copyright, which I’ve outlined in this article. [...]

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Need a Good Feed Reader or Aggregator for Mac

December 8, 2006 Blogging

I’ve been suffering a bit here with my new iMac. Everything is perfect, except I’m lacking an adequate feed reader / aggregator. I’m currently using an aggregator called Vienna, a RSS reader for Mac OS X, but it does not compare to FeedReader (the PC reader I’ve been using). Vienna lacks the ability to easily [...]

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More Lemons from Apple

December 8, 2006 Apple

We’ve all heard about my lemon from Apple Computer. The very day I got my replacement computer I set my iPod down on top of my digital camera while sync-ing with my new machine, and destroyed it! You heard me correctly! The iPod (30GB Video) was fried by a digital camera. Actually, the camera was [...]

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Apple Redeems Itself

December 6, 2006 Mac

The iMac saga was resolved without a problem. I guess I know why everyone raves about Apple. I brought my brand new broken iMac to the local Apple store yesterday and was amazed at the service I got. After the tech guy tried to turn on my machine and saw the problem, he told me [...]

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Why Switch to a Mac? Reasons Why You Should Stay With Your PC

December 5, 2006 Mac

For years I’ve been contemplating switching over to a Mac. I know that they are more secure and have less vulnerabilities to bugs and viruses, but it is hard if you’re a hard-core PC user. I finally took the plunge this week and bought a shiny new 20″ 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac! What [...]