Archive for January, 2007

Nigerian Scam - Still Going

Being in the internet biz, I get quite a bit of email every day. Being that I use Outlook, I make use of Cloudmark to filter crap out of my inbox. But, stuff still gets through, and yesterday I got another issue of the famous Nigerian scam. It’s a classic, too. I guess I should [...]

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Paid Software - Given Away

I was doing a little of my usual net surfing tonight while I watch the season premiere of 24 and ran across a resource that I want to pass on. It doesn’t have a whole lot to do with internet business, however anybody with a computer might find this interesting. The site is Giveaway of [...]

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Using Wordpress to Podcast and Video Blog

Rich and I have been working the past few days on putting the finishing touches on PCMechTV.com, the new multimedia branch of PC Mechanic. There’s a bit of a sneak peak, actually, because other than one little link on PCMech to this site, I haven’t even announced it yet. Now, I recently got into using [...]

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Instant Messaging…The Way To Go

I found a post over at LifeHacker about a new study. The study, done by Computer Standards and Interfaces, says that instant messaging is more efficient that email when it comes to non-face-to-face meetings. According to the study, “It seems that teams that collaborate using a instant messaging software like MSN messenger or GoogleTalk generate [...]

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AdBrite Launches Video Ad Service

For those who work with a lot of online video (like I do), you may be interested in a new service which AdBrite has just soft-launched. The service is called InVideo. They’ve created an embeddable media player (just like Youtube) which allows you to have your own videos played on your website, but allows AdBrite [...]

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Robots.Txt - The Often Forgotten File

This is one of those files that almost any web bot will look for on your server. If it is there, it can be useful. If it isn’t, your log file will be filled with 404 errors. So, what is it? Well, it is literally a file on your server called robots.txt. It is a [...]

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How Does Your Forum Compare?

A new site called ForumRank was recently launched. The idea behind the site is that you sign up and set your forum up to be ranked and compared with other forums on factors such as posting rate and registration rate (among others). They will be coupling this with articles and interviews on the subject of [...]

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