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Archive for November, 2009
Awesome USB-Powered Alien
In: Humor
20 Nov 2009Sadly, this alien has no storage or moving parts. But it’s still awesome – it sticks a glowing tongue out when you plug it in!
iPhone App Tells You How Attractive You Are
In: Humor
19 Nov 2009Not sure how attractive you really are? There’s an app for that.
The app is called “Fit or Fugly,” judges your appearance based off the proportions of your face. You submit a photo of yourself, and then use the touch screen to make sure the app knows where your nose, ears, eyes and mouth are. I [...]
Is Your WordPress Up To Date?
18 Nov 2009The biggest security measure you can take to avoid getting hacked is to always have the most current versions of third-party applications (like WordPress).
Google Wave Reviewed!
In: Humor
17 Nov 2009Google Wave – Theory vs. Reality. I have high hopes for Wave, but sadly this picture is true so far.
Google Considering Site Speed As Ranking Factor
16 Nov 2009Rumor has it that Google is looking to add your site’s speed as a factor in its search algorithm (yet another reason to not use free web hosting). Recently at PubCon, a presenter from Google noted that there is hard lobbying from many employees at Google to add page load time to the search algorithm, [...]
Pac-Man Uses Twitter
In: Humor
10 Nov 2009About this blog
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- Jake Gomez: i always update my Twitter and i love to twitter my daily activities to my friends [...]
- Kim Lautner: I use both Bing and Google search engine and i dont see much difference in their search [...]
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- Social Media Cheat Sheet
- Bing Bans Adult Words In The Middle East
- Topeka Is Now Google?
- Behind The Scenes Of Twitter’s Growth
- Protect WordPress From Malicious URL Requests
- The Downside To Twitter Lists
- Foursquare Adds More Services
- How To Calculate The True Size Of Gadgets
- Sadly, This Is Me In Public
- Apparently People Really Do Click On Nigerian Spam Emails
The Simplest Solution For Comment Spam
In: Blogs| WordPress
11 Nov 2009One of the worst things about the Internet is spam! If you’ve had a blog for more than 5 seconds, chances are your comments are constantly being flooded with spam comments. A really effective plugin is Akismet, but even it doesn’t eliminate spam – it only filters it.
A very simple way to keep a lot [...]