Pretexting is a criminal method of acquiring private information by pretending to be a legitimate authority and is primarily done over the phone. Pretexter can then sell this information or use this for identity theft. Read More »
WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plug in (WAUP) is an amazing plugin that can quickly upgrade the blog to the latest version. It follows recommended process for WordPress Blog upgrade which includes backing up blog (WP files and database), deactivating plugins, replacing files with current versions and then reactivating plug-ins. Read More »
After few days of launching Knol, Google is being criticized for artificially increasing ranking of Knol articles. I decided to take a look at Yahoo ranking for these keywords.
There are few examples shared. Search Engine Land test picked 30 knols from homepage and 10 out of these showed up on first page. Let’s compare these on Yahoo. I am going to check Google again as Search rankings in Google might have changed since the time, article was written. Read More »
With Firefox 3, mailto links can be customized to use web mail application. If you have opted for yahoo mail (or other web mail app) to open with mailto links but mailto links are still opening other application (or other webmail app such as Gmail), take a look at possible conflicting add-ons. Read More »
Cuil, a New Search Engine, launched today claiming to be better and more comprehensive than Google. Cuil is taking a different and refreshing approach to search. Search results are displayed in columns with more summaries of search results (downside being fewer results per page). Related searches are shown in tabs. Categories are also shown to fine tune results. Cuil has arguably found a way to index web for lower cost and that way they can index more pages faster than current search engines. Read More »
Wired has a fun tool for calculating Internet Celebrity score called Celebrity Meter. The tool calculates score based on number of links to your personal page/blog, social media friends etc. The tool is currently in beta and should give an idea of internet fame. Read More »
There have been some discussions in blogsphere about Google trying to compete with Content producers. Knol is Google’s online article publishing service. Anybody can write article for free and earn ad revenue. Knol was recently opened for everybody after being announced last year. Many blogs have reacted strongly (Recently Problogger, Journalistopia, and earlier on Tech Crunch, Search Engine Land), on Google becoming a direct competitor to publishing partners. Is Knol in direct competition with Blogs and Media companies and is it fair? Read More »
Google opened Knol to everybody after announcing it last year. Knol is another free web publishing tool in which author can earn ad money. Main point Google is trying to stress here is focus on authors. Moderated collaboration is allowed and encouraged.
Most Blogs (TC, SEL) are comparing Knol with Wikipedia because of collaboration features. Knol is more like Squidoo or Hubpages. Read More »
Dead-links.com is tool that can check your website for invalid links and list these links. Dead-links reports both internal and external links. Read More »
Zero day exploit is taking advantage of security vulnerability before it is known and fixed. Hackers are becoming faster at exploiting vulnerabilities and takes advantage of time needed to know vulnerability, fix it and distribute the fix. Attackers can use this time to spread malwares such as viruses, worms etc. Read More »
Firewall is a software application that controls incoming and outgoing network traffic for computer. Personal firewall is targeted for End users and typically protects one computer.
Here are key benefits of using a personal firewall Read More »
Google extended search capabilities to video with speech to text. Now we can search not only title or description of videos, but spoken content also. This is limited to only few 2008 US election videos in Youtube at this time and will be extended. Using Speech to text capabilities, audio part of the video is converted into text and indexed. Read More »
Phishing is a criminal fraud in which Phisher attempts to steal personal information such as user name, password, bank account number, pin, credit card number etc by pretending to be a trustworthy website. It typically involves sending an email or IM link that appears to be from a trustworthy source such as Bank, Credit Card Company, Paypal, ebay etc and then redirects user to a fake website where user enters personal information. Read More »
Wordpress 2.6 is released with new and improved features. Key features are version control (similar to Wikipedia), Google gears support, and ‘Press This’ bookmark for quick posting. Read More »
Wordpress 2.5.1 seems to have an issue with iframe as code disappears if you open or edit the post/page in Visual Mode and save or publish it. Read More »
