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Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics
Dec 16th
Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect’s hard drive during a raid. The hacker tool, dubbed DECAF, is designed to counteract the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, aka COFEE. The latter is a suite of 150 bundled, off-the-shelf forensic tools that [...]
Mininova Traffic Plummets After Going Legal
Dec 11th
Mininova was still the largest torrent site on the Internet, but this quickly changed after the site’s founders removed of millions of torrents to avoid having to pay millions of dollars in fines. In the days that followed, traffic to the site dropped 66%, while the number of daily downloads are less than 4% of [...]
Microsoft Offers Web Designers Free Tools to Build and Host New Websites
Dec 10th
Microsoft has been working hard to get their software tools in the hands of people who are starting out new ventures, and these efforts have been widely well-received. For instance, the DreamSpark program has provided design and development tools to students worldwide free of charge, while the BizSpark program has provided licenses for the same [...]
Google AdSense Optimization Tips – WordCamp Presentation
Dec 10th
Google AdSense Optimization Tips 1. Don’t Feel Shy – If you are seriously willing to monetize your website with AdSense, make sure that you place advertisements in prominent locations where visitors will notice the ads. 2. The best performing ad units for AdSense are 160×600, 336×280 and 300×250. For text only ads, you should go [...]
Enhance Google Search Results with Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, etc.
Dec 10th
WebMynd is an extremely useful Firefox add-on that embed search results from Flickr, Wikipedia, Backtype (for blog comments), Delicious, Digg, Amazon, LinkedIn and a dozen other custom locations into Google search pages. It’s like building a personal Google Universal Search page but you have complete control over sources that are displayed in the search results. [...]
Site Clinic: An SEO Checklist for your Website
Dec 10th
Adam Lasnik, along with members of the Search Quality team at Google, picked up a couple of audience websites and reviewed them live to provide feedback that will help these sites become more accessible and ultimately improve visibility in search engines. Following are the key areas of a website that were examined during the Site [...]
Banned AdSense Publisher Gets His Money Back from Google
Dec 10th
It’s not uncommon to hear stories of disgruntled AdSense publishers whose accounts have been permanently banned by Google either due to “non-compliance with AdSense policies” or for “posing a significant risk to AdWords advertisers.” The compliance issue is almost always related to content. For instance, if any particular website is centered around banned topics (like [...]
Tutorial: How to Write an IE8 Web Slice for WordPress Blogs
Dec 10th
Web Slices are perhaps one of the coolest features in Windows Internet Explorer 8. Some people might find them similar to the Live Bookmarks feature of Firefox but in reality, IE 8 Web Slices can do much more than track simple RSS feeds. Let me explain. Say you are tracking an item on eBay and [...]
Find Your Most Popular Web Pages on Twitter with Google Docs
Dec 10th
If you were to measure the popularity of your website content on Twitter, the most effective way would be that you count the number of tweets (and re-tweets) that are linking to your web pages. For instance, I can go to backtweets.com and it will instantly show me a list of twitter messages (and their [...]
Publish the Same Blog Post to Multiple Blogging Sites at Once
Dec 10th
Problem: You got multiple blogs hosted on different blogging platforms and are looking for simple ways to cross-post or publish the same blog post on all these blogs at once. Solution: There are several options / workarounds but my favorite is Blog It! – this blogging editor is available as a Facebook application and lets [...]
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