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Was looking at YouTube earlier and spotted (it was hard to miss) a giant banner advert from Microsoft’s Bing. “Bing is beautiful because seeing is better than searching” Not entirely …
Bing Advertises on Worlds Second Search Engine Read MoreI just used Blekko for the third or fourth time today and instead of getting their search engine I get the following message: we’re sorry… There are an unusual number …
Blekko is Sorry – There are an unusual number of requests coming from this IP Read MoreJust found this page on the Ubuntu website, bookmarking it here. Looks like need to make some changes to get the .htaccess working. Also seems that I could have installed …
Linux Apache MySQL PHP Server aka LAMP Read MoreThe Trusty BBC iPlayer Internet Speed Test Shows That My Need For Speed Has Been Fulfilled Once Again Woo hoo! I have proper Internet again! Took me 2 months to sort it …
ASUS AI Suite and ASUS Network iControl Slowed Me for 2 Months! Read MoreGoogle has decided to cancel its plans to enter an advertising partnership with Yahoo. Google stated the reason being to avoid having a “protracted legal battle” with regulators. The partnership …
Google’s Deal With Yahoo is Ditched Read MoreUpdate: Disavow did not lead to a recovery. Something else happened. But I know not what! Something to do with site-wide links I think. Strange. I removed a bunch of …
Penguin 2 Recovery After Using Google Disavow Tool – IGNORE Read MoreFacebook is possibly the most successfull social website ever created. And the two people behind it have decided it is time to move on. Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein have …
Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, creators of Facebook, start a new project Read MoreAnother long title…. OK, today was one of the most worrying days for me so far. This is how the day panned out. This morning I was reviewing a website …
Why Googlebot Stopped Coming To My Site And How I Got It Back Read MoreIn the modern era, almost every company is dependant on their IT systems to function day-to-day and any kind of unforeseen circumstance could be potentially devastating. Anything from the smallest …
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Cyber Crime & Warfare Read MoreI am not sure when it happened, but at some point in the last year or so, every single bad or even just annoying event has lead me to want …
When Did I Become An eActivist? Read MoreOK. just read up on what Molly-Guard is, and it is just a way to prevent the server being accidentely shut down remotely. There is a nice little story behind …
Molly Guard Installed Read MoreThe global recession is undoubtedly going to affect the IT industry, as it is affecting all market sectors. We have already seen warnings from Google, Yahoo and eBay, with reductions …
IT Opportunities in a Global Recession Read MoreReally, to be fair to Google, the title should read “when the application of Google web authorship goes wrong”. Maybe I will change the title. Maybe I will change the …
When Google Web Authorship Goes Wrong Read MoreOnce again Cre8asiteforums.com have produced an excellent resource for web entrepreneurs. This time Iamlost has written a post detailing what he believes to be the most important marketing blogs on …
Marketing Advice For Your Website and Blog Read MoreTweet In the news today, biggest Search Engine story for some time. Yahoo Search is dead. It will use Bing’s engine for its search. The partnership between Yahoo and MS …
Yahoo Ditches Its Search Engine and Uses Bing Instead Read MoreNews in that the latest gaming console business to get hacked is Nintendo. A group has already claimed responsibility – Lulz Security. This is the same group which attacked Sony recently. The …
Nintendo Hacked By Lulz Security Read MoreWordPress 3.0 is a highly anticipated upgrade for the popular blogging and content management system. WordPress merges the WPMU (WordPress multi user) system with the standard WordPress, so that any …
WordPresss 3 is Here – A Message from Matt Mullenweg Read MoreJust getting a quote for health insurance on a popular UK health insurers site. There is an opt out box before the quote that says: We would like to contact …
Annoying Opt Outs on Sites Read MoreGoogle’s social network, Orkut, has been overlooked by most Americans and Europeans, but is hugely popular in Brazil and India. The Orkut project was born as a result of Google’s …
Google Introduces Adsense to Orkut Read MoreIt’s funny. In a world of constant change, nobody really likes change. Every time Facebook makes a minor change to its service people complain. However, the Internet is a fast …
Once Popular Internet Services That Have Been Closed Down Read MoreThere is a new techy word – Hacktivists. Hackers + Activists = Hacktivists. So, what are hacktivists and what do hacktivists actually do? Like activists, hactivists believe in taking immediate action …
The Rise Of The Hacktivists Read MoreWhat is Moozvine? Moozvine is a combination of digital publisher and crowd funding platform. Its mission is to revolutionize the way we publish books and music in the digital age. The …
Moozvine – a new digital publishing platform that sets your content free Read MoreOver at the Google blog they are reminiscing a little today. Their latest article, Evolving the Google design and experience, talks about how the core Google service, its search engine, has …
How Google Has Changed In The Last 14 Years Read MoreIf you want to watch downloaded movies on your TV instead of on your computer you need to either buy new hardware or convert the movies into a file format …
Converting MKV files to MP4 with FFMPEG Read More