Archive for March, 2008
As you may have already noticed, Wordpress 2.5 is here! But did you know that you have to upgrade as soon as possible if you don't want your blog to be hijacked by Wily JavaScript?
As I reported in the Antivirus blog Shoemoney.com reported that people had had their blogs "hacked", but it was uncertain how. [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging
The latest version of Wordpress is only a few days old when I noticed this urgent post in the TrendLabs blog regarding the old version of Wordpress (version 2.3.3 that is). It's always important to upgrade your software, and this time it can really hurt your visitors and subscribers if you don't
This javascript [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging
Three Xavier Media blogs are in the top 3 in their categories at Entrecard . The blogs are the Xavier Media blog, Finding Public Information and Entrecard Contests. Lets just hope we can have some more blogs in the Top 3
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Posted in Miscellaneous
As we all know, the world of business is littered with once friendly partnerships which suddenly descend into chaos and fallout when the big bucks start to roll in, but are you better off working alone or with a business partner?
While there is no right or wrong answer, we hereby list a few of points [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging
As I've written somewhere before Xavier Media is using Google Apps for email and sharing documents like spreadsheets internally. As administrator I got an email from Google today telling me about some new features and one feature I thin will be really helpful is the Google Talk badge.
It's simply a badge you put on your [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories, Xavier Media
Oh my God, I jost got an email from Twitter that Problogger is following me #
I've just started using Twhirl Let's see how it's working #
@88michael Why oh why!!!! Are you using IE Change to Firefox instead. #
@shoemoney No absolutely not. I think that's easy enough to get a [...] Continue Reading
Posted in The World According to Xavier
WebHostingChoice.com is another web hosting directory, but it's much more nice and clean in the layout then any other hosting directory I've ever seen before . Most web hosting directories are packed with ads, usually so many ads that the content and the comparisons are hard to find, but not in this directory.
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Posted in Web Hosting
I guess you've all seen that sometimes when you visit a site or bookmark a new page their icon is not the usual standard icon. Have a look at the following examples if you haven't noticed the icons before:
As you can see, www.sampleaddress.com got the boring standard icon while blog.xaviermedia.com got the Xavier Media [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Uncategorized
TrendMicro is this morning reporting about manipulated ratings at eBay.co.uk. The ratings at eBay show the users history using stars. The more stars (five is the maximum) a user got the more successful trades have been completed and the more trusted a user can be.
The manipulation works like this. The unsuspecting user visits one [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
Party classics on the web radio #
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Posted in The World According to Xavier
I think Google only hires developers with a good sense of humor. I base this on all the funny features and hidden jokes you can find in almost every Google product or service. Here's a couple of funny things I've found.
Easter game
Since it's Easter you simply just have to try the Easter bunny game Google [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
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