Archive for April, 2008
I decided to update my list of Pagerank 10 websites I posted earlier since Google is said to have updated their pagerank. So here's the updated list:
validator.w3.org Downgraded to PR9
web.mit.edu
www.adobe.com
www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/index.html New on the list
www.adobe.com/downloads/ New on the list
www.adobe.com/products/index.html New on the list
www.adobe.com/downloads/ New on the list
www.apple.com/quicktime/download Downgraded [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
A lot of blogs (Still a PR0, Google page rank updating, but…, Google PageRank is Updating, Woo Hoo! I finally got a decent PageRank!) are reporting about an update in the Google Pagerank. Some got increased pagerank some didn't see any change at all.
ProBlogger.com has been notified about the update from 47 people, so we [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
The sunrise period for the .ME top level domain has started and will end on the 20th of May 2008. A sunrise period is when trademark holders can register their trademarks as domain names in a new top level domain like country code domain .ME.
After the sunrise period closes, domain names requested by multiple trademark-holders [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Domain names, Xavier Media
Most of us have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 when it's now time for another upgrade. This time it's a more urgent upgrade since it includes a security fix and about 70 bug fixes:
We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
My [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging
To those on the outside looking in, life on the internet looks like a bed of roses with “everyone” making big bucks and living the highlife. Oh, if only that was the case!
The problem with life on the internet is time, and the lack of it, there is never enough time to do what [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
We've updated the submission process for ArticleFinders.com so now you can register and submit your articles directly from the dashboard (instead of using a lousy form).
To submit your articles, simply just check out this page for some more instructions.
url='http://www.xaviermedia.com/webbing/2008/04/23/more-articles-needed/';username='XavierMedia'; Continue Reading
Posted in Xavier Media
When we moved this blog to a new IP address (so we host all our blogs on the same Wordpress installation) we also added Gravatars. If you post a comment in this blog and got a Gravatar you'll see your avatar next to your comment (otherwise you'll see the standard Gravatar).
Gravatars are globally recognized avatars [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging
Today's most popular search in Google is "green apple festival". According to Google it got it's peak about 2 hours ago and is extremely popular search in Washington, DC, so it must be a local festival. By searching in Google I found out that it must be about the Green Apple Music Festival at greenapplemusicfestival.com. [...] Continue Reading
Posted in The World According to Xavier
Now all hosting companies offering IIS and SQL Server on Windows XP, 2003, Vista, and Server 2008 must watch out for a vulnerability allowing local users to raise his privilege level.
Microsoft stated in their advisory:
Hosting providers may be at increased risk from this elevation of privilege vulnerability.
But no explanation was provided.
Since IIS is a popular [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
To win 700 EC you must comment in this post. Any comment more the just "good luck" or "I wana win" is acceptable and will give you a chance to win 700 Entrecard crredits. The winner will be selected on the 16th 18th of May.
The winner in our last contest
The winner is….. guess what it's [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Xavier Media
As more and more people look to work from home, setting up their very own empire online, does a successful site mean that you can have no social life at all? Or is it all down to how you plan your day?
The vast majority of websites will not require cover 24 hours a day 7 [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging
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