Archive for January, 2009
As a follow up on yesterdays post about Akismet and how it's not stopping spam as effective as it used to I've counted the spam comments we've received in 3 of our blogs since the 10th of October 2008. On the graph you can see 3 major "incidents" where the comment spam skyrocketed into the [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging, Statistics
Most of you got a Gmail account even if it may not be your primary email address. It's perfect because you can download your emails to for example Outlook Express and you can access it when you're traveling. Now there a new improvement of Gmail which makes Outlook Express and other offline readers obsolete.
Gmail has [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
Most of you already know about the Wordpress plugin Akismet and you may also laready use it to stop spam in your Wordpress blog. But recently we've discovered that the plugin is not working as good as it used to.
When we started using the plugin it stopped 100% of all spam we got in our [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging
We've finally released an affiliate program at CreateBanner.com where you can earn 20% commission on all sales you refer to us. This is perfect for anyone running a banner exchange or a web site targeted to web site owners since now it's possible to earn something extra by recommending our banner design service
The [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Advertising & Marketing, Affiliate Programs, Xavier Media
Lots of Jokes.com got all the funny things you need to feel better on a grey and rainy day. They got funny commercials, videos, bloopers, one liners, blonde jokes, dirty jokes, Yo mamma jokes, political jokes, nerd jokes, computer jokes, lawyer jokes, clean jokes and many more. To make it easy they got everything funny [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Reviews
One of the thing I have to say I love the most with Wordpress is the plugin functions. It's so easy to install new plugins so it's almost silly, so therefore I'm trying out a few new plugins every month to see what kind of nice things people have come up with.
One of the plugins [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging
We got a few new banners for you to promote our coupon code 5NC25 where users can save 5% on purchases over $25 at eXavier.com. As an affiliate you get commission on all purchases and your visitors will save 5% on products like hosting and domain names.
Select the banners you like and copy [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Affiliate Programs
Google has announced that they will turn off their service for phishing protection used by Firefox 2. This due to the old protocol used for communication and that Firefox 3 is out since a long time ago.
Therefore it's important to upgrade to Firefox 3 as soon as possible because the phishing protection service will still [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
I know this is old news, but I think it's still cool.
Feedburner is giving away free vinyl stickers to anyone sending them a self-addressed stamped envelope. The sticker is round with the Feedburner flame on it. Perfect for your laptop
All you have to do is to send your envelope to them [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
The web site WebUnload.com is for sale by it's owner at SitePoint.com due to financial reasons. Web Unload is an auction web site where users can list web related stuff for sale like domain names, complete web sites, consulting services and even one or two freebies
So what's so special about this web site [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Ecommerce, The World According to Xavier
Today when I was going to check out some Feedburner stats for our RSS feeds I got a message from Google to move my Feedburner account to my Google account. Google acquired Feedburner in 2007 and since then they've been working on using similar technology for Feedburner as for all other Google services and now [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Search Engines & Directories, Xavier Media
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