Archive for May, 2009
Are you too using Gmail, then this is really good news for you. If you use the English language version of Gmail, then you can select to activate translate for your emails. This service is still something in Google abs (Google's test environment), but since it's based on Google's translate tool it should be pretty [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
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As many other Twitter users we've been trying to earn some extra cash on our Twitter tweets using be-a-magpie.com, and as many others we've been disappointed by the complete lack of earnings Be-a-magpie.com is a service where advertisers will pay you to tweet their messages to your followers. That way you will earn some money [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Advertising & Marketing, Affiliate Programs, Social Media
Our site CreateBanner.com released yesterday a few new banner sizes in their online banner creator tool. The new sizes had been suggested by Create Banners visitors in their blog and they are: 250×300 – Big button 1 300×250 – Big button 2 180×180 – Square 1 250×250 – Square 2 300×300 – Square 3 180×730 [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Advertising & Marketing, Xavier Media
In the Google blog you can see the new logos will/have implemented for their different services. The idea with this update is to get similar logos for all services and the first services to get updated logos are maps, news and docs. Over the next few weeks more services will get updated logos too. To [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
The virus attacks the computers by older versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash. When a computer has been infected the Google search engine is then affected, whose results quietly redirects to sites that then steal information from your own computer. The aim is to obtain information, for example bank accounts and credit card numbers. [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
Now it's once again Friday and on Twitter people use to send some love to each other using the hash tag #FollowFriday (or sometimes even #FF). So how is this working? You just tweet the hash tag and the user name of the person you think done something good. Sometimes you could also include a [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Advertising & Marketing, Social Media, The World According to Xavier
Yahoo is testing a new way to display search engine results to the users, something completely different then the usual "10 blue links" way. Instead of just displaying the top 10 search results for a search, that's the usual way today, Yahoo will try to find out the "intent" of the users search, and then [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories, Social Media
Do you have the need for some new electronic devices like digital cameras and flat panel TVs, then you should have a look at BuyDig.com. They call themselves "The Internet's Digital Superstore" and that's really true because anything you want they have. When I checked out their web site they had this special deal on [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Reviews
Microsoft confirmed yesterday that there is a bug in the company's web server IIS 6. According to the Microsoft security risk is minimal since it requires that the server is configured in a special way for the security hole to be exploited. In a security bulletin that Microsoft released yesterday shows examples of the type [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
Some time ago (I think I noticed it a couple of weeks ago) Compete.com upgraded their traffic graphs to be flash based instead of the static PNG images they used to be. This is is a really nice move since flash graphs provide more flexibility and also more information to the users about specific domain [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Domain names, Statistics
Twitter is the best mico-blogging service where users can easily tell the world short messages as soon as they happen. But the downside with Twitter is that they don't earn any money at the moment, and all Twitter fans should be concerned about this since a service that can't earn any money at all can [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Social Media, The World According to Xavier
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