Instead of trying to keep our inbox clean from spam, we should stop payment so that spammers do not receive any income according to security researchers from several universities in California. Continue Reading
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I've written before about pages at AboutUs.org and that it could be a good idea to update the page about your site at AboutUs.org. Now they've become even more useful to your site by publishing a lot of articles on Search Engine Optimization and other useful topics. Continue Reading
Posted in Domain names, Search Engines & Directories, Social Media, The World According to Xavier
Amazon has released a new service called Amazon Simple Email Service, which is integrated with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. The service is created for both businesses and developers and the pricing is really good (like most other Amazon cloud services). [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Ecommerce, The World According to Xavier
Most of you are already using Akismet and other plugins to stop spam in your blogs, but all of those plugins use server CPU and memory to stop the spam so even if the spam isn't showing up in your blog it's causing problems for your server. In on of our blogs we got about [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging, SampleAddress.com, The World According to Xavier, Tutorials
Wouldn't it be great if your email provider or the email software you're using could sort all the emails you get into what's prioritized and what's not so important? You can't really trust that people use the high importance exclamation mark correctly on emails any more since some people tend to use this on all [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, The World According to Xavier
It wasn't long ago when we upgraded MyXavier to version 0.9.3, but now we've done two more upgrades. First to version 0.9.4 and now yesterday to 0.9.5. These two latest upgrades also got a lot of nice features for you to play around with. Continue Reading
Posted in Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
On the 12th of September I noticed that John Chow unfollowed our Twitter account @XavierMedia, so I check out his Twitter account to see what was going on. Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Reviews, Social Media, Statistics, The World According to Xavier
When selecting a domain name for your web site it's important to make a good choice already from the beginning since it's hard to change the name later. It's of course possible to change domain name for a web site, but it requires a lot of hard work and you should expect to lose some [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Domain names, The World According to Xavier
As always spammers take advatage of big events to make people interested in the emails they get. And as alwasy spammers have already started sending out fake emails about the Swine Flue. McAfee is reporting about spam emails trying to use Swine Flue to sell pills. If you follow the links in any of the [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
The lesson learned from this blog post is to never send any information about your identity without first checking the identity of the company/person requesting the information. I got this email in my inbox earlier today and someone with my ID card, a copy of one of my utility bills and a copy of my [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Ecommerce
Today I notice a weird message in one of our discussion forums. It's a spam bot hosted by Keyweb AG in Germany trying to figure out if the discussion forum is moderated or not. The good thing is that this forum where the spam was posted in is actually moderated, so the spammers wont have [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
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