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Weekend Roundup #18

Sunday, February 3, 2008

If you've been extremely busy and got caught up with school, work and other activities, you could've missed that it's already February. Time flies so fast! Anyways, here's the first edition of the Weekend Roundup for the month of February. Enjoy! Pinoy Blogosphere Attention all bloggers in Cebu, there will be a Bloggers Meetup this coming February 7, 6:00 pm at the iBrowse Internet Cafe near Cebu Doctor's University. For more information, check out Max Limpag's post. I'm sure McBilly is already excited about it. My friend Jhay Rocas shares how he backs up his blog's database automatically using the WordPress Database Backup Plugin. Studies show that Internet users are starting to get more and more ad-blind. If you're making money online via clickthroughs and are worried about this issue, Manuel Viloria explains how you can come up with an alternative source of income using only your blog. Andrew Dela Serna talks about the recent rumors of Google setting up a data center in Malaysia and points out some reasons why the Philippines should be or shouldn't be considered.

Another PayPal Phishing Email

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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Last week, I received another phishing email pretending to be from PayPal. This time, it was easier to spot that it was a fake email compared to the first PayPal phishing email I got earlier this month. What’s good is that Gmail’s spam filtering system was able to detect it was a phishing email and [...]

Xinu: Pagerank, Alexa, Technorati and More

Monday, July 23, 2007

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Here’s one tool that I’m sure any webmaster or blogger would definitely love. It’s called Xinu. What is Xinu? It’s a tool that lets you check your website or blog’s PageRank, Alexa rank, backlinks, Technorati rank, feed subscribers, domain validation/diagnostics and many more. Btw, if you haven’t noticed the name comes from Unix spelled backwards. [...]

Firefox + IE = Security Flaw?

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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This is the first time I’ve heard of a security flaw that’s caused or involves two browsers. Most of the time, known security flaws are found in Internet Explorer and sometimes in Firefox. But this time it involves both browsers. At first, security researchers laid the blame for the latest zero-day exploit on Microsoft’s Internet [...]

Kill Bill’s Browser

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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Just by reading the title of this post, do you have any idea what it’s about? If not, then here’s a little explanation: Bill Gates = Microsoft = Internet Explorer. Got it? Bill Gates owns Microsoft, the company that which the infamous browser Internet Explorer comes from. Therefore the nickname, “Bill’s Browser”. I came across [...]

Firefox Add-ons for Bloggers

Saturday, April 21, 2007

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I’m an avid fan of Mozilla Firefox and have been using it for about 6 years now. I started using it when it was still called Firebird. From the moment I started using Firefox, I never looked back. I only use Internet Explorer for downloading Windows updates , the Microsoft website and other sites designed [...]

WP Theme Review: iTheme

Sunday, April 15, 2007

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iTheme is Mac inspired 2-column, widget-ready WordPress theme created by Nick La of N. Design Studio. He’s the same guy that gave us the cool Glossy Blue theme. I’m pretty sure all the Mac fans would be very happy to see and use this theme on their blogs. iTheme is a WordPress theme that is [...]

Blogger.com Hijacked by Scammers

Sunday, March 18, 2007

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Be careful with what blogs you visit. Google’s Blogger.com is reportedly being hijacked by scammers to spread malware through fake blogs. Security experts are calling this the “fake blog scam”. Blog hopping or surfing hasn’t been this dangerous. Scammers are creating what would seem as a normal-looking blogs with ordinary topics like “Star Wars, school, [...]

Enable Firefox Spell Check in WP 2.1

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

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For those of you who use Firefox, I’m sure you’re familiar with it’s inline spell checking feature. WordPress has it’s spell check option but I never use it because of Firefox’s automatic inline spell checking. It helps me when I write or proofread my drafts. Makes it easier and faster because it immediately underlines a [...]

Firefox Tab Effect

Friday, January 12, 2007

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Just downloaded and installed this Firefox extension called Tab Effect. It doesn’t have much functionality, it was made for the sole purpose of visual amusement, in other words “eye candy”. What does it do? Once installed in Firefox, everytime you switch tabs it will rotate the tab window sideways. The effect is like one you’ll [...]

Clever Keys

Monday, January 8, 2007

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When composing a letter, document or a blog entry most of the time I have to look up words in the dictionary, Google or Wikipedia. Previously, I only used a Firefox extension called Dictionary Lookup Extension to look up the definition of words. However, I felt that it was kinda limited. It only looks up [...]