It’s hard to believe that the old Nigerian (aka 419 or advance fee fraud) scams still do so well; but they are and costing Australians around $36 million a year. (more…)
Aussies sucked in by Nigerian scams
Live Search new backlinks tool
Links from quality sites are so important in search engine optimization as they act as “votes” for the page they link to. Besides, that, it’s always interesting to find out who is linking to you. Live Search recently launched a new tool to make backlink hunting a little easier. (more…)
Retailers reaching out to bloggers
There’s an interesting story on Internet Retailer about how some companies are reaching out to bloggers. (more…)
All you zombies
Apologies to The Hooters – great song, love 80’s music :). Panda Labs latest report on spam states that over 10 million zombie computers across the planet on any given day are spewing out spam and malware infected emails. (more…)
Beware of breaking news spam
I’m a bit of a news hound and like to know about events as they happen, but recently I’ve been getting rather odd “breaking news”; purportedly from major news services. (more…)
Kudos Team Kerio!
Unashamed plug here for the good folks who produce Kerio auto/air notebook adapters who have provided me with an outstanding level of customer service over the years. (more…)
Naming your PDFs
At the end of each week, I clean up my desktop as usually there’s no more room for any icons. I take a slash and burn approach – and sometimes good stuff gets deleted. (more…)
Search engine use survey
The number of people using search engines daily has increased from around one-third in 2002, to just under 50% this year. (more…)
Shady SEO services
If you have engaged the services of an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) professional and have no idea what they are up to – watch out! (more…)
Computing in the cloud
It seems we’ve come full circle. Before the PC, computers were usually dumb terminals hooked into a networked mainframe. Sound familiar? (more…)