Archive for June, 2007
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
RoutHost Hacked
Well, my site (GoogleFan.com) was hacked, but I figure I should blame my hosting service, in conjunction with this terrible American trait of never admitting to fault or failure…
Last week I got an email from RoutHost saying:
Please be informed that the CPanel password for your website has been changed as a security measure. The new […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Hosting & Domain Names by Rob
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
CAPTCHA failing…
I’ve never minded entering those CAPTCHA numbers & letters if it means my accounts & data will be more secure, although some versions of it are too difficult, with lines running through them that make the correct answer too ambiguous.
Now it appears that spammers have developed software that can crack CAPTCHA more easily than you […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Software by Rob
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
ReMix07 - Melbourne
June 24/25 conference being run by Microsoft to promote their new Flash competitor called Silverlight. $140 for two days is not a bad price, and a very good price if you were considering buying their new Expression Web software, because every attendee gets a copy for free (worth $550!). That’s a sweet deal…
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Conferences by Rob
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
CD-WOW to pay record companies $US81M
I’d have to say I’ve been wondering how they managed to sell CDs so cheap. I’ve bought dozens of CDs from them, and they are usually under $AU20 delivered.
In the UK they’ve been found guilty of illegal importing. If they have the $US81M in the bank, then they must’ve been (until now) making a fortune. […]
Comments Off - Posted in Big Business, Blog by Rob
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
YPN now pays via PayPal
Google Adsense recently had a survey asking what publishers would like changed/improved, and one of the things I ticked was “be paid by PayPal”. Yahoo Publisher Network have now taken the lead in this regard, offering it as a payment option. This alone has me keen to try YPN
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Revenue Streams by Rob
Friday, June 1st, 2007
GoDaddy to the rescue!
All Registerfly accounts will be transferred to GoDaddy. This is great news, especially for people like myself who use GoDaddy for most of their domains already.
And it is great news for GoDaddy (who have 20 million domains), who will pick up an extra 850,000 domains to look after. They have said they aren’t buying RegisterFly, […]
