Archive for the ‘Website’ Category
Increased hits from Appulous Troll Bridge
As you probably were aware over the past four five days, kyek over at Hackulous had setup a Troll Bridge to slow people down from accessing Appulous during the server move.
I would like to extend my apologies to kyek (if you end up reading this) or if you let kyek know that I wasn’t trying to profit from this (as you may notice, there are no ads on my blog). I was simply seeing how demanding people were to get access to Appulous, which yielded over 12,000 hits in four days simply by posting the answers on my blog and Google crawling my site.
I would like to thank kyek for all the hard work that has gone into Appulous and hope it is just as a successful try before you buy site as it was prior to The Troll Bridge, keep up the good work!
What is blogging?
I thought I might write an article about Blogs (or weblogs). A blog is a type of website (like this one) which allows the individual to update it with anything they like; be it information about a certain event or a video of their animal. Think of a blog as a personal online diary, or something used as a medium to post information about a certain subject.
Tags: Blogging
Old version of flash? Firefox will let you know
If you check out the latest blog post on the Mozilla Security Blog you will notice that John Nightingale announced that both Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 will inform you if you have an outdated version of Adobe Flash Player.
Once you have installed the new version, if you have an outdated version of Adobe Flash Player you will see this warning.
If you already have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player you will see the normal screen like this.
Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, web browser
Parent’s know best when it comes to kids
So there seems that people would like some discussion around the topic that parent’s know best. Simon Tofield has created a YouTube clip (Kids aren’t that smart – Cat). What are your views on this, do parent’s really know best?
Here is a couple more YouTube clips to have a look at.
Tags: advertisement
Has reCaptcha been cracked?
I’m not sure what to say here, I have ReCaptcha on my blog to fight spam comments, and my idea was it was to stop bots from spamming the comments. Lately I have been getting 20-30 comment’s waiting for approval, ones like these:
- Yeah … Here people used to say: ABC teach – in all hut shout:).
- I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.
- Horoshaya infa!.
- Very interesting and amusing subject. I read with great pleasure.
- Purely my IMHO – you can not make the choice. Good luck, think about it..
They seem to be coming mainly from .ru domains. Has anyone else using ReCaptcha noticed this recently?
Posting from WordPress iPhone App
I downloaded version 1.3 of the WordPress iPhone Application and thought I would see what it’s like.
It’s now iPhone OS 3.0 compatible and has landscape keyboard, an easy way to add links in your posts and upload photos. If you have a WordPress Blog and have an iPhone I would recommend downloading this application.
Comcen Usage Meter
Since doing the Exetel and WestNet usage meters, Shane and I decided to create a Comcen Usage Meter. It’s written in PHP, and might be able to fix the code up a bit, so again if you have any recommendations please comment.
Now you can download it but iIt’s not as thorough as the Exetel one since thereC wasn’t as much data available to pull. It will automatically refresh every 15min.
Demo: Comcen Usage Meter
Download: Comcen Usage Meter
Tags: ComCen, usage meter
Exetel Usage Meter – Beta 2.2
If you read my previous post you would see I recently released a Exetel Usage Meter.
I have recently updated it to Beta 2.2, the changes are:
- Auto refresh every 15min
- Convert limits into KB/MB/GB
View: Demo
Download: Exetel Usage Meter
Tags: exetel, usage meter