FAQ
Fake Adobe Flash Player Install – Don’t Be Fooled
This ugly critter has raised it’s head once or twice in the past (June 2007, Sept 2008), but seems to be back and even more realistic than ever.
You are surfing along and when you land on a site that contains any type of flash movie (and some that don’t!), you get a popup box that says your Adobe Flash version is out of date and needs to be updated.
Since it appears real enough, and because most computer users know they have Adobe installed, many will click on it. Don’t. It is Malware. Read the rest of Fake Adobe Flash Player Install - Don't Be Fooled Read more »
Fix The Dreaded Memory Leak In FireFox
If you have followed my advice on your browser of choice, you might have noticed that after running a while, FireFox gets a little RAM hungry. I found a tweak you can do to improve performance and reclaim some of the memory it eats voraciously.
I found this little tidbit in a number of places across the web when I went looking for a solution, but will credit the original author and his site. You can click the link in the source box below the article to see any updates he might have posted.
Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear… Read the rest of Fix The Dreaded Memory Leak In FireFox Read more »
5 Ways To Reduce Blog Spam
Has this happened to you?
You wake up, eager to spend some time on your blog and stumble bleary-eyed over to the computer to see what wonderous activities have happened on your blog during your well deserved but long over due slumber. Blinking the *sleepies* from your eyes you login to your email client and see 382 new messages from your blog announcing comments!
Excited to see the… Read the rest of 5 Ways To Reduce Blog Spam Read more »
Akismet ~ Stopping The Spam Madness
If you have had a blog up for any length of time, you are starting to get spam. It’s a fact of life. Sadly.
However, there are some proactive things you can do to stop the spam madness.
By default, Wordpress comes with a plugin called Akismet . However, in order to use it, you have to get an API key for yourself. Strangely enough, you have to… Read the rest of Akismet ~ Stopping The Spam Madness Read more »
FAQ: Automate Article Submissions?
Recently received this question from a loyal reader named Jim F. (Okay, gotta protect his privacy unless he says differently), about a conversation we had recently regarding “Article Marketing” and improving your SEO rankings and traffic to your website.
Decided to start a new category on the blog to handle those questions I get asked a lot so everyone can see the “answer”. If you have a question yourself… Read the rest of FAQ: Automate Article Submissions? Read more »
