I had received my brand new Google nexus one finally! As it is not available here, I had to buy it through ebay and send it by post. I had additional week to wait because of slow postal service here – they had to send information to customs and so on. I haven’t replaced my last [...]
By Giedrius
– February 4, 2010
Antivirus Soft is a rename of rogue Antivirus live. The crooks had not bothered to change much, the most significant change is in name only. Antivirus soft uses same means to reproduce : fake websites, malicious ads in social networking sites or good old fake codecs and movies.
After the download, your PC will stop executing [...]
By Giedrius
– February 1, 2010
Slow PC Fighter is a registry cleaner from same family as Spam Fighter or Virus Fighter. Registry cleaners allow fixing errors and inconsistencies in PC’s registry making PC boot and operate a bit faster. Many of them are made by security companies.
Slow PC Fighter website claims that running Slow PCFighter will increase PC speed up [...]
By Giedrius
– January 28, 2010
First, I must state here that I am affiliate of couple security products that have little to do with this post on itself. This rambling is about people motivation and truthfulness.
Spending time in some forums and social boards I met couple types of people that give professional advice there: people that were in same situation, [...]
By Giedrius
– January 23, 2010
This week I had a really interesting problem to tackle: one simple script of mine behaved not as expected. And it took me couple hours of analysis for a simple ~30 line script to find the cause.
The script on itself its quite simple one – we have 2 numbers and 2 dates, one of them [...]
By Giedrius
– January 21, 2010
I have to distribute a mailing list of circa 150 000 email clients and wondered what alternatives I have to in-house system. This has lead to some research of various options for mailing customers.
First there are 3 types of software I might use: web-based services, server based newsletter/mass mailing applications and PC software.
web-based [...]
By Giedrius
– January 15, 2010
Antivirus live is a rogue antispyware application on the same platform like cyber security and system security. It infects system by drive-by-downloads, shareware or infected websites. The difference is that Antivirus live uses a bit more complex way to protect its executables against removal and removal software.
First of all, Antivirus live enables proxy server in [...]
By Giedrius
– December 30, 2009
Typically, all popular wordpress themes come with html comments to mark endings of div block. This is required for theme developers as it is much easier to see where particular block ends.
However, I do not like leaving code like that in production site. Although some claim that HTML comments have no effect in SEO, it [...]
By Giedrius
– December 30, 2009
Sometimes friends and clients complain about competing sites that should not be there:
No obvious optimization
Content is crappy, mentions term once and in very different context
Few or no links
Design is old and ugly
However, such site is in the first page and sometimes quite high in results. So, what are the reasons for this?
Personally, I have seen [...]
By Giedrius
– December 22, 2009
Last month I took over support of one project that inspired this post. It is a website with couple static pages, news and galleries that was created with Joomla. The problem was that site owners could not support it. They are not computer savvy and the internal structure of admin panel is way too complex [...]
By Giedrius
– December 9, 2009
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