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Content popularity versus content engagement: why you have to monitor both

The web is all about conversions and users. Long gone are days when one measured earning potential of website by earnings, total visitor count and home page pagerank alone. These metrics are simple and easy to understand. Sadly, they do not give real useful information.
Earnings are not necessarily the most informative metric of the website. [...]

Stop torturing yourself with Mcafee and uninstall it

Recently I got new dell XPS 16 with I7 processor. I am really happy with it ( I guess a post comming soon), however I want address a problem I had to solve.
You see, each time I scroll or type something, my PC froze for couple secs each 10-20 sec apart. The drivers were ok, [...]

Unboxing Google Nexus one – my impressions

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 [...]

How to remove Antivirus Soft rogue antivirus

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 [...]

SLOW PCfighter review- another registry cleaner

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 [...]

Why you should be cautious about public security advice from contractor

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, [...]

Never forget how your script will be hosted when programming for web

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 [...]

Phplists: is there something better for large newsletters?

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 [...]

Removing Antivirus Live in 3 simple steps

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 [...]

An elegant solution to clean up html comments from wordpress themes

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 [...]