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AntivirusBEST – how to get it from your PC

AntivirusBest is a scam – a parasite designated to capture your attention with multiple popups or fake security center alerts, and then convice you to pay for its full version. It is not different to other rogues from 2009 batch – that is it has no useful capabilities and only pretends to scan your PC [...]

Feedburner Wordpress plugins : take care while upgrading to 2.7 or 2.8

Yesterday I tweeked my blog’s feeds and looked for a plugin to integrate feedburner seemlesly. This appeared a bit more tricky than thought: Upgrade to wordpress 2.7 made some feedburner plugins inoperable. This includes most popular FeedSmith plugin. Some other Wordpres feed plugins are not working too. I am not sure if it is wordpress [...]

Contraviro – another rogue spyware parasite

Contraviro… does this name sounds familiar? Yeah, it is a slight variation of ContraVirus, a rogue active a year ago. It looks like Contra Viro method is timeless : push infections in fake video sites, or add a Trojan present to some crappy shareware. After that, wait push fake security alerts into the botnet of [...]

Ride twitter wave, don’t get lots in it

If you were in twitter for couple last weeks, you have noticed plenty of green avatars there. This is due to the fuss about Iran election, to show support to Iran opposition. It is good example how a cause can go viral in social network as long as it gets initial push from significant figures [...]

A followup on pagerank sculpting

This is a quick post about pagerank scultping being dead.
This nice post explores options still existing for sculpting pagerank in websites.
I am still 100% sure that nofollow link attribute is sort of useless for actively supported sites

5 things to look at when comparing php frameworks

I had read a post at sitepoints about 16 php 5 frameworks. I will not argue the fact that frameworks are good and you should use one. What saddens me is that the key points of comparison are omitted in the post.
So, how to compare different php 5 frameworks? Let us see.
1. Paradigms used. Although MVC [...]

Page Rank sculpting is dead. Long live Page rank sculpting

PageRank Sculpting is dead. Matt Cutts announcement about how google handles no-follow links was a big news for “advanced seo” users. It caused quite big buzz in blogosphere, especially because of the way it was announced. A post in official google blog would be taken much calmer than indirect announcement during SMX.
PageRank sculpting is a [...]

12 things to do when launching new website

Switch off debugging output. All errors and warnings should go to logs and not your site output. You might leave it for your office IP’s, if you have a way to see what others see (additional IP’s or proxies). You do not want others to know what happens in your site, especially if your debugger [...]

Specifications – you need them for web project as well

My blog post is inspired by a meeting where I had a role of mediator between web developing company and customer. The issues were quite simple and common: increasing costs due to neglected specifications and some badly described features.
Customer and web development company are in the same boat, although this fact is often forgotten once [...]

I am using Seesmic Desktop. You should use it too

I had no fun in twitter till I saw first destop client.  It was tweetdeck – a powerful and really nice application that had won my heart at once. However, there is a couple problems with it at the moment, and the most noticeable is memory leak. I tend to leave my laptop always on, [...]