Archive for the 'Unfiled' Category

How to know when to drop a domain

We’ve all been there. You have a great idea for a web site and go out and grab up a domain before someone else can get to it. 5 years later the domain still has a parking page and you haven’t done anything other than pay GoDaddy 9 bucks on every anniversary of [...]

SMF and StopForumSpam.com

Found a great site over at StopForumSpam.com. Over the past few weeks I’ve been checking registrations on a couple of my forums against their database. What I’ve found is that most of the registrations have been spammers and they’ve gotten the axe. But after deleting 15-20 per day I wanted a little more [...]

Google Alerts now available in RSS

Google Alerts is now available through an RSS feed instead of having to come through email. If you’re not already using Google Alerts to keep track of news for your sites, now may be a good time to start.

YouTube looks to offering full length TV shows

YouTube will start offering full length TV shows with ads as Google is trying to get more revenue out of the video sharing site.
Full story at NYTimes.com

Why blocking right-clicks is a waste of time

There’s another forum I’m on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems.  People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it.
The problem is that it’s trivial for anyone with a moderate amount of [...]