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May
9

Tracking 404 hits with google analytics

I’ll keep this short as I’m in a bit of a rush but here is a handy way of tracking those annoying 404 errors via google analytics! Firstly, ensure that whenever your 404 page shows it has a custom title, something along the lines of “Websitename.com – 404 not found” so that you can easily spot this title. You must also ensure that the URL showing in the url bar when a user hits... 
May
5

Purchasing quality Articles – an experiment

Ah, the eternal quest for a quality article at reasonable price! I’m sure if you have been in the online money making game for a while you will have at one point or another considered purchasing some content. Quality content is the corner stone of any great website, not only does it keep your readers intrigued and willing to share amongst their friends, but also google freaking loves it. http://www.timbystechtalk.com/seoarticlewritingpros I... 
Apr
6

CRE Reloaded hack redirection clean up

Just a quick post today! I came across a clients site the other day that had been hacked, no matter what you did you would be redirected away to some spam site that tried to install a virus on your machine. The version of CRE that is running is CRE Loaded6 v6.2 Pro White Label with patch:12.1 (SP1). I did the usual things to try and find the hack on the server such as grepping for the URL that was being redirected... 
Feb
7

Empty Lines when transferring files with filezilla

Have you experienced ruined files after transferring up and down with filezilla a few times? I had this issue for a long time and always wondered why Filezilla would insert empty lines throughout my code. Well if you are like me you are pretty sick of it! The good news? The solution is quite simple. Transfer the files in Binary! To do this go to: Transfer -> Transfer Type -> Binary You can read more about... 
Sep
20

MyBB stopping spam bots

I’ve run a MyBB bulletin board for a few years now and I have been really impressed with what it can do, especially considering the cost ($0)! One issue I have suffered a little from though is MyBB spam bots. Some days the forums were getting upwards of 30 spam accounts created daily! This was crazy, I had to do forum clean outs of users under a certain amount of posts and it created a lot of over head... 
Aug
8

Cool Twitter Icons

Hey, everyone loves free twitter icons! Here are a bunch of really cool Twitter birds and other Twitter icons! Jazz up your boring web pages withe some snappy Web 2.0 Twitter icons! Happy Tweeting everyone and enjoy the free twitter icons! Vector Twitter Birds: Transparent PNG924×1529 ScarletBits.com offered up this awesome free Twitter birds set. The zip includes the .eps illustrator file that can be easily... 
Jul
17

Adding Windows Media Player to taskbar

Sometimes we may want to go about our computing, whilst still watching our favourite show in Windows media player. Sure, we could keep swapping back and forth between work/facebook/porn to keep up with the simpsons but that leads to inevitable frustration and missing of visual comedy. So what can we do about this? Well, you can either get a second monitor or use a TV out cable to watch your shows on the big... 

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