Category Archives: Web

Wordpress Off Topic Forum Alternative

Just wanted to let you know that the forum I talked about before is up and running. Feel free to check it out!
A little about the project
The forum is being offered as an alternative to the Off Topic forum at wordpress.com, so if you have a wp.com blog, or even a self hosted wordpress [...]

Shameless Plug

I’m kinda buzzed… I’ve been drinking one of the best rums in the world. I’ll write a post about the rum, later… not today, but later.
Well, this post is not to let you guys know I’m buzzed, but to promote my email encoder and email image generator. This application will help you [...]

Protect Yourself From Being Phished

Phishers seem to be getting more ‘clever’ on how to draw in their prey. In their article, Inside a PayPal Phishing Site, InformIT explains how these criminals are ‘validating’ your credentials before stealing your information. Yes, that’s right! They’re using canned phishing packages that are ‘intelligent’ enough to check if the info you’re [...]

Up A Notch

Yay! It’s pretty cool that my programming blog went up a notch in its google page rank. As of this writing, it has a PR of 6. Do I see a 7 coming up?

WP dot com Should Test Their Apps Thoroughly

Do the guys at wordpress.com really test their new implementations before rolling them out to production? It seems they don’t.
Sure, nothing is perfect and (us) developers are human too, thus, we may break something unintentionally… However, to minimize this kind of mishaps, it’s of good practice to test thoroughly. Make sure new implementations [...]

“Funny” Domain Names

Now, going back to my regular postings…
A while ago I received an email with domain names of companies that, apparently, didn’t spend enough time considering how they may look. These are not made up and you can copy and paste the URL in your address bar to check them out yourself. I’m not linking [...]

Protect Yourself From Being Tracked With Flash Cookies

I’m subscribed to various techie newsletters and I have certainly learned a thing or two from them. This time, I’d like to share with you something that, in my belief, not only techie but not-so-techie people should know about: How to protect your privacy and security while surfing the net.
Most of us know how [...]