Archive for January, 2010

  • Top 7 websites to teach yourself SEO

    When I first got into online marketing many moons ago, my main focus was on paid search (Google AdWords et al) and my job revolved around creating campaigns, bids, clicks, conversions etc however, although it wasn’t part of my job at that time, I found SEO equally as interesting and wanted to learn more. Without [...]

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  • SSL: What is a secure site?

    When you go to most shopping sites, you get that little padlock in your browser to tell you that your session is, somehow, secure. But what does that mean? What is SSL? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides two different services: encryption (preventing the traffic from being read in transit) and authentication (verifying that the site [...]

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  • Firefox 3.6 Speed Tests

    Computerworld ran tests about the speed of web browsers, comparing the latest version of Firefox to other web browsers. It is slower than Apple’s Safari or Google Chrome when rendering JavaScript but faster than Internet Explorer and Opera. Computerworld used the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite to conduct the tests in a Windows XP with Service [...]

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  • UBitMenu: Classic Menu for Office 2007/2010

    Many people believe that Microsoft Offices new “ribbon” toolbar needs to be fixed. “UBitMenu: Classic Menu” brings back the classic menu that users were used to from Office 2003 and previous versions. It actually creates a new tab in the current Office 2007 tabbed system so you can easily switch between the classic menu and [...]

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  • Firewall Exploitation Using Web Page

    A hardware firewall can be penetrated by a javascript embedded in a webpage. Samy Kamkar has demonstrated a way on how to do it. “What this means is I can penetrate their firewall/router and connect to the port that I specified, even though the firewall should never forward that port. This defeats that security by [...]

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  • 10 Fast and Free Security Enhancements

    Before you spend a dime on security, there are many precautions you can take that will protect you against the most common threats. 1. Check Windows Update and Office Update regularly (_http://office.microsoft.com/productupdates); have your Office CD ready. Windows Me, 2000, and XP users can configure automatic updates. Click on the Automatic Updates tab in the [...]

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  • 23 Ways To Speed WinXP, Not only Defrag

    Since defragging the disk won’t do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers’ PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

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  • BandWidth Explained

    Most hosting companies offer a variety of bandwidth options in their plans. So exactly what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Put simply, bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between your web site and the rest of the internet. The amount of bandwidth a hosting company can provide [...]

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  • How to make Windows XP boot Faster

    Make sure you’re running Windows XP. The version of XP doesn’t matter When you start up your computer you probably get a screen with the company name of the computer, then sometime after the Windows XP screen with the bars going across over and over again for a little while. This is the part that [...]

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  • BIOS Beep Codes

    When a computer is first turned on, or rebooted, its BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST) to test the system’s hardware, checking to make sure that all of the system’s hardware components are working properly. Under normal circumstances, the POST will display an error message; however, if the BIOS detects an error before it [...]

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