Why Use WordPress?
The dashboard is very user friendly. Even if you are not tech savvy it is very easy to use. There are thousands of plugins to extend the functionality of your website. Example – gallery, calendar, forums, polls, ratings and so many more. As your need arises you can add these functions. Standard compliant – WordPress […]
SMBs attacked in latest online scam
New Zealand’s Stock Exchange cyber attack New Zealand’s Stock Exchange Market (NZX) experiences a severe cyber attack for four days in a row. The NZX was forced to close on the fourth day of the attacks after crashing due to systems connectivity issues. The culprits of the attacks are still unknown. What we do need […]
Small Business Blogs
Why should small businesses have blogs? It is the easiest way of interacting with your customers, prospects. Once it is set up even if you post once in 3 weeks or once every month it adds value to your existing customers. Write a marketing message, announce new products an services have contests – anything to […]
Online advertising skyrockets
Industry watchers predict that overall online ad spending will increase by about 3 percent for the next two years, for a total of about $29.1 billion in 2010. The growth is being driven by search engine advertising (especially pay-per-click), which is expected to jump 13 percent by 2010. Also growing rapidly is “Web 2.0? advertising […]
Internet User Numbers Up
I read this news today. “One third of the world’s population will be online by the end of the year, according to United Nations statistics. The number of people online has doubled to two billion in the last five years, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said. The ITU believes that broadband is a “transformational technology” […]
Another site of mine got hacked
This time one of my sites that makes me money got hacked. It is a pretty large site with hundreds of products. Gets only natural traffic. Yesterday I went to check on the site and found my index file had been defaced. These are the steps I took I logged in to my FTP program […]
Free Vacation Scams
They almost got me today on the phone! This is how it goes. Ma’ am you have been selected with four others for a free vacation in Florida. (of course – where else). Oh by the way Visa International has selected me. The sponsors are canpakvacation.com I did a bit of digging & found out […]
DIY
I am in the process of updating a WordPress manual I created a while ago. Hopefully I will finish it in a week or so. The manual is a couple of versions behind now. The purpose of the manual is to help people quickly put up a simple self hosted wordpress site. This can be […]
Music downloads
I read this news yesterday. A US student ordered to pay $675,000 (£404,000) for sharing music online has refused help paying the fine.Mr Tenenbaum was ordered to pay the money to four record labels. On Friday, the jury ordered Mr Tenebaum to pay $22,500 for each infringement. The maximum that he could have been fined […]
Can you spot a fake email?
I get a lot of junk in my mailbox everyday. Today the count was like 294. Most of them I know is junk from the subject line. The usual viagra, canadian pharmacy you have won the euro lottery, my south american inheritance. Once in a while I will get the Bank of America ones telling […]