A Hacker’s Story: Let me tell you just how easily I can steal your personal data.

Here are the basic precautions you should take if you use a wireless network…

• Keep your wireless networks secure.
• Don’t use WEP
• Don’t broadcast your SSID.
• Avoid using public networks that are not secure.

“Search ad inventory from Yahoo!, Microsoft, and their respective partners will be combined into a new unified search marketplace, giving advertisers of all sizes access to a combined audience of nearly 577 million searchers worldwide.”

According to Microsoft, the combined search may be implemented before the 2010 holiday season.

Once completed, Microsoft adCenter will be the platform for all search campaigns in both Yahoo and Bing.

Stainless is a free browser for Mac OS X (Leopard and Snow Leopard) that allows multiple sessions.

According to the developers, Stainless is inspired by Google Chrome and already has features not found in Chrome.

Create a new folder anywhere and name it

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

This is what you get, automatically, within the folder…

A useful tool that lists everything in once place.

See cnet news for more.

Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)

The new ICANN initiative (IDN TLDs) is simply an extension so that even the TLD / ccTLD part can be in other languages.  This is not problem for us and we will also support it in our domain name software products as and when it becomes a reality.

For more information please see the ICANN documentation on IDNs

Here is the official Google blog post.

Quickly view formatted PDFs in your search results

The quick view is from cached data and may still show the old file if you have updated the PDF recently.

Here is the companion to our “Keyword primer for Beginners“.

The “Basics of Search Engine Optimization“ is a simple 5 page report that is simply a basic introduction to SEO.  Please note that it doesn’t go into any specific details about how to implement SEO.

We will be publishing more reports in this series.

Right click and select Save Target As or Save Link As to download and save the
pdf file to your hard disk.

Here are some quotes…

“DOC affirms its commitment to a multi-stakeholder, private sector led, bottom-up policy development model for DNS technical coordination that acts for the benefit of global Internet users…”

“DOC recognizes the importance of global Internet users being able to use the Internet in their local languages and character sets, and endorses the rapid introduction of internationalized country code top level domain names (ccTLDs)…”

Read the official announcement.

Since Google provides only vague definitions about quality, it is difficult for advertisers to really understand any such new “rule”.  

It is also possible that this entire episode is because of a software hitch at Google (the emails are automated messages).

Read more at Webmasterworld!

On the other hand, this could also mean Google getting rid of all those questionale “me too” advertisements created by affiliates.

You may also be interested in an earlier post made here…

Pay Per Click – Why Trying To Duplicate Other Campaigns is a Very Bad Idea!

So, here is a simple PHP script (less than 130 lines) that you can use. Upload it to your server and specify the appropriate settings in your whois setup (within Domain Punch Pro or Watch My Domains).

Please note that this script uses port 43 whois servers. It doesn’t support domains that have no port 43 whois server. It is useful if your company network doesn’t allow connections through port 43 or if you are unable to lookup some domains using your ISP.

Click here to download simple PHP Whois script.

Previous blog post about web based whois.

The script supports a number of port 43 whois servers. You can add more by editing the script. It is simply provided for your guidance. You can use it as it is or modify it as you wish. We are unable to provide additional support for this script.

Here are the required settings (assumes that it is uploaded as yourdomain.com/scripts/whois.php)

Whois Server: www.yourdomain.com
Port: 80
Comand Line: GET /scripts/whois.php?domain={D}

Important: Please note down the other settings like date format, search token, etc. for any port 43 whois server you want to replace with the server script. You will have to add them back after you change the above settings.

Also, be aware that other people can use this script from your server if they know the URL to it. We suggest that you modify it to prevent others from accessing it. You could, for example, change the name of the GET parameter used for passing the domain name or add additional verification data.

Click here to download simple PHP Whois script.