How Save Domain

Despite the fact that the Internet is home to some really bad people, bloggers and website owners worldwide have shown once again that blogging is all about being inspired by other people’s success. Unless you live on the moon, you would have heard about David Airey’s demise about his .com blog being “cracked” by a devious individual supposedly from Iran.

It happened in the week before Christmas and has resulted in a tremendous wave of support from bloggers all around the world. David has now finally gotten his domain back and his story is one of despair, frustration, resolve and happiness. Hearing about David really made me think in terms of how safe our domains really are?

Webmaster tools and Free WordPress Theme

Few months back I had written about a new web directory called Dirjournal. The site has improved a lot since the last time I visited it. It now provides various webmaster tools including domain ip lookup, domain availability, .htaccess authentication etc. The site has also started providing free wordpress themes to users. It has recently made available Newsportal WordPress theme for the wordpress users. People can use this free wordpress theme as long as it returns the link back to the original site. The theme as such is made in shades of black and grey and is perfect for those who are looking for shopping related, news portal related wordpress theme. The full screen live demo of the theme can be found at http://www.dirjournal.com/portal . The theme makes use of various plugins like most popular articles, most viewed articles, multi column category display to give it a news site kinda felling. Visit the site and let me know whether you liked the theme.

How to cope with spam email

It’s the only quiet time of the year for me on eBay, sales are still coming in but there’s now no courier collections until Wednesday next week so no need to go into the office. With some spare time I’ve decided it’s time to tackle some of the problems I’ve been meaning to fix and top of the list is spam email.A temporary fix six months ago was to install MS Outlook 2007 with the junk email filter enabled. That has been capturing a couple of thousand spam emails per week, but recently it’s been missing an unacceptable proportion of the spam I receive. Chatting with Steve of Astrobits a couple of days ago he again (he’s been telling me for years!) suggested I install MailWasher Pro.

As Steve said to me “Advertising is a double edged sword, the more people know about you the more spam you get.” This is especially true as eBay and PayPal are two of the biggest targets for phishing attacks.