Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
There are a lot of reasons to use a disposable email service, and the coolest reason of them all is it makes you feel like a spy sending and receiving secret messages. In all seriousness, sometimes you may just want the free eBook but not the sales newsletters that can bombard your inbox for the rest of eternity.
We covered a few temporary email services a while back. This is an add-on to that post to give you a couple more choices.
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We all know the feeling of a new computer… everything is super quick, and there are no bugs or problems to be found. Even if you have a Mac though, which are by reputation more durable than a PC’s (if only for their relative sparse nature on the internet), you often still find that a year later, that feeling is usually gone, only to be replaced by an entirely different one. This one is often frustration and confusion. How and why did this premium computer I bought get so slow, and how do I fix it? Plenty of services will do it for you for $50 or more, but why pay someone else to do things you can easily do yourself?
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This is a guest post by Lior Levin.
Google’s top spam fighter, Matt Cutts, recently posted a lengthy blog entry about the state of Google’s battle with spammers.
In the post, Cutts said that, while spam in Google’s index was less than half what it was five years ago, that spam has increased in Google’s index in recent months and, for certain queries, has become more noticeable.
According to Cutts, this change isn’t just due to the fact that there are more spammers than ever trying to cheat their way to a higher search engine ranking, but because Google’s recent Caffeine update has the search engine indexing more content than ever before, including spam.
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As Apple’s Mac computers grow in popularity, so too will the frequency with which they are targeted in attacks. While the debate about whether or not Mac’s truly are inherently more secure than PC’s rages on, and probably will for some time, its inarguable that being extra secure is never a bad thing regardless of what system your using. With that being said, here are some of the best ways I’ve found to secure your Mac.
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If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog which is quite popular, the most annoying thing is fighting WordPress comment spam on a regular basis. Every time you login to WordPress dashboard, you see a whole lot of spam comments waiting to be deleted. Either you have to delete them manually or let them die in the spam queue.
The latter option is not recommended as it will increase database size and the resource loading time. Hence, you have to find and fight your way to prevent spam comments in WordPress. This article describes some of the proven techniques which can be used to reduce WordPress comment spam.
Before we go any further, let’s understand what exactly is a spam comment.
A spam comment is a comment which is posted automatically in blogs, websites, forums etc by automated bots, scripts or software. Some people use scripts and automated bots to target high traffic websites for posting comments. Typically, a spam comment is full of irrelevant keywords and hyperlinks and does not care about the discussion or article where the comment is posted.
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9 Plugins New WordPress Users Must Install on Their Blogs
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