Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Cuil the New Useless Search Engine

Whenever something claimed to be the “Google-killer” coming out from the closet, everyone went Wow! So here we have it, Cuil, from the old Irish word for knowledge, claimed to have indexed 121 billion pages. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else.three times as many as Google and ten times as many [...]

Friday, 18 July 2008

WordPress Plugins – check before you upgrade automatically

Back to the real reason why Permalink Redirect 2.0 was released. When you visit your WordPress’ plugin manager page, and see the following notice… … do not click on “upgrade automatically”. Let me repeat, Do Not Click on Upgrade Automatically. Because if you do, you will not be upgraded to Permalink Redirect 1.0, but rather a [...]

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Permanent Redirect 2.0 Released

It has been a while — you might have thought that I have abandoned that little WordPress plugin. It has been hanging at 0.8.x for a long time, but Fear Not! Let me introduce “Permalink Redirect Two Point Oh“! When the Web is about to enter into the era of 3.5, I have finally [...]

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Facebook Advertising – Effective?

Thanks to Andrew from Niphal who posted these $250 worth free advertising coupons for Facebook on OzBargain, I went and got some free credits, spent 3 minutes in Gimp doing up a 110×80 logo, created a campaign on Facebook Ads Manager and sat back to see the flood of traffic coming in. Actually the last one [...]

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Sunday, 6 July 2008

Planet 3 Privacy Issue?

Something weird happened to my 3 Skypephone today and I am not even sure whether it’s just my account, or a 3-wide software glitch. At around 5pm today I grabbed my phone and was trying to browse some news content. The phone is on roaming — which I wasn’t so surprised. At my place which is [...]