Get Latest Currency Exchange rate from Foxrate.org : XML-RPC

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Foxrate.org is a website that provide latest currency exchange rate.

The website is easier to use compared to competing services because it automatically detects your home currency base on your ip address. This will save you the trouble of selecting the currency you want to convert each time you visit the website.

The website also provides XML-RPC API endpoint for easy integration into your own applications.

Visit http://foxrate.org now for latest currency exchange rate.

foxrate, currency exchange

[tags]currency, foreign exchange, currency exchange, currency rate,xmlrpc,xml-rpc,webservice, web service[/tags]

2Checkout does not permit selling Paypal, Clickbank related Items

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Jon Moffet

I don’t know if any of you already know about this, but I recently read in one forum about 2Checkout won’t let a newly registered seller use its service solely because he sells Paypal and Clickbank related e-book.

Here’s the excerpt from the 2CO email taken from the forum :

Hello,

Sorry for the delay. 2CO does not support the service you wish
to provide. There is nothing illegal about it, it is just that 2CO
chooses not to support software that allows clients this type of
information on Paypalâ„¢ and Clickbankâ„¢. I do apologize for this
inconvenience. Please let me know if you wish to use the 2Co account for
something else or I can certainly close and refund the account?

Xxx2CO
Risk Dept.

Sounds like 2Checkout has its own anti-competition policy regarding items related to Paypal and Clickbank. It seems that the product status fell into “2CO’s sole discretion”, as it is not included in the “official” list ofProhibited Products in 2CO site.

btw, the seller did get his money back from 2CO because of that. So you can forget about using 2Checkout service if you’re planning to sell its competitor related items.

[tags]2checkout, 2co, e-commerce, online business, ecommerce, credit card processor, paypal, clickbank[/tags]

Super Value Blog Hosting from Interunix.net

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Interunix introduces a new Super Value Blog Hosting plan targeted for bloggers.
The plan comes with WordPress preinstalled, 500MB of webspace and 15GB monthly data transfer. The Super Value Blog Hosting is hosted on a Linux machine running PHP 5 and MySQL 5 on Apache 1.3.x (mod_sec)

Best of all, the Super Value Blog Hosting plan from Interunix is available at only USD 8/year !
So grab this opportunity now to get your own website with this plan!

Interunix website : http://interunix.net

[tags]blog, webhosting, wordpress, web hosting, blog hosting[/tags]

Put Blog spam to end using Antisplog.net and Splogspot

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Splog or Spam Blog is a relatively new form of spam advertising in the blogosphere. These spammers use blogs and syndication feed as a way to to spread their spammy advertising campaign across the internet.

Spam Blogs is by nature is different from email spam, because you can’t not send unsolicited advertising using blog.Thus the motivations for creating spam blogs are different too, but it is likely spam blogs exists because the spammers want to attract web visitors from search engines and by earning money using (contextual) advertising in the process.
Spam blog is an annoyance because they content little to no content, and the content of spam blogs are usually copied directly from another sources like another blog or from article previously published on the internet.

Howto report spam blog?

You can use the AntiSplog and Splogspot service to report spam blog. using http://example.com as example.
Antisplog

http://www.antisplog.net/report.php?blog=http://example.com

Splogspot

- goto http://splogspot.com/pages/submit and use the form to submit the splog url.

Splog pollutes blogosphere, put an end to splogs now.

[tags]blog,blogs,splog,blogosphere,wordpress,splogspot,antisplog[/tags]

New style of spam comments using Social bookmarking as bait

Posted on January 19, 2007 by Jon Moffet

I’ve encountered a new breed of spam comments that uses social bookmarking service as bait.

Example of comments :

E-mail : [email protected]
URI : http://www.spurl.net/discover/user/username/
Comment:
Good site I found … Plan on coming back later.

——————————–

The social bookmarking url are pointed to the spammers personal collection of website. It seems that the comment spammers has changed their tactics again, beware.
[tags]wordpress,spammers,spam,social bookmark,social bookmarking[/tags]

Your favorite website unavailable? Try Coral CDN

Posted on January 19, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Sometimes it is annoying to have your favorite is unavailable for various reasons. The most annoying part is, the website is knocked out when you needed it the most.

Fear not! Now you can use Coral CDN (Content Distribution Network) as an emergency mirroring service for your favorite website. It is a p2p content distribution network which store your favorite website on various computers around the world.

To access your favorite website using Coral CDN mirror is easy. All you need to do is append .nyud.net:8080 to the address of your favorite website.

For example :

http://tipvista.com.nyud.net:8080/

You can then surf the website using Coral CDN mirroring service. Now you don’t have to be frustrated any more when your favorite website went offline because of high-traffic or network problems. You can easily use Coral CDN

Get updates for website that does not publish RSS feed

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Jon Moffet

I’m frustrated at some websites (particularly news website) that do not publish RSS feed, because this makes my life harder when I have to surf their website almost everyday for latest updates.

It is a time consuming work, especially when they do not update their website regularly as anticipated, and when they do update, you are usually the last person to know about the updates.

Page2RSS and Feedity might provide the answer for those who shared my feelings about those websites. These service generates RSS feeds for websites that do not publish RSS feeds.

With these service, all you need to do is subscribe the RSS feed provided by both service, and wait for updates. It will make your life easier by performing the checkup on your behalf, and inform you if there’s any updates on your RSS feed.

I’ve tried both services, although by far it is not perfect, It does save my time from having to surf my favorite websites for updates.
[tags] rss, feed, syndication,blogs,scraping,seo[/tags]

Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Currently I use Spam Karma 2 from Dr Dave, and it works well for me, but I’m still curious about your experience in using other anti-spam solution for your blog.

For starters, I’ve tried Akismet before, and for some reason it did not work well for me. I dont know why, but I keep getting a lot of comment under my moderation list, and that isn’t practical to me at all, because I’ve to check a lot of comments in the moderation list (up to 1000++ in once case).

I’ve also came across blog which uses Captcha to deter comments spammers or even take drastic measure to their blog comments functionality all together.

Whatever your actions are, I would like to hear it from you about what kind of actions you’ve taken to reduce the annoying comment spams.

Tags: spams, akismet, spam karma, spam, blogspam, trackback, blog, blogging

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List of TMNet Streamyx Broadband DNS

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Always experience the dreadful downtime of Streamyx default DNS? Here is the list of TMNet Streamyx Backup DNS server. It might be useful if the usual DNS server ‘mysteriously’ stopped working :

202.188.0.132
202.188.0.133
202.188.0.147
202.188.0.161
202.188.0.181
202.188.0.182
202.188.1.4
202.188.1.5
202.188.1.23
202.188.1.25

Remember, copy and put it in a safe place in case if you need it afterwards, it might be handy.

p/s: DNS or domain names system is a system that responsible in translating domain name (like google.com and tipvista.com) to IP address of the corresponding computer server like (72.232.16.43 or 69.76.54.121).

Without DNS, we won’t be able to surf the internet without memorizing those IP address and surfing the internet will be much more difficult than we used too.

Tags: domain, domain name, dns, streamyx broadband, internet, isp

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Backup WordPress automatically with WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Jon Moffet

A short post, but today I would like to share you two WordPress plugins that could save your blog’s (and possibly your) life.

WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup helps you to backup your WordPress files periodically to your email. You probably already have WP-DB-Backup If you’re using WordPress 2.x, I hope that you would have already utilised this plugin as it can be handy to backup your WordPress installations.

WP-Cron takes the backup process further by automating WP-DB-Backup job to send daily wordpress backup to your emails. Although this seems redundant most of the time, rest assured it will be worth it when your Web Hosting fs*ck on you.

For this to work, I suggest that you send your wordpress backup to a gmail account since gmail account is able to store gigabytes of data, so your wordpress backup will be save there should you need it.

You can download WP-DB-Backup and WP-Cron from http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/

Tags: tips, wordpress, blog, blogs, hosting, web hosting, backup, cron