Been a while since i scoped over the DaveN blog (which has changed a lot since i last visited). They have found a way you can get a free backlink from the big G. I have just tested this out and its for real and it has not been no followed. Brilliant, just some time now before we see that page that I have created get some PageRank and start passing some value to me.
More information on Google Profiles can be found at the Google Help Pages
Just found out from this post at Mind Valley Labs of a really nasty phishing website that clones the login page for Facebook. The site will show the url as www.faceubook.co.uk, spot that u in there. This site will merely lure you into entering your login details and store it in a database for some hacker to play with.
I just don’t see the gain really (unless you want to snoop in on a friend and spy on there account) hmm evil!
Don’t go there, be vigilant spread the word.
Over in the world of Sub Cult we are having issues with file sharers sharing the limited edition promo MP3’s that we send out to artists. Most of the artists on the promo list are hand selected and include a lot of big name artists in the Techno scene.
This issue is not just happening with Sub Cult, other digital labels seem to be having the same issues.No one seems safe from file sharers.
I currently use Google Alerts to tell me when new sites are indexed that contain Sub Cult and Torrents. There popping up every few days at the moment sharing the tracks that are not due for official release anytime soon.
Time for a new project. Myself and aka Carl at Sub Cult and some other independant labels are going to head out to tackle the filesharers by devising a system to work out which artists may be sharing the files.
More info on this in the near future when we brainstorm some ideas.
The post that I created with Carl can be found on the Sub Cult Blog.
I was listening the latest podcast over at Boagworld and it was there random chat and Q&A style show, there was a section on products for version control and file back up. They mentioned a small program called getdropbox. WOW wow wow, this is probably one of them few small programs that makes me want to tell the world about it.
Getdropbox is a piece of software that sits on your local machine, it creates a folder that is your “dropbox” where you can place files for safe keeping. When you put a file in your dropbox it uploads it to there secure web area. If you accidentally delete it on your local machine, just undo it on the web client and it appears back on your desktop. Crazy eh. Whats also good is everytime you save a file getdropbox saves the versions on its webclient but keeps the latest one local. So if you save a change a file accidentally, simply go to the web client and revert it back to a previous version. Brilliant for if you ballsed up a photoshop file or overwritten a php script by accident.
Now what make this program even better is installing it on another machine, be it a Mac or Linux box or even another Windows machine. When you install it and use the same account log in, drop box will start up and sync all your drop box files. If you delete a file on your Windows dropbox, all other drop boxes will update to reflect this. The other good thing is none of the machines need to be on, they all sync up when the computer starts up. Pretty good update times on my 24Meg Broadband.
For a much more detailed and visual explination see the video on the getdropbox web site
I have this set up on my Windows Desktop and my Linux Laptop and it’s great, they give you 2gig for free for all your file activity. If you want more it cost about $9 a month. Getdropbox is ace, I suggest you install it if you use multiple machines.
This is a list of the plug-ins that I ALWAYS seem to install on every machine that I use. More information on the plug-ins can be found on the links at the bottom.
This is the daddy of FireFox plug-ins, it lets you do so much and saves so much time. It would take me forever to go through the full list of features but I’ll just highlight the main ones that I use in my role as a Technical SEO.
Document Outline – This will show me the logical heading structure on a page. so you’d expect a h1 at the top, then a h2 or h2’s inside the h2’s should be h3’s and so on. If any headings are out of heirarchy it shows them up her.
Display Image Alt – Nice and simple this one just overlays all of the alt attributes on its relative image. handy for finding images that have no alt on them.
Disabling Menu – I use some of the features in here for disabling JavaScript and disabling redirects this is handy for finding spammy pages that have old school meta or JavaScript redirects.
Resize – Great for web design, this lets you re-size your browser window to any size you select. Good for testing out your site on smaller resolutions.
There is also an option to edit CSS but I prefer the editing facilities in FireBug
Firebug is amazing for web designers and developers. It can do many things like analysing page load times, which also shows you what elements are slowing you down. HTTP Header responses, show you your DOM. The main power of this comes in the HTML and CSS tabs, for instance right click on anything and hit Inspect Element will bring up that element in a code window under the web-page. You can now directly edit and manipulate that page to test and make changes. It will not be live for the world to see though just locally for you to butcher a page until you get the right look. This is a brilliant feature for web developers as it saves editing saving and refreshing. Class.
This is a simple very small plug-in that I miss when it isn’t there. It places a small box in the status bar and displays the IP address of the current site. Right clicking on it gives me access to whois and some dnsstuff tools taking you straight to the page with the information about that IP address.
I use it mainly for using an IP:000.000.000.000 searches to check for sites that exist on that IP address.
Another very simple plug in is ServerSpy, all this does is tells me the server type and version that the site has been served up using. Right clicking can give you extended information.
This just sits up the top there in my address and shows me a little flag for the country where the domain is hosted. It also flags up when say for instance a .co.uk domain is hosted outside of its country of origin. Clicking on the flag will take you to a map showing, near to, where that IP address is located.
Just click the below links and it will take you the FireFox plug ins pages
Web Developer Firebug Show IP Server Spy Flag Fox