Web – Page 19 – Something Odd!

Great Site Ranking in Google – The Secrets Out

The secret is to register your domain for more than 1 year!

Inline Mini Tabs

Save time on Firefox with GreaseMonkey

Save time on Firefox with GreaseMonkey – must find out more about GreaseMonkey.

Google AdSense site hijacked in the Google serps… oh the irony

You’ve probably seen it on slashdot already but here’s the scoop with screenshots. Read down through the comments. The man responsible “did it by accident” which may be so, but I find that hard to believe!
Some guy on webmasterworld.com was trumpeting some “new way” of getting PR10 for your site.. after a thread that went on for half a dozen pages it was a simple redirect hack!

phpfin – Your Personal Finance Manager

phpfin could be good. On the todo list to try out!

Update. phpfin.com is gone. Bah.

eBay Account Investigation

I’m amazed at the very sharp increase in phishing attempts these days. Despite greylisting and Spam Assassin at least one gets through each day. Out of curiousity I decided to click on one. eBay Account Investigation looks rather good doesn’t it?
The Netcraft Toolbar does a very nice job defending against this sort of thing! 🙂

Towards Open Source Flash Development

Amazon "used products" scam

While browsing the reviews of the Canon 20D on Amazon, I stumbled across this warning to buyers. I’ll repeat it here as it’s probably worth reading if you’re buying online:

Reviewer: phil_72 from Harrogate, North Yorks United Kingdom.
I have used this canon for about 4 weeks and am very happy with it. However, I would like to alert potential buyers that the ‘new’ sellers proporting to sell cheap D20s on marketplace are actually set to rip you off. It works like this, click on the ‘buy this’ link and you will get an e-mail from amazon saying that the transaction could not be completed. Then, if you contact the seller (as the sellers suggest) they will always tell you the same thing: They say “I have a contract with Amazon, but the payment system is not working at the moment. If you want this camera, e-mail me with your contact details and I will contact Amazon. Amazon will send you an invoice. However, you then pay me directly by Western Union.” What then happens is that you get a fake e-mail proporting to be from Amazon. You pay the seller directly…and……no camera will arrive. And, you are not covered by Amazon’s gaurantee, because you paid the seller directly. Its a scam, its all over Amazon, and they do not have the warnings posted up front. Will they let this be posted? Hmmm?