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4800 Australian websites hacked
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One of the worst hacks ever seen. At least 4800 Australian websites have been lost with no chance of recovery following a break-in at Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT. The Attack was so bad  that four of the company’s servers were deemed “unrecoverable.” “At this time, We regret to inform that the data, sites and emails that were hosted on Drought, Hurricane, Blizzard and Cyclone can be considered by all the experts to be unrecoverable,” the company reported to the Herold. Security experts asked why Distribute.IT. had no backup facilities in place. Customers hit the Whirlpool forums to...
Has your site been Google Panda slapped?
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So you’ve probably heard about the Google Panda and it’s serious panda slap. For those of you who haven’t, here is a small insight to the panda. As of 22th Feb 2011, a major update by Google on how it ranks sites was introduced! Statistics show that 12% of search results have being affected and halved many sites’ visitor numbers. Are you one of those victims? Some points why you could be a victim:  (points summed up form wordtracker.com) • Conduct qualitative research (that’s speaking with individuals and not a big questionnaire) to find out which of a sample of...
Twitter Hacked
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Sydney – A 17-year-old Australian schoolboy on Wednesday said he unwittingly caused a massive hacker attack on Twitter which sent users to Japanese porn sites and took out the White House press secretary’s feed. Pearce Delphin, whose Twitter name is @zzap, admitted exposing a security flaw which was then pounced upon by hackers, affecting thousands of users and causing havoc on the micro-blogging site for about five hours. Delphin, who lives with his parents in Melbourne, said he tweeted a piece of “mouseover” JavaScript code which brings up a pop-up window when the user hovers their cursor over the message....
Google celebrates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with playable logo
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A playable … logo? That’s exactly what web giant has today, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man’s Japanese release. The doodle (Google’s term for its event and holiday-specific logos) is accessible on its main page and is a full 255-level game complete with a 256th level “kill screen,” just like the original coin-op. The interactive doodle — a first for Google — is the brainchild of senior user experience designer Marcin Wichary, whose earliest exposure to Pac-Man came at age five while traveling across his native Poland with his father, a game technician, to repair arcade machines. Wichary...
Google gets a facelift
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Google rolled out several improvements to its search on Thursday.  So i thought i would just share with those who haven’t yet checked it out. The use of more slick and web 2 effects really gives Google search a top class look and feel. Not so flat as it use to be! Simple things like this is what really makes a design nice....
WordPress Site ever get Hacked?
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Often people ask me how important is it to upgrade your WordPress blog or CMS if its 3 or 4 versions out of date? Well its very important! Not only are you missing on great new added features to the system but also expose yourself to less security threats. In the last few days a number of big WordPress blogs have being hacked. Most of the back-doors done by the hackers who are often the guys that are aware of these flaws in older versions of WordPress. Most common hack they do is to add malicious code to the index.php...
Page Rank Extension for Chrome
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Extensions like this really deserve credit. It makes life so much easier when using Chrome than those bookmark extensions. All Chrome needs now to compliment this extension is a alexa rank.  Page Rank for Chrome shows the Google Page Rank for a current website you are viewing. To run this sample: Use a recent trunk build or the Chrome dev channel release. Add –enable-extensions to your Chrome command line....
PR update April 2, 2009 – it’s go time
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No one was expecting such an early PageRank update in 2009. I noticed that some big sites lost PR’s and others gainned PR’s. Please feel free to add comments on some of the big boys out there that have gainned and lost PR’s. Keep in mind there is nothing confirmed, but several people started to notice changes both in PageRank and backlinks count numbers. So please jump on the waggon and see if your PR has updated....
Woo Themes 4 in 1 template special
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The guys at Woo Themes are having a April fool’s offer, so best to check it out. If you buy 1 template you might get 3 others. Prank or not, it could be worth it. There templates for WordPress are made from absolute class and they are well profound for their themes. They  quote: Hurry though April Fools jokes are supposed to be made before midday on April 1st. We’ve extended that a bit, cos we nice people, so you have until midday tomorrow (12pm GMT, April 2nd 2009)...
SynthaSite rolls in $20m investment
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Once again, South Africa born bread  Vinny Lingham continues to inspire. SynthaSite brings in a whooping $20m further investment to expand the infrastructure, systems, process & support for his business. SynthaSite’s main goal is to make it easy enough that anyone with a computer to create a website for their small business, organization or personal needs with a simple click with the mouse button. Vinny believes that with this $20m investment he can now grow very quickly and become the DE-facto standard amongst for business & personal website building. With over 40+ staff members, vinny hopes to take SynthaSite to...
South Africa launches SA Elections website
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WOW, being following allot of the launches and start-up’s in the South African market and here is a prime example of what they are capable of doing. Along with Avusa labs, South Africa has launched it’s very own SA Elections website. Users and the world will now be able to view happenings of the SA elections from the net. The use of sharp and professional colors, complimented with awesome Ajax effects, this website will press bench marks....
Get your own website on Google Sites
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Google brings Google Sites. Very similar to blogs, but yet very different, Google sites allows you to give control to who can and cannot edit the contents of your site, much like MS Share-point. Its the quickest way to have a website, it needs no installation and is perfect for small business to have a small website or starting point. All you need to jump start this fantastic program is a Google Account. If you have a Gmail account, that’s perfect....
Facebook Battles My Space for Social network domination
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Facebook has really shown some strong domination since it’s first launched into the social networking world. But believe it or not, it only plays second place to the all mighty My Space. In 2008, Facebook had 54.5 million monthly unique visitors compared to nearly 76 million for MySpace. The Social networking giant by these graphs still stand tall. At current growth rates Facebook will overtake My Space in January 2010, a year from now. That is the month Facebook will reach 86 million U.S. users, compared to MySpace’s 84 million in January....
Model sues Google over “Skanky” blogger remarks
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OK, some classic web 20 laughter. Now this one is a funny one. Canadian model Liskula Cohen has sued Google for a number of snarky remarks that were made by a blogger using the company’s blogger system....
Google Friend Connect has integrated with Twitter
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Google Friend Connect has integrated with Twitter.  Yip that’s what the big noise is about. This means that when you join a friend connected site, you can choose to use your Twitter profile, discover people you follow on Twitter who are also members of the site, and quickly tweet that you have found a cool website....
Google’s digg like system – SearchWiki
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Google starts its own digg like system called Searchwiki. A new feature lets Google users change the results they see for specific Google searches and revisit their changes and comments later. This new feature not only allows users to customize searches but also allows all Google users to add notes to specific listings, which is visible to others. I personally named it the Google Digg system. This i think by far is one of the killer moves Google has made to it’s search engine yet. This gives me the power to remove all those unwanted fly by night SEO boys...
Google’s Browser Project Chrome has landed
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Ok, so this is what the big noise is all about. Everybody is talking about Google’s new invention called Chrome. Built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today. Now the question remains, will Internet users change there style of browsing? I for one have already moved over to this project and will never turn back. Google Chrome can be downloaded here...
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