AIB personal customers are the targets of the latest Irish bank phishing attack. The attackers this time entice people to "log in" to "update" their details due to the install of new SSL: Dear Sir/Madam, AIB Internet Banking always looks forward for the high security of our clients. Some customers have been receiving an email claiming to be from AIB Internet Banking advising … [Read more...] about AIB Phished Again
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake Released
Dapper Drake has officially been released: "About Ubuntu 6.06 LTS --------------------- Highlights of this release include: On the Desktop CD * A new, very fast, graphical installer based on the Live CD * Faster system startup and login * Simplified menu organization * Graphical shutdown process * Easy access to power management settings with GNOME Power Manager (Ubuntu) * … [Read more...] about Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake Released
Adsense API in Beta
Google have started beta tests of an API for Adsense - they've had one for adwords for quite some time. Although the beta is limited to sites with more than 100k pageviews per day with some other criteria: To be eligible, your site must register users who then maintain their web content through your site. The types of sites we're looking for include web hosts, blog hosts, Wiki … [Read more...] about Adsense API in Beta
Why “no follow” sucks
Over the past year or so most of the blog engines have defaulted to using the nofollow tag in comments. This tag basically tells search engine spiders not to follow the links. While this can be handy if you want to mention a competitor it's not so useful when you have genuine contributors to your blog's comments. While I can understand the reasoning behind the introduction of … [Read more...] about Why “no follow” sucks
Random Adsense Ads
Darren came across this very interesting plugin for Wordpress which: takes a random paragraph break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story. It lets you pick how many total ads to do (0-3) and it lets you pick the formats and colors you want it to randomly select from. Pretty cool :) … [Read more...] about Random Adsense Ads