Since early this year, I’ve been quietly adding new features into easyClickmate. Here’s a quick summary of the new features: 1. Automatic Support for Google’s Adwords Tracking ID for Affiliates. Your affiliates may have requested that you embed his or her Google Adwords tracking ID on your thankyou pages. This is manageable if you have [...]
On 18th May, I sent an email to all customers regarding version upgrade to 2.4. Since then, some customers have reported that the log files did not show the IP addresses of the customer downloads. Version 2.5 fixes that. Below is the summary of the features released in 2.4 and 2.5 New Features Summary 1. [...]
It’s easy to spot a “phish” email if the email subject says something like: Bank of America – important, please update your details And you don’t have an account with Bank of America. You’ll know it’s a scam (phish) immediately. But what if you do have an account with the Bank of America? Or what [...]
What is it? The Downadup worm (a.k.a. ‘Conficker’ or ‘Net-worm.Win32.Kido’) exploits the MS08-067 vulnerability in the Windows Server Service. Currently the worm does not harm infected computers, but it has the capacity to cause considerable damage at a later time. Once infected, the affected computer generates hundreds of random web addresses and attempts to contact [...]
It’s probably due to some changes your system admin made to the server without your knowledge. In my case, switching to ‘php5′ solved the problem. PHP ver4 has been around for years (latest stable version is php 4.4.9) – and most web hosts are using php4 by default. PHP ver5 was introduced way back in [...]
In the past few days, I’ve been getting many 404 email alerts sent by my 404 script: Date: 10-01-2009 [06:29:29] User requested for: http://www.easybiztools.com/nonexistenshit was not found ! User Details: IP addr:94.76.208.8 Browser:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 Referred by: n/a If you check your server logs, you might find someone [...]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
At the risk of my trusty Windows XP dying on me when I type this … I should think NOT! . A few customers wrote in and ask if they should download Windows 7 Beta now since their Vista “sucks”, my advice is, don’t! Microsoft isn’t exactly famous for creating ‘bug-free’ software (I hope Windows [...]
I received an email that goes like this: I use a good spam filter, and you probably do the same. I have whitelisted you and that means that I will receive all the emails you send to me. I would appreciate it if you would whitelist my email address: xxxx@yyyyy.com in your spam filter. If [...]
About a month ago, WordPress.org released their latest version, 2.5 which introduced a number of enhancements as well as a complete re-design of the familiar WordPress dashboard. I did not advocate folks to upgrade as most major releases would have a number of bugs and security holes. Over the weekend (2 days ago), WordPress announced [...]
Top notch Autoresponder Service provider – Aweber is improving by leaps and bounds. Gone are the days of seeing http:// clicks.aweber.com in your messages to be able to track subscriber click thrus. Now, with a simple 1 line of javascript to your website pages, you can track email click thru automatically using your own domain [...]
