15 Dec
Posted by fx in Blogging (AdSense, Advertising, Google, PageRank, South Africa)
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Across the web there are a lot of guides to monetizing your blog, most of which do have information relevant to a South African blogger; but not focussed on a South African. A large portion of our reader base is South African and so we have some experience with this, and [...]
08 Dec
Posted by fx in computers, technology (Firefox, Firefox 2.0.0.19, Google, Mozilla Firefox, Phishing)
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Firefox 2.0.0.19 – the last security fix which is coming out for the 2 series – removes the phishing website detection that used to be built in! This has been requested by Google (the phishing blacklist provider) as the browser uses an older version of the protocol used.
“Computerworld and others are [...]
01 Sep
Posted by igor in Current Affairs, computers, open source, technology (Browser, Chrome, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Scorr McCloud)
In a rather odd way, Google seems to have announced their own open source browser. Although the announcement is not quite official, it was written about, in some detail, in a comic book by Scott McCloud. The comic also mentioned several Google developers, which is a somewhat convincing case that this is not just a [...]