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What is a Favicon?

The favicon is usually displayed next to the web site address. Much like the way shortcut icons are used on the computer desktop to distinguish computer programs and files, favicons can be used to personalize or brand your web sites.You should see a little picture when looking at this site depending on the type of […]

ChaCha Pay Lies and Scams: Press Releases and Articles

Table of Contents:

I. Introduction
II. Press Releases and Articles
III. New Front Page “Enhancements” Scam
IV. Pay Me Now Fees Scam
V. Working for Free and Deactivations
VI. ChaCha Archives

The more I dug around about the pay lies in the press […]

ChaCha Guide Pay Lies and Scams

The majority of people that have responded to my other article about ChaCha Pranksters as well as those that commented on the article at TechCrunch that linked to it, have looked at ChaCha from the technology standpoint more than anything. Most observe that they don’t think the service is all that viable, while ChaCha supporters […]

John McCain’s MySpace Page Prank

At first when I saw this story on TechCrunch under John McCains’s MySpace Page “Enhanced” I didn’t think anything of it, but it seems to have gotten the attention of more than a few news outlets. I actually saw them refer to this prank on the Daily Show yesterday which took me by surprise when […]

Web 3.0 Nearly Here?

Everyone sees the term “Web 2.0″ everywhere now. It was something that is said to be the generation of social networking to help us gather and share information more easily. Now as I was reading Entrepeneur.com today I see that Web 3.0 may already be among us.
The concept behind Web 3.0 is that we […]

Turkey blocks YouTube over video

No this isn’t gobble gobble. This is the country of Turkey. Just another reason why I am so glad I live in the U.S. We have a lot of whiney bastards here too, but at least we don’t get shut out by the government for saying whatever we want.
The court — acting on a […]

How to Remove Rinbot

I’ve been seeing a lot of hits coming in from Google for the short article I posted aobut Rinbot so I assumed that people may be looking for what it was, and how to remove it. This is something I should have covered in my article RINBOT or DELBOT virus are starting to multiply rapidly. […]

How Tough Is Vista’s Defensive Lineup?

“In Vista, it is too early to say what the actual weaknesses might be. It is fairly safe to say that weaknesses do exist, that more will be uncovered over time and that even some of what Microsoft has touted as security enhancements have already proven to be vulnerable,” said Kaspersky Lab’s Shane Coursen.
An article […]

RINBOT or DELBOT virus are starting to multiply rapidly

OK…so which one of you is it?
Didn’t seem to hit the stock at all which sort of suprised me. It’s actually up today. Can’t imagine this is “good” news to investors out there. Sounds as if they aren’t saying much about it, or they don’t know all that much from the article.
A […]

Assault spurs school YouTube ban

Holding technology responsible for acts such as this tend to rub me the wrong way. It’s always the big gun that gets the mention in the paper as well. Youtube being the place to post hommade videos and share a video diary of the world. YouTube is a great educational tool and no matter what […]