Hackadelic on July 3rd, 2009

ProgressIf you ask a solution provider, any solution provider, if their solutions were “intelligent”, you can bet you won’t get a single “no” answer. Consequently, every solution out there is intelligent, right? But is it?

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Hackadelic on July 1st, 2009
This entry is part of a series, TOC Releases»

night wushYes, here is another release of the plugin formerly known as TOC Boxes, bringing some cool changes along.

Go get it at wordpress.org. It’s worth upgrading. :-)

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This entry is part of a series, TOC Advice»

Santa Lulu Reacts to Your Christmas Request with AlarmSome time ago, I wrote a tip about placing a TOC in the side bar. As it now turns out, this tip does not work on all themes. Here’s why, and what you can do about it.

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Hackadelic on June 27th, 2009
This entry is part of a series, The Scam Observatory»

Harvest (Summer Memories)This post is about email harvesting – a process of collecting user email addresses, mostly with the purpose of using them for spam.

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Hackadelic on June 26th, 2009

Michael Jacksonthe world stops for a moment.

There is something incredibly moving in the planet’s atmosphere today. It is the sadness and shock of millions fans around the globe who bemoan the death of Michael Jackson. Read the rest of this entry »

Hackadelic on June 24th, 2009

HeadshotNot long ago, I updated my antivirus software to a new version. I do that regularly, as it is so easy to keep track with new updates: The software does that for me! Every time a newer version of it was released, the software asked me if I wanted to update to that new version. (I’m not talking about updates to the virus database, which are independent of this.)

It was all cool and easy until the other day. Read the rest of this entry »

Hackadelic on June 11th, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Sliding Notes Releases»

Accordion playerA brand new release of Sliding Notes is out. Code name: “Accordion Virtuoso”.

Main novelty: The addition of an awesome feature which enables emulation of accordion-style behavior like this one over here.

Go get it at wordpress.org, it sure is worth upgrading. :)

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This entry is part of a series, The Scam Observatory»

Money at handRecently, I’m increasingly getting spam comments which refer to (yet another) “easy money from home” program. Interestingly, this time the name “Google” is involved. So I just thought I might jot down a bit of rant about it, but this turned out to be an analysis of the “easy money from home” scam pattern. I hope it’s informative, or at least entertaining. And you are welcome to join in.
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Hackadelic on June 4th, 2009

Endeavour STS-118 BlastoffAfter lots of struggling, planing, researching, and preparing, I managed to launch my professional WordPress services. :)

A brand new, neatly designed Services page is their home. Check it out, tell me what you think about it.

Hackadelic on May 31st, 2009
This entry is part of a series, SEO Rants»

One hand can stop reality.Originally, Google developed algorithms that were meant to reflect the relevance of a HTML page to a user seeking information. In times when people were not SEO-aware yet, a page that ranked high in search results did so because it’s content deserved it. Hence, page rank really meant that: A rank for that page’s content.

Things have changed since… Read the rest of this entry »