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Popup blocking coming soon to IE
Yup you heard that right. Popup ad blocking will appear in IE 6.05 as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). You'd have to wait until the first half of 2004 to get it. In the meantime, you can use these alternatives if you aren't already:
Source: MSFN via Gemal's Psyched Blog
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Bloggers against comment spam
Adam Kalsey has issued a Comment Spam Manifesto:
Bloggers will track you down and notify your hosting providers about your activities. We will tell your ISPs what you are using their connections for. We will let the makers of the products you are advertising know of your despicable sales methods. We will hit you where it hurts by attacking your source of income.
The efforts of Jay Allen in coming up with MT-Blacklist are highly commendable. For once, bloggers have a defensive tool against blog spammers. The manifesto, however, propounds that bloggers get on the offensive. Cut comment spammers off at their knees. Report them to their ISP after performing a WHOIS with their IP addresses.
A PageRank of 6 has meant this weblog has been target of a good number of comment spammers. Installing MT-Blacklist has stopped a good number in their tracks. From now, repeated offenders will be reported to your ISP or your affiliate program owner.
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Ahem! 5 reasons not to buy an iPod
Well, CNET has posted "Five reasons not to buy an iPod". Of course, realistically for most people, there are only 2 reasons in there that really matter (reasons 1 and 3); for the active, reason 2 as well.
In case you were thinking, no I wasn't thinking of getting an iPod. My main beef with the iPod is its price. And 6 hours of battery life just doesn't cut it. I'd much rather get one of these or perhaps one of these. Maybe in 7 months time.
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Search "without opening a browser" with Google Deskbar
Google Deskbar's pretty neat, but as usual from Google, the neat stuff is only available for Windows users, and is actually tied to IE (think Google Toolbar and PageRank.
Anyway, it's convenient to search straight from the desktop, and if you're like me, you do lots of searches with Google. It does, however, mean that you're using IE to browse your searches - depending on your preferences, that may be a good, bad or "I don't really care" thing.
You may also have noticed I quoted Google in using double quotes when I say "without opening a browser". That's because the mini-viewer uses IE, and it actually does "open" a browser - there is a noticeable delay as the Deskbar revs up IE the first time I do a search. Of course, that entirely depends on your definition of the word "open".
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The monthly report - October 2003
redemption in a blog received 10,617 visits for the month of October 2003, working to an average of 342 hits per day.
Most visited entries:
- Unbelievable optical illusion was most visited, probably because it got onto several LiveJournals.
- Comparing Mozilla Firebird with other browsers - why you really should use Mozilla Firebird.
- New IE smells like Mozilla had some screenshots on the IE that will come with Windows Longhorn.
Other interesting stuff:
- My Google PageRank went up by 1 from 5 to 6.
- Over 1 Gigabyte of bandwidth was used last month, a record which I attribute to the picture in Unbelievable optical illusion being hot-linked on many forum sites, and (eek!) LiveJournals.
Thanks for reading!
Past monthly reports:
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