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Best Web Host
I have tested their service and very excellent costumer support. So I decided to stay. I see their “online, live chat support” is exceptional with agents very helpful that issues I have are fixed quickly. Another lesson today. Hostgator web hosting is excellent. In the following days I will be one month with them and so far, I don’t see any thing one could complain. In the beginning I decided to buy web hosting plan from them because of the recommendations I read from around the internet. So now I have seen it myself, and you will not regret too hosting with them your web sites, so worth it.
Alexa and Spyware
The first time I heard about Alexa was through our anti-spyware program. It identifies a standard registry key included with Internet Explorer as “Data Miner” spyware, with little explanation, and offers to delete it. With the exponential trend and growth of the blogosphere today, Alexa surfaced again, here, as it is the most used base measure of web site traffic and rankings, the best known for operating a website that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. But is alexa a spyware?
According to Alexa it is not a spyware that generally collects your personal information for advertising purposes, and provides you with no value in return. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an “Alexa Toolbar,” allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links. The Alexa Toolbar is only installed when a user chooses to download it – it is not installed without your knowledge. The Toolbar is not hidden; it is prominently displayed at the top of the browser. In order to fill the Toolbar with relevant information, the URL of the page you’re on is transmitted to them and they return related information for that page. When the Alexa Toolbar is turned on, Alexa collects and stores the URLs you visit as your Toolbar requests data to display about these URLs from our servers. These URLs may include information about the Web pages that you view, the products you purchase online, and the data you enter in online forms and search fields. The Alexa Toolbar can be turned off at any time. Turning the Toolbar off prevents any information from being transmitted to them.
So how did my spyware found Alexa? Part of the reason is that there is a registry entry from Alexa built into every version of Internet Explorer by Microsoft (up to the XP Service Pack 2 release)–this registry key is associated with the Related Info Sidebar, accessed from the Tools menu in IE, the ‘Tools’/’Show Related Links’ menu item (and a corresponding toolbar button if you added it from the ‘Customize…’ link on the toolbar). When you request Related Information for a site, the URL of the site you are on is sent to Alexa’s servers, which in turn provide data about the site you are on at the time. If you use that feature, IE will contact the Alexa servers, via MSN, to obtain information about other web pages that seem to be related, open an Explorer Bar, and display those (plus adverts and whatnot). And due to a bug in IE (versions prior to IE6 on XP SP2), you might even transmit (potentially sensitive) URL information if you reload pages long after you close the Explorer Bar, about (even secure HTTPS/SSL) pages for which you didn’t request Related Links. But if you don’t use that menu or button, Alexa will not hear from you and no spying will take place. The extent of what Alexa “spies” is that someone in the world using Internet Explorer requested information on the specific URL.
Yahoo’s mybloglog?
Today I signed in to the favourite social networking site, mybloglog. It brought me to Yahoo, letting me sign in using my yahoo username! Obviously something is going on. It says “by merging MyBlogLog account with your Yahoo! account, … ” So maybe they just have some changes or upgrades, but until now I couldn’t log in. it seems, there is a bizarre error when they pushed the Yahoo! IDs live today. So better for their members if they restrict access to the site until they figure that one out. You notice it too?
How to have “Read More” in your posts
Do you want to have show/hide links for your posts, where you can expand and collapse it? This is a trick for those using blogger or blogspot, that’s particularly useful on blogs with very long posts. What happens is that a reader will only see the titles and teaser of your posts at first, so they can skim through and see what they want to read. Then, when they want to read a post, they can click a link to see the full text through the link “read more”. The text can then be hidden again when they’re done reading by clicking “summary only”. Peekaboo view! This all happens on one page, so there is no extra navigating to or loading of other pages. You can give it a try here:
Expandable posts with Peekaboo view.
Follow Hackosphere’s directions there. He made it easy and clear.
Blogger hacks
Since the time I started blogging, my blogs In a class by itself and Sweet and spicy life have evolved from one design to another, some of the screenshots I saved. Now I can say I know my way around basic html, but of course I had the guide from great blogging hackers who unselfishly share their knowledge and whose hacks I actually have been using in the past and this time. I am now into something new to me this time, learn some. I just think it is right for me to acknowledge them now.
Batch File Uploads
After I set up my wordpress account on my web host of course I would have to upload wp files in the directory. Everything was new to me but it turned out bit easy for now. I uploaded files one by one and after doing it for few minutes, I got a bit impatient to do it manually, surely there is something that makes it automatic, at least. Less errors, time and effort. Then I found that an easier way to upload files to your webhost is to use an FTP client thing, finally met it face to face after hearing about it. FileZilla, is an open-source FTP-client and FTP-server developed for the Windows operating system by Tim Kosse (Germany) et al. It comes in both a Javascript and non-Javascript version. FileZilla may be used to manage your WordPress site by uploading and downloading files and images to manage your WordPress powered blog hosted on the server; is a free client that’s supposed to be really easy to use, the one I am utilizing now. It was so much easier and faster to transfer batch files. FTP clients really make uploading easier than working manually with the web based upload.