With the recent PageRank update, I was happy to find JohnTP.com with a PR 6. Earlier this blog was stuck with a PR 3, and then with last times PageRank update it got PR 5 and now PageRank 6.

Once while I was reading some posts on Problogger.net, I came across this interesting AdSense Ad by John Chow.

The Ad was so different that I was tempted to click it and visit John’s blog. A few weeks later I started seeing the same type of AdSense Ad on this blog too.

A week after WordPress 2.0.7 has been released, the long awaited WordPress 2.1 “Ella” (named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald) has been finally released. Besides over 550 bug fixes, WordPress 2.1 includes the following new features:

WordPress 2.0.7 has been released and is recommended that all users update as it contains fixes to the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6.
Users that have upgraded to WordPress 2.0.6 that was released a few days back, don’t have to update all of their WordPress’ files. Here is the list [...]

Those of you who use Digg might have noticed that it is harder for Blogs to get to the Digg frontpage (except for popular blogs like Problogger.net and TechCrunch) and bloggers also may get flamed by Diggers for submitting their own blogs. What’s worser is that Digg even started banning blogs like JohnChow.com and PaulStamatiou.com.
So [...]

WordPress 2.0.6 was released a few hours ago. This new version includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade.
Here’s what’s new:

The aforementioned security fixes.
HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

For developers, there’s a new anti-XSS function called [...]

I applied for Chitika 3 days back and got approved yesterday. As I was new to it, I did not have much idea on how to optimize it for better CTR. Thankfully Darren has shared good Chitika eMiniMalls Tips on Problogger.net
That post alone taught me many useful things that I needed to know about Chitika [...]

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter.
Attacker-supplied HTML and script code would execute in the context of the affected site, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or to control how the [...]

It’s a known fact among many AdSense publishers that blending AdSense Ads increases CTR (Click Through Rate). Here is a good example of a blended Half Banner (234×60) AdSense Ad that I found on FreewareFiles.com.

TuneUp Utilities is a software for Windows with a very nice interface that will help you optimize the performance of your PC and let’s you easily customize your computer to suit your needs. It helps you make your system faster, more comfortable and more secure in a matter of minutes.
TuneUp Utilities is one of my [...]