There are many anti-spam plugins available on the net that you can use to prevent your website from getting/blocking more spams in comments or trackbacks. Some of them are working just fine and some of them are too strict which even blocking human visitors (there are two types of visitors, human and robots) from visiting your website. I’m sure many of Wordpress users use Akismet (wiki) as their website spam protection because it comes in the installation package. But using Akismet alone is not enough. Why?

Akismet will check the comment entered and compare it with the database in Akismet web service. If it found that the comment is a spam, it will block and waiting you to decide whether to delete or de-marked it as spam. If you only use Akismet plugin, you will get about 10 or 30 (maybe more) spams caught in one day. And some of the comments maybe came from legit visitors comment or we can say good comments. Do you will use the all-delete button or you will analyze each comments one by one?

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Currently I working on to make my own Wordpress theme. I already knew basic HTML but I need to learn and master CSS. I want to learn how to use <div>. If using <table> it is easy because you can set which place you want to put the rows and the datas but if using <div>, it is all depends on CSS.

I think I want to use Dreamweaver as my platform to design and create the theme. But as you may know, if we using Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage, we are limited on the software it self. So I use EditPlus as my text editor to make my own Wordpress theme.

Btw I just make my own RSS feed icon to use on my site. It took me about 1 hour to design it. The hard part is when I want to design the RSS logo. At first, I don’t know but after tried so many times, at last I got the design. Any comments, condamns, etc? He3. [tags]wordpress, theme, rss, feed, icon[/tags]

Want to watch free tv shows, cartoons or animes? Here is come the website you are waiting for, TV Links.

TV Links with their slogan “Better than a Remote Control” is a website that provide links to available videos from various sources such as youtube, dailymotion or bolt. They collect all these links and compile them in one page and let you decide which video you want to watch.

TV Links doesn’t host the videos, they only link to them. If you want to download the videos, you can use YouTubeX for YouTube. And to watch them, you need this FLV Player.

Btw do you know, how many rejected slogans they have before they decided to use the current one? Check this out.

[via Ghacks][tags]tv links, video, movie, tv show, anime, cartoon[/tags]

I would like to announce my new plugin, Today Posts. This plugin will list down your posts for that day. Let say, you have published multiple post in a day. So maybe some of the posts published will not be read by your site visitors because they need to scroll down. By list down your today posts, the chances for your posts be read by your site readers will high.

Plugin Name: Today Posts
Plugin URI: http://www.cypherhackz.net/plugins-themes/today-posts/
Description: Display a list of today posts. Useful for bloggers who publish multiple posts in a day.
Version: 1.0
Author: Fauzi Mohd Darus
Author URI: http://www.cypherhackz.net/

For more details, demo and download link, you can visit the plugin page here, WP Plugin: Today Posts . [tags]plugin, post, update[/tags]

I just edited my Easy Announcement plugin which is, it will display a link to edit the announcement when you are login to your website. So you can directly go to edit file page, without need to go to admin panel > manage > edit file. Here are the screenshots on what I mean.

Image 1: When you are not login

Image 2: When you are login

I have update the plugin and you can download the plugin from the plugin page. Read the readme on how to update the plugin. [tags]download, plugin, tweak[/tags]

Cypher: I don’t know why but I love watching the chicken dance. Lol…

Some posts from Week 46, 2006 (20th - 26th November 2006) that you might want to read.

• Reduce Firefox Memory Usage when Minimize
• Tips on how to name your AdSense Channels
• Add StumbleUpon in your Wordpress
• Publish your post while you are away

PSA stands for Public Service Ads which mean you will get nothing if peoples click on those ads. These ads will appear on your site if there is not enough contents or adsense crawler has not yet crawled to your website pages.

Beside you can fill the ads with solid color, you can remove the PSAs with this following code:

1. Copy the code above and save it as a html file. Eg: adsense_script.html.
2. Upload it to your website (usually in root, eg: www.website.com/adsense_script.html)
3. Setup your Adsense ads as usual.
4. In the “Show non-Google ads from another URL”box, type in the html file url.
5. Done!

With this, the PSAs will not show up because they have been replaced with the script above.

[via Malaysia Bloggers][tags]adsense, public service ads, tips, how-to[/tags]

This is the latest update for my Wordpress plugin, Site Statistics.

Plugin Name: Site Statistics
Version: 1.3
Plugin URI: http://www.cypherhackz.net/plugins-themes/site-statistics/
Description: Show your site statistics. Posts, comments, categories, last post, last commentator and last modified.
Author: Fauzi Mohd Darus
Author URI: http://www.cypherhackz.net/

Download: cypher_site-statistics.zip

What’s New

• Only display approved comments.
• Last Modified is now easier to read.

For more info and demo about this plugin, you can visit the plugin page here, WP Plugin: Site Statistics. [tags]site statistics, plugin, wordpress plugin[/tags]

A few weeks back I posted about how you can get more domains choices for your Live.com passport account. But here is another more Live IDs that you can choose to register.

1. Go to the registration page.
2. Copy and paste this javascript code in your address toolbar.
   
3. Hit Enter .

You will get a pop-up message box saying that “More Live IDs have been added!“. That’s mean the javascript works. Now you can start register your own new Live account.

Here is the list of the available domains:

• hotmail.com
• hotmail.co.uk
• msn.com
• msdn.com
• microsoft.com
• microsoft.com.au
• zune.net
• msngames.com
• windows.com
• windows2000.com
• windowsxp.com
• windowsvista.com
• windowsmarketplace.com
• windowslive.com
• xbox.com
• xbox360.com
• officelive.com
• bungie.net
• halo2.com
• halo3.com
• live.(you name it)
• CUSTOM.COM - If you discover another domain that you want to use, Just Find “CUSTOM.COM” in the script and change it to “WHATEVER.COM/NET/ORG/COM.AU/CO.UK etc…”

Note: Only works in Firefox.

Mess [via RaymondCC][tags]live, domain, passport, account[/tags]

A software security researcher has warned that the password manager features of Mozilla’s open source, Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT), Internet Explorer (IE) Web browsers could be exploited, placing unsuspecting users at risk.

Users of Firefox or Explorer, both of which may be vulnerable to the attack known as “Reverse Cross Site Request” (RCSR), are not fooled directly by the password theft exploit. Instead, it provides a fake login site that fools a browser’s saved password feature into automatically providing the information, Robert Chapin, president of Chapin Information Services, reported.

Microsoft and Mozilla acknowledge about this probem. While waiting for the next update for this security issue, please disable Passwod Manager in your Firefox.

[via TechNewsWorld][tags]firefox, ie, security, vulnerable[/tags]

Cypher: Btw incase you don’t know yet, you also can discover saved passwords in Firefox. It is really dangerous if your computer use by multiple users.