Had to deal with Firefox more than I wanted to in the past weeks while developing some sites and an eCommerce engine. So I started to search for plugins to make my experience a bit more pleasant.
PS: I got a few more days of hard work and next week I should come with some new cool posts. I kind of neglected this blog lately but… c'est la vie (toujours a bitch)!
Bug Fix: Fixed a small bug that did not remove shuffles properly. Now it works and they're gone.

New Free SEO Software Tool for the taking. Microsoft AD Intelligence friendly. Claim your copy NOW!

No such un-exhaustible commons! But if you drink alone it lasts longer. Share it and you won't know what hit you when it ends.

I just bumped into a thread on WickedFire where ELI from BluetHatSEO.com claims to have setup a .htaccess redirect to the WhiteHouse.gov against a DDos attack.
I bet those who know what I'm talking about are already laughing but for those who are not … please keep reading …!

Trying to fight worm spreads, Microsoft imposed a limit in tcpip.sys to a maximum of 10 half-open connections during one second. Even if this will not affect the average user it will be the difference between night and day for the black hat SEO.
Learn how it works, where to get the patch and how to apply it in this post.
Had greatly improved speed based on (PR) Papa Rage's comment in last performance bottleneck post but had to go further as DNS resolving functions in Windows are as slow as it gets.
See what happened, in terms of speed, after rewriting the DNS resolving functions with a twist.

Most of you will learn almost nothing from this post (so reading is optional :)) but you'll see the things I struggle with, on a daily basis ;) And later on I'll have a cool piece of software for you … not this one :)
Another day has passed and another problem was solved. See how I overcame a bottleneck in performance on a violent scraper C++ software.

Why would you care? Keep reading…

Welcome and this is the bomb. There has been major buzz lately about old, expired, dead domains and how good they are and I will give you my take on this and some advice plus THE TOOL to spot the domain corpses!
Including the first post of a series on this sensitive subject. And, as always, looking forward to your input.


After disecting the break-in at WebLogAwards 2007 now I will show you how they failed to protect themselves and how they can do it better. They only did client-side protection but none server-side.

I heard about the enormous scandal of the Science Blogs Cathegory at 2007 WebLog awards and I decided to take a look at their security and see if the system was vulnerable. And, Oh My God!
I just launched this Internet Explorer SEO Component that will help you notice the problem about today's web. Relatively new sites don't rank for anything remotely competitive!



I'm really anxious as in the next three days I will publish my first SEO tool see what you have to say. I'm not telling you what it does but it's really cool and helps a SEO quite a lot. Still got a bit of work but less then 10% so stay sharp.

Read about a past experience here that marked my entire professional life. See how you can almost waste your entire work with one wrong move! May this be a lesson to all of you handling sensitive data.
I finally did it. No game or software managed to go over 10% in CPU usage on my gaming beast. So I wrote the software that managed to do it!

I see a lot of plugins lately. What if I told you a bit of my history with browser extensions? Hope you'll become more security aware. There's no such thing as free stuff, you eventually pay!
I also want to recommend you a movie which, if you haven't seen, you don't exist!

Conspiracy Theory
What is the best and easiest to use spell checker freely available out there? Take a guess or read on …
This ad got me to write this short piece of free advice.

I'm more then sure this software will not only verify your email addresses but they will also share them with thrid parties interested in spamming the living hell out of them!
A new game is on his way and is about to rock. Even if the game would not be successfull I'm 110% sure that the team at FlagShip Studios would do great in making 3D Animated movies.