DreamHost – Earn $97 CASH for each account you refer!

// September 5th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Affiliate Networking, Coupons, DNS, Domain Names, Email, Hosting, I recommend, Useful

This really is an awesome deal. I host my website on Dreamhost and they have an amazing referral program that I highly recommend for people who want to make easy money. They also offer DreamHost customer the ability to create your own promo codes which you can promote to your friends or on your website and both of you profit.
It’s a win-win situation.

Earn $97 CASH for each account you refer!

You do not have to be a DreamHost customer to take advantage of their referral program!

You can choose to receive substantial one-time credits for each of your referrals, or recurring credits for every payment that your referrals EVER make to DreamHost!

You say “pyramid scheme”? I say pyramid DREAM! Here’s how it works!

Already a DreamHost customer? Just read our linking directions!

Sign up for DreamHost Hosting – What you get

* $5.95 paid 10 years in advance. $10.95/mo monthly, $9.95/mo for 1 year

DreamHost Coupon Codes

Promo Code: DIVAGEEK “1 Free Domain name and $10 off” [Go Now]

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I added the promo code to the link so you won’t need to enter it.

Free Social Network Icons and Bullets

// June 2nd, 2008 // 45 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Design, Desktop Icons, Email, For Geeks, Graphics, Icons, Useful, Windows, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, web tools, webdesign

Here you’ll find a bunch of random social networking icons, bullets, buttons..and more icons etc..that you can use on your blog or website. Make sure to check out some of the other icon posts I’ve posted, just do a search for icons in the search box in the sidebar.

Just remember to please host them yourself..no hotlinking please. There are plenty of free image hosts available. Try tinypic.com or photobucket.com! Enjoy!

30+ Free Mobile Internet Applications

// May 11th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Email, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Mobile, Useful, Videos, Windows, web tools

I was looking for applications to add to my phone and I found a list of them I thought I’d share with my faithful readers..helloo *echo* ah well..here they are anyway..

Search and Browse

Opera Mini – Whether you want to access your mail, RSS feeds or bank information, Opera Mini is a quick and secure way to get your data on the go. Great interface for scanning pages and zooming in and out. OS: Java

Mobispin – Your favorite news, blogs and feeds on the go

Mozilla Minimo – Multiple tabs, Social bookmarking, RSS Support, Widget and Extension support . OS: Windows Mobile

Microsoft IE for Mobile – Standard browser features, Sync the Favorites you’ve saved on your PC. OS: Windows Mobile

Mowser.com – A search and start page for mobile browsing.

Tappity.com – Discover, submit, and rate mobile sites to share with others.

WamPad.com – A mobile search engine for all sorts of information including MySpace.

Chat

Fring – Go mobile withSkype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, SIP, Twitter, AIM & Yahoo! First VoIP ever for the mobile phone.

Ebuddy - Mobile chat experience on MSN, Yahoo! and AIM, all in one single buddylist.

Bing - Java (J2ME), BlackBerry, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM & GTalk on the go!

Cellity FreeSMS – Send text messages from your mobile worldwide FREE of charge*

Miscellaneous

Flurry.com – Access to email, feeds, update your friends and more.

Goosync.com – Sync your Google Calendar with your mobile phone or PDA.

MoMail.co.uk – Access any and all of your email accounts from one centralized mobile mailbox.

PlusMo.com – A widget service for mobile devices that has over 20,000 widgets at your disposal.

MyWaves – delivers video content from the web to your mobile for FREE!
READ ON FEARLESS WARRIOR!

20 More Free + Useful Mobile Apps after the cut…

Below are Publishing tools, RSS Feeds and Bookmarking all for your Mobil Phone….and all for FREE!

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Just a Hard Working Girl

// April 26th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Email, For Geeks, Personal Posts, Update

Re-Posted from: my livejournal

Well.. I thought I’d give ya’ll an update on the new job and how things are going so far. It’s been 3 whole weeks since I started and it’s been awesome so far. The company is a young growing company with a lot of potential. The owner is 32 years young and incredibly involved and smart. My co-workers have all been helpful and friendly and I don’t feel out of place or uncomfortable being the new girl like I was worried about.
In fact one of my co-workers from my old job jumped ship and got hired at my new job too. He just started this week and it’s been very cool to have someone I know and work well with there with me.
Being in a new environment and having someone who I know and who knows me is nice.
The tech support department is small and close knit which is how I like it. Communication and team work between the departments is awesome and so key when your working with technology because things change from minute to minute it helps when everyone is clued into what’s going on in each department. I can’t say enough about my new company it’s just flipping awesome.
I’m pretty much just doing the same thing I was doing before…so far mostly just Outlook setups and email troubleshooting but I’m learning a whole lot more as well. The company I work for is called Smarsh and it’s an email archiving/email hosting company for the financial industry so there is this whole archiving piece that I’m learning about which is very interesting.

So far so good. I’m happy where I’m at.

Interesting Fact: In March 2004, Bank of America was fined $10 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to retain email records.

My Favorite Geek Sites

// April 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, DNS, Design, Email, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Useful, web tools, webdesign

Here is a short list of my favorite geek themed websites that I use and recommend.

• Open Source Living
  http://osliving.com/
  Open Source Living is a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS) spanning all major platforms, inclusive of small to large scale projects. It aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to corporate, closed source software.
• OpenOffice.org
  http://www.openoffice.org/
  OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. FREE!! easy to learn, and if you’re already using another office software package, you’ll take to OpenOffice.org 2 straight away.
• TechRepublic
  http://techrepublic.com.com/
  A Resource for IT Professionals TechRepublic provides real world advice on how to make technology work in business. Through a combination of articles, forums, and multimedia
• mail2web.com
  http://mail2web.com/
  Pick Up Your Email From any computer, anywhere in the world. No need to register! Free!

More after the jump

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Catch-All Email Addresses and Email Spoofing

// March 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // Abuse, DNS, Domain Names, Email, For Geeks, Hosting, Useful, Web Hosting, web tools

Email spoofing may occur in different forms, but all have a similar result: a user receives email that appears to have originated from one source when it actually was sent from another source. Email spoofing is often an attempt to trick the user into making a damaging statement or releasing sensitive information (such as passwords).

Examples of spoofed email that could affect the security of your site include:

• email claiming to be from a system administrator requesting users to change their passwords to a specified string and threatening to suspend their account if they do not do this
• email claiming to be from a person in authority requesting users to send them a copy of a password file or other sensitive information

Using a Catch-All Email Address and Spoofing
One thing I recommend is that you do not use a catch-all email address for your domain name. Creating a catch-all email address, means anything@yourdomain.com will be forwarded to you; it doesn’t have to be an actual email address it just has to be sent to @yourdomain.com and any email that cannot find a valid recipient and would therefore bounce under normal circumstance gets successfully delivered without returning an error message to the original sender which sounds great but it also gives spammers a wide open door to attack you and use your domain name to send spam.
If you want to use a catch all email address then you should add a SPF record to your DNS that identifies the mail servers that are allowed to send email representing your domain name. Any receiving server that supports SPF/SenderID will check for the SPF record and reject the e-mail that didn’t come from a permitted mail server.
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record will certainly help the spoofing situation (you can read more about how this works here but keep in mind this is not completely foolproof yet because it also requires the receiving organization supports SPF or SenderID and unfortunately SPF is still not supported by everyone.

If you don’t directly manage your DNS record (most don’t) or you don’t know what any of this means, the quickest way to a solution is to call the tech support department of your Internet Service Provider or email hosting provider. Tell them about the problem you’re having, that you think it might have something to do with SPF, and let them help you.

Forms of Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting – registering a domain name using a trademarked name or company name that is not yours with the goal to make money off the company name, personal name or trademark. Sad thing is not all companies or people have a trademark so a cybersquatter can easily register a domain name using their name and then force them to buy it from them in order to use it. There are laws to protect people from cybersquatter but it is a very expensive to fight. (see more info on Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy )

Typosquatting - registering a domain name that is a close to the spelling of or a common misspelling of a trademarked brand name or a well known name. For example: Gooogle.com

Domain tasting is when someone registers domain name(s) and then keeps only the ones that have economic value. If they find that the domain name does not make them money then they have the domain name refunded using the five day “grace period”. Domain tasting should not be confused with domain kiting.

Domain kiting is the process of deleting a domain name during the five-day grace period and then immediately re-registering it for another five-day period. This process is repeated any number of times with the end result of having the domain registered without ever actually paying for it.

Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as user names, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy website. eBay, PayPal and online banks are common targets. You’ll usually find phishing links sent out in an email or an instant message that will direct users to enter details at a website that “looks” like eBay for example. Always type the domain name you want to visit directly into your address bar. Never click on a link to a site where you plan on entering your personal information unless your 100% sure it’s legit and you can never be 100% sure so just type it in. It’s easy to hide where the link your clicking on is actually going and it’s also very easy to design websites that look and act exactly like your banks site or ebays site. Be safe!