myFeedz – personalized feed reading Got to know of myFeedz today. It’s not a simple RSS reader application, or not a technorati clone. It understands and learns the kind of things you like to read, and presents them to you. You can specify the tags you are interested in and it will collect posts based on that. You can also […]
Akismet not catching spam, popularity contest known issues Been getting a lot more spam lately, and Akismet fails to catch them. Have 1000+ caught by Akismet, and 300+ which are spam, but not caught by Akismet. And that over the last 3 days. That’s too bad for Akismet, or too good for the spammers. Have re-activated HashCash plugin, so let’s see what happens […]
iPhoto to Gallery Vaibhav suggested using iPhotoToGallery for uploading images to my photo gallery. I downloaded it and installed it. But couldn’t figure out where did it go! The installation app asks you the target folder to install the application in. I selected the “Applications” folder, but couldn’t find any new app in there. So even re-installed the […]
More spam – HashCash broken? I am getting a lot more spam comments these days. There are pretty interesting comments nowadays. Looks like either people have written intelligent bots or there are actual human beings posting spam comments. The comments would refer to some of the content and then make an opinion or ask a question. Would look like a […]
Get off Spammers! I wrote about comment spam I was getting on my blogs a while ago. I didn’t bother to do anything about it, but last week it just went out of hands. I used to get about 250 spam comments everyday on both mehtanirav and TrustAndFreedom. The Magnet blog also gets lot of spam. I didn’t […]