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When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than a week since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the point where it…
Written by Madhukara H on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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For the end users, be them in the home or in the corporate environments, the road to Windows 7 (Seven) leads more or less to Windows Vista. But for Microsoft, there is an entirely different path altogether.The fact of the matter is that, as far as the …
Written by Madhukara H on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Many times I need to run away from my computer quickly…but I do not want to leave my computer unlocked. So, yes, I am extremely lazy, well clumsy too. A few times when I am in a rush to CTRL-ALT-DEL I have knocked an entire bottle of water on to my k…
Written by Steve Wiseman on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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One of the most frustrating moments of my morning is getting to work and sitting there for 10 minutes while my computer boots up. Most mornings, I can get a cup of coffee and visit coworkers while my computer starts and Outlook, IE, and the other applications I use regularly open. My wait time is [...]
Written by Jason on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for November 2007 just came out and Vista not be receiving any updates. Windows Server 2003 will be getting an ‘Important’ update, and Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 will both be receiving a ‘Critical’ update.
Written by Joe on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Internet Explorer and Firefox are in a constant race for both the lion’s share of the browser market and for the top dog position when it comes down to which of the two products is more locked down from a security perspective. In terms of audience Internet Explorer has little contest from Firefox, although the [...]
Written by Jason on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Over the course of 13 weeks, I’ve had lots of fun and frustration working on a group studio project as part of my degree. Last night, we (Keegan, Justin and I) were awarded one of two ‘best project’ prizes in our year level so I thought I’d show you what all the fuss is about.
It’s [...]
Written by Long Zheng on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Many of webmasters wants to know how Google detects click frauds, perhaps to prevent from being banned. No one right now have the correct answer!. I had (with some of my friends) made two Adsense account and made the tests.
Account Number 1:
The site was accepted! We added the ads, and then I started my self by clicking on the ads. I was the only person that access to this site. So when seeing the Adsense reports, I see that the CTR level is high (80 %) due to the huge number of click and few impression (Ex : 50 impression and 35 clicks). After some days, Google prevent me from being banned. So Google won’t delete your account from the first time, but it will inform you! I continue in click frauds and google disabled my account.
Account Number 2:
I have good traffic with this one because of my friends! We made a lot of traffic and page impression and few clicks (CTR = 5 or 8 %) Google Adsense Generate money. After some days we get an email alerting us from click frauds! (Note : We use a fix IP Address)
Conclusion:
How Google detect clicks then:
1/ Google detects CTR and inform (Adsense robots) it’s engineers when a CTR reach a high level (25 % for example) for a long period of time. The engineer won’t disable the account, it will visit the site and see what’s going on and then alert you.
2/ Google detects the IP address of the computer that make clicks and impression (If always the same that made clicks and impression, then something is strange) Google will alert you before any action he will take
3/ The normal CTR is from 2% to 8% max. If you have 2% or less then you adsense need optimization. If you have more than 10% (for a long period, 1 week for example) and you don’t make clicks frauds, then try to detect (with google analytics) who is coming to your site and abusing your ads. tell Google (with email) when you found an abusing IP Address.
4/ As your impression and visitors are numbrous as google won’t see click frauds (will pass them). If you have for example 5000 page impression daily, Google Adsense won’t take care of an abusing IP Address and will block it him self (simply the clicks of this IP won’t generate money, so if you have good traffic don’t make click frauds because this don’t generate money)
I’m not sure of that (In other words it can be not google method to detect click fraud), you’d better make more research if you want to know!.
Afraid from being banned ?
Simply follow yout CTR and all should go well. If you found for example 5 clicks without revenue then those clicks are click frauds (in normal condition 1 click generate 0.28 ot 0.48 $) and also page impression generate up to 1 $ per 1000 impression (not much but good if you have enough money)
Helpful information about Adsense on : www.Ad-sensing.com (it isn’t my site)
Written by Omar Abid on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Yesterday, along with the launch of the new Windows Live apps and services, Microsoft also commenced with the public beta of Windows Live Calendar. Denise Ho, Lead Program Manager for Windows Live Calendar, made the announcement off of the Windows Live Hotmail blog.
Windows Live Calendar is designed to make it easier to share your plans with friends and family. Using Windows Live Calendar, you can share your calendar out to people in your Windows Live Contacts. For those of them using Windows Live Calendar, they can accept an invite to view your shared calendar which will then appear in their account when they log in to Windows Live Calendar. For friends who don’t have Windows Live ID’s - you can send them a secret link to view your calendar without the need to sign in. You can read Denise’s post mentioned above for the complete lowdown on what Windows Live Calendar offers.
But I’d like to call out a specific scenario that Windows Live Calendar supports - something I’ve adopted myself. Windows Live Calendar allows you to share out your calendar in .ics format. By doing this, it allows folks to then subscribe to their calendars in a calendar client on the PC - such as Windows Calendar in Windows Vista. Any event I add, or others add, to my calendars I’ve shared out - automatically get synced back to my PC in Windows Calendar. This also includes reminder schedules.
If I have a reminder for an event set for 1 day or 1 hour - Windows Calendar will get that and remind me (Windows Live Calendar leverages Windows Live Alerts as well for reminding users of events too).
I’ve created a video demo on showing how to set up and share out a calendar in Windows Live Calendar and subscribing to it in Windows Calendar in Windows Vista:
Video: Demo: Windows Live Calendar (BETA) #1
Sharing a calendar in Windows Live Calendar is really easy, and subscribing to it via Windows Calendar is just as easy.
Please take note: in order to take advantage of having reminders in Windows Calendar, be sure you have reminders checked for the calendar in Windows Calendar!
This scenario also works with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 in which once you share out the .ics file (same way shown above) of a specific calendar in Windows Live Calendar, you can then subscribe to it in Outlook 2007. This will work well for those at work using Outlook 2007 and wanting to keep track of personal events in Windows Live Calendar.
Give Windows Live Calendar a try. I’ll be following up with this post with a few other posts on Windows Live Calendar in the near future.
Written by Brandon LeBlanc on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Windows Live services and a unified installer make their formal debut, although others remain unfinished.
Written by WinPlanet Windows Software News on November 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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