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Lefora Forums

martin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:47:54 +0000

Thanks again to BBC Click I have discovered a great new service on the Internet. Lefora is a free forum service that lets you create a discussion forum service for your own communities. It’s really easy to set up, customise and get started.

So why do I need a forum? Well I’ve been secretly working on my own little project and now it’s time to start getting users on board. Using Lefora has enabled me to concentrate on my own service and not waste valuable time implementing another forum. You can check out my forum at rondayvoo.lefora.com. Oh yeah, my little project is at Rondayvoo.com. Feel free to check it out and use the forum to tell me what you think!

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The Long Tail

martin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:00:00 +0000

< ![CDATA[The original Wired magazine article about the new Internet economy.
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HOW TO: Getting Started with RSS

martin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:00:00 +0000

< ![CDATA[Very comprehensive introduction to RSS
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This week’s ClickOnline

martin — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:14:17 +0000

In case you haven’t seen it, ClickOnline is the BBC’s Internet technology show which shown is on BBC News 24 in the middle of the night – thank heavens for Tivo. They also show it on BBC2 on a Sunday morning but this is a shortened version. The show usually features a couple of interesting articles and reviews of some viewer recommended web sites.

On last weeks show they did a piece on Internet security. They put a Windows XP machine on the Internet through a dial-up connection that had no anti-virus and no firewall software. The machine was compromised in 8 seconds !

In this weeks show they answered a viewers question, asking what software was used to detect to the security breach. The actual software used was called Process Explorer, but they recommended another piece of software called What Process because it was probably easier to use. If you find something suspicious I’d suggest you take a look at Ad-Aware or the new Microsoft Anti Spyware, both of which are free to download and use.

Another interesting web site featured this week was Icon Archive. It’s a useful library of icons for use on your PC or web site.

I have found a few useful things on ClickOnline. Probably the best is a site called WatchThatPage. Basically you register some URLs and WatchThatPage tells you when those web pages change. You get an email saying what has changed and a short summary of the actual changes. It saves having to check web sites regularly for changes. I have it checking the software download page for my router so that I can see when the new firmware becomes available.