http://www.tevine.com The community powered project Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:57:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looks like Google has rolled out another PageRank update. Overall, most sites won't experience any change in PageRank. However, there is still a significant number of sites whose PageRanks have fallen by one or two points, usually for sites that have been around for quite some time. New sites are ... http://www.tevine.com/post/q3-pagerank-update-review/ Update: The "beta" notice appears to be gone, for now. Seems like Google is doing a mini experiment on the iGoogle page. This time, it involves a small little yellow notice with a "Close" link. Apparently Google forgot to place any message on the notice. Clicking on the close link will close ... http://www.tevine.com/post/google-experimenting-with-notices/ With the recent update to the Entrecard credit system, there are now more ways to earn Entrecard credits on the go. 1. Buy Entrecard credits After much debate on whether Entrecard credits are available with cash (officially anyway), Entrecard decided to fill in the gap by introducing the option of buying credits. ... http://www.tevine.com/post/entrecard-new-credit-perks/ I've just realized that Google changed it's favicon from capital G to small g. For those of you who do not know what a favicon is, it is that small 16 by 16 pixels icon you sometimes see beside the address bar. I guess that's probably one of the minor changes ... http://www.tevine.com/post/did-google-just-changed-its-favicon/ If you haven't gotten version 9.0.124.0 of Adobe Flash player, please do get it quickly, since an exploit found in earlier versions is being used actively. Older versions of Flash player are at risk. The flaw is being used by Chinese hackers (presumably, since most of the affected sites are in ... http://www.tevine.com/post/time-to-update-your-flash-player/ Looks like even after extensive testing on Wordpress's side, one nasty bug managed to slip through, and it's not the fault of Wordpress either. Apparently, anyone using mod_security on Apache will not be able to upload anything on Wordpress 2.5 or Wordpress 2.5.1. This could be because mod_security doesn't take ... http://www.tevine.com/post/wordpress-25-upload-fix/ My Search Funds is offering to pay you just for web searches. That's probably one of the easiest ways to earn money, since after all, you do use Google or Yahoo right? Results are obtained from Yahoo, Ask, and Windows Live. Google is not supported since Google doesn't permit third parties ... http://www.tevine.com/post/paid-per-search-doesnt-sound-quite-right/ Convault Theme I'm pleased to announce that the Convault theme is available for download. The convault theme is a 2-column layout that supports widgets. The other theme is still undergoing further testing and may be released shortly. Dofollow enabled Tevine would be removing nofollow from comments (i.e. dofollow) to further credit any commentators. If you are ... http://www.tevine.com/post/convault-theme-released-other-site-news/ If you love Digging (or redditing) to the point that you simply must have your own personalized "Digg" site, this article is here to help you do that. An added bonus - the full installation steps are in this article as well, so you don't really need to read the instruction ... http://www.tevine.com/post/five-ways-to-get-a-diggreddit-clone/ This would probably be the first "contest" on this site. Basically, I'm going to release this template to the public early if it gets enough approvals - and the best way to do it would have to be through the built-in voting system here. A pretty cool move right? I'd bet ... http://www.tevine.com/post/love-the-template-vote-for-it/   Looks like the PageRank update is going to be great news for webmasters, since there is an overall increase in PageRank across sites, unlike the previous 3 PageRank updates that have done the opposite. This update has been carried out over several days, so you may want to check out ... http://www.tevine.com/post/may-pagerank-update-review/   Looks like Microsoft decided to withdraw it's second bid (given the results of the first proposal, not many paid much attention to the second proposal) to acquire Yahoo. It's not that surprising that the bid failed since after all, the second bid was only slightly higher than the first bid (but much less than ... http://www.tevine.com/post/microsoft-finally-drops-bid-on-yahoo/   Looks like Google decided to update the visible PageRank on the Google toolbar between the 30th of April and the 1st of May. Well, at least it came after much speculation (on Digitalpoint anyway) of PageRank updates following a string of PageRank penalties across sites that were caught selling paid links. Overall, most ... http://www.tevine.com/post/may-pagerank-update/ You hate spam. Everyone hates spam. Spammers would hope that you mistakenly approve their spam, but that never really happens, if at all. As spam volumes continue to rise, people can easily brush it off as a regular thing. Nonetheless, let's turn that nasty piece of garbage to a piece of ... http://www.tevine.com/post/spam-should-be-considered-a-statistic/   Mozilla recently released an update for Firefox to fix a potential security threat. This update is available through auto-update. The update only fixes one flaw in Firefox related to the Javascript "garbage collector" which may cause crashes in Firefox. While this problem has not been exploited for any purposes, Firefox isn't going to wait ... http://www.tevine.com/post/small-firefox-update-20014/