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There are two definitions of “hacker” the first is the one we geeks mean when we call someone a hacker – a person skilled in using technology, particularly computers, who enjoys understanding the inner workings of that technology, perhaps for personal education. The second is the colloquial definition that refers to someone engaged in breaking through computer security, often seen as a disaffected teenager, lurking behind a green-glowing computer monitor that …

If you have a static website, one with content that doesn’t change often and that has no RSS newsfeed (so not a blog), you’ve probably noticed (if you care about these things) that Google doesn’t bother to visit, or spider, your static that often.

After an initial flurry of activity when you first created the site, the search engine will have recognized that nothing changed between …

Are you a blogger running the Google Adsense revenue generation program on your blog? Disappointed with the results? Well, there’s one thing you can do that is almost guaranteed to boost income significantly almost instantaneously.

Add an optimal ad unit in the most prominent and appealing place on your blog. So, you ask, what’s the optimal unit and where should I stick it?

Google and countless A-list bloggers will tell you …

In case you missed it, quite a few Facebook users were switching their avatars for photos of famous people they have been told they resemble, their celebrity Doppelgänger, if you will. It followed on quickly from the “retro” meme where a lot of people were posting a picture of themselves when much younger.

But, that seemed a bit boring to me. Much more fun would be to persuade lookalike celebrities …

I’m not sure whether the phrase “flying low without a license” translates beyond the shores of the British Isles. Nevertheless, it is an expression one gent might remark to another when he spots that said gent has failed to fasten the fly buttons on his 501s or the zipper on his pantaloons and is in danger of an embarrassing public display.

Across the blogosphere one might say instead, “your widgets are …