Are you running Akismet, the anti-comment-spam plugin for Wordpress? Are you getting several hundred spam comments caught every day? If you are like me, you are probably fed up with scrolling through page after page of them when you review…

You may recall I discussed OpenDNS, a 3rd party DNS server that is very easy to setup and generally works much faster than your ISP’s DNS servers. It also has several advantages such as “adult” filtering and simple site blocking…

First step, forget to set your alarm for an early morning start after a boozy weekday night before. That way you will wake nice and late and be ready to face the world of snoozing for another half an hour…

Web Worker Daily recently ran an interesting story on how to use LinkedIn productively, but they didn’t spell out some of the search engine optimization (SEO) essentials to making a name for yourself on this business networking site.

Here are a few tips

• First,…

Lots of times I receive PDF versions of the articles I write for online and offline magazines as PDF documents. Very nice, yes. I can store them away in my virtual portfolio for all eternity, or at least until the…

New up on my Google account today, was a link entitled simply “Offline” with a “new” tag right next to it in red. Curiosity took the feline to its tenth so I thought I’d click it and see where it…

Obviously, it is very hard to do. Not blog, that is. But, there are times when we all really need to take a break from blogging, hacking, and tweaking our content management systems, plugins, and browser addons. So, in the…

Regular readers will know all about Sciencetext’s Top Commentators Slot. Comment on several posts and the link to which you assign your name in commenting will be promoted to the homepage, top right, assuming you have commented more than your…

TrueCrypt is free software that encrypts data “on-the-fly”. You can create an encrypted hard drive, a separate partition or a directory. TrueCrypt is portable — it works on GNU/Linux and Windows. Worried about someone getting into your private files when your…

A perennial problem for bloggers is whether or not to display complete posts on their blog’s homepage, aside from SEO duplicate content issues, there is the problem of making the homepage so long that it takes a half hour just…

Have you been struggling with your passwords lately? Not sure whether or not they are up to strength? Then you you probably have not checked out my passwords for scientists idea. It could be just what you need, especially if you…

If you have already upgraded to Wordpress 2.2, then this post is not for you. But, if you are languishing on an earlier installation and running a theme that does not support widgets, then you may like to check out…

Did you know you can use Google Talk to do a whole lot more than send instant messages. By adding imified@imified.com to your Buddy list and installing the IMified network lookup widget, you can use the GoogleTalk IM window like…

Surfing at school or work? Company blocking your access? Parents enabled website blocking? Stuck behind a strict firewall? There are lots of ways around the problem so that you can get to the sites you want to see without those…

If you are running a popular Wordpress site or blog, and do not have dedicated hosting or a VPS, you will no doubt have succumbed to the so-called Digg Effect. It is caused by too many visitors piling into your…

A couple of weeks ago we showed you a simple Google hack that gives you more results in the search results page.

Well, Google added another feature, that involves hacking the search results URL. If you are searching for a mugshot of…

Most Sciencetext readers know they can use their Google Mail, GMail account as a virtual hard drive. It is not something that Google itself advocates or really even discusses. GMail is supposed to be for email, hence the suffix “Mail”.…

Do you have a bunch of standard html pages outside your Wordpress blog heirarchy? I’m not taking about Wordpress’ static “Pages” with a capital P, but those pages, perhaps in the root beyond the CMS facility of Wordpress. Well, there…

On a recent post about blogging, one commentator going by the monicker “ozz”, asked why I was running, not only Alex King’s ShareThis plugin (accessed below by clicking the little green networking icon), but also the Sphere: Related Content plugin.

Well,…

Using certain Firefox addons, such as the popular Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn addons, could leave your computer open to hackers, according to security expert and Indiana University graduate student in informatics Christopher Soghoian. Thankfully, tools such as NoScript, Greasemonkey, and…

If you have ever looked for info on the TV show “Two A Days”, then you will undoubtedly have Googled it. And, you will have found the show’s MTV page, its Wikipedia entry and the tv.com site discussing the show.

But, what…