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Now this is an annoying one. You go to any of google’s sites including any site that has google-analytics.com javascript included in it’s body and BOOM! ..either you get redirected to a bullshit search page you didn’t ask to go to or the browser shows a blank white screen while apparently analytics loads.. It turns [...]

As many of you may know, Chromium is an opensource project that is basically an Operating System built on Linux and is just like working in Google’s Chrome web browser. I decided to take a look at it today and went and downloaded the developer sneak release. It came all boxed up in a 764,994KB [...]

Google now allows you to add a background image to the google homepage to apparently make it more, like, home.. hmmmm Just by clicking the button at the bottom left hand corner it allows you to either upload an image or select an image from google. For indepth instructions as per Google, check this page [...]

Not sure how long this one will last, but for now: Go to: http://www.google.co.za/search?q=MFI/06/ASA-778658&hl=en&start=0&sa=N If you scroll to the bottom, there are 4 pages (pagination), press Next, now there are only 2, WEIRD HUH!

Recently I checked my website stats and saw I had a few hits from “127.0.0.1:4664″ and wondered to myself, what the heck is that? Am I looking at my own site from a localhost? Why am I getting backlinks from my local computer to my site. After searching around a bit I found out that [...]

I have used Google Checkout to receive payments in the past and have had problems with some clients not paying and blaming it on Google Checkout that the money did not go through (like the guys over at Peartree DMS). I decided that this account was not worth the trouble anymore and wanted to close [...]

www.andrewodendaal.com/ak/ ran a webscan today returning results of online sites and has retrieved a list of a few thousand items every half hour. The test will run until a softcap is reached at 52K.

What the heck is that? So you’ve just visited a website using Mozilla Firefox and this message has popped up telling you that the site looks suspicious. Usually the site has been marked as a possible virus containing website and Firefox will show you this message attempting to protect itself against Malware, Spyware or other [...]