cPanel’s raw access logs is overlooked by many, while it can give you detailed insight of who is trying to access what pages, when, and from where.
By default, all cPanel web hosting accounts are set to delete the logs on a daily basis. I suggest you change the setting, so you can keep the logs and be able to check them later on a weekly or monthly basis. This may take more space on your web hosting account, but it’s worth doing for monitoring any suspicious activity.
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I remember when email came, how it made a huge difference in the level of communications. It became a lot easier to send a message, an invite, or make an announcement to one or many at the same time. Now with the advent of web 2.0, social networking sites, and blogs in general, connecting to friends and relatives, or even rediscovering any ties is now a lot easier, if you actively engage online.

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Do you have a domain with godaddy and wish to park it with Google Adsense ads? Google has great  step by step instructions for this setup, however if a domain name has been already used by another host, the link for total dns will not show. A message in godaddy’s site will show ‘Total DNS: (Not hosted here)’.

I think the message should say ‘Not hosted here, please park the site by us first if you need to access total dns configurations’. I have been asked about it numerous times and generally find messages that show next action steps easier, than just telling ‘Not hosted here’.

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You might have noticed changes in Facebook’s privacy policy. I got email notices about it recently. I also noticed updating my account setup is not that easy to do. It is ironic to me that a site, which became so popular due to ease of use from the usability perspective, makes it so difficult to find and update your privacy settings.

BBC wrote today, after facing increasing criticism from not only US consumer groups, but also European Union data protection officials, who describe the recent privacy changes as unacceptable, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is pledging easier privacy.

Many have even pledged to quit Facebook. QuitFacebookDay.com, an anti-facebook site is encouraging it’s visitors to quit Facebook by May 31, 2010. Already at the time of this writing over 14,000 have pledged to quit.

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With the proliferation of sites and online/software systems we use on a daily basis, it is becoming more challenging to manage all our passwords. Many I noticed pick simple passwords. It can cause you a lot of headache, if your password is cracked and your investment is lost suddenly. On the other hand good and reputable sites will guide you to enter more robust password to use.

Surprisingly there are many password cracking software tools. I assume these were made for ethical use of lost passwords or someone who left her/his job and no one can unlock the computer. The problem however is when these software tools fall in the wrong hands…

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The proliferation of on demand internet video and new technologies that empower people to better select what they watch or spend their time listening to, will constantly make changes to the traditional television viewership and challenges to technology businesses in general.

A survey by Edison Research reveals that for the first time more Americans would give up television over the internet, if they had to choose of course. 49% would give up television versus 48% would give up internet. Just 9 years ago the same survey showed the opposite. 72% will give up internet versus 26% give up television.

Regards.

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I use gimp to edit or create images. Lately I got an email asking: how can I change the background color an images, so it can better blend on any background on my web page? I would change the color to transparent rather than a specific color and here is how I would do it:

If you don’t have Gimp, download it from here. It’s a high quality image manipulation software that you can download under the GNU license.
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Microsoft to fix a 17 year old security bug in it’s next security update coming up this month.

Well, a bug can stay forever unless someone uncovers it, right? In this case a Google researcher discovered a utility that allows users of new versions of windows to run old versions of windows software.

This bug goes back to the days of windows 3.1, and has never been addressed by Microsoft until discovered last month. The good news is that this security issue has not been exploited. To read more about it, click here.

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A study by Performix that cought my attention, shows that the internet will play a major role for Americans to fulfill their New Year’s resolutions. Here is the breakdown of the study:
- 48% indicated they will fulfill their new years resolution using the internet to accomplish their resolution.
- 36% will go online to purchase an item to further their resolution.
- 14% will utilize online help to reach their 2010 goals.
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France followed by the German government lately warned web users against Microsoft’s IE and advised using an alternative web browser. They knew about the vulnerabilities earlier, but announced the warning after the malicious code that was used on Google was published online.
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