Cormac Moylan

My most recent post discussed the inclusion of spammy links to the default download of Vanilla, an Open Source forum client.
A public outcry wasn’t far behind and now the links have been completely removed from the download. Horrah for people power!
Matt Mullenweg, Wordpress founder, came in for some abuse from Techcrunch and others after he [...]

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Blogging events are popping up all over the land quicker than a thing which pops up and down..
April 21st will see the Dublin leg of Bar Camp hitting the Digital Hub, while today Ken and Eoghan announced the first OpenBeer Club in Dublin - 28th April.
Eoghan explains that it’s going to be a bit of [...]

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Search engines like text but they love links, however they adore keyword anchored links. Keyword anchored links is when you wrap a link with words which describe the link. By linking in this way you increase the chances of that site ranking for the anchored text in the link. If website x receives a hundred [...]

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Chris is after sending on a link to a website which displays words ending in ‘ie’. IE, in case you don’t know is the .tld for the Irish domain space. This of course opens up the opportunity to make some clever domain hacks.

Interesting hackable .ie domains include:

sport
boob
lou
smoot
veg
zomb
trick
girl
dogg

Blacknight are offering .ie domains for €25 this week [...]

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Take a gander at this lads.
FTP Synchronizer is an FTP sync product that allows you to synchronize files between local computers and remote FTP servers.
Extremely easy to use. Still confused by A LOT of options in other products? Luckily, you won’t find them in FTP Synchronizer. FTP Synchronizer does just one thing, and does it [...]

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I love coming across websites which aren’t websites but are in fact a single image pretending to be a website.
A website, as far as I’m concerned, is meant to contain content and be accessible for all. Maybe if flynns.ie knew what they were doing they would have text on their site so that the content [...]

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