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- Back To MakeUseOf.com!November 3
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Now that we once again have control of makeuseof.com, we will no longer be posting to this blog. You can now go back to http://www.makeuseof.com !(Note: It takes up to 24 hours for domain to fully recover and point back to the original website. It may already work for some of you.)
- The Real Truth Behind The MakeUseOf.com Domain CrackNovember 3
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UPDATE - Nov. 3'rd 23.20 PM (GMT): The domain is back with us! ... What a day!.... Thank You guys! I think, more then anythig else it was YOU who got it back. Your comments, your emails, your diggs, your tweets
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I've been seeing some crazy rumours flying around the web since last night (particularly on Twitter) about Make Use Of so this blog post is to put down the whole truth and put those stupid rumours to bed once and for all.
Yesterday, while monitoring Twitter, I began noticing a couple of people on my Twitter stream saying that the Make Use Of domain was "parked". For anyone not familar with the terminology, this is basically when the whole site goes offline and the domain is basically redirected to some "static page" filled with paid links. It took a while for me to see the parked domain on my screen but eventually Make Use Of went offline for me and I immediately lost my appetite for dinner.
Needless to say, I immediately contacted Aibek (the editor-in-chief) and he started to find out what had happened. The problem was quickly traced to our GoDaddy account and we found out that it had been hacked by someone. The hacker had transferred ownership of the makeuseof.com domain from the GoDaddy account to another web registrar company called NameCheap (the reseller for ENOM). Looking at the emails now we can say t
- Make Use Of's Temporary HomeNovember 2
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To The Readers
We are temporarily moving to this Blogger sub-domain for the moment because Make Use Of's GoDaddy hosting account was hacked earlier today and the domain name, makeuseof.com, was transferred by the hacker to another web hosting company based in Dubai. We have absolutely no idea how this was achieved but we are currently in full contact with GoDaddy's fraud department to get our legal property back. Obviously this is deeply embarrassing for us but we will not rest until the domain name is back in our possession. We have all worked too long and too hard to watch it all slip away like this.
If anyone out there knows someone at GoDaddy, who can help us and who can speed things along, please contact Aibek Esengulov at esengulov@gmail.com. We would be very appreciative!
We have redirected the Feedburner feed to this temporary blog so we will post updates here and if we see that this situation will go on longer than we initially anticipated, then we will start posting some articles here for you.
Please feel free to comment! Thanks!
Mark O'Neill
Managing and Publishing Editor. - MUO Polls: Top Free Antivirus Software. What’s your Favorite?April 28
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It’s time for another poll. Today we are asking you to vote on your favorite antivirus program. Actually the goal is to find out what is the most popular free antivirus program among MUO users. So please vote !If you don’t have a favorite antivirus program and you’re using the one that came with your PC then you can see what others have to say about it. If you decide to give something a try then check the antivirus download links right below the poll.
So here you go …
Note: There is a poll within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
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- Back Up Files To Email With Just One ClickApril 27
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I have had the email purists gang up on me for this in the past but I constantly use my Gmail account for backing up my digital life. This has led to the online lynch mobs chanting “an email account is not for backing up important documents!” and they are right to a certain extent. I wouldn’t dream of putting into my Gmail account things like my passport or my birth certificate. I’m not stupid!But if I find things on the internet like pictures, MP3’s, video clips, and other such paraphernalia then I would rather store it in my large 6.6GB + Gmail account then have it lying around in my computer. Plus day to day things such as letters, documents, contracts, e-books and other pieces of paper that can be scanned and emailed to myself can also live in Gmail and can be accessed wherever I have access to a computer.
This is where the freeware software program Backup To EMail becomes extremely invaluable. I have been using it every day for months and it makes backing up files to email effortless and a cinch.
Backup To Email allows you to right-click on any file in your computer and send it to an email account that gives you POP / SMTP access. The program integrates itself into your Windows Explorer right-click menu so it really is a case of right-click and se