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Here the posts I found this past weeks that I think interesting and I would like to share with you :

Switching Domain Name with Wordpress
There might some cases that force you to change your domain name. Maybe you found out that your domain name was not being indexed by Google like what happened to Jason from Blogtomic, formerly Blogging4Cash. If you have intention to do so, this tutorial is for you to check out.

Awesome Highlighter
Lets you highlight text on webpages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. This is useful when you want to show some parts that you think is important.

8 Easy Firefox Tweaks for Super Fast Web Browsing
Try these easy Firefox tweaks and you will see that you’re surfing the internet faster.

Boost Your Technorati Rank
Tips from David to boost your Technorati rank without cheating or gaming the system.

Ads on Blogs - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Tips from Mig about how to monetize your site with ads without being penalized by Google.

9 Alternative Ways To Access Blocked Sites
Here are few ways to bypass the restrictions and surf like normal for those who’s getting blocked from accessing certain sites.

13 Awesome Screensavers
Bored with your recent screensaver? Check out this awesome collections of screensavers.

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3 days ago I received email from Technorati saying that they are discontinuing processing updates from this blog SimplyDunn due to the WordPress version that I use which is WordPress 2.3.1.

“According to our data, this blog is running a version of Wordpress that may be suffering from a security vulnerability. See http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/ The version we have on record is WordPress 2.3.1.
Blogs are being compromised via this vulnerability on widespread scale. The most common symptom of a compromised blog is to presence of links to spam web sites inserted in the blog that are obscured by style attributes that render the text invisible but are still seen by crawlers such as Technorati’s, Google’s and Yahoo’s.
The impact of these spam links that may be unwittingly placed on your blog are reduced rangkings or being flagged as spam. We’re discontinuing processing updates from blogs that exhibit symptoms of being compromised. If your blog has been upgraded already and this message no longer applies to you.”

After reading this email, my opinion is that I got was they discontinuing processing updates from this blog because this blog is using WordPress 2.3.1 which suffering from a security vulnerabilities, and or may be spam websites that the links was inserted in the blog although in reality it hasn’t done so. If it already did, I apologize for those who had received spam from SimplyDunn and please take note that it was not intentional.

The only way to avoid that and to get this blog to be updated again by Technorati, like it or not, I have to upgrade my WordPress version to 2.5. It’s not that I’m lazy to do it. I’d never done the upgrade before, and knowing that upgrading WordPress might cause some problem or errors had stopped me from doing it. But this time I was forced to do it.

So I planned to do the upgrade for this blog as soon as I can. If later you found out that this blog doesn’t run the way it use to be, maybe I’m facing some problems or errors. Please bear with me, comeback again later. I will try my best to fix it as soon as I could.

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