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My Digitalpoint Account and Hotmail has been Hijacked

rubeina — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:30:25 +0000

Many of you may already know about this but I am posting about it to let those who has not been notified know that my hotmail account (rubeina17@hotmail.com) has been hijacked along with my Digitalpoint forums account. I found out about it Sunday (13 July) morning around 10am (Mauritian time), I don’t know for how long the person has been using my accounts.

I informed most of the people I know already and with Shannon’s help the hijacker has been stopped from using my account at Digitalpoint, she informed other members in this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=930877.

Worst thing is that the person is still using my hotmail and trying to fool around, so if anyone has added the id rubeina17@hotmail.com please block it or delete from your friend list asap, whatever s/he says to you on chat, it is NOT me. I am trying to get back my account, and hope everything will be resolved soon.

So far that person has scammed the DP member Yfcadmin of $100, here are the details provided by the person

paypal ID: cyclaws@yahoo.com
Name: Robert Zach Anderson
Amount sent: -$100.00 USD

I hope no other member has been scammed or fooled by this person!

I have been polite and mentioned about the hijacker as a “person” not to make this post look like shit but all the time it was all the worst thing possible that was on my mind. To the person who did this; I don’t think I will ever be able to trace you but whoever you are, if you are reading this, I wish you all the bad things in life. Sorry but I cannot resist to curse this person, this won’t do him any harm anyway… unfortunately
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Update: Sunday 20 July
I just learned from a friend (thank you for providing me with this information) that the hijacker has opened a paypal account with the id rubeina17@hotmail.com. I haven’t got my account back, so if anyone asks you to send money to rubeina17@hotmail.com it is NOT me! Also everyone (at least those who knows me) from Digital Point know that I am from Mauritius and CANNOT receive money on paypal.
Details provided about the account:

About rubeina17@hotmail.com:
To protect your security, PayPal offers information on the status of this member.
Seller Reputation: New Member*
Account Status: Verified
Account Type: SG Premier
Account Creation Date: 20-Jul.-2008
PayPal Member For: 0 days

Also, here is one more id that hijacker is asking to send payment to

j_jebs@yahoo.com

After a week now (wow already!), the person is still trying to fool others and asking (yeah “begging” fits better here) for money, see here

I am going to say it again, if you added my hotmail id rubeina17@hotmail.com please block it asap and delete from your list.

Google Changed its Favicon

rubeina — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:06:08 +0000

I did not notice the change until I felt completely lost while searching on google this evening, I am one of those who opens a lot of tabs (by a lot I mean 20+). Favicon is a good way to know what sites I have opened but today I was confused when I saw that weird “g”

I am sure most googlers have already noticed it, seriously I preferred the previous one better how about you? Also Google is known as “The Big G” now with a small “g” as favicon… hmm it does not really match

I can’t stop laughing

rubeina — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:28:07 +0000

I think I watched this video a hundred times already, I can watch it again and again it would still make me laugh.

The kid is too funny, so cute when he gets mad in the end. Aww he cares

A few Stats

rubeina — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:50:40 +0000

Okay, I am going to say it again and again “I am a lazy blogger”! I really thought I would be posting more often but it is the opposite that happened. Can you imagine, it has been more than two weeks since my last post! Unacceptable..

So, I thought one good post would be one about my blog stats and hopefully I will be more keen to post my thoughts. I am not out of ideas if you are thinking that might be why I am not posting, I have millions of stuffs running through my mind waiting impatiently to be in a post here. Blame me… I am lazy, but I have also been working a lot lately, time is a big problem too. Ah! If only my dream could come true.

1. Alexa

a. The Challenge
Unfortunately everyone failed to reach top 100 on Alexa for Mauritius, let’s declare the closest to 100 as the winner… that is ME! Okay okay, I am kidding. I just wanted to add, I really enjoyed trying to figure out how to get in top 100, it is just that Alexa had a bad timing for the update.

b. My Rank
Just after the update my Alexa rank dropped from 243,656 to 349,749 but I just checked it is now 222,618, that’s better than before the update. I hope they did not go back to the old stats
It feels good to see that I am ranking under 100k in many countries and I really did not know that most of my traffic comes from the United States, I thought it was Mauritius.

Cool!

2. Blog Stats

Yay! I reached 4k unique visitors today. It is not exact but that is what Counterize II says (since I installed it)

And as if reaching 4k uv was not enough, I won 367 entrecard credit from Andreas, drop your card there and get a chance to be the lucky one next time. Great Friday evening, after all these goodies I will surely have a great week-end!

The New Alexa Rankings

rubeina — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:42:03 +0000

Okay, this is already old news but I have to post about it since we have a challenge (the alexa challenge, where we have to rank in top 100 for Mauritius). It is a good thing that Alexa finally decided to change the way they rank sites but they could have done this after the end of April, don’t they know that we are onto a challenge here?

After the *major* changes here are the new rankings for all those trying to get in top 100 on Alexa in Mauritius

rubeina.com - 448 (was 374)
vincentlecluse.com - 2,602 (was 2,981)
yashvin.net - 1,269 (was 1,405)
lucain.com - 7,098 (was 3,530)

I don’t think it will be easy for us to get in top 100 now since we don’t know yet how alexa works now and at what frequency they are going to update but anyway I had a nice time trying to figure out how to get mauritian traffic on my blog. Not so easy if you ask me, probably if I had an anime site it would be much easier for me

The new graph, still looks almost same:

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Now concerning the alexa changes I think that the new rankings are definitely going to be better than the previous ones, you can read more about the changes here http://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement

In recent months we’ve heard from our Alexa users that understanding Internet usage beyond Alexa Toolbar users was increasingly of interest. Ask and you shall receive!

We listened to your suggestions, and we believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.

This is one of the things I appreciate about the new changes in Alexa
Ranking, before it was mostly based on the toolbar which is why webmasters’
websites were ranking better than other websites, I don’t know what are their
other sources but now everyone’s ranking is going to be fair (I hope)

My New Wordpress Theme

rubeina — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:02:20 +0000

I am sure those who use to visit my blog have noticed the new theme already, I really love it though at first I didn’t really want to have my photo in the header but it looks nice It’s a gift from a very good friend (who unfortunately wants to stay anonymous), you might have noticed him around on the blog.
He often tells me the theme I had looks gay . Here’s what my previous theme looked like

And the new one, I am in with it but I think there’s still a few things to modify to improve it. And the text under the photo should have said “Me at Trou aux Cerfs” haha no place for the deers (cerfs in french)

Thank you dear friend

What you think about it?

PageRank is Not Available, Grey, Nada

rubeina — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:42:14 +0000

I was checking the PageRank (PR) of a few websites today and just thought about mine for a minute, I know I had PR1 in the past (yes! when I had nothing on the blog) but now it is gre, blank, nothing… not even a PR0! It shows grey on the google toolbar

I am not worrying about it, in fact I don’t care at all about how google will treat this blog but it just made me wonder. I checked on a few tools just to be sure.

DigPageRank.com

Here’s what I get on DigPageRank.com
A few showing “OFF” and some “N/A”

Jaydean.com.au PR Tool

What’s interesting about this tool is that you get historical data for backlinks, google PR and Alexa rank for the past weeks.
Here’s the link to my report.
Funny here is that it shows my PR as -1

*offtopic* my alexa rank is getting better day by day

PRChecker.info

This tool also showed my PR as N/A but explained a bit why my PR might not be available yet.
Taken from the page:

(1) the web page is new, and it is not indexed by Google yet,
(2) the web page is indexed by Google, but it is not ranked yet,
(3) the web page was indexed by Google long ago, but it is recognised
as a supplemental (Supplemental Results) page,
(4) the web page or the whole website is banned by Google.

1 - My blog is not so new, it’s more than a year old and even if I haven’t been posting, I installed wordpress since day one. My homepage is indexed but not www.rubeina.com/index.php This is probably the reason, let’s wait and see. But why does google treat the main url and the index page as 2 pages when they’re both the same thing?

2 - Explained in #1 already

3 - I am not in google supplemental, all my content is fresh and original (I don’t copy paste, I don’t have to fear duplicate content either)

4 - Banned? Me? No… It would be cool if I was, I’d have a cool time trying to find out why I’ve been banned. J/k

Hmm, you guessed it right! I am not just showing off my measly PR-1, there are a few tools I’ve shared that you might find useful

The Alexa Challenge (Mauritius)

rubeina — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:47:18 +0000

Since some days my friend and also colleague Vincent are trying to rank in the top 100 sites on Alexa for Mauritius. It won’t be so easy unless we get most traffic from Mauritius. So, we’re now competing with each other to see who reach there first! My alexa rank might be better than his for now but since he’s participating in some contest and also holding one entrecard contest himself, he sure will get more traffic than me.

But still I think it’s worth trying as most traffic he’s getting right now is from USA and other countries, our target is to get in the top 100 in Mauritius. Is it possible? I think yes if you guys help me out a little bit.

Here’s some details of alexa details for both our blogs
Rubeina.com (my blog)
My Alexa rank today is 325,458
Rank in Mauritius: 393

VincentLecluse.com (his blog)
His Alexa rank today is 811,892
Rank in Mauritius: 2,771

Unfortunately I have been busy the last few days with a close cousin’s wedding and he’s already better than me hihi but but but, it’s in Mauritius that we need to get in top 100, I still have a chance.

To all the mauritian visiting my blog make sure you have the alexa toolbar when you’re visiting my blog

And yes, if any other mauritian bloggers want to join the crazy challenge, you’re most welcome. We have up to end of April 08 to get in top 100

Last thing I would like to add, we are doing this just for fun, it’s not like we take Alexa rank seriously, we know it’s not reliable

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Update: 28 March 2008
Yashvin joined the race, here’re our alexa rank when I checked today
Rubeina.com: 387
Vincentlecluse.com: 2681
Yashvin.net: 1980
Why alexa is not updating my thumbnail

I won’t be adding a graph every time I update ranking details, it’s just because Yashvin joined us . I will update every 2-3 days (as I see a change in alexa).

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Update 07 April 2008
Christophe is joining us too, here’s an updated alexa graph:

Ranking for each sites rank for Mauritius on Alexa
Rubeina.com: 374
Vincentlecluse.com: 2981
Yashvin.net: 1405
Lucain.com: 3530
I am still leading hihi, I dropped a few places last week I was @ 400 something but am catching up with the rank. Vincent dropped most among us, he’s probably concentrating on traffic from the USA (Vincent you need to get in top 100 for Mauritius not United States j/k), Yashvin is catching up pretty fast (will you share a few tips with us?).
Hey Christophe, it’s nice that you have finally decided to join us Good luck to you! You still have a lot of time to catch up, you’re not very far from Vincent.

Blogging twice or more daily?

rubeina — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:44:20 +0000

I was checking the top 100 bloggers on technorati today and noticed that many of the probloggers post twice or more in during the same day! Many of these blogs are run by more than one author, that’s why it’s possible for them to post a lot daily but it can also happen that an author writes 2 posts during the same day!

All that made me think… If I want my blog to be a better and more interesting one I need to post more too and not once a week as I am actually posting. But the thing is that I don’t think of things cool enough daily to blog about. Sometimes I think of something that sounds cool but as I start writing about it, I am stuck somewhere through the post, decide to save it in draft (where I actually have 4 posts pending). Then when I go back to the posts, most of the time after a day or two, I no longer think the topic will be a cool one.

What I think might be the best solution is to post as I have something going through my mind since the next day that same thought might change or I may no longer feel inspired to post about it. I do not think it’s a must to post daily but sure it will help my blog to get more content and I will be posting about more topics than if I post less. The more the merrier but now arise another question, quantity or quality posts? hmmm

5 Firefox Add-ons to make Directory Submissions faster

rubeina — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:19:43 +0000

Almost all the posts I see around about Firefox add-ons for SEO are those to help check backlinks, analyze website a god knows what other things firefox add-ons can do. I thought it would be cool to put together some of the best firefox add-ons that can help with submissions. I am going to list a few that I find very useful and saves you time. Let me make it clear, some of the add-ons I am going to list here are not necessarily SEO tools just random add-ons that I found and think they can make the job of the “submitters” less stressful.

As you might have guessed already, the add-ons will help you with your submissions, whether directory or article submission

1. InFormEnter

Allows you to fill up details you will be using frequently, this way you won’t have to type the same thing or copy/pasting over and over again. How it can help you with your directory submission? See below:

Read more about InFormEnter add-on here or install now.

2. Autofill Forms

This one has almost same options as InFormEnter, you fill up your required details and you’re done. No need to type or copy/paste!

Read more about Autofill Forms add-on here or install now.

3. Paste and Go 2

Ah this one is a little gem, saves you the “paste + enter” when you type a link in the address bar, thanks to a friend to let me know about this one, very useful add-on.

Read more about Paste and Go 2 add-on here or install now.

4. Abdubtion!

Allows you to take save a whole page as image, really helpful for those who have to take screenshots often.

Read more about Abduction! add-on here or install now.

5. Screengrab!

Another add-on that helps you takes shots of the page you’re working on, you can take shots of just the part you are seeing in your browser window or the whole page.

Read more about Screengrab! add-on here or install now.