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Saturday
Sep262009

[internetBroken]

Wow... The internet just took a turn for the worse...
Out in internet world we are bombarded by Hundreds of Thousands of Ads vying for our clicks and pressuring us to buy online for amazing savings. Admittedly there are dollars to save by shopping online. However, livefaceonweb has taken the internet to a whole new level of low.

Using their advertising 'service' you provide the script and they provide the model of your choosing to become the face of your website.
I feel that this kind of advertising is right on par with loading a MIDI file right when the page loads. Sure its ok for youtube but could you imagine a series of popups with the highly polished voices all asking you to click on them to go to the order page. It's gaudy beyond anything I have seen online because is just so incredibly inauthentic. If your going to have a taking head on your website make it your own, and only because you absolutely have to. It's a waste of bandwidth and completely unnecessary for most applications.

Don't believe me? Just visit their samples page and see for yourself, on any of these websites.

The one glimmer of hope that the service offers is that you can pause and even turn off the presentation. However you can expect more of this kind of crap out in the internet as the service is available in English, Spanish, French, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), German, Italian, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese.

Wednesday
Sep232009

[endRogers] Hijack DNS Lookup

This issue has angered me for quite some time. For a while now Rogers Cable internet (not mobile) has routed non-public DNS errors like if you typed in your address bar "this is not a website" it would forward you to a yahoo search page, plastered with ads. 

Not cool.

What is cool is that there is a way around this using a rogers alternate DNS server! 

hostname: altdns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com
simple ping reveals the IP: 64.71.255.202

Plug this into your router as a DNS lookup server and happy browsing!

thank you to www.digitalhome.ca for the tip!