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Prey Security Review

There’s an open-source project called Prey that promises to help you recover your computer or mobile phone in case it ever gets stolen. I went through a thorough test on both their Windows and Android clients, on both the free and pro plans, and I concluded my experiment with mixed feelings about the project.

The concept that Prey works on is simple. Your computer constantly pings Prey’s servers to check the status of your computer. If the computer is detected or reported stolen, the machine will be notified at its next ping to Prey’s servers. Your computer will then begin to collect information, such as it’s location (using the same WiFi triangulation that’s used in iPods and Android phones), IP address, screenshots, and even a camera shot. That collected information is constantly uploaded to Prey’s servers, where you can see the reports.

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Full Guide to Breadcrumbs for SEO

Breadcrumbs are navigation trails which show where a person is on a website with regard to the site’s hierarchical structure. For example, the breadcrumbs which on our forum topic about the necessity of data plans show as:

w3techie Forum  → Mobile  → Networks

This tells us that the topic is located within the “Mobile” section of the forum, and within the “Networks” sub-section.

Who cares? Why does that matter at all?

From a usability perspective, it’s sometimes convenient to know how a specific page is categorized to be able to go up the chain to find related pages.

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Review Your Old Content

What do your old pages have that your new pages don’t?

The old pages on your site are rich in pagerank and social shares – two things that search engines look at when determining a page’s value.

The older pages on your site are valuable. It’s discouraging that so many webmasters don’t realize the value of those older pages – they focus so much time and energy on building “new” content, when there is so much more potential for older pages to rank highly.

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Revamped Webmaster Section at the w3techie Forum

You may have noticed the new webmaster section at our forum, which was updated today. Why the change?

We want to expand our focus on topics relating to webmasters. Traditionally we’ve excelled as an SEO-centered site, but we have the potential to be so much more! We hope that re-structuring and opening a new area for discussion will provide opportunities for our members to post about a much wider range of topics, including fine design elements, marketing, and monetization.

Take a look at our new update and let us know what you think; your feedback only makes us better!

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Zagg’s Black Friday iPad Giveaway Crashes Servers

I got an email invitation to enter into Zagg’s iPad giveaway: one iPad would be given away every hour for free. Seems pretty good, right? Not if people can’t even enter the giveaway. Zagg’s servers had crashed this morning (confirmed by comments on Zagg’s Facebook wall) and we still can’t enter an hour after my initial attempt. Zagg loads a plain text message, “Giveaway will be back shortly.” It’s a shame when enough server resources can’t be allocated to a viral marketing campaign.

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