This is fabulous Australia.. receive payments to your phone number or email address. PayID is a simple service that makes paying money into your account easier. You can create a PayID by choosing something easy to remember, like your phone number, and registering it with your bank. The next time you want someone to pay […]
Internet
Internet can be best described as the catchall topic. Sometimes an article does not have a specified topic so this is where it lives.
Stop, Breathe and Think before Clicking
Shoppers must “think” before they click as fraudsters come out in force during sales like Frenzy, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Boxing Day. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s deputy chair Delia Rickard has warned consumers “to stop, breathe and think before clicking on things” . “Shoppers are time poor and we don’t think as much […]
How to FIX Invalid URL
How to fix Invalid URL issue This worked like a treat, easy to do and works every time. FIX – flushdns Click on Start Click on Run Type cmd and click on OK button In the command prompt windows, type ipconfig /flushdns and hit enter button. FIXED – try the website again.. Refresh page (F5) […]
Back To Firefox
Like many, I moved to Chrome because Firefox was experiencing too many bugs and issues. But wow, here in 2018 I discover (see article blow) that the latest Firefox is much improved and capable of better managing privacy. I’ve been saying for some time, the shine has gone off Chrome (chuckles) which has become a […]
Google Chrome: Your connection is not private
The reality is Google Chrome security warnings are going to become more prevalent. It is well known Google is ramping up its warnings on insecure websites from May 2018. As this screenshot highlights, it is strict enough to include it’s own web sites. Here is the offending message when we visited: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin Your connection is not […]
Get A Valid SSL Certificate
Google’s Chrome browser will display a security warning on all web sites that are not HTTPS starting October 2017. If your website has text input fields on an HTTP page or it is opened in the incognito mode, Chrome will display a warning notification to the user. What’s next? Your website will be deemed “not […]
Chrome Browser Secure Warnings
Google’s Chrome browser will add new ‘Not secure’ warnings starting October 2017. Chrome (version 62) will show a ‘NOT SECURE’ warning when users enter text in a form on an HTTP page, and for all HTTP pages in Incognito mode. Google has been on the secure browser path for a number of years now and […]
Mobile Friendly Web Sites
MOBILE now accounts for over half of all web traffic¹, making performance on small screens more important than ever. Scary isn’t it.. “half” of all traffic comes from users on smart phones. A mobile responsive web site detects the device being used and displays the page according to the device. Web sites that are mobile […]
Firefox: Your connection is not secure
We do have a giggle when we see a page with this error message. Your connection is not secure In this instance we were using Firefox to access Google Adsense: https://www.google.com/adsense/ We visit this page most days, so we “know” the link address is OK. It’s very kind of Firefox to alert us so the question […]
Affiliate Marketing: Australia
Website owners (publishers) revenue streams: Advertising – Google Adsense, Bing Ads Affiliations – Commission, Pay-Per-Click Products/Services – Marketing retail Affiliation marketing is an excellent revenue source for publishers*. *Publisher* A publisher is a website owner with a sizable audience of visitors. What Is Affiliation? An affiliation program is when a publisher promotes a product or […]
Blogging Gone Mad
No, we haven’t gone mad, we’re simply practicing what we preach, blog as often as you can. How many blogs do we have, I hear you ask? Let’s call it 3 blogs, here’s why: Ripefruit Blog – the post you are reading right now is a business post explaining the reason behind three different blogs. KozBlog […]
Just Delete Me
I recently wrote about my frustration at being unable to recover my password for an account on twitter, so reading in todays paper about a similar issue seems very relevant. I could not recover my password but what if you wanted to remove your account altogether with your personal details? It appears it is just […]
Australian Data Privacy Changes 2014
Australian Data Privacy Deadline is 12th March 2014. Please read on, as there is a lot to take in and decipher, ultimately deciding what it all means to you and your business. A quick over-view is as follows: Small business – look at how you store and use your customers details and information Big business […]