Conflict between WP-ContactForm and Gmail spam filter
Hello again. It has been about ten days from my last post. Actually I was not busy, but just not having the mood to write. It is quite a good news because now I am certified as not a blogacholic blogger. By the way, it is not a good practice to let your blog not updated for 10 days. According to this graph from Sitemeter.com, this site suffered loosing of visitors.
Regarding the title of this entry, all emails sent to me using the WP-ContactForm plugin are considered as spam in my GMail. Even after I tagged the emails as “not spam”, the next emails still land in the Spam folder. To solve this problem, I switched to another contact from plugin, intouch. But the result is negative.
Luckily, I have found the solution, although it is not so ideal. You just need to change your gmail address in the WP-ContactForm option page to Yahoo Mail address or other not-so-good-at-filtering-spam email providers.
How to make a scraper site using Wordpress
First of all, maybe some of you don’t know what is a scraper site. I myself know about scraper site just after I have built one. According to Wikipedia, a scraper site is a website that pulls all of its information from other websites using web scraping. In essence, no part of the scraper is original.
Scraper sites are mostly created for monetizing the site using advertising programs such as Google AdSense. Such sites can get ranked better in search engine because the contents of the website are based on the selected keywords and the content if updated daily if the website is using RSS method.
My scraper site is about Wordpress and powered also by Wordpress. It is only about two months old and has currently 437 posts. Techlogs is over one year old, but the number of post is only 136.
Ok. Now let begin to make your own Wordpress scraper site. (This is only for educational purpose. Scraper sites are bad and it will make the search engine crowded with unwanted results. In other words, scrapper sites are spams)
Steps of creating scraper site.
- Get SmartRSS Plugins from DevPlug.net, which can be downloaded here.
- Follow the installation steps.
- Blend your adsense code into the blog
- Generate traffic to your scraper site.
- Start earn money
Some tips to get RSS feeds. Search for the targeted keywords with google. For my Wordpress scraper site, I’ve chosen the keywords like Wordpress themes, Wordpress plugins, and Wordpress Tips and trick. Thanks to the blogger, who are using wordpress because it is very easy to grab RSS feeds based to category.
For example: A blogger blog about Wordpress theme and categorize it into Themes category. To get the category’s feed, just put feed at the end of the permalink for that category.
E.g. http://blogaddress.com/category/themes/feed.
Want to see scraper site in action? Take a look at my scraper site here.
Wearable technology
Have you ever heard of the term wearable technology? If don’t, these situations might give you a little idea what is it all about. Imagine that you can make a phone call using your gloves, capture video using your jacket and communicate with your T-Shirt.
Since long time ago, researchers are trying to integrate the technology with the clothing. The fact that the electronic parts are becoming smaller and smaller makes the integration of the electronic with the fabric possible. In International Trade Show for Sports Equipment and Fashion (Ispo) Munich, the manufacturers of sport clothing their wearable technology.
This is the camcorder jacket from Quiksilver, which is equipped with integrated 40GB hard disk storage, LCD and a connection for a video camera. The camera is located at the snow cap.
Besides, it is also equipped with solar cells at the arms and chest, in order to extend the durability of the battery. The price of this future clothing is still unknown.
Source: Sueddeutsche.de
