Xavier Media Blog

Is your company listed at CrunchBase.com?

2008-07-23T19:20:54Z

I don’t remember how I found this service, but I like it and it got a lot of potential . At CrunchBase.com you can look up companies, products, people and financial organizations.

My first search was of course for Shoemoney and I found both his company and him as a person in the database: Jeremy Shoemaker - ShoeMoney Media Group

The article about Jeremy had some interesting information like blog posts and external links to for example an article called From Unemployment to 8 figures. I had never seen that article before, but it’s really interesting.

About the Shoemoney Media Group CrunchBase.com didn’t have that much information, but the good thing is that anyone can help submitting information to the site. It’s not a wiki, but there are a lot of edit buttons everywhere so you can submit and update almost any information.

After I had finished reading about Shoemoney I submitted a little bit information myself about Xavier Media

One of the features I like the most about CrunchBase.com is the widget you can add in your blog posts, on your web site or anywhere you need to show information about a specific company. Whenever I write about a company in the future I may have to add this little widget at the bottom of each post

Is your company listed at CrunchBase.com?

CrunchBase Information

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Small Business Loans

2008-07-23T19:08:30Z

Most of us trow in all the cash needed in our businesses, but sometimes that’s not enough and you need some extra working capital to complete your corporate expansion. It could be for example new computers for your high tech website or a much needed piece of equipment for your medical practice, even a tractor for your farm.

In this case Small Business Loans are the solution you need and Accommodative Financial Solutions can help you with not only that but also other services like expert loan analyst. The financing capital you get from them can be used for almost any business purpose, even to purchase seasonal inventory. Once you’ve received your funds, you’re welcome to spend them anyway that you wish! So why not get a loan to place a bid on your competitors web service , or maybe get a couple of good keyword domains for your own web service. Good keyword domains are expensive, but may be an amazing boost in traffic

You can get a loan for any amount between $50K - $250K for unsecured small business loans or $50K - $150K for unsecured small business line of credit. According to their homepage they promises 24-48 hour response time on most approvals, safe and secure service and very high approval rating.

Other advantages with Accommodative Financial Solutions are no upfront fees and no application fees.

Small Business Loans

TwitterFox - See your tweets in Firefox

2008-07-21T15:35:41Z

By an accident I found a small plugin for Firefox called TwitterFox. This little plugin will get your tweets and show them in the bottom right corner of your web browser.

Directly from the TwitterFox window you can reply to the tweets, write new tweets and of course also follow links you get sent to you.

In the settings window you deside the interval for getting new tweets, how often TwitterFox should popup the new tweets and also your twitter accounts login names and passwords. Yes, that’s right you can setup several twitter accounts to work with TwitterFox and you can easliy switch between them in the easily accessed menu. whenever you need to access settings, tweets, accounts or visit Twitter.com you just click (or right click for settings) on the T icon.

With a single button click (on the link icon) you can tweet the page you’re currently seeing in your browser . No more typing links again and now you can let everyone know which pages your surfing on

To install TwitterFox just click on this link and accept the installation.

The first thing you should do after you’ve setup your Twitter username in TwitterFox is to send a message @xaviermedia . I will start following you if you follow me too….

TwitterFox - See your tweets in Firefox

Why catch-all email is a bad idea

2008-07-19T12:05:11Z

Most web hosting companies offer catch-all email addresses for all their customers and at first it may seem like a fantastic service. With catch-all you don’t have to setup forwarders for each and every email address you need since all email sent to your domain will be forwarded to the same account.

That means that you can have all of the following addresses pointing to the same account without having to set them up individually

support@sampleaddress.com
webmaster@sampleaddress.com
customerservice@sampleaddress.com
admin@sampleaddress.com
info@sampleaddress.com
whateveryoufeellike@sampleaddress.com

Catch-all may seem like a fantastic service, but it’s in fact a big security issue due to spammers all over the world. Since you don’t have to setup each email address individually anything@sampleaddress.com will work on your domain. This can easily be abused by spammers since they can spam whatevertyefeellike@sampeladdress.com and you still get the spam email. In other words, they don’t have to figure out your email address since anything will work!!!!!

I forgot to turn off catch all on my domain xavierinc.com and I noticed today that the account was using amazing 10 Gb of space on the server. Since I only have a simple index file plus a few pictures (nothing more then 100Kb in total) in that account I was really surprised. Due to the catch all on that domain spammers had spammed anything they could figure out including email addresses starting with random letters and numbers like

1xexasiufyn3@xvaierinc.com
6q6lcyfgrlql@xvaierinc.com
4bkqbl73xbuz@xvaierinc.com
qvsrjje7kdlp@xvaierinc.com
em8l1lw3d8wp@xvaierinc.com

It took me over an hour to delete all that spam since it was way too much to delete even with rm -rf * so I had to delete about thousand spam emails at the time manually

So make sure you turn catch-all email addresses off on your hosting accounts before you run out of disk space and only setup the email addresses you need. Also stop using common worlds like webmaster@, support@, custoemrservice@ and info@ as email addresses since spammers tend to spam these commonly used addresses alot .

Why catch-all email is a bad idea

Document scanning

2008-07-19T12:02:03Z

Most documents created today are also available in a digital format (mostly PDF in that case but many other file formats are used as well) so you can search in them via search engines like Google, if the documents are available on the Internet, or in your Intranet search engine.

But what do you do with all your old documents that are not digital and all documents you receive in the snail mail? The solution is to scan everything, but it’s time consuming and also requires hardware you not always like to invest in. This is where Digital Documents, LLC comes in.

They are a document scanning leader providing ISO 32000 compliant document conversion services that enable their clients to successfully unlock the true value of the information contained in their files. The benefits gained from the scanning services result in increased productivity, performance and profits since you can finally find the information you need quickly and easily. No more searching in binders in dusty archives, now you can search in your computer for the information you need .

According to their own web site they provide document management services to Fortune 500 & public sector clients in a industries like financial services, healthcare, engineering and many other industries. From what I can see they’ve been in the business for at least 5 years (at least that’s when they moved their company online according to the whois records).

Check out Digital Documents, LLC you too.

Document scanning

Would you like to write for us?

2008-07-18T18:17:44Z

I posted at DigitalPoint forums and at Twitter yesterday requesting quotes from people who would be willing to write articles for us, but I got few responses

So I’m going to give another try in this blog instead.

If you’re interested in writing articles for a….

…Mini blog - a blog about Mini Cooper, Austin, Clubman etc….
…Public Information blog - a blog about how to find public information online and how to protect your personal information…
…World Finance Online - a blog about, yeah that right finance online …

…then please contact me with your price quote.

The articles we need are about 300 words and we need you to provide a new article about every 2 weeks.

Would you like to write for us?

Get your own .me domain

2008-07-17T15:15:29Z

In about 5 minutes the registrations for .me will start and you can get your own .me domain name at eXavier.com for only $19.99/year. If you buy for more then $25 you can even use the coupon 5NC25 to get 5% discount

The exiting part about .me domain names is that you can create really cool domain hacks (i.e. domain names that mean something together with the TLD). For example extre.me would be an extremely cool domain name . From a domain hack point of view .me is almost as exiting as .rs that was launched in January this year because of all the words that ends with me. Just have a look at this page for a list of english words ending with me and you’ll understand what I mean.

Some examples:

co.me
perfu.me
sa.me
supre.me
welco.me

Dot ME is the new top level domain for Montenegro which used to be a part of Serbia and Montenegro with .YU as top level domain. The .ME registry is operated by University of Montenegro on behalf of the government. More information about .me can be found at Xavier Media Whois.

Get your own .me domain

Summize now Twitter Search

2008-07-15T18:00:05Z

Twitter has acquired Summize (a search engine for Twitter) and the old domain name is now redirected to search.twitter.com. Using the search function you can find out what’s going on in the Twitter community and I have to say I just love “Trending topics” at the first page . I just love where you can see what’s hot at a community like Twitter. This function look similar to the function at Google Trends where you can see the hot stuff going on.

The title of the blog post announcing the acquisition sounds like it’s more about an online date resulting in a happy marriege then an acquisition. Read it at blog.twitter.com.

The search function got an API similar to the rest of the Twitter functions at Twitter.com so you can search the database using your own applications. More functions for the API may come soon, at least I hope so…..

Summize now Twitter Search

$6.95 Transfers for .COM, .NET, .ORG

2008-07-15T17:26:22Z

Are you going to renew your .com, .net or .org domain name soon? Then check out this offer from eXavier where you can transfer your domain name to eXavier for only $6.95 including one year extension of your domain name registration. This offer is good through August 4 at Midnight.

If you buy web hosting at the same time as you register your .com domain name you don’t have to py anything for your domain name . Read more at eXavier.com.

All domain names registered or transfered to eXavier include:

• FREE! Online Photo Filer
• FREE! Blog
• FREE! Complete Email
• FREE! Forwarding / Masking
• FREE! Change of Registration
• FREE! Starter Web Page
• FREE! “For Sale”/ Parked Page
• FREE! Domain Name Locking
• FREE! Total DNS Control

$6.95 Transfers for .COM, .NET, .ORG

Do you use Internet cafes and bars?

2008-07-13T10:11:20Z

I just read a blog post at Mcafee Avert Labs Blog about a special type of maleware that can infect computers in Internet cafes and I started thinking about secure Internet connections when you travel.

When traveling many of us use Internet cafes to access our email, check the server status and maybe even do some transactions at our online bank. We do it because it’s so easy, just pay a few bucks and you can use the Internet, but the thing is if you really should trust computers you don’t have any control over? Anyone can use the computer you’re sitting in front of at the cafe and anyone can also install evil software on it without letting the cafe owner know about it. The blog post “Are Internet cafes and bars at danger” is describing a special maleware that can bypass the special security measurements most Internet cafes are relying on. So the question is should you trust Internet cafe computers?

In real life most people think about all kinds of diseases you could get when traveling and to protect our selfs from problems we get all kinds of vaccinations before we travel. Have you ever got any vaccinations for computer problems?

Even if you use your own laptop on your vacation you still can’t feel that safe if you “borrow” someones wireless connection because you don’t know if the connection has been hijacked and monitored by evil forces.

The solution may be to start using mobile Internet connections you pay for yourself because then you know all parties involved (i.e. you, your laptop and your ISP). But the disadvantage so far is slow connections, much slower then your normal broad band connection at your office (I’m not that impressed by the connection speed here in Sweden so far). Another disadvantage is high fees you have to pay for your access if you use it in another country (see this) and unfortunately you tend to travel to other countries on vacation……

Let’s just hope that the European Union will force the mobile service providers and Internet service providers to better inform customers about their pricing structures and also to make it much cheaper to use your mobile Internet connection in all the European countries. We need mobile Internet access within the whole of Europe at reasonable cost!

Do you use Internet cafes and bars?