If your a owner of website that is generally popular and your website features functions like commenting, then you are bound to get random spam comments that appear everywhere, other functions that are often targetted include contact forms, random bot users that register to your website (If it has some form of member system) and more functions that spammers generally attack. As well as spam there also the problem of what is known as leeching. Leeching is the act of where some leeches your content e.g. Grabs the source code or url for some form of content thats hosted on your website and posts it somewhere (While linking to the file on your webspace). These problems need to be controlled and stop and in this article, you'll see some methods of how to to exactly that. Ladies and Gentlemen were in DEFCON 3!

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Any WordPress powered website isn't complete without WordPress plugins. Thanks to the brilliant community that surrounds WordPress there are a variety of plugins written by users of WordPress as well as developers. There are so many plugins out there but theirs a handful of plugins that I can't live without, and that are installed on James' Blog. Really, plugins and how useful they are to you or me is down to personal preference, but here's a list of a handful of plugins that I can't live without!

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In the past month or so I have wrote three articles/tutorials on various CSS3 elements that the developers of CSS3 have been working on, I've shown you some of my favorite new features such as the border-radius attribute and box-shadow, but I have had to stress on each article that only certain browsers will allow to use CSS3 modules and elements. The main two browsers that have supported CSS3 along it's on going development path are Mozilla Firefox and Safari, both using there own frameworks the moz and webkit, with Mozilla constantly making revisions to there browser and currently working on Mozilla Firefox 3.1 (Currently in BETA) alot of CSS3 is supported and able to be displayed, similar with Safari, particularly the latest version of Safari (which is version 4 BETA) packs in more CSS3 into the webkit and like Mozilla people are able to use CSS3 and see the effects.

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If your up to date in the technology scene you will know that a couple of years ago Google released yet another of there 'innovative' products Google street. Examples of other innovations that they've had is Google Docs and Google Earth. The list goes on really. Google Street, which is an addition to google maps and say it's addition, as it allows someone to actually pyschically see the street of a place they search, instead of the bird's eye satellite view that products like Google Earth use. I hadn't really been aware of Google Street, because at it's release it was only being trailed on places on the USA, but since then it has expanded massively and now street views are avaliable for places in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Like I said I wasn't really to bothered about this new google street until I found that the UK was now it's next 'victim' and just this morning I found out that I've been caught by the infamous Google car (Which was used to take pictures of the streets)

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If you have more than one computer in your house have you ever considered creating a network to connect them to each other? So each can communicate, share devices attached by local ports or even share simple files or applications. I hadn't really considered setting up a network until I got a laptop, but recently I found myself using my laptop and wanting to use devices such as printer, but of course these are connected to my PC! I could simply plug the USB into the back of my laptop but what if I was doing work downstairs on the sofa on my laptop and I need to print something? Sure like I said I could walk upstairs and plug the printer USB into the back of my laptop. But that would mean I would be forever walking around with my laptop and having to plug things in and out when a laptop is a portable computer! Kind of defeats the object of having one. But to solve this I've created a small home network between my PC and Laptop.

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