Wagging the Dog(Bark)
sniffing around the Internet

Dogbark is now offering CAPTCHA image verification additions to websites. That means if you have a contact form, or any other form, on your site that is being spammed by a bot or script we can help stop it for you.
In short CAPTCHA forces your users to verify that they are a human being by [...]

Hotlinking is when someone “borrows” your images by linking directly to your website. So instead of stealing the old fashioned way by downloading them and uploading them to their own space, they simply call your images in html like <img src=”http://yoursite.com/images/stealing_not_cool.jpg” />. So not only are they taking and using your images for public display [...]

When using webmail.dogbark.com, we advise that you not compose any email over 3 paragraphs (100 words or so) within webmail. The reason for this is that webmail will automatically sign you out after 10 minutes of inactivity (and typing an email does not constitute activity). So if you’re writing a really long email, chances are [...]

Beware of any email you receive that claims to be MobileMe (Me.com) with a billing issue for your account. With the wave of new iPhone users and Mac coverts, Mac users are becoming a larger target for the “black hats” out there. If you do receive such an email, remember that the safest option, rather [...]

Here’s a great article explaining what’s behind the “Daily Top 10″ spams going around. The basic bits of the article are that if you click on anything, it will try to load a fake Flash player. It is Windows-only, but will invade and “phone home” to install more malware from the originating server.
Massive faux-CNN spam [...]

It’s been a year since the iPhone hit the market, and now there’s a new iphone getting ready to be available. The iPhone 3G will make it quite a bit easier for everyone to get their hands on one of these fantastic mobile computers/phones. Given that Dogbark is a creative community, there are a bunch [...]

This morning I fell victim to what has become a very common spam technique. I open my Mail this morning and have 248 message coming my way with subjects like “mail delivery failed” or “return mail: see transcript” or “undelivered: free porn”.
Yes, somehow, somewhere, someone used my email address …

Google, in their effort to index the universe, is currently experimenting with breaking past forms to get deeper content.

“My website is down!”
If you’ve had a website for any amount of time, no doubt you’ve heard those words echo through your head numerous times. So, who do you call when your website is not responding? Most likely, Dogbark is first up on your list (which it should be, by the way). But what [...]

Hivelogic: Installing Ruby, Rubygems, Rails, and Mongrel on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Yes, I’m a geek. And I like exploring new technologies – so much that I often feel like a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none. I’m not good at settling down and learning all of the deep subtleties of a given technology.