I was tinkering with my blog's settings a while ago and happened to see that I can now conveniently change the way comments are displayed. A prominent option is to have them appear as pop-ups, like in the case of my blogger-kamerad Jajey's blog. You better hurry, because she might change the way its set, before you see what I'm talking about - LOL. Anyway, her blog hosts comments from both Haloscan and Blogger.
Back to the settings I wanted to tinker with. Currently my comments link directs readers to a page that looks like my main blog page but only contains the post that they picked to comment on plus the comments already posted. Whew - long sentence. Pop-ups would be nice though, since readers wouldn't be directed away from the main page. However, since a vast majority of websites employ annoying pop-up ads (not to mention spyware-induced pop-ups that manage to sneak into your pc) to spruce up advertising and most browsers now employ at the very least a rudimentary form of pop-up blocking technology, i decided against it. Whew - another long-winded sentence. In short, I'm not changing the way my comments work because doing so might make people think there is something wrong with my comments when it's their browsers that are blocking pop-ups. Feel free to comment now.
Speaking of pop-ups and spyware, you are not powerless. I personally use three anti-spyware programs to keep that junk out of my pc. I use Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware SE, that act like anti-virus for spyware. They weed out the spyware already in your pc. I also use Spyware Blaster, which actively blocks spyware from being downloaded. Kinda works like a firewall or filter for spyware. All three are free and work just as good or better than paid software. To get rid of pop-ups, or at least block them from annoying you, use an alternative browser like Firefox or Mozilla. Again, wonderful free solutions that work, brought to you by the open source community. Both block pop-ups by default. It's easy to add sites you want to exempt from the rules though, if that's what you really want.
Back to my blog. Without anything to tinker, I just placed a Google search bar into my blog for readers to use. Now you don't have to veer away from my blog to look for something. Have Google fetch it for you. Hope you enjoy.
3 comments:
lol! thanks for mentioning moi.
better hurry ha..ikaw talaga...
about spyware, kakainis talaga yung mga pumapasok na mga spyware.. im just using the yahoo toolbar anti-spyware..effective ba yun?
have a great weekend!
jajey, what i know about the yahoo toolbar is that it also connects to the yahoo server once you open a browser that has it.. meaning it works like a spyware that uses your bandwidth. Labo noh?!!
Take Edu's tip, use Firefox or Opera if you wish... both are lightweight browsers, Firefox is free, adless Opera is not free.
or better yet, go for Linux.. no spyware or whatsoever to annoy... the only that will annoy you is that you have to learn so many new things about it.. if that itself is an annoyance.
Dave is right. Yahoo's blocker ironically works just like spyware. I still like using Spybot and Ad-Aware (which btw was the original anti-spyware prog). To prevent spyware from installing in the first place, or after you've cleaned out your PC, use Spyware Blaster. If all three are updated and run at least once a week, you'll be relatively safe from spyware.
If you really can't live without a toolbar on your Internet Explorer, use Google's. It's safer. Firefox already has a search bar built-in.
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