Author: Ryan Kessen

Computer Repair, Freelancer, Blogger, Reviewer and all around nice guy!

How to protect your Google AdSense account from unauthorized use

Having a Google AdSense account comes with responsibilities as well. Protecting your account from unauthorized use is a MUST if you plan on ever making any money. Anyone can add your Google AdSense code to their site that violates Google AdSense Policy and can easily have your account banned – even when YOU didn’t do anything.

Follow these steps in this order:

  1. Login to your Google Adsense account.
  2. On the left side click “Account settings”.
  3. Scroll all the way down to “Access and authorization”.
  4. Check the box “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account” under “Sites authorized to show ads”.
  5. Enter all your sites that will be displaying Google AdSense ads (one per line); then click save once your done.

Now any sites trying to link your code which violates Google AdSense Policy will not display nor will reflect your account.

How to resume a sucessful MegaShares download

First, you will need a download manager. For this tutorial I used FlashGET, there are many others out there you can use.

  1. Download FlashGET here: http://www.flashget.com/en/download.html
  2. Load your MegaShares.com download in your browser and hit enter. Once the page loads, click “Regular Download”.
  3. Fill in the required information to Reactivate your Passport.
  4. Right click on “Download File” and paste the url into your FlashGET program. Once you have hit your 550 MB limit, you will need to wait two hours until your Passport has reset.
  5. Once you have waited two hours, go back to the download page where the file you are trying to download is located.
  6. Fill in the required information to Reactivate your Passport.
  7. Go into your FlashGET program and double click on the file you are wanting to download, then click resume (Green Play button). You will begin to download where you left off.

Repeat steps 6-7 until your files downloaded.

How to remove pages from search results in WordPress

Removing pages from the search results can be a plus, specially when your visitors are looking for the rich content and not a page.

Open wp-content/themes/your-theme/functions.php, add the following:

// Removes pages from search results
function SearchFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', 'post');
}
return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');

Simply remove the above code if you wish to allow pages to be shown again in search results.

How to configure Gmail with other 3rd party programs

Have you ever wondered how can I configure my GMail to send and receive email from 3rd party software? Well, it’s very simple actually. The new versions of Thunderbird actually automatically finds the correct settings and applies them. For software that doesn’t do this automatically, I have included the correct settings:

POP
Incoming settings
IMAP server – pop.gmail.com
Port – 995
Security type – SSL/TLS

Outgoing settings
SMTP server – smtp.gmail.com
Port – 465
Security type – SSL/TLS

SMTP
Incoming settings
IMAP server – imap.gmail.com
Port – 993
Security type – SSL/TLS

Outgoing settings
SMTP server – smtp.gmail.com
Port – 465
Security type – SSL/TLS