HOWTO: Serve Sane Ads With OpenX Market

This article will take me a while, but I wanted to post it anyways.

For one, it gets that silly image post a little further down the page, and for two it gets me thinking about exactly what I should say.

OpenX is actually, to me, a much nicer alternative to Google Adsense(advanced users only though!) but it could seriously use a little more documentation.

This article will be such a guide.

Things I Use

Please just ignore this post, apparently it's the only easy way to get images onto Blogger.

And I'd rather have my images here than strewn around the Internet...it helps the website load faster.

And so, without further ado...are the Things I Use images:

Things I Dig

Please just ignore this post, apparently it's the only easy way to get images onto Blogger.

And I'd rather have my images here than strewn around the Internet...it helps the website load faster.

And so, without further ado...are the Things I Dig images:

HOWTO: Simply Disable Snap Shots From Snap.com

Well, I got to thinking the other day...and this one isn't just for me. It's really for anyone, old friends / acquaintances from Facebook, random wanders from the Internet sky, whomever.

Thanks to the joy and wonder of OpenDNS, I finally disabled Snap.com. Frankly, I hate the thing.

Some may like it, some may not, but for me trying to disable it via their interface simply didn't function. Needless to say, I think they're spammers now. Such a sad thing to say for what looked at first like a promising Internet startup. C'est la vie. So...they get banned from my world, at the DNS level.

Step 1 - Go to OpenDNS and chose "Create account" in the upper-right-hand corner.

Step 2 - Do the usual register-for-a-website dance.

Step 3 - Follow their instructions for using OpenDNS. This is quite technical, see their website for details.

Step 4 - Go back to OpenDNS and click on "Settings". Scroll down to "Manage individual domains". Leave the "Always block" setting as-is, and enter the following two domains: shots.snap.com and spa.snap.com, one at a time. Confirm that you wish these to be blocked under any and all circumstances.

Step 5 - Go back to whatever website you really want to see(for me it was a Second Life Gaming blog) and reload it. Voila! No more Snap.com! *cheers*

Hope this helps someone out there...feel free to leave a comment if this didn't make sense or you'd just like to say thanks.