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If you’re using some software to mass-create accounts on various sites, you’ll be aware that many times, you can get blocked due to too many accounts being opened either:

1. From the same IP address.

2. From a machine that has a cookie on it already (and the cookie means that one account has already been created, so don’t let another one be created).

For the first problem, we use proxies. Nothing new there.

But for the second problem, I’ve never found a good solution, other than clearing all my cookies, which then means losing all those “remember me?” settings from various forums, etc.

So I wrote some software to help with this – it can backup your cookies (multiple times if need be), restore them later, and also let’s you delete any cookies that might have beed added since your last backup.

To find out more about Cookie Manager, including the great price, click here.

It’s amazing what you can find buried away in forums, if you frequent them. Often, they can be filled with the biggest pile of time-wasting, useless, misguided, opinionated drivel that you can think of. And sometimes – just sometimes – you’ll get a thread where the original poster shares something really useful, and person after person contributes to the information till you end up with so much good stuff, you’re amazed.

I decided to start saving those threads, and wrote a piece of software to help do that. At the moment, it works for vBulletin only – so the Warrior Forum is my main place to use it, although there are others that I frequent even less frequently that have some good posts (eg, blackhatworld.com)

And I’m making that software available to you free of charge (well, you’ll need to join my site updates mailing list – that’s all).

Find out more here.

I’m still playing with the theme. The latest one is created by …

… me!

Using a useful new bit of software called Artisteer. It’s a tool for creating new WordPress themes (with a version available that also allows you to create Joomla and Drupal themes as well). Whilst there are a lot better themes available, I’m sure, the ones produced by Artisteer are less “snazzy” than some of the professional ones (ie, they are easier to read and navigate round).

And if you are creating a series of blogs, but want to use some similar themes, it’s easy to pick a layout that you like, and then vary the colour-scheme per blog.

It’s worth having a look at the software if you want to be able to quickly create some themes for your blogs.

Over the past couple of months, I’ve written a couple of posts about my automated Cpanel domain backup script. Well, I’m making it available for sale this week. It’s been sat there quietly taking backups for me, for a couple of months, and I’ve decided to turn it into a full product.

All I need to do is to write the user manual and package up the script with the installer, and it’ll be available to buy.

As with the Caffeinated Content Scheduler, I’ll be offering a subscriber-only discount for a little while – probably a week or two. And once that’s over, it’ll go back to the full price.

So if you’re interested in getting a discount, and you’re not yet an email subscriber, you can subscribe using the form to the right.

23rd APRIL UPDATE: It’s available now…

If you are using the Caffeinated Content plugin for WordPress, you’ll know what a pain it can be having to A) remember to login to grab new content, and B) actually doing it.

And compound this with the strategy that most people are using it with, where they have multiple blogs.

I faced the same pain, so I’ve written a scheduling application which runs quietly on my server updating my blogs for me automatically with new content. Without me having to ever log into them again.

And I’m making that available for sale as well. Find out more here.