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Keep Bad Bots Out of Your Site

Whether or not you followed our Create a Website for Free tutorial, your site or blog may be hit by a wide variety of spammers or bandwidth-wasting bots. Fortunately, blocking this scourge is far more easy than you think. It’s all here in this edition of the Power User Monday Tip of the [almost every] Week.

Update: For those who are curious, I’ve added a note about robots.txt and why it was not originally included in this tutorial.

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If you loved our Comic Art Effect tutorial, check out Comic Life

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Last year we brought you the Comic Art Effect tutorial and inspired a new breed of photo-comic artists.

New on the scene is Plasq’s Comic Life application which will aid you in turning your comic themed pictures into comic book pages–complete with dialog balloons, “sound” effects and captions. Very cool–very impressed.

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mini WebCam Security System

Worried about your storehouse after hours, or have a view you’ve got to share?

The Mac mini with the right software and wireless cameras can help you share or keep an eye on kids, valuables or skylines.

Join me for another Mini Media Mac tutorial and we’ll get you set up with wireless monitoring, for under $200.

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