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This review was originally posted on Site Scrutiny, a former blog of mine that I have since closed down, on August 25, 2007. I have merged some of it’s archived posts to Simply-Basic.com.

Tonight’s review was brought to my attention by Alex Schliker, founder and CEO of QuickInsert, LLC. What is QuickInsert? Who better to describe it then the boss himself. In his email, Alex describes QuickInsert and the following:

QuickInsert plugs into your existing website to protect and sell content - no programming necessary! Simply copy your content, documents, or images into QuickInsert and paste the provided line of Javascript code onto your site…all of your protected content and documents (white papers, documentation, and/or manuals) are…

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This article was originally posted on Site Scrutiny, my other blog, until I closed it down and transfered the posts over to Simply-Basic.com. The date of the original post is the same.

Being a blog author, or blogger, is not usually a primary job or significant source of revenue. Blogging is really more of a hobby. Usually we give up our free time to write articles and reviews. Why? Because we enjoy it! This is why I jump at the opportunity to write about another bloggers work. Tonight’s review is of fellow technology blog Jeffro 2pt0.  While Site Scrutiny is usually focused on reviewing and discussing websites and internet products, Jeffro 2pt0 (reffered to as Jeffro…

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This article was originally published on my other blog: Site Scrutiny. I have since closed down that blog and merged the archives with Simply-Basic.com

Have you ever thought that you were surfing in anonymity? Think again! Most websites track their visitors pretty heavily. No, it’s not usually a malicious act. It is actually good web design to do so. I’m sure we have all placed the little hit counter on our first web site that kept track of how many times our web page was loaded. Remember how excited you got when you saw the number go up? If you are anything like I was, be ready to be wowed by StatCounter. According to their website…

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This article was originally written for Site Scrutiny, a blog I wrote that has since ended. This has been merged here as part of the consolidation process.

I always love good plugins and code snippets for websites. There are tons of sites that offer free javascript or PHP or whatever code, but JS-Kit seems to offer something different. I discoverd JS-Kit by chance. I was actually looking for a self-maintained commenting system for Simply-Basic.com. I was too lazy to code one myself and too cheap to hire anyone to do it for me. I found several PHP database driven commenting systems, but I wanted something easier. That is just what JS-Kit is.

They actually offer several different…