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Macfilink - 1.5

cloak affiliate links on your website

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 1.5
Release Date: 2008-11-13
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 480
Downloads (all versions): 4,980
Price: $29.95

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Product Description:

If you have an affiliate website, you could be losing hundreds of dollars! People can easily hijack your affiliate links to get them a discount instead of earning you money. Would you rather have that money that you deserve? You need Macfilink!

Macfilink works by cloaking your affiliate link - creating a web page for you to upload to your own site, so that your customers see a page on your site, with your URL, instead of the affiliate URL - but they still see the merchant's site. They never see your affiliate link, so they can't remove your affiliate ID or change it to their own.

You don't need to know anything about HTML for it to work. You simply enter the affiliate URL, and Macfilink creates an encoded HTML page for you. You can add a heading (e.g. to link back to your site, or a banner), and other options. You can then copy the HTML, save it to disk, or even have Macfilink upload it directly to your web server!

What's new in this version:

  • Macfilink is now freeware! The license features have been removed. You are welcome to use it at no cost.
  • Fixed a bug where the menu commands to change between the various tabs were incorrectly disabled.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9

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Macfilink Developer NoteRe user guide - Version: 1.4.1, 6/28/2007 10:21AM PST

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DejalSystems
Hi, I'm the author of Macfilink. I'm sorry you didn't find it intuitive. The sentence you refer to in the User Guide is simply suggesting that you may not need to use the User Guide to figure out the application functions, but if you do, the rest of the Guide explains each of them.

As for the application purpose, I've tried to explain it on the main product page, though perhaps not clearly enough. Macfilink is a specialized tool for people who earn money from affiliate sites. If that isn't you, this product won't help you, but if you do have such income, it will help protect it by cloaking the affiliate links.

It creates web pages that you can include on your site for each affiliate page you want to link to. Instead of embedding a link directly to the affiliate page, you link to the page Macfilink creates instead. The affiliate page is loaded within that page, so the location URL looks like it is on your site, but it's really a third-party page. The affiliate URL is hidden.

I hope this helps clear it up. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
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Macfilink ReviewIntuitive? Hardly! - Version: 1.4.1, 6/28/2007 12:04AM PST

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grh-svo
What does this thing do? Wait, I'll check the user guide.

"Macfilink is very intuitive, so you can probably find out everything you need to know just by using and exploring the application." This is a serious offence against the logical rules applying to user guides. A user guide should tell you stuff. This one says "explore." Black mark.

Intuitive? No. Black mark. What, exactly does it do? The user guide should start with an explanatory note of why I need this tool and what it does. The guide should then progress to explain how to use it. Unfortunately the guide does neither.

Sorry, I wasted two hours "exploring" and am none the wiser. I simply have no idea what this tool is supposed to do, whether I should need it and, if so, how to use it.

Plonk.
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Macfilink ReviewPractice your webmaster skill instead - Version: 1.1, 3/8/2005 06:28PM PST

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ulyssesric_dotmac
Any one break the so-call "encoding" in one minute with only PHP.
1. Open your terminal, type "php" without quote, press return
2. Type "<? echo rawurldecode( <<<ENCODING " without quote and press return
3. Paste the encoded text (%6d%6c%3e%0a%...), press return
4. Type "ENCODING" without quote, press return
5. Type "); ?>" without quote, press return
6. Press Control-D
...and the original HTML will be displayed one your screen.

BTW, is there any webmaster so idiot to put value-added resource to someplace where users can directly access ? There are hundreds of methods you can hide you resource, for example:
1. Set the Apache to check HTTP-REFERER.
2. Set the Apache to use basic HTTP Authentication.
3. Put your file in directory other then htdocs/*, and use PHP readfile() command to dump it to authorized users.

Practice your webmaster and programming skill, and forget these silly tricks.
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