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Some quick and easy tips to speed up Firefox

Last updated on June 9th, 2015 at 05:27 pm Is Your Firefox installation running slowly? Ours was – and after checking that all our plugins + addons were up to date, we decided to start trimming some of the fat…

trade show cards – a must-have app – Card Munch

Having just got back from a business conference, I have a small stack of business cards which I want to capture – and this happens every time I go to a conference, trade-show, or large business networking event – I’m…

A super moon?

Is this there a “super moon” tonight? It looked normal to me … But now clouds and a large storm obscure it…

Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)

Last updated on June 25th, 2014 at 01:47 pmSpammers seem to have found a way of sending spam comments to your wordpress images – and there doesn’t appear (as yet) to be a way to default the options on attachments…

If they get into your wordpress, can they execute php code?

Most wordpress exploits rely on the attacker getting into your site being able to run some kind of code – this is often DISASTROUS for your site – at the very least you can become a site infecting your visitors…

Hiding the version of WordPress

Many bots trawl the internet looking for various content management systems to exploit – how they know you’re using a particular CMS is normally easy for them to determine by looking at the source of the site – be it…

WordPress 3.0.2 fixes some security issues among other things – apply it today…

WordPress released the latest version of their content management system – 3.0.2 – and as usual, we recommend that you take the time to upgrade. Here is a link to the WordPress 3.0.2 release notes. This was a fairly minor…

Question: When is a wordpress blog, not a wordpress blog?

Answer: when it’s a boat anchor! WordPress with a ton of plugins can often become a bit of a slouch – even on snappy webservers… and I’ve seen it become downright boat-anchor on slower or heavily laden servers… so the…