Category: Other
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Some quick and easy tips to speed up Firefox
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 in the configuration. Firefox is installed with some very lenient settings – and those settings means that the browser can grab a lot of…
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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 sure you’ve been there also. Just about every time I get back with more than…
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A super moon?
Is this there a “super moon” tonight? It looked normal to me … But now clouds and a large storm obscure it…
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Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)
Spammers 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 to “No Comments” or “No Pings”. so – I wrote a quick and easy script to drop into the root folder of your…
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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 – at worst, they’ll take over your site, load hundreds or thousands of files to…
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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 Joomla! or Drupal, or WordPress – when they find the version you have, they’ll start…
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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 maintenance release and each site we upgraded had ZERO issues – but as usual, we…
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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 search has always been on for ways to speed this sucker up… Various caching systems…