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10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog

Monday, May 11th, 2009

With WordPress so popular these days, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers, so securing your blog is more and more important. The catswhocode.com provide 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog.
They have a large array of useful WordPress tips and tricks, including another recent one about 10 awesome .htaccess hacks [...]

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testing mods to Alex King’s twitter tools

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I’ve made some modifications to my copy of Alex King’s twitter tools plugin.

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Free Microsoft support for Windows XP, Office 2003 ends next month

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

OK, so Microsoft will end official free support for Microsoft Office 2003 on April 14th. Obviously, this doesn’t mean that the help center or help programs on your computer will stop working, but you won’t be able to get free answers to your questions from Microsoft anymore. You will be able to pay for extended [...]

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Looking for a Life Partner Who Looks Like Your Favorite Actor or Actress

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

In a move that could stir up some controversy, Bharat Matrimony, one of most popular matrimonial website in India, has launched a facial recognition feature to help you search for a potential life partner who looks similar to your favorite film actor or actress.
You can either limit your partner search to a selected set of [...]

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ConverStations: Twitter + Yahoo Pipes = Signal

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Like many others, one purpose I have for Twitter is for the resources shared, noth work and play, including blog posts, news items, and tools (and the latest icanhascheezburger).
Mike Sansone of converstations.com has written about a cool way to capture all your tweeps Twitter URLs in one place — and that solves a big problem [...]

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Check Firefox Bookmarks

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Up until recently there was not a single add-on available for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser that would check the bookmarks for invalid or duplicate entries. Several add-ons existed that were able to perform the checks in Firefox 2. The reason for this was a change in how the bookmark data was stored.
Check [...]

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The Blogging Software Dilemma that triggered the birth of Wordpress

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Wordpress turned 6 on January 24. From the original Blogging Software Dilemma post by Matt back in 2003:
What to do? Well, Textpattern looks like everything I could ever want, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be licensed under something politically I could agree with. Fortunately, b2/cafelog is GPL, which means that I could [...]

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Find Misspelled eBay Auctions

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

from Find Misspelled eBay Auction.
A standard way of saving money when buying on eBay is to find auctions that come with misspelled titles and descriptions. Someone selling a Playtation 3 will probably most likely earn less than someone who is selling a Playstation 3.
Auction Bloopers is a website that will search for misspelled auctions on [...]

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3 ways to compress CSS files using PHP

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

from Output Buffering, but I prefer the look of the Reinhold Weber method, as it
a) doesn’t require renaming CSS files, and
b) allows you to use PHP code to remove whitesace and comments

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Doom running in your browser

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Christmas comes, but once a year…. Kongregate have recompiled Doom 1 in Flash, from the original source code. Since it’s from the original source, it plays just like the original, right down to the old cheat codes: in case you’ve forgotten, IDDQD activates “degreelessness” and IDKFA will enable all weapons, keys, and ammo, and [...]

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