I could never understand why some people/blogger's are so obsessed with ranking for the search term make money online. Today I came across Carl's blog a 12 year old blogger who claims that he is currently ranking number two for the search term make money online on Google and that John Chow has been pushed to number 38. I found it a bit hard to believe. So I did a quick search for John Chow ...
Looks like the Wordpress developers are sticking to their promise of more releases in shorter time periods. Boren has post on what's inside the trunk for Wordpress 2.3 so far.
What's New in Wordpress 2.3
A new Tagging system similar to the Ultimate Tag Warrior Wordpress Plugin.
Link and Post Categories have been separated.
Post and page management Administration has been improved with the introduction of Filters. See it here
All the JavaScript Libraries included ...
The live developing team just announced the release of Windows Live Mail, Writer and Messenger betas on their respective blogs. The interfaces looks awesome. Windows live mail is a major competitor to Thunderbird and from what I have see of it so far it beats Thunderbird hands down. I have been eagerly waiting for the new Windows Live Writer since I found ScribeFire to be lacking when trying to maintain ...
Robert Scoble has the scoop. Google Developers day is in progress and on the first day Google has released a new technology called "Gears" to enable offline support for web based applications. This is not a new technology it has been showcased before, it mostly based on JavaScript and Flash, now that Google has officially released a toolkit we can hope to see a wide spread adoption of offline ...
Welcome to the third part of the Top Best Wordpress Themes and Templates Series. You can read the 1st part of the series here and the 2nd part of the series here I have been collecting and looking at some of the best Wordpress theme made by community members for the past few months. As usual I have complied a list of the best free Wordpress themes. I Think this ...
Micorosft just announced the the release of Microsoft Surface. Microsoft Surface™, the first commercially available surface computer from Microsoft Corp., turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. The product provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface is a 30-inch display in a table-like form factor that’s easy for individuals or small groups to interact with in a way that feels familiar, ...
Shufflestorm has found a interesting thing in the latest version of Window live messenger 8.5 beta if you look at the properties for the build (Right click the Exe file and Select Properties then select the version tab), it has been named as WLSuite.exe. Another interesting fact is all the three products i.e. Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Writer have been listed together for beta testing ...
Update: Note that this SQL Inject “Exploit” can only work if the attacker has obtained a valid username and password for your blog. Otherwise the login check which is run before the $max_results var is used will stop the attack.
Thanks to westi for the Info
Looks like a SQL injection exploit in the XML-RPC has been found for wordpress 2.2. Currently no patch or release is available. You can see the ...
Sometimes a certain program that you installed might not have uninstalled properly and remains in the Add and remove Control Panel, Or you might not want anyone to see certain programs that have been installed on the system.
The Currently installed programs list in the Add or Remove Programs tool lists all of the Windows-compatible programs that have an uninstall program or feature. Occasionally, a program may not be removed completely, ...
David Kierznowski of Operation n has discovered some serious flaws in the WordPress Adsense Deluxe plugin as part of the WordPress Angel Project. The vulnerability(s) affect all versions.
The Plugin has not been updated yet so please head over to David's blog to download the temporary fix.
You might also want to subscribe to the new blog that focus on Vulnerabilities and security alerts for Wordpress.
Microsoft and Facebook have announced a partnership deal. This comes right after Facebook opened up its API to third party developers. The Facebook platform is already available in the new mashup tool Popfly that Microsoft announced a week back. Microsoft has also released some walkthrough videos and a Developer Toolkit for Facebook on its site. Dan Fernandez and Sean Alexander have a rundown on what has been announced so far.
Popfly ...
The Copy Feed Wordpress Plugin has been Translated to English. Copy Feed is a powerful Wordpress plugin to protect your content from sploggers. Previously it was available only in German.
How The Copy Feed Wordpress Plugin Works :
The Plugin adds content to a feed. It is possible to configure the copyright message. You can use html. You can add the IP of a feed reader and digital fingerprint for an explicit ...
Lifehack has an excellent article on Branding Your Blog for Success The article explores the following questions.
Gaining a High Volume Readership
Bookmarking vs. RSS
How You Can Use Branding to Increase Your Blog Traffic and Make More Money
BLOG BRANDING QUESTIONS:
Why Brand Your Blog?
Who are You?
What is Your Blog About?
Why Does Your Blog Exist?
How Does Your Blog Work?
Who Is Your Audience?
What Makes Your Blog Unique?
Why Should I Subscribe to Your Blog?
Also here's are ...
The Yahoo blog has listed out how they plan to stop spammers, spoofers, and phishers everywhere.
We’ve just reached an important milestone in our battle against email scammers. Today, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) as a proposed Internet standard — RFC 4871. That’s bad news for spammers, spoofers, and phishers everywhere.
DKIM is an email authentication framework that addresses the widespread
issue of email forgery, using ...
Today morning when I logged into my computer and started Firefox for some reason it crashed. This has happened to me a number of times since I open too many tabs. The unfortunate thing is that after the crash sometime your settings and bookmarks are lost. Fortunately unlike Firefox 1.5 you can recover your setting and Bookmarks in Firefox 2.0. Below I have listed the steps to recover your bookmarks ...