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In a blog post from WordPress, blog users have been informed that the 2.0.X branch has been declared deprecated and no more security updates will be available from now on. Even if WordPress officially committed to sustaining security improvements and porting many modern features in the 2.0.X editions, the monumental... |
1 August 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Most people rely on the advice or recommendation of others when purchasing a product or a service. A friend's opinion has always been valued and despite our increased dependency on the Internet a study in the US from Mintel shows that most people still rely on real-life referrals rather than on online ones.Of th... |
3 June 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Realmac has updated RapidWeaver, its website creation tool and flagship app for Mac OS X. Version 4.2.3 is a maintenance update adding numerous fixes for linking to blog posts and assets, fixes for MobileMe publishing, refinements in memory usage, and more. “Whilst we've been hard at work on RapidWeaver 4... |
14 May 2009
08:25 GMT |
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Windows 7 is not the only upcoming Microsoft product that gets its own special nook in the blogosphere. The Redmond company is now ready to provide a similar level of attention to both its main cash cows. In this regard, the upcoming version of the Office System also got a blog in the TechNet network. The Microsoft O... |
11 May 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Realmac Software has updated RapidWeaver, its website creation tool and flagship app for Mac OS X. Version 4.2.2 adds a completely re-written contact form with support for multiple attachments, JS-Kit commenting for blogs.Founded in November 2002, Realmac Software is focused on developing useful, easy-to-use programs... |
6 April 2009
04:18 GMT |
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For four years, Holly Madison was Hugh Hefner’s number one live-in girlfriend, while also a constant presence at the Playboy headquarters and on the pages of said magazine. After word got out in the media yesterday that she has quit her job as editor, the model herself has took to her official blog to explain t... |
6 February 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Getting paid 150,000 Australian dollars (roughly $100,000) to hang around beautiful beaches all day long doesn't seem such a bad thing. That's exactly what the tourism department in the Australian state of Queensland thinks, so it pushed forward a position of island caretaker, which will be paid with the af... |
13 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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A recently-written blog on the website of the Orlando Sentinel on the relation between Michael Griffin, NASA's administrator, and president-elect Barack Obama's new NASA transition team sparked a dangerous fire. Reactions to the article indicated that such attempts pose a large threat to the credibility of ... |
12 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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Facebook has unofficially announced, via its blog, that the social network has reached 100 million users. “We hit a big milestone today -- 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook. This is a really gratifying moment for us because it means a lot that you have decided that Facebook is a good, t... |
27 August 2008
17:20 GMT |
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The athletes who are attending this year's summer Olympic Games in Beijing are the first people to be allowed to write about their experiences while competing. The Olympic Games in China are a premiere, as the International Olympic Committee agreed to give the athletes the possibility to post on their dedicated ... |
28 July 2008
11:08 GMT |
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It's never too late to get in touch with technology. The best example of this was a 108-year-old woman who, one year ago, started her blog, or, as she called it, "blob." Two days ago, the Australian passed away in the nursing house that had lodged her for the past week. Her blog, initiated by Mike Rubbo, a direc... |
14 July 2008
04:37 GMT |
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Get ready for a unique source of information focused exclusively on the next iteration of the Windows client. Microsoft might be mute on Windows 7 now, under the new transparency policy imposed by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, but the situation will not last. The ... |
27 June 2008
11:40 GMT |
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Yeah, probably all the people who are really enjoying the recently released Age of Conan understand why the long-time-ago announced title is not Funcom's priority but, honestly, a lot of people don't. It was like one of the most impressive, appreciated and life changing adventure experiences for many gamers... |
3 June 2008
04:39 GMT |
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This might come as sad news for some of you: Google will be shutting down Hello, Picasa's application used for sharing photos over the web. The Hello webpage will not be accessible starting with May15, this year. Hello has been part of the Picasa application ever since Google acquired the latter, back in 2004. c... |
9 May 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced the release of Yahoo 360plus, a special version of its popular blogging platform designed for Vietnamese users. The new blogging application is said to integrate multiple advanced features, many of them being already introduced into the classic version of 360. Although everybody expects the univer... |
7 May 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Blogs and social networks are two of the most popular technologies nowadays, having an impressive yet continuously growing number of users. People like blogging because they're usually free and because they are able to write their own articles without too much effort. On the other hand, social networks connect c... |
16 April 2008
16:46 GMT |
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In the past weeks, Yahoo! Mail has experienced some SMTP issues that had messages being delivered late, starting from minutes and up to days. It was a big problem that nobody was aware of unless they specifically checked with the intended receiver. A bigger mess couldn't be possible, especially with messages tha... |
5 March 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Contrary to popular belief that has geeky looking guys standing in front of the monitor for hours and doing stuff that matters, a Pew Internet & American Life Project study has showed that it's actually girls that get most involved with the web and all that it stands for. And I did say girls, not women, as the r... |
22 February 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Google has long fought spam and for a while it managed to fend it off with elegance and class, but it looks like spam has finally breached one of the last spam-free products on the web, Google Reader. The Google Groups forum, a place for users to complain about things falling apart or demand new features, now hosts a... |
21 February 2008
09:24 GMT |
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Blogs were inaccessible for about 5 to 15 minutes in the 4 days that have passed since Saturday, when the attack started. Automattic, the company that maintains WordPress.com, was knee deep in the work laid before them by hackers all throughout this period and managed to restore most of the service's original fu... |
20 February 2008
10:53 GMT |
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I tell you, where is Chrissy Crocker when you need... um, him? Someone, quick, give me the number of this champion, this brave (fe)male defender of all celebrities in distress! We need an intervention! This is an emergency, y'all - and we don't have the time to make fun of such serious issues. We need a new... |
17 January 2008
04:40 GMT |
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What do all the politicians do? Get it together, poll it amidst themselves and, after that, come up with the only possible answer. Yes, they misinform to say it in a polite manner. The real message is usually lost somewhere between the few ideas that the candidate really stands by and the rest of the yada - yada that... |
9 January 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Vietnam is that kind of country that struggles to regulate the content appearing on the residents' blogs, although we all know it's pretty difficult to do such a thing. But according to AFP, the Deputy Information and Communications Minister, Do Quy Doan, aims to reduce the amount of subversive and sexually... |
28 December 2007
06:01 GMT |
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In a continuous attempt to make its users happy, Google decided to step up its support response to those in dire need of assistance and began taking every service at a time to solve the most outstanding problems reported.Today, it is the Official Blogger Buzz from Blogger reporting that some of the features that had ... |
21 December 2007
06:07 GMT |
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It's everybody's dream to enjoy some peaceful and quiet time with their family for the Holidays and not have to deal with the stress of waiting for somebody else or facing deadlines. It's more of an urban myth, really, that of relaxing during this period, nobody ever gets to do it unless they have othe... |
19 December 2007
10:34 GMT |
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To be honest, I thought that with buying YouTube, Google would put an end to its Video section and service, because they were basically two similar services battling over what is arguably the same market share. With this latest update, I'm thinking about something more in the terms of Google Video complementing ... |
17 December 2007
05:52 GMT |
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Google Notebook, for its users, is the tool (capital T) for collecting, organizing and sharing information on the Internet. What does it have over the bookmarks, which basically do the same things? In order to solve this few-pieced puzzle for us, the team responsible for the project decided to combine the two and, t... |
17 December 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Blogging is what people do when they have nothing to do but they have an idea, they put it down in an as-creative-as-can be manner on their page. It could be some news or reviewing a service or just plain writing off the top of their heads something that they'd thought in the lunch break or had dreamt during th... |
13 December 2007
10:45 GMT |
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I'm thinking it must be something about human nature in general that makes us kind of greedy when it comes to getting paid. The more money we receive for a lesser amount of work, the better and I'm not saying that thinking about that is wrong, I'm just saying that it's not something that's l... |
12 December 2007
04:45 GMT |
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Politics is a tricky and slippery slope to go down on, tempers inflame and fists are being raised all the time. I know it, you know it, hell, even the infants that have passed through the room during a live debate know it. There's nothing new under the sun. It's just that sensation of fists being pushed dow... |
5 December 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Two weeks ago, Google decided on a whim to kill the page rank of bloggers that have been using IZEA (PayPerPost's new name) and to effectively remove them from the Internet, because it wasn't really ethical to have been doing that, or at least that's what Google bosses thought. I agree with them, but t... |
30 November 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Apple is one of the companies which were often avoided by hacks and viruses because most of the infections were focused on Microsoft's Windows and not on Mac OS X or Apple technologies. But the Cupertino company is now affected by a series of hacks targeting the Apple fan blogs that are accused of "fanboyism" as... |
28 November 2007
08:35 GMT |
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Do you want to buy some medicines? Maybe a pill of Viagra at the lowest price on the market? Or maybe some Valium? All you need to do is to visit Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" film blog and you might find some unexpected goodies (not!). Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reported that the blog was hacked a ... |
27 November 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Wordpress application is a content management system widely used at this moment for blogging or other purposes. It can be extended through plugins which are available for free download. When your website has a heavy web traffic, the MySQL database will support multiple queries which at a given moment will determine ... |
20 November 2007
13:56 GMT |
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How would it feel if you heard that anything you wrote on your blog could send you to jail? Imagine how Abdel Karim Suleiman felt when he was charged with insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak in eight of his blog articles written since 2004. He was also the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for Internet wr... |
20 November 2007
08:42 GMT |
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The past few days have boiled Google down to the point where an official statement was inevitable on the freedom of speech problem it's been confronting. It looks more like a civic lesson, punctuated with reasons why Google did this and that throughout its almost 9 years of existence. But civic lessons are not b... |
15 November 2007
03:56 GMT |
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What's the solution if you have a specific inquiry about some government information that is supposed to be publicly available? You type in the exact URL of the site the information is on? Not likely, I doubt that government sites are the first thing on your mind every morning when you get out of bed, and if the... |
14 November 2007
03:59 GMT |
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Google employees are allowed that 20% of the time they spend at work be spent towards personal projects that might prove to be useful to Google in the future. Creativity is as such encouraged and the feature implemented today is a result of this particular program that the Mountain View giant started.The two engineer... |
8 November 2007
09:09 GMT |
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This is not the first time we've heard about a Halo port and not just any port, but one for the famous Nintendo DS console. It all started when Matt Casamassina from IGN started describing his experience while playing the title, in its unfinished version. No one believed him, since the man couldn't provid... |
3 October 2007
05:09 GMT |
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In case you've ever wanted to monitor a certain story, a blog or to find out the latest news concerning your favorite celebrity as it happens, Google Alerts is the perfect solution for you. This new beta service was especially designed for those looking for a simple product which would be able to keep them up to... |
26 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Why should you optimize your blog? Optimizing it will increase the blog's rankings on regular search engines and on search engines for blogs and RSS. It will also increase traffic from more locations such as social networks and social bookmarking sites. If you want to optimize your blog for search engines, you s... |
19 September 2007
10:27 GMT |
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If you want to post your journal online, you can choose one of the several free services provided by Google(Blogpot), Wordpress, Blog.com etc, or you can install a blog script on your webserver. If you don't know how to install a blog on your webserver, I'll explain you how to do it. For starters, let'... |
17 September 2007
11:03 GMT |
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Nowadays everybody talks about blogs. Everybody wants to have a blog. But what is it? 'Blog' is the short form of weblog. A blog is an online journal or diary, where everybody makes public their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's cre... |
17 September 2007
10:11 GMT |
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Google's blogging service Blogger was updated with a new feature that allows you to upload your personal clips straight on your blog without having to publish them on YouTube or any other video sharing platform and embed them into your articles. Using this feature, any blog owner is able to upload a certain clip... |
27 August 2007
14:16 GMT |
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Microsoft, Yahoo and several other companies agreed to require the Chinese bloggers to reveal their real names in order to create a better blogging system in the country. Although it might sound a little bit like censorship, the local authorities aim to force all the Chinese bloggers to reveal their identity in order... |
24 August 2007
16:31 GMT |
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Google's blogging solution celebrated the 8th anniversary yesterday as it was released on August 23, 1999. If you didn't know, Blogger was first launched by Pyra Labs in 1999 and was then acquired by the Mountain View company in 2003. The two firms didn't mention any financial term but one of the Pyra ... |
24 August 2007
02:49 GMT |
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A few days ago, the leaked Facebook code which was published on the Internet, appeared on a huge number of websites. Although most of them were shut down, others remained up and gathered a lot of traffic and became popular. For example, there were numerous blogs hosted by Google's Blogger which published the sto... |
16 August 2007
05:40 GMT |
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A few days ago, a weird blog appeared on the Google Custom Search Blog that showed several misspellings and grammar errors. "Google Custom Search, is the wonderful product from Google which many webmasters have been looking and dream for. It allows webmasters to create their own custom search engines to search only t... |
10 August 2007
16:41 GMT |
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Let's say you are a blog reader and you want to find additional blogs with same topics as your own. How can you search for them beside going to Google and typing the desired keyword? Well, the Mountain View company Google found the perfect solution and implemented a special feature into the famous blogging servi... |
9 August 2007
03:17 GMT |
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A new dispute was started in Malaysia where Muhammad Muhammad Taib, the information chief of United Malays National Organization, sent a complaint to the authorities, claiming that Malaysia Today infringed the country's laws and insulted the local king. It seems like the entire trouble was started by several com... |
24 July 2007
05:41 GMT |
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