Archive for the ‘Help & Advice’ Category
1-in-4 Worms Spread Through Infected USB Devices
- Posted by Craig Grant on August 29, 2010
- General , Help & Advice
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More than ever it is important to be wary of infection not only from the internet but from portable devices. Security company PandaLabs, the research section of Panda Security, claims that 1 in 4 worms spread through USB flash drives and other portable storage devices as reported by Computerworld. That includes cell phones, music players, [...]
Read moreFacebook Warns of Clickjacking Scam
- Posted by Craig Grant on August 19, 2010
- General , Help & Advice
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New Facebook scam could be costing victims $5 a week reports PCWorld, spread by the “Share” feature. The malware is similar to a worm that plagued Facebook in May with a rigged “Like” button that would run a script when it was clicked. What happens is that a Facebook user sees an interesting link and [...]
Read moreAnnouncement: PHP 5 is becoming our default version
- Posted by Craig Grant on August 12, 2010
- Help & Advice , Web Design , Web Hosting , eXtend
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We’re changing our current default version of PHP from 4 to 5 from the 6th September. As many of you will know, to use PHP 5 at the moment you need to enable this in a .htaccess file on the server. From the 6th September, we will swap this around so that PHP 5 is [...]
Read more6 Handy WordPress Code Snippets
- Posted by Craig Grant on July 31, 2010
- Help & Advice , How To...
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Adding more and more plugins can bloat out your WordPress installation, so try to use straight coding where possible. You can customise your WordPress blog and add new features without worrying about plugins, widgets and themes using these simple code snippets. Display Random Links If you have a lot of links to other websites and [...]
Read moreOur top free Twitter resources (Part 1)
- Posted by Craig Grant on July 01, 2010
- General , Help & Advice , How To... , Promoting your site , Search Engine Tips , Web Design , Your Business
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Twitter in itself can be very overwhelming, and that’s without worrying what tools and resources you need to manage your account properly. So we’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of our favourites. Twitter for Beginners We’ve divided our list into two parts; this one for fledgling tweeters and one for [...]
Read more7 quick tips to instantly speed up your WordPress site
- Posted by Craig Grant on May 31, 2010
- Help & Advice , Promoting your site , Search Engine Tips , Web Design , Web Hosting
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A couple of weeks ago we looked in to Google’s announcement that they are using a page’s load time to rank a sample of sites (1%) and what it meant for your website (you can read that post here). One of the most resource hungry ways of creating a website is WordPress. With its multiple [...]
Read moreHow to conceal your identity online
- Posted by Craig Grant on February 07, 2010
- Help & Advice , How To...
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Whenever you go online, you unwittingly reveal information about yourself. We show you 8 ways to conceal your identity and stop people seeing what you’re up to. 1. Activate your browser’s privacy mode By choosing to go online privately, you tell your browser to refrain from keeping a log of the pages you view, the [...]
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