Yesterday, Dropbox.com announced their new desktop client version 2.0. Dropbox is a handy way to share files and folders with other people and to collaborate on documents such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. With a free account you get 500 MB of storage space along with opportunities to get more free space by referring the service with others.« Continue »
Dropbox Announces New Desktop Version
WordPress Image Tip – Linking Your Images
Images in your WordPress content or in your sidebar are powerful attention-getters. Many times as blog readers, our eyes are drawn to the image first and can then encourage us to read the content.
If you could see a heatmap of your blog, most likely you would see hot areas around the images and click trackers also know that the images frequently get clicked on.
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Twitter Has Been Hacked – How Safe is Your Password?
February 1, 2013. In a very laid-back “we don’t want to scare you” type of blog post, Twitter announced that a quarter of million of its accounts have been hacked. The hackers took usernames, email addresses, and yes, passwords.
Twitter has reset the passwords of the 250,000 accounts that it thinks were compromised, but did they get them all? They also said, “This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.“« Continue »
Blog Theme & WordPress Update – I Must Be Crazy
If you have been a My Bonus Blog reader for a while, you may think you went to the wrong place. The blog has a complete new design with a new theme. I got a wild hair a couple of days ago and decided to update to WordPress 3.5, redesign the theme and offer a [...]
ContinueWordPress 3.5 — When to Update
December 11, 2012. After several delays, WordPress released it’s latest version 3.5 to the millions of WordPress users today. This one is nicknamed Elvin after the drummer, Elvin Jones. Whenever a new major version of WordPress is released, it’s always a dilemma when to actually do the update. Let’s look at what’s in this release [...]
ContinueEasy Tables with a Plugin
Sometimes you just need a table to display your content properly. The WordPress page/post editor is good most of the time but getting things to line up just right can be a challenge. Here’s how I use tables to solve some alignment problems.
ContinueAdding FAQs To Your Blog
Adding a Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ section to your blog is a great way to arrange important features, resources or even present information on your About page. Typically, these are arranged on the page so that the questions are visible but the reader must either click the question or hover over it to open [...]
ContinuePretty Link Plugin Finally Issues Update
For what seemed like an eternity, the link-cloaking plugin, Pretty Link finally released a long awaited update last week (November 7, 2012). In the interim, there was a problem with the version number and the WordPress repository update system where you constantly received reminders in your dashboard that you had version 1.60 and you needed [...]
ContinueBlogging Mistakes: #10 – Not Being Serious About Security
This post is the last in a series of Blogging Mistakes. You’ve heard stories about blogs getting hacked or entire websites taken down. Do you think it can’t happen to you? Do you think it is only really big sites that have security issues? That kind of thinking is a huge mistake and will cost [...]
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New Reply Feature Added to CommentLuv Premium
I’ve written about how and why I love CommentLuv Premium plugin in the past. The main reason I got it was to eliminate the tons of comment and trackback spam I was getting on my various websites. I am also really liking the ability to select from several posts and pages to link to when [...]
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