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Us Domain Authority Scam
I received this letter from the "Us Domain Authority" the other day. I look at this as another form of phishing. I am very familiar with electronic phishing (emails trying to get you to reveal personal or financial information) however this was a physical letter sent...
WordPress WooCommerce stores under attack, patch now
By Sergiu Gatlan | Bleeping Computer Hackers are actively targeting and trying to exploit SQL injection, authorization issues, and unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce WordPress plugin with...
How to style Google’s noCaptcha reCaptcha in your sidebar
This chore has been ever present and every Gravity Form I place into any sidebar that is using Google's Captcha has the same issue. The element is not easy to style and extends way past the border of the form. IE: The noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA is not responsive. Note the...
The End of Google+
'Why Google Is Finally Putting Google+ Out of Its Misery?' | Inc.com. The above title from Inc.com hits the mark. If you haven't noticed, Google+ was a ghost town - Another quote from Inc.com that is also right on! Originally meant to keep Google in the Social space...
20 Examples of White Space Use in Web Design
courtesy of Instant Shift Let’s say you’re in a library. It wouldn’t be nice at all if you couldn’t move around because of the overcrowded shelves and halls, while the librarian was continuously prompting you with the latest books that arrived. It’s the same with...
End of Google Authorship – Forbes
By now you’ve probably heard the news. Google has ended its Authorship program. For those of us who have been paying close attention to Google Authorship over the last year or so, this shouldn’t have come out of nowhere.During Pubcon 2013, Google’s Distinguished...
Facebook reports a 24 percent rise in government requests for user data | PCWorld
WOW - Big Daddy is watching and can get a lot more info on you than you think. Facebook received nearly 35,000 requests for user data from governments around the world during the first half of 2014, up 24 percent from roughly 28,000 requests made during 2013’s second...
Using CSS to Make a Visually Consistent Cross-browser HTML5 Progress Bar
Just a short time ago, I wrote how to show progress reports for long-running PHP scripts. In that article, we were introduced to an HTML5 addition called the Progress Bar element. It's a great leap forward for us developers, but some people have pointed out - quite...
Want to Quickly Preview All Your Installed Fonts?
If you are like me, I have over 400 different fonts installed on my computer. So, graphically designing images using fonts can be quite a chore sifting through the many fonts available to use. Here is a great way to quickly preview all your installed fonts There are...
6 Alternatives to Google Calendar Sync
As of this August 1st, 2014, the Google Calendar Sync app will not sync your Outlook Calendar items with your Google Calendar So what are my alternatives? Google has me a little discouraged with their simple "We will no longer support" attitude. Just when you find a...
Google Calendar Sync is being discontinued on Aug 1st 2014
As of this date, this app will not sync your Outlook Calendar items with your Google Calendar So, what are my options to sync my android (or apple) smartphone calendar to my Outlook calendar on my desktop (laptop) It was announced in the beginning of 2013 that Google...
6 Great Alternatives to iGoogle
The deadline for the demise of iGoogle (Now 15 days away), Google's start page, is getting closer (read how to export your igoogle feeds). While nothing will completely replace iGoogle, there are some alternatives out there. Before we get to the alternative sites we...