Archive for the 'Webloggin Tech Tips' Category

Firefox 3.03 Update - Welcome To the Latest Piece of Junk From Mozilla

When I received my automatic update to Firefox 3.02 a couple of days ago I was expecting that perhaps the developers at Mozilla did something novel; like perhaps fix the high CPU consumption, move to a multi-threaded model that actually made sense or perhaps fixed the most important problem plaguing what at one time looked [...]

Wordpress 2.5.1 Upgrade Failure May Be Linked to Hack/Exploit

A couple of days ago I upgraded all the WordPress domains that I host on my servers when BAM! The dashboard was still giving me the notification that an upgrade was available and that my current version was 2.5.0. This message appeared on quite a few blogs that I host but not all even though [...]

Thanks For Telling Us About those Broken Wordpress Feeds in WP 2.5.1

This is one of those things I’d like to see in the dashboard when I log in. Yeah it’s nice to know that there is a WordPress mug contest and all that but I’d really like to know if my back end feeds are failing because of an upgrade.

Ditch That Powder Blue Wordpress 2.5 Admin Console, Plus Some Bugs That You Need to be Aware of

The developer of the Image Manager Plugin has retrofitted it to fix the 2.5 compatibility issue. It should be ready by end of week. This is great news as the plugin is excellent.

Tech Tip - Protecting E-Mail Addresses from Spam Bots, Spiders, and Spoofers

One method that spammers use to cull e-mail addresses from websites is by programatically parsing your web pages looking for e-mail addresses withing your posts and site code. It’s a form of screen scraping that is pretty simple from a conceptual point of view. Basically these bots read your site looking for e-mail addresses, sending [...]

Cool Google URL Hack For Image Search

I owe this tip to the awesome Lifehacker website that covers computer based technology for the ultimate computer geeks (me).
You can restrict Google image searches to images of faces by adding the following &imgtype=face to the end of the search string.
Suppose you want to search for pictures of Paris. You go to google images and [...]

Attention All Bloggers, Put Down that Internet Explorer

Now that you have mastered the art of tabbed browsing you will want to find out about live bookmarks. This is one the most important time saving innovations that has been intorduced into the browser technology.