Checking in this morning and it appears that the new WordPress feature to automatically update was pretty solid. They even sent me an email letting me know the site had been updated. Nice job WordPress, let’s hope these automatic updates can keep sites from getting hacked, and make the internet a slightly safer place.
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Things I’m looking at more closely: Hackers Manipulating Internet Explorer Add-Ons Apparently, there is going to be an MT-Blacklist compatible with Movable Type 3.0 I’m still not completely convinced that I’ll be updating the child abuse blog to 3.0, but it’s nice to know I can take my favorite tool with me if I do,…
From time to time, I am asked how I can keep up with numerous blog topics, twitter accounts, and Facebook pages while not making myself crazy. Well OK, maybe I am actually crazy, that is up for debate. However, what isn’t up for debate is that it takes a lot of content to keep all…
Something that I thought about today when I was talking to someone on the Friends in Tech forums. Their question was about being unable to see the Temporary Internet Files folder even after showing hidden folders. I’ve found that when I installed IE7, that, and the history folder are “protected operating system file and folders”,…
I’ve held this opinion for awhile, that no matter what Facebook does, there’s no way it’s going to be able to deal with the scope of fake news, harassment, etc. that rolls through their platform every day. (Or any other social media company.) Anything they do simply won’t scale. Let’s take fact-checking, for example: What…
As a followup to that article I told you about previously. It now seems that the Greek Court has thrown out the anti-gaming law. More follow up on Trillian Pro from Absoblogginlutely. I agree, a free trial period would be a pretty big plus. I’ve determined to wait and see how other people’s experiences go…
I’m barely a Snapchat user, but this comment reminds me of what Instagram recently did as well. Nothing really makes sense in the main app now, it’s only in Stories that the timeline makes any sense at all. “Because I am not a teen and have not been for several years, Snapchat’s interface has always…