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This Week’s Links (weekly)

ByMike McBride October 26, 2014October 13, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

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Blogging | Tech

Wordfence Security Plugin for WordPress

ByMike McBride June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 Reading Time: 3 minutes

One of the challenges of hosting your own site and using WordPress is security. As WP has gotten more and more popular, it has become a huge target for hackers of all sorts. I’ve had my own fair share of old installations getting hacked and causing problems for live sites, rogue files, brute force login…

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Linked – Reported Twitter change will let you get more out of 140 characters

ByMike McBride May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 Reading Time: 1 minute

“Bloomberg’s report credits “a person familiar with the matter” in claiming that Twitter posts will soon begin serving links and images that do not eat into a post’s 140-character limit. The report’s source indicated that the change could happen “in the next two weeks” but was unable to offer any firmer timeline. Currently, Twitter automatically…

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And Some days..

ByMike McBride October 21, 2003 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The last post was about some people, this one is about some days. Some days nothing works. Some days the internal Microsoft Mail Postoffice has random and sporadic problems. Some people can send messages fine, some people’s messages don’t get delivered until the user initiates a Send/Receive manually, despite the setting to check every “x”…

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Google Drive Changing the iPad

ByMike McBride September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 Reading Time: 1 minute

The latest update to the Google Drive iOS app will give users the ability to edit and create documents within Google Drive on the iPad and iPhone. As a newer iPad user, and long time iPhone user, this is a pretty big deal. The iOS devices have always been more about consumption than creation. Sure…

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Linked – It’s time to secure your Amazon account with two-factor authentication

ByMike McBride November 20, 2015November 19, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

Yes, you should probably do this. If you’ve stored a credit card with Amazon, now that they are supporting two factor authentication, you need to enable it. Just follow the directions in the link below to have Amazon verify your login with a text message to your phone. I will be! It’s time to secure…

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