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WordPress Plugin: Login To Other User Accounts With Skeleton Key
WordPress allows for contributors to be geographically separated but still able to work together in an online environment. At times, however, administrators need to log into their contributor’s accounts to troubleshoot and fix problems. Since most people aren’t comfortable telling you their private passwords, how can you login to a user’s account without having them…
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WordPress Plugin: Lock Accounts After Invalid Logins with User Locker
As the popularity of content management systems such as WordPress increases, the number of security threats will also increase. Your first defense against intruders is the WordPress login page. By default, there is no limit to the number of times a user can attempt to login to WordPress. This makes your website vulnerable to brute…
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Twitter Now Supports Geotagging (but you have to enable it first)
You’ve probably heard the buzz for the last few weeks, and now it’s official – Twitter now supports geotagging your tweets. What exactly does this mean? From Twitter Support: Twitter’s Geotagging feature allows users who opt-in to the service to selectively Geotag their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about…
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Comparison: Motorola Droid vs. iPod Touch
[ad name=”Amazon Apple iPod Touch 32GB”] [ad name=”Amazon Motorola Droid X”] A friend of mine recently asked if she should buy an iPod Touch or a Motorola Droid. While these are two completely different products, one being a wifi-enabled MP3 player and the other being a full-featured smartphone, a choice definitely still exists. So without…
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Fix: Adobe AIR Apps Crash After Upgrading to Fedora 12
After upgrading your system to Fedora 12, you may notice that some of your Adobe AIR applications no longer load properly. The problem may persist even after you have reinstalled both Adobe AIR and the individual Adobe AIR applications. An error you may receive when installing the AIR applications is shown below: Application crashed with…
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Keep Your Phone Secure with Auto Lock
While we’re generally protective of our wallets/purses (none of us would be caught dead leaving a wallet or purse unattended for more than a few minutes), we’re much more careless about another item we carry with that contains a great deal of personal information – our mobile phones. Before the advent of smartphones, losing your…
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Coming Soon: The End of DVDs?
According to a new article on movies.com, Universal Pictures will no longer be selling stand-alone DVD copies of several of it’s movies as of January 1st, 2010. Instead, the movies will only be sold as Blu-ray/DVD bundles. This bundling is not new since Disney and other studios have already been bundling Blu-rays, DVDs and digital…
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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Now Available
Microsoft Office 2010 has recently been released as as a public download. The download weighs in at a fairly light 685 MB and includes Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace, and Communicator (which is an instant messenger for Outlook). If you’re working in the IT field and want to prepare for…