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Privacy Badger is a relatively new anti-tracking browser add-on coming to us from the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Privacy Badger is similar to but inherently different from other anti-tracking and ad-blocking add-ons such as Ghostery, Adblock Plus, and Disconnect. Privacy Badger is a browser add-on […]
Microsoft has ended retail sales for Windows 8 as of 31st October 2014, almost two years after it was first released and exactly 12 months since the expiration of retail sales for Windows 7. With Microsoft intent on turning attention toward its new Windows 10
Website #1 – The Story of the Web Spanning from 1989 to 2014, the site presents a nice pictorial history of the web. It’s not exactly a blow by blow account but it does highlight all the main defining moments. Either scroll through manually at
Catch Up For those who would like to catch up with previous articles in this series, here they are: WordPress – How To Have Your Own Web Site – Introduction WordPress – How To Have Your Own Web Site – What You’ll Need WordPress –
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Search Engine Optimization, or SEO for short, is an important part of web site design. There is actually a setting in WordPress that lets you shut off, or deny, access to search engines. Unless you want to set up a web page strictly for personal
This is the sixth installment of the on-going WordPress series and I’d like to talk about security. Security is an important aspect of any computer user’s thoughts. There are tons of bad guys out there and they don’t merely focus on the normal every day user. They
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This may be out of sequence a bit, but I thought Themes, Plug-ins, Widgets and Headers ought to come before delving into the intricacies of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). WordPress is a system that allows you to do just about anything when it comes to changing
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In this fourth installment of the series I would like to talk about the WordPress Dashboard and cPanel. To make sure we’re on the same page here, let me point out a definition of terms. “Dashboard” and “Back End” refer to the same thing. They
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A couple of months ago we published an article highlighting how the once popular Firefox browser is slowly but inexorably losing favor with users, you can catch up with that article here: Firefox Slowly Slipping into Oblivion? So, here we are in October, another quarter
This is round three in a series of articles about WordPress and creating your own web site. In this post, I will briefly cover installing WordPress. WordPress is very easy to install and, in many cases, your web site hosting service will install it for
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Last week, Brian Krebs warned of a suspected data breach at Home Depot stores across the US and Canada dating back to April this year. Unfortunately, that breach has now been confirmed. Even though it appears that the PINs tied to debit cards were not
In my last article, WordPress – How To Have Your Own Web Site – Introduction, I tried to give you an overview of what you might expect when it comes to setting up your own web site. In this installment, I’ll get more specific about
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At long last the much anticipated stable version of Google’s 64-bit Chrome browser is available for download. According to Google, the 64-bit Chrome edition excels in three areas; it is faster, more secure, and more stable… but then Google would say that, wouldn’t they. Both
Is Email on the way out? That’s a bit like asking ‘Do you still watch cable TV?‘ and not quite as off topic as one might think. As for cable/terrestrial TV, no, I don’t watch it anywhere near as much as I did before, thanks
