All Posts Tagged With: "plugin"
Check Your WordPress Blog For Security Vulnerabilities
It can be hard keeping up with all the numerous WordPress updates. One of the problems of not keeping up is that you can leave your site open to hackers and other nasty people.
A quick way of seeing if you are vulnerable is to use the Wordpress Scanner that will check to see if [...]
How To Play Xvid And Avi Files With Vista Media Center
I’ve spent a lot of time this weekend finally setting up Windows Vista Media Center, and I suddenly realised that Vista Media Center won’t play Xvid and Avi files even if Windows Media Player will. If you want to add support for third party codecs including Xvid and Avi files in Vista Media Center then [...]
28May2007 | Tony Williams | 23 comments | Continued
Synchronize Your Firefox Bookmarks Between PCs
My favourite Firefox extension is the Google Browser Sync extension and it’s the first Firefox addon I always install when I’m setting up a PC.
Not only does Google Browser Sync keep your vital bookmarks synchronized between PCs, it also sychronizes your history, cookies and passwords. It even syncronizes the pages you were looking at, [...]
Upgrade To WordPress 2.2
If you missed the news, WordPress 2.2 is now out. The latest release contains dozens of bug fixes and several new features. Overall the service has been tidied up and made much more intuitive to use and friendly. I’ve just upgraded from 2.1 with no problems at all.
New features include:
Optimize Windows Vista With TweakVI
TweakVI is a freeware program that claims to be the first to both both tweak and optimize Windows Vista. The free Basic version of TweakVI comes with 13 plugins that perform various functions. Other plugins are available, but they have to be paid for.
The TweakVI feature I like the sound [...]
Windows Media Player Plugin For Firefox
The popularity of the internet browser Firefox continues to grow by the day, but it still has a few annoying quirks. One of these is that it can be difficult to watch Windows Media Player videos within Firefox.
Luckily, thanks to Port 25, who are the team at Microsoft who look after interoperability, there’s a [...]
Top 10 Firefox Extensions To Avoid
Firefox is a great browser which allows almost anyone with minimal coding experience to create plugins and addons to make Firefox even better.
However, sometimes letting someone with basic coding skills near your browser isn’t a good thing, and adding certain firefox addons can actually make the greatest browser worse.
Useful Internet Explorer 7 Addons
Although Internet Explorer 7 doesn’t have as many plugins or addons as Firefox, there are addons for IE7 that will cover off most of the features that users will need covering. Over the last couple of months I’ve been using IE7 as my main browser, because it’s the only one I’m allowed to use [...]
2Apr2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Complete Guide To Eliminating Blog Spam
My buddy Everton over at Connected Internet has written the most comprehensive guide to eliminating blog spam that I’ve seen. Everton had to beef up his spam protection as he was receiving a server busting 250 spams a minute.
Luckily I’ve been testing the next release of Everton’s theme which incorporates all of the tweaks [...]
Great iTunes And iPod Plugins
Originally iTunes was used by most PC users because it came bundled with an iPod, but over the years its become a great application for playing mp3s. But, did you know you could make iTunes even better by adding plugins? Although there aren’t hundreds and hundreds like with Firefox, there are enough [...]
25Feb2007 | Tony Williams | 5 comments | ContinuedSubscribe For Tips!
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