Pirates aren't cool any more

I hope these agents don't use waterboarding... :)

Block brute-force attempts on your WordPress blog

WordPress on it's own a quite secure #CMS but this doesn't mean there is no room for improvement. A simple but effective way to make your #WordPress installation more secure is to limit the amount of attempts that can be made on your login page. This will block automated or not attempts to gain access to your site by guessing the password.

The #plugin is called Limit Login Attempts. It will log attempts to login, and will limit the amount of times an IP can fail the login process. Over a (custom) limit it will just block any further attempts. Many customizations are offered (see screenshot). You will certainly be surprise by how many attempts are being made by #spambots!

Limit Login Attempts can be found on WordPress.org http://bit.ly/we0JdW

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Amazing: killing MegaUpload didn't stop sharing

Sharing sites like rapidshare, uploaded.to and hotfile.com should be sending chocolate gifts to the FBI. Since the closing of #MegaUpload they have seen as much as 3 times the traffic they usually have. Job well done feds :)

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Testing your responsive design

So you're following the latest trends in #web development and have decided to develop your new site with a #responsive design. You quickly realize that's kind of hard testing the site on multiple resolutions every time you make a change.
+matt kersley has a nice solution: http://bit.ly/ycYno9
A simple setup with iframes will show the same URL is four different resolutions.

Of course this doesn't fully replace testing on actual machines (and their specific browsers) but it will certainly speed up the initial development time.

If you want to host it locally, you can grab the html/js on GitHub http://bit.ly/xu39c5

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Mail your WordPress posts with Postie

#WordPress has a "post by e-mail" feature included, but it's fairly basic: you only enter the access information of the e-mail address you are going to use and then pray it all works. #Postie http://bit.ly/yhJpi4 is the same feature on steroids. Here's what more you can do it with it:
- Test your configuration to see that WordPress can connect to your account
- Setup how often the e-mail account will be checked for new mails
- Configure who can use the feature and setup e-mail alerts (so even if your special e-mail is found, no spam ever gets posted on your blog)
- Set default category and tags
- Filter the content of the message
- Option to setup galleries or choose a template on how to display attached images
- Options for videos and other file attachments.

You can pretty much leave everything on the default option for a start. You just need to create an e-mail address that only you will know and set it up on the first tab of options. Then whatever you mail to that address will be posted, with the subject as the title and the contents of the message as the content of the post.

You can get Postie at WordPress.org http://bit.ly/wMPRiE

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Rolling Photography

Interested in taking a photo like the one below with just your iPhone (probably works on most digital cameras, at least mobile phone ones)?
If your answer is yes, read this article http://bit.ly/xI3UT4 by +Takahiro Yamamoto

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Amazing Cisco

What kind of mind decides that a "contact support" form should have a 128-characters limit? That said, when there is an issue with an account and it gets disabled, what kind of mind decides "let's not send an e-mail to the customer about it, he'll figure it out next time he tries to use our service!"?
#CustomerSupportFail #UIFail :)

[Update] So 24 hours later, #Cisco support has contacted me once, to tell me that my request was bumped from one department (technical support) to another (client manager)... Awesome...

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