More and more websites are using WordPress as their back-end Content Management System due to its ease of use and excellent built-in search-engine-optimization.
However, as with all software, WordPress does have bugs that are exploited to wreak havoc on your site.
This blog article talks about upgrading your WordPress installation to ensure the latest security patches have [...]

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ZDnet.com reports on some Facebook apps that steal login details and spam victims’ friends lists. Some of the Facebook apps mentioned in the report are:

Stream
Posts
Your Photos
Birthday Invitations

As always, when using social networking sites watch out what apps you use and ask yourself if you absolutely have to use every app that comes your way!
Read the [...]

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Danny Dover has written an amazing article over at SEOmoz about the information Google tracks and collects about every user to  its many service web sites e.g. from GMail, Google Desktop, Google Docs, Postini, YouTube, FeedBurner etc.
Most Internet users are aware of the usual information collected but here Danny Dover has put together an exhaustive [...]

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Young kids today face a completely different world to that experienced by their parents. In fact, even only a short time as 10 years ago kids weren’t exposed to the kind of media they now have easy access to.
Always-on access to the Internet has brought many risks to children and these are now to be [...]

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As the new university and college year has kicked off, many are kegging up for the ‘freshers’ parties. Planning parties using social networks like Facebook and MySpace is becoming popular due to the sheer ease with which it’s possible to get invites out. But there is a dark side to this…
Considering the ‘open-ness’ of such [...]

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Spam can hit our inboxes throughout the day, creating annoying distractions that force us to have to scan it and delete it, where time could be better spent elsewhere.
According to statistics reported on page 6 of Singapore’s TODAY paper on August 13, 2007:

6 trillion business email messages were sent worldwide last year
49 minutes is spent [...]

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