Plesk is a powerful hosting automation control panel, used at a large scale in case of Linux hosting services. It has an intuitive graphical user interface and a wide range of options which simplify the administration of a Linux based hosting account. In a similar manner as CPanel, Plesk allows you to automatically install popular PHP / MySQL applications, like WordPress, Joomla and more.
Google Friend Connect, the Google service which allows webmasters to enhance their websites with social networking features without coding, has just been updated. It has a new set of features intended to permit users to get to know each other better and in the same time, webmasters can customize the website experience and content. (more…)
Adobe Systems Incorporated has just announced the partnership with Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, to provide a revolutionary environment for the development of cloud based rich Internet applications: Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com. It integrates two powerful platforms, Adobe Flash and Force.com platform to improve the development productivity of enterprise Flash cloud applications. (more…)
Even the upcoming candidate for the most popular blogging platform WordPress should have the version number 2.9, a new release from the 2.8 branch is available: WordPress 2.8.5. It represents a security update, which should be treated as a priority by WordPress blog owners, because WordPress version 2.8.5 provides a fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack, a recent severe security exploit, identified for several numbers of times. (more…)
Lee Brimelow, a well known evangelist at Adobe Platform, has just posted a new FLARManager free video tutorial on how to create Augmented Reality (AR) applications in a simpler manner, as compared with FLARToolkit, the AS3 ported version of ARToolKit software library for creation of AR apps. (more…)
It could be hard to believe, but after the recent release of Firefox 3.5.1 update, a new security flaw that allows remote code execution through JavaScript code was discovered. A proof of concept for the exploit code was also made public and it works, because Mozilla Firefox browser is still vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The attacker could generate the buffer overflow by sending long Unicode strings to the document.write method and in this way is possible the remote code execution to compromise an operating system or a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack.
One year ago, in the article “A New Powerful Virus Could Affect Millions of WordPress Blogs“, there was underlined the necessity of performing updates of WordPress sites, especially when critical security issues are fixed in the current software release. The latest version (2.8.2) of the popular blogging platform WordPress was just launched and is ready for free download. WordPress 2.8.2 patches an XSS security vulnerability: due to the fact that the author’s comment URLs were not fully sanitized in version 2.8.1, an attacker could used this security leak in order to redirect you from the administration area to another website.
Through the newly released Jetpack 0.4, Firefox 3.5.1 users will be able to record audio directly in the web browser. Initially made for the simplification of Firefox add-ons development, Jetpack 0.4 comes with two new features: Audio Recording APIs and Page Mods APIs. Based on the audio encoding APIs, developers will be able to create add-ons which allows users to record high-quality audio in Ogg-Vorbis file format, directly from within the browser. The files can then be played back easily with new audio tag support introduced since Firefox 3.5.
Depending on the web images type and destination, the commonly used file formats are PNG and JPEG. Regarding the web design area, PNG image file format is widely used in the structure of sites templates, due to its major advantages, as compared with GIF and JPEG images. The main advantage of PNG image file is represented by the possibility of achieving an optimal ratio between image quality and file size, because it permits you to display an image with the highest possible quality, but corresponding to a lower file size.
As you may already know, WordPress blogging platform is built with PHP coding language and extracts data for building HTML pages from a MySQL database. The default WordPress installation does not ensure the maximum pages loading speed in case of your blog, especially when it have a high amount of content like images and JavaScript elements, as well as many activated plugins. When an user requests a web page, the number of functions executed on server side and client side implies processes which are resources consuming if certain tweaks are not performed. WP Super Cache plugin provides a good alternative to improve the overall performance of your WordPress blog by generating static HTML pages, therefore minimizing the number of database requests.
Usually, common WordPress templates do not have included by default a customizable menu that allows the display of categories in the header. You can manually write the code necessary to include a navigation bar at the top of your template or use a simpler alternative provided by PixoPoint WordPress plugin. It will automatically add an accessible, regular or drop-down (SEO friendly) menu to your WordPress blog.
Facebook just launched a Facebook Connect-enabled social widge, Facebook Fan Box, which will allow you to introduce into any website pages your Facebook Page information stream, only by copying and pasting four lines of JavaScript code in the page template. Even more, the websites visitors will be able to become fans without the need to go to the main Facebook website and you will also get in real time the updated content of the information stream published on your Facebook account, according to the Official Facebook Blog:
After the official announcement of the upcoming Google Chrome OS was made, Google has also made public the list of the technology companies which will support this project. The hardware manufacturers that will collaborate with the Google search giant are: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and other companies. Sony, Dell, Samsung or LG, companies which uses Linux distributions for powering various models of the devices produced by them, seems to not be included in the list of Google Chrome OS project partners. (related article: Google Chrome OS: A Free Alternative To Windows 7)
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