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Upgrade to WordPress 2.6.5 Easily

WordPress has released a critical update today. Quoting their official blog - The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package. 2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a...

What is Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed system of discussion groups in which millions of people participate. There are many Usenet groups and anyone on the Internet may participate for free. In other words, Usenet is a group of public forums for discussions. Usenet was originally designed to carry local news between two universities in North Carolina. Therefore, Usenet groups are commonly referred to as Newsgroups also. Usenet is also called as 'The News' or 'Netnews'. As in...

What is OpenID

OpenID is a shared identity service which allows Internet users to log on to many web sites using a single sign-on or in other words a single username or user ID, thus eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each site. An OpenID is in the form of a link or a URL. This URL can be the domain name of your own website, or the URL of an OpenID identity provider. When you log in with an OpenID, you have to log in to the Open identity provider for validation. How do I get...

Get $29.95 ‘The Art & Science of CSS’ ebook for FREE

Sitepoint, as a promotion to their new Twitaway website are offering 'The Art and Science of CSS' PDF ebook for FREE. This book is published by O’Reilly and the file is about 24MB in size in ZIP format. To get the PDF ebook version of the book for free, you will have to do one of two things. Method 1 to get The Art & Science of CSS ebook for FREE Since this a Twitaway, this is primarily meant for Twitter users. Follow @sitepointdotcom on Twitter and wait for a while. Sitepoint will...

Minimize Multiple Applications to a Single System Tray Icon With Minime

There are many tools which help you minimize windows or applications to the System Tray. Here is a new tool that does that and a bit more. Minime is a handy Windows only tool that allows you to minimize applications like uTorrent, Firefox, Winamp, Windows Media Player etc to the system tray. The differentiating factor between Minime and other similar tools is that it keeps the system tray clean by minimizing all windows or applications into one single tray icon. Using Minime is easy. Minime...

Create Ice Sculptures at Home with Ice even in Hot Climates

Did you know that it is possible to create ice like sculptures at home even in hot climates? It is not very difficult too. You just need some sodium acetate which is easily available in stores or even online and it doesn't take more than half an hour to create beautiful ice sculptures right at home. Check this video out! Try this out, create ice sculptures at home, take pics, upload them on Flickr or any other photo sharing website and share your creations by commenting...

How to turn off new program highlight in Start Menu?

Whenever we install a new program, Windows announces the addition to the Start menu by highlighting the changes to the menu itself. How intelligent is highlighting? It doesn’t highlight additions that are not programs (shortcuts to documents, for example) It removes the highlight for items that you ignore for at least a week It removes the highlight for items that you've started using It doesn’t highlight anything that you install within an hour of installing Windows...

Flip Title: Write Text Upside Down

With the internet you are capable of doing really weird things. One of these weird things is to write text upside down. Flipping text can be a joke or a style statement and Flip Title lets you convert normal text to upside down text as you type. Where to use this tool ? IM screen names Put it in your profiles like MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 ,Facebook, Youtube Create strong passwords Encrypt your download links to prevent leechers Freak your friends Flip Title flips your text upside...

Backup passwords file of Firefox to a Firefox installation in another OS

In case you format your computer's hard disk  or shift to another OS, you run the risk of losing your Firefox saved passwords. To avoid this you can easily take a backup of the Firefox passwords. How to backup Firefox passwords: Backing up Firefox passwords is very easy. Follow these three simple steps. All firefox passwords are stored in three files: signons.txt signons2.txt key3.db These files are stored in your Firefox profile folder.In Windows XP firefox profile is at:...

Backup Your Email Effectively With StashMyMail

Every email is special in someway or the other. Be it personal mails or official emails, a lot of information is stored in our mailboxes. For users who use popular email services like Yahoo, Gmail, and AOL or any other POP/IMAP enabled service, taking backup of your emails is tricky.  StashMyMail is an online service which makes taking backup of your emails a piece of cake. Benefits of StashMyMail are: Fast and easy backup of emails without having to configure additional...