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Why Do I Need to Secure WordPress? WordPress’s popularity makes it a target for hackers. With millions of users worldwide, attackers get the most bang-for-their-buck by exploiting such widely used tools. A single exploit could allow a hacker to compromise hundreds or thousands of websites, which could mean that your website is one of many affected. The primary ways that WordPress gets hacked or compromised are from easy-to-guess passwords, and the compromise of themes, plugins, and an outdated WordPress installation....

Git is incredibly popular and supported nearly everywhere. With it practically being the default version control system, it begs the question, what are your alternatives? Are they worth considering, and how are they different? Note that this article discusses alternatives to git as source control software. If you’re simply looking for alternatives to a hosted service like Github, you can read our guide to hosted Git solutions instead. The Downsides of Git To better understand the limitations of Git, we should first start with what it does right....

Here we have Internet Explorer 8 open, and all we need to do to close it is double-click on the left corner icon. You’ll also notice that if you single right or left-click an application icon once, it displays a menu that allows you to choose the behavior of the Window as well. Of course Keyboard Ninjas already know about Alt+F4 to close an app window…right? Make sure you’re clicking on the application icon because if the pointer is off it by a bit, double-clicking will minimize or maximize it instead....

Hold It Up to Your Chest You’re shopping for a new keyboard and curious if it’ll be comfortable long term. Hold it up to your chest. No really. This isn’t some elementary school-grade prank where you hold a keyboard up to your chest and get punched while somebody yells something mildly insulting. It’s a really simple way to compare the size of the keyboard to the width of your shoulders....

Reliability and Performance Monitor in Vista In Vista the Reliability Monitor was part of the Reliability and Performance Monitor utility. Now it’s a separate utility in Windows 7 and located in a different spot in the OS. Reliability Monitor in Windows 7 To access the Reliability Monitor in Windows 7, open Action Center from the icon in the Notification Area or from Control Panel. Under the Maintenance options click on View reliability history....

The GPS Signal Although initially designed for the United States military, the Global Positioning System or GPS now plays a vital role in our lives. From turn-by-turn navigation to sharing our location for grocery delivery, we use GPS on a daily basis. But for the longest time, your smartphone, in-car navigation, or smartwatch would use a legacy frequency called L1 to get the GPS signal and determine its location. L1 is widely used, and it has helped transform the world in a big way....

While the quantity of songs may not tell the whole story, it’s a pretty good indication of how easily you’ll be able to find the songs you care about. The majority of mainstream artists are on the most popular streaming services, but when you start looking for smaller, indie artists, the size of the song library becomes more important. RELATED: The Big 6 Music Streaming Services Compared—Which One Is Right for You?...

The only catch is that the subscription auto-renews, and the low price is only for the first year. If you don’t want to be charged the full price later, set yourself a reminder to cancel before then — ideally through Siri, Google Assistant, or another cloud-based service that you know you’ll still have installed a year from now. The library of Paramount+ is a mishmash of shows and movies, with many daytime TV dramas from CBS, children’s shows and movies from Nickelodeon, Paramount movies (like Transformers, The Addams Family, and more), some exclusive content, and a few licensed movies and shows....

ZumoCast is a free and easy to install service and utility that allows you to access your entire digital media library from virtually anywhere. With a few simple steps you’ll be able to stream your digital collection from home to your iOS device over Wi-Fi, 3G, and any Windows or Mac computer connected to the Internet. For this article we ran ZumoCast on Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit and used an iPod Touch 4th generation iPod Touch over Wi-Fi on a local network....

Before For our example we chose Twitter and the Duck Duck Go search page. Opening both in our browser showed the normal unencrypted “http” prefix…but having them automatically open as encrypted would be a lot nicer though. After To add the extension to Firefox you will need to visit the EFF Deeplinks Blog (link below). Once there you can install the extension using either the large blue button or the link highlighted in the screenshot....

See our earlier review of FavBackup here. Browsers supported in this release: Internet Explorer (6 – 8), Mozilla Firefox (2 – 3.6), Opera (9 – 10), Safari (3 – 4), Google Chrome (1 – 4), and Flock (2.0 – 2.5). Setup As before, FavBackup is still portable so all that you will need to do is place the exe file into an appropriate folder, create a shortcut, and you are ready to go....

To get right to the point, this is the backup script: Assuming the date is 1/13/2009 and you have 3 databases named ‘MyDB’, ‘AnotherDB’ and ‘DB Name with Spaces’, the script will produce 3 files in the backup location specified: REM Get date in format YYYY-MM-DD (assumes the locale is the United States) FOR /F “tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=/ ” %%A IN (‘Date /T’) DO SET NowDate=%%D-%%B-%%C REM Build a list of databases to backup SET DBList=%SystemDrive%SQLDBList....

Note: At the time of this writing, the folders option isn’t available on the iPad, but will be included in the iOS update 4.2 (coming in November) and allow you to save 20 items in each folder versus 12 in the iPhone/Touch. Add Apps to Group Folders While you’re on your iPod Touch or iPhone home screen hold down any app until the icons wiggle. This allows you to move your apps around on the screen....

You might need to burn an ISO of an operating system, software app, CD, DVD…etc. It doesn’t matter what the ISO image is, burning an image is a fairly straight-forward process and here we’ll take a look at three free options to accomplish it. Using ImgBurn ImgBurn is an awesome free utility that will create ISO images, allow out burn almost anything, and a lot more. Although there are a lot advanced features available, burning an ISO to disc is easy....

Want to share some large files with a few friends, but worried about how you’ll keep the file transfer private? Here’s how to use uTorrent as a simple tracker and share files privately with your friends. Note: this is the fourth part in our series explaining how BitTorrent works—be sure and read the rest of the series, where we explained what BitTorrent is and how it works, how to create your own torrents, and then how to protect your privacy on BitTorrent....

You can make your bash scripts run differently based on the contents of a MySQL database by connecting to it from the command line and passing a query, which you can use in if blocks to branch based on a value. Note: Our examples show using the root user on MySQL, but you would want to substitute a different user account there. Run SQL Queries from a Bash Script The syntax for running inside a bash script is the same as accessing a database from the command line:...

LumaFusion is a popular multi-track video editor for iPad and iPhone, allowing people to create professional-quality videos on the go. It earned a spot in Apple’s 2021 App Store Awards, and an Android version was announced in February alongside Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8 series. The Android version is now in open beta, so anyone can try it for the purchase price of $19.99. The app will cost $29.99 when it is fully released, and beta users won’t have to buy it again....

Sometimes you’ll be prompted to scan and fix a removable disk before using it in Windows. The proper way to fix this is to scan for filesystem errors, but here is how you can make the prompt go away permanently. What is the Scan and Fix For? This is caused by Windows detecting errors in the filesystem of the drive, or the drive not being unmounted properly. To never get this prompt you can make sure to use the safely remove option built into Windows before pulling out your drive....

The Mini Toolbar and Live Preview are features in Word introduced in Word 2007 and continued in Word 2010 and 2013. They can be useful for quick formatting and to preview possible formats. However, if these features annoy you, they are easy to disable. The Mini Toolbar in Word 2013 pops up when you select text in a document and provides quick access to formatting tools. Live Preview allows you to preview how a specific feature, such as style sets, will affect your document as you hover over the different choices for that feature....

Practically Speaking, There’s No Difference If you’re new to PC building or simply haven’t stopped to think about it before, it would be easy to assume that the power wattage values listed for PSUs represent absolute power loads, much like the wattage rating on a space heater represents the actual wattage the device pulls to heat a room. While a PC can certainly feel like a space heater sometimes, the PSU wattage rating is for the maximum load, not the absolute load....