Archive for September, 2011
3 WordPress Security Plugins To Keep Hackers Out In The Cold
This is a guest post by fellow blogger Thomas Frank. Thomas is a junior at Iowa State University studying MIS and speech communication. In his free time, he runs his own blog that focuses on college tips. You should follow him on Twitter!
Out of all the blog platforms and content management systems jockeying for position in the world today, WordPress has established itself as the most popular one. If you’re a WordPress user, this is a very good thing; the platform’s popularity ensure that it has plenty of willing developers, timely updates, and lots of plugins and themes to choose from. However, always keep in mind that popularity is a double-edged sword. Just as many legitimate bloggers, developers, and webmasters are using WordPress for their own purposes, there are also plenty of hackers and other non-legit, shady characters out there trying to exploit it in order to destroy your work or steal your stuff.
These hackers are kept at bay pretty well, thanks to all the time and effort that WordPress developers put into making WordPress a secure platform and releasing frequent updates. Still, the platform isn’t perfect, and hacks do happen. So what can you do to avoid being a victim?
There are actually a lot of great things you can do to secure your site, ranging from trivial to technical. If you’re not an experienced coder or webmaster, you may have trouble performing some of the recommended security upgrades to your site; however, there is one thing literally anyone can do, and that’s installing plugins.
Evernote Giveaway Winners
Last week, we promised to giveaway Evernote Premium accounts to five of our lucky readers. Scores of people participated in the giveaway to win a feature-rich Evernote account.
As you might have known, Evernote Premium comes with a ton of additional features that are not available in the free version: there’s PDF search, image recognition and a lot more!
Five Useful Google Search Tips You May Not Know About
We’ve previously written about a couple Google tricks that are unpopular but highly useful. You can do a bunch of things with Google, including checking websites for malware, reading articles without having to pay, searching photos based on region and locking safe search to prevent kids from viewing explicit content.
Here’s how you can do them all. These tips may come in handy some day, so don’t forget to bookmark this article. Do share the information by tweeting the post or sharing it on Facebook.
Giveaway: Win 5 Evernote Premium Accounts
At Killer Tech Tips, we’re big fans of Evernote and that’s no secret. We first put Evernote in the spotlight when they launched in closed beta, by distributing close to one hundred invitations for early adopters who wanted to try out the app. We’ve also written about some really cool Evernote tips that you might want to check out if you use Evernote everyday.
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Three Sites For The Google+ Addict
If you’re a big fan of Google+, take a look at these sites that’ll help you discover new users and create a short profile URL for your Google+ profile.
Make Windows 7 Look Like Windows 8
If you’re using Windows 7 and if you’d like to get a taste of Windows 8′s interface and features, some third party programs can let you make Windows 7 look like Windows 8. These enhancements are definitely not top-notch, but they can still prove to be nifty nonetheless.
Let’s take a look at some free software that help you make Windows 7 look like Windows 8.
Review: Windows 8 Transformation Pack
There’s a lot of buzz around Windows 8 right now and there’s a lot of talk around new Windows 8 features like the Metro UI, for example. Here’s your chance to get a peek at how it will be using Windows 7. Check out the Windows 8 transformation pack.
Shutdown Your Computer Automatically With These Six Freeware
Whether it is a file getting downloaded, or something else, you might want your computer to automatically shut down after a certain task is complete – very often. Here are a couple applications that will prove to be useful to take care of automatic shutdowns.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Explorer in Windows 8
Windows 8 is coming soon and Windows Explorer is getting a facelift. The team behind Windows 8 has just published a detailed blog post on the upcoming changes. Windows Explorer in Windows 8 will have a ribbon-styled UI, and comes with a bunch of new keyboard shortcuts that are much easier to remember for the average user.
As you can see from the screenshot below, the most widely used file management options are available from the Windows Explorer ribbon, and all of these options can be accessed by pressing a keyboard shortcut.
