WordPress 2.5.1

Wordpress 2.5.1 has been released.
Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
Instructions for updating are located here, or you [...]


Facebook Apologizes for Beacon

The New York Times has an article on their Bits blog about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook apologizing for their Beacon program and now allowing users to opt-out completely instead of having to opt-out on a per site basis. This is a nice gesture, but I feel that Beacon should have been an opt-in program from [...]


Gmail now offers Free IMAP.

As reported earlier on TechCrunch, Google has begun offering free IMAP support for all gmail accounts. This is excellent because it now keeps all email clients in sync which is especially useful on mobile phones and pda’s that don’t support the gmail java app. My free gmail account has the settings for turning on IMAP, [...]


WordPress 2.3 - Blog Updated

Just finished updating the blog engine (WordPress) to 2.3 which was released today and I have to say I’m liking the new version a lot. The upgrade was super simple. Used the Wordpress Database Backup plugin to easily make a backup in case anything went wrong and I needed to restore. Then I downloaded my [...]


Gmail Mobile Updated

Looks like the online mobile version of Gmail has been updated to include check boxes next to each email. This is excellent as it allows you to quickly delete emails or report any spam that made its way through without having to open each individual email. Take a look at http://m.gmail.com with your mobile phone [...]