I’ve been using the Wordfence plugin on my site for about a year and I’m both impressed by it’s capabilities and shocked by the incredible number of hacking attempts on my site that it reports. This plugin really should be standard for any and all WordPress sites in my opinion. Core features First and foremost,...
It is so easy to become overwhelmed by Twitter. Once you start following more than a 100 people the timeline can quickly become a fast flowing “fire hose” of information. Once you start following more than 500 you could spend all day trying to keep up to date and informed. I think a lot of...
I don’t listen to the radio. I dislike radio advertising for both the interruption, volume increases, and the overall quality. I also don’t like DJ’s generally – with the possible exception of morning radio shows. I just want to listen to the music – perhaps with some news every now and then. I listen to my own...
I posted back in February on how to schedule tweets and why. The main point was that if you read “shareable” content in batches, then you don’t want to overload your twitter stream and end up spamming your followers with loads of tweets in a short period of time. It is far better to spread these...
There’s a lot written in blogs and in books about Values – both corporate and personal. Zappos, for example, created its 10 core values as the foundation for the entire company – their culture, their self-image, the benchmark against which each employee is measured. Values become the collective morale compass for a business. But...
One of my employees recently told me that he had 2750 emails in his inbox. I couldn’t believe it, no wonder he had problems keeping on top of tasks and felt “overwhelmed” at times at work. Keeping emails in your inbox longer than they “need” to be there is the equivalent of having papers spread...
There’s two parts to this post really – first, did you know that you can synchronize your iPhone/iPad photo stream with a Windows PC? and second, how to get the iCloud syncing it to work properly because it is sort of flaky to get set up. Also , don’t forget that you will need an...
Have you noticed that there is no “View Source” in Safari? This is a feature that I frequently use in desktop browsers such as Chrome. Well, here’s a simple trick that quickly solves that. Viewing the source code of a web page in Safari on your iPad or iPhone requires the creation of a “bookmarklet”....
The world is moving to the cloud and so securing your accounts and personal data is more important than ever. In fact, it is essential. The step in this process is to make sure that your passwords are “strong”. The Wikipedia definition of a strong password is: Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of...
I have always been a big fan of audiobooks. Did you know that you can get the equivalent of a university education in terms of classroom time during your commute to work in just a few years? Most university students spend 10 hours or so per week in class and about 250 hours per year;...