Da Geek's Tech, Social Media And Web Guide
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Just last week, this site and many other sites powered by WordPress and hosted on such popular webhosts like Hostgator, Inmotion, Arvixe, etc, were hit by a widespread brute force attack. I couldn’t log into my Admin Dashboard or do anything at the backend. When I first noticed this, I thought [...]
With Google Reader shutting down on July 1st, all users of the service have to find good alternatives to move their RSS subscriptions to. With that in mind, here are the top 10 best alternatives to Google Reder. You should bear in mind that some of these apps are available on different [...]
A rumour a couple of days ago that Google wants to acquire WhatsApp, the social messaging app, put some people off beats. In the report by DigitalTrends, Google was said to be bidding a cool $1 billion for WhatsApp. Many users of WhatsApp mobile messaging features were not happy with the [...]
Normally external links when clicked open in the same window as your wordpress site. But what if you wanted to open them in a new window altogether so that the reader/user still stays on your site? It is relatively easy to do so in wordpress using a plugin which will [...]
This post is part of the “Group Writing Project: Write a ‘Discussion’ Post” on Problogger. Please feel free to share your Google Reader Alternatives in the comments. So Google decided to can the venerable Google Reader. In their post about why it will be shuttered, Google said they wanted to [...]
If you have been looking for somewhere to get good Blackberry Bold 2 phones at cheap prices, looking no further than this Valentine Love promo from Etisalet. In the spirit of the season which entails sharing and receiving love, you can now get your favourite phones and devices at hugely [...]
Google’s social network is now the second largest social network, second only to Facebook. When ranked by monthly active users, Google+ is currently second, with more users than Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest. For the month of December, Google+ had a total of 343 million active users compared to Facebook’s 693 million users. [...]
Instagram is definitely making waves and is one of the hottest start-ups at the moment and was acquired by Facebook for a cool $1 billion. It is a photo sharing service where users can take pictures with it”s mobile app, apply different filters and share it with their friends and followers. Many [...]
Pinterest recently added a new feature to their social bookmarking site whereby users could verify their sites listed on their Pinterest Personal profiles. Pinterest users can verify that they own the site listed in their profile by uploading a specific .html file to their web server. How To Verify Your [...]
