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Google’s Revamped Gmail Could Take Encryption Mainstream

April 24, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Illustration: WIRED Encryption is the best way to protect your online communications from the prying eyes of the National Security Agency. So says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The rub is that email encryption systems like PGP – short for Pretty Good Privacy – are a real pain for people to use, especially if they’re not steeped in the minutiae of computing. That means few people use PGP, and those who do are in danger of using it incorrectly. But it looks like Google is trying to change that. According to Venture Beat, the search giant working to create a new version of Gmail that makes PGP encryption far easier to use. Google didn’t respond to our request for comment on the story, and even if …

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This Chrome Add-on Lets You Copy & Erase Text Inside Any Image on the Web

April 24, 2014 / / 0 Comments

What would you say if we told you that it’s possible to copy, translate, edit and even erase the text inside any image you find on the internet? Well, you can, and it’s a lot easier than you might think. All it requires is a new browser extension, called Project Naptha, made by developer Kevin Kwok. It uses a number of optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms, including libraries developed by Microsoft and Google, which quickly build a model of text regions, words and letters from nearly any image. Once installed, you simply hover your cursor over available image text and select it. Using its built-in tools, you can do a number of things: Firstly, you can copy your selection. This is great if you’ve been emailed…

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This Chrome add-on lets you copy and erase text inside any image on the web

Postbot: Easy WordPress Scheduling for Photos

April 23, 2014 / / 0 Comments

If you’re a WordPress-using photo-blogger looking to save yourself some spadework, you might like this little tool developed by Automattic. Rather than manually scheduling posts for individual photos one at a time, Postbot lets you drag-and-drop your snaps to upload and schedule them automatically – you can edit the details for each image as they’re uploading to save time, and a post is created for each one accordingly. Postbot then schedules them to publish at pre-set intervals over a number of days. You can also stipulate that it doesn’t post on weekends too. Schedule With Postbot To set yourself up, hit the Connect with WordPress.com button and, if you’re logged in to your WordPress.com account…

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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Scope

April 23, 2014 / / 0 Comments

In continuing our discussion of object-oriented programming in WordPress, we need to begin talking about the idea of scope. In short, this refers to the idea as to classes can control how their attributes and functions are accessed (or whether or not they can even be accessed).This is yet another core idea of object-oriented programming after which we should be in good shape to begin working on an actual WordPress plugin.Before moving forward, please note that each article in this series builds on the one before it, so if you’re just joining us, please be sure to check out the previous articles in the series:An IntroductionClassesTypesControl Structures: Conditional StatementsControl Structures: LoopsFunctions and AttributesOnce you’re all caught up, let’s continue our discussion on …

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