Category: Internet

WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 preview

WordPress announced its latest version of the popular CMS yesterday with the release of WordPress 4.0 Beta 1. Let’s take a look into the new features that it has highlighted. Previews of embedding via URLs This works well in the beta version, the guys at WordPress suggest adding the embed URL on a new line, in 3.9.1 this just leaves a link in the editor whereas in 4.0 this shows the video. This is instantaneous and a flick to the code view of the editor still shows the link URL. You can even watch the video from within the editor. Below we have 4.0 Beta 1 on the left and 3.9.1 on the right. Media library You now have the option to have the media gallery in a grid view as well as …

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WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 preview

Hackers can break Tor Network Anonimity with USD 3000

Security experts Alexander Volynkin and Michael McCord will present at the next Black Hat 2014 a method to break Tor network anonymity with just USD 3000. Is the popular Tor network broken? In the recent months, after the Showden’s revelations, many security experts have started to investigate on the possibility that the US intelligence, and not only, has found a way to compromise the Tor network. Last week I published a blog post that commented a report issued by the German broadcaster ARD in which is confirmed that the NSA XKeyscore was used to target two Germany-based Tor Directory Authority servers.

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Hackers can break Tor Network Anonimity with USD 3000

Why do I love Custom CSS module in Jetpack?

Made by Automattic, Jetpack is one of the most popular plugin for WordPress. It’s not only used on WordPress.com but also on millions of hosted WordPress.org blogs. I did use it when it was first born a long time ago and wasn’t too impressed. But now it has changed a lot and what it brings to users is really powerful. I’m not going to talk everything about Jetpack (you can read a very informative blog post here). I will talk about Custom CSS module in Jetpack, which I’ve just experienced and really love it! 0. What is Custom CSS feature? If you customize a website for clients, there’re occasionally situations that you have to fix CSS or change a small bits …

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Why do I love Custom CSS module in Jetpack?

Why Cards Are the Future of the Web

We are currently witnessing a re-architecture of the web, away from pages and destinations, towards completely personalised experiences built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content. Content being broken down into individual components and re-aggregated is the result of the rise of mobile technologies, billions of screens of all shapes and sizes, and unprecedented access to data from all kinds of sources through APIs and SDKs. This is driving the web away from many pages of content linked together, towards individual pieces of content aggregated together into one experience. The aggregation depends on: The person consuming the content and their interests, preferences, behaviour. Their location and environmental context. Their friends’ interests, preferences and behaviour. The targeting advertising eco-system. If the predominant medium …

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Why Cards Are the Future of the Web

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