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Ghost-Hunting With Anti-Virus

May 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In October 2012, data security firm Imperva released a controversial report on the efficacy of anti-virus (AV), which concluded that AV solutions only stopped 5 percent of all malware identified. Few reports in the security industry had been as polarizing as this one, many reacting with white-knuckle rage. It was a classic case of Chris Christensen’s “Innovator’s Dilemma,” where old school technologies cling to life, in the face of a new paradigm. Just yesterday, one of the original anti-virus vendors joined the fray in “declaring anti-virus dead” in the Wall Street Journal. At FireEye, we look at hundreds of malware samples daily, and, in a recent talk at RSA Conference, Zheng Bu, vice president of research at FireEye presented some …

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Ghost-Hunting With Anti-Virus

Google’s Matt Cutts: Over Time Backlinks Will Become Less Important

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said in a video that backlinks, over time, will become a little less important. Matt did say that backlinks in the Google ranking algorithm still have many years left in them. Matt explained that Google is focusing a lot now on working on ways to determine if a web page is meets the expectations of an expert user. They do this currently by looking at the links to the page, the reputation of the site and pages and the quality of the content on that particular page. When Google is better at understanding actual language, natural language, which you see with their conversational search efforts. Google will be better to understand expert user’s queries and match them better…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Over Time Backlinks Will Become Less Important

Want Help With Your Freelance Business Management? Try Motiv (sponsored)

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 – Learn More or Buy Now In this day and age, one thing that every business professional complains about is time. Time is of the essence, and markets are flooding with many time management apps and software. Now, of course different apps are suited for different people, and are intended for different purposes. But if you are a freelancer and are looking for an app to help speed up your work, then we have a recommendation for you. You should try out Motiv. Motiv’s aim is to provide services for freelancers and people who run small businesses within the creative industries. Writers, designers, coders, programmers, search engine optimizers and marketers can all benefit from a system that has been …

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How to Install Custom Plugin Collections on WordPress

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

May 4th in WordPress Plugins by WordPress Jedi

Many of us have been using WordPress for years. Even though I have seen and reviewed a ton of exciting plugins, I rely on 12 or so scripts on my sites to get things done. Having to install even 12 plugins for each new site that I start is not convenient. That’s why I like WP Install Profiles. This cool plugin lets you create and install custom plugin collections on all your sites. WP Install Profiles is a time-saver. You can add new plugins by including their slug from the plugin’s URL in the WordPress plugin directory. For instance, you should add wp-super-cache for WP Super Cache. You can create new profiles or import your …

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How to Install Custom Plugin Collections on WordPress

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Chrome’s experiment of hiding the URL is awful

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

04 May 2014 As was pointed out last week, Google Chrome has been experimenting with hiding the URL from the browser. Recently, Jake Archibald, a member of the Chrome team, wrote a piece talking about how this change is great for security. I don’t think it is great for anything. This is what the current implementation looks like: As you see it is hiding the complete URLs here in favor of showing just the domain name. URLs are the building blocks of the web. Every website contains hundreds or thousands of URLs. Every page has a unique URL so that you can identify it and share it with other people. There is a reason they have always been front and center in all web browsers. Call me cynical, but…

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Chrome’s experiment of hiding the URL is awful