Yearly Archives: 2013

Serious Security: Google finds fake but trusted SSL certificates in France

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/12/further-improving-digital-certificate.html by Paul Ducklin on December 9, 2013 "Google announced over the weekend that it recently came across a bunch of fake SSL certificates for some of its own domains." Read more at: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/12/09/serious-security-google-finds-fake-but-trusted-ssl-certificates-for-its-domains-made-in-france/
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Wrap Text Around an Image

Text goes here. If your text is below the image make sure to check the alignment saved correctly. 1) Select the image, or insert a new image 2) In the edit image settings select the alignment. Left, Right, Center or None. Click save and the text will wrap.
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WordPress Upgrades may affect third party plugins

We will be updating WordPress when the new release comes out but this may create some bugs in third-party plugins installed. Note that if this happens there may be a charge in addressing the third-party issues. Posted at WordPress.org Posted December 10, 2013 by Matt Mullenweg. Filed under Development, Releases. "Release candidate 2 of WordPress…
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Adobe’s Security Breach Widens

Please review all your accounts, Amazon, eBay, your email, DropBox and any other services that use the same combination username and password and think about changing your password hint as well. Put a post it note near you to remind you to change anything using that login. It is likely you won’t remember all the…
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What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which runs on a web hosting service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013.WordPress is currently the…
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Add Email Signature with image link to Outlook

Follow the details below to add an email signature to Outlook Open a new email Select Insert Tab Select Signature from the drop down menu Create New Signature Select the insert image icon Select Image from your computer and click insert Now set the image as a link by selecting the image and clicking the…
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How to Create Anchor Tags

Anchor Tags are links to another section within the same page. They are created by using the the <a> tag and an ID. Example: Link to Section 1 (the code would look like this: <a href="#Section1">See also Chapter 4.</a>) Link to Section 2 Link to Section 3 Link to Section 4 Section 1 (The code…
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How to take a screen shot on an iPhone?

Simultaneously hold down the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons, then release them together. You'll hear the same  sound the iPhone makes when you use camera to take a photo. The snapshot will be in the Camera Roll album on the iPhone and in Saved Photos on the iPad. http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2010/04/how-to-grab-screenshots-on-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch.html
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Why can’t I install Plugins in WordPress?

A new study has found that roughly 20 percent of the 50 most popular plug-ins for the WordPress platform are vulnerable to common Web attacks. According to research from security vendor Checkmarx, that figure represents nearly 8 million downloads of plug-ins vulnerable to issues such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery and path…
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Why we don’t offer FTP?

We are often asked if we can host standard HTML pages which are uploaded via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). We can host all types of files however we do not provide FTP access. If you choose to host on the Blackrock Networks, Inc. servers, you can use our Content Management System (CMS), WordPress of another…
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End of Support: Verizon

For any of our clients who also have Verizon for personal email accounts we are posting this notice as well. They will end support for their current settings below in September 2013. https://www22.verizon.com/ForYourHome/VZRepair/vziha/Service.aspx?ihaweb=EmailSetup http://www22.verizon.com/Support/Residential/internet/highspeed/general+support/top+questions/questionsone/124274.htm#
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Am I at the right URL

Every thought you typed in the correct domain name but only to find yourself at the wrong place or getting a security error. Sometimes browsers try to do the thinking for you and if you start a domain with say just www.blackrocknetworks.com it will put http:// at the beginning for you. Great right? But what…
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PDF Viewer in Firefox

Have you noticed lately that every time you open a PDF it tells you it may not display properly in this viewer? Would you like to use another? This can get pretty annoying, especially if you have to save the document to open it in another application. The latest Firefox update replaced the default PDF…
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Sending Large Files

So you need to send some large files to us so we can add them to your website. There are two recommended options. One is through a vendor called YouSendIt and the other is through DropBox. YouSendIt is suited for one time file sending while DropBox is good for projects and files that might need…
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