Today, I released a new open source, free tool that will hopefully help everyone in the fight against having their sites hacked. Here’s the info on the MonitorHackdFiles tool.
We all hear about how often people’s sites get hacked. This tool won’t stop that from happening, but here’s what it *will* do.
Let’s say a hacker [...]

Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by DazzlinDonna
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How often do you backup your computer? Have you automated the process? Do you have a backup off-site, in case some tragic event wipes out everything in your home? Do you backup nothing, cross your fingers, and hope you never need a backup?
I used to be like most people who would answer [...]

Posted on December 12th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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Ever noticed the fact that I display a post called Emergency Preparedness List in the Featured Posts section of the sidebar? That’s because I went through Hurricane Katrina and I know how important it is to be prepared for disasters. I want to make sure each of you is aware of it as [...]

Posted on October 16th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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I mentioned the use of feed readers in yesterday’s post, and I thought it might be a good idea to delve into the topic of RSS feeds, subscribing to blogs, and and feed readers in more detail.
What are RSS feeds? A feed is a special file that lists summaries or full posts from sites [...]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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The WordPress admin is fairly vulnerable to hackers. Hackers know where the admin is; they know the username for the admin is usually “admin”, so that only leaves one problem – the password. For a hacker, that’s not a really big problem. Just run a brute force attack and in a matter [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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Adding a music clip to your audio or video project can make that project stand out and be noticed. You need to be aware though, that you can’t simply grab a clip of your favorite Top 40 song and use it on your latest Youtube video. Why? Because that’s illegal. Short [...]

Posted on August 17th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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Lately, I’ve seen quite a lot of sites (usually blogs) put gray text on a black background. Tonight, I noticed it from StumbleUpon (a site I love, btw), and was just dismayed. (Yes, the screenshot above is from something SU wants me to know). Stop it, people! Just stop it. [...]

Posted on August 15th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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I had hoped that I could become less hard drive dependent by running off of Portable Apps, but my hopes were dashed today. This might be useful for some people, but the fact that the apps load and run EXTREMELY slowly makes it a deal-killer for me. If you do decide to try [...]

Posted on August 13th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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Yesterday, when discussing how I plan to survive my next computer crash, I mentioned that I was going to start storing music and photos on thumbdrives (USB Flash drives). Since that time, I’ve come to the conclusion that I *may* be able to run most of what I do from a USB flash drive. [...]

Posted on July 24th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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Social Networking – What is It? I get asked this fairly often, so I thought I’d give a brief explanation.
Social Networking sites are all different in some respects, but they all have some things in common.

As the name implies, they are “social”, and revolve around a community of users who are all actively participating [...]

Posted on July 16th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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