At the end of August this year right before I was to move, I got a very rude awakening. I was searching for an mp3 for a personal project and I accidently clicked on an attack site containing nasty malware. At the time, I was using ZoneAlarm and an alert popped up to allow svchost.exe [...]

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Warning: Shortcodes are affected by Trac ticket 6444, which should be applied to WordPress 2.5.1.
First I touched on the topic in my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Then I whined a little about the tickets relating to them, and eventually I released my Google Maps Plugin that uses them. In the end, WordPress’s [...]

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There are, unfortunately, some dishonest people who will either hijack or try to bypass your affiliate links while you work your tail off wondering why you are not getting any sales. I’ve found the best solution to stop that from happening.
There are many services on the net offering shorter links, etc., but to me they [...]

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WordPress 2.5 was recently released. I’m not your average WordPress user, I develop plugins, test the upcoming releases, and even contribute to the core when I can. Why do I say all this? I hope it will give you an idea where I’m coming from, as I share my first impressions of [...]

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Nothing is as viral as giving away something for free that has a link back to your site. Really, it is that simple. For a freelance web designer or a WordPress specialist, creating free templates and WordPress themes would be the smart way to market your talents.
For other businesses, giving away free coupons, free [...]

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Move over Adobe, there’s a new powerhouse in the powerful graphics editors category of software. Corel, who has owned Jasc’s Paint Shop Pro software since 2004, and this summer bought out my favorite graphics software company, Ulead, has cornered the market on quality affordable graphics editors. Ulead created PhotoImpact, my graphics editor of choice. I [...]

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John Resig, the creator of jQuery has been going non stop. jQuery 1.2 was released on 10 September to much fanfare by those who follow it, followed by an update to 1.2.1 for bugs and a missing feature.
They didn’t stop there though. Immediately afterwards, jQuery UI was released. jQuery UI is a package of [...]

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Recently I convinced my brother to move from a hosted WordPress.com blog that was doing rather well, to a self-hosted WordPress blog.
After all, I had the hosting in place, web hosts offer so much nowadays that you can’t use more than a small percent of it. Not to mention he had a chance to [...]

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Hello there Attackr.com readers and welcome to another one of my articles. Today I’ll explain how to coax the most out of your USB flash drive.
Just a quick note before beginning: this guide has been written for Windows XP (my operating system) and therefore the names of certain options or menus might be different.
Almost [...]

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WordPress has a built-in visual editor that you can use if you want to when writing posts.
It has been my experience and that of several of my clients who use WordPress that this visual editor can really mess your post up.
It can screw up your perfectly valid code and there is a better [...]

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With the recent Google data center updates in the last couple of months, many people find their websites no longer have the high SERPs they had enjoyed prior to the latest Google update.
Just a small heads up, as I type this, Google is in the process of yet another major update.
Holy Search Engine Optimization some [...]

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So the Apple iPhone has been out for a little over a week now but many BlackBerry users are not wanting to shell out $600.00 USD for a new toy that doesn’t seem to handle email to well.
Keep in mind, this is my opinion about iPhone’s and email, so your mileage may very.
I know, we [...]

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Today I’m going to cover how to flash DD-WRT on your Linksys wireless router.
Disclaimer: I do not take responsibility for anything you do to your router. If you brick it or something else goes wrong, it’s not my fault. I’ve documented everything I’ve done in flashing my own routers however your mileage may very. [...]

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Simplicity in design doesn’t necessarily mean just the layout or visual impact of a website or blog because it can also be applied to the way you actually create web content.
Many people entering the internet fray on their own will soon ask the question “what software should I use to write my code?” It’s an [...]

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Does the Bloggers blogging platform affect your commenting?
Yes… yes it does.
For me at least, I particularly have a negative reaction to seeing a blogger using Blogger/etc. What do I not like about them?

Interface:
for the Blogger: It’s a bit of a mess, I didn’t like the ‘new’ Blogger control panel (admin interface) and the old [...]

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In March, Apple released the much anticipated Apple TV, which allows you to stream media files from your computer and view them on your television (along with several other features).
If you don’t want to stream, you can also store the media files on the unit’s hard drive. The current price of the unit [...]

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I’m happy to announce the release of SRG Clean Archives 4.1 for WordPress.
Per a few user requests, the plugin is now completely localized using language files created with poEdit.
Current available language packs:

English (default – built into plugin)
French РFran̤ais
German – Deutsch

If you’d like to help by contributing additional language translations, let me know. [...]

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Google Pack was released in early 2006 as a pack of programs that Google deemed as essential for the PC.
At the original writing of this article, Google Pack came with Adaware, Firefox, and other great tools. But for whatever reason, Google has removed them from the Google Pack download.
Google Earth
Have you ever wanted to [...]

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Once, I got a mail through my site’s contact form asking: “Are you a professional or just a freelancer?”
I got back to him, telling him that I was a professional freelancer, but never heard from him again!
The point is, quite often, and especially where I live, freelancers are merely poor cousins of the [...]

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I was looking around Google for something (I can’t remember what) I stumbled upon a list of things you can do with your Apple iPod.
One was record audio files for free (the standard method requires a special iPod attachment) with a microphone plugged into the iPod.
One link led to another and I found [...]

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