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Secret keys Blackberry Curve

By , 22 September, 2011, No Comment

Currently the Blackberry Curve has the most users of the Blackberry family. For those of you new users this series follow the following tips.

1. Restart without removing the battery.
After installing a new application and want to run it usually requires adjustment. The easiest way press ALT + Right Shift + Delete.
This makes your Blackberry fresh and reset quickly.

2. Clean Memory at the event log.
Event log on the Blackberry shows what the system is running. When experiencing an error problems can be in the know by looking at the list of event log. Press ALT on the move by pressing the “LGLG” event log will appear. You can quickly erase the memory is full to accelerate the performance of the Blackberry. way by pressing the HOME and select the “clear log”.

3. Switching Applications.
One way to quickly and efficiently in switching applications with ALT + ESC keyboard Blackberry. This function is the same as ALT + TAB key on the computer. When running the application press and hold down the ALT key followed by ESCAPE (logo left arrow right of the trackball). Only by shaking the trackball to the right and left, you can choose the desired application. As for entry to the application simply by releasing the two.

In Depth: 14 handy WordPress tips and tricks

By , 5 September, 2011, No Comment

In Depth: 14 handy WordPress tips and tricks

WordPress tips and tricks

WordPress has fast eclipsed the likes of Blogger as the most popular blogging platform. It’s relatively easy to use, yet very configurable, which has led to it being used not only for blog based sites but also as a simple content management system.

In fact many sites that appear to be CMS based actually use WordPress as their backbones. There are lots of handy ways to customise it, and a wealth of useful plug-ins that extend its capabilities.

We’ve selected some of the most useful tweaks and extensions to help make the most of your WordPress site.

1. Custom homepage

Custom page

If you plan to use WordPress to manage content, you may want to define a custom homepage rather than using your most recent posts. Create a new page if you haven’t already and lay it out as you’d like your front page to appear.

Once published, you can set WordPress to display it as your site’s homepage by going to the Dashboard and choosing ‘Settings | Reading’. Change the default setting to ‘A static page’ and select the page you want to use from the list. You can also define a page to use as your posts page if you want to include blog posts in your site.

2. Categories

Categories let you group blog posts together. Set one up by going to the Dashboard and choosing ‘Posts | Categories’. Enter the category name and the slug, which is a URL-friendly version of the name, and provide a brief description. Click ‘Add new category’.

Once you’ve assigned posts to a category, you can link to a page containing only those posts by finding the category number. Go to ‘Posts | Categories’ and click ‘Edit’ under the category you want to use. Check the URL.

Just after ‘category&tag_ID=’ will be the category number. To show a page of posts from that category, use your site’s domain, followed by ?cat=9, where ’9′ is the category number – for example: ‘www. yourwordpresssite.com/?cat+9′.

3. Images in feeds

Feeds

However carefully you style your site and format your posts, if a reader comes across them via an RSS reader you have little control over how they appear, since your site CSS is ignored. Images in posts often appear in-line with text, which looks messy.

You can overcome this limitation by treating your images as separate paragraphs of text. Move to the HTML tab of the post editor and separately reference the image above or below the relevant text. Feed readers treat it separately and you don’t end up with an ugly in-line mess:

<img class="center" src="http://imageurl.com/image.jpg" alt="" /> Here’s your text

4. Highlight comments

If you have a lot of comments on your blog, it can be helpful to draw attention to those that you make in reply to others by highlighting them in a different colour. You can do this quite simply by installing the Author Highlight plugin, available from here.

Download the Zip file and then go to ‘Plugins’ on your Dashboard. Choose ‘Add new | Upload’ and then browse to the downloaded file. Choose ‘Install’ to upload it and then activate the plugin. You can edit the style applied to your comments by choosing ‘Edit’ on the Plugins page.

5. Keep a backup

Export

Saving your whole blog to your PC at regular intervals will help protect you in the event of a catastrophic failure of your web server. Log into the dashboard and choose ‘Tools | Export’. Select all content and then click ‘Download export file’. Save it in a safe place. You’ll need to back up images separately.

6. Import a backup

If you need to resurrect your site, first install WordPress to your web server. From the Dashboard choose ‘Tools | Import’. Choose ‘WordPress’ and follow the prompts to install the WordPress Importer plugin. You can now point it at your backup file to restore the site. Restore your images and any other media files to their original locations.

7. Press This

Press this

Running short of ideas for posts? It’s perfectly acceptable to link to something interesting you’ve found online with a brief comment if it fits in with the theme of your site. As long as you don’t make a regular habit of it, this will draw readers’ attention to something new and help provide fresh content for your blog.

Use the Press This bookmarklet to quickly start a new post with a link to the current page. Choose ‘Settings | Writing’ and then drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks bar.

8. WP Touch

WP touch

Make your blog smartphone-friendly by installing the WP Touch plugin. This detects the device being used to access the site and switches to a mobile friendly theme if the visitor is using an iPhone, iPod touch or BlackBerry. You can get the plugin from here.

Once installed, go to its Edit page to style up your mobile site. You can set which devices trigger it, what menus are available and which icons are used for categories.

9. Other mobile sites

You can set up a more generic mobile version of your site using MoFuse, a service dedicated to producing mobile websites. Go to http://app.mofuse.com and sign up.

You can set up a basic mobile version of your site for free, but you’ll need to subscribe for premium features. Enter your details and you’ll get a separate URL, which you can give out to anyone wanting to access it using a phone.

10. Random post

If your favourite link in Wikipedia is ‘Random article,’ this plugin could be for you. It’s called Random Redirect and once it’s installed, if you point someone to the URL www.yoursite.com/?random, it will direct them to a random post. Create a button or menu item with this URL and you have much the same feature as ‘Random article’.

11. Breadcrumbs

You can add breadcrumbs to posts by installing the Breadcrumb NavXT plugin from here. Breadcrumbs show users where they are in your site according to categories and subcategories.

Once the plugin is enabled, you need to place a piece of code in your theme’s ‘header.php’ file where you’d like the breadcrumbs to appear. Select ‘Appearance’, open the Editor for your theme and select ‘header.php’. Type the following where you want to display the breadcrumbs:

<div class="breadcrumbs">
<?php
if(function_exists(‘bcn_display’))
{
bcn_display();
}
?>
</div>

12. Custom login

The back end of WordPress can seem staid, especially if you have multiple authors who you’d like to impress. Install the plugin BM Custom Login and you can customise the login page to include your logo and the colour scheme of your choice. Get it from here.

Once the plugin is installed and activated, create your own background image in your graphics program and upload it to the following directory within your WordPress installation: ‘wp-content/plugins/ bm-custom-login/images’.

13. Sticky posts

Some posts perform better than others and it makes sense to put popular content ahead of other items, especially if you update frequently and good posts can become lost in the mass of others. The WP Sticky plugin enables you to make posts sticky so they appear at the start of a day or a week’s postings. Get the plugin at here and install it.

Once activated, go to the Edit page of a post that you want to make sticky. Under ‘Post sticky status’ select ‘Sticky’. If you have more than one post tagged in this way, you can also use the ‘Announcement’ option to ensure that the most important one appears before other sticky posts.

14. Comments in pages

If you get a lot of comments, it may help to arrange them in pages. The Paginated Comments plugin lets you do this, and optimises the pages for search engines. Once installed, you can set the size of pages by file size or number of comments.

Source: Techradar – All the latest technology news

7 Essential Mobile Security Tips

By , 26 July, 2011, No Comment

If your laptop (or other mobile device you work on) were the resource persons lost today, what’s the worst That Could happen? That’s the question everyone works remotely Should WHO ASK, ESPECIALLY before working on the road or using public Unprotected networks.

Securing your portable devices-whether they’re laptops, netbooks, BlackBerrys, USB memory sticks, etc.-and the data that’s accessed by Them from loss and cybercrime may be your most Important Responsibility as a mobile worker.

Here are some mobile Important security tips for keeping your data safe and gear at all times:
1. Carefully Consider what sensitive information is stored on your laptop / device.

Make sure any sensitive or confidential information stored on your laptop, cell phone, and other mobile devices really needs to be there. Sensitive data includes a proprietary company or client information, as well as your own customers’-and-personally identifiable information (Such as credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, or even just names and Birthdays). Unless you truly need to directly access this info while you’re mobile, consider removing the data completely or just remove the sensitive portions of it.

2. Take extra precautions to protect any sensitive data you do need to access.

Storing the data on a server, if possible, and accessing it via secure methods (like VPN) would be safer than storing it locally. If that’s not possible, use a program like the open-source TrueCrypt encryption utility to secure all local files and folders you Would not want anyone to access in the event of theft or loss.
3. Perform regular, essential maintenance.

Backups are like insurance-while you do not want to ever have to need it, you’d be glad to have it in an emergency. So, ESPECIALLY before taking your mobile devices on the road, it’s vital to the make a backup of your documents-or, better yet, a clone of your entire hard drive and keep it in a safe, separate location from your main device. Also get the latest security updates and patches for your operating system, browser, firewall, and antivirus programs. Should these all be part of your regular computer / device maintenance.
4. Protect your passwords and logins.

First, make your passwords are strong enough. The, make sure you’re not storing your logins anywhere They Could be easily discovered or Stolen. For example, turn off your browser’s automatic functions remembering passwords, delete any saved login shortcuts (like cached VPN credentials), and shred any passwords you have written down. Instead, you can use password management software to help securely store and remember your username and password combinations.
5. Secure your Internet connection.

Connect to networks using the highest level of security available, Such as WPA2 for wireless networks. Connecting to unknown, open wireless networks is very risky. If only unsecured networks are available (eg, at public wireless hotspots), take extra care with these steps:

Disable the “automatically connect to non-preferred networks” setting to the make sure you connect only to approved wireless access points.
Turn off file and printer sharing.
Switch off your wireless card Pls not in use (how to do this Will depend on your device; see the manufacturer’s documentation).
Use only the VPN or other encrypted tunnels for business use (Should Be these instructions provided by your company’s IT department).
For safer, anonymous Web surfing, consider using a Web proxy or VPNs designed for consumer use.

6. Take steps to Prevent the physical theft and loss of your devices themselves.

Keep an eye on your property when in public, use inconspicuous bags to carry your items (like a backpack holding your laptop in a protective sleeve), and, in general, try not to advertise That you have theft-worthy devices on hand. Hard-to-remove imprints or labels applied to cases, cable locks, and other security devices can also Thwart would-be thieves.
7. Be proactive about protecting your data and gear now.

If your laptop or other device does get Stolen or lost, tracking and recovery services, software products, as well as features Such as remote wipe for BlackBerrys and other smartphones, can help you get it back – but you have to set up the software / first service (ie, before your device disappears).

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