Part of securing a WordPress installation is checking up on your file permissions. In order to prevent overwriting by malicious code, limit the permissions to read-only except where necessary. Here’s a good start: Relative Path Suggested permissions / 0755 /wp-admin…
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email the entire Wisconsin state legislature if you want
Ever wanted to send a message to every Wisconsin state senator and representative in the legislature? Here are their email addresses:
firing background tasks in PHP
Background case madisonrightnow.com is a collection of near-real-time information about a metropolitan area. Traffic, weather, parking lot usage, and loads of web cam images are displayed on one page. Data come from a wide variety of sources: images come from…
email mail merge in Office 2010 with hyperlinks
The goal of this tutorial is to perform a mail merge which includes a unique URL (web address) for each record. That way, you can send email with unique URLs for each recipient, which may be useful when sending surveys or…
how to create an iPad video kiosk
I was recently tasked with building an iPad floor display that would loop a series of video clips indefinitely in a public place. Surprisingly, it’s not very obvious how to do this, and the third-party applications for looping video don’t…
up and running with Google Earth Flight Simulator Online
I’m excited about Google Earth Flight Simulator Online (GEFS). It’s an online flight simulator based on Google Earth that runs in a web browser. Features: Built on Google Earth: worldwide photo-realistic sceneries Simulate fixed wing aircraft, helicopter, paraglider and hot…
search & replace tabs, returns, wildcards and more in Microsoft Office
You can search for and replace with these invisible characters in Microsoft Office 2010 Find & Replace functions: ^? – wildcard character ^# – wildcard number ^p – paragraph mark ^t – tab ^l – line break ^s – non-breaking…