Month: July 2010
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iTunes Security: Worse than you thought?
On December 1, 2008, I woke up to find a series of disturbing emails in my inbox. They were a pair of PayPal receipts and the corresponding iTunes store receipts for 2 purchases of $200 gift cards sent to anonymous Hotmail and Yahoo email addresses. The problem was, I didn’t make the purchases. The transactions… (read…
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Using the WordPress embed shortcode for YouTube, Vimeo, more
This was going to be a post on building a WordPress shortcode that you’d use like [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=url[/youtube] inside your posts to take care of the embedding. My experience has been that when you flip over to HTML view to paste your code and then flip back to the Visual editor to finish your post, a… (read…
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What’s coming from Museum Themes
First of all, I’d like to thank everyone reading this blog for a successful first week. We’ll be posting more promo codes on Twitter and Facebook, and we can’t wait to see our affiliate badges start popping up around the ‘Net. Keep an eye out in those places and maybe bookmark #MuseumThemes to keep up-to-date… (read…
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Avoid holding your iPhone 4G
There’s a phenomena with the new iPhone that, since I don’t own one and have a waning interest in ever owning one, I was unaware of before reading a blog post in the New York Times. It seems that, for many users, if you hold the iPhone in a certain way, the very act of holding…
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Free Desktop Wallpaper: Gilmel – The Lost Empire
The ancient city of Gilmel, bordered on three sides by the great river Nazarel, was lost in the battle of Harper’s Point. Gilmel — once the thriving cradle of civilization — was fortified on all sides by walls 30 feet high and twice as thick. Even that, however, could not stop the Samsen army from…