Keep Your Themes Safe
There are times where I simply lack the interest to keep my things up-to-date. I’ve got my reasons. Let me tell you one; when you are doing well, no need to rush for the new trend.
Recently I’ve found a flaw (or some might use the word; bug) on WordPress 3.2.1. Not that it’s a critical one, or in such a manner that exposing your site to a security vulnerability. It simply giving people access to some things that you probably don’t want others to get their hands on.
The Uploads Folder
We all use this great engine of WordPress to simplify our interest in blog. This powerful CMS provide us with almost everything (if you are looking for the ultimate remote control, look somewhere else).
One of the great aspects of a CMS, is how it eases you getting your images and videos so that you can show them to others. Believe me, you will enjoy more in life without handling the upload process and getting the URL and stuffs all by yourself.
Google Search Redirect Malware
If you’re seeing suspicious pop-ups, unwanted toolbars, redirects, strange Google search results, or other unexpected behavior on your computer, you may have been tricked into installing malicious software (also known as ‘malware’) on your computer.
Two days ago, I’ve been exposed to this strange occurrence of clicking on Google’s search result link redirects me to random sites. Some were search site, and some were just affiliate-referred sites. It happens when I use two of my installed web-browser; Firefox and Google Chrome.
At first I just let it be, and just copy-paste the result URL. Voila, my problem is solve, in a hard way.
But then, what make me worried me, was, if this malicious act can gather my submitted search keywords, then it should be able to also fetch any information that I submit, including login details. So I hurried for a solution.
After (ironically) searching for the answer in Google, I landed on this page. There I learned a simple trick to cure this malicious act.
Native Twitter for BlackBerry is Disappointing Me
As what I wrote before (Integrated Social Media Interaction), I’m in constant connection towards my social network. And to be honest, I didn’t put Twitter for BlackBerry in account because of lots of minus-points it possess. In a comparison between say, UberSocial (previously known as UberTwitter) and Twitter for Blackberry, the official client falls far short in usability. My primary concern is its incapability to support multiple account in one interface.
Few weeks ago, I upgraded my native Twitter client application for BlackBerry to version 2.0.0.11 because some of my friends started tweeting about its wow-ness. And so it is. But recently I have become aware of how slow it is to give me my updates (as I’m writing this line, my timeline last update is 21mins ago, even after I refreshed the interface).
Lots of API request put down also giving me quite a frustration. I can’t imagine if RIM doesn’t have adequate API request limitation (or should they got unlimited in the first place). Replies, DM’s and other updates happen after a longer delay then 3rd party apps.
I hope RIM will do some upgrade, soon.
