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Shhhh!!!! WordPress, Don’t Shout About your Break-in Then

June 23, 2011 by Lee hodson 1 Comment

Just in case you missed it, because I did, WordPress.org had a security breech this week. Several plugins were updated by a hacker (or hackers) who installed backdoor exploits into AddThis, WPTouch and W3 Total Cache that may have compromised self-hosted WordPress websites. The official statement posted by Matt Mullenweg (founding developer of WordPress) at wordpress.org on the 21st July, explains: "Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: back door, breech, exploit, news, security, Wordpress

Zynga Suspends FarmVille Gift Sending

June 23, 2011 by Lee hodson 5 Comments

Zynga suspended gift sending from the FarmVille market place today. It comes as no surprise given that the past few days have been awash with farmers taking advantage of a glitch in the game that enabled them to spend FV cash over and over again to repeatedly send market gifts to their neighbors. The FarmVille unspendable FV cash glitch occurred whenever a player sold every item on his farm. Once the farm was barren of plots, crops, buildings, animals, trees and everything else the game stopped registering the expenditure of FV cash while the game waited to issue its famous "Out of Synch" … [Read more...]

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Hostgator Announces New Unlimited Windows Servers

May 20, 2011 by Lee hodson 2 Comments

Hostgator announces the introduction of two new low cost unlimited shared Windows server packages. Starting at $4.76 per month for unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, unlimited sub-domains, unlimited MySQL and MSSQL databases and unlimited domain aliases. In the words of Taylor Hawes, Hostgator's Chief Marketing Officer: "We are very excited about the launch of our new Windows shared hosting service. HostGator has been a leader in the Linux hosting industry for a number of years now and we are looking forward to bringing our level of service and reliability to the Windows market … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freebies, Downloads, Coupons & Deals, Web Development Tagged With: cheap, hostgator, hosting news, low cost, news, server packages, shared, Shared web hosting service, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited subdomains, unlimited windows hosting, windows, Windows server

JournalXtra Events Recap: March Roundup

April 9, 2010 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Latest Site News Tagged With: cheeky bingo, Debian, GIMP, Installation, journalxtra, linux, news, round-up, Source code, spring, Ubuntu

JournalXtra Events Recap: New in February

March 2, 2010 by Lee hodson 1 Comment

The Sun is shining, the day is bright, why not spend some time with some happy, smiley songs

Welcome to the second JournalXtra newsletter of the year where you will learn what's new, what's hot and what's not at JournalXtra. February was an incredibly busy month for me. I invested a lot of time adding and updating many articles. Here's a brief recap of what those articles were. New Articles 10,000 Backlinks in 1 - The Best URL Submission You Will Ever Make During February I discovered a new plug in for Wordpress. Called the BungeeBones Remotely Hosted Directory, it aims to provide a remotely hosted and managed directory for Wordpress blogs. It works similarly to a webring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Site News Tagged With: february, journalxtra, march, month, news, update

News Update from JournalXtra – January

February 1, 2010 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

The first proper news update of the year. January has been a busy month for me not just with JournalXtra but also with the other sites on my network. I own and manage quite a large number of websites which lagged a little bit last year due to the work I put into JournalXtra. Getting a little annoyed, I decided to stand in front of a mirror and have a good talk with myself about how I should proceed this year. I can tell you that it was a funny site to watch me waving fists at myself as I argued the pros and cons of different management styles. The outcrop of my little self-confrontation is that … [Read more...]

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