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- Detect Hacked Files on Your Server (Such as in WordPress) via CRON/PHP
The logic is simple: “Build a database of hashed values for vulnerable files (those which hackers will modify to execute code on your server) and compare those values to the actual hashes on a regular basis and report added, changed and deleted files.”
- 10 Things You Had No Idea RSS Could Do
For everything else, there’s RSS.
- 10 Unusual Domain Name Search Tools to Find Hot Domains
“I am not suggesting that you rely on them, but domain name generators take your keywords and can come up with unique word combinations that you wouldn’t have thought about. A lot of them also allow you to lookup the names with the Domain Registrars to see if they are available.”
- A Real Creative Cloud is Coming!
Professional-quality, completely cloud-based creative apps will be a reality in 2014. We speak to Adobe, AMD, Autodesk, Nvidia – and creatives – to discover if the tools will live up to the hype.
- Newegg Takes a Stand Against Patent Trolls
Thanks to the efforts of Lee Cheng and his legal team, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a trial court to reconsider its earlier denial of Newegg’s request for attorneys’ fees and costs in the patent infringement lawsuit brought on by SUS. Newegg pursued justice in the matter because it is consistent with our corporate mission of bringing the benefits of technology and technology products to our valued customers. And, when defendants settle these frivolous claims, it’s always the customer that ends up paying. We care too much about our loyal customers than to subject them to paying these trolls.
- 2014’s Hottest Trends in Digital Publishing
Over the past decade, the rate at which the publishing industry has moved toward digital content has increased exponentially. Though publishing has been drifting away from print for some time, it’s only in the last few years that publishing digitally has begun to become the rule rather than the exception. Digital publishing used to be considered secondary to print—a novel technology that could augment print sales—whereas today that paradigm is shifting very quickly. Consider that from 2008 to 2012 hardcover book sales experienced a slight decline (from $5.2 billion to $5 billion), while in that same period ebook sales skyrocketed from $64 million to $3 billion. To put that in perspective, that’s more than a 4500% increase in only four years. In fact, in 2011 Amazon reported that their ebooks were outselling their hardcovers and paperbacks combined. This is all old news for publishers of course, and as we move into the second half of 2014 the real question is where digital and iPad publishing is headed—not in terms of sales but rather content and marketing.
- Watermark Images Automatically When They’re Downloaded From Your WordPress Site
It applies watermark on new images as well as images already uploaded. By deactivating the plugin, the watermark will be removed on all images.
What makes this plugin a really powerful one, is that the watermark is placed on your images throug…
- Pay-What-You-Want Pricing for Self-Published eBooks
Pay What You Want pricing can work – or not. The difference lies in the execution. (Writing really good stuff is a given.)
Here’s a 6‑step framework you can use to apply PWYW pricing to your work to start leveraging the upside of your fanatical readership.
- Adobe Releases New Open Source Typeface, Source Serif
“Source Serif was designed by Frank Grießhammer as the serif counterpart to our popular Source Sans family. In addition to being Adobe’s third open source typeface, Source Serif hits another important milestone as the 100th typeface from the Adobe Originals program, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
Adobe’s principal type designer, Robert Slimbach, consulted with Frank on the design of Source Serif, helping to ensure its compatibility with Source Sans. With its simplified, eminently readable letter shapes, Source Serif is well-suited for digital environments, and shines when used for extended text setting on paper or on screen.”
- We Celebrate Creativity… Falsely. We Actually Don’t Like Creative Thinkers
In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed to be an asset, even a virtue. Online job boards burst with ads recruiting “idea people” and “out of the box” thinkers. We are taught that our own creativity will be celebrated as well, and that if we have good ideas, we will succeed.
It’s all a lie. This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don’t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite all of their insistence otherwise.