I just received an email from Google AdSense claiming that my tax information had been changed. This induced a small panic thinking that 1) my Google account has been compromised and 2) my AdSense revenue was going to be diverted elsewhere. The email, a screenshot of the email is included at the bottom of this article, is genuinely Google and not a phishing email. Just to be … [Read more...]
Google rolls out mobile-friendly PageRank update today
Not bearing the name of an animal like Panda or Penguin, Google is updating page rank today for individual pages based on their mobile-friendliness. Google announced the upcoming change quite some time ago and today, April 21st, the update is rolling out. Today's update is intended to assist users performing searches from mobile devices. Sites will be given an updated ranking … [Read more...]
Themes to make your WordPress site look and act like a wiki
With open-source projects like MediaWiki (the software that runs Wikipedia) and DocuWiki or hosted services like Wikia, one might wonder why you're trying to shoehorn WordPress into serving this purpose. With WordPress being so popular, it is understandable to want a familiar front-end and back-end for your site administration. Whether you're making a wiki, an FAQ, a knowledge … [Read more...]
EFF, Mozilla and others form CA to make TLS Everywhere for free
Through the Internet Security Research Group, Mozilla Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Akamai Technologies, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust, Inc., and University of Michigan researchers are looking to create a new free certificate authority. This CA has the goal of allowing TLS-protected communication, the successor to SSL, a certificate to be installed on a server … [Read more...]
CloudFlare enables SSL for all free customers
It appears CloudFlare, the DNS CDN (among other features company, has significantly beat their own deadline. Initially promising mid-October to enable SSL for all of their free customers, the company announced they have begun the roll-out of that feature today. They are still provisioning free clients for their new Universal SSL service but upon signing in, you'll be greeted … [Read more...]