Nothing’s more refreshing than receiving a notification of a WordPress update the minuted before going to bed. WordPress updates are serious, most of the time. Not updating the blog immediately could leave it open for exploits, and malicious users could do many bad things with that new found power. WordPress 3.01 has been released a [...]

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Facebook, love it or hate it. I never really used the social networking site much, not my thing to share quizzes, games and all the other things users share on the site. It has its uses to keep in touch with some friends but then again, there are other means to do that. Still, I [...]

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Regular readers might have already spotted a new feature that I have just enabled. The comment form now lists a Twitter ID field next to the standard username, website and email fields that existed before. Ghacks commenters who add their Twitter username to the Twitter ID field in the comment form will have their comment [...]

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Google recently announced that site speed has been added to the signals that they use in their ranking algorithms. Site speed is currently only factored in on google.com if the search is performed in the English language. The new signal has been added to the algorithm a few weeks ago (some webmasters say as early [...]

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The Ghacks forum has been online for some weeks now and it is growing and evolving nicely. We have some regulars there who contribute a lot to the forum and the user count, threads and posts is continuously on the rise. We are closing in on the 250 members count with almost 350 threads and [...]

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Most of you probably know that we know have a Ghacks forum that provides everyone with the means for in depth discussions about the articles here at Ghacks but also totally unrelated topics. We do post for instance interesting information that we come upon on the forum that did not make it into an article [...]

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You might already know that we have added a forum to ghacks that can be used by anyone to discuss articles posted here in the blog but also other technology related issues. We already got some nice threads going and would like to invite each and everyone of you to take a look at the [...]

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We have established the new Ghacks forum just a few days ago and are still in the progress of getting accustomed to the very powerful Vbulletin forum software. Basic options are already provided and we are currently looking at extensions and plugins for the forum to make it more appealing and to add more features [...]

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Those users who have already participated in last year’s Christmas Giveaway know that we will give away some of our fine t-shirts on one day of the giveaway. That day is today. Today is actually the only day that we are not handing out software licenses to you. Hope you still participate in this giveaway [...]

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