Archive for April, 2009

Artisteer the automated web designer

I am an affiliate of Artisteer and since they are an advertiser of mine I felt compelled to give a software review of their product. What’s not to like? There are two versions to choose from: a Home and Academic edition for $49.95 and a Standard edition for $129.95.
You can generate very cool web designs and create awesome looking web [...]

How to remove the meta name generator tag

Yesterday I showed you how to remove two useless tags from your WordPress head section. Today we’ll remove a tag that could expose your site by revealing which WordPress version you are running. This tag used to be simple to remove but WordPress has moved it from the template to the core.
Here’s how to remove it:

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Remove rel=”EditURI” and rel=”wlwmanifest”

Here I’ll show you how to remove the EditURI and wlwmanifest links from the head section of your WordPress blog. These links are only necessary if you use or plan to use Windows Live Writer. Otherwise these 2 lines added to your blog header since WordPress 2.3.1 and above are useless.  
<link rel=”EditURI” type=”application/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=”http://mysite/xmlrpc.php?rsd” />
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How do I backup the Windows Registry?

Let’s forget about the two methods Windows provides for backing up your registry. The standard registry backup options that come with Windows backs up most of the registry but not all of it. And the other method cannot be trusted to do it’s backup (restore point) automatically.
I use a free utility called ERUNT which as an added bonus also contains a [...]

Joomla 1.5.10 Security Release Available

Besides Wordpress for my website design and developement duties, I also use Joomla who have just released a security update [Wohmamni] to their CMS. Please follow the link below for more detailed information on how to proceed with the update. I’ve already done so and I suggest all Joomla users upgrade as soon as possible.
Joomla 1.5.10 release [...]