How to Display Your Facebook Page’s Feed on Your WordPress Site

How to Display Your Facebook Page’s Feed on Your WordPress Site There are no shortage of Twitter feed plugins available for WordPress (like this). But the same cannot be said for Facebook, which is rather unusual, given its overwhelming popularity. Having said that, Twitter is certainly far more suited to feed conversion, what with its character limit and largely text-driven interactions. But that doesn’t mean that...

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New, Improved WordPress Plugin Rating System is Now More Amazon-Like

New, Improved WordPress Plugin Rating System is Now More Amazon-Like As promised at WordCamp San Francisco a few weeks ago, the WordPress Plugin Directory is seeing improvements to its rating system to make it more “Amazon-like.” In this first update, you can see that the starred reviews have been parsed out into different levels. You’ll also notice a more exact number for the average (3.9 in the example...

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Secure all WordPress logins with HTTPS even if you don’t have your own SSL certificate

Secure all WordPress logins with HTTPS even if you don’t have your own SSL certificate If you’re unable to install an SSL certificate on your web server or are just too cheap to buy your own ($10+ per year per website), you can still force all WordPress logins to use the secure HTTPS protocol. Note: If you already have your own SSL certificate installed, all you need to do is use the FORCE_SSL_LOGIN...

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Jetpack 1.7 Adds Custom CSS to the WordPress Dashboard

Jetpack 1.7 Adds Custom CSS to the WordPress Dashboard Jetpack updates seem to be cruising right along these days. The 1.7 release includes one of the most useful new features to date – the Custom CSS module. This new addition allows you to override or replace your theme’s CSS in the dashboard. No child theme is required for this custom CSS file, although you will still need a child theme if you want to customize...

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Facebook for Android updated with faster photo sharing and more

Facebook for Android updated with faster photo sharing and more Look, a Facebook update. Late last night an update rolled out for Facebook for Android that promises a few enhancements, better feature, and of course speed. Whenever Facebook for Android mentions speeds I’m hesitant but this one is regarding photos. They’ve added a new photo upload process that is faster too. The Facebook update is available...

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Google Play Music updated with expandable notifications – Magazines updated too

Google Play Music updated with expandable notifications – Magazines updated too Google’s been pushing out a few updates today improving some of their popular apps. Inside one of the more important apps, Google Play Music, you’ll now have full support for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean expanded notifications. This is an amazing feature and one I’m glad to see arrive for Google Music. As you can see above,...

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Google Wallet person to person payments and more could be coming soon

Google Wallet person to person payments and more could be coming soon Earlier today Google hosted a little Google Wallet Q & A with their head product manager Robin Dua. This quick session was mainly for developers but we learned a few interesting facts about the future of Google Wallet. For one, they mentioned person to person payments could be in our future. More details below. The live Google Wallet...

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Amazon press event set for September 6th – Prepare for Fires

Amazon press event set for September 6th – Prepare for Fires We’re pretty sure many saw this coming, but today Amazon has issued some press invites for an upcoming media event on September 6th in California. The invite doesn’t appear to give away any hints, but the fact that they’re going out to the Android world can only mean one of a few things. Most likely consisting of Fires. The online retailer giant launched...

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Verizon 4G LTE spectrum purchase approved by the FCC

Verizon 4G LTE spectrum purchase approved by the FCC It’s no secret that Verizon Wireless and their 4G LTE network is the biggest and best around. Covering nearly 75% of the US population already, and available in over 375 markets across the US. They’ve continued to expand and grow their network and today the FCC just issued an approval for them to snatch up even more LTE spectrum. This deal is also good news for...

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Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 4G LTE hands-on

Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 4G LTE hands-on Earlier this month Verizon announced that they’d be adding another 4G LTE tablet to their ever growing lineup, and today we have it in for a quick peek. Say hello to the recently released Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 with Verizon 4G LTE. This is Samsung’s latest budget 7-inch tablet complete with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and now Verizon LTE. Samsung...

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Motorola DROID M could hit Verizon for $149 next month

Motorola DROID M could hit Verizon for $149 next month Verizon and Motorola are possibly preparing to announce not one new device next month, but two. Some new details have turned up showing what we’ve previously been calling the RAZR Mini, now being listed as the Motorola DROID M for Verizon. This mid-range smartphone is still rather impressive though, and could accompany their new DROID RAZR HD. Now...

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HTC ‘Proto’ budget smartphone leaks

HTC ‘Proto’ budget smartphone leaks     What you see below is another smartphone from the folks at HTC. We’ve heard the name HTC Proto before but today are getting our first glance at this upcoming budget smartphone. Since launching their popular One series we haven’t heard much from HTC, but it appears they are getting ready to hopefully dominate the market for the holiday season. Yup, summer is nearly over...

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virus activity review: the summer lull and a new threat to Mac OS

virus activity review: the summer lull and a new threat to Mac OS  saw an increased number of system infections by blocker Trojans; at the same time, because one of the largest BackDoor.Blackenergy botnets was brought down, spam traffic declined significantly. At the end of the month, Doctor Web discovered a cross-platform Trojan, dubbed BackDoor.DaVinci.1, targeting both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It should be...

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