Over the weekend, the verified @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account was hacked, as reported earlier. Fox News confirmed the hack in a story today and added some details: Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports were incorrect, of course, and the president was spending the July 4 holiday with his family at … [Read more...]
Netflix Continues March Toward World Domination By Expanding To Latin America
Netflix seems to be quickly becoming the de facto entertainment provider. People use it to subsidize their cable subscriptions and many are using it to completely replace their cable subscription. With already more subscribers than Comcast, Netflix is continuing that upward climb by expanding to Latin America later this year. According to a post written to the Netflix … [Read more...]
Sony’s PSN Welcome Back Program Slightly Extended To 9 AM Pacific Time Today
After receiving a number of complaints that the Welcome Back Program ended early, Sony has graciously extended the program to today at 9AM Pacific Time. That gives you a little over an hour to get your free games and PlayStation Plus access before the program is gone for good. Get on your PS3 and get your games now! More details on the Welcome Back program are available from … [Read more...]
No Sidebar in the WordPress Admin Dashboard After 3.2 Update? There’s A Plugin To Blame
Upon updating to WordPress 3.2 this evening, I was afraid the "Refreshed Administative UI" was a bit more radical than I had hoped. The left side bar of collapsible menus was missing. Some of the functions had moved to the top admin bar as detailed in the update's entry in the WP Codex but it did not nearly compensate for accessing all of the original functions. Thankfully, I … [Read more...]
WordPress 3.2 Final Released
WordPress 3.2 was released today bringing with it many new features and stricter requirements. Version 3.2 of the WordPress software will require a server to be running more recent versions of PHP and MySQL as well as requiring the administrator to use a more recent browser than Internet Explorer 6 with Internet Explorer 7 beginning its end-of-life cycle for WordPress … [Read more...]