Category Archives: Computer/IT

Do not let your WordPress blog be a launchpad for malware.

By Jed | Published: April 19, 2012

According to this article, you shouldn’t install the new WordPress ToolsPack Plugin. It just installs a small php code that will allow your site to be backdoored and used as a redirect to an attack site. Best practices for a WordPress blog – do not install plugins that you do not need, period. Other than [...]

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Sharepoint 2010: Display Quick Launch in a Web Part Page

By Jed | Published: March 14, 2012

Go into Sharepoint Designer 2010 and remove the following lines of code: These 2 groups of lines: 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 <style type="text/css"> body #s4-leftpanel { display:none; } .s4-ca { margin-left:0px; } </style> and these: 60 61 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"></asp:Content> <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"></asp:Content>

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Remove Recently Modified List in Sharepoint 2010′s Quick Launch

By Jed | Published: March 1, 2012

If you’re just editing one page then a CEWP with these CSS styles will do the trick: <style> .s4-recentchanges { DISPLAY:none; } </style> But if you’re editing it site-wide then edit the v4.master page and look for the line: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server"> Just add this: Visible="false" So it should look like: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server" Visible="false"> [...]

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Clear all your Google / Youtube search histories before March 1

By Jed | Published: February 29, 2012

Google is going to unify all your privacy data from your various Google accounts (Google search, Youtube, Gmail, etc) starting March 1, which is only a few hours from now. When you signed up for your Google account and you checked the option to save all web searches, then all your search history is saved. [...]

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Automatic intranet Sharepoint site authentication using Firefox

By Jed | Published: February 9, 2012

Because you don’t like entering your domain user/login:password everytime you try to check your Sharepoint site… 1. Open Firefox. 2. Type “about:config” on the address bar. 3. Enter “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” on the filter bar. 4. Double-click on “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and add the url for your sharepoint site (can be comma delimited for multiple sites, eg: “mysharepoint.company.com,home.company.com” 5. [...]

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Configure Outlook for GMX

By Jed | Published: January 14, 2012

Just follow the pictures, please. I’m too lazy to type right now. The important thing is to get the ports and settings right. 1. Tools > Account Settings, click New. 2. Choose Microsoft Echange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP 3. Tick “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” 4. Choose Internet E-mail 5. Fill up [...]

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Coloring my code

By Jed | Published: December 28, 2011

Been using Windows for coding a lot lately. My editors of choice are Programmer’s Notepad and Notepad++. Used to do the whole Emacs thing back then but that’s getting heavy with all the different machines I use. So if you code a lot you should also take the time to adjust the color scheme of [...]

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GoDaddy does not allow Paypal if you are using promo codes

By Jed | Published: December 26, 2011

I have always paid online transactions via Paypal including GoDaddy, Hostgator, NameCheap, etc. My last GoDaddy purchase was on October. I used Paypal there too. Today I tried to purchase a new domain (I got around 30 or so domains, the majority of which are spread between GoDaddy and NameCheap) and when I tried to [...]

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How to access GMX on Android

By Jed | Published: November 29, 2011

You have probably heard that GMX has an Android app. That’s good. Sad thing is it doesn’t work for me. While checking for Truecrypt on Android (it does not exist, time to wake up Truecrypt developers), I didn’t like all the file encryption offerings on the Android Market. So I reasearched for my one true [...]

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Unsubscribing from security mailing lists

By Jed | Published: November 23, 2011

In the process of hooking my gmail account to android, I now have a chance to resurrect my gmail account for real email usage and not just a repo of mailing lists I have subscribed through all these years. Yes that’s 10 plus years of non-stop security threads from full disclosure, pen-test, bugtraq and many [...]

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