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Author Archives: Jake Neeley

How to Integrate WordPress and Facebook with Plugins

WordPress’ adoption numbers are quite high with over 145 million downloads and powering 16.7% of the entire Web! As a cornerstone of the blogging and CMS world, it is natural that it must eventually meet head on with another online platform that has met meteoric success, Facebook. The social media giant’s ubiquity is not particularly [...]
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Showdown: Tumblr vs. WordPress

WordPress and Tumblr can both work well for a business site. By looking at the advantages and drawbacks of each platform, you can decide which one is better for your particular business. In a comparison of WordPress vs. Tumblr, the key differences are in the areas of power and ease of use. Tumblr is a [...]
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Five ways Blogger.com is Trying to Catch Up with WordPress

Originally launched by Pyra Labs in 1999, Blogger was one of the first free blogging solutions offered to the general public. Since then, their assets have changed hands many times, and the company has seen its share of the market dwindle to competitors. Since Google acquired the service, however, Blogger has added many features in [...]
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[Important] Secure Your WordPress Password Immediately – Global WordPress Brute Force Attack

It is highly recommended that you ensure your WordPress login password is a secure password comprising of at least 8 characters and includes special characters (@#$%^&*), a variation of upper and lower case letters, and numbers. Common Password Example: secretword123 Secure Password Example: Z4Tn@V^oes
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How SellBox Helps Creative Professionals Tackle Ecommerce

DropBox and Google Drive are two cloud-based services that enable users to store their files online. Documents, images, audio and video files can all be stored in this way. Users can customize the permissions associated with a file, allowing sharing and collaboration. Sellbox provides an extra layer of functionality to DropBox and Drive, enabling users [...]
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Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Google +

If you are using social media tools to help blog or website visitors share your content and/or have WordPress integrated for Facebook, you have taken one important step in driving traffic to your site. But if you are limiting your efforts to Facebook, you are ignoring an increasingly important social media platform – Google+. Although [...]
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TweetTV Embraces HTML5 for Mobile Apps

Choosing what to watch on TV has become a confusing ordeal thanks to an ever-increasing amount of content available in various platforms. To salvage the situation TweetTV has recently launched new “super responsive” HTML5 mobile apps that provide users with better information on what’s on. TweetTV is a twitter based social media TV guide and [...]
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Five Challenges Getting Smartphone App Designed and Accepted for the Apple App Store

Apple provides the platform and tools needed to develop, test and submit an app to their app store. Getting an app approved to the Apple App Store is the Holy Grail for developers as it is highly lucrative. However, developers have been grappling about Apple’s App Store approval process being controversial and inconsistent since its [...]
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Hot Trends: The Internet of Things

For several years the leading trends and hottest debates in the IT world have revolved around cloud computing and big data. However, recently the concept of Internet of Things has taken the crown. The concept of Internet of things, also referred to as machine-to-machine (M2M), entails equipping formerly mundane objects with sensors that automatically send [...]
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Smartphone App Face-off: Apple vs. Android

Application markets are one of the first stops users make when outfitting a new smartphone. The markets play an important role in the success of the devices on which they run, and it is a factor in why the iOS and Android development platforms continue to dominate the market.
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