Archive for February, 2010

Apple to remove sexy apps

No Comments » Written on February 28th, 2010 by
Categories: Thoughts

According to articles all over, Apple is about to remove all 'sexy' applications from the app store.

Who's definition of sexy should apply?

Is there a mathematical rule that separates a tight short top of female runners from the bikini of a car washing colleague student?

I guess all apps covering the Summer Olympics are banned. In regard to all latex fetishists out there, I guess we can't have Winter Olympics either, with all those tight speed suits.

Goggle might be getting scary big, but at least I am allowed to put whatever I want on an Android phone or a Windows phone if I'm in to that.

This is probably my biggest concern with the iPad. If the content of apps are regulated, what stops Apple from regulating what sites you are allowed to see?

Who’s in favor of regulated search?

No Comments » Written on February 26th, 2010 by
Categories: Thoughts

In response to an article in The New York Times Amit Singhal from Google tries to clarify how they rank their search results.

I don't think there was any new information in there for internet marketers and SEO people. What I find alarming is the idea of regulated search. The only way that would work is if the algorithms was written by someone totally neutral to the entire world and all search engines would have to use the same algorithms. That would be a web spammers heaven.

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First step to WordPress security

No Comments » Written on February 21st, 2010 by
Categories: Tech

The very first thing you should do with your fresh WordPress install is to change the login name of your admin user.

Since the admin username is well known it is an easy target for brute force attacks. When the login name is known it is just a matter of time before a bot has found a password that is usable to login. As far as I know; WordPress doesn't store the real passwords in its database, it stores the MD5 representation. That makes it possible, but fairly unlikely, to find another password that works for your admin user.