Some email clients like Thunderbird will sometimes show a scam warning message on emails which appear to be normal and not suspicious. The Thunderbird warning is two-part: first an inline message “This message may be a scam, and second a modal dialog which appears when you click on any link in the email. Combined this could be worrisome for users who aren’t sure what the warning means. I’ve been seeing this more frequently lately with email newsletters. The most common cause is link tracking added by the newsletter delivery vendor (MailChimp, Tinyletter, etc.). The scam warning will come up whenever…
What did the world search for in 2012? The data from Google is kind of interesting, but the video is very cool.
As in year’s past, several tech communities are running Advent calendars during the month of December. Read on for links to Perf Planet, 24ways, Perl and Web advents, including an RSS feed that combines articles from all of them.
It’s been a while since my notes about local development copies of Movable Type and WordPress on XAMPP – a local LAMP stack that runs on Windows. I’m still using both blogging platforms and wanted to update the steps now that I’m doing most of my work on a Mac laptop. The steps aren’t too difficult, but there are lots of details to get right. Read on to see a detailed walk through for the installation of a local copy of Movable Type 5.2 on Mac OS X.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine startup whose claim to fame is a strict privacy policy, focusing on delivering high quality results without tracking their users. Like most search engines, DuckDuckGo also has a search box capability that can be used for site-specific search. Read on to learn how to implement this with Movable Type.