In the spirit of teaching and helping others I’m making a bit of a more advanced post. I realize this is off-theme from my usual tips but I could not find an adequate guide for helping me with a problem I ran into and I feel that this is a good use of my space and time.
Last month I ran into an issue where my Twitter feed (over to the right —> ) stopped updating. I didn’t recall changing anything in the backend and verified that my tweets didn’t accidentally get protected or something funky like that. No dice. After a little Google-Fu I uncovered that Twitter is moving to their API version 1.1 in March of 2013 and apparently in anticipation began depreciating some currently available usages.
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I’ve recently noticed a new trend from a lot of the phishing emails I’ve been receiving; they’re looking a lot more professional.
In recent weeks I’ve received emails claiming to be from FedEx, UPS, USPS, Bank of America and Chase. Each of these emails not only had a picture of the company’s logo in the email, but also mimicked quite closely what an “official” email from the company would look like. The links contained in the email were a bit more savvy than I’ve seen in the past as well. It wasn’t so much the text as it was the URL that the links were sending people to.
In the past, most of the websites that the phishing emails linked to would be jibberish; something like egwi1nae.com/23yff.html. This isn’t always the case any more. Unfortunately as of late I’ve seen a large increase in the amount of near legitimate looking domains. All of the emails I’ve received in the last few weeks have ended with the name of the company that was the subject of the email to begin with such as fedex.html or ups.html. This could make it harder to distinguish the fake from the real.
When clicking on links in your email from unsolicited sources make sure that the first part of the address that it’s sending you to is correct. UPS should link to ups.com, Bank of America should link to bankofamerica.com and so on.
Taking a moment to review these simple things could potentially save you a ton of time and money in the future!
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Back in October LinkedIn announced a new layout for its users profiles. Currently the new profiles are on an opt-in basis and aren’t available immediately, however in the near future everyone’s profiles will be swapped to reflect the new changes. If you’d like to request the change to happen sooner you can do so here. The first thing I noticed after getting the new profile upgrade was that the profile picture was not only displayed larger, but the annoying grey border had disappeared.
This gave me an idea on how to make my profile picture pop a little bit more, by adding a drop shadow. A drop shadow is generally described as an opaque grey “shadow” beneath an image or text to give it the look of it somehow popping off of the page a bit.
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When I first started with Klout, one of the first things that I became excited about was the ability to connect my self hosted blog. Unfortunately at the time it was just a pipe dream and the feature was only supported for WordPress.com blogs. Recently I decided to try again and to my surprise I was getting better results.
The first error I encountered when attempting to connect my site using Klout was an error stating that Jetpack looked to be missing. After a bit of searching on Google it looked like the first step in basic troubleshooting was to uninstall and reinstall Jetpack. After re-linking Jetpack with my WordPress.com account and attempting to link Klout with my site again I was simply presented with a blank page. After a few refreshes and scratching my head for a few minutes I popped on Chrome’s developer tools and took to looking at what was going on when I attempted the link. The error I received when looking at the request that was being sent was “Error 414 Request URI too long.” Almost instantly I knew what was wrong.
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