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  • WordPress SSL over HTTPS: Securing your blog’s administration pages

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    Glenn Batuyong
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    Although I really should be working on my next video, I am doing something totally different —getting my website’s admin area encrypted. Yes, I am easily distracted by little side projects and that’s why I can never get anything done quickly… but THIS is a worthy task. Why should you secure WordPress using SSL over…

  • HOWTO: Preserve photo & video media metadata after transcoding

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    Glenn Batuyong
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    Have you ever been asked, “is metadata really that important?” No, you haven’t? Well, of course not —nearly all photographers, videographers, digital asset managers, and media librarians understand that media metadata is crucial to organizing files. Can you imagine curating years of digital imagery by using some strange app to copy them all to a…

  • Dropbox 100 million strong, DirectX

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    Glenn Batuyong
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    Some of the week’s most interesting tech news… Dropbox woos 100 million users and counting via WordPress Want to know how Dropbox has created such a monstrous following? Simple —they weaved the service around a seamless user-experience, mobile-friendly options, and no-nonsense usage. It doesn’t matter how powerful a technology is; if there’s enough complexity then…