Simple microblogging – post short messages and show in sidebar

Simple microblogging is free wordpress plugin to post short messages and display them in a widget in yours sidebar.

Main features:

Display in sidebar.
display in any post or page by using the shortcode.
Option to show the number of microposts.
Option to show the creation date.
Date format.

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WordPress Multisite Robots.txt Manager

Multisite Robots.txt Manager is a free wordpress plugin to manage all Network Websites robots.txt files directly within the Network Admin.

Main features:

Manage all Network Websites from one Administration area.
Mass update the entire Network or update a unique Website.
Each Website within a Network can have a unique robots.txt file.
Robots.txt file examples that can be published to Websites or stored as a default.

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CleanSave – save web page content to Google Docs & Dropbox

CleanSave is a free wordpress plugin to save web page content to Google Docs, Dropbox, print, PDF, and email .

Main features:

Use the CleanSave button set.
point your own buttons or text.
Lightbox keeps users on your page within their original browser window.
control of font size, images, gray scale of text.
eliminate any unwanted content before saving to PDF, Dropbox, and Google Docs.
Branded output.
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Robert Doisneau’s 100th birthday google doodle

Google is celebrating Robert Doisneau’s 100th birthday with his landmark shots in a new google doodle on its homepage.
Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris; together with Henri Cartier-Bresson he was a pioneer of photojournalism.He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Robert Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the National Order of the Légion d’honneur in 1984
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Firefox click-to-play option for plugins

The click-to-play option for plugins is now available in the Firefox nightly channel. When click_to_play is enabled, plugins will require an extra click to activate and start.

Example: The flash and silverlight videos won’t auto play automatically.

To enable click_to_play in firefox Just go to about:config in address  bar and enable the plugins.click_to_play flag.

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BotBlocker – Kills spam-bots in wordpress

BotBlocker is a free wordpress plugin that stops spam bots in your wodpress site.

Main features:

Automatically stops spam-bots from commenting
no CAPTCHAS, math questions, passwords or extra input required
Zero false positives
Can be configured to completely block spam-bots or flag comments as spam
No javascript or cookies required
Hooks into wp-comments-post.php to prevent spam-bots from directly submitting spam comments
No API keys required
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Bing going to charge for it’s search API

Microsoft has announced that it will move the Bing Search API to Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace and going to charge for it’s search API calls.

Some Notes:

approximately $40 (USD) per month for up to 20,000 queries.
transition will begin in several weeks and will take a few months to complete.
After the transition period, Bing Search API 2.0 will no longer be available for free public use
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Apple released java update to remove Flashback Trojan

Apple has released a new java software update that removes the most common variant of the Flashback Trojan.

From Apple security note “This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets.”
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