• Prompts to start and exit the update process.
• A message indicating where the backup file is located
• Changes the permission of the backup file to, “read only by owner”, in order to prevent public access to the backup file.

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Vunite is trying to build a business by providing their services of desinging websites. They could be a nice option for people in need of prototyping and testing designs before launching campaigns. Also, they have a few wordpress theme designs.

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We at vunitemedia have a lot of sites on WordPress, and are iPhone users; so we are really looking forward to a potentially neat iPhone App.

… the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in just seconds.

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This is going to sound a little weird at first considering what I do for a living, but I want you to stop using FTP.

FTP is a 23 year old protocol. Although the basics of what it does still work, there are many aspects of it which have not kept up with modern computing environments.

Steven goes on to point out some of the alarming security implications of using FTP, and makes some great points about FTP being a dated technology that has lasted far past its prime.

Unless tunneled over a secure socket, FTP is 100% insecure. Your password, and the contents of all of your files are sent in the clear, free to be examined or captured by any network hop between you and your server.

FTP has served us well, but it’s time to move on. You wouldn’t use a 23 year old computer to do your work, so don’t use a protocol from the same vintage. Demand modern transfer protocols from your host.

It is our company policy to only use SFTP and SSH to connect to and manage our servers.  If your host does not provide secure access you should seriously consider switching ASAP.  If you need help getting your site(s) moved to secure hosting, or want to stop worring about hosting entirely, don’t hesitate to drop us a line! </shameless plug>

If you are on a Mac, you can do no better than Transmit for SFTP.  On the windows side we recommend WinSCP.

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You may have used URL shortening services like TinyURL.com or is.gd for compressing long URLs so they can be easily pasted into email or shared on Twitter (what with the 140-character limit). Even if you haven’t, you’ve probably wished at some point that the URLs of your blog entries could be shortened without losing their structure.

Well, with WordPress, you have URL shortening built in!

The add-on also handles uploading and inserting images and other media into the post body quite nicely.  ScribeFire also plays nice with YouTube and Flickr, giving users a super easy way to embed images and videos from the two biggest players in online video and photos respectively.

On July 1st, ScribeFire announced a very powerful feature. A self described “new chapter for ScribeFire” that they are calling ‘QuickAds’.

QuickAds allows you to add a fully optimized banner ad to your blog without adding a single line of code

In short, I really like ScribeFire and I am excited to see what new features they roll out over the next few months.  It is still quite young, but is proving to be a powerful tool for content creators.

If you blog, and use Firefox 3 (which you should…) than give it a whirl.

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