What is Friendica and why should I bother using it?
Friendica is open source software that implements a decentralized social network. It provides a wide range of connectors to other social networks. Connect with friends on App.net, Diaspora, GNU Social, Pump.io or Twitter. You can import RSS feeds and post to Facebook, Libertree, Wordpress, Tumblr, Google+ pages and more. You can even interact via mail.
Security and automation are imperative if you want to succeed in today’s online world. Needing access from any device on any place can make life a bit confusing. Everyday at Azorvida we’re working on different projects. But our workload is more manageable and smoother because all of our admin passwords are tightly held inside LastPass. So long are the days of writing every password down, or saving them on a file.
Finally, Azorvida IT Services is also available in German. But, it was not ONLY the language, which inspired me to this job. While the English version is based on Bootstrap I played a little bit around and created the German version on materialize.css which is a Framework using Google's Material Design.
For search engines that crawl the vast metropolis of the web, links are the streets between pages. Using sophisticated link analysis, the engines can discover how pages are related to each other and in what ways.
Links are an important part of internet, they help in smooth browsing. Link-building is automatic and a natural phenomena, resulting in natural links. Therefore natural link-building is becoming essential these days.
But, Google doesn’t care about the link-building you do. It cares about the implementation on which the future of link building is based.
A cheat sheet guides you through a development processes. Each cheat sheet is designed to help you complete some task, and it lists the sequence of steps required to help you achieve the goal.
Here is a new excellent Google Drive cheat sheet. This cheat sheet is created after the latest updates to Google Drive and as such it is the most recent visual guide to the new Google Drive.
From time to time you will find more great Cheat Sheets on Azorvida IT Services.
Today we want to introduce you to an really awesome tool we are using to maintain our WordPress Websites as well as the WordPress sites of our Clients.
Is it really that important to keep your WordPress website up to date? The answer to that questions isn’t always “yes”, but in almost all cases, it is important to keep it as up to date as possible. WordPress is an outstanding system for creating a website or blog. And every site needs regular maintenance. The key to maintaining a WordPress website or blog is have a system to make it easy.
provides access to your data through a web interface or WebDAV while providing a platform to view, sync and share across devices easily—all under your control. ownCloud’s open architecture is extensible via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins and works with any storage.
Access Your Data:
Store your files, folders, contacts, photo galleries, calendars and more on a server of your choosing. Access them from your mobile device, your desktop, or a web browser. Access your data wherever you are, whenever you need it.
Sync Your Data:
Keep your files, contacts, photo galleries, calendars and more synchronized amongst your devices. One folder, two folders or more – get the most recent version of your files with the desktop and web client or mobile app of your choosing, at any time.
Share Your Data:
Share your data with others, and give them access to your latest photo galleries, your calendar, your music, or anything else you want them to see. With or without password or time limit. Share it publicly, or privately. It is your data, do what you want with it.
If you’re thinking about starting a Landing Page, a Blog, a Support Site, a eCommerce site or a Media/Content site based on static HTML or on a CMS like WordPress, one of the first questions you’ll probably ask yourself is “how much does this website cost?”. It’s an important question! Figuring out the best way to start a website early on can save you a ton of money in the long run.
One of the biggest issues with figuring out the price is that web design is a service, but most clients see a website as a ‘product’. Many of them believe that they can walk into a ‘virtual store’ and order a 5 page website for fixed fee. However a website is something that should be created according to your needs!
Google Web Designer is a professional-quality design tool that empowers creative professionals to develop cutting-edge HTML5 content for free. As an added benefit to ad designers, Google Web Designer is seamlessly integrated with DoubleClick Studio and Mobile Apps Reserve, greatly simplifying the process of building HTML5 creative that can be served through Google platforms.
Last September, Google launched Web Designer, a free tool for Mac, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) that makes it easy for anybody to build interactive HTML5 sites and ads. Since its launch, Web Designer got a couple of minor updates, but the last release is the first major update in a long time and brings quite a few new features to the software.
Given Google’s propensity for abandoning projects like this, it’s nice to see that the company continues to invest in Web Designer. It’s a surprisingly easy tool to work with and thanks to its integrated code editor, you can always get your hands dirty and fine-tune the result to your liking by manually editing the CSS and JavaScript.
Google Tasks is one handy tool which I use often to create a quick to-do list. It’s simple, efficient and easy to use. What makes it even more powerful is that they are integrated with other Google services like Gmail, Calendar and iGoogle.
It certainly does help me a lot in keeping things organized and with features like directly adding your Gmail emails to task list for follow ups (Press Shift + T) makes it one indispensable tool. If you had not yet explored this tool,launch it by clicking on Gmail(Top left corner) ->Tasks.
The tool currently supports to share your task list via emails. But in most case it’s not sufficient, wouldn’t it be great if there is a way to allow others to update your Task List so that the list always remains fresh and updated. If you are working in team or if there are more than one person managing the list then it becomes a must have feature.
Consider these situations:
Your project manager has created a to-do list in his account and requires the list to be updated by team members as and when they complete the tasks.
You are a homemaker and have created a list of things to be bought for this week. Your husband has promised to get some of the things while he is back from office and your maiden has gone out to get few others. So how would you ensure that the list is synced up and is up-to-date?
So, I have come up with an app to address this problem and it will help you in getting this missing feature.
Introducing Shared Google Tasks:
This app will help you share and sync your Google task list with others. You can even share your list with anonymous users who don’t have Google account who can update the tasks and the data will instantly be reflected in your account.
Features:
1. The sync up takes place instantly. There is no polling. 2. Any user with or without Google account can update the list. 3. You can add, edit, mark as completed or pending and delete any tasks. 4. Lesser the chance
WordPress 4.2.2 has just been released which contains several important security fixes. We recommend you update immediately if you haven't already been automatically upgraded.
The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML file vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. All affected themes and plugins hosted on WordPress.org (including the Twenty Fifteen default theme) have been updated today by the WordPress security team to address this issue by removing this non-essential file. To help protect other Genericons usage, WordPress 4.2.2 pro-actively scans the wp-content directory for this HTML file and removes it. This was reported by Robert Abela of Netsparker.
WordPress versions 4.2 and earlier are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site. WordPress 4.2.2 includes a comprehensive fix for this issue. Reported separately by Rice Adu and Tong Shi.
The release also includes hardening for a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability when using the visual editor. This issue was reported by Mahadev Subedi.
We have redesigned our visual appearance and structure of our website. We hope that you will find all needed information easily and conveniently on our new site.
