Effective Classy Websites and Tutorials

This article outlines some essential downloads and setup you will need to make sure that your experience with Wordpress is a smooth and happy one. Screencast coming soon!

NOTE: All the links in this article open a new browser window.

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Don’t you love to get presents?

I do. I feel so special and warm inside I just want to… Vomit!

Put up your hands up everyone that hates spam out there! Ok you can put your hands down. Have a look at this email and tell me if you don’t start feeling special. Click on the image at right to make it larger for a moment.

Don’t worry none of the links go anywhere, they’re screen shots.

It’s tempting isn’t it? You’re itching to click on those links. Well here’s my 1 crucial bit of advice in this post.

Let the mouse hover over the link. DO NOT CLICK!

If you allow your pointer to simply hover for a few moments, over any link in an email, it will show you the URL or web address that it points to.

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You can opt to make your Mac invisible to “pings” from the Internet, a common tactic of spammers who are looking for available machines to turn into spam relay stations. On both Macs and PCs it is disabled by default. Heres how you can turn this protection mechanism on:

On Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger:

1. Go to System Preferences > Sharing
2. Click the Firewall button
3. Click Advanced
4. Check Enable Stealth Mode

On Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard:

1. Go to System Preferences > Security
2. Click the Firewall button
3. Click Advanced
4. Check Enable Stealth Mode
5. For additional protection you can also turn on the firewall ( I recommend the: Set access for specific services and applications option.)

On Windows XP Professional:

1. Go to Control Panel > Windows Firewall
2. Click the Advanced tab
3. Next to ICMP click Settings
4. Uncheck the first option “Allow incoming echo request”

This will set both systems to drop any incoming ping request.