Since first of July 2009, Gmail has improved some of its features to make the system more user friendly, easy to use and navigate. This time Gmail was making some changes to its labeling toolkit. Gmail has moved those label names to higher place, drag and drop labeling aims to make Gmail’s labels more likely as you are dropping your file to a folder on your desktop.

1. New location of the custom labels

Users’ custom created label are now placing higher up on the left hand sidebar, just below the Gmail default labels. Now labels are easier to reach without scrolling the webpage.

2. Show and hide labels

Gmail’s users now have the control over which of their labels to show or hide. It can now automatically showing the labels that you use most of the time and hiding others. In order to reach any of the old labels, just click on the “more” hyperlink. This change has give some convenient to the Gmail’s users, now they not need to create the funny label name like “_todo” or “-important” to force the most-used labels to the top of the list.

3. Drag and Drop

The most impressive new feature has been introduced like the Hotmail.com. Gmail’s users now can drag any message(s) and drop the message(s) into label. This does the same action like “Move to” option, but it make you more comfortable to perform the moving from one label to another. Move multiple message just select those message before drag them to another label.

You can also drag label onto message just like you are labeling the messages. It is also possible to drag labels into the “more” menu to hide them and vice verse. More information at Gmail’s official weblog.

I most likely using Gmail, because of user friendly and the speed when opening a message. Now Gmail has make everything be more organized. The storage for the Gmail is keep increasing, now is about 7.3 GB, so you will not need to delete your messages anymore to prevent full of your mailbox.

Desktop wallpaper can be the natural graphics or photography, which often results in some of the most beautiful breathtaking and stunning images. When I was browsing on the Internet and across the website deviantart.com, there are lots of beautiful wallpapers with high quality and big resolution. These amazing wallpapers are large enough and around the right aspect ratio to be used as a desktop background.

There are more inspirational, beautiful and elegant wallpapers around the Internet, wallpaper can be categorized to calendar wallpaper, minimalistic wallpaper, desktop wallpaper, funny cartoons, logos, wallpaper-illustrations and themes for your personal computer and so on. Some of these abstract wallpapers are absolutely stunning and would look great behind your desktop icons.

Beside these, you could get the most updated and latest wallpaper at Flickr. There are 9,000 photos available as wallpaper for your desktop and every month the “wallpaper of the month” will be selected.

Abstruct Flower Wallpaper

Armonie

Banboxx Info

BG

Chaos Wallpaper

Colored Glass Wallpaper

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Sometimes movie poster can be a beautiful art beside acting as the advertising material. Some posters can be very creative with the appropriate usage of colors, environment, objects, graphical approach, genre and styles. Some can be informative, while others can be fully humor that used to attract audiences for the movies.

A great poster is a easy job for an regular artist but a creative poster might takes a lot of time and idea to work on it. Some the creative movie posters are beyond the advertisement work to form a piece of art for the collection.

Each year, typically in the first two weeks of January, the nominations for the Annual Internet Movie Poster (IMP) awards are named. Some of these movie posters had been awarded as the best and creative movies posters by IMP awards. Below are some of the wonderful movie posters that can be found on the Internet.

Blue Gold: Water War ~ 2008

Employee of the Month ~ 2006

Eragon ~ 2006

Fearless ~ 2006

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WordPress is the free open source publishing application and content management system. Many people use WordPress as their blogging platform to deliver messages, information and news. WordPress also has a templating system, widgets and a rich plug-in architecture, which allow users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come from its base installation.

Although WordPress has made everyone to build their own blogs easily, many security issues have been discovered in the software, especially for those outdated versions of the software. I had an experience with the security issue once my weblog had been hacked few months ago, while I was using the most early version of WordPress. After this lesson, I have been more careful on every aspect of the security issues and always keep my weblog upgraded with the plug-ins that I really trust.

Besides upgrade your WordPress software to the most latest version, there are some more simple security measures that any WordPressers can implement to enhance security and prevent the blogs being compromised. Hope these methods can improve the security of your weblog and greatly reduce the vulnerability of your weblogs.

1. Keep your WordPress software and its plug-ins upgraded to the latest version.

The best security precaution is to have the software have less/ no security treat. So the best practice is to upgrade your WordPress software, update your trusted WordPress plug-ins every time a new version is released/ New version always has been enhanced security than the early version.

2. Never reveal your wp-admin directory and contents at any circumstance.

Many bloggers have good practice via .htaccess file to apply password protection to the wp-admin directory. When you password protect your wp-admin directory, any attempt to directly load a page from that directory will cause a “401 Unauthorized” error page. Useful article can be found at thesitewizard.com or .htaccess generator helps at htaccesstools.

3. Use login lockdown plugin.

Login LockDown can records the IP address and timestamps of every unsuccessful login attempted. If more than a certain number of unsuccessful login attempted and detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password attack to your WordPress weblogs.

4. Do not allow guest user registrations.

If you do not have a membership weblog, then the registration for public should be turned off by click on the Settings and unchecked the “Anyone can register” option.

5. Backup regularly.

Regular backups for your contents and database are important. In case anything happened, you can use the backup to recover your weblog files and database. Wordpress Database Backup might able to help you backup your database automatically and send the backup file to your email address.
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