Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 8, 2012, 11:12 am
Stat My Web is a free service that combines a number of popular tools used by the average webmaster. From displaying the Alexa traffic ranking to providing the top ten keywords that the website is ranking for, the arsenal of available tools is fairly impressive: Alexa Traffic Rank Checker Broken Li...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 7, 2012, 8:30 am
The XenForo team has announced on the official support forum that version 1.1.2 of their bulletin board software is now available to download. This update contains the following: Border-style is not accessible in style properties. Stats dates are not translated. When maintaining user IDs in an impo...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 6, 2012, 8:59 pm
According to a Financial Times report, Facebook will look at the possibility of monetizing mobile traffic. According to sources close to the social network, advertising agencies have been consulted about introducing “featured stories” into user timelines on mobile devices. Facebook claimed at t...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 6, 2012, 9:25 am
Are you interested in taking your community forum to the next level? Are you serious about monetizing the bulletin board effectively with advertising and premium membership? If you answer “yes” to these two (among many, many more) questions, then you should be interested in ForumCon. What is Fo...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jan 19, 2012, 11:26 am
That’s right folks! Just like 2011, bbAuthority will be heading over to Earls Court in merry ol’ London for Publishing Expo (February 28th – 29th) and Internet World (April 24th – 26th). The two massive events are set to cater for most needs in the digital world, from social media to adverti...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jan 18, 2012, 3:47 pm
A number of web properties have closed their doors for the day, while a good deal more are expressing their concerns about the SOPA. While bbAuthority is against the bill (even though we’re British born), we can’t help but to question the blackout. Is it worth it? For example; the English editi...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jan 14, 2012, 7:21 pm
The MyBB team has announced on the official blog that the bulletin board software will be rebranded with a new logo, accompanied by a mascot. The new logo (seen above) is a massive improvement on the current and has a more professional finish. Both designs are results of collaboration between the My...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jan 14, 2012, 6:31 pm
During the past few years, the mobile smart phone has become the preferred device for many when it comes to accessing social media. While mobile devices still lag laptops and desktops in certain areas of web usage, the world of social media is quickly being overtaken by mobile hardware. When it come...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Oct 11, 2011, 12:07 pm
David Cameron was reported to be forcing a “porn filter” on UK Internet connectivity, which would certainly anger the majority of users due to too much Government interference, but ISPs were quick to correct the claims by stating that only new customers will have a choice to block or allow adult...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Oct 11, 2011, 11:17 am
File this under “what the f%^k?!”, but it seems stupidity strikes again with Benito Apolinar, of Pecos, attacking his wife for not ‘Liking’ his Facebook status update. We’ve all read about marriages breaking up due to the relationship status being altered, but this is a whole new level. T...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Oct 8, 2011, 6:12 am
With the technology world still coming to grips with the loss of Steve Jobs, an iconic innovator and superb keynote presenter,  we can celebrate the earlier days of Mac OS with a retro theme for WordPress.com. The theme supports custom header and backgrounds as well as a custom menu to replace the...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Oct 7, 2011, 3:08 pm
If one remembers correctly, we recently published a half-baked concept of how we see an IPB dedicated app looking on Microsoft’s mobile platform. Receiving some fairly positive feedback, we’re proud to present the completion of the rough concept design. Not every nook and cranny is documented in...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Oct 7, 2011, 1:45 pm
Bad news for MyBB forum owners, it seems a security vulnerability has been spotted in version 1.6.4. Good news to counter this is that a simple fix is all that’s required and takes little time. Those who are running this version of the bulletin board can either download the latest version of MyBB...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Sep 3, 2011, 12:54 pm
This is a belated announcement for IP.Board 3.2.2 and fellow apps being released. IP.Chat 1.3.1, IP.Gallery 4.1.1, IP.Blog 2.4.1, and IP.Downloads 2.4.1 were subsequently released to customers. The updates are mere maintenance releases that include a number of bug fixes. Customers with active lice...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 24, 2011, 11:27 am
Today the team at MyBB have released a security patch for administrators who have used the MyBB 1.6 merge system. The issue is after a merge is complete, database credentials and information is all stored in the MyBB datacache even after the cleanup is ran. Please download the file from this thread...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 23, 2011, 5:46 pm
It’s finally here. Invision Power Board 3.2 has been in testing (and development) for a while now, but it’s ready for live deployment and I must admit – I’m speechless. Attempting to remain unbiased in the world of technology is never an easy feat with certain offerings becoming increasingly...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 19, 2011, 11:52 am
We previously covered the rumours surrounding OS X Lion last week with Apple’s next update for the Mac range, which was said to be hitting the AppStore on Thursday just gone. This was — of course — not the case and all hopes and dreams were ultimately destroyed. It seems more speculation is b...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 19, 2011, 11:32 am
Google seems to be taking on itself to alert bloggers (and those who the software as a CMS) that their WordPress installation is out of date. This is pretty neat for those who either have a bunch of installations, or don’t have a dynamically updated site and visit the ACP often. While this featur...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 19, 2011, 4:39 am
With IP.Nexus just around the corner and to be released alongside IPB 3.2, Invision Power have landed a deal with 2Checkout for customers with a discounted setup fee. Forum administrators who use IP.Nexus will now be able to setup 2CO as a payment gateway and allow registered users to use their plas...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 14, 2011, 8:00 pm
This is pretty neat, a new feature showcased in a recent vBulletin blog post is none other than mobile device signatures. In the illustration above (click to enlarge) we can see how administrators can customise the URLs and icons, which are displayed under posts that are published via a mobile devic...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 14, 2011, 7:28 pm
Battye, a member of the MOD team at phpBB.com, has published an interesting article displaying the download statistics of the top ten phpBB 3 MODs as well as the top five for old-skool phpBB 2. Nice to see in the table above the MOD Viewtopic Birthday with almost a million more tallied downloads th...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 14, 2011, 6:58 pm
We’ve covered what we should expect to see in XenForo 1.1, but the developers over at XF HQ have just released version 1.0.4 in light of API alterations with Facebook and Google. The software also detects whether or not Imagick is installed on the server, which saves time in manually checking via ...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 14, 2011, 6:41 pm
There have been plenty of rumours being spread around like wild fire that OS X Lion was to be released this morning at 1am (GMT). Well, this time has been and gone, still nodownload in the App Store. This story isn’t disappearing though, according to 9to5 Mac new reports have crept up from oversea...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 5, 2011, 7:37 am
WordPress version 3.2  has just been released, which ties in nicely with American Independence Day. Before we go into the newly added features, it’s worth noting that this is the fifteenth major release and WordPress 3.1 had just passed 15 million downloads. The main focus with 3.2 is speed and ...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 3, 2011, 8:08 am
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve said this to people on webmaster forums who seem to have a fixation in achieving high PageRank over actually administrating and building their community. Now it seems Google is continuing to downplay their tool, not the first time either. PageRank is an indic...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 3, 2011, 7:50 am
It seems what we have currently isn’t sufficient. The text editors we’ve known and loved to use for years are beginning to be replaced, well in Invision Power Board anyway. Back in February we covered Matt Mecham walking us through a new WYSIWYG editor for IPB 3.2, based off CKEditor. Fast forw...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jul 3, 2011, 7:31 am
Google has recently announced its next attempt at social media (well, third?). We’ve previously witnessed the flop of Buzz and it seems this sudden up-spring of the +1 button, which shares the same functionality to Facebook’s ‘like’ and Twitter‘s ‘tweet’, is the portal for Google+ to c...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 28, 2011, 9:21 am
Well, this is a rather rough concept and is by no means complete, but this is how I vision IPB looking on the Windows Phone platform while taking full advantage of the Metro UI. Probably not the most user-friendly idea but I believe the structure for the team to work on is there and it would be exci...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 28, 2011, 6:34 am
Yet more news on the Invision Power front, this time surrounding smartphone compatibility with dedicated apps. It’s been pretty much around the year mark since IPS first announced their iOS app with an added option for branding. We now get to take a look at two clients who have used the white labe...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 28, 2011, 5:08 am
With the continued explosion in the number of spam attacks on forums (not just on MyBB), the MyBB team have decided to introduce an anti-spam measure – Spam Ninja. This will aid administrators with the defense against both automated and human driven spam offensive movements. Anyone remember SMF’...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 27, 2011, 7:39 am
SMF 2.0 has now reached final and has been released for public use. The RC (release candidate) stage is now complete and we seem to be heading back down the open source route for the project. Good news all round. Some important changes from RC5: Fixes to login protection system Real name spoofing ...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 27, 2011, 7:27 am
In case you’ve somehow missed this new feature over at phpBB HQ, they’re now hosting a showcase of bulletin boards running their software – perfect opportunity for mature communities to gain more exposure. To suggest a forum to be added to this not-a-directory-of-boards, you will have to ensu...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 25, 2011, 6:18 pm
With our recent (ridiculous) absence, we’ve missed quite a chunk of the news surrounding XenForo, specifically information and detail regarding version 1.1. To save arguing, hate, trolling and whatnot, here’s a quick run through the proposed features which will be included in XenForo 1.1. Right...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 25, 2011, 5:59 pm
The team over at IPS have been working hard on perfecting the release of IPB 3.2 (the beta is currently available to active license holders) and here is another feature that will excite those who loving altering colours of the default template to suit their community without installing 3rd-party sty...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Jun 25, 2011, 8:52 am
Greetings everyone, Firstly, I would like to apologise for the sudden downtime we experienced, which lasted the duration of the few weeks between April and June. Time restraints were in place with myself switching careers and the funds to back the site successfully weren’t immediately available (...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Apr 3, 2011, 3:37 pm
This is the start of a series of posts that’ll allow you to add your link to a wide variety of directories that specialise in either forums or websites (or both!). We shall publish five quality directories in each part, while we recommend checking these websites out, you should submit casually. ...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Apr 3, 2011, 3:22 pm
Today is Mother’s Day (in the UK anyway) and we’re sure that many of you have spent the valuable time ensuring your mother has the most releasing day of the year, while all the chores fall on your task list. Greeting cards are also a huge part of this special day with one being handed to mothers...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 29, 2011, 7:22 pm
The community over at vBulletin is now running 4.3.1, which is available as beta from the client area for all subscription holders. So, what’s new? A style conversion tool is present for brining templates from the 3 series to the current 4 as well as some bug fixes and improvements. Nothing too e...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 29, 2011, 7:09 pm
Released almost eight months ago, MyBB 1.6 has become a stable and mature successor to the infamous 1.4 line. The team at MyBB HQ have just announced that they will be stopping support for the 1.4 branch on July 1st, 2011. We will not be offering official support for MyBB 1.4 There will be no furth...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 23, 2011, 9:27 am
We would like to apologise for the recent lack of articles (or any activity at all). It’s been a busy period in getting the forums set up among other projects and personal complications. We are still heading for an early April opening of the community and will be returning to our frequent updating...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 9, 2011, 8:43 am
As well as publishing XenForo version 1.0.0, the developer team have announced a special discount, bulk pricing, installation services and more. This shows that a faster investment in XenForo will save you a fair few pennies should you have the ability to make the decision quickly. A special disco...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 9, 2011, 6:53 am
We’re here! After a good amount of time spent on testing the betas and release candidates, XenForo is now at version 1. Some notable pointers for those who already own a license (or two): New Smilies  Ad locations within templates Increased speed for touch-based browsers Customers can download...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 7, 2011, 6:48 pm
We’ve been invaded! Not by aliens, or a terrible form of bacteria carrying the Charlie Sheen drug. No… it’s an army of robots from VPS.net! While busy at Drupalcon, they have found the time to send us a box of these cute stress relievers. Being built on Drupal and hosting a huge array of imag...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 7, 2011, 4:03 pm
We already know it’s coming, but it’s coming very soon. XenForo is to be out by tomorrow if what Kier has announced today is true. Everyone excited about upgrading to/installing gold?
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Mar 3, 2011, 5:51 am
The vBulletin Android application has been made available in the Android Marketplace which is used for vBulletin.com only. Should one wish to have the mobile suite for their community (since they need an app per vBulletin forum) they will need to fork out for the suite – priced at $199 with a $99 ...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 16, 2011, 10:55 am
After much thought and consideration, we have decided to discontinue the use of the Disqus commenting system. This is because we find it more user friendly to offer a simple form for readers to fill in to post a comment – plus WordPress remembers this information so you don’t have to continuou...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 16, 2011, 10:38 am
In a previous article where we relayed the announcement over at vBulletin with them upgrading to 4.1.2. This latest version of their suite is now available to all active customers in the client area. Read our previous post in what’s new in the latest installment. As well as the features mentioned ...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 16, 2011, 7:12 am
Back in the days of the pre-web 2.0 experience, communities built on top a forum script was a sole entity. There weren’t any strong network links to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or any other platform. Today we have a more prominent connection between the bulletin board communities and the immense...
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Richard Edmonds posted an article on bbAuthority.com - Feb 14, 2011, 10:02 am
The geniuses over at IPS, who have brought you the Invision Power Board suite, are working on bringing in a new RTE (Rich Text Editor) to really push the boat out in features – using the CKEditor as standard. While remaining that one step further in front of the competition, of course. So, what’...
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