Techie Blues

Six Apart, the company behind various blogging softwares like Typepad, Movable Type and Vox has acquired the microblogging startup Pownce for an undisclosed amount and are closing it down by Dec 15th.

Few Days back the Wordpress team found a major security issue in the wordpress 2.6.3 and released the version 2.6.5. The security issue is an XSS exploit that affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. Along with the security issues, 2.6.5 also rectifies 3 other minor fixes. [...]

The first public beta of Wordpress is out finally. According to Wordpress, the design is almost completely implemented but final touches are yet to done and also the Beta version provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari but facing some glitches on IE and Opera.

Wordpress team has found a vulnerability in the Snoopy library . Snoopy is used by Wordpress to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Download the following 2 files to upgrade to 2.6.3

Tumblr, by default does not provide any means to export your posts to other blogging platforms like Blogger, Wordpress etc. So if you ever plan to move your posts from Tumblr to Blogger, then you are in for a long tedious process. Luckily you have methods now through which you can backup your tumble blog.