Hey guys, in our day to day life the part of technology are integral. Sometime for e. on your personal mail account you might be getting lot of spam mails. But spamming is not stop there, On some blog website we used to see lot of comments which are repetitive. Those are also spam. Thankfully over the years, we have learnt several ways to combat comment spam in WordPress. In this article, we will share some of the most valuable tips, and WordPress plugins to combat comment spam in WordPress.
  •  Activate Akismet

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Akismet is one of the most valuable plugins for WordPress. You do not need to download it as it comes pre-installed with all WordPress installation. But you do need to activate it and get an API key. You can find out more about Akismet in ourAkismet 101 Guide for WordPress Beginners. Without this, you have no chance against SPAM. Akismet does a great job in catching SPAM comments. Although sometimes good comments get filtered as SPAM, but you can always recover them by going through your SPAM comments regularly.
  •  No follow Comment Links

Sometimes new bloggers add plugins to remove nofollow attribute from comment author links. They think that by making these links dofollow they will be able to encourage more users to leave comments. This results into a very high number of spam comments. Even non-spam comments are usually submitted by users who are not interested in the discussion but the link back. Remember, its always about quality not quantity. It is always a bad idea to use plugins that share link juice via comments. If you are not using any such plugin, then thats great you can move on to the next step.
  •  Reduce Comment Spam Using Cookies

To use this method you will need to install and activate the Cookies for Commentsplugin. Most spam bots are automated scripts, and in order to spam more sites in less time they don’t download any images or stylesheets. This plugin sends users a stylesheet or image file whenever they access a page with the comment form. If a user’s browser automatically downloads those files then the plugin sets a cookie identifying them as legit users. To learn more how to use this clever solution, checkout our guide on how to reduce comment spam using cookies.
  • Block Spam Comment Bots Using Honeypot

Honeypot technology is an effective method to trick spambots into identifying themselves. First you need to install and activate the WP Spam Fighter. Upon activation simply go to Settings » WP Spam Fighter and enable the honeypot protection. This will add a hidden form to your comments area visible only to bots. These spam bots are usually programmed to fill out all fields in a form. Learn more about how to block spam comment bots in WordPress using honeypot.
  • Add Captcha Verification

Using WP-reCAPTCHA plugin, you can enable recaptcha challenge on your comment forms. Recaptcha shows an image containing characters, users need to type those characters to prove that they are human. While recaptcha is an effective way of blocking spam bots, it does nothing to prevent your site from manually submitted spam comments. Another concern with recaptcha is that they make it difficult for users to submit comments. On the other hand, reCAPTCHA is a quick and effective way to block spambots. See our guide on how to block spam comments in WordPress with CAPTCHA.
  • Removing Website URL Field from Comment Form

The URL field in the comment form attracts not only spammers (both automated and human) but it also invites people who have absolutely no interest in discussion at all. These comments usually contain a line of two of irrelevant non-sense, the comment author name will contain a keyword or a combination of real name with keyword like Sally from Dunder Mifflin, or John @SEOconsultants, etc. Removing the URL field from comment form will discourage this kind of behavior on your website. See our guide on how to remove URL field from WordPress comment form.
  • Disable Comments on Media Attachments

WordPress automatically creates image attachment pages where users can see an image and even leave a comment for it. IF you are linking your images to the attachment page, then after a while you will have lots of attachment pages with comments enabled on them. If images are the central part of your content then that’s fine. But if you don’t want users to comment on images instead of posts then you should turn off comments on media attachments. Here is a tutorial on how todisable comments on WordPress media attachments.
  •  Disable HTML in Comments

Another handy tip to discourage links in comments is disabling HTML in comments. The easiest way to do this is by using Peter’s Literal Comments plugin. Simply install and activate the plugin and any comments submitted to your site after that will get all HTML parsed through WordPress filters. This will change double quotes, less than and greater signs into HTML entities. Learn more about disabling HTML in WordPress comments.
  •  Less Annoying Captcha

As we mentioned earlier that many users find CAPTCHA annoying and disruptive. A less annoying alternative to CAPTCHA is the Math Quiz plugin, which asks users to solve a simple math problem to prove that they are human. Simply install and activate the plugin, and then visit Settings » Math Quiz to configure it. The plugin allows you to modify comment form CSS, though in most cases you wouldn’t need to. It also allows you to choose where you want an image based math quiz or simple plain text quiz. Plain text quiz is easy to read but also easy to solve by spambots. The image based math quiz is not that readable, but is slightly difficult to solve by spambots.
10. Disable Trackbacks
A big portion of comment SPAM is trackbacks. For some blogs it is not even necessary to have trackbacks. You can choose to disable trackbacks on your entire blog, or in an individual post. This can prevent comment SPAM and it is very easy to do so.
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You can find the above option by visiting Settings » Discussion. This will turn off trackbacks for your entire site. But if you want to turn off trackbacks on specific posts, you will need to specify it either when writing a post, or edit a post and change this option.
Disable trackbacks and comments on a single post
  • Turn off Comments on Old Posts

WordPress allows you to set a comment closure deadline. Simply go to Settings » Discussion, under ‘Other comment settings’ you will see the option ‘Automatically close comments on articles older than’. Check the box next to this option and enter the number of days you want comments to be displayed on a post.
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WordPress will now automatically close comments on posts older than the number of days you defined for this option. If you need, you can override comment deadline in WordPress for individual posts where you would like comments to remain open.

  • Switch Off Comments

In case you feel that you don’t need comments on your WordPress site, or comment moderation goes out of your hands, remember that you can always switch off comments in WordPress. All you have to do is go to Settings » Discussion and uncheck the box next to ‘Allow people to post comments on new articles’.
Switch off comments in WordPress
You can also make comments for registered users only by checking the box in your Settings 
One of the most-hyped features of iOS 8 is the Health app and the framework that lets other apps share its data, Healthkit. Based on the apps you have that provide information to it, Health can track all kinds of information, such as your exercise and fitness, the quality of your sleep, your blood pressure, and much more.
One subtle, but very important, feature of Health is Medical ID. This is the iPhone equivalent of an emergency contact form, a file in your iPhone that provides pertinent medical, pharmaceutical, contact, and personal information that first responders will need to help you if you're in an emergency situation.In a circumstance where you need a Medical ID, you may already be in some trouble, so setting one up now could help you later.

Create Medical ID In the Health App


What you'll need:
·         An iOS device running iOS 8 or higher
To create your Medical ID: 
1.      Begin by tapping the Health app to open it
2.     In the bottom right corner of the app, tap Medical ID
3.     The first time you do this, you'll see a screen explaining what it is. Tap Create Medical ID to continue.

Fill Out Information for Medical ID

 

Your Medical ID is a screen full of crucial information about your health and emergency contact information. Because of that, creating one is as simple as filling out a form. Your options include:
·         Show When Locked—This slider controls whether your Medical ID can be viewed from the iPhone lockscreen. You'll need this option enabled for emergency responders to access your information if your iPhone is secured with a passcode or Touch ID (which it should be, for security purposes). The flip side of enabling this is that anyone who has physical access to your iPhone can also see your Medical ID. Make the choice you're comfortable with and either move the slider to On/green or Off/white.
·         Name and Photo—These will be pre-populated by information already stored on your iPhone. Tap your name to change it and tap the Edit button to change the photo displayed.
·         Medical Conditions—If you have any medical conditions that could be relevant for first responders during an emergency, tap this section and type them in.
·         Medical Notes—This section is similar to Medical Conditions, but is used for any other useful medical notes.
·         Allergies & Reactions—If you have allergies or reactions to food, medication, or other things that could interfere with medical treatment, type them into this section. 
·         Add Emergency Contact—Include the contact information for people who you want notified in an emergency. Remember, if your Medical ID is viewable from the lockscreen, anyone who has your iPhone will be able to call these people without unlocking your phone. Still, you should probably have some emergency contacts. To add them: 
1.      Tap Add Emergency Contact. This brings up your address book
2.     Find the person you want to add and tap their name. You can only choose contacts whose phone numbers are in your phone (contacts without phone numbers are grayed out). If they have more than one number listed, choose the best one to reach them
3.     Next, pick from a list to explain their relationship to you
4.     With that done, you can add more emergency contacts if you want.
·         Blood Type—If you know your blood type, tap this option and select from the list of blood types.
·         Organ Donor—To indicate your organ donor status, tap this option and select Yes orNo. 
·         Weight—Tap this and select your weight from the wheels.
·         Height—Tap this and select your height from the wheels.
When you've added all of the information you want to include to your Medical ID, tap Doneat the top right. With that, your Medical ID has been created and is available for emergencies.
To find out how to access your, or someone else's, Medical ID, continue to the next step.

Viewing a Medical ID in an Emergency

How you access a Medical ID in an emergency isn't obvious, but it is fairly simple. Follow these steps:
1.      Press the iPhone's Home or hold button to wake it up
2.     Swipe left to right to access the passcode screen
3.     Tap Emergency at the bottom left 
4.     Tap Medical ID at the bottom left
5.     This reveals the Medical ID belonging to the owner of the iPhone. When you're done reviewing the information there, tap Done.
The Digitized Economy is shifting value away from established players unable to evolve quickly enough. The speed and size of this shift is tremendous, fueled by yet another wave of new technology powerhouses — the young “unicorn” companies wielding billion-dollar valuations to shape entirely new markets, with a glut of private capital lubricating their engines. Such exponential super-startups are even taking the Internet giants by surprise. The disruptors are now facing their own disruption.
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Today, startups don’t need to buy infrastructure when it’s available to rent ‘as a service’. They can focus on operations. This capacity enables change to happen much more quickly – and lets 60 employees at WhatsApp deploy services to half a billion people.
This is a shock for policymakers, incumbents, and regulators who hoped the last wave of tech-enabled transformations would settle into stability. Instead, we see fast-moving disruption multiplying itself, brought on by a new wave of scalable innovation.
The accelerating pace of change, the blur of commentary, and the glut of private capital further distort our view of the shifting landscape. For most, there’s too much noise and not enough information. This information asymmetry between the establishment, the Giants, and the new class of unicorns is driving the distortion factor.
The level of distortion is rising so quickly that many are unable to discern between cyclical bubbles and tectonic shifts. The trend away from public IPO’s makes it even harder to effectively evaluate innovations when the books are closed to most. It has become a contest of competing visions for the future, seen imperfectly by many, and brutally clearly by a few.
For regulators who struggle to react to large market transformations caused by fast-moving technologies before they become overly-disruptive, distortion is especially challenging. Many older businesses that have been regulated for decades now face a looming risk of job and revenue losses from new, unregulated competitors. The attacks on Google buses in San Francisco and the taxi protests against Uber across Europe are less about technology and more about uneven regulatory environments.
Tech unicorns often reduce the core business of older incumbents into commodities by reconfiguring their value into lightweight, scalable digital services. They then focus on emerging adjacencies that are not even seen by incumbents or regulators until it’s too late. Uber has leveraged mobile technologies to attack glaring inefficiencies in the cab and livery industries, shedding burdensome capex and grabbing a $17 billion valuation from private capital.
Cabbies and medallion owners struggle with the burdens of regulatory bodies unable to clearly see the threat. Their hard-won socio-economic protections are shredded by fast-moving innovations. By the time regulators understand the impact, Uber has already become big enough to leverage its base in support of its broader objectives.
So, how can stakeholders caught in this shift gain some clarity and conquer the distortion factor? With a sort of digital laissez-faire, fear-based distortion and emotional rhetoric must be overcome by pragmatic analysis and rational experimentation. We don’t yet know, for example, whether unicorns like Uber create jobs or commodify them. Regulators must make a proactive effort to understand shifts in technology and to allow time for these experiments to be fairly evaluated; otherwise we risk further constraining the culture of innovation.
Regulatory actors must also collaborate and iterate with the private sector to better understand the balance between disruption and economic benefit to the social commons. In many cases, problems have arisen simply due to lack of cooperation.
Business leaders must accept that the innovation that will matter most to your company is likely coming from outside. Many companies are now learning how to work with startups as collaborators rather than threats. To collaborate with potential disruptors while they’re young, corporate-sponsored startups and incubators in companies like Orange are mushrooming everywhere. Policymakers should join this conversation to help align strategic disruption with economic growth and prosperity. This is, after all, the value of good regulatory oversight.
No one knows where the next giants will emerge from. But we all know disruption will continue, so we should hop on the wave before it becomes a tsunami, and leverage the momentum towards opportunity, hope, and optimism.
Georges Nahon is CEO of Orange Silicon Valley.
Microsoft has been following a pretty steady version number scheme with their operating systems lately:
Windows 7, then Windows 8, and then...Windows 10.
Wait, what?
That's right. They just skipped Windows 9.
So don't worry, you didn't miss a major version of Windows. Microsoft simply decided not name their Windows 8 successor as Windows 9, but went with Windows 10 instead.
Windows 9 was assumed to be the name for Microsoft's operating system after Windows 8 but Windows 10 was announced instead.
Mary Jo Foley, who regularly reports on Microsoft, explained it this way in a piece she wrote on September 30, 2014, the day of the Windows 10 announcement:
"But Microsoft went instead with Windows 10 because they wanted to signify that the coming Windows release would be the last "major" Windows update. Going forward, Microsoft is planning to make regular, smaller updates to the Windows 10 codebase, rather than pushing out new major updates years apart. Windows 10 will have a common codebase across multiple screen sizes, with the UI tailored to work on those devices."
So there may be no Windows 11. Ever. Windows 10 may grow and improve thanks to smaller, and regularly released, updates.

Sounds good to me.
Windows 10 is the name for the next Microsoft Windows operating system.
The internal Microsoft codename for Windows 10 was Threshold and the presumed final name was Windows 9 but Microsoft decided to skip that number altogether.
See What Happened to Windows 9? for more on that.
Windows 10 will introduce an updated Start Menu, a notification center, and support for virtual desktops.
Cortana may also be available as an app in Windows 10, even for traditional computers.
It's also rumored that Microsoft will remove the Charms Bar in Windows 10, first introduced in Windows 8. However, current pre-release versions of Windows 10 still 
While this is not confirmed, I've also heard that Windows 10 may be a free upgrade for Windows 8 owners.

Windows 10 Release Date

While no official release date has been announced by Microsoft, Windows 10 is rumored to be released on or close to April 15, 2015.
Windows 10, once released, will be the successor to Windows 8, Microsoft's most current version of Windows.
It's very likely that Windows 10 will be released in three phases, similar to how Windows 8 was released.
First is Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview, which is a beta release for software and hardware makers, as well as testers. This version of Windows 10 was made available on October 1, 2014.
Second will likely be a Windows 10 Consumer Preview - or maybe Windows 10 RC (Release Candidate) - which is an almost-ready, limited-time-use version that Microsoft will release for free to a wider audience, in return for feedback. This should be released in early 2015.
The third and final release will be the final copy of Windows 10, which will be referred to at Microsoft and to computer makers as Windows 10 RTM (Release to Manufacturing). This is the version of Windows 10 you will be able to purchase in April, 2015.

Windows 10 may be the last major version of Windows ever, with smaller, more incremental, improvements made via updates in to the future.
Windows 10 Editions
Rumor has it that Windows 10 will be available in three editions:
·         Windows 10 (for inexpensive tablets; possibly called Windows 10 RT)
·         Windows 10 (for traditional PCs)
·         Windows 10 Enterprise
It's unclear yet whether or not Microsoft will further split out any of these editions, as in Provs Standard, etc., but most of the feedback I've heard is that customers want less choices when buying Windows, not more.
All versions will likely be available in 32-bit or 64-bit editions, but a 64-bit exclusive version of Windows can't be too far off.

Windows 10 Minimum System Requirements

No information on the minimum hardware required to run Windows 10 has been released, but expect it to be similar to the requirements for Windows 8:
·         CPU: 1 GHz with NX, PAE, and SSE2 support (CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW, and LAHF/SAHF support for 64-bit versions)
·         RAM: 1 GB (2 GB for 64-bit versions)
·         Hard Drive: 16 GB free space (20 GB free for 64-bit versions)
·         Graphics: A GPU that supports at least DirectX 9 with a WDDM driver
If anything does change in this regard, an increase in the free hard drive space required is probably the most likely change from Windows 8 to Windows 10.
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