Don't panic? Windows 8 and the "ribbonification" of Explorer. When Microsoft first revealed that the Explorer file manager would be outfitted with a ribbon-style toolbar in Windows 8, responses were loud, passionate, and frequently negative. The company recently described changes that it has made to Windows 8's Explorer in response to the feedback. These include some small modifications to the ribbon experience along with some other refinements of Explorer's new features. Though the changes themselves have been welcomed, the continued hostility toward Explorer's redesign remains. Since its introduction in Office 2007, the ribbon has been a polarizing user interface. The ribbon's purpose was to make a package that was feature-packed but unwieldy more approachable—to enable people to find more of those features when they wanted to use them. Microsoft says that it has broadly succeeded at this goal, and there is evidence that all but the heaviest Office users regard it as an improvement.
Relight the fire Data-driven design. Apple.com - Apple - Webstatsdomain.com - Check stats for domain. Google (finally) brings Chrome to Android. Google is finally bringing Chrome to the Android platform. A beta release of the increasingly popular Web browser was published this morning in the Android Market and is available to users who are running Android 4. The port includes Chrome's advanced HTML rendering engine and many of the browser's popular features.
The Chrome beta is designed to run on both phones and tablets. The tablet version of the user interface is nearly a perfect match of Chrome on the desktop, including the distinctive slanted tab design. The phone version has a more compressed interface, suitable for smaller screens, and includes the standard Chrome features such as the Omnibar and application shortcut pane.
The gap between Chrome and the native Android Web browser has long been a source of confusion for users and pundits. In fact, the Android Web browser didn't even use Google's unique V8 JavaScript runtime until the release of Android 2.2 in 2010. Just how easy is phone hacking? | Need to Know. Amid reports of the News of the World cell phone hacking scandal, many mobile users might be wondering if their own phones are vulnerable. How easy is it to hack someone’s phone? Despite the recent hubbub, the news is pretty heartening: with advances in mobile technology have come advances in mobile security. But not all cell devices are free from invasion. “No system is 100 percent foolproof,” said John Walls, vice president of public affairs with CTIA, a non-profit advocacy organization that represents the interests of the wireless communications industry. “Then again, the systems that are in place are very good and provide high levels of protection for consumers.
You have to protect the customer to the best of your abilities — the customer and the integrity of the service is all they have.” But why would anybody hack someone else’s phone? But this is not the only way to hack voice mail. But there are other ways to hack voice mail. This adds a new dimension to the hacking problem. Video On How To Hack A PC - Defending The Net. Updated News On Hacking Video July 10th, 2007 It appears the company that originally posted this step by step video on how to hack a PC has a new procedure in place in order for you to gain access to the video. The page is still there and you can access it via the link in the next section of this article but now you must register prior to accessing it. The interesting thing is I registered an account a few days ago and never received any response or activation notice for my account.
I'm not entirely sure why they decided to hide this video. Maybe the received to much pressure or e-mails regarding their blatant attempt to scare people and businesses into purchasing one of their products. There is no statement to this affect on the page. Defending The Net to Release Video On How Hackers Can Access Your Computer And What You Can Do To Prevent Them From Doing So Hacking Video - Education Or Marketing Tool? Connecting To The Target PC Shutting Down Anti-Virus Software Cracking Account Passwords. Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers. Update #2 Path has released a new version of the app which asks for permission before it sends your address book to its servers and has blogged about the episode.
Update #1 Dave Morin, the CEO of Path has responded in the comments and I’ve pasted it below. As an aside – never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this to blow up like this. I hope we can keep calm and continue to discuss this sensibly. Arun, thanks for pointing this out. Original Post It all started innocently enough. Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Disclaimer I’m not insinuating that Path is doing something nefarious with my address book but I feel quite violated that my address book is being held remotely on a third-party service. The Trail of Events 1. 2. 3. How to do this at home. Scientific Blogging: programmable sheet self-folds into a boat- and into a plane-shape. Sign In | Support | Create Your Own Channel programmable sheet self-folds into a boat- and into a plane-shape. About this Video Submitted By: Editor on June 28, 2010 About the Video: courtesy of Robert Wood, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Daniela Rus, MIT.Movie: A programmable sheet self-folds into a boat- and into a plane-shape.
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Starting with the Stone Age, Pinker hits the fast-forward button on human history to get us to the present day. Perhaps the most depressing sentence in the book, however, is in the preface: ‘A large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit there is anything good about civilisation, modernity and Western society.’ Enter the media. Thomas Sowell. Jewish World Review Dec. 6, 2011 / 10 Kislev, 5772 This holiday season give the gift of wisdom: My book picks By Thomas Sowell | For the person who seems to have everything, newly published books are among the things they probably don't always have.
One of the most enjoyable new books I read this year was a biography titled "Stan Musial: An American Life" by George Vecsey. This biography, however, is more about Musial the man, and the era in American life in which he lived, which makes it more three-dimensional. Another new and very different book about a by-gone era that I enjoyed was "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America" by Marc Levinson. But this is more than an economic story. Two far less uplifting books were published this year but both contain important charges of profound and dangerous corruption.
The other book is "FDR Goes to War" by Burton W. My all-time favorite among Theodore Dalrymple's books is "Life at the Bottom. " You're Reading the Wrong Vonnegut: Or, why authors' best known books are often not their best books. Posted by Patrick on July 20, 2011 Yesterday, in the Guardian, John Self wrote a very entertaining post about why it seems that so many authors' best known works are not their best works. He writes, "If someone reads Kurt Vonnegut's most famous book, Slaughterhouse-Five, and doesn't like it, I'll want to shout to them, "But it's rubbish! Cat's Cradle is much better! " This is the sort of argument that used to be unwinnable -- you'd say Slaughterhouse-Five is the best, I'd argue for Cat's Cradle, and in the end, after some fisticuffs, we'd agree to disagree and go have a beer.
But not anymore! We have data to help us settle the argument, definitively. Looking at the statistics for Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle, one can see that while many times more people have read Slaughterhouse-Five (250,000 to 50,000), Cat's Cradle does have a higher average rating (4.16 to 3.87). How about the rest of Self's list. This trend holds even for more contemporary authors. Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? Examination of a very popular popular-statistics series reveals avoidable errors Andrew Gelman, Kaiser Fung The nonfiction publishing phenomenon known as Freakonomics has passed its sixth anniversary. The original book, which used ideas from statistics and economics to explore real-world problems, was an instant bestseller. By 2011, it had sold more than four million copies worldwide, and it has sprouted a franchise, which includes a bestselling sequel, SuperFreakonomics; an occasional column in the New York Times Magazine; a popular blog; and a documentary film.
The word “freakonomics” has come to stand for a light-hearted and contrarian, yet rigorous and quantitative, way of looking at the world. The faces of Freakonomics are Steven D. As the authors of statistics-themed books for general audiences, we can attest that Levitt and Dubner’s success is not easily attained. May be bad news if you are a rabid soccer mom or dad whose child was born in the wrong month. A U.S. What Turns an Idea into a Trend? Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting | Fa. Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce. 50 Cool Search Engines for Serious Readers | Online Colleges. The Internet has proven itself as a valuable resource for all types of readers, from collectors of rare books to tech-minded readers who shop, network and download books online. But if you’re having trouble finding exactly what you need, whether it’s a book review, a book by a certain author, or a digitized anthology for your class at an online college for creative writing, you’ll want to use sophisticated tools that direct you to high-quality resources.
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