Facebook Timeline Pages: A how-to for Photographers | Rosh Sillars. Today (March 30, 2012) is the day our Facebook pages switch to the timeline layout. Timeline offers photographers new opportunities as well as a little pain. The new banner is nice for photographers to show off their work. My best advice is to keep it simple. One big change is the feature default custom tabs is no longer available. All traffic lands on the Timeline front page. The new cover photo dimensions are 851 x 315. For those photographers who use page gateway apps (A gateway page means people have to Like your page before they can see your timeline.) you can still use them, but now your header image will still be visible.
Now when you have an important post or image to share you can highlight it. Applications have been moved from the left side of the page to their own photo boxes (see below). Take advantage of the milestone option. Timeline is designed to allow larger photographs and longer stories. The new admin panel, on the upper right side of your header, is easy to access. The Fastest Adopted Gadget Isn't What You Think. Why antivirus companies like mine failed to catch Flame and Stuxnet. Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. He has been working with computer security for over 20 years and has fought the biggest virus outbreaks in the net, including Loveletter, Blaster, Conficker and Stuxnet. His TED Talk on computer security has been seen by almost a million people and has been translated to over 35 languages.
A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from Iran. It was sent by an analyst from the Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team, and it was informing me about a piece of malware their team had found infecting a variety of Iranian computers. This turned out to be Flame: the malware that has now been front-page news worldwide. When we went digging through our archive for related samples of malware, we were surprised to find that we already had samples of Flame, dating back to 2010 and 2011, that we were unaware we possessed.
What this means is that all of us had missed detecting this malware for two years, or more. But that’s not the point. Researchers Say They Took Down World's Third-Largest Botnet. On Wednesday, computer security experts took down Grum, the world’s third-largest botnet, a cluster of infected computers used by cybercriminals to send spam to millions of people. Grum, computer security experts say, was responsible for roughly 18 percent of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. Computer security experts blocked the botnet’s command and control servers in the Netherlands and Panama on Tuesday. But later that day, Grum’s architects had already set up seven new command and control centers in Russia and Ukraine.
FireEye, a computer security company based in Milpitas, Calif., said it worked with its counterparts in Russia and with SpamHaus, a British organization that tracks and blocks spam, to take down those command and control centers Wednesday morning. The researchers said they were able to vanquish the botnet by tracing Grum back to its servers and alerting Internet service providers to shut those computers down. “It’s not about creating a new server. 5 Top Price-Compare Apps. Sortable: A Sweet Gadget-Buying Decision Engine. Sortable launched initially way back in January this year, offering a decision-engine to help the online masses arrive at the best conclusion regarding what product to buy. In the nine months since launch, and with four million monthly visitors, the team behind Sortable have been working to improve the platform, introducing a slew of new features and giving the site a substantial overhaul.
Sortable collects large swathes of data from across the Web and presents in a more palatable way for those looking to make quick-but-informed buying decisions. “We’re providing a personalized view of the Web’s collective knowledge of a product so that we can help people make great purchasing decisions,” says Chris Reid, Co-Founder at Sortable. “It’s our job to go out and read thousands of reviews, parse available data and perspectives, and understand what the Web knows about a product.
We then take that intelligence and personalize it for every single user so they can find what is right for them.” Keeping Up With the Vikings | Free Decorator. Top 10 ways to Ditch Your Clutter and Digitally Organize Your Life. Whitson, Digitizing is all well-and-good... except for the difficulties in finding stuff afterwards. We digitized everything in our house several years ago, and have to keep doing it to fight the continuing river of non-digital documents (yes, we try to get as much as we can sans-paper, but some stuff just doesn't come that way).
Everything ends up on a home server (pictures, music, video, scans of just about everything). And while this is great for holding down on physical clutter, we now have the computer version thereof. What is missing is some single, home-server-based search system to rule them all — preferably browser-based. Something which is at a home price-point, Google-simple-but-powerful. Have been searching, but have found precious little. Note: client-based search isn't going to cut it. "Why is digital worse than paper in this regard," you ask. 38 Brilliant Logo Designs Of 2011 For Your Inspiration. Logos are one of the most important components of a successful brand. They embody a company’s message and display its personality. A logo should be as creative and professional as possible since it becomes the company’s identity and what consumers remember. This year, the design world has seen some amazing logos and we wanted to display some of the best for you as a source of inspiration.
They show some great creativity with the use of negative space and what you can do with type to make a real impact. Here are 38 of the most inspiring logo designs of 2011: This first set comes from actual web and print campaigns: 1. Effective use of the number 9 as the leaf of the plant. 2. A successful brand identity campaign for Missile Energy Drink. 3. 4. 2Fit Creative use of the “f” and “t” for this new fitness startup. 5. Great, simple logo for this media company. 6. Inventive use of the punching glove for this Brighton-based web development company 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. Logo Inspiration 18. Best Practices For Writing For Online Readers. I have less than 30 seconds to capture your attention with this post, so here goes: if you read some, most or all of the next 750 words or so, you will know how to write Web copy that is more useful to readers of your blog or Web site. As we reported yesterday visual content is continuing its steady rise in dominance over written content.
But that doesn't mean we should give up on good writing: if anything, it means we need to think harder about how we write for online readers. Online Readers Are Different Seems pretty obvious, right? But the fact is, many of us still write the same way online as we do for books, magazine articles and other long-form and traditional print mediums. Research hightighted in books like Reading In The Brain shows that online readers use vastly different sections of the brain than offline readers.
In short, the brain is conditioned to skip around when online reading, as clicking on a link, for example, will reward the brain with new images and content. The Great Cul-De-Sac Problem And How To Alleviate It | Chris Norstrom. “Why are we so damn stupid?” , that’s what you’ll ask yourself after you see what I’m about to show you. Now, I’m not entirely against suburbs, cul-de-sacs, and curvillinear loop street layouts. I can see why people (myself included) like them and what they find attractive about them.
But, things have gotten so out of hand, that the damage they cause never be fixed and is permanant. Quick History: by Norman Garrick Long story short, people wanted to get away from the noisy, chaotic, concrete paved city and headed out into the peaceful green leafy suburbs. The Problem: Instead of creating more distance between you and your annoying loud neighbors / preventing others from driving through your street, you’re really separating yourself and your kids from your own community who live a frisbee’s throw away from you. No wonder anti-depressants are the most prescribed drug in the US. My Neighborhood: Myth 1: The neighborhood feels so friendly, it really feels like a community.
Nonsense. Bullshit. Top 10 Ways to Find Better Answers Online (that Aren't Google) - Lifehacker.