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Don’t Wait for Developers, Develop Your Own Apps
In 2010 one of the ed tech developments that I was most excited about was the Android App Inventor platform that Google had released to the public. The App Inventor allowed anyone to build his or her own Android app even if they couldn’t write a single line of code. Then sadly in 2011 Google shut-down support for the App Inventor and released the code into the wild. MIT has taken that code and now made the App Inventor available to the public.Facebook has taken a stand against what it calls a "distressing increase" in reports of employers demanding the Facebook passwords of employees and job applicants. One such report came from the Associated Press this week, which detailed cases of interviewers asking applicants for Facebook usernames and passwords, a clear invasion of privacy if we've ever heard of one. Employers examining applicants' and employees' activity on social media networks isn't new—but typically it is restricted to what information users have made publicly available to everyone. Facebook said it could seek policy changes or file lawsuits to prevent employers from demanding passwords. While Facebook is often criticized for privacy violations of its own, this time it's fighting on behalf of its users.
Facebook says it may sue employers who demand job applicants' passwords
Attributes of Effective Landing Pages: 10 Landing Page Reviews » Layout, User Experience, Web Design » Design Festival
Landing pages are carefully-designed destinations for visitors who click on advertisements, promotions, or product listings. Effective landing pages have been refined and polished through dozens of iterations. Less persuasive landing pages are designed solely on hunches and opinions instead of rigorous testing.
Grunge fonts are a great way to add style and character to your design. If your website looks painfully ordinary, it may be due to the use of typical, tired web fonts that are employed on millions of websites, including your own. An edgy grunge font may be all that you need to achieve the style and appeal that you’re seeking. “Grunge” is a broad category that can include a surprising degree of variation. A font in the grunge category could be a horror font, a script font, a graphic font, or an unorthodox font that stands apart from any common category. The term “grunge” applies to any design that includes more “realistic” elements.
30 Best Grunge Fonts from Around the Web » Typography, Web Design » Design Festival
From Hakipedia SQL Injection is one of the more popular application layer hacking techniques that is used in the wild today. It is a trick that exploits poorly filtered or not correctly escaped SQL queries into parsing variable data from user input. The idea behind SQL injection is to convince the SQL application (whether MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, ORACLE etc) to run an SQL string that was not premeditated. [ edit ] Severity Relatively High
SQL Injection - Hakipedia
ColdFusion Websockets?What can I do with it? You can write real-time Web applications and handle data with high efficiency but less complexity.
ColdFusion WebSocket for absolute beginners
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a text effect with gooey splatters in Photoshop. This tutorial should take about one to one and a half hours to complete if you’re already somewhat familiar with Photoshop. This effect would be perfect for citrus or candy ad or poster. Preview Here’s a look at the end result of what you’ll be putting together today:
How to Create a Gooey Text Effect in Photoshop » Photoshop » Design Festival
Photo Retouch - Boost Color Contrast with a Black & White Adjustment
Written by Steve Patterson. Back in Photoshop CS3, Adobe introduced the Black & White image adjustment , which finally gave us an easy and natural way to convert color photos to black and white. Yet just because something was built for a specific purpose doesn’t mean we can’t find other uses for it as well, which is exactly what we’re going to do in this tutorial. Rather than using the Black & White adjustment to remove the color from a photo, we’ll learn how it can also be used, when combined with one of Photoshop’s layer blend modes, to quickly and easily make custom brightness and contrast adjustments to a full color image! I’ll be using Photoshop CS5 for this tutorial.
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Blix may be a mod of Kubrick, but in a whole lot of ways it's become a completely different animal. Besides adding get_sidebar() to your page.php, you also need to edit the following line in header.php: <body><div id="container"<?php if (is_page() && !is_page("archives")) echo " class="singlecol""; ?>>jQuery
THE FUMBLERULES OF GRAMMAR
Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The passive voice should never be used." The notion of making a mistake while laying down rules ("Thimk," "We Never Make Misteaks") is highly unoriginal, and it turns out that English teachers have been circulating lists of fumblerules for years. As owner of the world's largest collection, and with thanks to scores of readers, let me pass along a bunch of these never-say-neverisms:
Lists of Note: Fumblerules of Grammar
Late-1979, New York Times columnist William Safire compiled a list of " Fumblerules of Grammar " — rules of writing, all of which are humorously self-contradictory — and published them in his popular column, " On Language ." Those 36 fumblerules can be seen below, along with another 18 that later featured in Safire's book, Fumblerules: A Lighthearted Guide to Grammar and Good Usage . Trivia: Safire previously worked as a speechwriter and was, in 1969, responsible for penning Nixon's thankfully unused and incredibly chilling, " IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER " speech. ( Source: Maximum Awesome ; Image: William Safire in 1968, courtesy of NYTimes . ) Remember to never split an infinitive. A preposition is something never to end a sentence with.Looking to beef up your Mac with a few great—and free—apps that cover a whole lot of your productivity and computing needs? Our annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac rounds up the best free downloads for OS X. Productivity Quicksilver : Quicksilver is an application launcher and then some, capable of browsing your file system, firing off quick emails, flipping through your iTunes library, and much, much more. It can be a bit difficult to wrap your head around, so rather than go into too much detail here, check out our beginner guide , settings tweaks , and video demonstrations . [ Download ]
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Web Accessibility for Designers
The focus of web accessibility is often on web development – the things that happen in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript after a site has been designed visually. Optimal accessibility should start much earlier, as part of the visual design process. We have created an infographic that highlights a few important principles of accessible design. Text Version Plan Heading Structure Early Ensure all content and design fits into a logical heading structure .20 Stunning Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Needs » Photoshop, Resources » Design Festival
Photoshop tutorials are everywhere, but good Photoshop tutorials can be hard to find. Designers often have trouble finding enough time to design the many projects that come across their desks, which means they are usually short on the time needed to search for excellent tutorials to improve their skills. The goal of the following collection is to provide a shortcut to twenty tutorials that are worth your time.40 Awesome Illustrator Tutorials
In this roundup we have showcased some of the creative illustrator tutorials from 2011. These include typography, character design, poster design, logo design, portrait design and many more. Enjoy!! Artistic Printing Inspiration in Illustrator and Photoshop Create a Lava Island Scenario in Illustrator Vintage Badge in Illustrator and PhotoshopColdFusion