What I learned from writing my first Chrome extension · EdGuiness/date-picker Wiki. Intro I wrote a Chrome extension to add a calendar (date picker) to any web page. Initially I just wanted to add a calendar to Google forms but then thought it might be useful on other pages as well. So I made it into an extension and published it in the Chrome web store. How the extension works There are two ways of using the extension. The first is where you double click on a text-box to display the date picker: The second way is to click on the extension icon, then pick a date which is copied it to the clipboard: What I learned You need to pay Google before you can publish on the Chrome web store It's just $5, I think they do this to minimise spam submissions. You can also publish outside the Google ecosystem on sites like chromeextensions.org, though I assume these sites are not curated and are less patronised than the Google web store.
If you used the Chrome Developer Dashboard before the first developer preview release of the Chrome Web Store you don't need to pay the fee. Nielsen Norman Group: UX Research, Training, and Consulting. Don't be a Petraeus: A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts. Tomorrow, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers reforming the decades-old federal email privacy law, the personal Inboxes and love lives of senior military and intelligence figures may be on that august body's mind. When the FBI pored through the personal lives of CIA Director David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell, Jill Kelly and General John Allen, citizens across the land began to wonder how the FBI could get that kind of information, both legally and technically.
So, just how do you exchange messages with someone, without leaving discoverable records with your webmail provider? This is an important practical skill, whether you need to use it to keep your love life private, to talk confidentially with a journalist, or because you're engaged in politics in a country where the authorities use law enforcement and surveillance methods against you. Pseudonymous webmail with Tor According to press reports, Broadwell and Petraeus used pseudonymous webmail accounts to talk to each other. Hyper-V – Create Linux Virtual Machine in Windows 8. Www.cs.uvm.edu/~icdm/algorithms/10Algorithms-08.pdf. Syria's Digital Proxy War - Sean Lyngaas. Iran and the United States are squaring off in a life-or-death battle for information. A Free Syrian Army fighter speaks on a radio in al Qusayr. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) There is a proxy war going on in Syria, one measured in megabytes rather than in arms.
On one side, Iran is providing Bashar al-Assad's regime with the tools of digital dictatorship to locate and bait the Syrian opposition. On the other side, the United States is trying to help the opposition protect itself from such attacks and set up alternate channels of communication. The Syrian regime has long been interested in improving its online repression. Contrary to recent reports that the Syrian regime could unplug the country from the web entirely, Assad considers the Internet a vital tool to winning the civil war. Contrary to recent reports that the Syrian regime could unplug the country from the web entirely, Assad considers the Internet a vital tool to winning the civil war.
Welcome to the new reputation economy. This article was taken from the September 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Imagine a world where banks take into account your online reputation alongside traditional credit ratings to determine your loan; where headhunters hire you based on the expertise you've demonstrated on online forums such as Quora; where your status from renting a house through Airbnb helps you become a trusted car renter on WhipCar; where your feedback on eBay can be used to get a head-start selling on Etsy; where traditional business cards are replaced by profiles of your digital trustworthiness, updated in real-time.
Where reputation data becomes the window into how we behave, what motivates us, how our peers view us and ultimately whether we can or can't be trusted. In September 2008, Atwood and Spolsky launched Stack Overflow. Pinned Sites in Windows 8 - IEBlog. The Windows 8 Start screen is the best place to find and stay connected to all your favorite apps and content. App tiles are alive with activity and show you fresh and tailored content so you know what’s new in your world. We’ve written about Internet Explorer 10’s Metro style browsing experience on Windows 8. This post describes in detail IE10’s pinned sites and their availability on the Windows 8 Start screen—complete with site-centric visuals and badge notifications to let you know there is new content.
We’ll also walk through the Web developer details to support pinned sites. The following video shows pinned sites in action on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Pinned Sites in Windows 8 Pinned Sites – More than Favorites Consumers on Windows spend most of their time on the Web and we know from Windows opt-in telemetry (officially, the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program), that they go back to the same set of sites time and again. Site-Centric Visual on the Pinned Site Tile. Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing.