Google can kill or install apps on citizen Androids

By Brian | June 28, 2010

Google has the power to not only remove applications from users’ Android phones, but remotely install them as well.

Last week, Google told the world it had exercised its Android “Remote Application Removal Feature,” reaching out over the airwaves and lifting two applications from citizen handsets, and as pointed out by the man who built this pair of vanished applications – security researcher Jon Oberheide – the company can use the same persistent handset connection to install applications as well.

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Don’t reset Your Facebook Password..email

By Brian | June 15, 2010

Just a quick note to those who have been getting the emails that say you need to reset your FACEBOOK password.
That is a bogus email and some scammer is trying to dupe you. Delete that email and don’t even open it.

Side note about the IRS.
The IRS will never email you. They use the US Postal system or show up in person.

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Google Reveals Adsense Revenue Share….finally.

By Brian | May 24, 2010

Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search.

As you may already know, AdSense is comprised of several products. The most popular are AdSense for content, which allows publishers to generate revenue from ads placed alongside web content, and AdSense for search, which allows publishers to place a custom Google search engine on their site and generate revenue from ads shown next to search results. Since AdSense for content and AdSense for search offer publishers different services, the revenue shared with publishers differs for each of these products.

AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google’s costs for our continued investment in AdSense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads. It also reflects the costs we incur in building products and features that enable our AdWords advertisers to serve ads on our AdSense partner sites. Since launching AdSense for content in 2003, this revenue share has never changed.

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DW 8 crashes at Initializing Extension Data

By Brian | April 20, 2010

So it was bound to happen at some point. I have over 90 websites setup in dreamweaver and have had an occasional error, but this was a new one on me.

Every time I tried to load Dreamweaver it would get stuck at

Initializing Extension Data

Off to find a solution in search and found this nice little gem that fixed it right up.

I have a similar solution in Dreamweaver CS4 Windows.
The folder in question can be found at /Documents and Settings/[login ID]/Application Data/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS4/[language code]/Configuration/SiteCache.
In my case, I found it sufficient to delete the folder and file for the site I last worked on. When I re-launched Dreamweaver, it automatically rebuilt the cache for just that site.

Source Here

Topics: Tips & Tricks, Web Design, Web Tools | 2 Comments »

Video on Multi-tasking (i.e Destracted by Everything)

By Brian | April 12, 2010

I found this video a good way to spend some time staring at the screen. It's about 90 mins long, but in that time I felt I learned new way of thinking about this new world we live in…The Digital World..always plugged in.