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New found Mushrooms EAT plastics!!!

One of the fungi we’re looking at is called pestalotiopsis microspora. It was discovered by a group of Yale researchers on an expedition in Ecuador and can subsist on [EAT] polyurethane [all] alone in airless environments, like the bottom of a landfill.

The other comes from a couple of college friends who discovered that the sticky substance on the bottom of mushrooms called mycelium could be turned into a glue and when that glue is combined with corn husks and other food byproducts it takes on a form similar to Styrofoam. Their company,Ecovative wants used Styrofoam to become mulch, not waste.

A future with less plastic and more mulch, all thanks to fungus.

This is Truely A BIG DEAL!

Thank you Laura Magpali for Sharing this

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snowing in creswell

Bamboo bent over from the weight of the snow.

This one’s just the awesome beauty

Posted from Android

Apple and hacker, the iPad leads the way to Virus

I was just looking over the Reg and was thinking about how much Apple users have really enjoyed the almost non-threat of Malware and Viruses in general.

Part of that enjoyment came through the lack of use of Apple Products. The Audience of computing devices to hack was greating the in PC area vs the Mac. With the invention of the iPad and the wide popularity of its use I think we call all see what is to come next. Mass attacks on the iPad. The Security is lacking as you can read:

Hackers jailbreak new iPad hours after it hits the shelves
Custom code rope-ladder up the Apple garden wall
By John Leyden • Get more from this author
Posted in Developer, 19th March 2012 12:03 GMT
Video Hardware enthusiasts managed to find multiple different ways to jailbreak the new iPad over the weekend, hours after the release of Apple’s latest fondleslab.

Hackers were quickly able to develop custom code that allowed them to escape Apple’s walled garden and install unapproved apps on the new iPad with iOS 5.1.
Three different groups developed methods for jailbreaking the new iPad. None of these methods have yet been packaged into point-and-click tools just yet, but the apparent ease with which three different approaches to jailbreaking were developed means that utilities to automate the process are likely to arrive sooner rather than later.

DOMAIN NAMES : OWN YOURS

I am stunned at how many web developers are willing to register clients’ domain names AND KEEP THEM!

The first rule when you start working with a technical or specialzed field, make sure you know what you are paying for and what you own afterwords.
It makes me sick to see web developers take advantage of those not in the know. We all have to make a living, but I refuse to hold client’s domain names hostage. Or require an over-the-top fee for renewals.

What do you do about it?
If anybody suggest they will buy a domain name for you, make sure that is what they are doing.Once the name is registered the developers should either ask you to set-up your own account at the domain registar and push the name to you. Or set-up the account for you and buy the name with you there or on the phone.
Reason: You will own your domain name, the thing that all your emails that end with @yourwebsite.com controls.

Never give up control on your domain name! It’s your business, you should own your assests.

Oregon Publishing requires that all clients take ownership of their domains if one or more were purchased on behalf of a client.
That’s just policy and business.

Mekala’s, Women’s Business Network and Extravaganza!

This past week has been a very productive and excited time for Oregon Publishing. Several websites have been completed and relased from development into the wild web. Then we held a sponsored event known as Extravaganza, to promote more networking, B2B and B2C
	I had the pleasure of meeting the owner of Mekala’s and The Underground Pat Morris through networking with Alex Vincent of Restaurant.com. Their website went live last Saturday. Mekalas is setting up a new addition to The Underground Lounge…a nice little covered spot outside with a pool table…sweet!
	The Women’s Business Network, commonly known as WBN locally, after a bit of a stumble is now a fully fuctioning paid membership website. The clean fresh feel of colors and layout were created by Joyen Pendowski Owner, Ruby Porter Marketing and Design. I look forward to working with WBN and the members more in the future.

Then on Tuesday Night this week we held Extravagaza‘s! Fouth Birthday Bash at the Hilton in Downtown Eugene. The turnout was amazing. This community of Eugene and Springfield really do want to build relationships with each other. Networking is the Life Blood of many businesses andExtravaganza is a FREE event! All our sponsors and the people who came made the event not only possible, but a real hit! Over 200 people in attendance and we gave away over $2500 in Prizes! Photos of that to come soon.

Patented location-garb, Tracking you through your clothes and sports gear

Apple wants to OWN YOUR VERY SOLE • The Register

-Clothes that track your every move could fill Apple fanbois’ wardrobes
-Based on the existing Nike+ iPod trainers
–The patented sensors would track “garment usage” and “detect wear patterns”:

And just when you thought you couldn’t track enough data..these are only few

Read the full article.

Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet

I have been tossing a line around for sometime now about all this Tech and it goes like this:

The Eye in the Sky that Blasts the Beam that Gives US an Incredible Power!

The below link shows just how POWERFUL that EYE is

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Gus Lubin | Dec. 26, 2011, 7:22 AM

You need to take a look at these InfoGraphics

They are well done and really show how Explosive the Web has become.
The days of being shy and hidden in the shadows of the internter is long gone.
People seem more than willing to open their lives up and share, share, share..
Thoughts, videos, articles, how-to’s and they are doing through the most incredible ways.

Photoshop Select Layer with Keyboard shortcut in a Group

Getting what you want when you click your mouse!

If your working within a PSD file and a design that has many elements, you will most likely use Groups to keep layers organized.

Further, if your maximizing your time efficienctly you are also using the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+G to create those groups.

Since you are using keyboard shortcuts, selecting elements using cntl + click, makes your life easier and your workflow smoother and quicker.

But if you have created a group and you are trying to use cntrl + click to select the layer you maybe only selecting the group folder and NOT the element inside the group.

What to do to fix this?
____________________

Answer:

Select the Move Tool.
Look up at the options bar.
Next to where it says (or says) Auto Select you may choose Layer or Group.

Now for using the Cntrl + Click make sure the Auto Select is NOT checked.

Note this is for PC. Mac may be similar.

For all you Flickr lovers

I recently found a need to use Flickr. Sure I’ve signed up with an account and thought i would upload lots of mobile pics. Well that never happened..but I had a client that had a nice portfolio in Flickr that I wanted to pull down and place in their custom gallery.

Unlike Photobucket, Flickr does not allow you to download complete file sets. I found it hard to even download all of them at once. What I wanted was all of them in the sets they are in.

After testing a few free programs and others that promised to do more for $$$..trials that would only let me download 3 sets then paid to do more. Nope, not gonna do that. Looking a litte deeper I found

FlickrEdit

Free and does download all or sets and even saves the set names.

This was exactely what I was looking for, thank you SunkenCity for a cool free program.

This wouldn’t be needed if Flickr would just add some much needed features.

Just start with Photobucket if you are looking at either of these two online photo storage services.

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