Category: technology

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. 

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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
Thai Cuisine
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!
Women's Business Network

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. 
Local Networking : Eugene Oregon
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.

 

Photoshop Select Layer with Keyboard shortcut in a Group

Photoshop Click SelectGetting 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?
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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.


Looking at reviews

So I have been looking over getting more reviews for myself and my clients here are a few post from facebook:

 

Have you use the services at OregonPublishing.com? Please leave a review on the Facebook Business Page here: https://www.facebook.com/OregonPublishing?sk=reviews 

If you are looking to add the review tab to your sidebar feel free to contact OregonPublishing.com

And if you have the time check out my review page on Google: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=6615982898315647232

iPad baby baffled by paper magazine

Video Youth is not wasted on the young. But apparently paper is, and so are static and archaic publishing models that don’t involve pinching and poking. This baby is so used to an iPad that old-fashioned dead-tree media is just baffling

 

 

 

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FireFox 7 puts Memory on a Diet!

Looks like the days of Firefox hogging up so much of my computer’s memory, (even if I am equipped with 8GB)

Love to hear they are plugging leaks and I can run Firefox for days before I have to restart it…Some days right now I have to restart 2 times a day.

And with a faster internet connection coming soon, this working online will become a much smoother and effiicent process.

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Project MemShrink payback

By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author

Posted in Applications, 28th September 2011 12:09 GMT

Free whitepaper – 2011 Lippis Report

Firefox 7 has been released with a promise from Mozilla its browser is less of a memory hog.

The new version of Mozilla’s browser will consume up to 50 per cent less of your system’s memory than past editions with most users clawing back 20 and 30 per cent.

Firefox 7 apparently achieves this thanks to a project started in June called MemShrink.

The project’s goal has been to improve the architecture and code in Firefox by eliminating bugs behind memory leaks and putting in place practices to detect regressions.

With Firefox gobbling up substantially reduced amounts of memory, the idea is for Mozilla’s browser to become dramatically faster and less likely to crash if you have lots of web sites and tabs open or keep Firefox running for long periods of time between restarts.

You can read more here.

Other features in Firefox 7 include the fact WebSockets are now enabled by default on mobile, for two-way communications with a remote host for HTTP, while the Canvas element for graphics has been updated for snappier performance.

You can read more here. ®

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Funny Bits of “Dear”

These came from a friend and colleague today. Anyone up for any Comments?

Dear World,
Please stop freaking out about 2012. Our calendars end there because
some Spanish d-bags invaded our country and we got a little busy, OK?

Sincerely,
The Mayans
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Dear Noah,
We could have sworn you said the ark wasn’t leaving ’til 5.

Sincerely,
Unicorns

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Dear Twilight fans,
Please realize that because vampires are dead and have no blood
pumping through them, they can never get an e*ection.  Enjoy
fantasizing about that.

Sincerely,
Logic

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Dear Yahoo,
I’ve never heard anyone say, “I don’t know – let’s Yahoo! it.” Just saying…

Sincerely,
Google

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Dear 2010,
So I hear the best rapper is white and the president is black — WTF happened?!

Sincerely,
1985

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Dear girls who have been dumped,
There are plenty of fish in the sea… Just kidding! They’re all dead.

Sincerely,
BP

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Dear Skin-Colored Band Aids,
Please make one for every skin color…

Sincerely,
Black people

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Dear Scissors,
I feel your pain… no one wants to run with me either.

Sincerely,
Sarah Palin

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Dear Customers,
Yes, we ARE making fun of you in Vietnamese.

Sincerely,
Nail Salon Ladies

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Dear Ugly People,
You’re welcome.

Sincerely,
Alcohol

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Dear White People,
Don’t you just hate immigrants?

Sincerely,
Native Americans

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Dear iPhone,
Please stop spellchecking all of my rude words into nice words, you
piece of shut.

Sincerely,
Every iPhone User

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Dear Trash,
At least you get picked up…

Sincerely,
The Girls of Jersey Shore

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Dear Man,
It’s cute, but can you pick up peanuts with it?

Sincerely,
Elephant

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Dear Dr. Phil,
Look man, there’s only room for one fake doctor in this world and I
was here first.

Sincerely,
Dr. Pepper

Go Daddy no-no means No Daddy is no-go

Go Daddy has managed to effectively gag its fiercest critics by acquiring and then shutting down the high-ranking Go Daddy gripe site: NoDaddy.com.

For over four years, No Daddy hosted a forum detailing a range of “horror stories” submitted by Go Daddy customers and disgruntled current and former employees.

Insecure.com opened the site in 2007 to protest Go Daddy’s unilateral decision to seize the domain name SecLists.org, after MySpace complained that thousands of hacked user passwords had been posted to a security mailing list archived there.

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Store 20GB in a square centimeter? New tech coming

HP scientists have made a breakthrough in the development of memristors, a fundamental circuit type that looks increasingly likely to replace NAND flash and possibly DRAM.

Essentially, they’ve figured out the physical and chemical mechanisms that make memristors work.

“We were on a path where we would have had something that works reasonably well, but this improves our confidence and should allow us to improve the devices such that they are significantly better,” the leader of the HP research team, R. Stanley Williams, told IDG News.

Memristors are the fourth fundamental type of passive circuitry, along with the resistor, capacitor and inductor. Like flash, memristors are nonvolatile – they “remember” their state when power isn’t applied to them.

The core advantage of memristors is that they can theoretically achieve speeds 10 times that of flash at one-tenth the power budget per cell. They can also be stacked, enabling exceptionally dense memory structures.

Memristor cells can also be built using exceedingly small fabrication processes. Using a grid of nanowires whose crossing points form the memristors, Williams told The New York Times that HP Labs has working devices with three-nanometer memristors that switch on and off in about a nanosecond and could store 20GB in a square centimeter.

HP has known for some time how memristors can store bits. Simply put, a charge applied to a memristor moves what Williams calls a “oxygen vacancy” from one layer of a titanium dioxide semiconductor to the other,…Read More at the source.