Remember the celebrity nude leaks? 2FA would have prevented it. “The Best Two-Factor Authentication App for iPhone” http://bit.ly/YMjGKI
Two-factor authentication is one of the most important things you can do to protect yourself against getting your accounts hacked, and you should enable it now if you haven’t already. Instead of using…
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iCloud users should enable this security setting NOW. “Apple’s two-factor authentication now protects iCloud backups” http://bit.ly/1smMIsp
Elcomsoft’s backup ripper, other tools now can’t gain access with password only.
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Awesome, Adobe’s rolling out a streaming version of Photoshop for Chromebooks! But I’m curious about performance. http://buff.ly/1vretEg
I got quoted in the San Jose Mercury News in an article about privacy tools, data security and anonymity! Awesome!
“Tech responds to growing calls for Internet anonymity” http://buff.ly/1nAxkNn
Long before Edward Snowden, the NSA and PRISM became headlines and household words, a group of technologists dedicated themselves to making the Internet more anonymous. Today, they are leaders in a movement…
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I have a soft spot for clever to-do list apps, and Moo.Do’s approach looks interesting. It’s basically taking the concept of tagging and hashtags with simple tabbing for hierarchy to populate a to-do list and connect pieces of data. Plus, cross-platform goodness! I may give this one a go. What’s your favorite to-do list solution?
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Moo.do is the best and easiest way to organize everything in your life: projects, to-do lists, appointments, contacts, reminders, events, and anything else you can write down. Moo.do is available on any…
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Interesting enterprise-focused secure chat app. “Microsoft legend Ray Ozzie wants to kill the conference call” http://bit.ly/1uCKDLc
We haven’t heard from Ray Ozzie in a while, which is unusual. Ozzie has been a very busy man since the early 80s — he worked on VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet app, invented Lotus Notes and sold it…
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This is a fantastic guide to UI design and process, including practical usage details and non-obvious drawbacks and solutions to varying approaches. Even if UI/UX stuff doesn’t interest you, this is a great way to lay out process. “Mobile UI and game design: Screens vs. flows” http://bit.ly/1yotXNS
I initially published this post in my personal blog Quarterview.com. Check it out to learn more mobile gaming techniques, analysis, and industry opinions.
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Cool production summary of iterative game UI design. “This week in Archmage Rises: User Interface Magic” http://ubm.io/1ux6Z0K
This past week, I focused my development efforts on the user interface (UI) of Archmage Rises. Proper software development methodology mandates that we should take on the highest priority, highest risk…
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Good summary of why Linkedin can be valuable for people with specific, educated target audiences. “LINKEDIN DEMOGRAPHICS: The Top Statistics That Make The Network’s Audience So Valuable To Businesses” http://read.bi/1v42lZz
Overall, LinkedIn is actually more popular than Twitter. This report has the main data and insights on LinkedIn and its rival networks.
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The detail level is overkill for my uses for art pipeline and process documentation and troubleshooting, but this could still be extremely helpful for some. Has anyone used it? “Use the Problem Steps Recorder Tool to Document Problems in Windows” http://bit.ly/ZFR9Yx
Windows: Explaining a problem you’re having to someone else is never easy. In Windows, there’s a tool called Problem Steps Recorder that can create a document of every step you took while having a problem…
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