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Never worry about font sizes again! (Just use these)

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Learn web design. A design book for developers & programmers | Design for Hackers A book that helps developers & entrepreneurs learn visual design. It debuted at #18 on all of Amazon. by @kadavy Learn design with our free email course Â» September 25 2014 â€“ 01:42pm One of the best ways to establish a clear visual hierarchy, and create a design that converts, is to change the sizes of the fonts you use. Big fonts look more important, smaller fonts look less important. Simple, right? The problem is, you waste time and mental energy worrying about what font size to use. 13px? 14px? 15px? If you stop wasting your time and energy worrying about font sizes, you can start worrying about all of the other important aspects of …

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Strip unnecessary meta-data from your images!

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Adobe Fireworks uses the PNG file format as its native format, storing metadata in â€œprivate chunksâ€ of the file that arenâ€™t used to render it. Unfortunately, if you publish your unoptimized images, the browser still has to download all of that metadata. In the above case, the server sent down a 10×30 pixel asset with just 164 bytes of image data (the IDAT chunk) and over 46kb of Adobe Fireworks private data. Fiddlerâ€™s ImageView Inspector will show you when your PNG file contains unneeded data, and if youâ€™d like to explore further, check out this great free PNG chunk decoder: http://entropymine.com/jason/tweakpng/ Lesson learned? If you donâ€™t need it, optimize your images and strip unnecessary meta-data from your image …

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Strip unnecessary meta-data from your images!

How To Check If Your Mac or Linux Machine Is Vulnerable to Shellshock

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Shellshock, the newly discovered vulnerability that allows attackers to inject code into your machine, puts your Mac or Linux at a serious risk for malicious attacks. Here’s how to test if your machine is vulnerable. Shellshock uses a bash script to access your computer. From there, they can launch programs, enable features, and access files. The script only affects UNIX-based systems, so Linux and Mac are the only ones vulnerable. You can test your system by running this test command from Terminal: env x='() :;; echo vulnerable’ bash -c ‘echo hello’ If you’re not vulnerable, you’ll get this result: bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for `x’ hello If you are vulnerable, you’ll get: vulnerable hello You can also…

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Report: Google Severely Hits PBNs (Private Blog Networks)

September 24, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The black hat and gray SEO communities are buzzing about Google’s latest efforts to target PBNs, Private Blog Networks. Over the past couple days, Google has reportedly went after many PBNs that are being used to manipulate their rankings. Google has sent out hundreds, if not thousands, of manual action notifications to those participating in these networks. Bill Lambert posted a comment on this blog saying there is a “massive private blog network update going on.” He added this is a “complete slaughter fest.” BlackHatWorld has comments from some of those who lead PBNs, obviously trying to downplay the impact but they do admit it is going on. Alex from on PBN wrote in the thread: Yes, I’m aware of the current wave of PBN …

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Report: Google Severely Hits PBNs (Private Blog Networks)