Category: Technology

How the NSA & FBI Made Facebook the Perfect Mass Surveillance Tool

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Update May 15 at 3:11 PM ET:

Facebook and Akamai responded to VentureBeat’s report. The National Security Agency and the FBI teamed up in October 2010 to develop techniques for turning Facebook into a surveillance tool. Documents released alongside security journalist Glenn Greenwald’s new book, “No Place To Hide,” reveal the NSA and FBI partnership, in which the two agencies developed techniques for exploiting Facebook chats, capturing private photos, collecting IP addresses, and gathering private profile data. According to the slides below, the agencies’ goal for such collection was to capture “a very rich source of information on targets,” including personal details, pattern of life, connections to associates, and media. NSA documents make painfully clear how the agencies collected information …

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How the NSA & FBI made Facebook the perfect mass surveillance tool

Game of WordPress: Set Your Eyes on Fire by Watching a 30 Hours Experts Show

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

May 15 2014 By Michael Dobler – Posted in WORDPRESS Advertisement

I admit it. I can`t get enough of the “Game of Thrones” show, and as a late discoverer, I had the joy to watch an entire season almost in one go. I couldn`t stop watching the epic wrestling for the iron throne and I pressed the stop button much later than it was healthy for my eyes and energy level at the next weekday’s morning. I learned something about dragons and deadly weapons, but this sadly didn`t help me when I straight ran into a problem with our WordPress installation, which cost me another two grey hairs. To avoid this I should possibly have watched an entirely different show! For those among us who work with WordPress…

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Game of WordPress: Set Your Eyes on Fire by Watching a 30 Hours Experts Show

The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The psychology of color as it relates to persuasion is one of the most interesting–and most controversial–aspects of marketing. The reason: Most of today’s conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about “colors and the mind.” To alleviate this trend and give proper treatment to a truly fascinating element of human behavior, today we’re going to cover a selection of the most reliable research on color theory and persuasion. Misconceptions around the Psychology of Color Why does color psychology invoke so much conversation … but is backed with so little factual data? As research shows, it’s likely because elements such as personal preference, experiences, upbringing, cultural differences, context, etc., often muddy the effect individual colors have on us…

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The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding

Default Hyper-V Storage Paths Explained

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

by Aidan Finn – May 6, 2014

In my travels, I have noticed that the default storage paths used by Hyper-V can cause some confusion. To be honest, I don’t like how Hyper-V stores virtual machines by default; System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) handles the folder structure in a much more attractive fashion. In this post, I will explain where Hyper-V stores virtual machine files by default, and how you can manipulate those settings to get a better configuration. Hyper-V Storage Path Settings There are two default storage paths defined in each host’s Hyper-V settings. You can find and edit these paths by opening Hyper-V Manager, connecting to and selecting your host, and choosing Hyper-V Settings from Actions. Here you …

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Default Hyper-V Storage Paths Explained

Friendlier HTML Form Controls with CSS Magic

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Friendlier HTML Form Controls with CSS Magic Forms, MIT License Leave a Comment WTF, forms? provides friendlier HTML form controls with a little CSS magic. Designed for IE9+, as well as the latest Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. The file input is the most gnarly of the bunch. They wrap the input; in a label; so the custom control properly triggers the file browser. They use :after to generate a custom background and directive. It’s an entirely custom element, all generated via CSS. Requirements: CSS Demo: http://wtfforms.com/ License: MIT License Share Tweet Sponsors subscribe to our newsletter – weekly free resouces for web developers Subscribe follow us on social sites – rss, facebook, google+, Twitter Related Resources Ajax or Flash Version of Yahoo…

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Friendlier HTML Form Controls with CSS Magic