Every conceivable feature of typography can be referred to by its name. Whether you’re talking about the typeface itself, or the arrangement of type within a layout, there’s a huge glossary of terms which can help you describe things properly. Let’s take a look at the elements of typography which are important to you, as a web designer.
While in today’s digital economy it is easier to buy a domain, set up hosting, and publish a website than it has ever been before, some of the same security issues that existed many years ago still exist today which should send up red flags to anyone trying to set up shop on the internet as a new website owner, or anyone who is trying to maintain an old website. In fact, the security concerns internet users and website owners have to face nowadays are even more serious than they ever have been, considering how much information we share on the internet on a constant basis.
Shopping through ecommerce stores is the latest rage that has caught Internet users in frenzy. Sitting in the comforts of your house, you can order almost anything you like from one of the many ecommerce stores on the web. With a user-friendly, dynamic interface, ecommerce stores spell convenience in many ways. The purview of ecommerce website development has definitely increased from the days of business-to-business (B2B) transactions to something where we can literally get anything under the sun. However, one of the constant worries that have been grappling the growth of such stores has been security issues. Though since the inception of commercial use of the Internet in 1990, there have been several technological advancements in the field of electronic security, for common users it still remains risky.
Pinterest. It's a free for all, the perfect place to find visually stimulating images and then perform fast, repinning actions. Populate your online bulletin board (a.k.a. pinboard) with the inner visions of your mind. Just don't forget that you're probably frictionlessly sharing with Pinterest some of the same information you're already posting to Facebook and Twitter.
Warren Buffett has published a preview of his annual letter in Fortune.
In the preview, he does one of the many things he does best: Explains basic investing concepts and history in a way that no one else can.
In the first section of the article, for example, Buffett explains why most investors' concepts of "risk" and "safety" are completely bass-ackwards.
Will future iPhones hold up better to big drops? They might if they sport special shock absorbers like the one featured in a newly published Apple patent application.
Steam, an Internet gaming service, was compromised by hackers this past Sunday, reports the BBC.
The service boasts 35 million users, which makes this an especially serious exposure of data -- the hackers illegitimately accessed a database containing credit card info and users' personal information, such as billing addresses, passwords, and purchase history.
If you ever needed ammunition for your management about getting better network-based defenses for your enterprise, a new study by F5 Networks should help you. Earlier this fall, the company asked 1000 IT managers from around the world about their existing security measures and the cost of various exploits that they have observed over the past year. Strikingly, 100% of them have observed DNS attacks and nearly as many have observed denial of service attacks, both of which are worrisome.
Yet again, Facebook finds itself accused of installing cookies to follow its users - even after they've cut their ties with the social network.
Facebook recently came under fire for allegedly tracking users’ browser activity after they had logged out of the site. The accusation was enough to prompt privacy advocates to call for an investigation of the company, which for its part insists the actions were solely to identify users and not to actually spy on them. Futhermore, Facebook said it will no longer use cookies to keep user identification.
Sprint Nextel said today that it has formed a mobile security council to answer the growing threats to its customers and their smartphones.
The charter members include major technology players like IBM and Cisco Systems, security providers such as Lookout, and handset vendors Samsung Electronics and Motorola Mobility. Curiously, the group doesn't include Google or Apple, two of the major players in the wireless industry, nor does it include the other national wireless carriers.
Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner filed a lawsuit against Facebook in August claiming that the social network is creating "extensive profiles" of non-users with information gleaned from the profiles of its 800 million users.
“Facebook Ireland is gathering excessive amounts of information about data subjects without notice or consent by the data subject," the filing reads.
Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook for a copy of all the data it had on him.
He received a CD of 1,200 pages of information, some of it consisting of items he had "deleted" from the site, reports The Guardian.
He created a list of 22 specific incidents where Facebook held on to data he had deleted and filed it with the Irish data protection commissioner as it handles its first-ever audit of Facebook next week.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is used to encypt your online communications in everything from banking and shopping to Gmail and Facebook. Now, Google is integrating this same security measure for all logged-in users' queries. Here's what's in it for you.
Computer science researcher and WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, in 2005; the US government used secret orders to compel Google and ISP Sonic to give up his personal email records.
Somewhere, a US government official is reading through a list of those who sent or received an email from Jacob Appelbaum, a 28-year-old computer science researcher at the University of Washington who volunteered for WikiLeaks. Among those listed will be my name, a journalist who interviewed Appelbaum for a book about the digital revolution.
The Washington County school system in Florida believes it has come up with the best way to take attendance. Ditching the typical roll call, the school system will use fingerprint scanners that log everyone as they step off the bus.
Wikipedia visitors can now leverage a new level of security and privacy regarding their reading habits, thanks to the site's newly announced support for HTTPS browsing. Ryan Lane, a Wikipedia Operations Engineer, writes that HTTPS "allows you to visit our sites without having your browsing habits tracked, and you can log in without having your password or user session data stolen." Visitors seeking to navigate the site securely can simply visit https://en.wikipedia.org to begin.
OK, here’s the good stuff about the new Silk Web browser, which Amazon will be embedding in its new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets: From all reports it makes Web-browsing amazing fast on relatively low-end hardware. The bad news? It does it by watching all, and I mean all, of your Web activity through Amazon’s cloud-based Amazon Web Services.
No doubt that Google decision to acquire Zagat gives its local business strategy a nice boost.
But it's not without some tension. Google, which likes to think of itself as the great organizer of the world's information, is increasingly owning important chunks of it. And that raises questions about whether the company will give the information it owns preferential treatment over information owned by others.
Apple had lost control of another valuable iPhone prototype--the second misplaced prototype handset in the past 18 months--the company began looking for people to help protect unreleased products.
Facebook has famously raised concerns over member privacy, but by no means is it the only offender.
As technology in the security and surveillance sector continues to improve, Alternet points out 5 everyday places where you could be tracked with facial recognition. Our sumamary appears below, but check out their report for all the details.
