30 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Web Designers

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From renowned blogs and magazines to the seasoned professionals and rising stars, Twitter plays host to a multitude of web industry related accounts. So many in fact that at times it can be difficult to figure out where to get started. This is why we’ve put together a list of 30 must-follow Twitter accounts for web designers.

Following these accounts will be sure to keep you up to date with the latest industry news and resources as well as linking you with a group of super talented individuals who openly share their knowledge, thoughts, and ideas on a daily basis.

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There's A Security Flaw With Apple IDs That Puts Your Account At Risk

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Update: Apple has shut down its "iForgot" password recovery page to deal with a security flaw, which is described below.

Original: Watch out, there's a security flaw that could let someone easily take over your Apple accounts, Chris Welch at The Verge reports.

If someone knows your email address and your date of birth they can reset your password. All it takes is a slight tweak of a URL on Apple's "iForgot" page.

Welch says there is a step-by-step guide floating around the Internet, though he didn't link to it to discourage people from actually doing it.

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Google’s New Nexus 10 Tablet Commercial Focuses On Its Multiple Account Feature, And That’s An Advantage

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Google has been on a bit of a roll with its commercials lately, especially for its gadgets. Today, the company unleashed its latest commercial for the Nexus 10, its iPad killer competitor. The video tells the story of a couple who has just found out that they’re having a baby. Google has woven the Nexus 10 Wi-Fi-only device into the story quaintly.

The feature that Google decided to focus the commercial around? Its multi-user Android one. Yes, Google’s competitive advantage is apparently the fact that you can share the device with someone else. Is that enough? Have a look at the commercial...

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Facebook Targets 76 Million Fake Users In War On Bogus Accounts

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Facebook has not gotten its fake account problem under control — yet — but it appears to be making progress.

In its annual report, Facebook said that the number of duplicate accounts on its network had risen to 5 percent of all accounts in Q4 2012, up from 4.8 percent in Q2 2012.

However, the number of accidentally misclassified accounts and the number of abusive accounts (run by spammers and the like) has declined.

Overall, the total percentage of fake accounts declined from 8.7 percent to 7.2 percent. In whole numbers, the number of duplicate accounts went up from about 45.8 million to 52.8 million; but the total number of fake accounts (which includes abusive and misclassified accounts) declined from 83 million to 76 million over the last six months...

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Twitter Has Been Hacked: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Compromised

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Twitter has been hacked. If you have a Twitter account (and who doesn't these days), it's probably a good idea to make sure everything is in order and/or reset your password with something strong. Twitter says that approximately 250,000 users may have been affected by the hack, with the hackers gaining access to usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted version of passwords. Not good.

Twitter discovered "unusual access patterns" this past week that led it to identify unauthorized access attempts to Twitter accounts. They shut one live attack down but discovered that around 250,000 users may have been compromised. Twitter says...

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The 5 Tools You Need to Analyze Your Twitter Account

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Opinions, experiences, current geographic location and ability to find hilarious links are what set one tweeter apart from the next. The platform itself evolved from a simple ‘status update’ tool to a flourishing ecosystem of people interacting, sharing and discovering.

As with any ecosystem there are those on top and those at the bottom. The higher you are the more active followers and influence you’ll have. This is a fairly useless observation for those who use Twitter to find news and check up on friends. But for people who use Twitter to interact with a community, market their product or service or research a segment of people, analyzing a Twitter account is a top priority.

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Tips for Maximizing the Security of Your Facebook Account

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There are many ways to get into trouble with social media such as Twitter, Foursquare, and facebook. These social media outlets can offer vast opportunity for connection, but they may also leave users vulnerable to physical harm, personal crimes, and identity theft. Many people are also losing their jobs because of posts or pictures on facebook, or not getting hired for jobs in the first place.

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How To Make Your Facebook Account More Secure [Video]

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Over the last couple of years, Facebook has made great strides in security and privacy. But to ensure the right level of security for you, both casual and avid users need to understand the giant social network’s security options.

Security vendor Kaspersky Lab posted this week a how-to video on securing a Facebook account that’s worth reviewing to make sure your settings are right for you and the way you communicate with friends.

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Tech Tools for Easy Accounting

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The way small businesses keep the books is rapidly changing as mobile technology expands. Paper ledgers are an ancient artifact and even desktop software is starting to look dated compared with smartphone applications that let business owners keep track of expenditures and payments on the go.

As the technology improves, so, too, do the business uses for it.

When choosing an accounting package that's right for you, look for programs that are specifically tailored to fit the business needs of different industries, says Doug Sleeter, president of accounting software consultants The Sleeter Group. For example, accounting software publisher Sage50 has four different industry-specific solutions, including one for construction firms and another for non-profits.

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Pinterest Is Open To Everyone Now - Here's How To Get Started

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Pinterest no longer requires an invitation to register an account.

It's open to anyone that wants to join. You only need to sign up with a Facebook account, Twitter account, or email address.

If you've been waiting for a while, now's the time to get in.

If you're on the fence about joining, here's a quick run through of the process, and what you can do with Pinterest.

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Twitter Has A Big Problem With Fake User Accounts

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Everyone knows there's a sordid industry around selling Twitter followers.

But on Friday, Jason Ding, a researcher from security vendor Barracuda Networks, quantified how bad the problem is for Twitter and how these guys fly under the radar.

For 75 days, Ding investigated the fake Twitter account business. He and his team fired up three Twitter accounts and then bought 20,000 or 70,000 Twitter followers for each.

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Transfer all Emails to Another Account

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Ever thought of changing your e-mail service providers ? may be, Yes. There can be several reasons to do that.

New features lures you to open an account with a new service provider but your old mail box has got too many mails to transfer, and you don’t want to use multiple accounts either.

Old e-mails starts getting too much spams to handle, and you want to get rid of it at one shot.

You are changing a job and need to shift all personal mails from your office id to your personal mail id.

Security threats are bugging you, and you fear that your existing mail account is hacked

And last but not least, you just got bored with your old email id .

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YouTube users can finally change their account names

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Many of us have experienced the following scenario: You signed up for a service and created a username that seemed like a good idea at the time. However, you didn’t know that you’d be using that service for years. In the end you’ve found yourself stuck with a username like “supersmoothboy” even though you had become far more mature and professional. If this is how you feel about your YouTube account, now is your chance to change your username for the better.

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How To Backup Your Text Messages to Your Gmail Account

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Backing up your text messages from your Android phone to your Gmail account is so simple there’s no reason to not back them up and make them search-friendly in the process. Read on to see how you can turn your Gmail account into an SMS vault.

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Mobile Games Account for 52% of App Sessions so far in 2012

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Game developers are gathering in San Francisco this week at the Moscone Convention Center for the Game Developers Conference. Collectively, game developers should give themselves a pat on the back. According to new data from mobile analytics company Flurry, they are absolutely killing it.

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What Facebook knows about you - Shocking Video

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A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this. Because facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files.

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8 Ways to Protect Your Email Account

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How secure is your email account? If you don't know, you should take some important steps toward email security.

Despite the rise of social networks and Twitter, email is still the way many of us communicate, according to Mike Rothman, analyst and president of Phoenix-based security research firm Securosis.

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How Government Contracting Affects Your Accounting

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I previously wrote about ways that lawyers can get involved in government contracting work. At the very least, your attorney needs to be aware of legal requirements that are specific to government contracts, to represent you well.

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How to Create a Google+ Business Page

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So you set up your company Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook business pages and thought you were all set? Not so fast!! Introducing the latest competitor to the social media game, Google+ Business Pages.

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AT&T thwarts hacking attempt on mobile accounts

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AT&T said today that it successfully thwarted what appeared to be an attempt by someone to steal mobile customer data.

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