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February 21st, 2010

iTunes reacting to adult content in App Store

The topic in the Apple Discussions board is “Parental Controls Content Restrictions do not work correctly in iTunes?” The content is all about the ability for anyone, regardless of age or how the parental controls are set, can view previews of adult content showing?unacceptable?imagery.
The topic opener ends with the question, “Is there a step that [...]

February 20th, 2010

Google Buzz lawsuit over privacy

Here a suit, there a suit, everywhere a suit suit. Especially when a multi-billion dollar company is on the receiving end. So the question isn’t so much whether or not you think Google may have violated security but whether or not you agree with the “pile it on” sue happy environment many attorneys seem to [...]

February 20th, 2010

Photoshop for your iPhone (video)

You read the title correctly. Furthermore it is a truth — at the 20th Anniversary for Photoshop the iPhone app was unveiled by Dr. Russell Brown of Adobe.
Development on the Corona SDK “The function of the app is to load any photo from your iPhone library, and then manipulate it using any aspect of the [...]

February 17th, 2010

Geo-tagging and your security

Imagine the savvy burglar who builds a database of internet users by their usernames. In this database she keeps a list of real names, home addresses, work addresses and phone numbers. Meanwhile, from her flat black grocery getter she trolls the areas waiting, watching and looking at … http://pleaserobme.com/
It is bound to happen. Of course [...]

February 15th, 2010

Shaun White on Twitter

Along with some very cool Twitpics! Yes, you too can follow the great Shaun White while he tweets his way around the world. At the time of this post he had over 101,000 follower and is following 51 and only 71 tweets. While this does not place him in the top for building social equity [...]

February 14th, 2010

3 fantastic articles for social media and design

Sometimes just logging on to a network is a good thing – like when you’re online friends share really meaty links or bits of information. Today was one of those days and friends shared these three fantastic links on the new Google Buzz. My friend @MikeElliott and my other friend, and show co-host on Social [...]

February 10th, 2010

The Buzz about Google Buzz

Twitter not enough for you? Tired of all the social applications on Facebook crowding your stream? Meet Google Buzz. The Buzz reached me today and, being the shy and demure type that I am, I decided to jump in with both feet. Here’s what I found:

Google Buzz seems to be a blend of the Facebook [...]

February 8th, 2010

South Dakota legislature to outlaw free internet phone calls?

Dear Ken:
As your FREE teleconferencing service provider, we seek your help because you’ve conducted conferences with participants from South Dakota (area code 605). Please ask your colleagues in South Dakota to contact their state representative regarding legislation under consideration this week (House Bill 1097). If allowed to pass, this legislation could prohibit you from conducting [...]

January 28th, 2010

Wordle up! Word cloud generator

Your words are your thoughts. True enough some people write without giving much thought to their words and those make some entertaining word clouds, too. What is a word cloud you ask? Simple enough – it is a “cloud” created from all of the words in a particular document.
Back in the day before the [...]

January 28th, 2010

GMail account scam

Of course the majority of you reading this know better but there are a few who will be fooled and fall for this. I find the most interesting thing here is this was sent from a Hotmail account! If you ever get an email from your email company or your web company asking for you [...]

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