Some people love Facebook, while others hate it. Like any social networking site, though, it’s easy to lose track of just how much information you’ve posted to your account, and how many comments have been posted by others in reply.
To help, Facebook has recently launched a facility that lets you download a .zip file from your account that contains everything from your profile. All of your postings, plus comments from others, plus all of the photos and videos associated with your account. All in a single, browseable file structure.
It’s a great way to archive the information for safekeeping, especially if you’ve been uploading pictures and forgetting to keep another local copy of them on your PC.
To use the feature, sign into your Facebook account as normal, then click on the Account option on the top right hand side of the screen. Then choose Account Settings. Then, under Download Your Information, click on Learn More and follow the instructions.
If you have a facebook account, this is a must watch video:
Lock Down Your FaceBook Profile in 20 Minutes
Are you still using scraps of paper to sketch the layout for your web pages? Or maybe you’ve gone a bit more hi-tech, and are using Post-It notes on your desk? Or perhaps even a whiteboard and pens? I don’t blame you for not using a computer. After all, there’s just no software app that can compare with pen and paper when it comes to roughing out a page design. Or at least, there hasn’t been until now.
Balsamiq Mockups is a superb program which makes it incredibly easy to draw prototype screen layouts for web page designs, software user interfaces, and more. It’s simple to use, fast, and deliberately shields you from the complexities that are all to tempting to worry about but which really don’t need to concern you during the early stages of web site or software app development.
Find out more at www.balsamiq.com. The desktop app version costs $79, but the great news is that you can use it online completely free.
Free online app can currently be used here: http://www.balsamiq.com/builds/mockups-web-demo/
All antivirus companies are being hit with the next wave of malware: Rogue antivirus tools like Antivirus 2010. This code throws messages on the user’s screen that they are infected, and “download here to get rid of the malware”. Sure enough, that gets the Trojan installed. Reality is that no AV vendor, ESET, McAfee, Sunbelt, Sophos, Symantec, etc. can give you 100% coverage against it right now.
These new fake antivirus variants are some of the most vicious, polymorphic Trojans this industry has seen. They use extremely complex obfuscation techniques which make detection quite challenging by even the best antivirus engine. Many of these rogues are also service-side polymorphic. That means every time an exe is downloaded, it’s recompiled on the server-side into a different piece of code.
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Host intrusion protection software, or HIPS, provides rule and behavior-based system monitoring to guard against unwanted changes. HIPS can be used alongside traditional antivirus software to add an extra layer of security. Some host intrusion protection software provides a learning mode and pre-configured rules, but in general HIPS is best suited for more advanced computer users. I have a great list of apps to get you started!
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