Over the last few years, Facebook’s growth has been phenomenal. The
world’s no. 1 social networking site also sometime back beat Google to
become the most visited Web site in the US for an entire week at a
stretch. However, the site has also lately being receiving lot of flak
for its privacy policies.
An expert in online privacy drew attention to the five dangers of
sharing information on social networking site Facebook. Joan Goodchild,
senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online, said that
marketing efforts by the company often results in a compromise on
account holders’ privacy.
Risk 1: Your information is being shared with third parties
According to Facebook policy last updated on April 2010, “When you
connect with an application or website it will have access to General
Information about you. The term General Information includes your and
your friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connections,
and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. … The default
privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook
is set to “everyone.” … Because it takes two to connect, your privacy
settings only control who can see the connection on your profile page.
If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available,
you should consider removing (or not making) the connection.
HTML5 makes creating accessible sites easier for two main reasons: semantics and ARIA.
Add extra html tag like <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <section>, <aside>, etc
1. Mutuality
Due to usability purpose the web sites made by developers are highly
interactive nowadays and for this developers need to include fluid
animations, stream video, play music and Social Network sites like
Facebook and Twitter into the websites. Till
now they have only the option to integrate it with the help of Flash or
Silverlight, Flex or javascript like tools. But these consume so much
time to develop and even the complexity of web application also
increased. But now with the help of HTML5 it is possible to embed video
and audio, high quality drawings, charts and animation and many other
rich content without using any plugins and third party programmas as the
functionality is built into the browser.
2. Cleaner markup / Improved Code
A security flaw has made it easy for scam artists to send phony text
messages to Android phones with help of a security flaw, a report has
said.
In late October, researchers at North Carolina State University
alerted Google to a practice called “smishing” that can ensnare
consumers in fraud.
Google’s security officials confirmed the flaw and promising to correct it.
Within days they had incorporated a fix into the latest version of
the Android operating system, Jelly Bean 4.2, and made available a
security update for earlier versions.
But for most Android phones, the fix never arrived, and for many, it never will, the Washington Post reports.
That is because it is not clear which company, Google, the smartphone
maker or the wireless carrier that sells it, bears ultimate
responsibility for the costly process of getting security updates to an
Android device.
According to the paper, fixes to known security flaws can take many
months to reach individual smartphones, if they arrive at all.
Security experts said that the problem has contributed to making the
world’s most popular mobile operating system more vulnerable than its
rivals to hackers, scam artists and a growing universe of malicious
software.
Breaches remain more common on traditional computers than on
smartphones, which have been engineered to include security features not
found on desktop or laptop machines, experts added.
The report pointed out that if there was a major outbreak of
malicious software, the fractured nature of the system for delivering
updates could dramatically slow efforts to protect information carried
on Android phones, including documents, passwords, contact lists,
pictures, videos, location data and credit card numbers.
Internet search giant Google has unveiled a fresh look for its video sharing website YouTube. According to the official company’s official blog, the new design emphasizes on subscriptions and channels.
Those changes include placing the video at the top of the page,
putting it front and center for the viewer, and adding elements such as
subscribe, the social action options, and the video information right
below the player, CNET reports.
According to the report, Playlists are on the right, and can be browsed
while the video is playing. YouTube also introduced a guide that alerts
users of new videos in their subscription list.
The subscriptions and guide can be found on other devices beyond the
PC, including Android, iPhone, PlayStation 3, and Google TV, the report
said.
Google Glass is a Goggle’s Frame which can do wonders in your Digital World, Some of the Great Features are as Follows:
1) Record videos, take pictures
Just say the word and Google Glass will take a picture or record a
video – you will never have to touch the hardware. The photos and videos
will be stored on the 4GB flash memory of the device, and can also be
shared on social networking websites or emailed.
2) Show messages
Google Glass will show you text messages as well as emails you receive and allow you to reply to them via voice commands.
3)Find Information
If you are in the habit of Goggling things a lot, you will find that
your task has been made easier by the new Glass. You simply need to ask a
question and the device will pull the answer from the internet. For
example, you can ask when Taj Mahal was built or to give you a few
photographs of the monument and the device will provide appropriate
replies on the small screen in front of your eye.
1) Bill Gates is a BORN Genius.
Born on October 28, 1955 to lawyer father and teacher mother in
Seattle, Bill Gates got initiated into the computing world right in his
childhood.
At the age of 13, while studying at private Lakeside School, Gates
discovered his interest in software and started writing his own computer
programs.
According to some reports, Bill Gates sold his first computer program
at the age of 17, a time-tabling system for his high school for $4,200.
2) Bill Gates is a Hacker
Interestingly, Gates and three other high school students were banned
from computer usage by Seattle-based CCC (Computer Center Corporation)
after they were caught exploiting its operating system bugs to steal
computer time.
1) Zerg Rush – Check your control on Mouse!!
Just punch ‘Zerg Rush’ in Google and you will find yourself defending
your search results from an onslaught of zerglings that will try to eat
them up. Want to save your precious search results from being
obliterated? Just repeatedly click on the dastardly zerglings (which are
basically red and yellow coloured Os) to eliminate them.
What’s more, Google is keeping score! A widget on the right side of
the screen will show how many times you clicked to kill the enemy and
the number you killed. If you are unsuccessful, the yellow and red
coloured Os will wipe out all search results and assemble to form ‘GG’.
You can share the score with your circles on Google+ or clear the game
and move on to search results.
2) Flight Simulator – Your Dream to Be a Pilot comes true!!
Want to fly a fighter jet? Google is there for you. While using Google
Earth, you can enjoy a flight simulation right on your computer’s screen
and ‘fly’ around the globe. To activate this feature, you simply need
to go into Tools menu and select ‘Enter Flight Simulator’.
Upon starting the simulator, you can choose the starting position and
aircraft model. You can also enable joystick mode for the flight if you
system supports the hardware.
3) Pac Man – Return Gift
All of us remember Pac Man, the arcade game, but it has become outdated
in the days of HD games. But if you still want to play it, just hit
Google. On the 30th anniversary of the game, the search giant made an
interactive doodle that allowed users to play it using their keyboards.
4)Barrel Roll – Rotate rotate rotate
Another cool Google trick that has been doing the rounds on the internet
is the barrel roll. Just type ‘do a barrel roll’ in your browser and
you will see the whole page spin 360-degrees once. Just refresh the page
to see the effect again and again.
5) Virtual Guitar Play Me!!
Another cool interactive doodle was created on the 96th birthday of Les
Paul, the inventor of solid-body electric guitar. Google’s logo was
redone to form a guitar that could be played using the cursor of the
mouse or the keyboard. You can even record your tunes and Google will
upload it on the web, so that you can listen to it again and save it as a
media file on the computer.
6)Hurdles – Let’s Race!!
During the London Olympics 2012, Google made a doodle for Hurdles, where
a runner jumps over obstacles. This is an interactive doodle and allows
you to race using the keyboard, with increasing level of difficulty.
You can set your best score and even challenge your friends.
7) Moog Synthesiser
In 1960s and 70s, Moog Synthesiser was used by top musicians across the
world to add depth to their music. Now you can do that too, as Google
made an interactive Moog Synthesiser on its creater, Robert Moog’s, 78th
birthday.
The synthesiser can be controlled from keyboard as well as the mouse
and consists of features like mixer, oscillators, filters and envelope,
which you can tinker with. You can record your own music and listen as
well as share it on the web.
8)Snake on Youtube
Tired of waiting for the YouTube video to buffer? Then you can play a
round of ‘Snake’ in the meantime. The popular game of 1970s can be
played by pausing an ongoing or buffering video by pressing either the
left, right or down arrow key, immediately followed by the up arrow key.
You can even play the game in full screen.
9) Price range in search
Looking for a laptop in a set budget and can’t afford to go above that?
Well Google will help you find the products in your exact budget. Just
remember to type ‘Product Rs x…y’ in the search bar and viola! your
exact options will show up. For example, if you want an Android
smartphone priced between Rs 10,000 and 15,000, you need to search
‘Android smartphone Rs 10000…15000′.
