tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82018530836884987852024-03-13T21:48:28.788-07:00LEE MARSH N System DeveloperAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-66951602897192923182016-09-27T04:37:00.001-07:002016-09-27T04:37:55.931-07:00Reasons why you are being hacked<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Weak passwords</b><br />
<b>Phished </b><br />
Phishing is a common method of identity theft that utilizes fake e-mails which are
sent to customers to acquire sensitive user information.<br />
<b>Insecure Internet Browsing </b><br />
Cyber threats that originate as the result of web browser vulnerabilities, can be
controlled by using the latest versions of the web browser software, or by installing
updates and configuring settings to disable applets, scripts, plugins and Active X
controls.<br />
<b>Use of pirated software</b><br />
Pirated software may be used to harvest Trojans and viruses in computer systems
and since the software is “unsupported” the user is deprived of technical support.<br />
<b>Misuse of Portable storage devices. </b><br />
<b>Lack of proper encryption</b><br />
Some of the risks that one can expect from an unsecured network
include:
a<br />
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>Unauthorized access to files and data </li>
<li>Attackers may capture website traffic, user id and passwords, </li>
<li>Attackers may inject a software to log user key strokes and steal
sensitive information </li>
<li>Unauthorized access to corporate network. (In the event that the
user’s network is connected to a corporate network.)</li>
<li> A users IP address could be compromised and unauthorized users
may use it for illegal transactions. </li>
</ol>
<div>
<b>Using Wireless Hotspots</b></div>
<div>
While using public access points it is safe to use secure websites protected by the
Secure Sockets Layer. Using infrastructure mode is safer than ad-hoc mode as it
uses access controls to connect to network. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a
secure way for a user to connect with their company network. (VPN creates secure
access to private network over public connections.)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-73466542591708282262016-06-02T22:53:00.003-07:002016-06-02T22:53:33.758-07:00The Most effective way of stealing Passwords and relevant information<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In this blog, I'm going to discuss about <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4146e751-043d-435e-8b3e-d9813cdb9cbc" id="e5040bf4-7c70-4803-b24f-8252cd8fb4ed">keylogs</gs> and why they are malicious.<br />
Keystroke logging, is the action of recording (logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, it can also be defined as a piece of software — or, even scarier, a hardware device — that logs every key you press on your keyboard. It can capture personal messages, passwords, credit card numbers, and everything else you type.<br />
The keylogger can theoretically reside in a malware hypervisor running underneath the operating system, which thus remains untouched. It effectively becomes a virtual machine.<br />
A program on the machine obtains root access to hide itself in the OS and intercepts keystrokes that pass through the kernel.<br />
<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c314af05-a580-480f-ad9d-47e6d549e792" id="d55d574a-f993-4621-adfd-f766b5364b93">Writing simple</gs> software applications for <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c314af05-a580-480f-ad9d-47e6d549e792" id="f9f20f31-510c-417d-8194-2dd82205fb5a">keylogging</gs> can be trivial, and like any nefarious computer program, can be distributed as a trojan horse or as part of a virus.<br />
Legitimate programs may have a <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="17447bbf-2175-4f40-99f8-84b5f1cfd1c6" id="f57578b6-60e2-49d6-a8a3-0c91965c7c35">keylogging</gs> function which can be used to call certain program functions using “<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="17447bbf-2175-4f40-99f8-84b5f1cfd1c6" id="96b48108-1aff-4f52-9aad-b0f94d3ebd37">hotkeys</gs>,” or to toggle between keyboard layouts (e.g. Keyboard Ninja).<br />
There is a lot of legitimate software which is designed to allow administrators to track what employees do throughout the day, or to allow users to track the <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="38a24fb5-c9fb-4f3e-a2f8-52659c36dfd0" id="ba1b1a71-7865-43f7-a892-742910243c03">activity</gs> of third parties on their computers. However, the ethical boundary between justified monitoring and espionage is a fine line. Legitimate software is often used deliberately to steal confidential user information such as passwords.<br />
<br />
It is more difficult, however, for users to combat <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1d1bae19-f4a5-4e88-aee5-a668bac73e1c" id="8f8586ae-92a7-459e-8aae-45b86d1c7856">keyloggers</gs>; the only possible method is to use an appropriate security solution, as it’s usually impossible for a user to tell that a <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1d1bae19-f4a5-4e88-aee5-a668bac73e1c" id="d830fce5-881a-4e0c-91da-3b44a8fc6167">keylogger</gs> has been installed on his/ her machine.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-59323555612504493402016-05-19T22:58:00.000-07:002016-05-19T22:58:01.627-07:00Eight Important Oracle Storage Capabilities and Database Benefits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Oracle Intelligent Storage
Protocol (OISP)</b><br />
OISP is a unique communications protocol that enables
Oracle Database 12c to communicate dynamically with
the ZFS Storage Appliance to automatically tune critical
factors, including <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2164932d-24ad-41ce-acb4-0657758e6cc8" id="9feed4b1-72ea-4218-9f77-29fa13fbb25c">logbias</gs> and record size, for optimal
database performance. With OISP, storage administrators
reduce manual tuning tasks by 65 percent, it is only available for ZFS Storage
Appliances.<br />
<br />
<b>Oracle Database Hybrid
Columnar Compression (HCC)
for Oracle Exadata and Oracle
Storage </b><br />
<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e94c26d1-fc62-414d-8aa8-726312a8b9bd" id="69c2082b-6a7c-4795-b8f3-074b96e0f5b3">Systems
Oracle</gs> Database HCC, available only with Oracle
Exadata and Oracle storage systems, enables customers
to compress data 12 to 50 times, depending on
usage, resulting in a 3 to 5 times reduction in storage
capacity requirements. HCC <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3492580c-5166-48f6-a308-3576c62cc39e" id="d61bfe6a-7776-4ae0-8292-ddaf9140eb3a">combines</gs> with new features
in Oracle Database 12c to provide Heat Map and
Automatic Data Optimization (ADO) in Oracle
Advanced Compression.<br />
<br />
<b>Quality of Service (QoS)
Plus for FS1</b><br />
QoS Plus is a policy-based virtualization feature, incorporating
business priority I/O (input/output) queue
management fused with sub-LUN (logical unit number)
automatic <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c44341df-f68d-4d07-9867-66a3c442c2d8" id="d7f15452-87b7-47ea-b5c2-9f25353351a1">tiering</gs> into one simple management framework.<br />
<br />
<b>Application Profiles for FS1
Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System</b><br />
Comes with predefined
application profiles that provide tuned and
tested out-of-the-box storage <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8d88b2e1-480f-4ddb-954a-53ed07a11e7e" id="8d7c79be-d7c4-41de-b22e-ab3c0b216b8e">optimization</gs> for Oracle
Database and key enterprise applications, including
non-Oracle applications such as Microsoft Exchange.<br />
<br />
<b>Hybrid Storage Pools </b><br />
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances leverage Hybrid
Storage Pools intelligent data caching algorithm and
architecture to ensure that up to 70–90 percent of
“hot” I/O is processed in DRAM (in memory) — up to
44
2TB per system, frequently accessed data is cached in
flash, and less-frequently accessed data is read from
disk when needed. This ensures <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3b555ae8-9ed5-478c-b503-40ff43adef3a" id="f094b694-48e4-4cdd-aced-7b45fb9aefd4">continuous</gs> and optimal
storage performance and efficiency, with no <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3b555ae8-9ed5-478c-b503-40ff43adef3a" id="cbe9948b-df76-4fb2-9dcb-1071f8882498">enduser</gs>
involvement required (refer to Chapter 2 for a full
description).<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Snap Management Utility</b><br />
The Oracle Snap Management Utility for Oracle
Database is a standalone management tool specifically
engineered to work with the ZFS Storage Appliance. It
provides<br />
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li> A simple, fast, efficient, and automatic way to
back up, restore, clone, and provision Oracle
Databases that are stored on the ZFS Storage
Appliance — all performed directly by the database
administrator with a graphical user interface </li>
<li> One-step provisioning of database copies to accelerate
development and test environments </li>
<li> Support for <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f582c13a-8c4b-431d-acfa-ce8b89ed7675" id="f256271e-3f1f-49d1-96cc-6a992252e548">Oracle Solaris</gs>, Linux, and Windows
clients and database hosts, for databases configured
for NAS or SAN storage types </li>
<li> Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters
(Oracle RAC)</li>
</ol>
<div>
O<b>racle Enterprise Manager (EM)
and Oracle VM Integration</b> </div>
<div>
Oracle EM is Oracle’s cross-system, global management,
and monitoring tool. With Oracle EM plug-ins for <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5af81579-1c36-4e23-ae54-8f91eae04113" id="5f239124-0119-43c4-b5e8-55fb6a67f8e8">engineered</gs>
systems, Oracle FS1, and Oracle ZFS Storage,
users can monitor and manage their entire Oracle environment
from application to storage from a single pane
of glass. EM plug-ins enable DBAs to monitor and
manage storage resources with storage administration
involvement.</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b></div>
<div>
<b>Oracle Storage Archive Manager
and Long-term Archiving</b> </div>
<div>
Oracle StorageTek Storage Archive Manager (SAM)
enables policy-based archiving and classification and
provides ready access to data throughout its life cycle. </div>
<div>
<b><br /></b></div>
<div>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Source: Oracle.com</b></span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-72769932802140066972016-05-18T22:09:00.002-07:002016-05-18T22:09:36.420-07:00How HTTPS Bicycle Attack Works<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is usually assumed that HTTP traffic encapsulated in TLS doesn’t reveal the exact sizes of its parts, such as the length of a Cookie header, or the payload of <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e1239f6e-93b0-4e55-af6c-c249c1b924e5" id="dce43c11-1f65-41d1-84bc-40334f0dfb79">a</gs> HTTP POST request that may contain variable-length credentials such as passwords.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Bicycle attack, in the context of obtaining the length of a user's password from a browser request, is fairly simple. All a user needs to do is have a packet capture of requests to a known site, including an authentication (login) request containing an already known username and an unknown plain-text password. If an attacker can determine the user's browser and how that browser would send requests to the site, they can subtract the length of all the known data the browser would send except for the piece of information they are interested in, which will result in them knowing the length of the unknown data.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Summary:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Obtain a packet capture (i.e. </span><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="67ca9a3d-4ee0-44e6-8882-968e1c8fdd06" id="6bcc8655-f6ab-49e6-90fa-3ed98a857e4d" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">via</gs><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a Man-in-the-Middle attack) which has </span><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="67ca9a3d-4ee0-44e6-8882-968e1c8fdd06" id="3e54e25f-fd27-47d5-b9eb-8bbc03d0ea34" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">stream</gs><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-cipher TLS traffic of encrypted browser requests to a known website, including one where there was likely to be a password sent in an authentication request. The target site may be revealed in the packet capture in the form of a DNS request, or the attacker may be able to find this out with some reconnaissance.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Obtain a "User-Agent" string from the packet capture or determine which browser the target was using.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Replicate browser requests to the site using the same browser. This will reveal the lengths of the requests </span><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a1e995bd-b637-4b6e-9cea-347ef44afdde" id="0e8ba5fe-f393-4b8c-be63-9cdb3ef5306d" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to</gs><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> various pages on the site.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From the encrypted TLS payloads of the browser requests in the packet capture, extract the lengths of the payloads.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Compare the Pearson correlation coefficient for the plain-text and encrypted requests. This will enable to compare plain-text and encrypted request lengths in order to reveal which encrypted TLS requests are for which pages (URLs) of the website.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="dcef4805-549c-473f-adbd-aba416ab3c88" id="beabc324-29cc-4c22-80c2-52f0d7376516">source</gs>: eccouncil.org</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-61172902470172178022016-05-17T22:23:00.001-07:002016-05-17T22:23:38.962-07:00Five Phases Hacker Must Follow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Phase 1—Reconnaissance </b><br />
Reconnaissance refers to the preparatory phase where an attacker gathers as much information as
possible about the target prior to launching the attack. Also in this phase, the attacker draws on
competitive intelligence to learn more about the target. This phase may also involve network scanning,
either external or internal, without authorization.<br />
<br />
<b>Phase 2 - Scanning</b><br />
Scanning is the method an attacker performs prior to attacking the network. In scanning, the attacker
uses the details gathered during reconnaissance to identify specific vulnerabilities. Scanning can be
considered a logical extension (and overlap) of the active reconnaissance.<br />
<br />
<b>Phase 3 - Gaining Access </b><br />
Gaining access is the most important phase of an attack in terms of potential damage. Attackers need not
always gain access to the system to cause damage. For instance, denial-of-service attacks can either
exhaust resources or stop services from running on the target system.<br />
<br />
<b>Phase 4 - Maintaining Access</b><br />
Once an attacker gains access to the target system, the attacker can choose to use both the system and its
resources, and further use the system as a launch pad to scan and exploit other systems, or to keep a low
profile and continue exploiting the system. Both these actions can damage the organization. For instance,
the attacker can implement a sniffer to capture all network traffic, including <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9e21d966-5663-46b1-99f8-4be5b3e53eee" id="484f7de9-2bed-4407-b21f-83d84dd26cfa">telnet</gs> and <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9e21d966-5663-46b1-99f8-4be5b3e53eee" id="58d8f43d-ada3-490e-b6dd-a87fcfc8d030">ftp</gs> sessions with
other systems.<br />
<br />
<b>Phase 5 - Covering Tracks </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
This
usually starts with erasing the contaminated logins and any possible error messages that may have been
generated from the attack process, e.g., a buffer overflow attack will usually leave a message in the system
logs. Next, the attention is turned to effecting changes so that future logins are not logged. By
manipulating and tweaking the event logs, the system administrator can be convinced that the output of
his/her system is correct, and that no intrusion or compromise has actually taken place. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-10231906689659442342016-04-27T05:35:00.000-07:002016-05-14T01:35:17.728-07:00What is REST?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 1.6em;">REST stands for </span><strong style="font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 1.6em;">Re</strong><span style="font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 1.6em;">presentational </span><strong style="font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 1.6em;">S</strong><span style="font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 1.6em;">tate </span><strong style="font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 1.6em;">T</strong><span style="font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 1.6em;">ransfer. (It is sometimes spelled "ReST".) It relies on a stateless, client-server, <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="faa88c1e-d07c-4c21-9dfc-391023186a7e" id="ea45f3b7-bbdb-4c21-aa84-5326d88671c6">cacheable</gs> communications protocol -- and in virtually all cases, the HTTP protocol is used.</span></h3>
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REST is <em>an architecture style</em> for designing networked applications. The idea is that, rather than using complex mechanisms such as CORBA, RPC or SOAP to connect between machines, simple HTTP is used to make calls between machines.</div>
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<li>In many ways, the World Wide Web itself, based on HTTP, can be viewed as a REST-based architecture.</li>
</ul>
<div style="line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.75em;">
<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ee68fe13-397a-4f75-8294-f0049618c40c" id="c752890e-5308-4d1e-a934-60cb6d8621ed">RESTful</gs> applications use HTTP requests to post data (create and/or update), read data (e.g., make queries), and delete data. Thus, REST uses HTTP for all four CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations.</div>
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REST is a lightweight alternative to mechanisms like RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) and Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, et al.). Later, we will see how much <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1e4e6cef-e2f8-4afc-a06f-d0fcd38425ac" id="243af852-5781-48c3-a666-9ba001040829">more simple</gs> REST is.</div>
<ul>
<li>Despite being simple, REST is <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ffaa433e-6bdd-4cbc-adc7-7ad21ae7dffa" id="f90b72ef-eda5-4ea6-b4c5-98fee0a98278">fully</gs>-featured; there's basically nothing you can do <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ffaa433e-6bdd-4cbc-adc7-7ad21ae7dffa" id="49acbc76-d8f4-46a3-aa08-be29a4101e76">in</gs> Web Services that can't be done with a RESTful architecture.</li>
</ul>
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REST is not a "standard". There will never be a W3C <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="39e5658a-403f-491e-8cb6-2120ba9484bb" id="d15651e6-3dfc-499b-a9b2-dd3ff9d15fe9">recommendataion</gs> for REST, for example. And while there <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6f2340b2-7ad2-462b-9705-55671cc0b0de" id="d27a4a16-c305-4762-8773-33580cc119e1">are</gs> <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6f2340b2-7ad2-462b-9705-55671cc0b0de" id="ef3eac68-b9c8-4cbe-a415-40925573acd2">REST programming frameworks</gs>, working with REST is so simple that you can often "roll your own" with standard library features in languages like Perl, Java, or C#.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-77610733254130698892016-04-26T03:48:00.001-07:002016-04-26T03:54:15.375-07:00Secure Transactions with EMV chips goodbye magnetic chips<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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EMV -- which stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa -- is a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions. In the wake of numerous large-scale data breaches and increasing rates of counterfeit card fraud, U.S. card issuers are migrating to this new technology to protect consumers and reduce the costs of fraud.</div>
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"These new and improved cards are being deployed to improve payment security, making it more difficult for fraudsters to successfully counterfeit cards," says Julie Conroy, research director for retail banking at Aite Group, a financial industry research company. "It's an important step forward."</div>
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For merchants and financial institutions, the switch to EMV means adding new in-store technology and internal processing systems, and complying with new liability rules. For consumers, it means activating new cards and learning new payment processes.</div>
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Most of all, it means greater protection against fraud.</div>
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Want to know more about the transition and your new EMV chip-equipped credit card? Here are eight frequently asked questions to help you understand the changes.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. Why are EMV cards more secure than traditional cards?</strong></div>
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It's that small, metallic square you'll see on new cards. That's a computer chip, and it's what sets apart the new generation of cards.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.creditcards.com/glossary/term-magnetic-stripe.php" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #156abd;" target="_self">magnetic stripes</a> on traditional credit and debit cards store contain unchanging data. Whoever accesses that data gains the sensitive card and cardholder information necessary to make purchases. That makes traditional cards prime targets for counterfeiters, who <a href="http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/4-ways-crooks-cash_in-financial-data-1264.php" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #156abd;" target="_self">convert stolen card data to cash</a>.</div>
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"If someone copies a mag stripe, they can easily replicate that data over and over again because it doesn't change," says Dave Witts, president of U.S. payment systems for Creditcall, a payment gateway and EMV software developer.</div>
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Unlike magnetic-stripe cards, every time an EMV card is used for payment, the card chip creates a unique transaction code that cannot be used again.</div>
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If a hacker stole the chip information from one specific point of sale, typical card duplication would never work "because the stolen transaction number created in that instance wouldn't be usable again and the card would just get denied," Witts says.</div>
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EMV technology will not prevent data breaches from occurring, but it will make it much harder for criminals to successfully profit from what they steal.</div>
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Experts hope it will help significantly reduce fraud in the U.S., which has doubled in the past seven years as criminals have shied away from countries that already have transitioned to EMV cards, Conroy says.</div>
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"The introduction of dynamic data is what makes EMV cards so effective at bringing down counterfeit card rates in other countries," she says.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. How do I use an EMV card to make a purchase?</strong></div>
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Just like magnetic-stripe cards, EMV cards are processed for payment in two steps: card reading and transaction verification.</div>
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However, with EMV cards you no longer have to master a quick, fluid card swipe in the right direction. Chip cards are read in a different way. </div>
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"Instead of going to a register and swiping your card, you are going to do what is called 'card dipping' instead, which means inserting your card into a terminal slot and waiting for it to process," Conroy says.</div>
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When an EMV card is dipped, data flows between the card chip and the issuing financial institution to verify the card's legitimacy and create the unique transaction data. This process isn't as quick as a magnetic-stripe swipe.</div>
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"It will take a tiny bit longer for that transmission of data to happen," Witts says. "If a person just sticks the card in and pulls it out, the transaction will likely be denied. A little bit of patience will be involved."</div>
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While chip card transactions may take a bit longer than mag stripe transactions, total card processing time will vary between merchants and eventually speed up as the new payment environment is improved.</div>
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“It will vary depending on the merchant, the equipment and the point-of-sale system,” Ferenczi said. “I think that time lag overtime will be reduced for those longer transactions.”</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. Is card dipping the only option?</strong></div>
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Not necessarily. EMV cards can also support contactless card reading, also known as <a href="http://www.creditcards.com/glossary/term-near-field-communication.php" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #156abd;" target="_self">near field communication</a>.</div>
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Instead of dipping or swiping, NFC-equipped cards are tapped against a terminal scanner that can pick up the card data from the embedded computer chip.</div>
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"Contactless transactions are more consumer-friendly because you just have to tap," said Martin Ferenczi, president of Oberthur Technologies, the leading global EMV product and service provider. "Around the world, there is a move to make EMV cards dual-interface, which means contact and contactless. However, in the U.S., most financial instructions are issuing contact cards."</div>
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Dual-interface cards and the equipment needed to scan them are expensive. Right now, the first step is to successfully integrate EMV cards into the U.S. shopping scene. Dual interface will arrive later, according to Ferenczi.</div>
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“Dual-interface cards represent an excess of 40 percent of all cards issued outside the U.S. and I have no doubt that while we have a small base of 3 to 5 percent in the U.S. today, that percentage will grow significantly over the next year,” he said. “I think that we will start seeing an acceleration this year and further acceleration in 2017.”</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-53056939512094041262016-04-20T04:05:00.004-07:002016-04-20T04:07:27.375-07:00Technology behind facebook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large;">Software
that helps Facebook scale<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">In some
ways Facebook is still a LAMP site (kind of), but it has had to change and
extend its operation to incorporate a lot of other elements and services, and
modify the approach to existing ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">For
example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook still uses PHP, but it
has built a compiler for it so it can be turned into native code on its
web servers, thus boosting performance.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook uses Linux, but has
optimized it for its own purposes (especially in terms of network
throughput).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook uses MySQL, but
primarily as a key-value persistent storage, moving joins and logic onto
the web servers since optimizations are easier to perform there (on the
“other side” of the Memcached layer).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Then there
are the custom-written systems, like Haystack, a highly scalable object store
used to serve Facebook’s immense amount of photos, or Scribe, a logging system
that can operate at the scale of Facebook (which is far from trivial).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">But enough
of that. Let’s present (some of) the software that Facebook uses to provide us
all with the world’s largest social network site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large;">MEMCACHE<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://memcached.org/">Memcached</a> is by now one of the most
famous pieces of software on the internet. It’s a distributed memory caching
system which Facebook (and a ton of other sites) use as a caching layer between
the web servers and MySQL servers (since database access is relatively slow).
Through the years, Facebook has made a ton of optimizations to Memcached and
the surrounding software (like optimizing the network stack).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook
runs thousands of Memcached servers with tens of terabytes of cached data at
any one point in time. It is likely the world’s largest Memcached installation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FOR PHP<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">HP, being a
scripting language, is relatively slow when compared to code that runs natively
on a server. <a href="http://wiki.github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/">HipHop</a> converts
PHP into C++ code which can then be compiled for better performance. This has
allowed Facebook to get much more out of its web servers since Facebook relies
heavily on PHP to serve content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">A small
team of engineers (initially just three of them) at Facebook spent 18 months
developing HipHop, and it is now live in production.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919">Haystack</a> is
Facebook’s high-performance photo storage/retrieval system (strictly speaking,
Haystack is an object store, so it doesn’t necessarily have to store photos).
It has a ton of work to do; there are more than 20 billion uploaded photos on
Facebook, and each one is saved in four different resolutions, resulting in
more than 80 billion photos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">And it’s
not just about being able to handle billions of photos, performance is
critical. As we mentioned previously, Facebook serves around 1.2 million
photos <i>per second</i>, a number which doesn’t include images served by
Facebook’s CDN. That’s a staggering number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/bigpipe-pipelining-web-pages-for-high-performance/389414033919">BigPipe</a> is
a dynamic web page serving system that Facebook has developed. Facebook uses it
to serve each web page in sections (called “pagelets”) for optimal performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">For
example, the chat window is retrieved separately, the news feed is retrieved
separately, and so on. These pagelets can be retrieved in parallel, which is
where the performance gain comes in, and it also gives users a site that works
even if some part of it would be deactivated or broken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large;">CASSANDRA<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/">Cassandra</a> is a distributed storage
system with no single point of failure. It’s one of the poster children for the
NoSQL movement and has been made open source (it’s even become an Apache
project). Facebook uses it for its Inbox search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Other than
Facebook, a number of other services use it, for example Digg. We’re even
considering some uses for it here at Pingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large;">SCRIBE<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://github.com/facebook/scribe">Scribe</a> is a flexible logging
system that Facebook uses for a multitude of purposes internally. It’s been
built to be able to handle logging at the scale of Facebook, and automatically
handles new logging categories as they show up (Facebook has hundreds).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large;">HADOOP
AND HIVE<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/">Hadoop</a> is an open source map-reduce
implementation that makes it possible to perform calculations on massive
amounts of data. Facebook uses this for data analysis (and as we all know,
Facebook has massive amounts of data). <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/">Hive</a> originated from within
Facebook, and makes it possible to use SQL queries against Hadoop, making it
easier for non-programmers to use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Both Hadoop
and Hive are open source (Apache projects) and are used by a number of big
services, for example Yahoo and Twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook
uses several different languages for its different services. PHP is used for
the front-end, Erlang is used for Chat, Java and C++ are also used in several
places (and perhaps other languages as well). <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/">Thrift</a> is an internally
developed cross-language framework that ties all of these different languages
together, making it possible for them to talk to each other. This has made it
much easier for Facebook to keep up its cross-language development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook
has made Thrift open source and support for even more languages has been added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large;">VARNISH<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://varnish-cache.org/">Varnish</a> is an HTTP accelerator which
can act as a load balancer and also cache content which can then be served
lightning-fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook
uses Varnish to serve photos and profile pictures, handling billions of
requests every day. Like almost everything Facebook uses, Varnish is open
source.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Other
things that help Facebook run smoothly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We have
mentioned some of the software that makes up Facebook’s system(s) and helps the
service scale properly. But handling such a large system is a complex task, so
we thought we would list a few more things that Facebook does to keep its
service running smoothly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook
has a system they called Gatekeeper that lets them run different code for
different sets of users (it basically introduces different conditions in the
code base). This lets Facebook do gradual releases of new features, A/B
testing, activate certain features only for Facebook employees, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Gatekeeper
also lets Facebook do something called “dark launches”, which is to activate
elements of a certain feature behind the scenes before it goes live (without
users noticing since there will be no corresponding UI elements). This acts as
a real-world stress test and helps expose bottlenecks and other problem areas
before a feature is officially launched. Dark launches are usually done two
weeks before the actual launch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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OF THE LIVE SYSTEM<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe arabic" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Facebook
carefully monitors its systems (something we here at Pingdom of course approve
of), and interestingly enough it also monitors the performance of every single
PHP function in the live production environment. This profiling of the live PHP
environment is done using an open source tool called <a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof">XHProf</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-37175020995951626402016-04-12T21:27:00.000-07:002016-04-12T21:27:26.320-07:00 Eight simple things you can do to protect your business data: <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Conduct a security audit.</b><br />
If you don’t know what parts of your business are vulnerable or what data you have that needs to be
protected, you can’t properly secure it. It is critical that you work with a professional to audit your entire IT
infrastructure—computers, network, and mobile devices—to determine what you need to do to prevent
hackers from accessing your network.<br />
<b>Make staff aware of the important role they play in security. </b><br />
Your staff are your front line of defense when it comes to security. Sure, hackers can access your network
remotely and siphon off data without setting foot in your office. However, vigilant employees (consultants,
partners, and vendors, too) can ensure that human error—which is a big cause of data security breaches—is
minimalized.<br />
<b>Use strong and multiple passwords.</b><br />
Too many of us use simple passwords that are easy for hackers to guess. When we have complicated
passwords, a simple “dictionary attack”—an attack by a hacker using an automated tool that uses a
combination of dictionary words and numbers to crack passwords—can’t happen. Don’t write passwords
down; commit them to memory.<br />
Encrypt your data.
Encryption is a great security tool to use in case your data is stolen. For example, if your hard disk is stolen or
you lose your USB thumb drive, whoever accesses the data won’t be able to read it if it’s encrypted.<br />
<b>Back up</b>.<br />
Security is important, but if your data is not backed up, you WILL LOSE IT. Ensure that your data is properly
backed up, and test the backup to ensure that your data can be recovered when you need it.
A One-Page Expert Guide from Ramon Ray
Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com
8 Tips to Protect Your Business and Secure Its Data<br />
<b>Have security policies.</b><br />
It’s one thing to ask employees to work securely, but you must also have clear and simple policies in place for
them to follow to ensure that they are working in a secure environment. For example, insist that all notebook
computers connected to the corporate network have security software. Mandate that NO security information
ever be given over the phone. Policies like this and more will help ensure that your staff are doing their part to
be security aware.<br />
<b>Protect your mobile work force. </b><br />
Your sales team of 10 years ago is probably nothing like your sales team of today. With the proliferation of the
BlackBerry, iPhone, and other mobile devices, more of your staff are working away from the office—and away
from the protection of your network security. They are operating “in the open” on your customers’ networks,
public networks at coffee shops, or free networks in the park. It is important to ensure that their mobile
technology, often connected wirelessly, is as secure as possible.<br />
<b>Implement a multiple-security-technology solution.</b><br />
Viruses that corrupt data are not the only security threat. Hackers, and their attacks, are more sophisticated
than ever, and it is critical to have multiple layers of security technology on all your different devices (including
each desktop, mobile device, file server, mail server, and network end point) to comprehensively secure your
data. This multiple security will block attacks on your network and/or alert you to a problem so that you (or
your IT expert) can take the appropriate action.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-50912876174900838062016-04-01T04:34:00.002-07:002016-04-01T04:34:56.855-07:00An Introduction To APIs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">An Application Programming Interface (or API) is a way for two webpages and/or pieces of software to communicate with each other. An API works as a middleman, taking the request from one piece of software, and then replying with the appropriate response from the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One example of an API you may be familiar with is the Create publish and share function. Using an API, we send a request to allow us to post on your social media account such as Twitter. The Twitter API then responds by posting a status update on your social media account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Create API opens up the possibility to streamline a number of tasks in the day-to-day running of your business by allowing for the easy creation of Apps. For instance, an App could be set up using the API to automatically transfer your shop orders into your accounting software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As a Developer, you have the option of creating Apps for yourself or client, and making these publicly available to Create customers as well. To learn more, and to read our Developer Documentation, see our <a href="https://www.create.net/support/425-api-information-for-developers.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #15c0d4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">API Information for Developers</a> guide.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-83299258054070736902016-03-31T04:45:00.004-07:002016-03-31T04:45:38.610-07:00How much will Twitter ads cost?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.1px;">Your bid and budget come into play when controlling the spend in your campaign. Twitter Ads is an auction based system, so your budget and bid determine the price of your campaign. There is no minimum for using Twitter Ads and our system will only charge advertisers when you acquire an action (based on your campaign objective). While we</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.1px;"> </span><strong style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.1px;">cannot provide an exact price for the cost of Twitter Ads, since this is based on your budget and bid</strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.1px;">, you can view the pricing definitions below to get an idea of how much you will end up paying. It’s important to note that advertisers are never charged for organic activity.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When setting up a campaign, advertisers have two options to choose from when determining how to set bids for their campaigns, automatic or maximum bidding.<br /><br />Automatic bidding is a bidding option that enables Twitter to auto-optimize bids for a given campaign objective and budget on the advertiser’s behalf. When selecting the automatic bid option, Twitter will attempt to enter the advertiser in auctions with the lowest bid possible, while also delivering on the advertiser’s overall campaign objectives.<br /><br />Maximum bidding allows users to manually select how much a follow, lead, click or engagement is worth to their business. When entering your manual bid, you will not pay that amount when you win an objective-based campaign auction. Instead, you will only pay one penny above the second place advertiser’s quality-adjusted bid. The common term for this model is a second price auction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your campaign type determines which actions you are bidding for and will be charged for once the campaign starts running. The available campaign types and associated actions are listed below:</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website Clicks or Conversions Campaigns:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will only be charged for the clicks to your website that are acquired from that campaign. All other actions and engagements (impressions, replies and retweets for example) are free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maximum bid pricing option suggestion: $1.68 – $10.00</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Followers Campaigns:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will only be charged for the follows you acquire from that campaign. All other actions and engagements (impressions, replies and retweets for example) are free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maximum bid pricing option suggestion: $2.50 - $3.50</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tweet Engagement Campaigns:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will only be charged for engagements on your Promoted Tweets. Impressions are free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maximum bid pricing option suggestion: $1.50 - $2.50</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">App Installs or App Engagement Campaigns:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will only be charged for clicks to install or open your App you acquire from that campaign. All other actions and engagements (impressions, replies and retweets for example) are free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maximum bid pricing option suggestion: $1.95 – $3.25</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leads Campaigns:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will only be charged for the leads acquired. All other actions and engagements (impressions, replies and retweets for example) are free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maximum bid pricing option suggestion: $4.47 – $23.00</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Video View Campaigns:</strong><br />You will only be charged for video views from that campaign. A view occurs when a video is 100% in-view on the user’s device and has been watched for at least 3 seconds, or the user clicks to watch the video in full screen. All other actions and engagements (impressions, replies and retweets for example) are free.<br /><br />Maximum bid pricing option suggestion: $0.10 – $0.50</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-48893672595784663942016-03-31T04:14:00.002-07:002016-03-31T04:14:39.263-07:00Difference betweeen AdWords and AdWords Express<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There’s no advantage to using both advertising products at the same time. Using both AdWords and AdWords Express can complicate your ad management and cause your ads to compete against each other, so we recommend using only one of these advertising tools at a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Compare products at a glance</span></h3>
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<tr><th style="background-color: whitesmoke; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); color: #212121; padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> </span></th><th style="background-color: whitesmoke; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); color: #212121; padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AdWords Express</span></th><th style="background-color: whitesmoke; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); color: #212121; padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AdWords</span></th></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pay only for clicks</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Automated management</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Easy solution for businesses without a website</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ads on Google Search and Google Maps</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ads on other related websites</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Limited</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mobile ads</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other advanced ad formats (e.g. video)</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ability to target ads geographically</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anywhere</span></td><td style="background-color: #e6e6e6; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); padding: 4px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anywhere</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Both AdWords and AdWords Express allow you to increase the number of times and the number of places where your business info appears. With either advertising product you can use targeted messaging in your ads to attract and engage potential customers.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-1865409896257191532016-03-31T02:05:00.001-07:002016-03-31T02:05:15.549-07:00Theme used for online shopping<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Liquid reference</h1>
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Liquid is an open-source template language created by Shopify and written in Ruby. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts.</div>
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Read about the <a href="https://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid/basics" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #368aa9; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 150ms ease-in-out;">basics of Liquid</a>, or check out reference material on <a href="https://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid/objects" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #368aa9; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 150ms ease-in-out;">objects</a>, <a href="https://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid/tags" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #368aa9; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 150ms ease-in-out;">tags</a>, and<a href="https://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid/filters" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #368aa9; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 150ms ease-in-out;">filters</a>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-88782527643185422142016-03-03T03:33:00.004-08:002016-03-03T03:33:48.674-08:00TWITTER AUTHRIZATION METHODS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Twitter Platform connects your website or application with the worldwide conversation happening on Twitter.</div>
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<a href="https://docs.fabric.io/" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">Fabric</a> is a flexible, modular set of mobile development tools called “Kits” that help you make your app more stable, add social features like sharing and login, and turn your app into a business with easy monetization.</div>
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<a href="https://dev.twitter.com/web/overview" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">Twitter for Websites</a> is a suite of embeddable widgets, buttons, and client-side scripting tools to integrate Twitter and display Tweets on your website or JavaScript application, including <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-tweets" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;" title="Embed a single Tweet">a single Tweet</a>, <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-timelines" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;" title="Embed multiple Tweets">multiple Tweets</a>, <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-moments" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">Twitter Moments</a>, <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/web/tweet-button" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">Tweet Button</a>, and the <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/web/follow-button" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">Follow Button</a>.</div>
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Use our <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/oauth" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">OAuth</a> endpoints to connect users to Twitter and send secure, authorized requests to the Twitter API.</div>
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The <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;" title="Twitter REST API">REST APIs</a> provides programmatic access to read and write Twitter data. Author a new Tweet, read author profile and follower data, and more. The REST API identifies Twitter applications and users using <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/oauth" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">OAuth</a>; responses are available in JSON.</div>
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<a href="https://dev.twitter.com/mopub" style="background: transparent; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">MoPub</a> is the world’s largest mobile ad exchange and ad server. Make more ad revenue and control your ad experience with first class ad serving, ad network mediation, and plug in to thousands of advertising sources with the world’s largest mobile ad exchange.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-53245989929716120832016-02-26T01:52:00.001-08:002016-02-26T01:52:16.147-08:00Differences between Java EE and Java SE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Java technology is both a programming language and a platform. The Java programming language is a high-level object-oriented language that has a particular syntax and style. A Java platform is a particular environment in which Java programming language applications run.</div>
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There are several Java platforms. Many developers, even long-time Java programming language developers, do not understand how the different platforms relate to each other.</div>
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There are four platforms of the Java programming language:</div>
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All Java platforms consist of a Java Virtual Machine (VM) and an application programming interface (API). The Java Virtual Machine is a program, for a particular hardware and software platform, that runs Java technology applications. An API is a collection of software components that you can use to create other software components or applications. Each Java platform provides a virtual machine and an API, and this allows applications written for that platform to run on any compatible system with all the advantages of the Java programming language: platform-independence, power, stability, ease-of-development, and security.</div>
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When most people think of the Java programming language, they think of the Java SE API. Java SE's API provides the core functionality of the Java programming language. It defines everything from the basic types and objects of the Java programming language to high-level classes that are used for networking, security, database access, graphical user interface (GUI) development, and XML parsing.</div>
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In addition to the core API, the Java SE platform consists of a virtual machine, development tools, deployment technologies, and other class libraries and toolkits commonly used in Java technology applications.</div>
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The Java ME platform provides an API and a small-footprint virtual machine for running Java programming language applications on small devices, like mobile phones. The API is a subset of the Java SE API, along with special class libraries useful for small device application development. Java ME applications are often clients of Java EE platform services.</div>
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JavaFX is a platform for creating rich internet applications using a lightweight user-interface API. JavaFX applications use hardware-accelerated graphics and media engines to take advantage of higher-performance clients and a modern look-and-feel as well as high-level APIs for connecting to networked data sources. JavaFX applications may be clients of Java EE platform services.</div>
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Social media isn’t just about viral videos or selfies. For consumers, sites and apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are playing an increasingly large role in their path to purchase.</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/help/312169205649942" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Call to Action buttons</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Businesses can add call-to-action buttons on their Pages and ads. Admins can select from seven calls to action, including Book Now, Contact Us, Use App, Play Game, Shop Now, Sign Up, and Watch Video.</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To add a call-to-action button on your Page, click the “Create Call-to-Action” button found at the top part of your page, on your cover photo.</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/a/facebook-bluetooth-beacons" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook Bluetooth® Beacons</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Beacons have been a hot topic in the retail industry for some time, and it looks like Facebook now has its own Beacon initiative. The company launched Facebook Bluetooth® beacons, which are devices that retailers can use to help customers learn more about the business whenever they visit the store. Retailers will be able to deliver certain information or messages to customers such as a welcome note or a prompt to “like” the business’ page.</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All you need to do is install the beacons in your store, and they will then connect with smartphone users who have Facebook location services turned on.</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook Bluetooth® beacons can be requested for free </i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/a/facebook-bluetooth-beacons" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</i></a><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Woobox-Custom-Tab/318687021508123?sk=app_208195102528120" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Woobox Custom Tab</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Woobox lets you install customized tabs to your Facebook page. It lets you add forms, embed external sites, fangate content, and it even create your own tab designs.</span></div>
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<a href="http://likealyzer.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LikeAlyzer</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Need a quick analysis of your Facebook Page? Just enter your URL into LikeAlyzer’s search field and it will generate a report that contains your page score, along with information on what you’re doing right and what can be improved. It even offers recommendations to help boost Page performance.</span></div>
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<img alt="sm2" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64901828499" height="434" src="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm2-644x434.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="644" /></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/131671940241729" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook word blocker and profanity filter</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – These tools make moderating comments a bit easier. The word blocker allows you to create filters that automatically hide comments or posts that contain words or phrases that you specify.</span></div>
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The profanity filter on the other hand, lets you restrict (or enable) certain levels of profanity for your page. According to the social network, “Facebook determines what to block by using the most commonly reported words and phrases marked offensive by the community.”</div>
<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<img alt="sm3" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64901828500" height="399" sizes="(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px" src="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm3-644x399.png" srcset="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm3-644x399.png 644w, https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm3-100x62.png 100w, https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm3.png 1244w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="644" /></div>
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<a href="https://followerwonk.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Followerwonk</b></a> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– One of the most popular Twitter analytics solutions in the social realm, Followerwonk lets you “find, analyze, and optimize” for social growth. It offers features such as follower analysis, bio searches, follower tracking, and more.</span></div>
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<a href="http://klear.com/free-tools/twitter-analysis" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter Profile Analysis by Klear</b></a> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– This is a free tool that gives you a snapshot of how your (or anyone else’s) Twitter profile is doing. It measures activity level, popularity, and responsiveness, and it also identifies top content.</span></div>
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<img alt="sm4" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64901828501" height="420" sizes="(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px" src="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm4-644x420.png" srcset="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm4-644x420.png 644w, https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm4.png 1129w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="644" /></div>
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<a href="http://topsy.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Topsy</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Want to see who’s tweeting about your brand or any other topic? Just enter the term or phrase into Topsy’s search field and it’ll generate a list of Twitter users talking about the term or topic you searched for. You can even enter full URLs to see who’s shared your content. Perfect if you want to check out the people tweeting out your content.</span></div>
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<a href="http://tweepi.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweepi</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Tweepi is a great tool for managing friends and followers on Twitter. It lets you view and sort the users you’re following, as well as those who aren’t following you back.</span></div>
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<a href="http://twitterfall.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitterfall</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – If you need to monitor Twitter trends in real-time, look no further. Twitterfall displays tweet searches as they happen. This is great if you’re monitoring trends or events as they’re happening. Many social media experts, including Kelly Mahoney, social media manager for </span><a href="https://www.comptia.org/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CompTIA</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, use this tool when running or participating in Twitter chats.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.crowdfireapp.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crowdfire</b></a> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Crowdfire enables you to easily manage your Instagram follower and following lists. It lets you view your non-followers and offers features to help you clean up your account. It also has a “CopyFollowers” feature that lets you quickly view another account’s followers. Perfect if you’re looking to follow relevant accounts.</span></div>
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<a href="http://gettakeoff.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TakeOff</b></a> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Another app by Crowdfire, TakeOff allows you to schedule your Instagram posts at the most optimal times. It calculates the best time to post based on when your audience is most likely to be online, increasing your chances of getting in front of your followers. It also has additional features, including smart tags, photo search, and multiple account support.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm5.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="sm5" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64901828502" height="372" sizes="(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px" src="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm5-644x372.png" srcset="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm5-644x372.png 644w, https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm5.png 1285w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="644" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://iconosquare.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Iconosquare</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Analyze your Instagram account and get cool stats with Iconosquare. This tool gives you an overview of the number of likes and comments you received, and it also scores your account’s engagement levels.</span></div>
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/repost-for-instagram/id570315854?mt=8" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Repost</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – As its name clearly implies, this app lets you repost photos and videos from your Instagram feed and likes. It also lets you bookmark posts so you could repost them at a later time.</span></div>
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<a href="http://snapwidget.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Snapwidget</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Show off your Instagram feed on your website with Snapwidget. Used by over 100,000 websites, this solution lets you create and customize a grid, slideshow, or photo map of your Instagram posts quickly and easily.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm6.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="sm6" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64901828503" height="420" sizes="(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px" src="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm6-644x420.png" srcset="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm6-644x420.png 644w, https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm6.png 1095w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="644" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://analytics.pinterest.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pinterest Analytics</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Pinterest Analytics helps you better understand your users and content. It shows you data on your Pinterest profile, your audience, and your website, allowing you to get insights into how users are engaging with your content both on your website and Pinterest profile.</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note: You’ll need a business Pinterest account to access analytics. You can either create one, or convert your existing profile on </i><a href="https://business.pinterest.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">business.pinterest.com</i></a><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.tailwindapp.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tailwind</b></a> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– Tailwind provides an array of features to help you stay on top of your Pinterest efforts. With it you can schedule Pins, analyze trends, measure results, and monitor Pinterest activities, among others.</span></div>
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<a href="http://pinalerts.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PinAlerts</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Think of PinAlerts as Google Alerts, but for Pinterest. It sends you an email alert whenever someone Pins an image from your website, thus giving insights into which of your images are popular on Pinterest. It also lets you see who’s Pinning your images so you can reach out to them.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social commerce tools</span></h2>
<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you’re looking to make your social accounts more shoppable so you can sell directly to your fans and followers, the following tools are worth looking into:</span></div>
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<a href="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm7.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="sm7" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64901828504" height="269" sizes="(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px" src="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm7-644x269.png" srcset="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm7-644x269.png 644w, https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm7.png 1058w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="644" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.curalate.com/solutions/like2buy/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Like2Buy</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – As we mentioned in our </span><a href="https://www.vendhq.com/university/retail-trends-and-predictions-2015" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2015 Retail Trends piece</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Like2Buy is one of the leading solutions for making Instagram more shoppable. Here’s how it works: A customer who’d like to purchase an item they see on your feed can tap on the Like2Buy link found on Instagram profile. Clicking the link will take them to the your Like2Buy site, which looks similar to your Instagram page. When the shopper taps on an image, they’ll be taken directly to its product page, where they can find more details and proceed to checkout.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.piqora.com/tapshop/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tapshop</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Tapshop works by giving you a branded link that you can display on your Instagram profile. When users click through that link, they’ll be taken to “a custom page of products they’ve liked, and get an email with links directly to your product pages.”</span></div>
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<a href="https://web.soldsie.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldsie</b></a> and <a href="https://www.spreesy.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spreesy</b></a> – These are comment-based selling solutions that enable retailers sell through Instagram and Facebook comments. When shoppers see an image of an item they’d like to buy, they would simply need to leave a comment indicating their purchase intent, and these services will automatically generate an invoice or checkout link, then send it via email.</div>
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Note: Soldsie also has a solution called Have2Have.It, which, similar to Tapshop and Like2Buy, lets retailers set up a curated page that has the same look and feel as their brand’s Instagram feed. From there, users can learn more about their products and head straight to the retailer’s ecommerce site if they want to make a purchase</div>
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<a href="https://hootsuite.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hootsuite</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Hootsuite is one of the most a powerful and extensive social media management solution out there. It allows you to manage your Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, and even WordPress account from one dashboard. You can view and schedule posts right from Hootsuite, saving you time and energy.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm8.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="sm8" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64901828505" height="372" sizes="(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px" src="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm8-644x372.png" srcset="https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm8-644x372.png 644w, https://blog.vendhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sm8.png 1144w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="644" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://buffer.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008cc5; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buffer</b></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – If you’re looking for a more lightweight tool with a simple interface, then Buffer is worth checking out. It’s an excellent social media scheduling tool that works with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest. Adding posts to your queue can be done with one click, and Buffer can automatically create a scheduling plan for you, or you can set pre-determined times for when posts should go out.</span></div>
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Hello people ,Today I am going to give you a guide on how you can make and receive calls using Huawei modem from your personal computer.<br />
For those using desktops,you need to have an external microphone and maybe a speaker that is if your CPU doesn't have an inbuilt speaker.<br />
most of the Huawei modems are supported in fact all of them are supported since the software we are going to use is provided by Huawei hence you don't have to worry about bugs.<br />
"why isn't this software provided as the default?",I am sure that is what you must be asking youself but the reason behind this is that the service providers,i.e Safaricom,Airtel,Orange and Yu provide their own altered version of the mobile partner dashboard which can not make calls.The mobile partner dashboard provided by Huawei is not so different from the one provided by the service providers.As you can see below,the only difference is the call button.<br />
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<b>N/B</b>- This software works on unlocked modems only,but don't worry,by the end of this tutorial you will be able to unlock your modem.<br />
- This software supports Windows and Linux.<br />
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<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1XjGHx/download.myusbmodem.com/download.php?file=/Huawei%20Dashboards/Update%20Wizards/Customized%20Mobile%20Partner.7z&start=1" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> <u><i><b>Download the latest version of the mobile partner dashboard here.</b></i></u></a><u><i><b> </b></i></u><br />
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<i><b> </b></i><b>HOW TO UNLOCK YOUR HUAWEI MODEM</b><br />
Unlocking your Modem is not that hard,just a few steps and you are done.<i><b> </b></i><br />
Here are a few ways you can accomplish this<i><b> </b></i><b>:</b><br />
1.Unlock it online from specific websites.<br />
2.Unlock it from your computer using unlocking software.<br />
3.Request Huawei to unlock it for you(This means its not illegal).<br />
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<u><b>1.Unlock it online from specific websites.</b></u><br />
<a href="http://www.lur.nu/unlock/huawei/" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>click on this link</i><u><b> </b></u></a><br />
The site will ask for your modem's IMEI / IMSI number then it calculates the unlock code.<br />
How you use the unlock code is explained at the end of the tutorial<br />
-IMEI code is indicated at the back of the modem.<br />
-You are also at liberty to google for other sites.<br />
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<b><u>2.Unlock it from your computer.</u></b><br />
You need to download the following code generators before we proceed.<br />
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<b>a)Universal master code</b> .</div>
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dtm5kwjmomx" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> <i>Download it here.</i></a><br />
<i> -</i>pleas do check the huawei supported.<br />
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<b>b)Huawei unlocker</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jdxy2jtmytw" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u> <i>Download it here.</i></u></a><br />
<b>N/B-</b>This applications are very lite thus dont need to be installed for them to run.<br />
-You will need WINRAR to open the compressed files.You can download it<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/search?q=winrar" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> <i>here</i></a>.(you can choose 64bit or 32bit but I recomend 32bit).<br />
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<b><u>3.Request Huawei to unlock the modem</u></b><br />
click<a href="http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/servicePolicy.do?method=toApplyUnlock" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> <i>here </i></a>to access this service<b><u> </u></b><br />
-This seems like the best way though I haven tried it.<br />
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<u><b>How to unlock the modem using the unlock code.</b></u><br />
-Insert unauthorized sim card into the modem e.g if the modem was tailored to safaricom users,insert a Orange or Airtel sim card.<br />
-You will be asked for the modem's unlock code.<br />
-Enter the unlock code from the code generator and you can now use your modem and of course with any simcard.<br />
-After inserting a new sim card,you may need to create a new network profile.<br />
You may use the following settings.<br />
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Profile name: Safaricom click 'static'<br />
APN: Safaricom<br />
Access number: *99#<br />
Username: saf<br />
Password: data<br />
Click 'save'<br />
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Profile name: Airtel click 'static'<br />
APN: ke.celtel.com<br />
Access number: *99#<br />
User name: leave it blank<br />
Pass: leave it blank<br />
Click 'save'<br />
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Profile name: YU click 'static'<br />
APN: internet<br />
Access number: *99#<br />
User name: leave it blank<br />
Pass: leave it blank<br />
Click 'save'<br />
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Profile name: Orange click 'static'<br />
APN: bew.orange.co.ke<br />
Access number: *99***1#<br />
User name: leave it blank<br />
Pass: leave it blank<br />
Click 'save'<br />
<b>How to make a new profile</b>.<br />
-Open dashboard and navigate to Tools>options.<br />
-Go to profile management and click on new.<br />
-Fill in settings according to your network.<br />
>Now plugin your modem and launch the newly installed mobile partner dashboard.<br />
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Enjoy making calls from your PC.<br />
ask questions where necessary.<br />
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IBM was the first company to develop a RDBMS, however, Oracle Corporation made history in 1980 by releasing its RDBMS, Oracle, for commercial use. Just a few years later the company would release a version of its system for IBM computers. Since its exhibition to the RDBMS market, Oracle has consistently led the way. According to Gartner, Oracle owned nearly 50% of the RDBMS market in 2011. In addition to opening up the commercial market for RDBMS, the Oracle Corporation also was the first company to develop a commercial-level version of SQL that was designed to manipulate data in a RDBMS using (at that time) queries and joins.</div>
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The first “real” release of the Oracle RDBMS was Oracle 2. This system supported only basic SQL features, and it was written in an assembly language. The following year, and for the next 10 years or so, Oracle Corporation released updates to its flagship database. Probably one of the reasons the Oracle RDBMS has managed to remain at the top of mighty RDBMS is linked to its product updates that are closely tied to changes in the market. Database buzzwords such as “scalable”, “programmable”, “distributed”, and “portable” are also tied to Oracle release. For example, in 1985 support for a client-server model was added in anticipation of a growing acceptance of network communication. As the Internet paved the way for the Digital Era, the Oracle RDBMS was updated to include a native Java virtual machine (JVM).</div>
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Oracle Database 12c is the most recent release of the RDBMS, and it includes the following features:</div>
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New data redaction to enhance security of sensitive data</div>
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Introduction of Oracle Advanced Analytics platform</div>
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New database handling for archiving Flash Data Archive (FDA)</div>
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Support for integrating with operating system processor groups</div>
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Support for data pump for database consolidation</div>
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Several enhancements to Oracle Application Express, a rapid-development tool that allows users to develop Web apps using SQL and/or PL/SQL.</div>
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Advanced network compression to enhance performance</div>
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The developing world has not had the luxury of fixed wire internet from poles and wires. To provide access for the aspirational masses the mobile wireless networks are a fast track to a global world. Put up a tower rather than build an expensive fixed infrastructure.</div>
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So the mobile phone has made the web accessible for almost everyone.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In India mobile devices account for 72% of all web site traffic</li>
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Facebook facts</h2>
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You may scream at Facebook for its dominance and arrogance. But it can’t be ignored.</div>
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Tall poppies are easy targets but the reality is that Facebook has cracked the social network code. It’s the ultimate beta business. Testing features in real time and snapping up online apps that push the boundaries of use experience in a world that is about digital disruption.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are nearly 1.4 billion Facebook users</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">47% of all Internet users are on Facebook</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.5 billion likes are generated daily</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nearly 75% of Facebook’s revenue comes from mobile advertising</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Direct uploads of user videos to Facebook <a href="http://fortune.com/2014/12/09/facebook-video-youtube/" style="border: 0px; color: #3a639a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">now exceed YouTube </a></li>
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Twitter facts</h2>
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Twitter is an accidental social network but don’t be fooled. It’s a great brand awareness facilitator.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter has 284 million active users at last count</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">88% of Twitter users are on mobile</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">500 million tweets per day</li>
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Google+ facts</h2>
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Google saw the writing on the wall but turned up to the party a little too late.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google+ cost over half a billion to design and develop</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">363 million users</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The +1 button is hit 5 billion times per day</li>
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Instagram facts</h2>
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This network is owned by Facebook. They saw that social and mobile was a powerful intersection of synergies. They were right!</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instagram has 300 million users</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">70 million photos and videos are sent daily</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">53% of internet users aged 18-29 use Instagram</li>
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Pinterest facts</h2>
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Pinterest has made the pinboard a virtual activity. It’s female centric and very visual.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">70 million users are on Pinterest</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">88% purchase a product they pinned</li>
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LinkedIn facts</h2>
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LinkedIn dominates the professional social network segment. It is one of the oldest having started in 2002. Almost the grandfather of social networks.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LinkedIn has 347 million registered members</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Total revenue at the end of 2014 was $643 million (a growth rate of 44% over the previous period)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are over 39 million students and recent college graduates on LinkedIn</li>
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Other social media facts</h2>
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Facebook maybe the biggest and baddest but there are many other social media facts and networks that shouldn’t be forgotten. Both niche and non-English speaking.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Viber has over 200 million users</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are 639 million users on Qzone (China)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">600 million users on Whatsapp</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook messenger has 500 million users</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wechat is close behind with 468 million users (China)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Snapchat has been valued at close to $20 billion at the last valuation</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Snapchat has 100 million monthly users</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Russia’s “VKontake” has 100 million users</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social networks will earn $8.3 billion from advertising in 2015</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-38628692460513193142015-10-03T11:44:00.004-07:002015-10-03T11:44:55.897-07:00Password Managers For Business Use<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Dashlane Premium<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The Premium version, though, works on a wide variety of
devices, handles more than just passwords, manages keys carefully, and has a
lot of administrative tools that will make it appealing to business.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Keeper Security<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Keeper is not only a password manager, but also a secure
vault, which stores and encrypts -- and allows sharing of -- any kind of files,
not just credentials. When operating within Keeper, new files that are created
are encrypted and stored within it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>CommonKey<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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CommonKey is simply
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bit of gamification into the system, with its LastPass Security Audit, which
not only helps find weak and duplicate passwords, but scores and ranks users'
password postures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Pleasant Password Server<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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It is the multi-user
management tool for KeePass Password Safe, an open-source password manager. In
Pleasant, admins can share passwords and data and manage folders. Pleasant
integrates with Active Directory and LDP, within it administrators can manage
users and roles, and grant temporary access. It creates reports about password
age, strength and expiration and collects access logs as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>ManageEngine Password Manager Pro<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Manage
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<b>Meldium (by LogMeIn)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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If all you want is
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The tool manages passwords for 2,350 cloud services, including Amazon AWS,
Google Drive, DropBox, Box, SalesForce, and WordPress.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Zoho Vault<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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From Zoho Vault,
administrators can create and manage user groups, transfer and acquire
ownership of passwords, create reports on user activity and access, and
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<b>Team Password Manager<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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You can upload other
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Passwords can be
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-13631485558969963632015-09-26T03:27:00.003-07:002015-09-26T03:27:33.767-07:00 Protecting your online privacy:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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on cookie notices in your Web browser, and/or use cookie management software or
infomediaries.<o:p></o:p></div>
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a "clean" e-mail address.<o:p></o:p></div>
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reveal personal details to strangers or just-met<br />
"friends".<o:p></o:p></div>
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you may be monitored at work, avoid sending highly<br />
personal e-mail to mailing lists, and keep sensitive files on your<br />
home computer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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sites that offer some sort of reward or prize in<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-23908753739283465312015-09-25T03:11:00.001-07:002015-09-25T03:11:18.588-07:00Cisco Offers Free Tool To Detect SYNful Knock Router Malware<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cisco Systems
enterprise users now have a way to check if their network routers might have
been infected by the recently disclosed SYNful Knock malware.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The company
yesterday released a new Python script that organizations can use to scan their
networks for potentially infected routers. The free tool works by looking for
routers on the network that answer to the malware’s specific “knock,” William
McVey, technical lead at Cisco’s Talos Threat Intelligence group said in a blog
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The tool can
be used to detect hosts compromised with currently known versions of SYNful
Knock, McVey said. “But it cannot establish that a network does not have
malware that might have evolved to use a different set of signatures,” he added
in a somewhat confusingly worded caveat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"The tool
injects custom crafted packets at the Ethernet layer (layer 2) and monitors and
parses the responses,” McVey said. “This functionality requires that the tool
be run with root privileges.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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SYNful Knock is
basically malware code that allows attackers to gain nearly undetectable and
persistent remote control over certain Cisco business routers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Security vendor
FireEye, which issued an alert on the issue last week, described it as a
malicious implant designed to replace and masquerade as the legitimate firmware
on a handful of now discontinued Cisco router models (Cisco 1841, Cisco 2811
and Cisco 3825). Other models are likely impacted as well, FireEye said, based
on its observation of the malware and the impacted systems.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SYNful Knock gives
attackers complete administrative control over a compromised router via a
backdoor password and provides them with a platform from which to launch
attacks against other systems and routers on the same network. at least
14 Cisco network routers, used by businesses to connect to the Internet,
infected with the poisoned implant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contrary to what
some might expect, the attack is not the result of a security flaw in any of
the affected Cisco products. Instead, in each case the attackers appear to have
managed to either gain actual physical access to the devices, or used
administrative credentials to break into the systems and plant the malware.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Attacks involving
the swapping out and replacing of firmware in a commercial-grade router with a
rogue version have up to now been considered largely theoretical. The
appearance of SYNful Knock suggests otherwise and shows that threat actors have
begun exploring ways to backdoor the critical network routers that
organizations use to connect to the Internet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As FireEye noted in
its report last week, SYNful Knock could well be the first of a new kind of
attack tactic involving the use of modified router images to gain remote
control of the devices. The same kind of malicious firmware that was implanted
on the Cisco routers can be loaded on routers from other vendors as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Routers are one of
the Holy Grail targets for attackers because they lie outside of many normal
security protections,” says Lamar Bailey, leader of Tripwire's Vulnerability
and Exposures Research Team. “Modifying firmware for your own needs or to add
new features is a common practice and has been used to great success on home
routers and access points,” Bailey says. “This is just the same practice used
on a grander scale.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428794852467015758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201853083688498785.post-63912307317624045222015-09-25T03:02:00.003-07:002015-09-25T03:02:57.443-07:0010 Free Tools For Productive Programming Every programmer needs a set of tools -- and tools seem to be even better when they're free. Here are 10 you can use to be more productive in your next scrum.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Bitbucket<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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If you're working solo, you probably want to put at least a
copy of your code into the cloud. If you're working as part of a team, you
absolutely must have a way to share code in order to make the project happen.
There are several code repositories out there, but Bitbucket -- a Git
service -- has several things that make it a strong challenger in the space.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First, you're able to have private repositories with a free
account. That's significant because some of the major players limit you to
public repositories until you start giving them money. Next, they don't put a
limit on how many repositories you can have with a free account -- they only
limit the number of collaborators to five before you have to hand over a credit
card number. Finally, the Atlassian folks have written a free client that works
with a variety of Git and Mercurial repositories. (More on that will follow.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Github<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Github is the largest and most widely known Git
repository service. Its wide variety of public repositories (accessible through
free accounts) have made Github a popular cloud service for open source teams,
writers, and creative teams that span a range from app developers to
environmentalists.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If your projects can live in the open, then Github is free
for you to use to your heart's content. If you need some privacy, though,
you'll have to pay at least a little bit for the privilege. With pricing that
starts at the equivalent of a couple of macho-mocha-frappa-whatzit beverages
each month, the cost is not a huge burden. You can always drop back to the free
version when your need for privacy ends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>SourceTree<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SourceTree is that free client for Git and Mercurial
repositories I mentioned earlier in this list. This is a nice GUI client that
allows you to work with repositories at a variety of services. It lowers the
macho quotient, since it removes the CLI requirement, but it more than makes up
for that by allowing you to collaborate with people who haven't been
programming since early Emacs days.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SourceTree isn't perfect. There isn't a Linux version. But
if you're using either Windows or Mac OS X for your development platform,
SourceTree is a tool that could make version control easier and much more
visual.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Slack<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When you're working with other developers (or with clients,
or with business partners) you'll probably need to communicate. Since email is
orders of magnitude too slow for today's business needs, an enterprise-class
communication system designed with developers in mind is needed. Welcome to Slack.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Slack is a messaging system that can be thought of as a
buttoned-down business ICQ. The concepts of channels and groups are similar to
ICQ. Private messages are also available. It's easy to send files and other
digital assets back and forth using Slack, but Slack's best quality for development
teams may be that it saves discussions and creates a database of topics that
have been discussed. That way, there's no worry about losing the genius of a
late-night, Red Bull-fueled discussion when everyone turns off their system to
head for breakfast.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Trello<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Trello is all about lists. Most of them will be to-do
lists, but there's no reason to limit the lists to one type. If you want to
have lists of feature ideas, it's easy to create them in Trello, and then move
the items to a to-do list when it's time to implement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In many ways, Trello is the embodiment of a perfect cloud
app. Your lists live in the cloud, where they can be accessed from any of your
devices. You can invite other Trello users to share a Trello board (which is
where lists are pinned) and it becomes a group list manager in a matter of
moments. Trello is free, though you can pay a few dollars a month for
"Trello Gold" if you need to attach files of up to 250 MB to your
list items. Trello Gold also brings you different colors for your boards, and a
whole fleet of emojis. If your programming team communicates through emojis,
then Gold is definitely the way to go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Black Duck Open Hub Code Search<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Do you every wonder whether someone has already solved the
problem you're working on? And whether the person who solved that problem has
included it in an open source library or application? You can find the answer
at Black Duck Software's Open Hub Code Search. All it does is search --
through billions and billions of lines of open source code. The learning curve
is rather steep, but the payoff can be huge if it saves you from reinventing
the wheel. Again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Cyberduck<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Cyberduck is one of the applications that I've used for
years. It is, quite simply, a great FTP client that is richly featured, open
source, and available on Linux (in CLI form), MacOS X, and Windows. Cyberduck
is rock-solid at doing its very basic but vital job -- transferring files to
and from servers, repositories, appliances, storage systems, and development
workstations. It's donation-ware, but isn't obnoxious about it. It also has a
cute rubber duck as an icon. It integrates into many other applications and,
darn it, the application simply works.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cyberduck is one of the applications that I've used for
years. It is, quite simply, a great FTP client that is richly featured, open
source, and available on Linux (in CLI form), MacOS X, and Windows. Cyberduck
is rock-solid at doing its very basic but vital job -- transferring files to
and from servers, repositories, appliances, storage systems, and development
workstations. It's donation-ware, but isn't obnoxious about it. It also has a
cute rubber duck as an icon. It integrates into many other applications and,
darn it, the application simply works.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second of the three modern editors on our list, jEdit,
is notable for two reasons. First, as an open source project it has been ported
to a lot of platforms, from Windows to VMS. Next, it's extensible through
plug-ins that bring functions like grammar checking and auto-completion to
different languages and systems. Finally, it's a very solid programming editor
that can be convinced to support almost any text and file creation tasks you
need to perform. Are there areas to criticize? Of course. The most significant
is in the display. If you have a new, very high-resolution display, jEdit can
be a bit fuzzy. It's still extremely useful, though, and could be the perfect
solution if you have to work on a variety of different platf<o:p></o:p></div>
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The third of the modern editors to make our list is one of
the applications that I use all the time. Nearly every article I've written in
the last five years has passed through Komodo Edit because it has
tools that make most of the repetitious tasks of building HTML pages simple and
painless. Komodo Edit is fast. It handles big files well, and it has never
crashed in the middle of a writing or editing session. I count that as winning
behavior. If you want to support an entire team through Komodo Edit, you can pay
for Komodo IDE, but I haven't found a task, yet, that I couldn't accomplish
with Komodo Edit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There they are, 10 free tools. How many do you use? How many
could you use? And which ones will you be trying out? Let me know in the
comments section below -- and let me know which great tools I've missed.
There's always room on the desktop for another great tool.<o:p></o:p></div>
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