Apple search engineers to redesign the Apple Online Store

Apple search engineers to redesign the Apple Online Store...

Although we have had a recent facelift on the official website of Apple, it is possible that in a while we see another redesign important: the company is seeking software engineers senior specialized software to create "the Apple Store Online for new generation" according to a job offer that has been published officially.


The person chosen for the job would be hired full time to be at Apple in Cupertino, California headquarters. Least experience of eight years with software and four years in the world of web development, high experience with Java, high capacities to resolve bugs… going, not seeking precisely to an engineer newly entitled.

The truth is that the Apple Store website is very good, but has elements quite old mixed with other more modern interfaces sometimes are confusing (is noticeable especially when we buy a product and appears on the order summary screen). Would not go wrong a complete redesign of this store, and it seems that sooner or later we will see that dream fulfilled. Her they redesign so that you do not need to close it for each change or renewal of product? Dreaming is free.

Hacker attack on Blogger platform wordpress.com

Hacker attack on Blogger platform wordpress.com ...

The blogger platform wordpress.com has been target of a massive hacker attack, which had possibly political motives. The DDoS attack (distributed denial of service) resulted in significant damage on Thursday (local time).


Occasionally individual blogs were not to reach. The head of wordpress.com, Matt Mullenweg, explained in the specialist service of «The next Web», all three data centers in Chicago, San Antonio and Dallas had been flooded with data masses would have achieved several gigabits per second. Target a DDoS attack is, in this way, shut down the Web server. Mullenweg spoke of the most serious attack in the six-year history of wordpress.com. It will be believed that the attack have turned is on a single blog, which is hosted on wordpress.com.

WordPress is an open-source software for the design of blogs and other Web services. WordPress.com provides not only the software but also the space that is required on a Web server. 18 Million blogs run on the platform.

Flickr app for mobile devices equipped with Windows 7, officially launched

Flickr app for mobile devices equipped with Windows 7, officially launched...

We had our friend Yira Albornoz in early January that Flickr was preparing an application for phones equipped with Windows Phone 7 and tablets running Windows 7. Well, the launch is now official, Flickr just announced on his blog.

If you're using Windows Phone 7 know that the program has been available for several weeks in the Marketplace . In fact, there have been various updates and you can download version is 1.1. If you update frequently may already have one.

Among the new features that Flickr announced for the two applications include:

• View all recent activities and past work uploaded to your contacts.
• Optimized for viewing new high resolution screen, zoomable.
• " Context View , a completely new way to access the history of the image and its author.
• Geolocation capability in a full-screen interactive map.
• Easy to share pictures with your friends from your mobile device directly from Flickr and Facebook, Twitter or email.

In short, a careful design tool and very useful for users of social network acquired by Yahoo, which has recently experienced a reversal by the emergence of other ways to share images by using Facebook mainly.

Facebook Turning into PhoneBook? FB Plans To Share Users' Phone Numbers and Addresses to 3rd Parties (STRANGERS)

Facebook will be sharing FB users' phone numbers and addresses to third parties?! WTF???!!! Damn, this plan from Facebook!

In a letter to Congress Facebook announced its plan to give third parties access to user information such as phone numbers and home addresses!  The said letter was sent in February 23, 2011. You can read it here. This move from facebook is not new. Way back in January, this has started. However it was quickly suspended. But FB is pushing this plan again, giving our information to strangers.

"If the user wants to permit the application to obtain the information identified, he or she can authorize the application. If, by contrast, the user is not comfortable sharing the information the application is requesting, the user can decline to authorize the application."


Facebook says there is "a standard screen, presented o the user at the moment the user is deciding whether to authorize the application, which identifies precisely what information the application requires to operate."

Sample Screenshot 

from businessinsider.com

Noticeably, from the screenshot above, there are only two options for users to choose from, that is "ALLOW" or "LEAVE APPLICATION". There is not the option to "DON'T ALLOW" yet use the application. So yeah, it sorts of forces you.

I love the whole idea of using facebook for free. But for FB to sell my information to third parties- it S*CKS!  (I don't think we've had problems like this with Friendster..)Best solution now is to put a fake mobile phone number and incomplete address /or fake address on my fb account or just leave these parts empty.

500,000 Gmail accounts have been "reset" by accident (updated: are 150,000 accounts)

500,000 Gmail accounts have been "reset" by accident (Updated: are 150,000 accounts)...

Imagine one day and try to get a Gmail account you come across a completely empty with no email, chat, attachment, etc. It is certainly a scary situation, especially for those who are set to run in circles with just a few hours to drop the Gmail service.

However, that same "scary situation" I just happened to over half a million users of Gmail, who first had trouble logging into your account, and when they finally were able to enter, they have realized that all emails and files that are no longer kept. Worse, these accounts show message "welcome", as if they were created recently, which shows that they have been reset by accident.

To put it in context, the problem of resetting Hotmail accounts that he suffered a few weeks ago hit 17,000 users. As Gmail now affects 500,000 people, nearly 30 times more.

But even though there are more people affected, Google still he can "face" to handle the situation better than Microsoft. Remember that users with Hotmail accounts "erased" had to wait 3-4 days on average for Redmond solve the problem, or up to 7 days in some cases. If Google takes less to restore the accounts, would be proving to have a better reaction than that of Microsoft at the time.

The Google have said they are working to restore as soon as the missing information (email, chat, attachments). As soon as they update news about the post. Still, if you're one of those affected is recommended that you look at the Google help forum, or Gmail Status Dashboard.

Update: Google says that the accounts of some users are back to normal, and that will solve the problem of all accounts in a "near future" (whatever they mean by that.)

Update 2: Google has corrected the number of accounts affected, now say they are "only" 150,000. With this the number of users affected would be 9 times more than in the case of Hotmail, not 30.

gNotifier, notifications for Gmail between Sparrow and Google Notifier

gNotifier, notifications for Gmail between Sparrow and Google Notifier...

gNotifier is an application that focuses on giving us a quick and easy access to our email accounts, also facilitating the delivery of notifications and customize with a high level of detail this aspect.




As you can see in the video that accompanies this post, the application is halfway through a desktop client Sparrow and powerful as a simple application like Google Notifier notifications. Besides being multiaccounting, supports Google Docs and Google Calendar thing that really raises the claims of the application well above the rest. His management inbox reminds me Mailplane.

The price of the license is $ 5 and has been developed by Agile Route, company that owns Roberto Ignacio Verano. Deserves you to take a look.

Beta 5 Firefox 4 of Mobile for Android and Maemo available

The Mozilla development team has released a new Firefox 4 Beta for Android, Maemo, which are available now for download. This review is focused on improving stability and application performance.

It brings new features to the already known as FirefoxSync, Awesome Screen (home page that displays the latest smart tabs, views and favorites), tabbed browsing and Firefox Addons. The work is focusing at this stage to optimize the response to pan and zoom, faster startup time and improve the performance of JavaScript.

Another short-term goal is to develop mobile-specific additions that do not require close and open the application. Support for the latest Web technologies (HTML 5, CSS and Javascript) allow developers to create powerful mobile applications to a positive user experience for simplicity and speed.

Federal government presents Cyber-Security Strategy

A Cyber-Security Strategy on the protection of citizens, businesses and government from attacks from the Internet has now decided the federal cabinet. With the proposed protection measures to ensure that the Web does not fail. For the "availability of cyber-space and the integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of data is available have become an existential question of the 21st century," says the release. Should be coordinated efforts for the safety of a new cyber-defense center, which is the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) belong. The security strategy is a PDF file under www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Verwaltung/Informationsgesellschaft/cyber.pdf?__blob=publicationFile available free of charge.

Stronger drugs purchase on the Internet

Over the Internet is now even more user drugs. Three out of five people in the past year at least once ordered online medicines. The proportion of those who order more drugs on the Internet is, according to a Nielsen survey, even at a quarter. The shopping on the Web has several advantages: A positive assessment 89 percent of respondents convenient way of ordering, the low prices appreciated 67 percent. About the reliable and fast delivery happy 71 percent of survey participants.

Also informed about health issues is now more than one in four regular users on the Internet. Most frequently searched for information about disease conditions and classical methods of treatment, followed by the prices of medicines and health products. Here now using nearly two-thirds of those surveyed online encyclopedias and half of forums to gather information on health related topics.

E-mail subject lines to vote on the issue

The subject lines of e-mails should convey to the recipient, ideally at a glance what to expect when reading. It facilitates the communication if the author is aware of this and writing a little trouble there.

Anyone planning such a vacation and the internet a travelogue about the desired goal finds, may have a question for the author. The email should then take the best "requested information on the Italy trip report" a subject like "question about your Italy trip report" or. Thus the recipient is better served than with a subject like "question ..." or "Hello. "

Totally it is frowned upon, even to write thread. Apart from the fact that the receiver in such a case, do not know what he has to expect in the message to treat some spam filters e-mails without a subject as junk. Therefore, these messages end up in spam folders or even in the trash.

Love makes the Web often blind

Proverbial blind love is often on the Internet. Because on news of alleged secret admirers, many users fall occasion of Valentine's Day (February 14) start. Behind the messages often put online criminals and spammers who want to entice unsuspecting users into divulging personal user data.


Here, the messages are no longer sent only by e-mail, as has previously been the case. With the help of targeted, emotionally appealing wall posts on Facebook or other social networks are the Cyber-criminals sent to the user. The experts now warn of the IT security firm BitDefender. It is advisable to meet the online communications with suspicion and caution, and to protect their computer with security tools from possible attacks by malicious software.

International Day for the Internet Segura

Today is International Day for the Internet Segura. The onomastic usually accompanied by reflections, publications and anniversaries are remembered. A good excuse to revisit issues that are always there but with the constant evolution of events are parked and sometimes forget.

Reviewing what is said by the Safety Network, we find an article by our fellow SMB technology, security and privacy Guide on Web 2.0 INTECO (National Institute of Communication Technologies), an organization that today invites Internet to participate in a competition on Internet security

EUROSTAT, an agency of the European Commission, published yesterday on the occasion of this celebration, in 2010 that statistics show to what extent the Spanish are victims of viruses and other malware: one in three have had one in Spanish that year. Concern.

Recently also the warning of cyber-National Advisory Council (CNCCS), about the dangers of mobile terminals, target gangs and online fraud. 53% of young Internet users access the Net with your mobile.

In late January McAfee noted in a study of social networks as a target for cyber crime in the decade just begun and Sophos, another security firm, highlighted the rise of 'malware, phishing and spam in social networks. New times, new problems. The theme of this event is: The publications on the Web affect real life.

Internet: A quarter of the traffic violates copyright

Pirated products are traded on the Internet through special pages in a big way - in such a large scale that a quarter of all traffic on the Internet violates copyright. This is the result of a recent study by the company Envisional on behalf of NBC Universal. Been analyzed, the data traffic that is caused for example by sharing and similar websites.

   In so-called Bittorent networks are each about 35 percent of the popular copyrighted content from movies and porn. Television content such series make a share of around 14 percent and the PC or console games a little less than seven percent. With about four per cent following software that is still ahead of music (about three percent)

TAN award for online banking is safer - and more expensive

Many people in Germany to conduct their banking transactions via the Internet, online banking is perceived as comfortable. The customer takes on a large part of the process into their own hands, so save the banks costs. So that the various orders can be done, are so-called transaction numbers, short TAN needed.....more

Disposable addresses in e-mail service Hotmail

At a special protection against spam, users of the e-mail service Hotmail to draw from now: In addition to the actual address can create up to five additional email addresses.....more

Google Evil? The Modern Evil?

What's this thing on Google Evil?  News are out on Google is Evil due to Plug-in Installation. Okay, this is something that concerns millions of internet users.

Asa Dotzler claimed that Google secretly installs Google Update Plug ins into firefox without the users' knowledge. This claim was made on Asa Dotzler's blog.

“What makes Google think it’s reasonable behavior for them to slip a Google Update plug-in into Firefox when I installed Google Earth or Google Chrome (not sure which one caused this) without asking me first?” Dotzler wrote. “This is not OK behavior.”

“When I installed iTunes, in order to manage my music collection and sync to my iPod, why did Apple think it was OK to add the iTunes Application Detector plug-in to my Firefox web browser without asking me?” Dotzler asked.

“In my book, that fits the definition of a trojan horse. Yes, that is precisely how a trojan horse operates,” explained Dotzler. “These additional pieces of software installed without my consent may not be malicious but the means by which they were installed was sneaky, underhanded, and wrong.”

 Whoah! This is something serious! This is a sensitive issue that must be looked into, with everyone of us internet users affected! So do you think Google is Evil? Do you think Google is spying on us and our privacy?

Google Page Rank Update November 2010

When is the next Google Page Rank Update? The last reported PR update was way back in April 2010. Since then no Page Rank Update has been reported. Usually Google PR update takes place after every 3 to 4 months. However, this has not be followed for this year. There are talks of a possible Google page rank update this december 2010.  But some webmasters also think that the next PR update might be at the end of November 2010. I will keep you posted on this one.

To verify any PR update you can visit "XENYO. COM" or CHECKPAGERANK . NET and check if your site/blog has a new Page Rank.

Update: It seems like there is a google Pr update going on for November 16, 2010 December 1, 2010. One of my blogs with PR 2 went to PR 0.  Other sites are fine, no change yet. Check your page ranks though and confirm if there is any PR update.

How to Fix Smart Bro Error Codes P30040, P30090 Connection Problem

Smart Broadband Internet is not really great when it comes to its services. But many still use Smart Bro because of the affordable fees and because it has a wider area coverage as compared to Globe Broadband and other internet providers. I've had my own share of bad internet connection and bad customer service with Smart.  It does *uck but I'm left with no choice as Globe does not cover my place for internet connection.

Some Facts about Smart Bro plan 999:

• It is intended for a single pc only .
• Everytime you transfer the connection to another pc, you will be redirected to the smart bro portal where you need to enter you Account Number, Reference Number, and the Captcha to be able to login or activate your internet connection.

Some problems associated with Smart Bro:

• Can't login to the portal
• Error Codes P30040, P30090 and other error codes 

Do it  yourself solutions for Error Codes or Internet Connectivity Problems:

• Clear your internet cache.
• Use a different browser
• Restart your pc.
• Disable and re-enable your LAN

The above solutions are a few things you can perform before calling Smart Bro's customer service (*1888). Of course when you call, they will let you do all those steps above again. You might even go far to using a specific IP address, Servers or Proxy.  If all else fails, the problem is not with your pc, but with Smart. The only way to solve the error codes especially P30040 is to let Smart activate your account without the need for you to go to the Smart Bro portal. It only requires a few tweaking on their part, I believe. Just be patient and call them again if your connection is not fixed. I'm basing all these from my experience. Sometimes it is beyond our control and this is the time where we badly need a good customer service from Smart.

Remember, at times it may take 24 hours for Smart to fix your connection. After this time and no progress is made, call Smart again. Just be persistent. In fairness, there are still few good customer reps out there that are willing to help you out.

If you are still experiencing Smart Bro P30040 error or similar errors, you can leave a comment here, or if you have an easy solution, don't hesitate to share it with us.

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Turn Windows 7 into a Wi-fi Router in 5 minutes

Can't afford to buy a wifi router? You dont need to buy one at all. As long as you have Windows 7 operating system running on your pc or laptop you can turn your device into a wi-fi router. And forget about the hassle set ups of opening the control panel, clicking this or that. Just install one program and you are ready to go wireless without a router.

I just installed this application on a Windows 7 Laptop and am now able to connect my PDA phone and tablet to the laptop without a router. Yes it is cool and it saves a lot of money. The program is called "Connectify".

Connectify is an easy to use software router for Windows 7 computers. After downloading and installing the lightweight application, Connectify utilizes your computers' built in Wi-Fi card to wirelessly share any available Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices including laptops, smart phones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption.

Connectify is only less than 3MB to download. You can get this amazing program here:  http://connectify.me/

Just run the easy setup wizard to get started. Then enjoy!

The Fastest Easiest Way to Download Youtube Videos to MP4 Format

Many of you are not aware perhaps that you can directly download Youtube videos without installing any software. Best of all, you can download and play these youtube videos to your cellphones, iphone, or mp4 players without the need to convert them. You only need to download a firefox add-on which works flawlessly on your browser. No need for YouTube Downloader programs. No need to visit websites where you input the url of the video you want to download .. This one works fast and easy..

"Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV" is a small extension which adds a download button on the YouTube video pages, so you can download videos as MP4 or FLV.


The extension is based on a Greasemonkey script. If you use Chrome, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer, install the script.

You can download this add-on for free.. Just copy paste this link on your browser. 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11869/