Australian book retailer Dymocks has admitted that it isn’t giving its customers the best experience via its online shopping channel and flagged a need for an overhaul — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WordPress, as a content management system, is often used for creating portfolio websites. With the evolution of user interface design and functionalities, a new trend has emerged: displaying portfolio items in different layouts. This tutorial details the process of creating a dedicated portfolio section in WordPress’ backend, and using jQuery and CSS3 to display the portfolio in a classy manner — via Nettuts+
Apple today took administrative control of the iCloud.com domain less than a week before CEO Steve Jobs is to unveil his company’s new cloud-based service.
According to WHOIS searches Wednesday, Apple is now listed as the owner of the iCloud.com domain. As late as Tuesday, the domain was still registered to Swedish firm Xcerion, which had used the URL for its online file-storage service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Co-founder of daily deals site Spreets has said that the Australia investment community doesn’t adequately support the start-up community down under and doesn’t move fast enough to capitalise on the next big thing
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hackers in China have compromised personal email accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bill moving through the US Senate that would grant the government greater power to shutter Web sites that host copyright-infringing content is under fire from security researchers, who say the legislation raises serious technical and security concerns
. Meanwhile, hacktivists protested by attacking the Web site of the industry group that most actively supports the proposal
Typekit is one of the easiest ways to get fancy fonts working on your website. Just sign up for an account, pick a font and paste a few lines of code into your pages. TypeKit takes care of the rest, ensuring that your fonts load and there’s no unsightly flash of unstyled content (FOUT) or other problems.
There is, however, one possible problem with the default way of embedding Typekit fonts. If the TypeKit code fails to load, it can slow down the rest of your site. Typekit avoids FOUT by pausing your page load for a fraction of a second, but if the Typekit script never finishes loading, that fraction of a second can turn into many seconds. While Typekit has excellent uptime, let’s face it, outages happen, and we understand if you don’t want to hang your own site’s fate on another — via Webmonkey
They’re not discussing the latest celebrity gossip or passing on stock tips just yet, but Australian robots have begun talking to each other – and in a language of their own devising.
The two Lingodroids
, developed by the University of Queensland, have picked up their hared vocabulary for places, distances and directions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google Wallet is currently in a field test in the US only,
a spokesperson from Google Australia said. We don’t have specific dates to announce today but will keep you posted as we make progress.
Now sure, we know this is only a trial, but as we’ve previously noted several times, Google’s continual US focus — and the fact that some of the products and services which it launches never end up coming to Australia, where the search giant has a large presence — has started to grate a bit. And as we’ve been discussing this week, Australia is a very enthusiastic early adopter of both smartphones with nice NFC chips, as well as the Mastercard PayPass system which Google is using for Wallet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Consumers need to be smarter about keeping track of their digital footprint
and be cautious about sharing personal information online to avoid cyber crime — via The Sydney Morning Herald
The US internet giant Google has avoided paying more than pound stg. 3 billion ($4.63bn) in tax in Britain and other countries over the past five years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have set a new data speed record using just a single laser to transmit the equivalent of 700 DVDs in one second.
They say their discovery will not only help to fulfil the world’s burgeoning high-capacity bandwidth needs of cloud computing and 3D high definition TV, but provide an environmentally-friendly way of transmitting data over long distances — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For the first time ever, spammers are establishing their own their own fake URL-shortening services to perform URL redirection, according to Symantec.
This new spamming activity has contributed to this month’s increase in spam by 2.9 percentage points, a rise that was also expected following the Rustock botnet takedown in March — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Christchurch man Glenn Martin says he has realised a 30-year dream, with his company setting a new record for a jetpack flight.
The Martin Aircraft Company says it sent a crash-test dummy a kilometre into the air over the South Island and successfully completed a parachute landing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Draw shapes, modify spacing, adjust kerning, compare font weights and glyph variations all in the same view mode. See your letterforms as live text before exporting the font — via Glyphs
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn’t that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated — we knew that already — it’s that the US government inadvertently aided the hackers.
In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The network of defense contractor Lockheed-Martin was attacked using counterfeit electronic keys. Since the RSA Security network was hacked and the keys to its SecurID tokens were compromised a few months ago, the world has been waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. Well, it dropped — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internet powerhouse Google has launched an ambitious project to collect panoramic images across India’s chaotic jumble of traffic jams and shanty towns to add to its Street View service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some of the recent scams that used bogus security alerts in a bid to frighten Mac users into purchasing worthless security software appear to have been the brainchild of ChronoPay, Russia’s largest online payment processor and something of a pioneer in the rogue anti-virus business.
Since the beginning of May, security firms have been warning Apple users to be aware of new scareware threats like MacDefender and Mac Security. The attacks began on May 2, spreading through poisoned Google Image Search results. Initially, these attacks required users to provide their passwords to install the rogue programs, but recent variants do not, according to Mac security vendor Intego — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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