Tips, tricks, ticks, and other stuff involving the creative process, technology, social media, and whatever else seems to fit in!
The History of Digital Storage [INFOGRAPHIC]:
The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that’s only 50 years of progress.
Today, as we move further into the cloud, and witness the latest and greatest pocket media devices, we thought it fitting to take a look back at how far we’ve come on our quest to store as much information in as little space as possible.
LinkedIn Lets Companies Post Status Updates [VIDEO]:
LinkedIn has long let users follow companies, but Thursday the professional networking service is finally allowing the more than two million businesses with company pages to post status updates to their followers.
Company Status Updates will enable assigned administrators of company pages to post updates, up to 500 characters in length, to the “Overview” tab of their pages.
Find a Job in Social Media, Communications or Design:
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But we’d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable‘s job boards are a place for socially savvy companies to find people like you. This week and every week, Mashable features its coveted job board listings for a variety of positions on the web, social media space and beyond. Have a look at what’s good and new on our job boards:
Note: Cross posted from Suburban Eschatology Part Two.
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There are some people who think Facebook has become too complicated. There are other people who agree with those people.
Found this on Mashable... I'd prefer to work in high tech manufacturing, my preferred area. But, I'll write for anyone! This chart is geared more towards the hard core programmers, not the English majors who happened to grow up and start their careers in Seattle, like me, and who, inevitably because of the time and place, landed in that industry off and on over the years. And it looks like moving north, south, or east from Oregon would be a good idea for landing one of these types of jobs.
Hot Tips For Landing Jobs at Google, Apple and Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]:Google, Apple and Facebook are the tech trifecta, so we found facts that could help you land a job at one of these companies. No doubt, there will be stiff competition: Nearly one in four young professionals wants to work at Google, for instance, but there’s more room in the Googleplex for software developers. Facebook gets 250,000 applications a year and sifts through them to find the cream of the crop, preferring those who build things, whether they’re apps or organizations. And Apple wants, well, Apple fanboys to help create the next generation of gadgetry, but you ought to have a reference from an existing Appler.
Originally posted on Live Journal: Suburban Eschatology Part Two (September 12, 2011, 9:56 PM)
I am not a fan of kids on social media. Teens, sure, but under thirteen seems a bit much. My son would love a Facebook account, but I do not think he is ready. On top of this, he spent so much time on the computer over the last year, without access to any real social networking, that I had to take him into the doctor to have his carpal tunnel symptoms looked at this afternoon.
Anyway, here is yet another reason why kids and social networking services are a bad idea...
Apps, social networks pose new threat to kids By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
There is a rising threat to kids who habituate the Internet: the likelihood that a popular mobile app or social-networking service will invade their privacy.
The Federal Trade Commission last month announced a $50,000 settlement with app maker W3 Innovations for collecting and dispersing information of kids under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act, or COPPA.
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A recent survey by anti-virus firm AVG found roughly half of children ages 6 through 9 regularly interact with friends online, yet 58% of their parents admitted to not being knowledgeable about social networks.
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"The risks to children from social networking at an early age are numerous," Lavy says. "As pedophiles become more technologically sophisticated, they're able to find and connect with kids easier than with previous methods."
More time spent online also means higher risk of children getting exposed to inappropriate content and advertising. Identity thieves target minors' names and Social Security numbers to create bogus credit accounts with a lower likelihood of getting discovered.
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Top 10 Features Users Want From Google+ Brand Pages:
It’s still too early to tell what will come from the recently launched Google+ brand pages.
We asked our followers what they hope to see added in the future, and after reading hundreds of comments, the key things appear to be multiple administrators, app integration and more customization.
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The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day | TechCrunch:
SafeShepherd
SafeShepherd logs who is tracking your data (like browser cookies) across the web and then acts like an intermediary, asking them to remove it from their database — Saving you hassle at the least. Hence the name.
Fired up this 22 year old dinosaur tonight to try to salvage some old writing from the 1990s. This was my primary computer from 1990 through to 1999 (though, once they invented those darned interwebs, it was pretty much the same as just not having a computer).
I was impressed. Everything worked. The first time I turned the power on, it sputtered and wanted a startup disk, which would have pretty much meant it was forever dead. Flipping it off and back on, the mammoth 40 MB hard drive came on and it worked great. First time I’ve powered it up in about ten years.
Heck, it worked better than many less ancient computers I have around here. The frankenPC I am using right this second often needs two or three tries before it can figure out how to start up and load Windows properly.
Apple. Damn. I’ll put a check in the score column for you guys tonight.
Now the problem is how to get those old files across the gulf of time to my PCs.
Back in 1999, I didn’t have too much of a problem getting the files moved. Windows 98 seemed to be able to read the disks and open the ancient Mac Word files as text files with little hassle, if I opened them as text files. I could salvage the content with little hassle and a lot of re-formatting.
12 years later, though, it may be a little more of a hassle. While frankenPC actually does have a floppy disk drive, it couldn’t read the old Mac disks.
I think old tech may come to the rescue here. We have an old laptop still running Windows 98, the same OS I was using the last time I tried to salvage some old files from this Mac, that The Ex One recently bough for five bucks off of Ebay. We haven’t been able to figure out a use for this clunky old laptop but this project may, in fact, end up justifying it’s existence.
Bottom line, though, I am not wasting a lot of time trying to get these files moved. I have no problem sitting down with my laptop and the Mac and just doing some good old fashioned data entry. Just having any sort of readable (by eyes, not machines) version of those old files is a big relief to me.
I think the longest document I want off of there is about seven pages long. Fortunately, I believe everything much longer than that was moved over to my PCs many, many years ago and backed up properly to avoid any of the data crashes that have plagued my photography over the years.
Recently, though, I noticed a few files missing from my system that, in hindsight, were probably never moved off the Mac. I am glad it works and that I can retrieve these scraps from my past. If it can start four or five more times, it will have far exceeded any expected lifetime and it can go quietly off into the good night to rest in peace.
For fun, check out these specs…
Component
Specification[1]
Display
9-inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, 512 × 342 pixel resolution
Storage
40 MB SCSI hard disk drive optional, Built-in SuperDrive 3.5 in floppy disk drive
Bus Speed
8 MHz
Random Access Memory
1 MB, expandable to 2 or 4 MB using 120 ns 30-pin SIMMs and optional custom RAM-slot expansion card
Networking
AppleTalk
Physical dimensions
13.2 in × 9.7 in × 11.2 in (33.5 cm × 24.6 cm × 28.4 cm; depth by width by height)
16 lb (7.26 kg)
Port connections
1× ADB (keyboard, mouse)
2× mini-DIN-8 RS-422 serial ports (printer, modem, AppleTalk)
1× DB-19 (ext. floppy drive)
1× DB-25 SCSI connector (ext. hard drive, scanner)
1× 3.5 mm Headphone jack socket
Expansion slots
none
Macintosh Classic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Classic was an adaptation of Jerry Manock's and Terry Oyama's 1984 Macintosh 128K industrial design, as had been the earlier Macintosh SE. Apple released two versions that ranged from $1,000 to $1,500. Reviewer reactions were mixed; most focused on the slow processor performance and lack of expansion slots. The consensus was that the Classic was only useful for word processing, spreadsheets and databases. The lower price and the availability of education software led to the Classic's popularity in education. It was sold alongside the more powerful Macintosh Classic II in 1991 until its discontinuation the next year.
