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2 Amazing Remakes Of Empire State Of Mind (Jay-Z & Alicia Keys)

jaredwilli — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:22:20 +0000

There have been 2 very well done remakes of the song by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, Granite State of Mind, which I love by the way. The first is about the Granite State, which is where I am from, and would tell you is awesome. It is a truly perfect song, and best one ever for New Hampshire.

The second video you may have seen already. It is the New Dork song, basically highlighting social media, and the online world of today. Check em out.

17 Useful Google Wave Resources

jaredwilli — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:47:32 +0000

This is probably not the first list of wave resources you have found, and it most certainly won’t be the last. I wanted to list the things I found to be very useful so far for me, and my use of Google Wave. Wave isn’t the easiest thing to get the hang of when first starting out with it, and the more resources you have access to the better. I hope this list will prove useful to you, and all your Wave needs.

If you currently don’t have a Wave account, and still need an invitation, you can get an invite from me here.

Helpful Wave Resources

Browser Extensions

Firefox Extensions

Google Chrome Extensions

Embedding A Wave In A Blog

Embedding Google Waves Into WordPress Blog Posts/

Add Google Wave in Your Site

WP Bot

Wave Embed Bots

Add these bots the same way you add contacts in Google Wave

embeddy@appspot.com

blog-bot@appspot.com

wp-bot@appspot.com

Popular Waves To Follow

Helping Wave Grow

Wave Directory

Wave Development

Extension Development Guide

Robots Python Tutorial

Getting Started With Bots in Google Wave

If you know of any more useful resources that aren’t listed here, please share them in the comments below.

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10 Google Wave Invites To Give Away

jaredwilli — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:27:16 +0000

I have 10 more Google Wave invitations to give away!! If you are still one of those who are looking for an invite you can get one here. I did this twice already in a previous post, too. In case you didn’t get a chance to be one of the chosen who received an invite from me then, you can have a chance now to get one.

All you have to do is submit 2 separate links here, to the Tweeaks Community Links feed. They must be 2 different website links, and you must include a short description about the site/link you are submitting. There is no specification on the type of website, as long as it’s not a spam or malicious site. You will then have to comment here on this post using your email address you want the invite sent to.

You can submit more than 2 if you like, of course. I encourage you to submit as many as possible. After you have one link approved you can submit as many as you like with out waiting for them to be moderated.

So to get a Google Wave invite, go here, submit 2 links to 2 separate websites. Leave your comment here letting me know you have done that, using your email address to send the invite, and sit back and wait.

It’s really very simple, but if you have any questions about what to do, leave a comment here about it.

So just go

Giving Away 5 MORE Google Wave Invitations

jaredwilli — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:27:47 +0000

Nov. 14 Update: I have reopened this since I have a few more invites to giveaway.

Are you still waiting to receive your Google Wave invitation? Well this may be your chance to get finally get it because I am giving away the last 5 invites I have.

All you have to do to have a chance to be one of chosen is leave a comment listing your top 5, most favorite design tutorials, design resources, or websites. If you aren’t into design you can list your top 5 favorite websites, but for all designers I want things that are related to design. I will pick 5 people from the comments to send my wave invites to.

The last topic was to comment with your biggest frustration, which is why you will see comments below from people that didn’t comment their top 5′s lists. You do not need to comment with your biggest frustration this time.

The new topic is list your top 5 favorite design tutorials, design resources, or websites, not necessarily a design website for the non-designers. All designers must comment with design related lists, though.

You do not need to comment with a frustration this time. Just what I have mentioned above.

Find Tweeaks Design On Facebook And Become A Fan!

jaredwilli — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:50:29 +0000

Incase you weren’t aware already, Tweeaks Design has a Facebook page for our readers who are members of Facebook. Fans of our page get exclusive access to tutorials, contests, prizes, and more! So come find Tweeaks Design on Facebook and Become a Fan. Let us know what you think of us. Post requests just tell us we suck. You can even join it just so you can unjoin it. But if you do that, we may have to come and find you, and do bad things….

If you are already a fan of ours, then spread the word and get your friends to join too. Share the wealth!

Click here to go to our page
Become a Fan of Tweeaks Design

Everybody loves good stuff right? I’m sure you love good stuff. Well that’s what we have on our page. Good stuff. You would be missing out on good stuff if you don’t join it.

So what are you waiting for?

Why are you even still reading this?

WHY HAVEN’T YOU JOINED OUR PAGE YET?

Alright then, since you’re still reading this I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you have already joined it. So I guess I’ll make the remainder of this post worth your time and mine,
and find something kind,
of loving to say.
Cause nothing’s as great
as the things we make.
The only mistake
is NOT JOINING OUR PAGE!!

So go join it now! Okay, maybe that wasn’t worth your time, OR mine. But at least it killed some time.

Facebook Application Fan Check Virus Hoax

jaredwilli — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:06:19 +0000

I heard that an application on Facebook, that lately EVERYONE has been using, was a virus. I’ve read a couple different things about what the “virus” did and how it worked, and the funny thing is I have been suspicious of the application ever since I first saw it. Once I heard word that my suspicions were true, I needed more solid confirmation. I came to find this article on Mashable.com, Facebook Fan Check Virus: Something Fishy is Going On, posted by Stan Schroeder, and this rumor needs to be stopped, so I am posting this to spread the word.

People can easily overreact when they don’t know anything about this type of thing. Then there’s me who, once I heard of this s0-called virus, immediately go searching for it, or anything about it that I can find on it. It really kind of funny, that I go seek out what most everyone else tries to stay away from to avoid any of the negative effects of it. I guess I’m weird.

In the article on Mashable, Stan says,

We believe that this is merely a two part hoax: on one hand, you have a defunct application that allegedly lets you see who’s been visiting your Facebook profile – which cannot work due to Facebook’s policies, and all applications claiming to do so are scams. On the other, spammers and malicious hackers are feeding the rumors around this application to lead people to search for a solution, and getting their computers infected by malware in return.

He mentions a very good point that many people may not be aware of, which is Facebook does not allow applications to provide statistics about a person’s friends and who they interact with the most, which this application claims it does.

Here is a Youtube video I found showing what happens when you Google “Facebook Fan Check Virus”.

So anyone using Fan Check on Facebook just remove it and ignore any other applications you see that make claims to be able to tell you who visits your wall the most.
And DO NOT search for “facebook fan check virus”, because all you will get is sites containing malware, which is just as annoying and undesirable as any virus is.

Image courtesy of Mashable.com

A New Smarter Virus Spreads Across Facebook And Other Social Networks

jaredwilli — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:34:52 +0000

There is a worm that has been around for months now, that is getting smarter and targeting social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. It is a new variant of a worm called Koobface, or as most people have been calling it, “the Facebook virus.” Although, the worm has targeted other social network sites such as, Friendster, Bebo, it has been affecting Facebook users the most.

Koobface “the Facebook Virus”

If someone’s computer becomes infected by the Koobface worm, it starts spamming comments on friends belonging to the owner of the computer. The comments say things like, “Are you sure this is your first acting experience?”, “impressive. i’m sure it’s you on this video”, “How can anyone get so busted by a spy camera?”, “You’re the whole show! i’m admired with you.”, and “is it u there?”, making it appear as though they came from the person who the virus has infected. It is possible that some of the comments may raise some suspician due to their poor grammar, however, some may seem more appealing and inviting to people. As Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab says, “Unfortunately, users are very trusting of messages left by ‘friends’ on social networking sites. So the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very high”. I know I personally have been curious about one of the highlights that is currently showing up on my news feed page, and I am tempted to click it, knowing that it was a link to the virus. It said that a person on my friends list had commented on it, making me interested to see what it was about. I had asked my friend if they had in fact commented on it and they said they did not.

The Spam Message

When users click on these links, it takes them to a page on another site that offers a video download from Youtube, and when you accept, it tells you that you need to install a new version of Adobe Flash Player for you to be able to continue.

The Suspicious Video Download

Once you click install you become infected, and are vulnerable to many more risks. When searching on Google users will get redirected to other malicious websites, as McAfee’s Craig Schmugar said that this new variant of Koobface installs “a proxy server is installed to %ProgramFiles%\tinyproxy\tinyproxy.exe and a service named Security Accounts Manager (SamSs)” which will load when your computer starts up. It looks for traffic on Google, Yahoo and other major search engines, so that it can hi-jack the search results. “Search terms are directed to find-www.net”, which enables more security risks like ad hi-jacking or click fraud.

The Flash Player Update Message

Showing In My Highlights Currently On My Newsfeed

Will Social Networks Ever Be Safe?

Kaspersky Lab predicted at the beginning of 2008, that attacks by cybercriminals would increase on social networks.

4. Attacks on social networks

In 2008, phishing is expected to undergo major changes and to increasingly target social networks. Subscriber account data for services such as Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, Blogger, and other similar services, will become more frequently targeted by malicious users. This will become an important alternative method to infecting hacked sites with malware. In 2008, a number of Trojan programs will spread via the blogs and profiles of social network user accounts.

Another problem related to social networks are XSS/PHP/SQL attacks. In contrast to phishing, which employs exclusively fraudulent methods and social engineering, these attacks are based on errors and vulnerabilities in Web 2.0 services and may even affect highly computer-literate users. As always, the goal is to obtain private data and create several databases or lists in order to launch subsequent attacks using more traditional methods.

We have only begin to see the beginning of it. Virus writers will continue focusing on social networks more and more intensely. People need to be aware of this, and know how to protect themselves.

Tips On Protecting Yourself

Everyone should already have, and actively use, up-to-date antivirus software. My personal suggestions would be McAfee, Norton, but if you don’t want to or can’t afford to pay for either of those, there are free antivirus programs like AVG, Avira. Regularly update whatever program you use, and run virus scans at least once a week, if not more. Everyone should also have some kind of spyware protection as well. Spybot – Search and Destroy is one of the best free anti-spyware programs available, but it is a good idea to have other programs since you can’t find and remove all spyware with one program.

Don’t open any spam messages you see on Facebook. Be more cautious of a comment someone has left you and think whether or not that person would say something like that to you. The same thing goes for spam emails. It is the same thing now on social networks.

If you see a site that appears suspicious, or asks you to to download anything like a video or Flash Player, DO NOT download it. Get off of the site as quickly as possible. I have a good amount of experience when it comes to malware, so I have been to a lot of “bad neighborhoods” on the internet, a network of malicious websites, that have sometimes upon loading a web page, started to automatically download an .exe file that I did not even accept to or was even asked if I wanted to download it. I would not be surprised to see this in the future on social networks.

Tell as many people as you can about the risks that are out there. The more people that protect themselves, the more you’re protected. If your friends don’t get infected then you have less of a chance to receive a spam comment from them, that you may unknowingly click on and inturn become infected as well.

Become a fan of Facebook’s security page and keep a close eye on any updates they have about the latest threats. There is a lot of information posted on there that people should be aware of.

Images from: McAfee Avert Labs

Become a Fan of Psdtuts on Facebook

jaredwilli — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:26:51 +0000

Anyone and everyone with a Facebook account that has a passion for graphics and design needs to become a fan of Psdtuts. There is no excuse or reason not to, and you have no idea what you’re missing out on if you don’t. You get things like resources, and opportunities to win prizes, such as a free TutsPlus membership, and of course, great tutorials.

Psdtuts has been my favorite source for all the best tutorials for a few years now, because they have always had the absolute best tuts on the web. They are the most detailed, easy to follow tutorials with outstanding results that when you complete them, you feel like you have really learned some great things. Plus there are so many other great resources available as well.

So go log into your Facebook account now, and become a fan of Psdtuts today!

If you don’t already have a Facebook account, what are you waiting for? Create an account, and join the Psdtuts page. It’s just too good to miss out on the great benefits of being a fan.

85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow

jaredwilli — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:20:39 +0000

You can find thousands of designers on Twitter that tweet all sorts of various things that may going on in their lives, which the majority of aren’t topics that are of any interest to designers and design enthusiests. But @Mashable created a list of about 85 Twitterers that tweet everything from design resources, tutorials, useful tips and tricks, as well as all kinds of creative and inspirational topics and ideas. Anyone who is passionate about design should definitely follow these Twitterers.

Go to Article: 85+ Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow

Top 15 Best Tweet’s of the Past Week

jaredwilli — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:08:34 +0000

I saw a ton of great tweet’s and re-tweet’s on Twitter this week, and I wanted to create a list of some of my favorite links and tweeted posts that are the top 15 absolute best tweets. After you check all of these out, you will feel better about yourself, and be very glad you did it.

Since, I am not able to remember ALL of the things I saw tweeted, I cannot post every single one I saw. I did, however, remember a lot of the sites I saw them on, so I went back to the sites and found some I couldn’t retrieve from Tweetdeck’s history. These links are with out a doubt some of the most worthwhile posts, and you will definately enjoy checking them out.

I also included the Twitter user @name that I originally saw each one posted on, or tweeted from, so incase anyone wants to follow anyone from these sites and isn’t already, they can do it right from here. I recommend following each of these people though, because they post good quality posts that are well worth reading, and passing along to others via Twitter.

Okay enough of me. Here are 15 of my favorite tweet’s from the past week in no particular order.

@dzineblog – 30 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials to Design Decent Websites

@dzineblog – 27 Best Photoshop Gadget Design Tutorials to Design Realistic Gadgets

@minervity – 72 of The Most Killingest Modified Computers Ever

@minervity – 21 Total Mayhem Photoshop Tutorials

@tutorial9 – Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout in Photoshop

@fudgegraphics – 20+ Amazing Typography Designs

@outlawdesignblog – What if Websites Were People…

@francescomugnai – How to Create a Realistic Game Boy

@mashable – TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet

@copyblogger – The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging

@copyblogger – The Single Most Important Thing
Your Headline Must Do

@mashable – 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration

@line25blog – 25 Detailed Tutorials for Coding Up Your Web Designs

@line25blog – How to Convert a Photoshop Mockup to XHTML/CSS

@smashingmag – 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills

There is my awesome list of favorite tweet’s this week. I hope you found some of these as useful, interesting and as cool as I have. Like I said before, too, if there is a tweet you saw this week, that you think should be on this list, or if I screwed up a link somewhere since I had some brainless moments while writing this up, post me a comment.

I think I might try to do this post every week, if I can remember… lol. Keep those awesome tweet’s and Re-tweet’s coming.

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@minervity – 21 Total Mayhem Photoshop Tutorials

@tutorial9 – Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout in Photoshop

@fudgegraphics – 20+ Amazing Typography Designs

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@francescomugnai – How to Create a Realistic Game Boy

@mashable – TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet

@copyblogger – The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging

@copyblogger – The Single Most Important Thing Your Headline Must Do

@mashable – 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration

@line25blog – 25 Detailed Tutorials for Coding Up Your Web Designs

@line25blog – How to Convert a Photoshop Mockup to XHTML/CSS

@smashingmag – 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills

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