The Modern History of the Resume [INFOGRAPHIC]

 Design, Marketing, Your Brand  543 Responses »
Sep 072011
 

 

 

 

The role of the resume has remained constant throughout its 500 years of existence — the point of the resume is to get an interview, in hopes of finally landing a job.

Relative to other forms of communication, though, it hasn’t changed all that much. In fact, most of the changes have been merely cosmetic — most employers still require a one-sheet, black-and-white printed resume at interviews, regardless of the fact that we all use email and have had access to much better design options for years now.

via The Modern History of the Resume [INFOGRAPHIC].

Facebook Doubles Revenues in the First Half of 2011 to $1.6 Billion [REPORT]

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Sep 072011
 

 

 

Facebook‘s revenues doubled in the first half of the year to $1.6 billion, according to a report.

Reuters says Facebook’s net income for the period hit $500 million, citing “a source with knowledge of [Facebook’s] financials.”

via Facebook Doubles Revenues in the First Half of 2011 to $1.6 Billion [REPORT].

The highest capacity external hard drive in the world

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Sep 072011
 

 

 

Seagate on Wednesday started shipping the highest capacity external hard drive in the world. The company’s FreeAgent GoFlex Desk family now boasts a 4TB drive, which is a first for the industry.

via Maximum PC | Seagate Raises HDD Capacity Bar With 4TB GoFlex Desk.

Adult Internet Users Are Socialites, Study Finds

 Internet News, Your Brand  363 Responses »
Sep 062011
 

 

 

According to a new study, 65 percent of American adult Internet users have interacted on a social media site like Facebook, Google+, or LinkedIn, supporting the often cited importance of social media marketing.

The social networking report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been asking adult Internet users in the United States about social media site visits since 2005 when just 8 percent of Internet users 18-years-old or older had visited one of the sites, compared with 65 percent just six years later. What’s more, for the first time, more than half of all American adults — Internet user or not — has visited a site like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+.

via Adult Internet Users Are Socialites, Study Finds | Practical eCommerce.

Maximum PC | Cool Site of the Week: Codeacademy

 Design, Education, Internet News  309 Responses »
Sep 062011
 

 

 

Unpretentious and easy to approach, Codeacademy makes coding so enjoyable, it’s hard to believe you’re actually learning something. The website starts users off small, offering tutorials on how to use some very basic JavaScript commands. Each lesson is incrementally progressive and conversational in tone, making it easy to advance your skills without breaking a sweat. Each time you reach a new plateau of coding knowledge, users are awarded with a virtual trophy, making the time spent learning how to do something useful feel a like playing a game.

via Maximum PC | Cool Site of the Week: Codeacademy.

Hackers Issue Rogue SSL Certificates for CIA, MI6, and Mossad; Apple Stands Pat

 Internet News, Law  431 Responses »
Sep 062011
 

A well known security firm warns that the number of compromised digital security certificates from DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority outfit owned by VASCO Data Security International, has doubled in size over the past week from 250 false SSL certificates to 531. False certificates have now been issued for Facebook, Google, Tor, Skype, Mossad, CIA, MI6, Twitter, and several other high profile sites.

“This is really bad news. As DigiNotar is a ‘root’ certificate, they can assign authority to intermediaries to sign and validate certificates on their behalf,” security firm Sophos explains. “It appears the attackers signed 186 certificates that could have been intermediate certificates. These certificates masqueraded as well-known certificate authorities like Thawte, Verisign, Comodo, and Equifax.”

According to Sophos, computers users of IE and Safari on Windows 7/Vista/2008/2008R2 and/or Chrome and Firefox on all platforms are immune from exploitation, so long as you’re rocking a fully patched browser and OS. Things aren’t as peachy for Apple users.

via Maximum PC | Hackers Issue Rogue SSL Certificates for CIA, MI6, and Mossad; Apple Stands Pat.

Cool Cargo: 45 Prefab & Shipping Container Home Designs

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

Building a home is only half the battle – and the easier half when it comes to steep, remote or otherwise complex sites. Prefabrication or cargo container reuse) can be a cost-saving solution in such cases, but can also lead to remarkable innovations in technology and style along the way.

via Cool Cargo: 45 Prefab & Shipping Container Home Designs | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.

Facebook’s Unannounced Like Button Extension for Chrome Is Live and Waiting for Users

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

Facebook quietly launched a Like button browser extension for Chrome a couple months ago, TechCrunch has discovered today. The extension appears as a button to the right of the search and address box in the Chrome interface, and as an option in the right-click menu. As one might expect, it lets you like any web page, share content and your commentary back to Facebook, and see the number of other Facebook users who have liked a post.

via Facebook’s Unannounced Like Button Extension for Chrome Is Live and Waiting for Users.

Debunking PHP’s bad reputation | Opinion

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

PHP has the reputation of being the poor cousin of scripting languages, due to outdated language features and plenty of poor quality code written using it. I use PHP as my main programming language and it’s seen waves of change over the last five years; it’s so much more than a language for script kiddies and hobbyist hackers. There are some ‘truths’ about the language that aren’t true these days, so I’d like to bring you a little update.

via Debunking PHP’s bad reputation | Opinion | .net magazine.

Take advantage of the CSS background-size property | Tutorial

 Education, interface  223 Responses »
Sep 062011
 

Oh sure, gradients are all the rage — and rightly so — but there are some super-handy bits you may not have investigated thoroughly. Maybe they seem more utilitarian and don’t have the swagger of box-shadow and border-radius, but in this tutorial I intend to change your mind. One of my favourites is background-size. Let’s see what some of the possibilities are.

The background-size property does exactly what you would expect — it allows you to specify the size of a background image on both the X-axis (horizontally) and the Y-axis (vertically).

via Take advantage of the CSS background-size property | Tutorial | .net magazine.

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