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The macOS Monterey 12.5 update can be downloaded on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Preferences.
On September 1st, monthly Pro subscriptions will increase from $8 to $8.75 per user per month, and annual Pro subscriptions will increase from $6.67 to $7.25 per user per month. Also, free plans will be able to see last 90 days of messages, as opposed to previous 10K limit.
Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers such as Firefox or Brave use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking. Though according to the company, the change has nothing to do with URL stripping and user tracking, but as a countermeasure against scrapers.
The support of old hardware is the big selling point of Chrome OS Flex, as businesses don’t have to ditch existing hardware to get the latest modern operating system. More than 400 devices are certified to work, and installation is as easy as using a USB drive to install Chrome OS Flex.
The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has gathered, and the official beginning of Webb’s general science operations. They were selected by an international committee of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Twitter users who have been @mentioned in a conversation can now go to their Mentions tab and select the "Leave this conversation" option from any conversation they've been mentioned in, or select the three dots in the top corner of any tweet with a mention. Leaving a conversation will untag their username, stop all future mentions, and put a stop to notifications.
The 2022 Municipal Council and School Boards Election will take place on October 26, 2022. Winnipeggers who are a Canadian citizen, 18 years of age or older on Election Day and an actual resident or property owner in the City of Winnipeg for a period of at least six months will be eligible to vote. To vote for a school trustee, you will need to br an actual resident in the school division ward on Election Day.
TinyWow offers a huge selection of free, easy-to-use tools for PDF files, videos, images, and more. Convert word documents to PDF files, remove the background from an image, convert videos to GIF files, make memes, sharpen images, and so much more.
Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces. By Ahmad Shadeed.
An in-development native macOS application for your Slack experience. If you're not a fan of the official client, here is an option.
The password manager previously started supporting secure password sharing with links last year, and this feature is now being expanded to include documents and files that are stored in 1Password.
"By getting high-resolution scans of woods whenever I had them available, as well as making a clean, easy-to-read user interface with informative links, I sought to take full advantage of the online medium."
In March of this year, Ecma International accepted a proposal led by Mozilla for a new alternative license. On June 22nd, the first requests to adopt this license were granted to TC39 and applied to the following documents: ECMA-262 (ECMAScript, the official name for JavaScript) and ECMA-402 (the Internationalization API for ECMAScript).
An open source, free, cross-platform derivative of Mozilla Firefox, but modified to protect privacy and anonymity for the user.
Like Spotify, but for natural soundscapes.
HarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings of the Second Age.
Copilot, GitHub's AI code suggestion tool, is now available for everyone, the company announced on Tuesday. Anyone can use the pair programmer for $10 a month or $100 a year. It will be free for students and organizers of popular open source projects.
One of the most popular Canada Day celebrations in Winnipeg is getting a new name! "A New Day at The Forks" includes a reflective, inclusive and fun day for everyone to come together. There will be 4 pop-up stages with music, hands-on workshops, and lots to see and do.
A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model. Your role is to maximize economic potential by putting the right amount of money in circulation, to increase the GDP of your village: the number of apples it produces. Your only lever changes the central bank interest rate. Good luck!
eBay’s combining online and real-world auction experiences with its newly launched eBay Live platform, where people can chat and react to sellers through Livestream video and buy their products.
Sustainability in Website development: Notes for designers, developers, and clients. This article takes a look at what impact our websites and web applications have on the environment in terms of our carbon footprint. Most of us haven't really thought of this, but bearing energy usage in mind during development should lead to leaner streamlined web designs. Keep it simple if you don't want your web products to have a heavy carbon footprint.
"Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites."
Celsius hasn't provided details on the "extreme market conditions" that led the company to suspend withdrawals. Celsius claims it is working diligently to resume withdrawals, but users have good reason to worry about the company's financial health.
Under a deal with indie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, Funko acquired Mondo, which creates and sells vinyl records and soundtracks, posters, toys, apparel, books, games and other collectibles. About 30 Mondo employees are joining Funko.
The company is now testing the free version in Canada, where users are able to access Photoshop on the web through a free Adobe account. Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop’s core functions.
The lawsuit first emerged in 2017 after three women filed a complaint accusing the company of underpaying female workers in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act, citing a wage gap of around $17,000. The complaint also alleges Google locks women into lower career tracks, leading to less pay and lower bonuses when compared to their male counterparts.
At issue is whether Google’s chatbot, LaMDA—a Language Model for Dialogue Applications—can be considered a person.
The data are available for other scientists to use. “It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research,” says Weissman, who is also a member of the Whitehead Institute and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Microsoft has announced the retirement of 27-year-old Internet Explorer as the firm's oldest browser will be completely phased out from June 15.
It’s important we don’t lose sight of the issue it highlighted: that things can easily get convoluted and less efficient if we prioritize one particular device - any device - over others.
As someone who works with a computer every day, the consistent naming of files and folders is something that the very organized part of my brain is very happy about. It is also one of the things that can drive a person to distraction if that organization is not being done. There are many reasons to follow a file naming convention when working with computers or the internet. The most important reason, in my opinion, is to keep files organized in a way so that others can quickly and easily understand the naming convention and follow it.
In case you didn't know, computers generally speaking are not smart. They can do amazing things, but they need to be told exactly what to do by programmers. Contrary to popular belief they cannot just fix things for you. They must be told what to do, how to organize, and can only really work within a restricted set of parameters. We won't get into a discussion about Artificial Intelligence or machine learning here because we are simply discussing how to keep our own files, or files we upload to our websites, organized.
We have had this conversation with some of our clients in the past when we've been asked to try to find specific files for either updating or deletion. People who are not overly familiar with computers assume that a filename that is created by an automated process (camera or phone), or by someone other than themselves cannot be modified. The truth is that any file can have its name changed, as long as the file extension is not changed.
For example, if I receive a file called "Design 45224 revision 6 Final.jpg" this may mean absolutely nothing to me. Once I take a look at the file and see that it is the final design for a header graphic, then I can rename the file to something that I will recognize, "website-header-background.jpg".
The same can be done for image files that are downloaded from a camera, or phone. An image from a camera that has a filename of "DCP_1344995673.jpg" doesn't tell me that this is a picture of my pet dog. Renaming the file to "scruffy-the-puppy.jpg" is going to be a lot easier to understand.
The proper naming of files is extremely important when it comes to a directory containing hundreds or even thousands of files. Without being able to see the contents of a file, an unrecognizable filename will require us to open or preview every file until we find the one we need. If a file is created using a naming convention that we as humans can recognize, we are able to use the power of a computer to find the file we are after very quickly.
We've used examples of image files so far, but naming conventions should also be applied to all file types. Descriptive filenames are not only easier to recognize by humans, Artificial Intelligence (I know I said I wouldn't discuss this) has been programmed to do pattern recognition of filenames. The big search engines have their bots scouring the internet for recognizable filenames. Using a search engine to find logos or images with specific search terms only really works well if the filenames have some form of proper naming. How often do you an image search on Google for "DCP_12345.jpg"? You don't. You search for "puppy images". The results will invariably have a large number of images that have the word puppy in their filename.
Here are some rules to follow when setting up a naming convention for your files, and these can be used for files that end up on the internet as well as for your own computer file system.
The above rules can also be applied to file directories (folders).
From a usability standpoint, by using proper naming conventions, a webmaster or website content editor will be able to find their documents or media files much easier and it will keep their website file library relatively tidy. For instance, we have seen the same image uploaded multiple times to a website because the webmaster could not find the original file they uploaded the first time because they didn't give the file a recognizable name, and therefore it was just easier to find it again on their computer and upload it again. As a result, the server file system ends up with several versions of the same file.
With site hosting costs based on file storage and bandwidth, the storage of extraneous files can really add up. An extreme example would be a directory containing 20GB+ of images and documents. When reviewing the directory that contained those files, there were a considerable number of duplicate files that likely could have been replaced with a single well named file and reused in multiple locations.
This may seem to be a lot of work to keep files organized, but in reality that organization of files can save time and money.
A font called Ahem has been developed which consists of some very well defined glyphs of precise sizes and shapes; it is especially useful for testing font and text properties. The font’s em-square is exactly square. Its ascent and descent combined is exactly the size of the em square; this means that the font’s extent is exactly the same as its line-height, meaning that it can be exactly aligned with padding, borders, margins, and so forth. Its alphabetic baseline is 0.2em above its bottom, and 0.8em below its top.
"When we introduced Atom in 2011, we set out to give developers a text editor that was deeply customizable but also easy to use—one that made it possible for more people to build software... Today, we’re announcing that we are sunsetting Atom and will archive all projects under the organization on December 15, 2022."
"Realistically, you will always have some discrepancy between "staging" and production environments, but the distance between them should be much smaller than between dev and prod. For example, working on https is always a pain in localhost but is a requirement on prod."
“I saw personal computers happening without us. Xerox no longer seemed like where it was going to happen.”
CVE-2022-26134, as the vulnerability is tracked, allows for unauthenticated remote code execution on servers running all supported versions of Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center. In its advisory, Volexity called the vulnerability "dangerous and trivially exploited." The vulnerability is likely also present in unsupported and long-term support versions, security firm Rapid7 said.
The translations add-on is now available in the Firefox Add-On store for installation on Firefox Nightly, Beta and in General Release. We are looking for users’ feedback and in the add-on, you’ll see a button to fill out a survey that will help Project Bergamot collaborators understand which direction we should take the product.