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Big 4 labels to Canadian Parliament: we want to be able to control search engines, social networking, blogs, video sites, and community sites. Oh, and we want an iPod tax. – Boing Boing

February 29, 2012 / admin / No comments

From BoingBoing:

Michael Geist sez, “The Canadian music industry is scheduled to appear before a Parliamentary committee today with some of the most radical demands to date that would effectively create liability for social networking sites, search engines, blogging platforms, and video sites such as Google, Facebook and Reddit. As if that were not enough, the industry is also calling for a new iPod tax, an extension in the term of copyright, a removal of protections for user generated content, parody, and satire, as well as an increase in statutory damage awards. Taken together, the Canadian music industry demands make SOPA look like minor tinkering with the law.”

Canadian Music Industry Takes Aim At Google, Facebook, Reddit & Tech Startups With Bill C-11 Demands

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WordPress Wednesday: 7 New Plugins to Watch – ‘Net Features – Website Magazine

February 16, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Website Magazine:

Every once in a while the editorial staff takes some time to explore plugins to help our readers add some useful – and sometimes neccessar – functionality into their WP installations. Typically, we profile plugins that fit nicely within a specifci category such as plugins for translation, email marketing, membership, rewards/gamification/loyalty, and even those with great jQuery features.  today we’re taking a different tact and profiling some of the new plugins within the WP plugin directory.

If you are testing out a WordPress plugin that you think would be useful to members of the Website Magazine community, just let us know by commenting below.

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Get the Most Out of Your iPhone’s Notification Center, from Beginner to Jailbreaker

February 7, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Lifehacker:

The Notification Center feature on iPhone’s is a powerful tool to keep track of everything happening in your life, but it’s not transparent how to use it to its full extent. We’ll guide you through the basics of getting started with Notification Center and show you how to make it more useful with a few tweaks.

Notification Center is the central hub where your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch keeps you updated on all your app notifications and it’s accessed by sliding down on your screen. The key to getting the most use out of it is limiting which apps have access and what type of notifications you get from them. For instance, if you’re constantly checking Facebook, don’t bother setting a notification for it. Use it for the apps you need to remind you of things, say, Dataman to track your cellular data usage or a to-do list, add them to Notification Center. Don’t waste space on anything you don’t need.

Let’s start by going over the basics of setting up and choosing the right apps before moving on to how you can supercharge the experience on both a jailbroken and non-jailbroken device.

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Site-blocking law dubbed ‘Ireland’s Sopa’ to pass without parliamentary vote (Wired UK)

January 31, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Wired:

Ireland is soon to have a law similar to Sopa passed that would give music and movie companies the power to force Irish ISPs to block access to sites suspected of having copyright infringing material on them.

Irish citizens won’t have a chance to lobby their democratic representatives because there won’t be a vote on the law — snappily named “S.I. No. of 2011 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2011″ – in the Irish Parliament. Instead the law is being enacted by ministerial order because it is being prepared in the form of a Statutory Instrument.

The law could mean that judges can order Irish ISPs — such as Eircom and UPC — as well as mobile networks to block access to social networking sites where an individual user has shared infringing material.

The legislation was prepared in response to a court decision that ruled that although the rights of EMI were being breached by internet providers letting its copyrighted works be shared for free, the law didn’t have any way of addressing the situation — something that European law requires. It was hoped that the legislation might appease rights holders, but that hasn’t stopped therecord label from filing a lawsuit against the Irish government for failing to clamp down on music piracy.

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How to Build a (Nearly) Hack-Proof Password System with LastPass and a Thumb Drive

January 25, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Lifehacker:

It seems like every day there’s news that a new site or service has been hacked. The intruders make off with usernames and passwords, and even if they’re encrypted the service forces users to change them. This week it was DreamHost, and last week it was Zappos.

We’re big fans of LastPass, a cross-platform password manager that helps you create and manage secure, unique passwords for every site, but the point of failure is obvious: What happens if someone gets your master password? Here’s how you can beef up LastPass by turning a USB flash drive into a key you have to plug in to your computer before you can access your passwords. This way, the next time a service you use has been hacked—even if it’s LastPass—you won’t worry.

If you’re not already using LastPass to generate, maintain, and manage different and unique strong passwords for every site and service you use on the web, it’s time to get started. The beauty of LastPass is that it’s available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and even mobile devices, and you can choose and remember one strong password and then use that password to manage and access all of your other logins and services on the web. Still, LastPass keeps all of your passwords in the cloud, and while they’re as secure as they possibly could be, if someone gets a hold of your LastPass password, you’re pretty much screwed, right? Not if you have a spare USB drive with Sesame, a utility that turns your USB key into an actual key needed to unlock your LastPass vault. Once installed and set up, you’ll need both your LastPass master password and your key plugged into your Mac, Windows, or Linux PC in order to unlock your vault and access your saved passwords.

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