Understanding Hash Functions and Keeping Passwords Safe
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Understanding Hash Functions and Keeping Passwords Safe Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:56 AM PST From time to time, servers and databases are stolen or compromised. With this in mind, it is important to ensure that some crucial user data, such as passwords, can not be recovered. Today, we are going to learn the basics behind hashing and what it takes to protect passwords in your web applications. 1. Disclaimer [...]
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Quick Tip: Never Type a Vendor Prefix Again Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:56 AM PST You know the drill quite well. Want to give some section of your website rounded corners with CSS3? Then you’ll require nothing short of three vendor prefixes: webkit, moz, and the W3C recommended form. Isn’t that a huge waste of time — not to mention screen space? What if, instead, we could use a class [...]
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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.69) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:26 AM PST This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed. [...]
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Predicting the future with The Web Bot Project [Infographic] Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:26 AM PST Have you ever heard of the Web Bot Project? Created in 1997, it is an application that can, by tracking trending keywords and net chatter, predict future events. Bold and far fetched claim, don’t you think? But apparently it works. It has claimed to have predicted past events such as the September 11 attacks, the [...]
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Design Inspiration: Mahmoud El Dallash Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST A simple design for a business card. I like the light blue colour used and the use of white for the text and design elements. It’s interesting to note the integration of well known symbols. This design was featured on the Tuesday 18th of January 2011. It falls under the category of Business Cards, and [...]
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Design Inspiration: Empire State Recordings Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST |
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50 Beautiful & Enticing Designers Websites Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST This collection of websites showcases the best in bright/collage, illustrative, graphic, and flash based designs and demonstrates how we can incorporate typographic elements, stunning color palettes and strong graphical images to create a dynamic experiences for the viewer. View Post designshack :http://feeds.feedburner.com/designshack Random PostsDesign Inspiration: Articles for iPadArticles for iPad is simply the best way [...]
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The Web Is Changing: HTML5 and Native Media Support Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST Today, I’d simply like to aquaint you with some new media features in HTML5 in the hopes that you’ll begin implementing these features into your own design now. View Post designshack :http://feeds.feedburner.com/designshack Random PostsWDL Premium: Retro Seamless Vector PatternsToday we’re releasing a set of seamless vect...Design Inspiration: Justin MarimonA relatively simple but still intriguing business [...]
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Weekly Freebies: 10 Rocking Retro Fonts Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST When you’re working on a retro design, one of the key elements that you have to nail is the typography. Each typeface has an implicit suggestion of a decade and having a full arsenal of fonts helps you prepare for all kinds of design scenarios. Below we’ve compiled ten of our favorite free retro fonts [...]
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Five Questions With Trent Walton Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST Trent is an easy guy to admire. He works at a cool design agency (they have a triforce for a logo and pull it off). He’s got a cool blog that shows off his clean design style with art directed posts and custom headers. View Post designshack :http://feeds.feedburner.com/designshack Random PostsWeb Design Critique #34: myReponoEvery week [...]
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Blogging For Effective Personal Branding Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:26 AM PST The evolution of blogging has been so dynamic since its birth in 1994. It started as an online diary, and then became how to manuals, and then a vehicle for the latest news and gossip. Now there are several types of blogs: personal blogs, political blogs, corporate blogs and more. Blogs have changed the whole [...]
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Posted: 18 Jan 2011 03:56 AM PST Sometimes the most simple, memorable, and effective logos consist of only text. While we have showcased examples of creative logos and nature-inspired logos in the past, today we’ll feature 35 type-based logos from various designers. Hopefully the logos found here will serve as inspiration for your own work. Type-Based Logos Sevda Jewelry Diony Shop Pixelhaven [...]
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A Guide to Utilizing Facebook for a Freelance Career Posted: 18 Jan 2011 01:25 AM PST Facebook is often criticized for privacy holes, unstable API and proprietary standards, but in spite of that, everybody seems to be on Facebook these days. At least once a week this previously student-only network appears in the top news headlines on the Web and in print. Although it’s a common fact that Facebook can be [...]
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Winners of: Awesome Icon Packs from IconDemon Posted: 18 Jan 2011 12:55 AM PST Here’s a little recap before we go ahead and announce the winners for our icon pack contest held last week. Lucky winners for this giveaway will each get a membership worth $99, with access to more than 5300+ icons, courtesy of Icondemon.com. Our Winners Without further ado, here are our 5 lucky winners, randomly picked: [...]
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Useful Tips and Guidelines to Freelance Writing Posted: 18 Jan 2011 12:55 AM PST The freelancing world is a live battleground where entrepreneurs are required to sleep with an eye open. When filling the role of a freelancer, you are required to work in many different areas aside from your choice of trade. One of the big topics is legal documentation and paperwork. The problem with working freelance is [...]
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Re-Define The title Tag : optimize SEO Posted: 17 Jan 2011 10:33 PM PST The problem. On blogs, as on every other type of website, content is king. And SEO is very important for achieving your goals with traffic. By default, most WordPress themes don’t have an optimized <title> tag. Some plug-ins, such as the well-known “All in One SEO Pack,” override this, but you can also do it [...]
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Embed Custom CSS Styles : WordPress Posted: 17 Jan 2011 10:00 PM PST The problem. Certain posts sometimes require additional CSS styling. Sure, you can switch WordPress’ editor to HTML mode and add inline styling to your post’s content. But even when inline styling is useful, it isn’t always the cleanest solution. With custom fields, we can easily create new CSS classes for individual posts and make WordPress [...]
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WordPress Theme Releases for 1/17 Posted: 17 Jan 2011 07:40 PM PST Chip Zero is stylish, customizable, flexible, readable, and professional with a custom menu and background. Color Shading is a clean and content-focused theme for bloggers with a customizable color scheme. Global News is 1000px wide with 3 columns. It comes with 10 widget areas and about 40 theme options. Modern Blue Style is a modern [...]
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Installing WordPress Without A Domain Name Posted: 17 Jan 2011 07:40 PM PST Miriam Schwab of WPGarage.com has a neat little tip that explains how to install WordPress without using a domain name. The trick involves editing the Hosts file on a Windows machine to specify a domain name for the server address the site is hosted on. Mike Little who published a comment on the article made [...]
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